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'[HE KING x _^HONE A NOVEL C? AMERICAN LITE rrrrm CV MAURICE Coorrlrht, 18." J ted lc?C I; Cil.U'l'Uli ALU COKTRfUKD. A faint glow of feeling suffused LorIng'i* face; bat no person, however killed iu physiognomy, could have read its meaning. In souio way, it might have reminded one of that flash of hope now and again seen iutho face of a man on the eve bin execution. "It is so seldom that I can sit in a beautiful room like this and converse 'with " He checked himself; he was peaking as if half in soliloquy. "I shall nover forget," he weut on, with a slight effort, "how beautiful these rooms were the other evening." "It is very kind of yon to remember it. The house was lovely." "And you, too, were as lovely as an ngel. I shall never forget how you looked." The color came qnickly to Pauline's cheeks and lips; but flattery was tolerable in those days; and besides when man is serions and sincere, it is not in woman's nature to reseufc his ad miration. "My drcaa was one that my grandmother wore when she was a girl, only I had it done over," she replied, with * naivanhriw of interest in the snbiect. I "Every one said that it was very quaint and becoming. I like those old things. Don't you?" "It was you that became the dress; you made it beaatiful; you charmed everybody. The dress was nothing." Pauline felt a sudden desire to run mway from him, and yet, porhaps, she would not gouc if she had been under no obligation to stay. "The occasion was exhilarating," aha managed to say, with the most indifferont air. "I am especially proud that every one enjoyed it; for, you know, it was the first party I ever gave. Aud didn't you think Mademoiselle de Sezanues beautiful? She captivated all the gentlemen; bnt 'hen, she always does with her superb way and " "She looks like a Spanish Jewess," said Loring, interruptirg her. "Bat she is not like oue, Colonel Loring," replied Pauline. "I beg pardon.- I did not mean to imply critioism. Mademoinoiselle de Sezannes impressed me very pleasautly," He arose as if to take his leave. "Bat you promised my mother to wait till she returned," said Pauline, arising also. "You have not forgotten?" i "No; I will wait. Bat I never sit I long. I have this way of getting on < my feet almost involuntarily. I seem 1 to be made for?to be upright." I He smited and made a gesture to < signify he was chaHng, then added: , "JBat keep yoar sef.t, Miss Vernon; I will walk to and fro, if you will perit, while we confine on* couverm?kcoo. Do you kuow this is more ' like happiness than anything that has I waa to me for years? I mast make the moat of it." t He pushed toward her the chair in ? vwhich he bed been sitting. fa "Sha sat down, and when she looked v.itlx her bright smile, her dark, vivacious eyes seemed to dazzle him. He turned about and walked with a light, singularly springing step across the room and back. * "'Aly father is restless in this way sometimes," she said, "and walks the door like a tiger in a cage. When I ask him why he does it, he always ways that he is thinking of the sea. Yon know he was a sailor a long time *30." "I am more receptive when in motion, can think more clearly,can shake off a lit of discontent more easily. I walk back and forth when I wish to remember aud when I wish to forget. Did yon ever wish to forget anything?" He stopped in front of her, with his 1 head high. Jttis rase irradiated a strange light, his attitude had a fine touch of the dramatic?almost the roelo-dramatic? in it. What was it that he could not forget? What was lie trying to fasten forever in his memory? "I forget nearly everything that 1 ought to keep in mind." sho said, scarcely knowing what her words were. "I wish I had a good memory." "It is a bad wish. If I oonld forget everything?the whole past, the Svhole world, everything but the present moment as it passes?I could be happy. Sotie one has said that the past is a cemetery, a place in whioh we bnry dead experience. Memory is a ghonl; it digs up nothing but corpses." lie was walking back and forth again with his strong chin elevated, (lis mnscnlar shoulders thrown back, while his thin, firm lips seemed to writhe aronnd his words. The cords in his neck stood out as if they bore a great strain. "Aly life has been so happv and so wneventful," said Pauline, speaking with the frankness of a child, her "voice betraying the fascinatiou that his words aud nct.ons were exerting over her. "and I have seen so little of life that I cannot " I 4<Oh, no, you cannot?" ho interrupted? "you caunot understand. ' Men'a lives are so different from yours, mo beset, so borue upon by evil, so stirred by impulses." He had iuereased his pace uatil bis edrides had the euergy of some powmiz} excitement and hi* bronze fee- j : 0F3ik_ YiSLAND r>.t intvn th n w VP OP 1R19 UU i>IL ?>.? >. iviai TH0WP30N. r r.obwi Eonaeri 9oni? tares were pinclud anil bloodless The stress of the moment added : strange, indescribable beauty to hi face. For some moments there was si lence between them; meantime the; could hear Mrs. Vernon giving th callers a most animated accouut of th street adventure aud of Colonel Lor iug's gallant service. "We owe our lives to him," she de cltvred,- with emphasis. "And h risked his own so bravely!" Without realizing her own sense o the fascination that was holding he fast, Paulino sat gaziug the man a lie strode to and fro. Ker face \va aweetly Hushed and her eyes shon with a soft, dreamy expression thn told how powerfully her sympathie had been stirred. Mrs. Vernon returned as soon a her visitors had gone. Colonel Loring confronted her ha in hand. "I shall not see yon again befor you hear of fighting," he said, in dicating that he was abont to go. K< stood looking back and forth fron mother to daughter as if ho ha< something he wished to say but coub not. ^ ??? ??? aw!AM<1A/1 \\ AH nnn/^ Jiurs* TC1UUU CAICUUCU uci uauui "Oar prayers will attend you," shi said, with a subdued smile, "and wi shall hope to see you back very soon safe and well." He went away abruptly, leaving be hind him an impression that never ii the least faded on tho memory of thi two imaginative women. Pauline went almost immediately t< her room. She wished to be alone In her heart a feeling of iudescribabl unrest was blending with a vagm sense of tenderness, pity, longing an; fear, as if seme evil were about to be fall some one she loved. Loriug'i face was before her inuer vision. Hi: expression of dark brooding and hope lessness bad fastened itself upon he: memory, like a strauge, haunting pic ture, aud his^oice, with its peculia: restrained colduess and its undertom of passionate despair, seemed to ech< mysteriously through every cell of he: consciousness. She leaned back in t white-cushioned chair aud clasped hei hands above her head. CHAPTER XIII. COLONEL LORING MAKES HIMSELF FELT Although the possibility of Xen Orloans being attacked by a Britisl rorco had been for a mouth or two th< :hief topic of conversation in all th< homes and iu every salle and cafe ir the city, nobody was prepared to re ;eive the news when at last the Heel ivas reported off the islands that rim the southern confine of Mississippi Sound. A panic seized the people: iud, as for the army, there was none ;o speak of. General Jackson made haste to occupy the city with such forces as he :ould readily pull together, and began it once to prepare for a vigorous, il ipparently hopeless, defeuse. The irst difficulty that presented itself tc he iron-hearted Teunesseean was .hat of securing the confidence and :o-operation of a class of men who is i large degree controlled both Now Orleans and Louisiana. He found ,bat a deep-seated prejudice already existed against him in official circles, md that a clash of authorty was likely to come imnediatcly. Governor Claiborne had nauy enemies in the State, and is soon as he beeamo a stauch supporter of Jackson's policy, which was i strictly military and not a little de;potio one, they begau to attacs both he general and the governor from u lundred directions with the most insidious abuse. Although the masses were loyal to he United States, the loyalty was a provincial one. The Creoles especially egarded anythiug like national intererenco with the local affairs of [jouxsiana with but little favor, and at irst they did not admire the rough sud imperious general, whose maulers and language were foreign to heir taste, and whose imperious disposition would brook no interference, iven in the way of suggestion, with lis quickly formed plans. Jackson attached Lieutenant Balanohe to his staff as soon as he trrived in New Orleans. This was :onsidered an insult by some inlucntial persons, who desired to have Colonel Loring occupy that position, ind who had made a special suggestion to that effect, fortified by the itatement that I Loring knew the vhole couutry as a sailor-pilot knows lis chart, and was, besides, an officer 1\ varied and successful experience in he service Mr. Vernon, too, had ulded the weight of his name and ecommendation, which had hitherto teen almost all-powerful, in Colonel Lioring's behalf. As for the colonel himself, he reamed to New Orleans from no one luew exactly where, just in time to be nformed of General Jackson's perjtnptory refusal while the words were scarcely cold. "I do not need more staff-officers ir more officers of auy kind," was the ulnff statement made by the already >ver,jrorked commander. "I need liglmng men who have guns and will ?hoot with them whenever a red-coat gets in sight. Let every man forget office and think of his country for a while. If Colonel Loring desires to j fight for New Orleans, let hiin report ' to me at once with a gun." Ernest Faval, a politician of some note, anil Mr. Vernon met, soon after ( this, in a restaurant not far from Jackson's headquarters, on Royal \ street, whore they discussed the matter in a characteristic way. The restaurant was one of the best in the city, and situated, as already stated, only a few doors distant from the house iu which the oommandiug , officer had established his headquarters. Indeed, Faval and Mr. Vernon were fresh from the esasper ating interview already mentioned. Tliey were, perhaps, pleasurably sura prised when ou the moment Loring : s chanced to drop in and join them at the table. i* "Ton are ordered, sir," said Faval, 7 in a mock military manner, "to put ; 0 on the uniform of a privato soldier e and report with gun and accouter ments to General Jackson." Loring smiled coldly, and, resting ( his elbows on the table, turned ine quiring glances from one to tiio other of his companions. 1 "Jackson tlatly refuses to appoint r yon," said Mr. Vernon, setfciug a 9 stroug tone of vexation in his words, s "He treated us as if wo had been two 0 old women." t "And told us," added Faval. "that 8 everybody must forget office, though I took notice that ho did not offer to res sign his own office." "It was quite unexpected," Mr. t Vernon went on. "I thought ho would appoint you without a word ou e such recommendations as we wore - able to offer; but he refused in terms e almost uubearably offensive, as if the a thought set him in a rage. He was 1 dignified enongh, too; but I saw i I anger in his eyes." Loring did not change countenance, or, if he did, it was but to broadeu > 9 his sardonic smile. 9 "I am not surprised," he remarked, , breaking a biscuit with the most indifferent air; "it was a fool's errand from the beginning. Claiborne knows i more than jou imagine, and what e Claiborne knows Jackson knows." "What do jou mean?" demanded i o Mr. Vernon, with peremptory sudden. ness. His eyes shot out almost fierce e inquiry. 0 Faval gave Loring a quick, warn1 ing glance which the latter under 8toood at once. s "Without au instaut's hesitation and , s emitting not a ray of expression to 1 - hint his swift change of mental attir tude, Colonel Loring said: "What I mean is that Claiborne r knows very well that you and Faval 1 a distrust him. and. of course, he is > making good time in poisouing Jackr son against you, as I should do, if I \ were be, under all the circumstances, r I know something of General Jackson; be is a contemptible, jealous tyrant!" Mr. Vernon Iaugbed, with bis eyes fixed steadily on tboso of Loring. If there had been a flash of suspicion it r came and went like the flash of a fire1 fly. J "It's a high-banded beginning, to 5 say the least," growled Faval, "and 1 for my part I don't relish it; though, for that matter, I have a poor way of ( helping myself." | "General Jackson probably thinks i that he can get along without Lonisi! auians in defending Louisiana," 1 said Mr. Vernon, with a mechanical show of lightness. "7a! He will soon fiud out his mistake, I hope." "Ho takes Lieutenaut Ballauche instead of you," Faval remarked ' turning to Loring. "The boy seems to be cheek by .jowl with liim and 1 Claiborne. I suppose that old Se! zannes and his money bags are ths ' power behind the throne." "What interest has Sezanues in the affair?" inqnired Mr. Vernon, lifting his big, shaggy head with a motion at once swift and heavy. "Ballanche is to be his son-in-law, I understand." "Xn! Love rules war, too, eh?" "Perhaps?when loves controls money." X here was a moment of silence, and then Mr. Vernon, leering back iu his chair and stroking his tumbled beard, added: "^t j?trike3 rae, m spite of myself, that General Jackson is just the man for the place he has taken with such aplomb." Faval winced, inwardly if not outwardly. There was a touch of resentment in hie tone when he said: "Oh, he will make us all bestir ourselves. He will pull the strings and, like pnppets, we'll havo to hop and kick as if we liked it. War brings strange masters." "He has already been to every probablo point of defense all around the city," continued Mr. Vernon, thoughtfully, as if in soliloquy; "and the steps he is taking look to me more like 0' genuine military work thau anything p that has ever been done in this die- a trict." " Faval, whose greatest desire had , been to have General Wilkinson le- ]( turned to the command at New Or- r> leans, cleared his throat and took a jl glass of water as if to wash something ?j down. "He has the prestige of recent vie- C tories to make way for him," he ro- ^ marked evasively, "and I don't doubt e, his ability. Perhaps it is a mistake, a however, for even General Jackson to J* opeuly insult a man like you." t| Mr. Vernon arched his brows and ir made a gesture which implied abso- i? lute disclaimer of everything personal to himself. ^ "I shall report with a gun when the enemy appears," he said. "It is the [ a; business of us all to tightforour conn- 7} try." la Loring eyed him steadily for a mo- t> ment and then in a peculiar, low voice di exclaimed: (to be continued.) t> ! He who lives expeoting to di6, may u i die expecting to lira. ?f \ GREAT MORAL FORCE )UR REGULAR SUNDAY SERMON vigorous Discourse on the Tremendous Force of Practical Christianity at the Present Time. Paris. Ky.?'The Rev. Henry Knott, roftnr nf st Poter's P. E. Church in this city, preached.a strong sermon on "The Moral and Intellectual Power of lteligion." The text was chosen from Matthew v: 48: "Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father, which is in heaven is perfect." Mr. Knott said: The Sermon on the Mount contains the sum and substance of Christianity. In other words, we find it to be the very heart of the Gospel: its divine precepts transcending in moral grandeur the loftiest conceptions ever thought or spoken by mortal man. Great souls aflame with the sacred fire of inspiration have but mirrored the shadows of the tremendous realities of the future, and the mind of genius searching for truth apart from revelation has failed to discover the meaning and the end of life. Here we have a command uttered by One who gave to humanity the key to perfection. The Christ has drawn the veil aside and disclosed the way. the truth, the life. By revealing the character of God?a holiness radiant with love?we are brought face to fart with the possibility of attainment through the law and the snirit hid in Calvary's cross. By imitating the example of holy self-sacrifice we shall grow into that glorious nerfection of the Father manifested in His only begotten Son. I do not wish you to misunderstand the inference iust quoted. Man shall never attain the absolute perfection of God. for there is an impassable gulf between the Creator and the created. In being, for man's immortality had a starting point while God has even been in an oternitv of time. In space, man subject to localira tion. here or there?the infinite f atner omnipresent, even-where. In power man a rreature of environment circumscribed by laws whether natural or spiritual, free, vet not free, a mvsterious para.*ox. his soul the battle ground 'twixt wills l.uman and divine: while God is the source of creation, the Aloha and Omegn of all things in heaven and earth, even holding in His almighty hand the first link of that wondrous chain of causation. God is perfection: All His love and mighty attributes blended together in one harmonious whole. unchangeable in wisdom. iustice and truth. Man, fallen, perverted, possessing no natural worth, bearing alwavs?the curse of sin, a subtle tendency to thwart right, that supreme law of spiritual life. By nature prone to evil, corrupted, helnless. his only virtue that which is derived through grace. No. he can never be perfect as Cod is perfect, but through the intellectual and moral power of religion and obedience to its commands he can relatively climb undreamed heights of spiritual manhood, and bv the evolution of his immortal soul in Christ win that glorious crown of destiny which the heavenly Father has willed ajl born of woman should through obedience acquire perfection. Thus we derive the full meaning of the text; wonderful in its implication, giving us the assurance nf success; divine in its command. disclosing the possibilities of our ? *1?4 ? -- n. ity stirring within us the source of a glorious powec to "press toward the nmrk for the prize;" a iife complete in its fulfillment of that end which Cod intended it to attain. to he perfect in obedience to the supreme law of its existence, even as its Creator is perfect. Without religion a man can never realire the possibilities of his spiritual nature. With a natural tendency toward the passing. the finite and the changeable, he reeds in influence to cell him to a sen?e of the internal and infinite. Mnnv neople take a uinerficial view of Christian!tv and never really understand what blessings it confers. Men was not created to be the plaything of the Almighty, but for a purpose? to be a son. worthy to stand before his Father's face and to live with Him in lovn" communion. Von are all familiar with the story of Adam's dreadful fall into disobedience and sin. Through the marvelous faculties of he soul many Christian men have, at one :ime or another, experienced a momentary consciousness of what then was lost. To enable ?s to regain much of that nri?tinc itate Christ came -into the world, lived, niffered. died and made it nossih'e for us. \v making known its glories in His own aerfect life. to once.morP become the sons md daughters of God. Religion Wd* us rack from woridh'ness to splf-reco^pption md gives to souls fevered with ?ordid delire* a opick?nin<r principle of a higher and lobler life; inspiring intellect wl*h truth, tnd th? heart with a pure and exalted ore. It animafes conscience witli a sn>reme sense of dntv and nlaces thought in uxtaposition with the will of God. clothing very aspiration with a nurifving virtue. ;hus leading all the faculties of onr being ipward and onward toward oprfection. The immortal longings of the sonl can inly be satisfied by God. Every facnltv re possess leads us to His feet. The*e is 10 real banoio??s apart from that which omnrehends flis love and finds its spireme good bv a r^eadfast devotedness to he preeeotf. of His i&w. Unfort"nateIv. harp are men and women who look unon eligion a? a means to conciliate the divin? tower, vMch thro"ch sip thev have ofended. Thpv 'marine it rdacs them in a onoiliatorv attitude with He^ty. and that iv its medium thev will obtain in the fuure sow* -indefinable reward. forgetting bat religion is a life, a state, which cal's oto oneration all the spiritual notentiab'ies of their glorious nature a?d through cmotation. sorrow and suffering crowns hem at last with victory over the avorld nd self. Thus we nerceive that Christ camp upon he earth to save sinners, giving them a ower of life. "Revealing the charcter of God. Hp made it possible for men o conform to that perfect original. In lis Cesnel TTp lavs down a rod* of morals. 0 sublime. that if we would absorb th*m fitn thought a*d action wa should fulfill rhi'e here our destinv. Religion's blessing 1 the ennreme good for every man to atain. Tt. is not an emotion, or mere'v beef. it is a vitali7;ng poprgy in the denfhs f the human soul, subduing to Cod a1! the owers of being, incarnating in the heart ronsrlous*"?ss of a magnificent fut?re, nickening th? intellect, conscience, affecions and mill into vigorous and holv avion, insnjring the mind wit.h a profound ive of truth and flooding the soul with a eace whmh tne crash of worlda couM not isturV Rpligion. then, is a necessity of fp. Without it existence is a delusion, a h?dow. lacking substance and meaning. To grow into the stature and fulness of 'hrist. in other words, to become a Christian. ds -the desjern for which we are' enowed "nth certain faculties. Man is oreminentlv a moral being. This is his nature nd th* nalb of his life winds toward the erfertion of those oualities which corstiite the essence of his spiritual life. His rue haont'ness consists in bringing himself lto relation, into union with Cod. Cod i holy, the soure* of all perfection. In ip heart of man He has placed a deep and biding consciousness of right and wrong. ,c everv turn duty confronts him: on one de lies "oodness, on the other evil, with a inward voire ever eommanding with diine authority to discriminate between i lem. urging the choice of that which is wfu' and nrotesting against sin, every i ioughl and action being apnroved or eon- i ?mned by this inward monitor. There is ] >t. a man or woman living who does not j el that conforming to the will of Cod is i le paramount duty of life. The soul is I is great battleground where the material i id corruptible strive in ceaseless warfare punst the spiritual and eternal. By tub* wi.ting to the lower instincts of our nature wc are destroying that w.iich is lushest and best aud wilfully striviug (unconsciously, it may be) to thwart the great end which the heavenly Father's marvelous love would have us attain. Brethren, you may possess untold wealth. Fortune mav load you with her favors, the world may fawn at your feet, but 1 declare there is 110 happiness to be found in these: neither does religion confer any outward benefit that shall appeal as pleasures of sense, but its blessedness, the highest, purest, noblest gift in heaven or earth is character?character which finds its likeness in the Christ, conferring a joy which the angels wonder at, and fencing the soul with impregnable battlements of Godlike moral rectitude, from whim the concentrated furies and powers of hell are hurled bark in confusion as the ocean's waves jui the mighty walls of a rock-bound shore. Thus true nappiness comes from being, not by having: from the life within, not influence without. Every man possesses a conscience, and you will hear many declare that they van be just as good, quite as moral as a Christian through the nower of that conscience. But what is conscience apirt from religion? In many cases it is a slave i--tead of a master. The power of passion drowns its voice and weakens it bv every deliberate sin. A man believing in the existence of no higher authority will drift upon the rurrent of his animal nature, for those tendencies which j.re strongest will eventually ens^ve him. No, without a living faith in God or a personal union with Him the conscience loses its power to govern and guide, but religion clothes it with exceeding strength by revealing to man the source of those magnificent moral attributes with wh-oh he is endowed, thus giving to that "stiir small voice" within the soul an infinite worth. There is not a heart but has some conception of a higher life than it now feels. Every voung man and woman af the gateway of respon?ibilit*- is fired with enthusiasm and ambitious with a great purpose which they long to accomplish: going out into the world they have to stem mighty currents, within and without, the tendencies of their lower nature and temptations to sin clothed with beguiling firerv. Crises will arrive when the future will b* determined. Moments of dire peril fraught with tremendous responsibility. The** will then feel the need of a higher power, a greater strength than their own to thwart the enemy of rectitude. The ideal of pure manhood and womanhood shining before them will appear unattainahly beyond their reach. lost forever. How. then, can they safeguard against this dread experience which ha* blighted many promising young lives, which, nnab'e to stand against the waves of adversity have ?nnk helpless and desnm-ing? I answer, Ry being religious. Religion alone can give them that victory which crowns a life complete in Christ. It p'acs them into direct communication with God. whose delight, is that they should become wwthv to share Hi* glory. Temptations will surely come, hut religion give.* them a new meaning: thev are but reminders of the existence of a Father who ever waits to aid and sustain, and. as b'*ssings in disguise they carrv messages of an infinite love for every individual soul, proclaiming that virtue is the beginning and the end of holiness, the narrow road to perfection. Another wonderful revelation of tcligion asserts that you and I spranc from the hosom of the eternal Father. That as He is eternal wc too shall live through endless ace*, created in Hi* image, sustained bv His snirit. our life shall rather unto it?elf magnificent growth. Religion sets before us a destiny whose divine splendor start'** and overpowers our weak conception of it* glory. The *Word of God ca'l* into being an amazing sense of power.. To think, my brother and sister, that through aeons of time we shall he adding purity to purity, love to love, knowledge to knowledge, glory to glory, living forever in the presence of the immortal and infinite God. rising to spiritual planes of inconceivable grandeur and b*antv. scaling heights of hapniness beyond the dream of angels. Th* '"neomnrphensible destinv of a living soul lnval to God and duty hrin<"? onr faces to ho dust when tv? ronsider that this is our heritage: yon and I. with all our weakness, conquering death and the power of moral evil. In the midst of tin* trifling follies of the world, the conceit of fashion, the decree* of a thoughtless society, and the whirl of ' anid pleasures, let ns keen this thought 'ike a burning fire within the brain?the thought of God. holiness and heaven. Brethrer. a'low the character of vour heavenlv Father as revealed bv .lesu? Christ, to stand before yon as the goal of all attainment. Beligion gives "* an idfnl and an incentive to reach it. By contemnlatinq and really loving this excellence is to be inspired by it. The Christian man is always conscious of a divine presence. In every phase of hi? lifp he marks the guidance of God. He heho'd* His handiwork in every flower of the fie'd. The hosts of shining stars as they whirl through space declare His majestv. and in the phenomena of nature he decerns a living expression of His gloiw. Thus hv eontemn'ating and adoring His hand;work in the natural world without and the spiritual world within, a Christian is given grace to subdue all things unto the one great end of moral growth. True religion is not belief in a set of dogmas, or the recitation of a creed, or a profession of faith: these are hut the accessories of a narticidar attitude toward truth, but it is infinitely mon> than this? it is the life riving breath of the spirit of God which rn'es. not certain relations, but all. corresnondenre of the heart, soul and body with the Creator and with fellow men. mere 's nojimiraMon ro ine eaerrise ni the intellect. yet without a moral Principle to guide and enlighten its research, there ean be no advance in the nath of troth. Minv of the greatest thinkers have died atheists. Religion rives to intellect an added power of analvsis and discrimination. a medium whereby we discern truth. It places the mentalitv of man in communion with infinite knowledge. "(lifted with the eve of the spirit." the glory of God streams npon the nage of history, and every densrtment of scientific research testifies to His perfection and wondrous love. The mind of the most brilliant -cholar will onlv gee in phenomena natural results. Religion alone has power to permeate h's worlr with maenificent meming. There is a hidden wisdom only revealed to the child of a "new birth" who has had n special and individual revelation of the Kather. Religion crowns intellect with ? deen insight into the mvsteries of life. The earth, sea and sky. th? complex organism of society. the dent.hs of human nature, he history of nations, a'l these things shine with a new luster, and flood the mind with mnnninrr A nf rrrjicc rV? mmes worthy of stndv. for the Supreme Totellect has imprinted on its fragile divine thought and action. In everything we see Hod. Tender tlw beneficent influence of His Spirit onr facu'tv of comprehension is robed with sacredness and grandeur. for He calls it forth to a glorious communion and exnansion. until one daw it shall fnllv understand the -lore which norr rns=efh knowledge. Tpne religion above ti! tbi*"?s forme an unright mind: it elevates the judgment above prejudice, and erer.tes a noble nrrpo?e to re-eive knowledge through all 'egitimnte channels. It endows a man with sineerity and a quality of fair dealing which no university can teaeb. It breaks down the barriers of set opinions and destrovs the bitterness between sects and parties. Tt opens the heart to conviction and a ready candor to confess errar. The intellect was never intended to lie bound to set rules or encompassed with man-made regu'ations. Its destinv is an upward, onirard march toward truth, and true reiigon fashions all our inouiries and misgivings with reverence and ever leads ns to the feet of Him. "with whom there is no ariableness nor shadow of turning." Fame is only lasting after a man is dead. % - * Half- Sick ' i e??ami mrwiiio?m?[ " I first used Ayer's Sarsaparilla in the fail of 1848. Since then I have taken it every spring as a blood - purifyin g and nervefttrengthening medicine." S. T. Jones, Wichita, Kans. If you feel run down, ire easily tired, if your nerves are weak and ytwr blood is thin, then begin to take the good old standard family medicine, Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It's a regular nerve lifter, a perfect blood builder. $l.00?bottk. Alldranfctn. Ask yoar doctor what be thinks of Ayer*e I Barseporllle. Be know* kit about tbU grand old family medicine Follow his ad rice and WO Will be satisfied. J. C. Arm Co.. Lowen, Mm. ?to?to?U>tto*o*o?to?to?to?tono?toHo I (Sine Indigestion. 2 S y Effects felt i mined i* ?/ ately. ? 10. 3.1 end St. at Dr agtlurao- & ofcofcofcofcofcoMoMofcoMofeoaiofcOM So. 36. Sour Stomach "1 nsed Cm carets end feel like anew men. I here been e sufferer from dyspepsia end sonr stomach for the lest two years. 1 here been taking medicine an/1 other druse, but could find no relief only for e short time. 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There must be a germ, bred of the sawdust, that getsl into the blood. Take the canvasser, for instance. They get f20 a mopth and their board, which usually consists of bad grub and an impromptu bed in a wagon. Often they don't take their clothes off for weeks at a time. There's one fellow I know whe1 possesses more than the average intelligence. He has a trade, and during the winter he makes, on an average, 120 a week. And yet just as soon as the circus season opens he throws up his job and goes out on the road with a show for $20 a month. In almost every town the management is besieged by men and boys who want to go aiong, ana many 01 tnem oner ineir services for tbelr board. It's a queer state of affairs." SUFFERED FOR FIFTEEN YFARS. Completely Restored to Health. Mrs. P. Brunzel, wife of P. Brunzel, stock dealer, residence 3111 Grand Ave., Everett, Wash., says: "For fifteen years I suf fcred with terrible pain lu my back. 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