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v; l*. ' \ %; >. 5&v- ' v.vj4 P . iOYflL RANGER RALPH;; : ob : He M of the Western Prairies, 0 BY WELDON J. COBB. CHAPTER XIX. THE MODOC8. Watford, the old hermit, started lightly as Inez stepped before him. He peered anxiously, curiously into her face, and then seized her hand, his impressive face aglow with sudden emotion. "Yes," he murmured, "it is indeed the daughter of my o d friend?I could not mistake that face." , Inez stood with downcast eyes and pallid countenance and did not reply to his words. Despard hissed but one menacing sentence into her shrinking ear: "Remember your promise!" he breathed fiercely. "Your lover dies if you fail me BOW.*' Then aloud he said to Watford: "You re satisfied that this is Inez Tracey?" The hermit bowed assentingly. She has a letter from her father written just previous to his death. If you wish to see it she will show it to you." "I would like to see It. * Inez produced a missive she had received some weeks before. * The hermit perused it, returned it to her and asked, "This gentleman is your intended husband?" For a moment Inez faltered. She seemed about to deny the query when she met the fierce, threatening glance of her captor. "Yes," she gasped, almost inaudibly. "And you wish me to deliver to him the trust left me to execute by your dying father?" "If you will. " Warford drew a time-worn paper from , nls breast. "In this document," he said, "your lather left his fortune to y<yu in my charge. The fortune consists of lands in California near the sea coast, which are already deeded to you, and a description ?f which is contained in tnis paper." He handed Despard the document as 4 be spoke. "These lands," he continued, "art comparatively worthless; but, besides them, Mr. Tracey left a fortune In tangible shapa It comprises a casket containing diamonds, Into which he converted his wealth in Peru; diamonds which, while they only fill a small metal box, represent a value exceeding one hundred thousand dollars." "And you have these diamonds?" asked Despard eagerly. "\es. Aiy inena rracey toia me to deliver them to bis daughter. I now do so." ' The hermit retired to a darkened portion of the apartment, and was gone for . ome moments. When he returned he bore a small black box In his hand. The avaricious eyes of Despard gleamed with secret exultation. The coveted iortune of the Traceys was within bis grasp at last, arid he could scarcely contain himself for joy. The old scout, a silent and Interested spectator of all that bad transplrod within the past few moments, was terribly excited. Ho saw the apparent accomplishment i of all Dyke Despard's evil plans. He 1 saw tho Tracey fortune wrested from its rightful owners, to enrich a desperate villain. Ho saw Inez the wife of the renegade. He reserved to act boldly. Drawing hia revolver he sprang past the bandits. "Hold!" His voice was clear and commanding. The startled Dsspard recuilcd. Banger Ealph had wrested the casket from his grasp just as the old hermit had handed it to him. "Walford, do yon not knew me? It is 1?Banger Ralph!" A cry of amazement broke from the old hermit's lips. "You!" he cried. "Yes, yes. Yonder man is Dyke Despard, the outlaw, and the girl is acting under his threats." "Down him!" The enraged Despard shouted the orHaf tn hts tnon hnnrdplv Pfft himself prang ujjon the scout &9 ho spoke. The box fell with a clanging sound from the hand of Ranger Ralph to the hard stone floor of the cavern. The other outlaws were about to press forward to aid their companion and leader, when a sudden episode diverted them from their purpose. A lithe form, that of a woman, darted suddenly into view. Springing from a dark corner of the cave, she revealed the face and figure of White Fawn, the Indian princess. She glided to whore Despard and the scout were struggling in deadly combat. "With one b!ow sho drove a knife into the back of tho outlaw leader. Then, stooping, she teized the box of lewels and disaanearedlike a flash down one of the dark corridors of tho place. With a cry of pain and rage Dyke Despard staggered back. "Shoot them down!" he cried hoarsely to his men as he retreated to their - xanks. Tho old hermit seized the scout as the vj latter was about to spring forward to rescue Inez. At the same moment the outlaw lired at them. . "This way," spoke the hermit quickly. He drew Ranger Ralph out of range of the bullets of their foes, t "Follow me," he ordered. But the girl!" "You cannot rescue her now." Walford had darted down a dark corridor. Suddenly he paused. A series of savage yells emanated from the apartment they had Just left. They were mingled with the alarmed cries of the bandits. Loud reports of continuous firing ?wokc all the silent echoes of the place. "What does that mean?" demandeo the mystified scoilt. *Tho Indians." ?\(A.-:AnoO? iUUUWWf "Yos. Thoy have penetrated the cave. See! They are coming this way. Hastoc. old friond' and partner, I have a safe retreat if we can only reach it in time." Tbe truth flashed across Ranger Ralph's mind as ho obeyed his companion and stumbled down a dark corridor. White Fawn, ho reasoned, had reached tho tribe, and they had returned witb ber to wreak vongeanc e on the renegades. In this theory, however, thte old scou' was only in a measure correct. Wfcal had really happened was this: White Fawn had rode toward the place where she supposed the Modocs were encamped. She had seen her father and had told him all the cruel story ot her wrongs. Within an hour the warriors were aware of Despard's treachery, and were on the war-path, wild with emotions of revenge and rage. One hour after Despard had left the outlaw stronghold with Inez Tracy, nre savages arrived there. The bandits left behind fell immediate victims to the vengeance of the Modocs, but White Fawn managed to induce her lather to spare I'arre! Grey. ' s,.. ; v&v .fravided with a horse, he was led out out of sight of the tribe by the chief and told to hasten to some of the settlements, as the savages were bloodthirsty and intoxicated, and he could not restrain them. The Fawn then led them after Despard. She was the first to enter the cave .of the oldliermft. and 49 has been SBfih sBS secured the diamond casket and fled. She was lurking in one of the numerous corridors of the cave when the Modocs penetrated to the place. A scene of the wildest confusion ensued. The savages attacked the renegades mercilessly. The alarmed Inez was borne away cantive h? two of the ^ndiansDeSpaVd Bad disappeared mysteriously at the very commencement of the at onlr TVio tjHIv outlaw Iflader foresaw bis peril, and, wounded as he was, managed to escape. Shadow Snake ordered a thorough search for the Crow, and by accident the savages went down the corridor where the hermit and Ranger Ralph had gone Walford glanced back as he heard the savages. "They are following us," he said to his companion. "Is there a way out of the place?" . "There is a place of safe refuge for us, yes," replied the hermit. "As to these savages, we will stop their pursuit. " "How?" "That you shall see." The hermit had halted at a place where the corridor widened. Watching his grim features silently, the scout saw him draw a keg from a recess in the rock. Walford placed it across the corridor. .A minute later a flaring, spluttering fuse, emitting, brilliant sparks, told the scout that the old hermit intended in a a summary manner to close the pursuit of their savage foes. CHAPTER XX. THE HOUSE IN THE Ala. "Powder!" ejaculated Ranger Balph, as the hermit hurried him from the 8pOt"Exactly. The Indiana would have overtaken us, and we had to cut off our retreat" "Have we done it?" "Wait and see." The corridor they were pursuing came to an end at last. It terminated at a shelf of rocks overlooKing a little ravine that was a branch of the main canyon. So precipitous was the descent, and so frail the area of the rock they had reached, that the scout looked dismayed. %"I see no way of escape," he remarked. "Wait." Both stood silent for some moments. Suddenly there was a deafening explosion. "The powder?" "Yes." "You believe It will block up our retreat?" "I am sure of it* "And now how are we going to leave here?" "Look out and see." Banger Balph advanced to the edge of the rock. He uttered a cry of interest and delight, as his eyes met a curious spectacle. From the rock a dead tree ran like a bridge across to a high perpendicular column of rock. Twenty feet beyond this was another rock. Batween the two, held firmly in place, was a rude, dilapidated hut formed of logs. "That is my retreat," said Walford. "And a safe and strange pla.ce it is," remarked the scout. "But how did that house ever come there?" "It was bu:lt by me ten years aeo, when the two rocks were one." "I understand " Gradually they crumbled away." "And left tho house between them?" "Exactly." "Is it safe?" ' "For tho present, yes. Some day It will go crashing down. Cross over on < the tree. * 1 A few minutes later they had reached ] the first rocks Thence thay gained admittance to the hut. It was a singular , place, indeed. From the window they could look for i many miles down the ravine. Beneath i them was an open space lor many hun- i dred feet. The hut seemed tightly 1 wedged in between the two rocks. 1 "What do you intend to do?" asked the scout, after a careful survey of the strange surroundings. "Remain here for a while " n u I ? +V?a Tn/liftnO #?A QllfAr9W V Kj U til LUC xuuiauo a ?t uij . ?Yes.w J "But the girl?" E "Wo will think about that later. We t can do nothing by precipitate action." [ "You saw the Indian girl?"? asked the t scout 3 "I saw a quick form dart through the j cave and secure the diamonds, yes." "It was White Fawn." "And an enemy?one of the Modoo s spies?" i "No, a friend." "She has disappeared." "But she will return the diamonds.B And Ranger Ralph related what he knew of the Indian princess. For over au hour the two men discussed tho situation. It was Just coming on nightfall, when the scout happened to glance from the window. "Look!" he said. The hermit hastened to his side. The valley below them was filled with Indi ans. They could see that the savages were a about to camp In the ravine for the ? night Among them the scout made out g the girl prisoner, Inez Tracey. il "See," be said, "the girl is safe." "Yes, and wa will rescue her if they remain for the night. Too late! We are discovered." . Botn men drew back from the window hastily. Evidently they had been seen . by some of tbe Indians in the valley be- ( low. They could see them point to the strange house in the rocks. Then several j shots were fired at them. "I am sorry they saw us," remarked Walford. , "They cannot injure us. * < "Perhaps not; but they will try to dislodge us." . , "They are trying It already, cried , Banger Ralph excitedly. { "What do yon mean?" 'Look yonder. * ( "At the tree-bridge?" i "Yes." i A cry of alarm parted the hermit's lips. On the shelving rock were severaJ j Indians just about to cross the tree- : V\ n l/\/3 r\ V* ft A?0A % *\ i uiiuftu buau icu tu iud aciaugu uuuao JU ? the air. CHAPTER XXI. NIGHT ADVENTUBES. The attention of the two bordermen was now entirely centered upon the tree that had cros&ed the ravine. At exactly the place whence the scont had first seen the house in the air, several saVages were visible. The explosion In the cave iiad evidently only temporarily blocked their progress. So far, apparently, they had not seen the occupants of the cabin, but as they regarded the strange hut and painted to it, the hermit knew that they meditated a visit."They must not come here," he said to his companion. "Of cour e not," replied the scout; "but how are we going to prevent them?" "Get your revolver ready." "All right." "Now take a position by this rock." Banger Ralph did as directed. "If any of them attempt to cross, fin at them," said Walford. "And you?" "I am going to destroy the means of access to our place of refuge." "And cutoff our own retreat!" "Not at all. There Is an outlet by the other rock." The scout remained on guard behind , the rock. The old hermit crept cautiously toward the spot where the dead tree rested on the first cliff of stone. Ranger Ralph could observe all the movements of the savages without being seen. He saw one of them finally make a movement as if to cross the impromptu bridge. Thd scout drew a bead on him and fired. The astonished Moaoc fell back with a cry of pain. His companions, too, retreated further Into the cave. They were completely mystified at the strange attack. Their bewilderment Increased when they saw the tree go hurtling down tho ravine. The hermit had pushed one end clear of the rock, and it fell, depriving the savages of any opportunity of crossing to the rock. A minute later he rejoined the scout "They can't cross that gap," he remarked. "Let us return to the cabin." "There Is no danger to be apprehended from our enemies that way?" "None." "They may fire at us." "The rock. Intervenes, and they cannot reach us. No, they will soon retire from the cave as they came " "And then?" "An attack from below, I presume." "That won't amount to much." "I don't know," remarked Walford concernedly. "Now they have discovered us, they will exercise all their cunning to dislodge and destroy us." For over an hour, however, there was no especial commotion visible In the val ley Deiow. me moaocs aau muveu their camp farther down the valley. Quite a party of them had sought shelter behind some rocks directly under the cabin. From thrtr frequently pointing to the cabin the hermit and the scout realized that they were forming some plan of assault Banger Ralph looked anxiously bnt vainly amon? the savages for some sign of White Fawp. He believed that she could induce Shadow Snake to cease hostilities if she was there. The Modoc nr in cess, however, was nowhere to be seen. As the scout learned later, she had met with adventures that prevented hex appearing to her friends for many a long day. Finally. Just at dusk, the Modocs be low were joined by several more savages They are the Indians who tried to cross on the tree," explained Walford. Their enemies seemed to discuss the question excitedly. They separated, but the watching men in their strange eyrie could see that they were disposing themselves for a combined attack upon the cabin In the air. The hut was perhaps a hundred feet from the grourid. The savages first began to fire at the windows of the cabin. Then, realizing that this toas a useless expenditure of powder and ball, they ceased all hostilities for Borne time. [TO BE COSTROTED.] TEMPERANCE. wuj&at* o tnniquaxi xuriuiaii vintion. "Twenty-one yeare since the bell outrung , Twenty-one years since the son g was song; Twenty-one years since the tainted air Of the hall of death, With its poisoned breath, Its drunken revel and fell despair, Was smitten through by a woman's prayer; When love and pain nnder holy spell Asked for their own at the doors of hell." ?Isabella W. Parks, in Independent. evils of beeb dbikeiko. The Pacific Medioal Journal expresie? th* opinion that the hereditary evils of toerrlrinklng excaids those which resalt from the use of distilled spirits. "First, because the habit is constant and without paroxysmal interruptions which admit of some recuperation r, second, because beer-drinking Is practioed by both sexes more generally than splrlt-drinklng, and third, because the inlmalizing tendency of the habit Is more uniformly develop9(1. thus authorizing the presumption that tin vicious results are more generally transmitted." orvnro poison* to .babies. The Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eriffle publishes an irticle beaded "Giving Poison to Babies," rbich Rives an account'of the death of two hildren ia Long Island City from alooholic >olsoning. It says: "The parents of Mamie and Joseph Hlnes, he two little children who died in Long slanl City after a birthday party, will have be sympathy of all kind-hearted people, ["he children ate nuts, cake and apples, and Irank lemonade. Thev stayed up late, and cere very sleepy when they were put to bed in Sunday night. In the morning they did tot awake and their mother found that she ould not arouBe them. 8he sent for the ioctor, who said that the children were sufering from alcoholio poisoning. He did all hat he could to arouse them, but failed. It i supposed that some one gave liquor to hem during the evening. If this supposition io correct, that person Is not in an enviable losition just now. The boy was live years ild, and the girl was only lour. They were 'radically babes, so far as their susceptibllty to alcoholic Doisonine is concornod. ?here are people who think It Is smart to ;ive whl3ky to small children, and to put a j >fpe into the month of a boy in his first pair if knickerbockurs. It may be amusing, but j uoh people should remem^r -that, what- ( ver uses tobacco and liquor may have, alcoiol and nicotine are poisonous. If liquor < ras Riven to these children the person who ; :ave it to thorn is morally responsible for i heir death if not legally responsible." i ] TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. In Sweden a man who is seen drunk four times is deprived of his electoral vote. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of iho United States has 57,350 members, according to the latest statistics. In Athens, III., only two saloons are alowed, and the price of license is fixed at ?2000. This is not considered "high." There have been 21,000 deaths from yellow fcver in this oountry the last ten years, and J50,000 in the same "period from alcoholism. The revenue from 9023 licensed saloons in Sew York City the last year was $1,700,000. isjainst $500,000 ten years ago from 10,000 jaloone. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania re*entlv declared that the lower courts had no right'to transfer licenses from one place to mother. The "drucr-stores" in Massachusetts have Incroasod from 1500 to 2500 in less than two rears. Many o' them are liquor-stores in lisguise. ! Oi COO cases in one inebriate asylum, 450 >ecame inebriates from association or from ,'oins with drinking men and indulging in :lie habit of treating. The Board of Trade of Chicago recently suspended for sixty days a speculaior in I itooks for dijordwrly conduct while under ;he influence of liquor. Tbe Empire Music Hall, in London, has Deen compelled to closo its doors, since the 1 refusal of a license to sell drinks in tho aulitorium. This result was brought about iythe influonee of the Christian temperance workers, the British Woman's Temperance Association taking a leading part in tbe opposition. To repress drunkenness the Governor of St. Petersburg has just ordered that the lames and addresses of all persons found indicated in the streets, regardless of rank or sex. shall be posted in certain public places n tho oity and also printed in the Official , jfizetto. Fifty years ago they were jompelled to sweep tho streets for a number of ' aours under tho eye of the police. ' v < SABBATH SCHOOL*! " INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR DECEMBER 23. Lesson Text: "The Prince of Peace," Isaiah lx., 2-7?Golden Text: Iaalah lx., 7? Commentary. 2. "The people that walked In darkneFB have seen a great light. They that J well In the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shlned." The Spirit, through Matthew, says that there was a fulfilment of this when Jesus left-Nazareth nnd w?nt to dwell in Capernaum (Math, iv., 1316). Wherever Jesus is not known it is certainly darkness and ofttlmes "deep darkness,'' as the expression, "sbadowof death." is translated in the margin of the R. V. both here and in Ps. xxiii., 4, and elsewhere. This darkness can only be driven away from on <nrH*Hrinnl r?r a. nnHnn or A. land ftS Jesus, the Lisrht of the world. Is revealed. Those who have heard of and nave received Jeeus can say, "God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined In our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God In the face of Jesus Christ" (II Cor. iv., 6). That makes us think of the darkness that was over the ' deep in the beginning of the Bible story, when the Spirit moved upon the face of the waters, onq God said, "Let there be light," and there was-light. God Is light. Jesus said, "I am the Light of the world." It Is written that theentranoe of .His word glveth light, and we know that His words are spirit and life (I John i.. 5; John vti.. 12; Ps. cxix., 130; John vi., 63). Jesus said., to His disciples, "Ye are tbeiightof rhe world" (Math. v.. 14). We know that we have no light in ourselves any more than the moon, which appears to be a ruin of nature, as man Is. But if the sun shining upon the moon can give us suoh light then we may Imagine how the Lord Jesus might make us shine for Him If we were only willing to reflect His light and give Him all the glory. Alter we have shone lor Him a little longer, and He has gathered out His body, tbe church, then in the midst of gross darkness covering the people the Lord shall arise upon Israel, and His gloryshall be seen upon them, and the nations shall come to thefr light, and kings to the brightness of their rising (Isa. lx., 1-3). 3. "Thou hast multiplied the nation and not increased the joy. They joy before Thee acoording to the joy in harvest and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil." The B. V. gives for the second olause, "Thou hast increased their Joy." This is certainly more In accord with the rest of the verse and with the context. The light would give them joy. Compare Isa.' lx., 20, "The Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended." Even in the days of Mordecai "the Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor" (Est vlit, 16). As the entrance of 'God's word giveth light, bo also we become filled with jcy and peace by believing; and wear* commanded to "Rejoice in the Lord alway" (Bom. xv.,18, Phil. iv.,.4). Ourvoloe says. "They joy before Thee," and InPs. xvL, 11. we read : "In Thy presence is fullness of joy. At Thy right hand are pleasures forevermore." 4. "For ThOu hast broken the yoke of His burden, and the staff of His shoulder, the rod of His oppressor, as in the days of Mldian." All past dellveranoes of Israel, whether In the days of the judges under Gideon, 8ampson,?Jeptha and others and even the deliverance from Egypt under Moses, were but foreshadowings of a greater and final deliverance from anti-Christ ere the kingdom shall come. The deliverance from Mldian under Gideon, as. recorded in Judg. vL and vii., is one of the most interesting and instructive of Bible stories^showlng how uoa uses rne wbsk ioidk^ ana iluukm mm are not to show forth His glory. But the greater deliverance that shall oatdo all others Is plainly referred to in Jer. xvi., 14, 15, and xxlll., 6?8, "Then shall the Lora go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fought In the day of battle." 5. "For every battle of the warrior Is with confused noise and garments rolled in blood, but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire." The R. V. Is more clear and reads, "For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult and the garments rolledJn blood shall even be for burning tor fuel of fire." The Spirit's own comment and light upon this is found, in-Ezek. xrxix., 9, 12, where we read that the weapoils of the slain shall provide fuel for Israel for seven years, and they shall be seven months burying the dead. The churoh, the body of Christ, the history of which is not fully revealed in the Old Testament, having been completed and caught up to meet Him In the air, shall afterward return with Him when He comes to the earth in His glory, for the conversion of Israel and the overthrow of her enemies. These will be the days of recompense for Israel and vengeanoe upon her enemies, so often referred to (Isa. xxsiv., 8; xrxv., 4: lxiii.,4% 'v. 6. "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon' His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." This verse, with the following, is one of those many passages in which we have a summary of the Bufferings of Christ and the glory that shall follow (I Pet. 1., 11), or, In other words, His first coming in humiliation to suffer nnd His second coming in glory to reign. The Christmas lesson which only looks back to His coming as a babe in Bethlehem teaches only half the stoiy. There was no government on earth given to Him at His first coming. They gave Him a stable for His birthpace, a manger for Hi8 cradle' not where to lay His head during His life, a cross and a grave with the wicked for His reward. Bat God raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, and when He shall come again In that glory then shall He be B9?n to be the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. He was indeed wonderful in His humiliation, in His love and patience and faithfulness unto death, but it shall be seen yet more fully that His name is Wonderful (Judg. xiii., 18, margin). 7. "Of the Increase of His Rovornment and peace there shall be no end upon the throne of David and upon His kingdom, to order It and to establish It with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this." It Is a learful perversion of Scripture to speak o 1 Jesus beingnow on David's throne, as if David ever had a throne In heaven. David reigned seven years at Hebron and 8S years in Jerusalem, and Jesus is to sit on David's throne at Jerusalem and reign over the house of Jaoob, aooordlng to the simplest meaning of plain words, as In Jer. ill, 17 5 Luke 31, 82,33, etc.?Lesson Helper. Cliff Dwellers' Village Found. The most wonderfal village of cliff dwellers extant has ju9t been discovered In the ! Bradsbaw Mountains In Arizona, and an exploring party Is now organizing at Preseott to visit the place and thoroughly inspect if. 1 The village is In one ot the most lnaccessi- 1 ble canons of that remarkable range, and 1 hns never before been seen by white men. 1 Borne wonderful discoveries have been made. ' The canon was stumbled on by accident by ' two prospectors, White and Williams, who did not attempt thorough exploration, 1 owing to the great size of the ancient set- ] tlement. Prom the description they give 1 there is no doubt that this is the largest vll- | lage of the kind over discovered. It is lo- < cated along the high banks of Willow canon. < and the houses are estimated to number 260. [ i> la n Hlfflonlt matter to reach the canon l even with pack animals, which aocounts for ( Its having bwn so long undiscovered. There \ are three natural terraces in the canon wall ( and tho dwellings 'open baok from them. \ Narrow steps in the rock nor -.most worn c away seem to indicate this was the j method employed in asce t and desoent. Several of tho houses wer > explored, and large quantities of pottery '.nd some instruments, evidently used foi cultivating the t Boil, were found. In one house a skeleton ^ of a man was discovered, not over four feet eight inches in height. The canon at this place Is half a mile wido, and shows every evidence of having been cultivated. If this proves to be a fact on later examination, it will throw new light on these mysterious people of long ago. As'far as known no J other evidence of cultivation has ever been discovered of this departed race. Scenic Railway For Atlanta. The Cotton States and Iuternational Ex- | position Company, Atlanta, Ga., has closed ' i u contract with Chicago parties tor the erec- 1 Hon of a scenic railway. It will huve an I undulating track au 1 cover 703 foot oi space. The same concern had a sc-jnic railway at 1 the Midwinter Exposition in San Francisco < md it was one oi tne niopopular features, t RELIGIOUS READING. CHRISTIANITY A PRACTICAL BEI.IGION. II the question should be asked. What Is the DUiuose of the Christian relisrion in the world varying answers would be given to it, according to the special view taken by each person replying to the question. One would sa.v that the leading object of proclaiming such a religion in the world was that men might learn the way of salvation. The reply of another would be that the substance of the gospel was. that men should love one another and Jive to advance each other's happiness as long as they shall continue to live on the earth. A third answer would be that Christianity was preaohed in the world that men might be happier here than they would be without it. Much has been said of late in one part of I our country about -'applied Christianity," as if It were a new thing, to make anything but a theoretical use of whatDhriet taught his disciples, and embodied in what he demominated the gospel. And yet these same persons hardly seem to advance beyond a theory of their own, and signally fail to point out any distinct course of action which is to work out anything effectual in the line of transforming society here into something faintly resembling that of the heavenly abodes. We turn away in a spirit of sadness from all. which they propose to do towards relieving the wants and woes of a world lying in sin, and enduring measureless suffering. There is a great want somewhere. The cry of suf lering Humanity ascends to neaven, ana tne multitude ask in almost hopeless sorrow, Who will show us any good? Such has been the condition of the past generations as they have come and passed away, and must it be so during the limitless era of the future? Is _the present of no \tlue to us in solving tne 'problem?. Shall we do as our fathers have done, and leave behind us the dark cloud that shadowed the dawn of our existence? The thought comes to us again and again, Is.Oflristianity doing all that its founder intended it should accomplish in the world? It is adapted to bless and to renovate the corrupt mass'of humanity with which it comes in contact, but for some reason, the leaven cast into tne mass fails to work the transformation which we desire to see. We do not mean by this that nothing has been done, but that much remains undone. Where is the love, the sympathy, the sweetness, the harmony of those who have called forth the sacrifice of God's beloved Son, and who have potentially been redeemed by his shed blood? Can the church which bears the name of Jesus do nothing to make its work more efficient? Cannot those who have taken the pledge of consecration to him do something more to assist each otherand make it evident I to the world that they love each other??B. I. Herald. /BE YOU IS THE WAY TO HEAVEN. _ When we see our fellow men around us so intensely occupied in the pursuits of earthly objects, that there is neither time nor disposition left to seek the friendship of Jesus Christ, there is something that whispers to the mind, Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!' In their insensibility and hardness of heart, they are groping their way like blind men through the darkness, and must inevitably fail of securing their highest interests. However wise their course may be for the attainment of temporal advantages, they are the veriest fools in the sight of God. You who have no better portions than the possessions of this earth, are to be of all men most miserable. Your treasures must soon be exchanged for everlasting destitution, and your present merriment forthe wailings of despair. 'How poor you are (says President Edwards) if you have no heaven but this world. You have nothing but a little part of this clod of earth, and what is it all worth? If you have a little more land than some of your neisth bore, or if you are in a way to make more money than others, if your accommodations are better than others, and you have more worldly pleasures and conveniences than others, or, if you are promoted a little higher among men than some others are. what a poor portion is this, and how miserable are you that have no better happiness that you can call your own! How happv do these thingB make you? What satisfaction do they yield you? Are such things as these the rivers of pleasure that you choose for your portion? Ob, how miserable! When a few days are passed, you must go to the grave, and into eternitv, and thtn how wretcfied are you, if, when you are done with worldly enjoyments, it may be said that you have received your consolation!" Careworn and deluded mortal, let the spell of vour Infatuation be broken. Relax your hold on these transient vanities, and grasp the enduring riches. Have respect to the crown of life and drop your muck rake. Oh, fly to Jesus! quickly fly! You have no time to lose. Life is almost gone. Death is pressing on your heel, and the judgment throne is well nigh bursting forth to your view. Suffer not a moment's delay. Seek the Lord while he is to be found. This ninht thy soul may be required of thee.?N. Y. Ch. Intell. CHARITY OF THOCOHT. You know how often it is difficult to be wiseiv charitable?to do good without multiplying the sources of evil. You know thai to give alms is nothing unless you give thought also; and that, therefore, it is written, not "blessed is he that feedeth the poor." but "blessed is he tbat cons dereth the poor." And you know that a little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. Now this charity of thought is not merely to be exercised toward the poor: it is to be exercised towards all men. There is assuredly no action of our social life, however important, which by kindly thought may not be made to have a beneficial influence upon others, and it is impossible to spend the smallest sum of money, for any not absolutely necessary purpose, without a grave responsibility attaching to the manner of spending it. The object we ourselves covet may indeed be desirable and narmless.so far as we are concerned, but the providing us with it may, perhaps, be a very prejudicial occupation to some one else. And then it becomes instantly a moral question whether we are to indulge ourselves or not. Whatever we wish to buy, we ought first to consider not only if the thing be fit for use. but if the manufacture of it be a wholesome and a happy one, and if on the whole, the sum we are going to spend will do as much good spent in this way as it would if spent in any other way. It may be said that we have not time to consider all this before we make a purchase. But no time could be spent in a more important duty, and God never imposes a duty without giving the time to do it.?Buskin. MT REDEEMER, "I know that my Bedeemer liveth." What mnrf- rin I need to carrv me hannilv throueh this world, and safely to my eternal home.? When Herder was dying he said to his son, "Give a great tboueht that I may refresh myself." This is the thought that I would have dearly and firmly dwelling in my soul when neart and flesh shall fail me; "I know that my Redeemer liveth." Oh, if I feel that he liveth for my guide and strength now, will he he not support me in the darksome hour? [t is reported of a young poet, that during the fairest and happiest nours of bis early years, he would often tvrite down his thoughts and feelings in glowing words, which he called"recollections )f the fairest hours, to cheer the latest hours 3f life." Thus the brightest hopes which I im n :.w permitted to record will cheer and llumine the vale of death?will be a manual )f sweet recollections of the bliss and peace vhich has been mine in the love of the Father. )h, do we not nil surely know that the more vc enjoy God here, the more will death be leprived of its sting and the brighter will be >ur eternal home?New York Observer. Lnbor to keep alive in your breast thnt litle spark of celestial flre called conscience.? jeorge Washington. W. C. T. U. Against Football, The W. C. T. U. Convention at Cleveland, Ohio, adjourned after passing resolutions favoring public regulation of amusements, i denouncing card playing, theatre going, i "promiscuous dancing," and this plank on i football: I "We disapprove of such excreises of such i parties of football as require the presence of 1 i physician, as boing injurious to physical < veil being and brutalizing in their moral ;endency. < "We protest against intercollogiato athlet- ( ics a3 demoralizing to the legitimate work of 1 lollego lite, and calculated to encourage rhe ! spirit of gambling." ] THE lATIHTS FDIMGE8. REPORT OF SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY CARLISLE. He Suggests a Plan for a Reform In Our Currency?A Gradual Retirement of United States Legal Tender Paper Recommended ? Outline of His New Banking Scheme. Secretary Carlisle's report of the operations of the United States Treasury Department for the fiscal year ended Jane 30 has I been presented to Congress. It treats In detail what was only touohed upon by the President in his annual message on the financial policy of the Administration. Under the head of "Currency Reform" Secretary Carlisle takes up the subject, which he treats exoauauvaiy. ne premises It with the condition of the Treasury on the first day of the current flsoal year. He then reviews the present condition of the Treasury and states that the laws now In foroe will yield an ample revenue for the fiscal year 1896. After explaining the causes of the financial depression he eays that "a brief statement of the practical and unavoidable results of the existing legislation will demonstrate its injurious effects upon our financial affairs more clearly than any argument that could be submitted." He concludes this statement by saying: "In view of the foregoing considerations, and many others that might be urged in favor of a reorganization ana reformation of our paper currency system, I have prepared the outlines of a plan which In my opinion iwill relieve the Government to a great extent from the burdens now imposed upon it, secure within a reasonable -time a safe and elastic National 'and State bank currency, and result ultimately In the permanent retirement of United States legal tender notes of both olasses." It Is In brief as follows: "1. Repeal all laws requiring or authorizing the deposit of United States bonds as security for circulation. "2. Permit National banks to Issue notes to an amount not exoeeding seventy-five per centum of their paid-up and unimpaired capital, but require eacn bank before receiving notes to deposit a guarantee fund, consisting of United States legal tender nntflfi tn/ilndfnrv 4a MV*W| U*W?UUU1| AAWlWUlJ UUIC9 VI AWl/Vf IV the amount ot thirty per centum upon the circulating notes applied for. This percentage of deposits upon the circulating notes outstanding to be maintained at all times, and whenever a bank retires Its circulation. In whole or in part, Its guarantee fund to be returned to It in proportion to the amount ot notes retired. ' '3. Retain the provision of the law making stockholders Individually liable, and provide that the circulating notes shall constitute a' first lien upon all the assets of the bank. "4. Impose a tax of one-half of one per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, upon the average amount of notes in circulation, to defray the expanses ot printing notes, official supervision, cancellation, etc.. "5. No National bank note to be of less, denomination than 910, and all notes of the same denomination to be uniform In design; but banks desiring to redeem their notes in gold may have them made payable In that| coin. Th? Secretary of the Treasury to hava authority to prepare and keep on hand ready for Issue upon appUoatlon a reserve of Na-! tlonal bank notes for each banking association having circulation. "6. Require each National Banking Asso-1 elation to redeem Its notes at Its own office, or at its own office and at agencies to be designated by It. ' "7. To provide a salaryvfund for the im-; medlAtn rfldnmnMnn nt fha n<Miilii?ln? n<??? of failed banics, impose a tax of ? per oentnm per annum upon the average circulation of eoeh bank until the fund amounts to five per oentnm of the total circulation outstanding. Require each bank; and each bank taking out additional circulation, to deposit its proper proportion of the fund before r?oeIvlng notes. When a bank falls, its guarantee fund held on deposit to be paid Into the safety fund and used in the redemption of its notes, and If this fund shall be Impaired by the redemption of the notes of failed National banks,: and the immediately available cash assets of such banks are insufficient to re-establish! the fund, it jshall at onoe be made good by pro rata assessments upon the other banks, t according to the amount of their outstanding circulation; but there shall be a first lien; upon all the assets of the failed bank, or banks, to reimburse the contributing banks.: The safety fund may be invested in outstanding United States bonds having the longest time to run, the bonds and the interest upon them to be held as a part of the fund and sold when necessary to redeem notes of failed banks. "8. Repeal the provisions of the reorganization and extension act of July 12,1882, inw posing limitations upon the reduction and increases of National bank circulation. "9. Repeal all provisions or the lair rennll?ir?f?Kunlra tA.bonn o wwifliwa An Mtiunu IV AWV|/ U iWVi TV VU UV^VUUb of deposits. "10. The Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, use any surplus revenue of the United 8tates In the redemption and retirement of United StatM legal tender notes, but such redemptions shall not in the aggregate exceed an amount equal to seventy1 per cent. of the additional circulation taken out by National and State banks under the system herein proposed. "11. Circulating notes issued by a banking corporation, duly organized under the laws! of any State, and which transacts no other] than a banking business, shall be exempt! from taxation under the laws of the United' States, when it is shown to the satisfaction; of the Secretary of the Treasury and the' Comptroller of the Currency? "L That such bank nasatno time had outstanding its circulating notes in excessj of seventy-five per cent, of its paid-up and unimpaired capital. "2. That its stockholders are individually liable for the redemption of its circulating: notes to the full extent of their ownership of StOCK. "8. That the circulating notes constitute by; law a first lien upon ail the assets of the. bank. "4. That tha bank has at all times kept a" guarantee fund in United States legal tender notes, including Treasury notes of 1890, equal to thirty per cent, of the outstanding circulating notes; and "5. That it has promptly redeemed its notes on demand at its principal office, or at one or more of its branch offices, If it has branches. "12. The Secretary of the Treasurymay, under proper rules and regulations to be established by him, permit State banks to procure and use In the preparation of tneir ootes the distinctive paper used in printing United 8tates securities; but no State bank shall print or engrave Its notes in similitude of a United States note or certificate, or National bank note." A detailed routine account of the operations of the Treasury Department closes the report. LEON ABBETT DEAD. The Ex-Governor of New Jersey Succumbs to Heart Disease. < Leon Abbett, ex-Governor of New Jersey, j died at 2.58 o'clock p. m. at bis home in Jersey avenue, Jersey City, N. J., surrounded i by his family and sever? 1 relatives. He had 1 been sick for ten days with heart and gastric troubles. ' Ex-Governor Leon Abbett was born in ' 1836, and had lived in New Jersey since 1853. He was educated in Philadelphia and j was a praduate 01 me nign osuom in mar < city. Ho held many public offices as a i Democrat in' the course oi his career. ] He was at one time Corporation Counsel of Jersey City. He was five times ] elected to the New Jersey Assembly and was ; twice its Speaker. Ho served in the State i Senate aJso, and was President of that body for a time. He did notable work as Chairman of the commission which revised the municipal laws of New Jersey. He was for ! years a recognized leader of the Demo- J cratio party in the State, and always took an active part in politics. In 1876 he was 1 Chairman of the New Jersey delegation to ihe National Convention. While presiding J it a State Convention in 1880 the nomina-- s ;ion of Governor was offered to him, but he ieclined it on a point of etiquette. He accepted the nomination in 1833, however, and was elected. He was again elected 1 governor in 1890. In 1893 he was chosen to ' 111 a seat on the Supreme Court Bench of ' 'fow Jersey, succeeding William Walter * ?helps. ? j I J THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The University of Pennsylvania football eleven defeated Harvard's team at Unlver-4 sity Field, Philadelphia, by a score of 18 to 1 Twenty-five thousand people were present.- , Chasles N. Richaeds, a well-known saloonkeeper and former proprietor ot thai Jefferson House in Wat kins. N. 7., entered] the room of Kate Quirk, a domestic employed > at the Kendall House, and after killing her by cutting her throat he cut his own throat' and died a few hours later. Two men with drawn revolvers entered a saloon In New Tork City, and when the proprietor and the customers did not throw up their hands at the command, fired seven shots, slightly wounding two of the customers. One of the men fired two shots at a policeman. He was captured, but the other '* escaped. Hzset 0. Havesteteb, President of the American Sugar Be lining Company, more widely known as the Sugar Trust, announced that the big plants of the trust In Brooklm. Boston. Philadelohla and else where wonld be shut down for an Indefinite period. Fifteen thousand men are to be hrown oat of work. Threats of free sugar, overproduction and the bad times forced a cessation, Mr. Havemeyer says. Piebbe Gulick, twenty-one years old, a member of the sophomore class of Harvard College, Cambridge. Mass., shot himself, through the head. No oattse was assigned1 for the suicide, except melancholia. Govbbnob Flowzb, of New York, received requisition papers from Governor Hogg, of Texas, asking for the surrender of John D.j Rockefeller and other Standard Oil magnates on indictments charging them with violat-; > lag tho anti-trust laws of Texas. The requisitions were denlad on formal grounds. Tax first skater drowned this season wafl' Harry 8t. Dennis, of Chariestown, Mass., who, while skating, broke through the ice. | The Philadelphia and Beading Ballroad: * Company posted notices in all its shops In; Pennsylvania that hereafter employes will work eight hours per day. In some of the Bhops they bad been working ten hours.' Coxductok Lcxesb was burned to death and Engineer Hull's life crashed oat in .a rear-end collision of freight trains near' v Lockport, Penn. | Two persons lost their llvrt in a fire at the I boarding house of Mrs. C. D. Beeves, Phila- { delphia. They were Mrs. Ella Bay Smith and I Miss Cullenden. 1 Japan has added to her navy the crack Chilean cruiser Esmeralda. The deal waa I consummated in New York. Tajle won the annual football game from Princeton In New York City by four touchdowns and four goals to nothing. Score t' i 21 to 0. Over 18,000 people witnessed the game. In New York City, the Lexow Committee resumed Its Investigation of the Police Department The Investigation Into the charges against District-Attorney John B. Fellows was also begun. Bichasd Quito and Samuel Bouse, two. employes of the Delaware and Hudson Ball-, road, were drowned In an accident near Port Henry, N. Y. South and West. The Commercial Bonk at LamonI, Iowa, was entered and the safe blown open by robbers. The robbers secured 910,000 In money and considerable jewelry. p.rriTTT llvna hATA hmn lncfr nri/1 rmivntff amorfating to $1,000,000 destroyed by forest fires In the bottoms of Tennessee. Wabraxts were issued at Chicago for the arrest of Jamee M. Aubery, son-in-law of Chief Justice Fuller, of the. United-States Supreme Court, who 1s acoused of forging his fathcr-in-law's name. J. E. PraaajflE, Detroit's eccentric Mayor, caused his carriage horses to be. chloroformed so as to save tho expense of wintering them. At a public meeting he charged the bakers of the city with robbery and proposed to start a municipal bakery. Ex-Sesatob Joseph E. Bbowjt died a few days ago, at Atlanta, Ga. He was Georgia's war Governor; was Chief Jostioe of the Supreme Court, and after the war was Unl- , < tea States Senator. He had been in feeble health for some time. He was seventy-three years old. ) Da. Geobge R. Bbush, Medical Inspector United States Navy, died'suddenly-in Colo JoHif Maboksei, agod fifteen, of Baltf? more, Md., after being reprimanded by his parents for keeping late boors, shot himself dead. Mas. Jacob Schoppekheix and two smaU children perished in the destruction of their home in tit. Loais. Mo. Republican and Populist leaders of North Carolina decided to divide the Senators hips and fuse again in 1896. The unexpired portion of the sentence ol Brigadier-General Swain. Judge AdvocateGeneral of the Army, has been remitted. The Kansas wheat crop Is threatened with destruction by reason of drought. The North Platte (Neb.} National Bank Is In oharge of the National Bank Examiner. It has acapltal of $75,000. Washington. The President spent Thanksgiving Day at Woodley with his family, having no company. The members of the Cabinet who were in Washington dined quietly at their * homes. The roll of tho next House as sentto the. printer shows Republicans, 104 Democrats. 6 Ponullsts. 1 Silverlte and one va cant seat. The annual report of the Superintendent Of the Life Saving Service has been issued. On account of the death of his mother, Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General Maxwell was called to Massachusetts. The President cabled to United States Minister Breckinridge at St. Petersburg Instructions to convey to the Ozar of Russia the President's sincere congratulations upon his recent marriage. The annual reports of the Comptroller of the Currency and tho Civil Service Commission were made public. Comptroller Eckels proposes a new plan for the issue of National bank circulation. The reoeipts from internal revenue for the four montbs ended October 31, amounted to 864,759,529, an increase of $15,324,235. The aggregate receipts for October were $5,846,995 less than for October, 1893. The public debt statement shows a net decrease In the public debt, less cash in the Treasury, during November of 831,744,55L60. Secretaby Lamoxt's commission to rennrt the longest Dractlcal SDan for a bridge such as i9 contemplated 'for the North River, at New York City, has reported 3200 Hj feet. 9 Foreign. The recent flood at Ltmosol, Island o( H Cyprus, drowned twenty-two persons. The H damage to property is estimated at $250,000. H The Americiin colonies In Berlin, Borne, London and Paris had Thanksgiving din- |X ners. HH " Li Hujto Chano, Priuce Knng and the SB olvil and military chiefs at Port Arthur, China, have been formally charged with high treason. Hi The negotations for pence between Chh^ and Japan proceeded satisfactorily through m9 the American Ministers a; Pokin and Tokio. The Mosqaito Indians have Abandoned Bp ;heir claim to Independence and agreed to become subjects of Nicaragua. 9H The resignation of General Frank C. Armstrong, Assistant Commissioner of InHan Affairs, has been accepted by the Sec etary of the Interior at the direction of the President. EB The Cuulille forcite factory in Eeverloo, 3elpium. was blown to pieces. Three par- SHE ;ons were killed and twenty others were aftjj (rounded. The United States cruiser Baltimore sta^* ?SS| :a irum iu scuu uuuwra WHB )rotectlon of Minister Denby at Pekin; H repan. it in said, will increase her demands lpon China according to the time hostilities CflH iro prolonged The Italian Parliament opened; King lumbert's specch from tho throne was lomewhat coldly received. Indians about Wentacheo, Wash., are wild >verthe blastiusr of a bi? sacred rock by 5reat Northern Railway workman. The rook vas covered with hieroglyphic records ot MM jattles, deaths, etc., and wa9 rogarded with 'evcrence. H|