Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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This much she noted and then her new acquaintance lifted his i hat and the pony trotted over the 1 bridge into the market town. Aunt Bradshaw drew a long breath. t "How very odd!" she murmured, ' "and I lpight say?unfortunate." e "You do not like Mr. St. George?" t said Jacqueline. c "Certainly I do. One can find no j fault with St. George. He is rich? 1 f>- . he comes of a Boston family that claims descent from the colonial gov- 1 ernors, and years ago I used to think c him a most fascinating person; but he seems to have grown old and a morose?no wonder, poor fellow!" r This last in a voice barely audible. "He was not pleased to meet you, f Aunt Bradshaw." \ "So I perceived. I cannot blame him." "The frown never lifted from his face while he talked with you." r "Really yoy observed him very r closely, my dear." t "Yes; he Interested me. He is not, I feel sure, a common person." s Mrs. Bradshaw bit her lip, and answered nothing. Some small pur- s chases were made in the town, and ^ then the pony's head was turned t back to the manor house. I In a flutter 01 expectation Jacqueline awaited luncheon. Promptly s with the hour, St. George appeared, t and sat down to the table with the t ladies, in a charming, low-ceiled s room, overlooking a terrace smoth- r ered in flowers. Jacqueline had put on a simple rhite dress, and stuck a bunch of blood-red roses in the ribbon at her belt. The cold gray eyes of the guest dwelt on her in a sort 1 of unwilling admiration. t "You are not in the least like your C sister," he said abruptly. v She was pouring cream from a c silver jug upon a dish of crimson s strawberries. Her hand shook r jlightly. * a "My sister!" she echoed. "Do you c t ? ? K1IUVV UCI ; "No, but I have seen her at the f Symphony with Miss Wingate. and \ in the Wingate pew at Trinity." c "Good Bostonians are sure to meet g at the Symphony and at Trinity. Oh, \ I am so glad to talk with a person who has ever seen Doris!" She s leaned toward him, her breath com- h 1ng quickly, her eyes like twin stars, f "My sister and I have been separated i since childhood. Perhaps I would no longer know her?is she very fair? ?it she tall, like all the Hattons?" "She is fair, biit tall?no; her head t would hardly reach to your shoulder," replied St. George. < i "The choicest goods are made up In the smallest parcels," said Jacque- 1 line, trying to smile, though her eyes 1 were moist. "Did she appear well? q and?and?strong when you last saw her?" 1 "On tbe contrary," answereu ou i George, "she seemed in ill health." f Jacqueline grew pale. "111 health?Doris'" 1 "I heard her cough in church." t Mrs. Bradshaw gave the speaker f an indignant glance. 1 "That signifies nothing. My dear f St. George, you hear a young person cough, and infer at once that she is ? ill? Nonsense! Do not frighten \ Jacqueline?she is absurdly fond of, i her sister." 1 St. George perceived that he had c said the wrong thing. j 1: "Pardon me. Miss Hatton," he J i "T am snrpv if T have \ oiaiuui^i vu. * -v. - / ? , alarmed you." c She pushed her strawberries away untasted. Mrs. Bradshaw promptly t changed the conversation. f "Have you been long abroad?" c she said to her guest. j ^ "I left Boston three weeks ago," a he replied. "The German specialist, * who has been treating Basil for some time past, could not cross tne Atian- j 1 tic this season. Consequently, I J came over to interview him in Berlin." ! "With satisfactory results, I hope?" He shook his head. "Herr Gunther assures me that, the case is hopeless?he can do no ' more." ' "Oh, poor Basil! How very sad!", murmured Mrs. Bradshaw. "The last I, heard, you were consulting some eminent London surgeon? could he do nothing?" "Nothing," replied St. George. His face looked grim and unspeakably j weary. i "In another week I shall sail for home." | Jacqueline heard no more. Who j Basil was she neither knew aor cared. As soon as possible, she left the table. I and stele out into the garden. She was moping there among the thickets of Portugal laurel when St. George came to take leave of Aer. "I regret that I have been the means of disturbing you," he said, with a keen glance at her pale face. "But you told the truth?did you not?" demanded Jnco'seline V . j i ?? ? ? ."Most certainly." j "You think Doris fs ill?" "Yes." j "Thank you, and good-bye." His strong, warm hand closed over ? lers for an instant, then he was gone ? lown the umbrageous walk. Jacjueline went back to Aunt Bradshaw, 1 vho had resumed her easy chair, , vith a great show of fatigue. j "You heard what Mr. St. George j ;aid about Doris?" began the girl. ? "Don't speak of it!" cried Mrs. ] 3radshaw, irritably. "That man has itterly exhausted me! You know j Doris is slight and fair, and she nat- , irally impresses a stranger as deli:ate; but such women always outlast { heir plump and ruddy sisters. St. ? lonrco rtotpnts our sex. and I cannot i hink he would trouble himself to . isten to a girl coughing in church, j )r to observe whether she looked . >trong or otherwise, and he answered j Lt random." Jacqueline, unconvinced, stood j lervously fingering the roses in her t )elt. j "I am sorry we met St. George ] o-day," Mrs. Bradshaw went on. j 'He has disturbed you with hiB ab- j iurd talk, and without doubt, you, in urn, started in his mind a train of lisagreeable thoughts?for though a 'oung man still, he has known some lard experiences." ? With quiet determination Jacque- J ine drew a step nearer to the easy :hair. ( "Forgive me, Aunt Bradshaw," j he said. "I cannot wait till to-mor- , ow. Let us settle my future now." ? Mrs. Bradshaw glanced up at the ? ace of her niece, and groaned in- j roluntarily. ' T "Your miiid is made up!" "Yes. I must go to Doris." ( "Jac! Jac! Think of all you sac iflce! If you leave me now, I wash ? ny hands of you forever. You may vork with the poorest for daily bread j ?I shall not pity you; you may tarve, and I will not help!" j The girl's sad eyes looked past the peaker, out through the rose-hung t vindow, where, in the sunny disance, the stiffs frowned, and the sea c glinted like sapphire. , f "Still I cannot stay!" she an- { wered. "Doris is calling me. We will j vork or starve together. I have ^ hought of everything, Aunt Brad- j haw, and let the cost be what it r nay. I must go to Doris!" CHAPTER n. t The passenger list of the great * Iner which bore Jacqueline Hatton ^ o America also bore the name of g leorge St. George; but the voyage ^ t'as half over before Jacqueline aisovered this fact. She was a bad ailor, and for the first few days illtess confined her to her stateroom, md rendered her invisible to her ompanions in travel. One morning, towever, she ventured on deck, and ound a comfortable nook, where, trapped in rugs and shawls, she relined in her steamer chair, and ;ratefully expanded her lungs to the igorous winds of the Atlantic. "How do you do, Miss Hatton?" aid a voice, and the man whom she iad met in Cornwall approached her rom the rail, and lifted his travelog cap. * "Is Mrs. Bradshaw aboard?" "No,'* asnwered Jacqueline. "You are not traveling alone?" nth an intonation of surprise. "Certainly?I am going home to oy sister." "I fear you have been ill?you ook rather done up. Would you ike to walk about a little??I am [uite at your service." "Thank you," answered Jacqueine, somewhat ungraciously. "I do iot care to move?I am very comortable as I am." He stalked away toward fifae wheel :ouse. She saw him often during he remainder of the voyage, but no urther words passed between them. ?hey greeted each other only witn a j j ormal bow. It was a raw day, full of chill and ;loom, when Jacqueline, through a reil of easterly rain, beheld once nore the gilded dome on Beacon Jill, and the spires of her native 1 :ity. The great liner swept up to 1 ler pier, where carriages were wait- ' ng, and eager people crowded for- * vard to welcome friends and kin- * [red. Jacqueline caught the sudden flut- ( er of a handkerchief, the gang-plank ' ell, and directly Doris, with some I allow youth stumbling in her wake, 1 vas on the deck?in Jacquelin's I irms, and everything else on land ind sea was for tin nonce forgotten. ( Doris, small and fragile, with hair 1 >f buttercup yellow, and pathetic ( 'iolet eyes?the elder of the twain, * >ut seemingly me younger?ueiu ua all sister closely, and sobbed?"Oh, lac, I am wild with joy to have you n my arms again, yet my heart aches o thinfe of all you have lost in leavng Aunt Bradshaw! Mr. Wingate :ould not come to meet you?some lient detained him; so he sent his :lerk to look after your luggage? L t ProTron " ? yii. x quite luigui. iui. vitt?vu, urning hastily to the callow youth, < 'let me present you to my sister." t Mr. Craven, reddening to the tips )f his ears, stammered something unntellible. Jacqueline, with her-mind ull of other matters, delivered up ] ler keys, and the young man de- ; >arted to discharge the duties as- ] ?igned him. The sisters wore left < ogetber. i "Oh, Ja". yon awe me!" gasped < Ooris. "How tall you have grown? ] 30w stately! I know I shall always ; je like wax in your hands." < Jacqueline scrutinized the speaker < inxiously. Yes, there were litcle i lollows in Doris's cheeks, and her ] aeautiful eyes had dark rings under i :hem. 1 "But von are not the Doris I hoped < o see." replied Jacqueline, her heart i hrobbing with fear. "I am sure you ! lave been ill. dear?you look an hough a breath would blow you , iway." Doris smiled bravely. "Not ill?only moping," she an- I wered. "I shall grow strong again, ] low that I hav* you back. Hold me j ast, Jacky! But you ought to have i >een Aunt Bradshaw's heiress, and I nade a splendid marriage?I feel | hat I have cheated you out of a j ;reat future. Look! who is the tall, | air man just going ashore? He is | ! itaring hard at you." Jacqueline glanced around. The j jerson who had attracted Doris' at- j ention was St. George. He lifted I lis hat; she bowed indifferently. 1 : "An acquaintance of Aunt Brad- j : .haw's?I met him in England," she ! said to Doris. The usual delays over, Teddy Craren joined the sisters, and led the i vay to a carriage waiting on the < Dier. Rain was now falling in tor- , ents. Mr. Wingate's clerk was 1 ibout to take a seat with the driver, i r?/-irie intomnsfri ! "You will be drenched outside, : Hr. Craven?you must come with ; is." j Teddy blundered into the vehicle, ( ind, disregarded by both sisters, i sank into a corner, where, divided i aetwixt a burning desire to fly, and < in overwhelming wish to remain, the 1 Door fellow sat in a sort of mental } igue?chillB and fever predominat- : ng by turns in his mind. His companions, ignorant of the ) !eelings they had aroused, began to ; ;alk quietly, unreservedly, as though i 10 third party was present. Teddy j inew how to efface himself, and on I ;his occasion he was glad to be over- 1 ooked. "Doris," began the younger girl, f 'did you advertise for employment?" j Doris sighed. i "Yes; and I have not received a < ?- - 4in i single answer, jac, piaiui/ mcic m > 10 demand for abilities like mine." "Poor child!" said Jacqueline, bit:erly; "I think you hardly realize low unfit you are for any kind of vork. Leave bread-winning to itronger women. You are as frail as i flower. You must be sheltered .'rom the hard things of life, or you vill die.1' "Oh, Jac," said Doris, with tearB )f mortification in her violet eyes, 'do I, then, impress you as being iuch a poor, helpless creature?" Jacqueline kissed her passionate- i y. I "No, no! But like the lilies of the I ield, you were not made to toil." "I am too proud to live on chariy, Jac." "And my pride is equal to your >wn, dear! I burn to deliver you rom your miserable fate. I have a )lan?you will scoff at it?condemn t, maybe, but I mean to execute it vithout delay! I do not ask your lelp, Doris, but you must promise lot to oppose me." "I promise," said Doris. The carriage was rumbling over he stones or me street, una iv.au 5 ? | , slatter in which the fresh, young roices were partially drowned; but Graven, with heart beating hard, (trained his ears to catch the next rord. It was Jacqueline who spoke. "Do you remember the man who obbed papa, and drove him to sui:ide?" she said. A pale alarm appeared on Doris' ace. "Philip Trevor? Certainly I renember him?he was once a constant risitor in our home. Why do you ;peak of him now?" . "He made you and me beggars and >rphans while we were yet children, Doris." "Exactly." "For that reason I wish to recall lim to your memory. You were jorn to riches and ease. Trevor stole 'our fortune. If it could be recov(red it would give you the independence for which you pine, establish 'our health and insure us both icainct anv fear of future separation. )h, Doris, we do greatly need poor japa's money, and, God helping us, ve must have it!" "Wild talk, Jac. Philip Trevor :annot he reached. Long ago he fled vith his booty, and has never been ;een in this city since." "He robbed us, Doris. I shall find lim, and demand restitution." Doris sta. ^d blankly at her. sister, s'either noticed Craven, who sat la lis corner w' _ the cold sweat startng out on. his forehead, and his leart pounding his breast like a triplammer. To be Continued. Property Rights Reach Sky. A law framed thousands of years igo by the ancient Romans, and the inly one bearing on the subject, may lave to be amended or wholly nulliied before airships go shooting about hrough space at their own sweet vill. This important fact was brought >ut at a meeting of aeronauts in Lrondon only a few days ago. At present nobody has a right to fly icross occupied land. The world is joverned by the ancient Roman law, 'Usque ad Coelum." It means that ivery landowner has a right to the lir above his head as far up as he :hooses to go, ana caii gei an iujuuv,- | ion to restrain any one from flying 1 hrougb it. So far nobody has atempted to put the law into force, t would be most uncomfortable, not ;o say disastrous, for a farmer sud- ; lenly to emerge from his barn or ' smoke house and pepper one's airship jvitb bullets. The fact that the aerolaut from his lofty perch could not )e expected to see the "No Trespass" *v>;n.v>t tint nrnvp a mitieatinc >l?Ul iUifeUU uwv ? ? j jircumstance with the rural magis- i rate.?Pittsburg Eagle-Times. Pa<Ici-cs\vki's Diet. Prior to his appearance at a concert J Paderewski would not thank one for i piece of the finest turkey or for the most toothsome Christmas pudding jver made. On a concert day he eats nothing until it is concluded except 5ne soft-boiled egg. When it is over ae takes a hearty meal, which he enjoys thoroughly, as his appetite is excellent, although he is so abstem5us. During the concert he drinks a soda lemonade made without sugar. It need hardly be said that this is not intended as a stimulant. After ;he concert he permits himself a draft )f some malt beverage.?Tit-Bits. _ i - THE PULPIT. ' A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. CORTLAND MYERS. Theme: Sent From God. I 1 Brooklyn, N. Y.?The Rev. Corti land Myers, D. D., preached his farewell sermon Sunday night in the Bap- j tist Temple, and brought to an end a j sixteen-year pastorate of that church i S Dr. Myers will assume the pastorate i of the Tremont Baptist Temple ir I Boston, Mass., in the fall. Dr. Myers said J I am going to preach to you to- i night from the very text tEat ] ! preached upon when I preached my j first sermon, nearly sixteen years ago. E In this city. (Not the same sermon, b because I have not seen it since, and | n I only care to remember the state- j n ment of Scripture as an introduction i I for this bit of truth). John 1:6: ! c "There was a man sent Irom God.* j a That statement was made concerning . a ane of the greatest preachers of Chrisl j b this world ever saw, and one who de- s< serves to be pre-eminently the pat- o 1 * man whn otnnrfs ! n LCI II JLU1 CVCIJ UtUl/i lituu tiuw v in the holy place of a minister ol h Jesus Christ. That statement was J a made concerning a man who said thai : tl tie must decrease, but Christ must in- j e ire^se; that he was not worthy to | ^ unloose the shoe latchets of his Lord, j ' and who said: "Behold the Lamb oi | 1* Sod who taketh away the sin of the ! p svorld." That statement ought to be j s, made concerning every ministry, and j 1 [ am very sure that it can truthfully j e ae made concerning this ministry, j 1 fi tiave never had one interrogation | b mark thrust against me all these h pears in that*relation, and so I stand, Ii to-night, at this sacred moment of I d my life, and in my ministry, to say to j a pou once more that there was a man 1 s: sent from God to the life of this ' ti ihurch. The result of scientific re- ! l search as to whether other heavenly I tl J ar.a in)i )lflS hPf?Tl tC I h JUUICD ttJ V luuMw*t.vv? ?.v? -- , prove that this world is the one world | f< where Almighty God chose to worb I d jut tAe problem of human destiny si *nd human life, ol the creature mad6 j n His own Image and likeness; and h we are turning to-day even on scien- w :ific pages towurd the Garden oi 1 g< Sden, where God walked in the cool | ti )f the day with a man as companion a n holiest fellowship. I might have ! n i beautiful house full of luxury, and b comfort, and artistic taste, but one d ;reat element in the life of the home u s lacking. What Is It? The great feature of a home is nol i s< :he furnishings or the comfort; the I y *reat .demand is a man to enter the j ii iome, to use It, to live in it and tc j C De made better by it and to find w ;here his fountain of joy and happi- 7 less and comfort and rest and peace, si iVhen God made this beautiful world i si t did not fulfill His idea until man D :ame to live in it. The one supreme r< jlement essential was the man, whc fi vas the one factor, the one elemenl p iy which that which God had planned rr should be accomplished. Man was b ;he agency througn wjncn me gospej i ~ )f Jesus Christ should accdmplish its | o jurpose in the world. .That is the i ti ?reat statement to be made concern- j b ng the man who stands in the king- P lom of God as a leader in the minis:ry to his fellow men. He must be ! F irst, last and always a man; a maD ii vith every mark of the nobility and J 8] oyalty of manhood about him; a I b nan who enters into every condition j a )f the life of his fellow men and 1 a should not consider that this minis- f* ;ry had found its fulfillment unless ii hat statement could be made with Q ibsolute truth concerning it. ] vould not want to feel that any part h )f my life had been separated from w my part of your life. All that there w s of man at his best, a natural, nor- ti nal, God-marked man, should be at ! b he centre of this Christian ministry. 81 Svery sermon ought to have running a ;hrough its veins the rich, red blood t( ;hat runs, through the veins of the * ninister who preaches it. There is * >ne requisite above all others, if we ? ire to be victorious, and that is God- * 'elt nobility of Christian manhood j 61 n the ministry of JesuB Christ. D "There was a man sent." It is a 13 ?reat moment in any human life 11 vhen we come to the recognition dl w )ur supreme mission; when every- * ,hing else in life comes to be secondiry to that which holds the first & )lace as the purpose and mission ol a ife. Paul, Chrysostum, Savonarola, ? Luther, John Knox, all felt the J1 nighty impulse of the mighty missions on which they were sent wheD tallowing the holy command. Oh. ? tvhat splendid achievements would ? -1? "i??o <" Vite rvart r>f find's kinc ,ttn.c piacc m _ w iom if the members of this greal ^ :hurch would walk right up to the * ight in recognition of their divine " nission to save this lost world. God j * s waiting for you. He has waited | * ror some of you half a century, but He is emphatically waiting for youi j f oung manhood and womanhood tc J' eckon with the "sent" element in P luman life. The one holy missioD I ? For every man and woman In the ! ringdom of Christ Is never less that I " ul"is?and I think you will have to! Dear me out that it has always been, j R ithout a single exception, the one j supreme purpose of these years oi j oqv ministry among you*?it has beeD j y Q- Lhing less than to fulfill the mis- t si'a of Jesus Christ in this world ii id to seek and to save the lost. j v "If any man has not the spirit ol I e Christ he is none of His." The spirit j t Df Christ pushed its way against t 2very broken heart, every battered r life, every bruised soul; against the e leper, the blind, and the lame; the s spirit of Christ took hold of Mary Magdalene and the Woman of Sama via, and grasped thrt wonderful life of Peter and lifted him up intc the kingliness and glory of his" man- ! j1 liocrt; and that Divine Spirit of out ' Lord went out in every direction foi ? the saving of His fellowmen. d Now, mark you, if His spirit is tc be mine and yours, then we must *'u~ davo nnd vears fulfill ' ID me cumins UM/W His mission "to seek and to save J that which was lost"?nothing les? J than that. ? I am expecting it of you. I would > have the disappointment of an en- 1 tire life if you fall in this holy mis- ! * I Eicn. [ , The purpose of this great church j 1 of Jesus Christ is to save men, tc j 1 help our Lord to redeem His lost j 1 world; to bring the Gospel to bear or j j the sin-stricken lives of our fellow- ; ' men. If you lower the standard I shall j be disappointed. I shall think m> | teaching and my ministry have par- ' tially failed. ^ "T1 ore was a man sent from God." t If thru climax is not placed on the J sermon and on the life then all musi ii be a failure. At this hour, with sc I many impressions on my heart this j| one is uppermost: For every fractior s of success in these years, for everj w note of victory in all the music of this h church life, for everything that maj ^ be to-night to your credit and youi f< glory as a church, I want to stand in your presence and say that it all belongs to Almighty God. li ??I??? f Itfo Sun&au-&6ooP NTERNAT10NAL LESSON' COMMZNTS FOR OCTOBER 17. I ubject: Paul a Prisoner?Beforo j Felix, Acts 24?Golden Text: j Acts 24:16?Commit Verses 25, ! 26?Commentary on the Lesson. TIME?A. D. 58 or 59. PLACE.?Caesarea. EXPOSITION.?I. Paul's Defense Sefore Felix, 10-23. Paul was in the est sense a gentleman and a diplomat (cf. ch. 26:2). By all proper leans he sought to gain the favor of hose he would win for Christ. One an be faithful without being brusque nd boorish. This Spirit-given tact nd winsomeness is as much needed y the one who would acceptably srve Christ as is Spirit-filled boldness f utterance. Paul took up the terms f the indictment brought against im (v. 5) and met them with a flat nd unanswerable denial. It is one hing to makeaccusations; itis anothr thing to prove them (v. 13). Paul ras a model preacher, he believed all things which are written in the iw and the prophets" (v. 14). Hapv ir. fVia men. -n;Vin ran eav Tuhat Paul J *0 lliUU^HUV I'?f? ays -here (cf. Luke 24:27, 44; John 0:35; Matt. 5:18; Mark 7:13). His neraies accused him of departing rom their ancient Scriptures*, he bowed them that, on the contrary, e believed more fully than they did. t is often the case that the real infiels call the believers heretics. As n athlete keeps himself in rigid phyIcal training, so Paul kept himself i rigid spiritual training (v. 16; Cor. 9:24-27). The object of lis spiritual discipline was "to ave . a conscience void of of?nse" ? that is, a conscience that id not stumble or cause others to tumble. He sought diligently and isciplined himself strenuously to ave such a conscience, not only toard God but also toward man. He Dught tO'have it not only most of the me, but all the time. The kind of thletics Paul cultivated are sorely in eed of cultivation to-day. It was to ring alms to his nation and not to 0 wrong to his nation that Paul had )me to Jerusalem. II. FeJix Terrified, 24-26. Tho themes of the enemies of Paul and f Christ had already resulted in givlg Paul an opportunity to preach hrist to persons who would other* ise been beyond his reach (cf. Ps^ 6:10). There were few who mora jrely needed preaching to than this ime man Felix and this same woman irusilla. How many preachers havd sceived inspiration and instruction -om Paul's dealing with these* two rofligates in high society. How lany hesitating people have been rought to an immediate decision foi< hrist through the study of the folly f Felix. Felix had a mere specula-. ve curiosity iu the matter (v. $4); ut Paul gave a very practical and ersonal turn to his exposition ol the faith in Christ." He showed elix it was not some faraway thing 1 the region of metaphysics and peculation, but something close ome to his own misconduct. "Paul lways adapted his preaching to his? udience, but not in the way some lodern preachers adapt their preachlg to their audience, studying to say othing to offend. He went right at;r the conscience of the people before im. Righteousness and self-control -ere just where Feli? and Drusilla I rere offenders. Paul had an influen- I al audience of high social standing, j ut he preached the preaching that sme would have us believe is only dapted for the slums. "Felix was srrified." Well he might be. He 'as conducting himself in just the 'ay that makes "the judgment of tod" a terror. We would do well if 'e would so preach that we should trike with terror offenders in high laces. Terrifying pieaching is great* 7 needed to-day. Indeed, just as luch in our fashionable churches, 'here, there is many a modern Felix, s in our mission halls. It is true the ;rror of Felix did not do him much ood, but jt came near saving him, nd there are many rich sinners and lany poor sinners to-day whose only ope is that they may be so terrified tiat they will forsake their sins and ccept Christ. What a fool Felix was. Ie had seen the blackness of his sin; e had seen the certainty and the awillness of the judgment to which he 'as hurrying^' he had been terrified nd there was but one wise thing to o, turn from sin and accept Christ, nd only one time to do it?at once, lut he waited for a convenient seaon. which never came. It never does Dr those who "wait for it. With many ; is now or never; repent to-day or e lost eternally, fn a few days all bat Felix was thinking about was ow he could make money out of the ian who had opeDed to him the gate f heaven. / A Writing in the Heart. As men and women add year" to ear of patient and loving service, here writes itself in their hearts and q their faces the language of a dime and eternal life. To the seeing ye, what beauty is there in the faces hat have been lined and wrinkled by roubles bravely borne, by the sorows of other lives shared and lightned, by unconscious heroism and ainthood!?George S. Merriam. The Law of Moses. The law of Moses was, in every art, tinged with mercy; it stood for iberty and it had for its ultimate ;oal freedom from ignorance aw* lespotism.?Rev. C. Ross Baker. At 79 'Spells Down" Thirty. At Big Stone Gap, Va., John W <*ox, seventy-nine years old, lather oi 1 if nnvniist vptired thirt5 uu li ruA, ot., iiv ?- _ :ontestants in a "spelling bee" at th< Summer Normal School exercises Those retired included members oi he faculty, students and citizens, a; veil as his fon. who sat down oc liccougn, spelling the word in sinii >lified form. The novelist and hii vife, formerly Fritzi Scheff, are leadng the simple life in the Fox bungaow, guests of his parents. Senim Reduces Mortality. Dr. Salambini, the discovery of /hose serum and vaccine for the reatment of cholera has recently een announced at Paris, calls attenion to the decreasing mortality in tussia, where the serum was injected ti a large number of critical cases, le believes it certain, therefore, that f the serum were used in the early tages of the disease the results could be more successful The serum as been prepared as a result of much ork with formulas suggested by proessors of the Pasteur Institute. Trading Stamps Outlawed. The Georgia Legislature has out* lwed the use of tradinu siamus. .... J r*TH CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK I PROGRESS MADE BY CHAMPIONS j FIGHTING THE RUM DEMON Missouri Brewers in Teai*ful Plea. I That Prohibition sentiment has j made itself felt in Missouri is demonstrated by the almost frantic ef- j I forts of the prominent brewers of St. Louis to stem the tide. Adolphus Busch has addressed a letter to the . i people of the State in which, after * j telling them of his great confidence j in their good sense, he hints that, if he is mistaken in them, he will leave ] not only the city but the State. "I i personally would deeply regret leav- j1 ing St. Louis," he wails, "because I | love the city, but, of course, if we ; are forced to go we would not only , I move ourselves across the river, but 1 to every point in the country possi- j ^ ble," a conclusion that sounds as if j Mr. Busch had been taking too much | j of his favorite beverage. As to the j reasons why his business should be ! 1 ; conserved, the big brewer, with that | blindness to the larger interests of ! the race which is characteristic of sa- j loon advocates everywhere, says: "Our industry is a perfectly legiti- I mate one. It is one of the greatest j 1 revenue payers to the National, State i * and city governments, and one of the j * largest employers of labor; therefore | 1 n/Viv oVirmlH It not he mnintninpH anrl ! * sustained?" If Mr. Busch really wants an answer to his question he might consult the records of the jails, almshouses and lunatic asylums throughout the country. If that inI. vestigation does not satisfy him he can ask the homes in the State of Missouri which liquor has practically destroyed. After that he might get busy trying to explain how big revenues to the various taxing bodies can make amends for losses such as have been indicated. Mr. Busch's real complaint is, of course, the fear of himself and his associates losing revenue if Prohibition wins. T^he average brewer's interests in the people may usually be counted with a certain figure which has a definite re- j comhlanpo tn the letter fi Nnrth. > western Christian Advocate. Honor to Whom Honor. The trying times through which Tennessee is passing have brought to the surface not only criminals, murderers, mobs, grafters, bribers, liquor advocates, and the like, but flashes ; of the noble and true as well. Three cases are worthy of record. 1. One of the members of the lower house of the Legislature has a son j in the State prison. He was given to understand that a pardon for the son could be had if the father would ! vote against' prohibition. They { talked it over, and the son said, employing the homely dialect of the mountains: "Pap, you go and do your duty. Vote right and drive out i the saloons, so that other boys wiH not be tempted and ruined as I was. I will bear my burden and serve out my time." As may well be believed, "Pap" voted "right." 2. One of the State senators left ! the sessions of the Legislature to j visit his father, who was sick. When j he had spent a day with him, the I sick man said: "Now you have done ' all you can for me. I can only last a < few days longer. Go back to youi 1 place and help win the fight against 1 whisky." The son returned to Nash- 1 ville. and in the very midst of the * hottest part of that fight the father j died. In due course he was buried, the' son holding grimly to his place in the Senate, not leaving even to attend the funeral. 3. Another State Senator, though | seriously ill, had himself carried 16 ; the Senate chamber, and, though un- ; able to sit up all the time, firmly cast his vote throughout a long and eicit- j ing session for those measures which he thought morality and the public 1 conscience demanded.?Christian Advocate, Nashville, Tenn. No "Near Beer" For Mississippi. ! The Supreme Court of Mississippi, ! where State Prohobition went into ! effect January 1 last, has lately t handed down a decision to the effect j that no beverage can be sold within I the borders of the State containing ! any percentage of alcohol whatever, i This decision will help to shut out j something which has been the means ( of rendering farcial the enforcement , of Prohibition in parts of certain j other States. j The Logic of It. 1 The liquor men are too few to j legalize the liquor traffic?the tem- j perance men, too good. When the , churches pass resolutions that "the ( liquor traflic can never be legalized ( without sin" they are just beating , the air. Nobody legalizes the liquor f traffic. For the first time in all his- j tory a thing is done and nobody does t u. , A Prohibition Board. New% Jersey has a new law providing for what Is known as a board of \ t protectors for inebriates. The board ? at Newfield is composed of three 2 Prohibitionists. They will black list j habitual drunkards in the township 1 and will also prevent the sale of f liquor to residents of "dry" towns who are^jn the habit of coming to I Newfield for liquor. r No Intoxicants on Trains. e A bill has passed the Iowa Legis- * lature prohibiting drinking intoxi- * cants on trains. This ends the sale * of liquor in dining cars for con- ? sumption while on trains. Members 6 of train crews axe given power to 3 eject offenders and call upon local P officers to arrest them, but may not ' make arrests. The Regard. Last fall Ashtabula County, Ohio, j ;i voted dry, and now new shipyards to ; a cost one million dollars are to be , a established at Ashtabula. This in- a dustry will employ several thousand : e men, and there will not be a cordon ! w of saloons about the plant to tempt ! the wages from the pocket? of the i employes. ' T.innnr Aflvprtisements. j ' The Nebraska Stato Journal is the j L. latest big daily to announce that it will accept no more liquor advertise- j ments/ Temperance Notes. c It will be remembered that a vote ; v of the people of Iceland was taken in s September, by order of the Icelandic 1 Parliament, on the question as to ! p whether the sale of liquor should be j h prohibited in the island. By a ma- ! jority vote of 14C4 the people de- j clarcd for total prohibition. At a national convention of the j labor unions of Norway, held some '' time ago, a strong temperance plat- v form was adopted, but a plank for total prohibition was rejected. This, P however, is only a temporary set- s back. ' v " . ?J\ . ') TO A CHILD. tfy little one! It ia 80 hard to see Thee toil through pain and disappoint* ment oft Up life's steep hill! Tain would I smooth thy pathway clear and free Trom all that hinders; see thee mount aloft, Not knowing ill. Jut I must stand aside and see thee* choose, ,Vith shut lips, lest Life's prize of discipline r Be lost to thee. Doth God so yearn and long His power to use A ?or us? Then sacrifice did but begin With Calvary. . ;y;v -A. W. S. ' Rejoice in Him. The sainted Fletcher, in writing to i friend, said: "Use no forced labor ;o raise a particular frame; nor tire, ret and grow impatient, if you have in pnmfort hut. meefelv aonuiesce. md confess yourself unworthy of it,* Ae prostrate in humble submission jefore God, and patiently wait for the imiles of Jesus." Perhaps while sitting in the sanc;uary or amid life's pressing duties, a ;ired, fagged feeling steals over the spirit. What shall we do? Get right still before God. Then ireathe a prayer like unto this: ' ?-a r .? ~Va11w ijuru, X ttlAl wuunjr 1U1UC, auu luuu irt all mine. I wait before Thee; ?lve me the bread that I need for this work, whether it be to sit in humiliation and self-abasement, or in agony ind travail of soul for others, or i?* :he garden of temptation beset by aowling demons, or in holy quietness , ;azing into Thy blessed face, or with :be heart leaping irlth unutterable |oy; I will accept it as my portion tor Thine honor, and will go away ejoicing in having thus been fed." ' i But, better still, look away from ill kinds of feeling to Him who i? ;hy portion. If thy life is all given :o Him, He dwells in thine heart, Rejoice in having Him reigning with< in, and it matters not whether thou irt' thrilled with pleasurable emo? :Ions, or art passing through sever* ;rial. The Lord is thy treasure, and :hou canst rejoice continually in har. ng Him as thine own. Brother, when thou art tempted fca. Feel discouraged, it is because tho$ v irt looking too much at the diffivrnlties; take thine eyes off these and 1' ? T xi AI? _inn ix me in cm j?bub, iucu uij Bynu wiu je made glad in the Lord. Peter dids lot begin to sink until he got his eye* jff Jesus, and went to looking af ;he waves rolling about him. The ; rouble gets larger the longer w? ook at it; whatever may be the d? Dressing influences around thee, keej. :hy "mind stayed on the Lord," and1 'He will keep thee in perfect peace/ (Isaiah 26:3.)?Living Water. What We Cannot Lose. In that great day no honor done to Christ on earth shall be found to havtf been forgotten. Not a single kind" vord or deed, not a cup of cold water/ )r a box of ointment shall be omlttecr from the record. Do we know whai t is to work for Christ? If we doi I et us take courage and work on, tVhat greater encouragement can welesire than we see here? We may be laughed at and rldi? suled by the world. Our motive*nay be misunderstood. Our conduct nay be misrepresented. Our sacri' ices for Christ's sake may b'e called? 'waste"?waste of time, waste of noney, waste of strength. Let none )f these things move us. The eye ol 91m who sat In Simon's house lij Bethany is upon us. He notes all we lo and is well pleased. Let us be'steadfast, unmovable, always abound* ng in the work of the Lord, foras? nuch as we Know mat our muur u lot in vain in the Lord. ? Bishoj. ilyle. . ^3 Character Controls Life. Our lives are the strongest part oj lis?or else the weakest. A max inows the least of the influence oj lis own life. Life is not mere length )f time, but the web of character w< mconsciously weave. Our thought*, . maginations, purposes, motives ove, will, are the under threads; out words, tone of voice, looks, acts, hab? ts, are the upper threads; and thf aassing moment is the shuttle swift* y, ceaselessly, relentless, weaving ;hose threads into a web; and thai web is life. It is woven not only. bj. * >ur wishing or willing, but in-?* jistibly, unavoidably woven by what ve are, moment by moment, houi ifter hour. What is your life weavng out? Is it attractive because of he power in it of His presence??S, 3. Gordon, in Quiet Talks on Power; / Christ in Yon. Life is a period of witnessing. B} ict, by omission, by speech, bj iilence, whether you will or not, youire forever testifying. Hour by houi 'ou are testifying, sometimes much nore loudlv than by words, eithef or or against your Master., , To be firm for Chri6t, when ali he tide of opinion, business, pleasure,, uns the other way, you need a cour? * which will never come to yoxf !*?ept upon your knees. If you onlj lave His Spirit, if His life flows into ou, if, believing on and cliuging to lim, you . have inward pulses which ;eep time with His heart, you wilT tand in the evil day, you will wlo ouls, you will recommend the Gobiel, you will live teaching and die witnessing.?J. W. Alexander. Man is Frail. The truly virtuous do not easily redit evil that is told them of their eighbors; for, if others may do miss, then may these also speak miss. Man is frail, and prone to vil, and therefore may Eoon fail In ords.?Jeremy Taylor. Allurements. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, ?nrv earn are uie auureujeuu* uai v** he heart of man.?Rev. Charles F. iked. Banker a Suicide. Former President Herman F. JahnF if the First National Bank of Ironi-ood, Mich., committed suicide by hooting himself through the heart, "he bank failed in June, and the resident and other officers were to ave been tried on criminal charges. Maine's Double Eggs. ' A Norway. Me., boy has a hen that ays many double yolked eggs, but >'ithin a few days the hen went her revious record one better by droping an egg within an egg. The outer hell and egg were perfect and inside ras a smaller egg, also perfect. # a mm - ?