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? I -'HS Copyriskt IK by Boi CHAPTER L THX UtOTHKSS. "Well. If I bad determined to go to perdition I frould not elect to travel Via the workbouse." I had been closely observing my uncle for more than two bourn, and diligently noting bis words and gesture*, trben bis utterance of tbls remarkable sentence confirmed the dislike of blm which I bad conceived at our first nee ting. Witb only a brief and narrow exnerience of men and manners. the words impressed me as harsh, not to say brutal, for a rich man to address to an only brother whom he had not seen for twenty years, and who was comparatively poor. "I have made no inch determination." said my father. "As for the Workhouse, my income Is still some TOO pounds a yeiir more than nothing, tad I don't anticipate becoming a burden to anybody, not even"?turning his face toward me and smiling?"my own son." "Seven hundred pounds!" exclaimed my uncle 8am. contemptuously, "seven hundred pounds And what will that pitiful mm do loward main tailing: a gentleman for twelve months? Why. there are four of the men in my pay Who each earn 91500 more than your an tire income !* Bnt how's this? Hoidenhurst used not to be such a beggarly property, or my memory is worse than I thought it was." While my father la occupied with the Klanchoiy recital of the causes, natural and political, of the enormous depreciation of agricultural values In Bngland?which in ten years had reduced his income by rather more than half?I will furnish the reader with a brief history of the men thus engaged. Whan little more than ten years old TS?nmavt kaH tliA. IB/ A?U??i MWVftk *a wnwm *M*W reeded to an estate of 2000 acre#, consisting of two entire parishes, Holdenfeorst Major and Holdenhnrst Minor, situate a few miles from Bury 8t Edmund's, in Suffolk. On his coming of mgt Robert Truman found himself the possessor of a rent roll of ?1500. a lump sum of about ?12,000, which had accumulated during his minority, and st 4arge nondescript manor house of Which no archaeologist could determine the date or order, It had been so much altered and sdded to at various periods. The estate, which had formed part of the immense possessions of the rich abbots of Bury. was. pon the dissolution of the abbey there, hw Ronrv VIII In ivmotllltv upon the first member of mj family of whom there exists any record. With but one relation in the World? his brother Sarauel. two years his junior?undoubtedly my father entered upon the business of life under conditions more prosperous than attend the vast majority of mankind. But that balance which men adjust where fortune has shown more favor to one than to another, themselves making the tale of human happiness and misery nearly the same in all cases, was aoon made apparent by the two brothers. The affections of these young men centred upon one girl, iiamuel was the favored lover. But women had few rights and many wrongs in agricultural East Anglia in 18?, and o the beauty of Holdenimrst became the wife of Robert Truman; her father. a small farmer ambitious of formtnf a family connection with the ~8qulre," having so commanded her. Before the marriage my uncle Bam left England for America with the ex U UllCUUVU U& U^*Ci Of)UiU TIB* 1ting Ills native land. In less thau a year my father bad lost by death tbe wife be bad thus acquired: a loss wblct, tfrugb It deeply affected blm. was patiently borne for tbe sake of tbe Infant boy who was at once tbe cause of bis sorrow and bis bope. In American Samuel Truman bad entered In commercial speculations and flourished exceedingly. On tbe deatb of my mother be bad written to my lather a few lines expressing bis sympathy?bis first communication with his brother after bis departure from . England. After that his letters had been brief snd Infrequent, but reports reached Holdenhurst from time to time of his extraordinary success in trading, of his erer-increaslng wealth HU iiuJuuuiTi v*. mo euiC SVUilt'SS, U1B penetration, bis singleness of purpose. Tbrongh all tbe days of my toy hood I temember no variation in tbe accounts of tbe steady and continued decline in value of my father's property, and of the rapid increase of my uncle's wealth. Neither of these circumstances, however, interested me until. In my nineteenth year?tbe week before this history opens?my father re-' reived a letter from bis brother in New York stating that he had been tarried for three years to an AmeriUJa __.l iL.k k. 1 LI. 1?- I ? mui uiuj ? uuu iuai ur auu uir* winr iutended to visit Holdenhurst, and might lw expected to arrive in about tco days. It was almost immediately after tbe arrival of my uncle at Holdenhurst. thus Intimated, that tbe conversation irith which this chapter open* took place. Uncle Sam did not. however, brine hi* wife with bin) as be bad in* tended, but left that lady in LoDdon in a furnished bouse which he bad hired at Kensington, she being prostrated by tbe voyage from America. "Well." faid untie Sam. when my father bad finished speaking. "1 guess yonr oration would le worth a cool million to the Republican party. You nasi visit the States and tell tbe Americans from a hundred platforms all jon have just told me. You must come at tbe opening of tbe Presidential campaign." My father shook his head. "1 am no traveler." he said, "or I should have ventured beyond Europe nineteen years ago." again turnicg toward me j And assuming the kindly expression ; iret,flHalin ALTER BLOOMFIELD mr Burnt Bon. which was never absent from b!? featmwi ?hpn ho regarded bis son. "Tbe affairs of my own country engage very little of my attention, and as for the United?" "Well, well," interrupted nncle Sam, "we won't discuss that matter further at present What Is tbe sum total | of the two mortgages yon have on this i place?" "Three thousand five hundred pounds." "let me have the papers." said uncle 8am, stretching bis band out as though he expected that his brother had them ready In his pocket, "and I will wipe them both out to-morrow." "Ton are very kind," answered my father, somewhat embarrassed. "Ernest go to my black cabinet and fetch an oblong packet Ton will find It In the top drawer, tied with red +AVIA 99 J With ft greatly Improved opinion of my uncle I hastened upon my errand, and In a minute or so my father was handing bis brother the papers for which be bad asked. "It's a smart lad." remarked my uncle, fixing bis steel gray eyes upon me ao Denetratively that I felt rather mi comfortable; "what are you going to do with blmr "Do with him?" echoed my father; *1 don't understand." "Well, do you propose tbat be should spend bis life in tbis place watching the crops fall, or selling tbem for less than the coat of production when they succeed; or Is he to be a. man whose presence is felt In the world V "I have not yet seriously considered Ernest's future/' answered my father gravely. . "Then let me help you do so anoiner time," Mid ancle Sam. "Ill return to town by the first train in the morning, and having paid off these mortgages will be back again some time in the evening, bringing Mrs. Truman with me, if she is well enough to come. By-the-by. I suppose this packet contains all the documents necessary in closing the mortgages. Do Saul and Isaacs hold any of tbe old deeds?" "AH the necessary papers are there." mill hit father. "Tbe money was ad v&nced simply on my note of band. Tbe old grants of tbe abbey lands in Latin and Norman French are still in tbe two old oak chests where they have always been." "I wonld like to see them," said my uncle; "they mnst be very interesting.** "Ton shall. Ernest shall get them out for yon to look at by the time yon return." CHAPTER n. | THE OAK CHESTS. Accustomed from my infancy to wander unrestrained through the gloomy rooms and corridors of Hoidenhurst Hall, 1 had flattered myself that I was familiar with every nook and corner of the old mansion. But my mind was considerably exercised In the endeavor to determine the whereabouts of the two oak chests to which my father had referred in bis conversation with uncle Sam. I did not remember having ever seen any such chests, and could think of no place from garret to basement which I considered likely to contain them. These thoughts?much confused with idle speculation concerning my uncle whose acquaintance I had Just made, of my aunt whom I had not yet seen, and of various ideas started by the conversa tlon of the two brothers?kept me awake until long after I had retired to bed. I tossed a boat restlessly and punched my pillows, bat coald not sleep. When I lay on my left side, all that my ancle said recurred to me vividly, and I hated him for his cool cynicism and the sense of power which had now and again been apparent through the calmness of bis manner, but, turning upon my right, his generous gift Impressed me as really magnificent, and I could not but feel grateful to him for relieving my father of what I knew bad occasioned mm some anxiety. My ancle's wish. too. for a voice in determining my future course in life interested me greatly and opened interminable trains of thought. At last I lost consciousness, but did not sleep soundly nor for long. When I rose it wanted ssme minutes to G o'clock. A brilliant streak of sunshine lay across the dark cak Coor of my room, and through tlie casement coald be discerned a clear blue sky such as is seldom seen in England in the month of March. Brimful of health and aninal spirits, notwithstanding the little sleep I bad had, I sprung frbm my bed. and. having hurriedly dresstd, sought my father. Pomebow. lo an ill-defined way, I was conscious of the o\? niup of a new era in iny life. Whether it was what had transpired between my father and uncle on the previous nipht. or the joyousness of the ojtenlnp day. which was of a sort that seemed to confirm the death of winter and herald approaching summer, or both, I know sot. but it seemed to me that I had bidden adieu to boyhood and had become a man. My father bad risen a full hour before me. anil was pacing the outer path of our old garden, with his hands . nsped behind him?his usual contemplative attitude. "Why," said he. after I had acquainted him with my difficulty, " 'tis only yesterday that I noticed you sitting upon one of the ch.-srs. rending. They | stand iu the library, one beneath each ! window, where they have stood for | the last 30u ytars or more. It was I your grandmother. I thinlt. who | worked cushions and valances for I them, and no converted them into ? aJ .. 1 rtrunpe looking but comfortable ?ettees." i Alas. I was ashamed to think how many of my boyish hoars I had spent lylnp upon one or other of these eliesta aimlessly rcadlns romances and poetry J when I had been supposed to l?e stu; - . #..1 W. AnnmmiAl dying mure usviui uui tcos ? matter! . ; As soon ns tve bad breakfasted my father began to search fyr the keys of j tb$ chests, for he had bnt a vague idea as to 'where they might be found. 1 While be was employed rummaging old bureaus and cabinets, I removed ' the coverings from the chests, marv*l- | lng greatly that they should bav* so long escaped my notice. To do this, 1 and to clear the table ready to recoive the documents, did not - *ge me many minutes, and I was 1l lent to 1 obtain the keys. But the keys could not be f. id. I assisted my father tn the search for them, and together we turned over as many knick-knacks ? quaint jewelry. *" ? -" aM miniaiureH, puckinuvufts, ku>cus, vm coins, packet* of love letters tied with faded silk and dated early in the last century, metal purses, scent bottles, etc.?as would hare stocked a firstclass curiosity shop. But that which i we sought we could not find. It was now past noon, and my nncle and aunt were expected to arrive at 4 < o'clock. Though we had been searching for several hours we bad not yet examined the contents of half the cabinets and closets which abounded in our old manor bonce, many or wnicn had not been opened within the memory of our oldest servant. My father would have given up the search but for my advice to him to continue it Wisely or unwisely, my father seldom or never refused to comply with any wish that I expressed, and he saw that I was interested In the odds and ends accumulated by our family. After another two hours of searching my father found the keys of the chests, tied together and labeled, in the place where be had first looked for them. With a peculiar facial expression. In which it was difficult to determine whether fatigue, annoyance or triumph predominated, he tossed j them to me, and remarking that be bad bad as much of this affair as he I ?n/l #/>? In nna HflV left TMA tn fin (I waicu iWi Ml VMb *v? *v -V ? I pleased. Having hurriedly deposited the few things before me in the places where they had been found. I hastened to the i library and proceeded to open the I nearest chest. The key entered the j lock as easily aa might be wished, but 1 I was turned with difficulty, and made a harsh, grating sound. I had no sooner I I raised the lid than the air became so 1 charged with minute fungi that I voluntarily stepped back and opened a < window. i The chest was quite filled with parchment or vellum documents, some , rolled and others flat, and to nearly all of them were attached large pendu loos seals. I did not pauae to exam- ( iiie them, but transferred them all to tbe table, and opened the second chest, wherein I discovered nearly as many documenta as in tbe first, all of similar character. But there was also a \ tbick folio volume, filled with close, neat writing, every letter of which ' appeared to be formed with great care and accuracy. About two- i thirds of the bdok was English and the remainder strange characters, : which I had little doubt were Orien- ' tal, though I was not scholar enough to determine the language to which 1 they belonged. This book, and a cop- i per box, about eighteen inches by i twelve, and five inches deep, were all i I found besides the documents. Tbe i box, which was locked, was much discolored; but I could discern writing upon the lid such as may be pro- i duced by nitrate of silver upon cop- < per. All I could decipher at a hasty < glance was "Roger Trueman," written In characters rather larger than the others. Trueman being a very old , form of our family name, and the box C4u:ruiu|i7 ucuvjr IUI in ci^c, A ai , once conceived the hope that it con- ] tained something of special value. As | I could find no key to the box, 1 set It , aside with the folio volume, resolving to carefully examine both at my leis- , | ure. I At this moment a servant entered ! the room and informed me that oy uncle and aunt bad arrived. Dinner bad been ordered to be served as toon as possible, and there barely re* mained sufficient time for me to prepare for it. Quite tired of my day's work, the intelligence was not unwelcome. Taking with me tbe folio volume and the copper box. I locked tbe library door and put tbe key in my pocket, leaving all tbe old documents on tbe tabb witbin. I tben sought my bedroom, where, having safely bestowed tbe book and box. I made what I then thought was an elaborate toilette such as befitted my introdvetien to uy American kinswoman. To ba continue.]. Trannlnr a Profmiar h* Wire. Among some intensely auusin~ col- 1 lege scraps told by "A Graduate," in 1 tlie Ladies' Home Journal, is tbe story J tf a certain professor, not mucb liked by bis pupils, wbo was to be married. ' Tbe iady lived in Cleveland. And tbe ( students that loved (?) bim were not, 1 of course, invited. But tbey determ- 1 ined tbat in some way be should bear i from tbeiu. Aud be did. On tbe day appointed tbe professor took tbe train at 10 a. m., due to arrive at Cleveland ( at 12.30 p. m. About eleven o'clock . Jim Towusend rushed to the tele- ( graph office and sent off this dis- f patch: "Chief of Police. Cleveland. Ohio, j Muu couiiuj; on train No. U. tail, well ( dressed, (rock coat, silk hat, side , whiskers. Escaped lunatic. Hold! . Shrewd, therefore beware! Strang# , cane. Will say name Fiualli. Mis- , take. Thinks he is professor in a , college. lH-lusion. Escort to home of t friends at No. ? Euclid avenue." , This message reached its destina- j tion long before train No. G reached j Cleveland, so that when Professor t Tinalli alighted it wns to walk straight T iuto the custody of three detectives. e They would listen to no words of reason, but escorted him out to the house on Euclid avenue, the home of his intended bride. ( The world's record pugnr plantation j contains 23.000 acTt'H, has thirty mile) I ^ of railway and employs 1500 people. 5 w i POST MORTEM PROOFREADING. Uwayi Em; to Sm Xrror* After They At* Irremediable. When I was rending proof on the old National Republican, sny? a "writer in ib?* Washington Trade Unionist, 1 bad 1 post mortem assistant located In Sew York, but 1 never knew wbo be ivas. He took tbe paper and read proof carefully on it for several days, rorwarding tbe result to tbe business ufflce. After be bad sent several papers containing tbe results of bis labors be [iut in an application for tbe job, but he didn't get It. His ignorance of local geography and affairs caused biin to make some very amusing corrections, hut I'm not denying that be found ijuite a number of legitimate errors, as and one can in any daily newspaper. Of course. I was prejudiced in tbe matter, and my judgment was not as i-ool aud impartial ate would have been that of an uninterested party, but 1 thought that was a pretty mean way to try to get a fellow's situation away from blm. 1 have known tbat method of procedure to be attempted several times, but I have never known it to succeed. It is always easy to see errors after they are irremediable, but It takes tbe eye of an eagle, tbe watchfulness of a ferret and the alertness of a pointer to ruu them to earth while they are legitimate prey. I remember the remarks of my old 1k)8s, when I was running tbe inking machine on tbe lightning band press, with which he rushed off the edition of LM8 copies, during the first year of my apprenticeship. If he stopped for a few minutes to Jolly a'visitor or to hunt around his bench for a quid of tobacco that was being worked overtime, my eyes were Roing over the paper, and generally I bad an error to show him. He woald unlock the form and correct It, giving me baleful looks in which the malevolence was at least an inch thick. Finally, one day he burst out: "You dodgasted brat, if you ever find mother error in this paper after I have locked It up I'll fire you on the spot!" That cured me of post mortem proof reading, and I have stayed cured. WORDS OF WISDOM. To be light-hearted is often to be Bimply light-headed. There are criminals that can be cla* Billed, bnt there are uo criminal classes. Sincerity often consists in frankness In stating opinions wblcb are not worth stating. Life is a succession of choices. One cannot often have this and that, but this or that. If we cannot make ourselves happy ive can make others happy, and tbey in turn can create happiness for us. He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass, for every man has need to be forjiven. X>ur duty to God is cheerfully ac* ..nifi.wlf.ul I,ii? tnu-nrfl nnr m-lchhor ?UU?? tl? ?'M? iv.M.w ?... ive rarely realize we have aDy special >bligution. It is so easy and pleasant to discover Kins lurking in the pursuits for wbicb you are not inclined. Many of as possess wonderful powers of perception In that direction. A flatterer is said to he a beast that tiitetb smiling. But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations, for at 11 wolf resemLles a dog so doth a flatterer a friend. It bns been said that brisbt thoughts Jo not occur to ignorant people, either can they, for there Is nothing tvitbin to supcest them. The daily, !>rdinary level determines the height to which we can rise on rare occasions. When we see leaves drop from their trees in the beginning of autumn, such, we think, is the friendship of the world. While the sap of maintenance lasts, friends swarm in abundance, but In the winter of ueed they leave us naked. lie is a happy man that hath n true friend at his need, but be is more truly happy that hath no need of [lis friends. Discipline la the Haitian Atmy. The first and last time I saw Presilent Sam lie was reviewing the army ?? tlm tuirlmll^nl Kniwlnr nnr. III. UUC V* *UV |rv??vwiviM ides. I never saw such n human bird if paradise. TIk* black facts and the most various and gaudy uniforms that the wit of man ever devised made an extraordinary spectacle. In one place i private soldier had fallen out of the ranks, apparently to speak 10 his sweetheart, who was standing at an ipen door. An officer ordered him tc return. The man refused. Another >fflcer arrived to reinforce the author ty of the first officer. The two officers trfrd to haul the man sway. He clung ;o me (K>orjK)M. unu u iug ui-nui ?u?owt-d, while the laughing women of ihe house thronged the doorway and encouraged the gallant private. Then he officers took to Iwlahoring the man tvith sbeatb/d swords. At last he sur endered and went hack to the ranks, rhe incident was "closed." and I was old tliut nothing more would be beard if it. Meanwhile. Sam sat on a fat ivhite pony under the shade of a tree, inuiovcd and unembarrassed.?Corretondence of the Manchester Guardian. TVilhelmlna'a Wrmlfh. TIk1 Queen of Holland is arnoug the idlest of royal i?ersoiiagcs. Part of ler enormous fortuue belongs to the * !?*i" *i?? Sc lw?r nrlrntp TU? II, ? llllf IUU vni in u? |? . .... ?roj?erty. The royal estates iu Holland Hid the East (which iurlude the I>Utch riast Indies) are als? of great value. >11 her marriage with Prince Hairy he youns Queen net aside twenty milions of marks, the arrangement being hat the interest. which is nearly a year, will be at his own lisp?iK:il. while the capital is ultimately o pa?g to the youngest children of the nntriage. If there are no children, 'rince Henry is to have absolute ower of disjM>sing by will of live iilllions of marks, while die rcuiaiud<*r rill eventually revert to the Queen's state.?Tit-Bits. Cab Call*. There are now being constructed in . rout of New York theatres automatic ; ah calls, numbers in electric lights j ieing shown. A similar device has ieen designed to show tIk- names of : tatiouii ou railroad trains. I THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Tveotj'flM Par Cant, of the lamatMof* French Hospital, Obttrrtd Daring Flft??n Yean, Inherited Vitiated ConstU tntlons From Alcoholic Parent*. A French physician has announced a tartling discovery. As the result of fifteen yean*' study in hospitals and prisons he publishes hi* conclusion that twentyfive per cent, of the hospital patients in- ! herited vitiated constitution* from alI cobolic parent*, and that sixty-five i per cent. of the criminal* re! ceived the perm of their criminal in- j i etinct before birth. He alio say* that no , habitual drunkard can have aound children, ! and that out of several thousand drunk{ ards' children examined not one exception I wag found. This is an awful indictment { and makes the drunkard a double criminal, j Note the sweeping statement: No habit- 1 | ual drunkard can have aound children. And in the examination of several thousand drunkards' children not one exception was found. The drinking father who is rearing a family of children and imagines that he is doing harm to himself only should take to heart very seriously this tremendous and awful fact based on universal observation and experience and on the latest discovery of science. The deadly poison which gradually but none the leas surely permeates the entire system of the drunkard is. by inheritance, transmitted to his sons and daughters who in turn hand down to the next generation and to the next the diseased brain and body of their drunken father. Who shall say what will be the progeny of the drunkard? If he have brought children into the world he ia guilty of a triple crime: He has robbed the world of a good example and of hi* own life's usefulness, and second, he has deprived bia )'amilv of that care and protection and helpfulness which even nature teaches him aa hi* duty, and third, he goes into eternity leaving as hi* legacy to Humanity children of a diseased brain and moral nature, and a possible drunkard, with all the evils that accompany such a life, for every child of which he is the father. It is an awful thought and carries with it the responsibility which if fully realized would crush out a human life, the thought of bequeathing to the world young men and women with the germ of a criminal instinct born into them. How shall they rid themaelves of this soul-damning inheritance which has come to them with (rat choicer And on whom rests the awful responsibility and on whom hall fall the righteous and crashing judgment for transmitting to an innocent offspring the possibility and the probability of direase and drunkenness and debauchery and crime? And these arr the sons to whom clean fathers and mother* are to give their daughters in marriage, and yet liquor men wonder why their business is ao strenuously opposed. We are told sometimes that in the good old days when strong drink flowed freely, when it was kept in the farmer's and in the mechanic's cellar, when in the harvest field it was drunk as freely as water, that in these olden times there was less drunkenness than there is to?day with all the resmcnons wnicn legislation not tnrown around the traffic. But let such remember that this present generation is but reaping the harvest of that awful and that reckless owing? Shall there be another generation like it? Does the drunkard realize the hell of agony be is preparing for his innocent, helpless children by indulging his appetite for strong drink ? The late Joseph Cook, the great Boston lecturer, in one of his lectures on the evils of alcohol on the brain, said, "The bouse founded by Daniel Webster bas become extinct. He himself was a moderate drinker. His son was a drunkard, and with his grandson the love of drink was an insanity, and he fell before he had passed his thirtieth year. I know * lunerb nreacher. who slwam kent irini> on his table, and justified iU use. Hit son went to an insane asylum. The diseased blood corpuscles were transmitted from father to son." These words of warning from the Treat Boston preacher and lecturer should strike the souls of moderatedrinking fathers like a thunder clap and awaken their deadened conscience. It is the moderate drinker that furnishes the recruits for the army of drunkard*. If every drunkard in the United States were to die to-day, in less than ten years there would be as many drunkards as there are now. Where do they come from? Not from the total abstainer. Where then? From the ranks of the moderate drinker. Of one million moderate drinkers to-day, more than 900.000 will be in drunkard's graves in less than twenty years, and some will go by wav of the prison and the scaffold. In the face of these incontrovertible facts, and in the lijjht of universal observation and the sad and sorrowful experience of all who have indulged the appetite for trong drink, what shall we sav of the father who continues his course ot madnem and folly and heedlessly place* the wine and the beer bottle on the dining-room table to tempt hi* children!1 It is nothing hort of ccgaiomania.?Brethren Evangelist. - i * Dow It Work*. A mechanic who had been in the habit of dropping into a beer saloon twice a day, and spending five cents each time for a glass of beer, was captivated one day by a new thought. "1 am poor," be said to himself; "my family needs every cent I can earn; it is growing more and more expensive every year; soon I shall want to educate my children. Ten cents a day for beer! Let me sec; that it sixty cents a week. That is $31.50 cents a vear. And it does me no good; it may do me harm. Let me see"?and here he took a piece of cnalk and solved the problem on a board. ??1 1 .? 1 1. inn 1 ran uuj nvu uancm ui uuui, is w ?? ?? of sugar, five pounds of tea and six bushels of potatoes for that sum." Pausing for a moment, as if to allow the errand idea to take full possession of himself, he then ex claimed, "I will never waste another cent." He never has. and be is to-day a prosperous m^n.?Golden Censer. ? z. % A Nor el Campaign. The French Anti-Alcohol Society, ifi pursuance of its campaign aga:n*t strong drink. is displaying on walls and other suitable places in Paris small bills, on which are printed short sentences calcu- j lated to give pause to bibulous persons, such as the following: "Alcohol nowadays is responsible for more ravages than pestilence, famine or war.?Gladstone." "Alcohol is no more a digestive than an appetizer. In whatever shape it presents it- , self it i* a poison.?Fransisgue Sarcev." "Do you know what that man is drinking i , from the g!a>* which shr.kcs in his trembling hand? He is drinking the tears and the blood and the life of his wife and children ? Lamonnai*. Aiconoi piv?-? i neither he&.tb nor strength nor warmth J nor happiness. It doe* nothing but harm. . J ?Tolstoi."?Alliance New?. London, Log. j j I ' Enforcing the Lot v. j ' In New Hampubire the prohibition law i ( is being en fori ed. It had been practically | , nullified by what is known as trie "Healy j System." which provided for a system of i j fine* to be placed upon liquor dealers, thus I ( shielding them from anything but a high j , license. Last fall Judge Peaslee. in hi* i j famous decision, made it the duty of the j , Chief of Police to see that the .aw was . ( carried out. In cane of hi* failure the j County Solicitor i* responsible and must see after the Chief of Police. A* a result prohibition i* now "nforced in New Hump- | shire as never before. I ' ! i firrnian Army Cm)#r FIre. I , The (Jcrman military authorities are en- ' 3 deavoring to stop the excessive drinking } * of intoxicating liquor* m the army. The < nale of brandy has heen prohibited in ail ! i the canteen* in Lorain and Hi'NK' XafoiJ. | t In the thirty raldier*' homes and -imil.ir i I - - >? ? -- -i?.I ? ..V. i institutions ior Manors uu aicuuuiK are nerved. Work of AlcoholUtn. In a recent treat iw on alcoholism bj j S Trull, it i* stated that in Kngland seventy- j ^ five |>er cent. of all cam* of |uu|kt:?iii arc due to drink, and in (lennany ninety |.er J cent. In Germany drink lead* to i?( ; , of miicide a year and *upi>hc? the in?auc * , asvlum \ntb 3000 victim*. ; < i * THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JUNE 29. Review ot the Twelve Umom Tot the DkodiI Qn*rter, Acta ? > 5-31? Text. Lake II.. 3* - Hamm.iT For Scholar*' Uh. Introduction.?We have *cen during the pa?t quarter the great interest the e.'.rly church took in foreign missionary work; in fact, the whole church might be called a missionary church, organized for the ;iarpo*e of operating along missionary lines. To carry the gospel to the "regions beyond" seemed to be the gte&t ambition of the apostle* and their followers. Only as the missionary spirit is kept alive will the church be saved from stagnation and de...h. Lesson 1. Topic: Jesus appearing fo Saul. Place: In and near Damascus, caul persecute* the disciples; receives a commission from the high priest; goes to Damascus to arrest the Christians; when near Damascus i* struck down to the earth by supernatural power; hears a voice from heaven; is assisted to Damascus; is blind three days, during which time be fasted; is visited by Ananias; scale* fall from his eye*; he receive* the Holy Spirit and 1* baptized; preaches immediately. _ II. Topic: Peter working miracles. * fcl P?t?p imw Placet: L.vaaa, jopjw, ouuuu. ? v? _? down to Lydda; heal* Eneas of the pal?y; many turned to the Lord. Dorcas, a woman highly respected, was tick at Joppa: they sent for Peter, but before he arrived Dorcas died; many widow? were weening; Peter put them all forth, kneeled aown and prayed, commanded her to arise, and presented her alive. III. Topic: Christ the Saviour of all men. Placet: Joppa. Caesarea. Peter it called to go to Caesarea to the home of C'orneliut a Gentile, where a company of friendt had gathered; Peter preaches to them; tellt them that God it no respecter of persons, but will accept the one who fears Uim; preaches Jesus to them: upeakt of the death and resuVection of Christ; tells them that whotever believeth in Hit name shall receive remission of tin*; while Peter spake the Spirit fell on all that heard these words. IV. Topic: Peter's viaion. Place: Jerusalem. Peter goes to Jerusalem; it accused of eating with men uncircumcited; he rehearses the circumstances of hit going to Caesarea; tellt of hit vision; a great sheet was let dowir before him on which were all manner of beasts, creep ing thing* and fowl*; be was to * to jciji and eat; he objected; this was done three timet, and all were taken up to heaven; three men immediately called for him; the Spirit bade him go with them; be went and God poured oat Hit Spirit on the Gentiles a* a result. V* To: >ic: The enlargement of the church. * Placet: Phcnice. Cyprus. Antiocb. Cvreue. Tarsus. Jerusalem. The persecution that came scattered the disciples and they went at far at Phenice, Cyprus and Antioch, preaching the word; many believed; Barnabas was sent to Antioch; Barnabas needed assistance and went to Tarsus seeking Saul; Saul returned with him and during a whole year they taucht much people in Antioch; Agabus predicts a drouth in Judea^ Barnabas and Saul tent to Jerusalem with a relief fund. VI. Topic: Peter's deliverance. Place: Jerusalem. Great persecution in Jerusalem; Herod kills James and arresta Peter: prayer ia made for him by the churcn without ceasing; the night before he is to be brought forth to his death the angel of the Lord delivers him; Peter goes to the bouse of Mary and tells of his deliverance: he conceals himself. VII. Topic: Early experiences of the first missionaries. Places: Antioch. Seleucia. Salamis. Paphos. Barnabas and Saul were chosen to go as missionaries; they went to Seleucia and Cyprus; pi cached the gospel in Salamis; at Paphos the Holy Spirit came upon Saul and he denounced Elymas the lalse prophet severely; Elvma* was struck blind. VIIJ. lopic: The preaching of the missionaries and its effects. Places: Antioch in Pisidia. Iconium. The apostles journey to Antioch in Pisidia; Paul preaches in the synagogue; many follow Paul and Barnabas: on the next Sabbath day nearly the whole city come together to hear wprn H1W with envy* the apostle* turned to the Gentilei; the Gentiles were glad; persecution egainst the apostles was great; they came to ico* nium. IX. Topic: Christian fortitude. Places: Lystra. Derbe. Iconium. Antioch. The missionaries compelled to dee for their lives; went to Lystra; Paul healed a cripple; the people thought Paul and Barnaoai were gods; Jews stoned Paul and. dragged him out of the city, supposing1 him to ke dead; he departed with Barnabas to Derbe, after which they returned to Lystra. X. Topic: The Mosaic law. Places: Antioch. Jerusalem. After returning from their first missionary journey Paul and Barnabas abode in Antioch a long time. There wu great contention over the question of circumcision. After much discussion it was decided that the Gentiles need not be circumcised according to the law of Modes. The Gentiles were asked (T) to abstain from meats offered to idols. (2) from blood, (3) from things strangled, (4) from fornication. Formalism m ax insistent in the church to-day a* ever. Many still insist on meat*, drink*, or other matter* equally unimportant. O that the leaden of the church might be sufficiently (spiritual to resist its encroachments and that the people might have enough humility to follow their admonitions. XI. Topic: Incident* in Paul's second missionary journey. Places: Asia Minor, Philippi. Paul and Barnabas separate; Paul takes Silas and went north tnrough Asia Minor; they visit Phrvgia and come to Troas; are joined by Timothy and Luke: in a vision Paul is told to go to Macedonia: they reach Philippi, and on the Sabbath day go to the place of prayer and speak to the women who are there; Lydia is converted. XII. Topic: Purity of life. Place: Paul wrote from Corinth. Christians pav their debt* except the debt of love which is a perpetual obligation. The one who loves bis neighbor as himself will not tre*pa?s in any way. "Temperance is moderation-' in the use of things lawful and total abstinence from things harmful. In some things "one man's meat mnv be another man's poison." but he who fores his neighbor as him?elf will abstain even from his "meat" if he sees that his partaking u-ill lead his neighbor to indulge to his* injury. Rom. 14: 21; 1 Cor. S: 13. ti.? j ? - ? j.h. r*,,,r (.liiuijiii- t<|Hijieu win iea<l rvery Christian to do all he ran to reB'ove 'emptation from his brother's way. President's Flic Established. The President'* flag has been arbitrarily rstaMished by the Xavv Department. ?on>.ress ha* never legislated on it. While the President's flag is a 100-year*' old in(fitution, the first regulations prescribing t were issued by (iideon Welles, Secretary if the Xavy. April 18, 1S67. With the consent c.i the President the design is now a pure white eagle, it* feathers heavily outlined with black, the constellation | in white, with the rays in heavv stitching | of yellow, ou a blue ground. Ihis Hap n j of hunting, fourteen bv^ ten^ and a half j lift, lor outdoor use. ami ni nravy j.int-.a rilk. poNI thread and embroidery for mi?.or decoration. | lOOO-Tear-Old Gold Mine. Governor Martini reports to the Italian i "iovemnient the discovery near Asmara, n Eritrea, of a cold mine which evidently j va* worked l>v tne native* over a thousand I ,ear* a^o. Tnere are "even long (fallens ind other working*, together with too!.'. i*te. All of these will be of the greate?l ntereat to antiquarian*. A- there appear* j be plenty of gold left, the Governor projo sea to resume the longKUi'pcnded work. Blercle Mannfactnrlng In<ln?trr. Tin. fVnmn Bureau has issued a report I ontaininj; ?tati*tics reu.irdint; tho mr.nuacture of bicycle* in the I'nitrd States, vhich ?hoW4 that in 19<?0 there were 3!2 NtabSishments. with a capital of M9.1K?.aa com pared with twenty-oeven e-t.ibifhtneiitf. with a capital of $2.U5S.(?72 in j 890. The value of product* for 1900 was 01.1U5JXB. ... I 1 ' GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN 'PREGNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE | WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. i i fofm: A Colloquy?Extraction Ibe Sw?t? ?JE very CfarUtlan Id Doty Woon.l to Be an Optimist of Discriminating, Sober Type. i Thun spake my head: i I know I am?I know not whence I came; I I know I was?or else I could not b*; < . I know ?ome Creature did my i&*hion t frame? Who? What? How??Ay, there lie# the mystery. ' 1 know that I mar pam away forse day; . But whether there be life beyond the I tomb, I I do not know, and therefore cannot wv? 1 only walk where reuon lights the gloom. So spake my head; I thought me wendroo* wise. I thought me wondrous wi*e,and thought so till My poor heart did in rank rebellion rise. And tenderly subdued my stubborn will. Thus spake my heart: : I know I am?I know from whenoe I came; I know I was?or else I eoald not be; I know ?ome bcinjt did ray fashion frame? i Who? Faith, siys God, and there's do mysteryi I know that I muit pau away some day; Death's sure}y an appointment from above. And opos the ga.e that leads the starlit way To everlasting light and life and lore. So ?pake my heart; I thought me wondroits wise. I thought me wondrous wise, and thought so till i Mr head did free itself from reason's guise, l ? >1? <.:>L tk.t Ana eager |ru|^u iuc mim >u<i vmuv me (till. i -Silas Xavier Floyd, in the Xew Vork Independent. Lift Is Bitter gwett. Life it bitter-sweet. It if neither all I hitter nor all sweet. It in blend of many flavors, an interweaving of many strands. ! It requires the cultivated taste to detect ) the fine flavor*, it takes the educated ey? i to discern the lovelier tints. Christianity f develops this jense of the beautiful, this : instinct for what is admirable and noble, j Plato, that high-minded Greek, bad of old ! some inkling of this, as expressed in hi* famous formula ot tne true, me uriuuI ful and the good." but it waa left to Chrie; tianity clearly and fully to reveal the via* ! dom and wealth of a life devoted to | "whatsoever thin?* are true, boneat, juat, pure, lovely and of good report." It ia perfectly true that there ia the | bitter in life, and a great deal of it, too. , Thia bitter element in exiatence ia the atrrak of sin which haa passed into the ' maaa of human nature. Sin ia gall and | wormwood, wherever it comet. She can j never be sweetened. It ia a aubacid. it in i alwaya vinegariah. alwaya an acidulater. I Yet it ia not well to enlarge too much j either in thought or speech on the bitter ' and tart e'*tr.enta of life, but to dwell more . | upon the aweetening and unctifyinf ; forces that are at work upon it. The i tweett are there if we can only extract ! them, there ia honey in the comb if we ! can only pet hold of the comb, it ia the province of the Goapel to tell ua how to , get the sweet* out. that ia by putting the sweeta in. We obtain from the world 1 largely what we bring to it. If our heart* j are full of the ennobling grace of God we : find that in a spiritual senae even-thing j we touch turna to gold. A positive apiritj ual force ia needed to replece the bitter el* etnenta that now are ao plentiful in human I or.wi-h and societv. Savn Profeaaor Drum* mond in hi* booklet,' "The Greatest j Thing in the World," "Souls are mad* | sweet not by taking the acid fluid* oat, : but by putting romething in?a great lore, a new Spirit, the Spirit of Chriit." Thie ha* been the great work of Chrotianity in the world, to sweeten soul*, and *o to j sweeten ?ociety. Tertullian records that anciently, among the heathen, professors of Christianity were called not "Christians," j but "Chrwtiani." from "Chresto," a word ' signifying aweetness and beuigdUr of die* ! position. Certainly a Christian should a)* ' war* be easily identified a* such by bis ' or ber kindlinens of disposition and lora1 blencss of character?by thorough good na ture, in the deeper and most spiritual sense. i There is munic latent in the social system that upreads out around us, only in or! der to bnng that music out we must un* | derstand the art aud practice of spiritual , harmonization. George W. Cable tells of a young man who went to a musician and j said: 'Tell me how to play the sonata of Beethoven in that true spirit." "What do ; you play now?" a?ked the musician. I "Nothing,'' mi the reply. "My friend," ' said the master artist, "how shall I tell ! you how to play Beethoven when it i* not your habit to play anything at all T To I know bow to play Beethoven vou must - * " ? fcrst know now 10 pia*. m viuv< ; preciate and to develop the tool of hari mony that lie* back of the whir and whirl of this rushing modern life, we muit tint i know how to play with a deft mortal ! touch and a spiritual sympathy which amounts to a genius for impression and ex* | pression. Ever)- Christian is in duty bound to be an optimist of a discrminating, sober type, searching out the line* of life and of light j wherever they mav be found criss-crossing in the network of earthly existence. Galileo, if we may believe a picture in the . Cologne Mu?eum, worked out his a?tro* i Domical problems by the aid of a single I ray of light that was shining into bis cell. J Bunyan, !angui*hiuz for twelve years in 1 prison, during which time he was cut off from the retire labors of the Gospel min| istry. meanwhile sang his song of the Pilgrim'* Projrre** which ha* *ince been echo* i ing the world over. If we cannot work for j God in the light we can work in the dark. i and like Paul in the dungeon at Ph;!ippt sing amid th?* shadows.?The Rev. Charle* : Dwizht. in Sew York Observer A Strong and Dimple Faith. Mr. Moody once Mid: "When I was 4 ffl I boy, in the *pnng of the year, when the H , snow had melted away on the New Eng? H land hill* where I lived. I u?ed to take RE i certain kind of gift** and hold it up to tbe 9 , warm ray* of the *un. These would strike ' on it. and I would *et the wood* on fire. "Faith i* the gla** that bring* the fire of | God out of heaven. It wa? faith that drew i the fire down on Carmel and burned up I Elijah'* offering. We have the same Goa BB today and the ?ame faith. Some people i *eem to think that faith i* getting old, and U9 I that the Bible la wearing out. But the |fl I Lord will revive Hi* work now. and we . *ha!l Lc abie to set the world on tire if MB each believer ha* a strong and simple MS I The Drawing Power. I Christ it not only the drawing power to H9 draw so*i!s up into heaver, but it held up in the pu'pit will draw men into the BB church here on e/trth. The church that ia BK tilled be?au?e ci the preach*d word will he Mtill filled when other? are empty. ? The Bar Rev. L. M Zimmerman. Baltimore, Md. jftH Competitive System. IgSj The eompttitive *y?tem i* against good MM government, against Christianity, against Hjf morality and well-being. against the church of .Teiiu* Christ. The church Bfflj ought to !ea<i the < ru*ade against it.?The BMH Rev. A. C Br.ne, San Fr*nci*co, Cat. Largest Crab on Iteeord. The gigantic .Iaj>ane?c crab, which fh? flR| American M-'seum of Natural Hi?tory al BbB New York City ha* ju*t acquired, i* the largest specimen of the crab family known ^Hj It i* a type of the spider crab found it Hfi Japant*e water*, and measure* twelve feet Its body is as large a* a dinner plate. Chicago'* Population Claim. 99H Tlic C;tv I>:rectorv of Chicago for 1WE iHa ******* ' " a? O 1 Ifi (ktfi A r>r>r\Tti in? ? ??'? " a |"?|'uhu.V?I v* * * "' 'vv' - v"-v" **" ? to the national cen?u? of )W0 the numhei HMj w.-u only l.tKw.575, but Chicagiuna Ix'licrf DH th<* cen?us taker* nii*?od ten or twent J I