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|i^E?H?l I ('*)pi/rioh$M$biiP/. * ^ < CHAPTER n. 8 IH Continued. H "Jac. you must be mad!" said ai Doris, aghast. "You know the story. w Trevor was papa's college classmate .. and friend. For years the two had been as Damon and Pythias, as David ' and Jonathan. They were partners in a well-known banking concern. . To Trevor the investments had long been intrusted. Papa also loaned a him money in private. One day TreXTi-v rJ Y"? tG i uioapj^jcaicu. iic uau i^aii^cu uu all the securities in his possession, and literally stripped papa of every- ^ thing. Sometimes I have wondered if he was always a traitor and thief p at heart, or did he yield to some sud- ^ den great temptation? Miss Wingate once hinted that a crisis in his own private affairs may have pro- j*' voked the crime. Anyway, papa was ^ beggared?ruined. He shot himself. Mamma had long been an invalid. ^ The shock of these misfortunes killed her. This is what you and I owe to Philip Trevor. And from such a man vou think to win renaration? My p poor Jac!" te "Yes," answered Jacqueline, firm- y.c ly, "he must restore our money!" "Oh, my dear, your scheme is not to feasible?it is not even safe! I tell you, Trevor left the country long * ago." m "Then I must find out where he is se now living, and go in quest of him." "Alone?" ot "Yes. ?You are not strong enough yc to bear me company, Doris, and any other person would hinder, rather m than help, my chances of success." Doris began to cry into her handkerchief. "This is dreadful! What put such **i an idea into your head?" 4 "Your necessities, .dear. I looked w at vnn ailing arfd unhaDDV. and the inspiration came to me like a flash." S* "I wish you had never, never Tl thought of it!" whimpered Doris. a* "You will not find him, and even if re you do, a girl of your years can be ro no match for a seasoned scoundrel like Trevor.", "Doris, you promised just now that you would not oppose me!" yc Then followed sobs and kisses, m mingled with words of coaxing en- Wi dearment. Upon these the apologetic voice of Teddy Craven broke at last. 00 "Pardon," he said. "We have ara rived at Mr. Wingate's house." *? The carriage had stopped in a highly respectable, but not at all bl fashionable street, before a square Wl brick dwelling, with stone trimmings, and a high, sepia-colored stoop. The Wingates, though well connected, i re were plain people. Craven assisted { the lnriioc tn nUcht Hp hart regained I ? his composure, but his rugged, boyish face looked haggard and pale. e* As the girls entered the Wingate m parlor a small, gray lady, in black m silk, rustled forward to meet them, and flung her arms around Jacqueline. P "You are very welcome, my dear." she said. "Have you had a pleasant ci' voyage? My brother will be with us fo directly. Mr. Craven must remain to lunch. Where is he? Oh. help- te ing the driver with the luggage. That young man is always ready to t0 make himself, useful at anything. hc Take your sister to her room, Doris ea * ?the one next your own, my dear." But Jacqueline had espied a dog m basket in a corner, near the blazing sa gas log. and in it an old dachshund he curler up on a cushion. She swooped ^ down upon the animal and clasped him in her arms. ! m "It is Trojan," she said, in a m choked voice, "mamma's Trojan!" ar The little, ugly, long-bodied crea- m ture licked her hand. Her tears fell t0 on his brown face. Miss Wingate was very deaf. She put up her ear trumpet, and interposed briskly: "Yes, Trojan grown fat and old? P' he is the pet of ihe house. There. Jc dcn't cry. Tills is, indeed, a sad home-coming for you. Go upstairs with Doris, like a dear, and make S? ready for lunch." d< Jacqueline obeyed. She felt that v< she had no time for^ grief?stern P? work lay before her. She ascended to the chamber which had been pre- ai pared for her, and while Doris flitted about, helping her with her belongings, she said: j so "Tell me about that impossible I tl youth, Mr. Craven?your admirer, is | I he not?" ; te "No, indeed!" answered Doris] "He is Mr. Wingate's clerk, as I wrote you." I "Yes; but -what more? In your P< letter you also said he was not such ' 5i cimnlotnn qc 99 I hi Doris colored faintly. "Did I? That was not kind,, for Teddy Craven is a very good sort. iE He was educated abroad?at Bonn. I H believe. The Wingates esteem him ai highly. He comes here a great deal? w runs on all my errands?acts as my P" escort, when Mr. Wingate is busy? h; brings me flowers and new books?" fa "A lawyer's clerk! What extrava- rc gance!" ni "Miss Wingate regards him with cl great favor?so does Trojan. Only tc yesterday he saved the dog's life, te The poor beast had a fit, or some- b thing. Mr. Craven knew of a reme- q dy which set him on his crooked legs tt again. He is now teaching me the ci zither." ii Jacqueline opened wide her fine g: * eyes. aj "A delightful, all-round boy! Are S you sure he does not polish Mr. Win- tc gate's boots? He has a "curious. hang-dog expression, Doris?peseems n unable to lool: on^ squarely in the a face. Don't trust that Mr. Craven!" li Jacqueline put on a dress of lustrous black, made beautiful by falls " of old cream lace, and went down to ii lunch. At the foot of the stairs Mr Win- o gate was waitiu:;?:i small, wiry man, 11 alert of eye aud nervous of mauuer. 1 L . > V*. * ' ' .\ vciS'.V ? r' ? : r N t . jse|onJ||S >land^^^| * +XX al( kAAAA^AAAAAAA4^AAAAAAAAAA WWWWWWWWWWWWWwwwwwwwwwwww th e greeted the new arrival cordially, e had never loved but one woman, jg id his bearing toward her children as unconsciously paternal. "Welcome to my house, Jacquetie," he said, "and consider it your mj 3me?as does your sister, I hope. Bjj ou did right to return to us, though am sorry?truly sorry, my dear, ^ lat your love for Doris has cost you aI^ fortune." ha "Great expectations still remain jje i me, Mr. Wingate," answered Jac- m, jeline, brightly. "I will explain by sjc id by." At the table Teddy Craven occu- co ed a seat beside Miss Wingate. He 6p as a slender, boyish fellow, with an jn regular, unhandsome face, and shy, ^ii 'served manner. During .the meal j0 3 alone tried to converse with the pa saf lady, and his little attentions a(j > her betrayed an admirable n0 loughtfulness. Mr. Wingate and an te young ladies talked upon general mj ipics. Not till Craven had departed be d Jacqueline unfold her future -pi ans to her host. The old lawyer lis- ca ned io amazement. She was so tj >ung, so brilliantly beautiful, so ter- jn bly in earnest, that he was forced Tr i regard her with indulgence. re, "Come, come, my child," he said, fa, :his is a wild idea of yours?you w ust not for a moment entertain it ur riously. Philip Trevor will never irrender his booty to you, or to any her person. I hope Doris is not >ur partner in this folly."'" i3j "She has promised not to oppose ?." i hii "Heaven above! You do not even up low where the man is. ga "I rely upon you, sir, to discover s hiding place for me." Mr. Wingate mopped his bald head jQ ith his handkerchief. co "Really, this is too absurd?a rl's foolish dream?nothing more! revor fled from the State five years jo, and I need not say, has never iturned to it. He may be in Eu pe, Asia, or Africa now. Take my [vice and let sleeping dogs lie. Tierever he is, you cannot move g&! m. True, he robbed and destroyed en >ur father, but not in a way that {u ade him amenable to the law. It as a simply a breach of trust. So, reats will not avail with him, and nscience he has none." Miss Wingate, with her trumpet ^ her ear, seemed about to speak, m( it was checked by a sign from her t other. Doris leaned on the old jjg Dman's chair, her eyes fixed on Jacteline. "I rely upon you, Mr. Wingate," J*1 peated the girl, resolutely. "Only id out Trevor's present whereabouts I'0 -I ask no further help. Surely, ^ sre in his native city, some one? Cr ther old time friend or relative? ust still know where to seek the *01 an." *r< Wingate shook his head, but the fiv tie gray woman with the ear trumst spoke up: ag "I think there is one person in the ty, brother, who might give you in- mi rmation that Jacqueline wants." Wingate turned sharply on his sisr. "It's odd," he said, in a .withering *" ne, "that deaf people can always 0 :ar the things not intended for their tal rs." "But Jacqueline feels called to w? ake this venture," replied Miss Winite, "and you certainly do not want * ;r to go wandering at random over el1 e country seeking Philip Trevor." "A plague upon all womankind!" gr uttered Wingate. "Where's my co y hat? Remember, none of you e to blame me for anything that ay now happen. When do you wish ^ start upon your que6t, Jacquele?" tii "Immediately." th "Mark my words?the finding of tw hilip Trevor will bring no good to wc ?hn Hatton's daughters." th "That, sir, remains to be seen." th Without further words, Mr. Win- st( ite left the house. His sister put an >wn her ear trumpet, and so se- . ;red communication with her com- fo: inions. Doris approached Jacque- wl Qe and slipped a caressing arm ne ound her. sh "I told you I should be as wax in lie >ur hands. Jacky," she sighed, "and op > I am. I will not put a straw in ca te way of your purpose, dear, and we feel sure that whatever you at- to mpt to do will be well done." mi Jacqueline gave the caressing arm th i affectionate squeeze. th "I have moDey for all my ex- mi 5nses." she said, "for Aunt Bradlaw filled my purse at parting. Just ? patient, Doris, and trust me." "I will?I will!" said Doris. Meanwhile Mr. Wingate was walk- ^ ig away in the direction of Beacon ill. He had no intention of aiding n! ad abetting Jacqueline's folly. She as a handsome creature, and she Dssessed plenty of spirit; but she a ad been reading romances and she incied herself called to perform he- J"? >ic service. In good time her com- J" iod sense would return to her. Me- . lanically the old lawyer set his face jj >ward the club. In spite of his de rmination to give no assistance to is young guest, he felt moved to in- ar aire if certain absent members of ar le Shawmut had yet returned to the m ty. As he mounted the steps of an sa nposing building overlooking the 113 reen Common, Wingate ran plump gainst the athletic person of George 5,e t. George, who was just descending 1 ' > the street. "Halloo, Wingate!" said the blond ian. stopping to trVo from his lips cigar which he had forgotten to vi ght. . ar ".lust powprs!" mumbled "Wingate. ar 1 hoped from my soul you were still re ) Europe!" hi "Hot- flattering! I arrived to-day se n the Columbia. The younger Miss fa fatten was on the steamer with me. yc trust she is now under your roof?" la \ Wingate, unable to contain him- : If, seized the other's arm. "See here, St. George! That girl | s conceived the idea of hunting up j { evor, and demanding the money lich he stole from her father. And I e has chosen me to find out where | e man is hiding.!' "Ah!" said St. George. "I assure you, I do not countenance j e scheme?on the contrary, I op- i se it heartily. It is preposterous, j to think of a girl like that faring j 1 rth alone?for she insists on going j 1 Dne?to seek restitution of Trevor." | J St. George bit the end of his cigar j t oughtfully. i f "'Why discourage her? The idea | j not so bad," he said. [ z "Sir, it could not well be worse." ! a "I do not know about that. She j c s a persuasive voice, and her face I ^tches it. Let her have her way? j * e may yet win the game." "Fiddlesticks!" said Wingate, in- j gnantly, and he turned on his heel, ! c d started off down the street. He ; Y ,d not gone a dozen yards when he ! c ard St. George behind him. In a | e oment the blond man was at his le fc { "Wait a bit, Wingate," he said, , ^ oily. "I admire Miss Hatton's j c irit, and gladly offer such aid as is : ^ my power to give. So take this J f t of information: After destroying ; I' hn Hatton, his friend and business ! f rtner, Philip Trevor, went to Can- u a; but life in the Dominion did [ t long please him. So he bought jj island in the Atlantic, several les from the Maine coast and there 8 is now living in strict seclusion, j t le place is called Deadman's, be- j b use of a massacre of English s^t- j s trs by the men of a French warship j n the early days of the country. ! 1 evor never leaves his sea nest and !| ceives no visitors. In relating these ! _ cts, better not mention my name, | ? ingate, as Miss Hatton might nat- r ally ask how I kqew." a "Trust me for that," answered' r ingate. ! ' "By what route can one reach the \ a and?" I jj St. George drew a notebook from .) 3 pocket, and penciled some lines i ,j on a leaf. This he put in Win- \ t! te's hand. 8 "Here are full directions. I think c iss Hatton may safely make the urney alone, as far as the Maine ^ ast?beyond that point I cannot B eak definitely." y "Greatly obliged, I'm sure," said n ingate, but St. George was already c liking back toward the club house. J te old lawyer continued on to his * ice. In an inner room, reserved r r private business, Teddy Craven ? t writing at a desk. Mr. Wingate y tered, red as a turkey cock, and too ^ li lor snence. c "You can't think, Craven," he rst out, "what that younger Mise c itton wants to do!" c "I heard it all on the way from * e steamer to-day," replied Craven, iekly. "She was telling her plans ^ her sister, and I could not avoid b tening." n "One thing, however, you do not j ^ iow," insisted Mr. Wingate. "I ? ve just been told of the wherea- Q uts of Trevor. The rascal is liv- ^ S out of the world, on a Robinson c usoe island in the Atlantic?a pret- d place, upon my soul, for Miss Hat- ii a to venture into, thinking to wrest y )m him the spoil he has held these e years back!" * Craven leaped to his feet in great itation. y. "You must stop her, sir! You tl apt not let her attempt it!" n "Stop Jacqueline? You are young, tl y?you don't understand the sex." 5 "But try, sir?for the love of God, 8 - * Anna ^ f I ill IDS 1 i.O.1 UV/CO UUb UIUUU* ^ the danger involved in her under- ^ king." c " 'A wilful woman must have her iy.' Her purpose is fixed. Have n u looked in her eyes, Teddy? I. enty of spirit and resolution there, * ?.. s "The sweetest eyes ever seen, sir!" ^ oaned poor Teddy. "She is an in- u mparable creature!" \ To he Continued. B ie Lions That Stopped a Railroad. v They all sat up on guard for some j * ne; but the only noticeable thing I [ ey saw waB what they took to be n o very bright and steady glow- j e irme. After events proved that j b ese could have been nothing else an the eyes of the man-eaters ? ;adily watching them all the time [ ? d studying tfeeir every movement. | y . . The door from this platrm was a sliding one on wheels, << lich ran very easily on a brass run- q r; and as it was probable not quite p ut, it was an easy matter for the in to thrust in a paw and shove it b en. But owing to the tilt of the B rriage and to his great extra c ;ight on the one side, the door slid ? and snapped into the lock the v oment he got his body right in, v us leaving him shut up with the t ree sleeping men in the compart- ^ ent.?World's Work. c c a Warship Libraries. One of, the foremost book shop' i en in New York said yesterday: i Vrite an article on Red Tape vs. * jonomy in the United States Navy. s hen a ship goes out of commission r repairs, or for any other purpose c the Brooklyn Navy Yard, every- * ing loose, including the library, is i * moved to the storehouses. When I ? e impedimenta from several ships j tve accumulated they are a^ver;ed and sold to the highest bidders : J e books in lots of from 5000 to 15,- [ ^ )0 volumes. Many of these books-: 3 e of high character, and when sold i 'v e as eood as new. The Govern-' s ent receives but little from their i 1 le. When the ships are again com- ! * issioned their libraries are filled ! ith new books at great cost, many I < :ing identical with those sold.''? ; 1 2W York Press. j } Candidate For Citizenship. i An Italian went to tie Civil Ser- < ce Commissioners' rooms to be ex- J nined for a laborer's position. He iswered most of the questions corctly. Finally they asked him if be ( id ever been naturalized. He ( emed a bit puzzled, but at last hip j ce lighted up. "Ah, I know whata i hi mean. Scratcha de arm. Yes, * sta week." I THE PULPIT. ! VN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BV j DR. FRANCIS B. UPHAM. Theme: Children and Church. j i Brooklyn. N. Y.?In Sands Street j Memorial Church, the . pastor, the Jlev. Dr. Francis Bourne Upham, j ireached Sunday morning a Chil- j Iren's Day sermon on "Children and j he Christian Church." The text wag I rom Matthew 18, 2 and 3: "And j fesus called little children unto Him md set Him in the midst of them, j ind said. Verily I say unto you, ex- I :ept ye be converted and become as , ittle children, ye shall not enter into I he kingdom of heaven." Dr. Upham , aid in the course of his sermon: The theme selected for the morn- ! ng has been given me by the general I :ustom of the church; for, as you :now, this is Children's Day, honired and observed everywhere. It is sxpected that we turn our thoughts o-day away from the Btudy of the >attle and the bruise of life, away , rom the study of the shadow and I he smoke, for the study of the faces if little children; that we come tolay from the counting house, and rom the shop, and from tne store, as t were, to the nursery; that we sufer the little children to come unto is, take them up in our arms and get rom them instruction and blessing; t constitutes a most peculiar and aost interesting service. As a rule, little children are preented to-day for the sacrament of I laptism. Not to make them fit for j leaven, for they are already; but to ignify deliberately, and with the digity, the authority, and the worth of he church behind the form, our belef that they already belong to God. 'he lepers, you know, came to the riest, not to get cleansed by him, ut to tell him that they were aleady cleansed; and our children re brought to God, not to have them eceived, but for us to show, when i re bring them, that we believe they Iready have been received. It is i he outward mark of what we believe j a be the inward work of grace, part- | <?, then, because of the custom of the j ay, and partly because, I trust, of j he direct suggestion 01 Lroa s Jtioiy | pJrit, the theme of the day concerns i hildren and the Christian church. , Our Lord said three things con erning the children, by word and by j eed. First of all, with this old tory of our Lord's teaching through he little ones in mind, consider with ae the call of little children. It oraes from God Himself. "And esus called a little child unto Him nd set him irr the midst of them." t is not Peter; it is not James; it is ot John; it is not some loving lother or some equally loving fa- j her; but it is the Master Himself ' rho calls the little child; it is the ! all of God. Professor Starbuck in a book re- I ently published, entitled, "The Psy- j hology of Religion," says that con- ; erslon belongs almost exclusively ! o the years between ten and twen- | r-flve; that some come at the age oi [ even; that others come, larger num> i ers, at the age of ten -r that the cli? j lax is reached at the age of sixteen; ; ut that between the ages of ten j nd twenty-five conversion almost exlusively is known. Take any group ' f Christian people together. an$ j ody of Christian ministers, as Bishop j roodsell, for example, is wont to o, and ask them to express by risag the year of their conversion and j ou will see that the great body of a ; irge congregation will say that they ' rere converted between the ages of j hirteen and twenty. There is a ime when it seems as if God through lis blessed Son, under the inspira- 1 Ion of His Holy Spirit, is doing what rae done 1900 years ago, calling litla ?Yi Oil rcn nr>/1 T TIAVOr meet a > roup , of little people, lads and las- i ies that play upon the 6treet or wor- j hip here in the house of God, withut feeling that I am face to face j rith those to whom God gives a pe* j uliar call. Years ago (if I may be pardoned a ; ersonal reference), when I was a xd of sixteen, one summer evening ! wo of us were walking along the I hore?a lad of my own age and I, ach the son of a Methodist preacher. >ur fatlierB were friends and each of s members of the Christian church, j Ve were talking seriously, as at ; [rues-haya art^wcb t doj and little ; y" "Tittle, vlthoat any4 cant" in "'our j ?ords, there was the i.cbo of what re had been hearing, and we came \ o ask one another serious questions, i never can forget that evening: I do ( ot think that ever in my life I was : o stirred as that night. I hurried J ome, asked my mother a few search- j qr questions, and then turned to my | !od and Father in prayer. Why? i Ind was calling a little child as He ailed children, nineteen hundred ! cars ago. A few weeks ago?let us say one ! !ii::dflv afternoon (the illustration i nay be true; it is liko a composite ibctograph, true to so many cases) ?your boy came to you. We will ay you were idly reading a book or ievspaper, or getting a bit of physia! or mental rest; and your boy ame to you with a question or two, .nd in a moment you saw that he fas thinking of deeper things than ou were thinking of?for a boy's hov.ghts are deep thoughts at times. Vlv? Because God speaks to the hilclren, and God calls them as He ailed them nineteen hundred years go. You and I must remember that God s orr Father. You and I must reneir'jer that what seem to us little hirrrs may be large things in His ight. You and I must remember that jven though the little things be litle. they may be the things that atract and hold His terder love beause they are little and simple and lecd a Father's care. Many a man knows mat it Is the ittle things tbat make him tender j oward those whom he loves: and our ' Jod, who is our Father in heaven, 'oa and I believe to bo tender to- I vard the little children. Christ called i i little child to Him. The call comes j io\v as it came then; the call comes j rom God. In the second place, a word or two ioncernlnj; the place of little chil-1 lren: Jesus called a little child, and j ;et him in the midst of them. The? ; jelonp in the church. They were i )laced nineteen hundred years ago I imong the disciples. He called a| :hild, and set him in the midst of j ;hem. Dr. Henry van Dyke has a! )ook entitled "God and Little ChilIren." He raises and answers the luestion, in the book, of the relation ;o those who die in infancy held by Sod. He says that there are three possible answers: First, that they ire lost; second, that some are lost ind some are saved; and, third, that 111 are saved. i , . . i*. ? I THE WARFARE AGAINST DRINI TEMPERANCE BATTLE GATHERS STRENGTH EVERY DAY. The Personal Liberty Fake. The stipremest source of humai law, the Supreme? Court of the Unitei States, for years has sustained pro hibition as a right of the people. I has said, the people can go to the ex tent of "entire prohibition." It ha decided that "the liquor traffic if no a useful occupation, but one harmfu and pernicious," According to th rulings of the Supreme Court, prohi bltion is not a violation of eithe civil rights or individual liberty. I the Supreme Court a "riff-raff of mor al idiots," are these decisions bori of intolerance, and are its member intermeddlers? The personal liberty cry belong to a barbarian past, and not to thi age, when one cannot build himsel a frame house within fire limits of i city, or set up a slaughter housi within city borders, or drive his owi horse faster than a walk across i bridge, or smoke a cigar in a railroa< car where ladies are, and where la dies themselves cannot wear merry widow hats in opera houses. Bob Burdette said: "The Declara tion of Independence was not writtei In a beer garden on a Sunday after noon, not by a jug full." The barrie line of personal liberty lies betweei the help and the hurt of another over this line we have no right to ste] to the injury of our neighbor. Mr. Watterson bitterly denounce as tyrannical, the sumptuary law tha 'denies to a citizen the right to orde his life, his home, his meat, his drink his clothing according to his converii snce." Will not Mr. Watterson appl; this test to the sumptuary law of th< saloon? Every woman in our country wh< fills the holy office of wife or mother has a right to a home. The sumptu ary law of the saloon says to hun areas or mousanas: iou snail no have a home, you shall live in : hovel, you shall not order your home nor food, nor drink, nor clothing t< suit your convenience, but thes< things shall be ordered to suit th< saloon. You shall toil all day in th< harness of oppression, and whei night comes you shall not even orde: your restful sleep, but watch the stari for the return of drunken husbandi and sons." What about this inhu man denial of the right to order meat drink, clothing and home life? Every child in this country has i right to an education and a cbanc< in the world. The liquor traffic says to a grea army of children, "You shall hav< neither; to the streets and sweat shops you shall go to earn bread and by evil environment you shall b< handicapped throught your youth.' One of the most inhuman facts th< sun has shone on since it hid its fac< from that awful crime on Calvary'i summit, is seen in multitudes of wo men and children denied the right t< Drder their food, clothing, eduoatioi and home life, by the tryannica sumptuary* law of the liquor traffic Are these to suffer on in silence tha men may order for their drink what to say the least, they do not need and what the Supreme Court says li the source of more misery and crim< than any other? When on electioi days these women and children gath er near the polls and out of the ashei Dt Bmitten home life, plead with mei to remove what denies them the righ to order their life comforts and joys are they to have no more respectfu reference in the Courier-Journal thai that their presence is "an indecen spectacle ?" Cardinal Richelieu, when his nieci was demanded by a licentious king Bald: ft "Around her Torn I draw the awful circl of our kingly church; Step a foot within, and' on thy head aye though it wear a crown, I'll lay the curse of Rome." Shall the crown of gold on the dis tillers' and brewers' brow in Ken tucky hush into silence the lion hearted manhood of our State, whei the sons and daughters of Columbi; ire demanded to feed the maw of th< liquor traffic??Colonel Geo. W. Bain Productivity. What modern civilization might hi Able to accomplish in the wise use o Its productive powers if these wer not wasted or diverted from thei proper channels by the use of drink we have never yet been able to provi on a large scale. Experience in limit ed sections, however, seems to indl sate that if the money spent in drink which enriches a few and returns t( labor a relatively smaller amoun than other products of toil, were ex pended instead Tor the necessities an< simple luxuries of life, the wheels o Industry would not as now lose pow ?.r at every turn because of the stu pendous waste of a nation's resource in drink and its attendant evils. Hence every man who is trained ti sobriety if doubly valuable to the na t'on. since he is likely to become no only an efficient user and developer o national resources, but at the sam> time he lessens by so much a waste ful loss in national productivity. Calls New Jersey Rum-Ridden. J. Frank Burke. State superin teudent of the Anti-Saloon League who occupied the pulpit of the M. E nf + XT T at i^uucj, j., uii a i Sunday, said: "New Jersey is one of the mos rum-ridden States in this countrq, i not the worst. A vigorous temper ance campaign will be waged this fall and 1 ask the church workers to b active on election day." Temperance Notes'. Men in all pursuits of active life almost invariably name sobriety a one of the essentials of highest sue cess. An Evansville brewery failed th other day, the failure being caused, i is said, by the going dry of Indian; coiintiec. The Washingtonian Movement o 1840 to 1845 did much good, am some harm that might have beei averted if the church had been as in telligent on the alcoholic drink ques tion as it ir. to-day. Tlie people of Nashville, Tenn.. ar building a new Y. M. C. A. buildini at the cost of $200,000 as a substi tuto for the saloons which they go rid of. The cheapest way for those brew ers to prove that more beer is soli under prohibition than elsewhere i to organize a little boom for prohi bition themselves. Then folks wouli believe. When one reads the statements o the brewers as to the amounts o good grain, hops, etc.. they use ii their manufacturing processes, th most striking suggestion is that ii making nothing out of something th brewers do beat all creation. c i uJTit INTERNATIONAL LESSON CO? a MENTS FOR OCTOBER 24. 3 ; - ? *= t Subject: Paul a Prisoner?Befoi _ , Festus and Agrippa, Acts 25 :< a 12?Golden Text: 2 Tim. 1:12Commit Verses 26, 27-29. e ' TIME.?A. D. 60 or 61. _ | PLACE.?Caesarea. r | EXPOSITION. ? I. Not Disob s ! dient Unto the Heavenly Vision, 11 - | 23. Verse 19 contains the key \ a | Paul's life and successes. Chris s spoke, Paul hearkened and obeyei ! The heavenly vision, the call < s Christ, comes sooner or later to evei s man. To hearken means blessing ar f joy and victory; to refuse to hearke a means wretchedness and ruin (c B Isa. 50:5). How Paul obeyed a] 3 pears in Gal. 1:15, 16. Heavenly vi a, ! ions are not to be trifled with, bi i promptly, unquestioningly, exact! . obeyed. Paul began his testimor _ right where he was. The apostli were to begin in Jerusalem (Lul _ 24:47), where they were. Paul wj a j in Damascus, so he began right ther . Paul was to be a foreign missionar; r but he proved himself first on tl j spot where he was converted. Tl . substance of Paul's message to Je ' and Gentile: "Repent and turn 1 God and do works worthy of repen ance" (comp. ch. 20:21). To-repei t is to radically change one's mind; t change one's mind about God, aboi sin, and especially about Christ; 1 I change from a mind that loves sin 1 " a mind that hates sin; from a mic I that spurns God to a mind that yielc 8 joyfully to God; from a mind that r< jects Christ to a mind that accep 1 Him as Saviour and as Lord. To tui to God is to turn our faces, which ai away from God in fear and dislit " and disobedience, unto God in trui and love and obedience. The "worl i worthy of repentance" are the worl | which He commands in His woi 1 '(see, e. g., Luke 3:8, 11-14; i?:s, i 3 Eph. 4:17-32). The turning to Gc ' is the inevitable outcome of repen * ance, and "works worthy of repen J ance" are the fruit and proof of tl c genuineness of the repentance an 3 turning to God. "For these caus* 3 ;he Jews caught me in the tempi * and went about to kill me." Thi * was a strange cause to kill a man fo out the heart of the Jew was "decei * ful above all things and desperate] 3 wicked" (Jer. 17:9). And the heai ol the Gentile to-day, of every or ' DUt of Christ, is Just like it (Rom. i 2 7). The man who preaches the plai: - unvarnished truth of God is bound 1 * suffer in this God, hating and trutl 2 hating world (Jno: 15:19, 20; 2 Tin 3:12). But we can stand it if Pai 2 did, and Jesus did; yes, and rejoi< 2 in it, too (Matt. 5:11, 12; Acts I s tl). There is a great utterance 1 - verse 22: "Having obtained the he] J lhat is from God I stand." Angr; a blood-seeking Jews against him, 1 .oving, sustaining God for him. Thi was Paul's position. So he stood. ? t can we. All we need is "the he! , which is from God," and that is i , Dur disposal (see also v. 16; ch. H b 19, 20; 16:25, 26; 18:9, 10; Ps. li 3 47; 27:1-3; Ps. 124:1-3, 8; 2 Cor. ] l 8-10; 2 Tim. 4:17, 18; Jno. 10:2 - 29; Heb. 4:16). Paul was no b standing before a governor, a prii ??*?/? o iHnt* hut he never forgi X bCOB MUU M U'OQy v t the little ones of earth. His test i, mony was to "small" as well t 1 "great." Many of us think the wasl a ?r woman, the servant girl, the boo t black and the coal heaver beneal >ur notice. Not so Paul, e n. Aliqost Persuaded, 24-2 Festus was getting excited. T1 Spirit of God was gripping his hear Festus was unwilling to yield, so I e :alled the preacher a crank. The de'v r has cheated many a man out of ete nal life in that way. He has all cheated many a Christian out of larger life in the same way. M - must expect to be called crazy, if v - get our message from God. That - what they called Jesus (Jno. 8:4 a 52). Note Paul's unfailing courtes a Many a man is loyal to the truth ar 9 is called "mad" for it, and then go< . to scoring his traducers. But in Pa unflinching fidelity went hand in har with unfailing courtesy. Let us leai a lesson. Paul now turns directly i e Agrippa with a tremendous, startlir f and soul-awakening question: "Kir e Agrippa, believest thou the pr r phets?" It was a master stroke. , | is a good question to put to the u; p converted Jew to-day. It is a goc question to put also to unconvertf Gentiles, and then show them ho wonderfully the prophecies have bet c fulfilled. Theargumentfromprophei t is unanswerable. Many are trying i break its force, but they have fail* 3 utterly. They have succeeded i f turning the eyes of some foolish pe . pie from the contents of the pr . phecies to questions of authorshl s but if any one will study the proph cies themselves, instead of wastir 0 time in the endless jangle of wor< * ? ' ?111 dnnn flnri thi about tnem, ue wm OUvi, *? t God is the real author, that the pos f tion of the destructive critics canm e be true, and that "Jesus is the Chris . the Sod of God." Agrippa's answ< is full of suggestion: "Almost the persuadest me to be a Christian While the Authorized Version is ni a literal translation of the origins . it comes far nearer to being a liter translation than the Revised Versio j' The literal translation is: "In a litt t thou persuadest me to make a Chri tian." It is said that Agrippa sa t this in sarcasm. Perhaps so; bu f like many another, the attempted je _ reveals the real state of the heai lt Agrippa was deeply moved. He sa e' the cost of further consideratioa i the claims of Christ. At 7U "Spells Down'-,' Thirty. At Big Stone Gap, Va., John T s Fox, seventy-nine years old, father >. John Fox, Jr., novelist, retired thir contestants in a "spelling bee" at t! e Summer Normal School exercis< j. Those retired included members a i the faculty, students and citizens, I well as his son, who sat down < , lllCCOUgn, sp^lllilb lie "UIU W. J j)lified form. The novelist and t wife, formerly Frjtzi Scheff, are lea 11 ing the simple life in the Fox bung 1 low, guest:; o! hl3 parents. t j Mrs. Taft's Kegrets in Linen, g ! Declining an invitation to attend concert at Shamokin, Pa., the Pre I dent's wife sent a hand-worked lin handkerchief with her autograph. J j Glenn Cuitiss Enters Contest. s Tn a message received at innia apolis Glenn Curtiss agreed to ent the aeroplane contests in that city C tober 15. 1 f? and J". f | The total production of turpenti: u | In the Southern woods during the la ? j ; onr was 36,500,000 gallons, and g j hosin 4,000,000 barrels. The value the two products was ?32,000,000. \Religious Thuths\ f From the Writings of Great j jj Preachers. IA SONG OF THANKFULNESS. I thank Thee, Lord, for the bl?e of Thy H e sky, , For the green of Thy woods and fields: * For the river that ripples and sparkles by, ? ^ And the harvest the brown earth yields. For the birds that eing and the flowers that ! bloom, And the breath of the cooling breezeT.iou hast made them all so beautiful, ~! I thank Thee, Lord, for these! eI thank Thee. Lord, for a brain to think, to And a will to dare and dd; it For a heart which may give my fellow matt 3. A love that is strong and true: For a spirit that is but the breath of GodAnd is new when the world is old? L I yield them all to ThyRelf. dear Lord, I They are Thine to have and hold. , in f. Onlv use them. Lord, in Thy shaping hand p- i For an end that Thine eye can see, . a_ As day by day Thou art fashionine Thv child to be more'like Thee. i_ Let Thine image shine from my faithful ' j heart iy 1 As a light over life's rough vray, 58 That others may find it an easier path, te | And he led to a perfect dav. 18 ?E. W. Hawkins, in Pittsburg Christian e. Advocate. Yt ??? ie A Growing Social Peril. le No apology is needed for a protest w against the foolish talk that may be .0 j heard in some quarters about a new t- relation in the domestic circle, who Isit 1 commonly referred to as the "affinto i ity." She is not mother, sister or it ' wife, but occupies a vague position to as an interloper in the social order,, to whose claims are coming to be recogid 1 nized as paramount. Some of the Is talk is inadequately characterized as e- j foolish, for it is wicked; but for the ts ' greater part it does not proceed tp> n action and is mere silliness and gusli, e i tn one conspicuous instance, however,, te j it has developed into a dissolution of Bt | the family and a scandal, consequent ; ts | an the 'complacence of the partiescs I joncerned. There .is always a possi'd billty of an example pf that kind >; commending, itself to men of erratic 'd character, who hope that an indnlt gence of their vagrant, fancy may be*, t- ; regarded by the public as excusable. IA I T+ nonnM I vauuw IUU DVVU VI IUV VIVMI * Jd ' shown that the American people* js | ^specially the Christian public, will * e> i not condone any nonsense of that it j Und. It has too high a regard for r, ! purity in domestic life, and will not t- i tolerate offenses that impair it. The- ' ly j war that has bee? waged against theft | Mormons, who boldly added the ailing i? ity to the household, proved that 1; polygamy was regarded as an offense o? against public decency and against the national conscience. This attempt to introduce successive* Q- polygamy is still more odious, be- !'' 11 j sause it involves greater suffering a?d '? open shame. That there are cases in ?: j which divorce is justifiable cannot be: [n ! denied, but only extreme wrongdoing 'P I or Intolerable misery can be accepted y> j as valid ground for recourse to the a remedy. The mere desire to get rid I of a partner who has lost her youth 0 and charms, and to replace her with'P one who has both, is no such ground. lt 1 The evil, however, does not to [ many instances proceed so far. It. ?\ may consist in nothing more than L; the preference for the society of a. ! person other than the legitimate partw ner. It is in such preference, and n" che indulgence in it, that the danger o* li^s. No one realizes at the beginning ;I~ ! of such an association how rapidly J? the passions may develop. The nox-; lous weed grows with amazing speed,, r and it has the tendency to Intoxicate :D the mind and becloud the reason. TheI warning of approaching disaster 0- causes-the victim to exclaim: "Isthy servant a dog, that he should do- . t. ihis thing?" Yet he may drift on the ' ie seductive stream until he Is unable toil avoid doing it. The time comes when r- the struggle to do right involves such JO i struggle as Christ described as cuta tling off the right hand, or sacrificing^ fe :he right eye; when to give up is like re rending the very heart. Miny haveis lost life and the soul ituelt in ignobly 8. yielding rather than taking the firm y. but painful course. The crisis beid ;omes worse than one of life and_ es death, and it is of such a crisis, in its' ul incipient stage, that people in society id talk so lightly and frivolously, whom 'U they discuss the subject of the "afflnto ity."?Christian Herald. I ig i o- i Winning the Kingdom. It "Through many tribulations," said ih'e apostle missionaries to their Gal?d atian converts, "we must enter into- J the kingdom of God." It was at the w cost of bitter persecution that these :n Christians, won from amongst the :y heathen in those days of beginnings, held fast to their new faith. But how. glorious was the result of such suf- , 'n fering bravely endured, in the lives 0" strong and noble which came out of it. P? We live in times as different from that early period as the modern threshing machine is from the rude 's tribulum. People do not, in our land, < it MC bUlltrr iUI HJtll ICligiUU 1U kuvi oomu way as did the first followers of Christ. But it is still true that, odI.v ,t> through discipline, sometimes sharp -r and severe, do human lives become worthy of the kingdom of God. There may be much in our present lot that j Is hard to bear, but a blessed outcome 1 ,* is certain to all God's children, al n. ie Christ Within. s- The last and greatest wonder of id tbe Gospel is that Christ, the great it, : Model, does not leave us to copy Him st at a distance, but actually enters our t. 1 soul and remodels us. And faith is w, 1 only the closing of soul with Christ, of; by which this living Redeemer, with His self-sacrificing and yet His victorious spirit, becomes ours. ' y Making a Life. " 6 0j There is a vast difference in mak ty ing a life and making a living. With but little efTort anybody can make a Jg living; but it requires the strenuous ' j endeavor of a manly soul to make s as life.?Rev. Westcn Bruner. on | The Way to Heaven. iia I If we would live the life whict ,d* j leads to heaven, we need only intend ;a- I to do right voluntarily in preference I _ j to doing it by compulsion of circum- B I stances against o iv will.?Rev. Hirair I \ rooman. I ec Assistant Treasurer Sued. George S. Terry, Assistant Treasurer of the United States, after ? separation of twenty-nine years from n his wife, was sued for $6000 back ' alimony in New York City. ic J Imports Increased. ne Appraiser Wanamaker, of Nev st York City, reported the value of im ot ports for August were $21,000,001 0j I more than for the same month a yeai ' ago 4? r , , ,