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3 APiENT Tmer] (2>HLYN_ MAOE LEST?DIES TOO />o??<if<ri(7 montfi /or temple repair*. MUCH MONEY?FREE-WILL OFFERINGS ONLY II Kings 12:1-1tt?April 23 ik4 people rmfoiced. for they offered uuimjly l Ckron. tV ' SIXTEEN years passed after the Incidents of our previous study and found King Joash In bis twenty-third year. Already be had made suggestions to the priests respecting the repairs of the temple. Which was considerably dilapidated, because the people were still half? hearted In the worship of Jehovah. The influenco of the Idolatry of sur? rounding nations was still upon them, ?one of them still burned Incense jpon the altars of Baal. Prissts Poor Businsss Men King Joash found thot allowing the priests to collect the money and there? with to repair the temple showed no Haul's. Not every good-hearted man has e x e c u t ive gbility The r erd does not tell that the priests dishonest In of t h e collected for their affairs. Jfor does It say that they spent the m o n?e y un? wisely. Possibly Use people did ?at h a ? e conn ggesce In the priests and did not give go freely on that account. However, the King noted the fact that the tem? ple continued to be dilapidated and called for the priests and said to them, "Why repair ye not the breucbes of the temple?** The answer of the priests Is not given, but the King's mandate was, "Now, therefore, take go iuore money from your acquaint? ance*." The King passed over the matter as lightly and courteously as possible, without charging the priests With embetslement or neglect. Church Begging Doing Harm. There la a leaaon In this matter for OS. The people like to nee results. (1) They went to know that monies that are donated for benevolent pur? poses ere not all absorbed for office expenses. i2) Voluntary offerings have the approval of both God and men, rather than offerings that are Impor? tuned, coaxed, l>egged. wheedled from gaints snd sinners. Every body who glree to the Lords cause is advan? taged thereby; be not only forwards a benevolent Cause, but stimulates and cultivates generosity in his own heart. It was our Lord who said. "It Is more blessed to give than to receive"? where the giving Is willing and volun? tary. Chnroh begging is undoubtedly do? ing great harm. The remark has l>eon made that the chief hern of religion in some churches Is begging for money private solicitation, and else public Solicitation, by the passing around of the collection N?\ Church fairs. Church suppers, grab bags. etc.. etc., are still more reprehensible than the Collection gS)l and private solicitation. Borne one has called such efforts the ?milking of the goats" The Lord's people are sup|*>sed to b? nhrep: the world's people. n<?it* Breaks In the Tempi* Wsll Viewing the spiritual temple we per? ceive that, outwardly, as represented by the magnificent churches of metro? politan cities, nothing more could be desired than what is now enjoyed. De? scribing the Church conditions of our day. the Scriptures portray our condi? tion under the figure of the Laodicean Church, thus: *I know thy works, that thou art neither cold ie?r hot; I would thou wert cold or hot. So. then. Because thou art lukewarm, nnd neither cold nor hot, I will sj>ew that 9mi of lly mouth Because th -u sayest. I am rl<-h and Increas? ed with goods, and ha s I need of nothing; and haOWSJg not that IBS! art g fgtch ed. and in her able, and poor, and blind, and naked, I counsel thee to buy of Me gold trhd In the lire. that thou mayest be rl'-h. and white r l I m out. that thou m.'?y*st gg clot hed, md that the Shame of thy nakedness do not n[>|>. irj god anoint thine CJTSe wi'h Cyesslve, that thou mayest see." Ilev. 3:1," Is* It !?? from the spiritual standpoint, therefore, that the temple of today Seeds to have repairs outwardly, th Church Is rich; spiritually, she Is ; ? r. The majority of her edueated. im-lnd lug ministers, have abandoned all faith la the Itible as the Word ,,f Cod. Vet they are got known as Infidels, but by ibe less harsh term. "Higher Critics," "Evolntlo ggeg " Tho Duty of the Hour Noting the spiritual Inipalrtn nt of the House of C .d. the Church, all who love the Lord and who worship Ulrn Should do their part, make their con tributlon lawsrd Ike Improvement of i these spiritual i oodltlotl It Is not to I be Ifft g hotly in tin* hands of the ? ler leal or priest! ? In m Tb?? pe ob? In gen--" I ? th - nation , and i do his part In the rebut; I'm. of the apiri'nti wni?* of 2Jou i is t on ', t of ?the fgtth that w t on Bellterad to ttie ?. illi! Jottah rrp>m>ng thr temple fhc neggsasft** i ues 11 M ? sgjd Mri C i. CZAR OF HIS SHIP The Captain of an Ocean Liner Is a Real Autocrat. HIS WORD IS ABSOLUTE LAW. Ne May, If He Deems It Necessary. Put s Passenger In Irons or Clsp Him In a Cell, and In Cases of Emer? gency Is Empowered to Take Life. Imagine a mayor or a judge of a circuit court or a county sheriff or a town marshal of a village of 3.800 pop Ulatlon stepping out into the street and on general and self imposed an thorlty picking up a citizen, ordering him to a cell and clappiug Irons on him for safe keeping! Wouldn't the bird of American lib? erty set up a scream? Wouldn't the old and badly cracked Liberty bell resonate hi discord? After one of the great transatlantic passenger steamships leaves the three mile limit of New York the passenger la in foreign territory on the high seas. English, French. German?whatever the flag at the masthead?the ship is a section of its fatherland, floating in the hlgb seas, where only maritime laws regarding Its transit In times of peace may bold check upon the czardom of the ship's commander, en or off the bridge. No czar has more power within hi* territory than has the captain of the great Atlantic liner on the high seas Us la on an island of his country's ownership?a floating Island, having a population of 800 employees and look lng after the welfare and safety of per? haps 3,000 passengers. He Is prac tlcally the administrative, executive and Judicial single Individual, such us exists rarely on the map of present dsy civilization. Aside from his au? thority over mankind, he may have $7,000,000 of vessel under him. to say nothing of the International malls and millions In gold In transshipment. "There's tbe captain." Is a whispered bit of comment made a million times a year In the beginning of tbe pas sages of great ocean steamships. And generally tbe captain looks the part. It is not so much his uniform either Ordinarily tbe captain is not young. There hi gray lo his hair, mustache or beard. That young man in his twenties, no matter what bis school? ing for beginning tbe work. Isn't called at a moment's notice to tbe captain's bridge. He must bsve his maximum of training for six or seven numbers below before be la called to tbe foot of tbe ladder. On the British passenger vessels most of the beginners at navigating an ocean vessel of tbe first class will have had a lieutenant's commission from the navy. It Is from the roysi navy reserves that the lowest officer's vacancy hi filled. Filling It. be has bis chance to rise to tbe position of cap tain. As to tbe captain's authority. One midnight, when In a fog the White Star Baltic struck the German oil ' steamship Standard, the Baltic needed Its captain, and be was there. His ship carpenters were rushed to the bow of the veseel and began tbe work of patching up the hole In the Baltic's steel sheathing. Suppose that in a stampede of the Baltic's crew its employees had rushed np to fill Its boats? It was within tbe csptaln's power to have shot down the leader?to have brought about war to the knife, revolver and lifle In tbe In terests of his vessel and Its passen gers. Or had some passenger or pas eengers become panic stricken and against orders menaced the welfare of the majority on the ship death would have beeu dealt with tbe same rigid discipline which requires of tbe cap tain that he be the autocrat at his posL There are no forms of writs or war rants necessary. There Is uo court at which the passenger or the seaman may give bond. In that Instant of ?udden great emergency which arises i the captain's word Is more than writ? ten law; It is the unwritten common law of the high seas. In the spirit of which the Vigilance committee of the wild went of the United States rose lawlessly lawful. Today the captain of the great liner may step Into tbe palatial cabin and command order. He may go Into the smoking cabin and stop tbe gume of cards at which the sharper Is playing for his stakes. In case of refusal that ancient land right of "no deprivation of liberty without due process of law'* bSCOmSA a farce. The cell room or even the Iron manacles of the cap tain's authority may be used upon the tndlvldunl who has paid $000 or $1.000 for his suit of rooms and his passage On the high SSnS the captain's ship becomes an autoeratlc democracy. The Individual In the first cabin and at the captain's table must share with tbe Immigrant far bsloW tbOSS equities that are granted to each In his place. "Imn't buck the captain." said an official In tho onVsa of l ffent AtSum ?hip line. "He Is ?II there Is of AUtbol Ity. He is ihn supreme entity of hh ship He Is dressed for It; but, mor (hsi that be Is trained to It. lie i empowered to take lite If he must. ,r on bind this Is the most various of Al thing! in the statute books." "Commodore lbs tieet" is one of the DttVel t??ward which the Old Sen mptsln looks, wA snvtonsty, not with dbdaln It Is \ naval number In the pansoilUff service which marks Ihe mit?? of rat t re men! rhera Is honor In ihe title M does not dfnrsnd to hH rhlldfen n# ii**** ball his life t<> itu gntntni ol it And if mean* Ihm bit ?rflvtties And pnwsri are at end. Chk Ago Tribune ?r ! from Norfolk on i ? Mi Simpson had eb?| Some of the Largest Ever Struck Were Found by Chance. THE OLIVER MARTIN CHUNK. It Was Turned Up by a Miner Who Was Digging a Grave For His Drowned Comrade?A Starving Miner Unearthed the "Welcome Strangor." Nowhere dues fortune indulge her love of the dramatic and the sensa? tional more fully than In the gold fields. Take, for Instance, the story of the discovery of the world famous "Rlanche Barkley" nugget in the early day* of Australian gold mining, which sent a thrill around the world. Sam? uel Napier, a sailor, with his brother Charles and one Uobert Ambrose, their cook and genera, handy man. had been digging for gold for six months at Klngower, about forty miles from Ben dlgo. without discovering as much of the precious metal as would pay their living expenses, when one August day. to tell the story in Napier's own words: "We had dug down about fourteen feet to the pipe clay stratum and were shuffling nround in the bottom of the shaft more dead than alive from the heat. Old Ambrose lit his pipe and leaned against the side of the hole to rest. Just then I struck something with my pick. I turned it up so the light could strike It, nud. by jimlny. it was a chunk of gold as big as a hubbard squash!*' The nugget sold for $35,000. Among the thousands who flocked to the Victorian gold fields in the early fifties were two Cornish miners. John Denson and Richard Gates, who staked a claim near the village of Mollaque. They sot to work with vigor, confident that In a few months they would be able to retire to their native Cornwall rich men, but their expectations were doomed to crv,el disappointment. Not only months, but many years, passed and found them still as fnr removed from fortune as at the beginning, and by 1800, fifteen years after they began their search for gold, they were re? duced to the last straits. Starvation stared them In the face. In despair the miner seized his pick and wandered away to the outskirts of the gold field, and as he wandered, downcast and heavy hearted, he no? ticed a gleam of yellow in a rut made by a peddler's cart. Lifting his pick, with a few frantic blows he brought to light an enormous nugget, which, with all his strength, he could barely raise an Inch from ttie ground. The nugget, which was soon known the world over as the "Welcome Stranger." actually weighed two hundredweight and was sold for nearly $."?0.000. And these were but a few of the many similar blocks of gold discovered In Australia under equally dramatic conditions. While a native shepherd named Kerf was tending his sheep one day his attention was arrested by a yellow rock projecting a few Inches above the soil. In his excitement at the discovery he ran to fetch his mus? ter. The rock was unearthed and proved to be a nugget of two hundred? weight, from which 100 pounds of pure gold were extracted. A few years later another monster nugget made Its appearance at Balla rat. A party of miners had worked a claim to a depth of sixty yards when one of them struck with his pickax a hard. Irregularly shaped mass, which on being unearthed proved to be a block of almost pure gold twenty inches long, a foot wide and seven inches d?sm. Its weight was almost one hundredweight and a quarter and its vr lue M6.G2&. It was the periodical discovery at Ballanu of these monster nuggets which firs, fired the blood of the en? tire world In the faraway fifties. But even Balls ret has no other romance to rival that of the discovery of two huge nuggets within a few days In the same claim. The 'dory runs that four miners had worked their claim down to about sixty feet when one of them brought to light a nugget weighing nearly one hundredweight and worth $li7.r>00. In their Joy at such a rich treasure trove the nun abandoned the dig* gings ami took their nugget with them to England. They had scarcely left Bella rat when their successors In the claim, with almost the first stroke of a ph k, turned over another nugget heav? ier than the first and valued at more than 18(1,000. Of all the romantic stories told of gold discoveries in California not one is more remarkable than that of which Oliver Martin was the hero. For months Martin and a companion named Flower had been prospecting for gold to no purpose. Worn out by hardships and half dead from starva? tion, they were on ihe point of aban? doning the <iue<t in despair w a tt fnto administered her last crushing blow. They were overtaken by a terrible Storni, in which Flower was drowned. Martin, weal, though he was. set to work lo dig his f?llen comrade's grave at the foot of a t Ti e and had dug down barely too f. .t when his spade ?track a hard, unyielding substance, which, to I ;-, amazement and delight, proved to be tin'enormous nugget, the largest ever found on tin* American continent Tin' "< Hh er Martin < "hunk."" as It cnnie in be knou n the \\ hob world over. ' lulled ITil pounds t ounces and n*a* Hie nucleus of :? fni tune of a million dollars which Marth accumulated In inter yours CoHsell'i gnturdny Join mil. Odd Happenings That Helped to Spice the Meals. THE WORM THAT DIDN'T TURN It Spoiled a Funny Story For a Wo? man Whose Pet Horror Is Anything That Wriggles?A Distracted Scien? tist and a Gastronomic Calamity. At a dinner party one night my host and 1 were in the midst of an interest? ing conversation when 1 noticed a movement in the lace centerpiece which lay under a pot of growing tulips. The lace was pushed aside, and straight toward me wriggled a fat red earthworm. If I have a pet horror It Is for anything that writhes. My host was Dealing the point of a funny story when I caught sight of that strange intruder on a dining table. He reach? ed the end of the story and laughed. I believe I laughed, but to this day 1 cannot tell what that story was about. I sat watching the gymnastics of that lively specimen of fish bait. In forty seconds it was due to tumble into my lap. There was no waiter near. The reptile was hidden from my host by a soup plate. The man at my right was absorbed In conversation with a wom? an beside him. The worm had almost reached the edge of the table when I had an inspiration. I turned a red wineglass upside down, for the waiter was approaching with a napkin wrap? ped bottle. "Have you turned White Ribboner?" asked my host. "For tonight I have." Where my voice came from I do not know; neither do I know how I ever sat out that meal listening to a host who tried his level best to entertain a dull guest and watching a frantic flshworm try to break Its way out of Jail. Some? how growing plants on the dining table have gone out of favor in our bouse. A dear distracted old scientist I know keeps his wife on the anxious Beat every moment when they dine out. She Is prepared for any ridicu? lous thing he will do. Xo one ever possessed finer breeding or gentler manners than the good old professor, but his fits of abstraction are likely to descend on him at any moment. His ;wife tells of one notable experience. "One night." she says. "I lectured John all the way home from a dinner. I was trying to make him understand that pate shells were intended to he eaten. If It had been a caterer's meal I should have thought nothing about it, but our hostess was a fine cook, and she had just announced proudly that we ware having some of her own puff paste F.verybody ate the pates except John. With the greatest care he scooped out the creamed chicken and left the shell. He was horribly distressed over it. 'If I had only known, my dear.' he 6aid. thai the thing was intended to be eaten, that it was really food and she made lt. I should have shown my appreciation.' " 'Remember it next time, then,' 1 aaid. "A week later at another dinner John was seated opposite me. I glanced at him curiously after the dessert came on. for he seemed to be In the throes of a choking fit. Imag? ine, if you can. my horror. He was trying to masticate the paper case of a charlotte russe. There was only one thing I could do?call him to order as one would have done a child. I could not sit by calmly and watch him choke to death. Dinners are frequent? ly stupid affairs, but that one was not after I had explained the situation to a tableful of people. Fortunately John is so brilliant that his absentmlnded ness Is considered a natural adjunct to genius." "My husband." said one woman, "is the funny man at a party when the mood happens to seize him. One night after playing bridge we filed out to the dining room, where we were seated about the table for supper. From the corner where my husband sat came gales of laughter. He had turn? ed conjurer and was making every? thing disappear, from salt spoons to a water decanter. When things w< re found it was in the most remarkable places. "A week later while searching his clothes for soiled handkerchiefs?that Is a regulation Monday morning task lu our home?1 heard something rattle in his dress coat. From an inside pocket 1 drew two silver forks, three teaspoons and a salt spoon. They were marked with various initials. None of the stuff came from our side? board. My husband was out of town, and I spent a lew perplexed hours. An Idea suddenly dawned on me. I wrap ped tip the stiver, put on my hat and went straight to the hostess of our last card party. 'Thank goodness!' she cried. '1 have nearly had nervous prostratlou over the loss of these things. Servants have been suspected. 1 hired a man to go over the garbage dtttnp, and the whole house has been turned upside down in our search. If it had been my own silver it would hot have been so bad. bill it was bor rowed, and 1 could not duplicate I any where |n lowti Wait till 1 see that husband of yours!' "The story go! out. and sometimes a hostess in facetious mood iieisis on counting her Bllver before my better half goes homo." Isabel flordon Curtis In N'.-w ^> ork rrlluine Ti. kei Collector \V< don'l stop here sir Mont a cue Swank i who has in ? given up ?' t'- keti Stop where; Tickt I Collpeioi* AI Hm' pawnbroker's Ion don M \ P. Mark Twain's Burlesque of Emer? son, Longfellow and Holmes. IT SHOCKED THE IMMORTALS W. D. Howells' Description of the D z mal Effect of the Humorist's At? tempt to Make Game of the Dignified Literary Trio at the Boston Dinner. In his memories of Murk Twain in Harper's YV. I). Howells tells of the dinner in Boston when Mark Twain. With fatal effect, made game of Emer? son. Longfellow and Holmes: "lie beliexed he had been particu? larly fortunate in his notion for the speech of that evening, and he had worked it out in joyous self reliance. It was the notion of three tramps, three deadbeats. visiting a California mining camp and imposing themselves upon the innocent miners as respec? tively Ralph Waldo Emerson. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The humor of the conception must prosper or must fall according to the mood of the hearer, but Clemens felt sure of compelling this to sympathy, and he looked for? ward to an unparalleled triumph. "But there were two things that he had not taken into account. One was the species of religious veneration in which these mem were held by those nearest them. They were men of ex? traordinary dignity, of the thing call? ed presence for want of some clearer word, so that no one could well ap? proach them in a personally light or trifling spirit. I do not suppose that anybody more truly valued them or more piously loved them than Cler. en.* himself, but the Intoxication of his fancy carried him beyond the bounds ol! that regard and eml>oldened him to the other thing which he had not taken into account?namely, the immense hazard of working his fancy out be? fore their faces and expecting them to enter into the delight of It. If neither Emerson nor Longfellow nor Holmes bad been there the scheme might pos? sibly have carried, but even this is doubtful. "I was the hapless president, fulfill? ing the abhorred function of calling people to their feet and making them speak. When I came to Clemens I introduced him with the cordial ad? miration I had for him as one of my greatest contributors and dearest friends. Here, 1 said, in sum, was a humorist who never left you hanging your head for having enjoyed his Joke, and then the amazing mistake, the be? wildering blunder, the cruel catastro? phe was upon us. I believe that after the scope of the burlesque made itself clear there was no one there. Including the burlesquer himself, who was not smitten with a desolating dismay. There fell a silence, weighing many tons to the square inch, which deep? ened from moment to moment and was broken only by the hysterical and blood curdling laughter of a single guest, whose name shall not be hand? ed down to infamy. Nobody knew whether to look at the speaker or down at his plate. I chose my plate as the least affliction, and so 1 do not know how Clemens looked, except when I stole a glance at him and saw him standing solitary amid his ap? palled and appalling listeners, with his Joke dead on his hands Froui a first glance at the great three whom his jest had made its theme. I was aware of Longfellow sitting upright and re garding the humorist with au air of pensive puzzle, of Holmes bti3ily writ? ing < u his menu with a well feigned effect of preoccupation, and of Emer? son holdinp his elbows and listening with a sort of .loviau oblivion of this nether world In that lapse of memory which saved him in those later years from so much bother. Clemens must have dragged his joke to the climax and left it there, but I cannot say this from any sense of the fact. Of what happened afterward at the table where the Immense, the wholly inno? cent, the truly unitnagined affront was offered. I have no longer the least re? membrance. I next remember being In a room of the hotel where Clemens was not to sleep, but to toss in despair and Charles Dudley Warner's saying in the gloom, 'Well. Mark! You're a fuuny fellow.' It was as well as any? thing he could have said, hut Clemens seemed unable to accept the tribute. "1 stayed the night with him. and the next morning after a haggard breakfast we drove about, and he Bade some purchases of bric-a-brac for his house In Hartford, with a soul ns far away from brlc-a-brac as ever the soul of man was. lie went home by an early train, and he lost no time in writing back to the three divine personalities which he had so involun? tarily seemed to flout. They all wrote back to him. making it as light for him as they could. I have heard that Emerson was a good deal mystified and in his sublime forgotfulnesa asked, ?Who was iids gentleman who appear? ed to think he had offered him some sort of annoyance?' But 1 am not sure that Ibis Is accurate. What I am stiri' of is that Eongfc'.loa a few days after in 01) study slop; e t befi re a photograph of Clemens and said. ?All. he i- a wag!' and nothing more. Holmes told me, w Ith deep cm itl< u. such ns n brother humorist might well feel, Ih ;t : <? had net lost ::n Instant i.< re| i> i- . I ? Clemens' letter and :i stir Ing hii i thai there had not bee i ilio leu? * - em e and entn at im: him nev r to (hit k ? ;' lite matter again. '! le sa I that lie w is a fool, but he w as C i v fool.' Holmes qindcd from the loiter with a true sense of the pathos a:'' humor of the self abasement *' t rin Gambling Under the Auspices of the Government. THE DRAWING IN PUBLIC. An Eager, Excited. Turbulent Crowd Watches This Ceremony With In tense Interest?Ths Prizss snd the Chances of the Players. King Humbert L made the rules for the public lottery of Italy: First.?The public lottery Is tempora? rily maintained by the favor of the state under the following laws. Second.?It Is administered by the minister of finance, under whom the chiefs are chosen for their respective functions. Third.?The lotto Is formed by ulne ty, numbered from 1 to 00. Inclusive, five of which drawn by chance deter? mine the successful. Fourth.?One can "play the lotto" tn the following manner: On one number (very rarely played). On all five numbers (very rarely played). j On two numbers?the "ambo." On three numbers, which is known as the "terno." On four numbers, which la known as the "quatemo." Fifth.?When one number Is play<?d the winner is paid ten tunes aud a half his output: when two numbers are played the winner is paid 350 times hi? nitput; when three numbers are played the winner is paid 5.250 times his output; when four numbers are played the winner is paid 60.000 ' times his output. Therefore tf one has by any chance bought a No. 1 ticket and wins the four numbers (quaternoi he wins $00,000. At ? o'clock on every Saturday after? noon throughout all Italy the drawing , of the lotto takes place. In Naples j the ceremony is held at the end of a j foul, flltuy alley known as the Impre sa, back in a great courtyard, in full i view of the people on the balcon/ of an old palace. From early in the aft . ernoon until the fatal hour the streets of Santa Chiara and tbe alley fill up with the crowd whose hope on this day is to be deceived. The streets are j always so full of life that for this I extra crowd. Jostling, pushing and : eager, there would seem to be no place, j It is comprised of the very poor. The i better classes watch for the telephone or the showing of the numbers In tbe various banks In the city to discover their fate, but In tbe Impresa the crowd of people is as dense as a shad? ow. There are many here who have paid their last cent for a ticket. There j are many here who are in debt for the i shoes they wear and will never be able to pay for them. But at the stroke of the church clock the blinds of the bal? cony open and the paraphernalia of the lotto are brought out?a long green table, on which is placed a crys? tal ball bound with silver, and an iron j box containing ninety other little box? es, in which the ninety numbers are locked by the state. The officers of this performance are coolly indifferent, and the only figure deserving of note is that of the little orphan child, dress ; ed in snowy white, chosen by law from I the orphan asylum to draw up from the crystal ball the five magic num? bers. At the sight of these familiar, looked for objects the crowd begins to cry and chant to beseech and evoke. It begs the little orphan child to draw well. And the child in his white robe, his innocent eyes on the mass of peo? ple, looks down on the beggars with their yellow locks and on the appeal ing mass. Cue by one the balls are taken out from their sealed boxes, dis? played to the people and dropped Into the big bowl. They have blindfolded the little bam? bino, aud he stands on a chair, for he is I only eight years of age and is small. In full sight of the people. The balls bav : ing been shaken around for the last time, the child puts bis hand In and draws. The first number that he pulU out Us called forth ?"No. 5." Now. every Italian who has bought No. 5 for place has either won or lost. No one holds this number in this crowd, however, and there is a murmur?and a fresh adjuration for the child to draw well The people who have drawn for the terno and the quatemo still have their chance. The child draws again, this time No. 47, and the holders of the terno are now the Interested ones, for the next will be their last chance. The enthusiasm breaks forth again with murmurs and cries and prayers, and the quiet child before the urn in his white dress hears them and trembles, for he knows that he is menaced. Be? fore the people there is a blackboard, and a man posts up the numbers as they are drawn?.">. 47. 11. 10 and SO And this series of five is diseussed. yelled at. challenged, cursed, for net one in the crowd has drawn a fortu Hat* number The child's e>os are un? bound, and he is put dowu ami set free The bails are returned into their boxes sealed up and carried away un der the eyes '>f the crowd, which after waiting (or a moment, ana bit to be Iteve its 111 fortune, breaks up and dtt rupts. Apathy is thrown upon the ma Jority ms much as such a state of mind is posstl v i.? n Neapolitan mass r? thej ho In groups to dlscnaa the failure ? f th< lr sol ernes and their con Mt nien- Marie Van Vorst in llai per - Magazine ?b\ more divine than sorrow, for Joj "> bread And sorrow is medicine Boecher.