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MAIWA'S -3> , ...: O ALLAN OUATERMAIN'SJ By H. RIDE] Author of "57ie," "Kin^ CHAPTER III. 5 Continued. Having taken the fence, they thought that they might as well take the huts aJso, so they just ran right over them., One hive-shaped hut was turned -straight over upon its top, and when I arrived on the scene the people who .had been sleeping mere were imnuuug about inside like bees disturbed at night, while two more were crushed flat, and a third had all its side torn out. Oddly enough, however, nobody was hurt, though several people had a narrow escape of being trodden to death. On arrival I found the old headman Jn a state painfully like that favored by Greek art, dancing about in front of Jiis ruined abodes as vigorously as though he had just been stung by a scorpion. I asked him what ailed him, and he burst into a flood of abuse. He called me a wizard, a sham, a fraud, a bringer of bad luck. I had promised to kill the elephants, ' and I had so arranged things that the elephants had nearly killed him, etc. This, still smarting, or rather aching, as I was from that most terrific bump, was too much for my feelings, so I just made a rush at my friend and, getting liim by the ear, I banged his head against the doorway cf his own hut, which was all there was left of it. "You wicked old scoundrel!" I said. "You dare to complain about your own trifling inconveniences, when you gave me a rotten beam to sit on, and thereby delivered me to the fury of the ele-' phant" (Bump. bump, bump!), "when | your own wife" (Bump!) "has just been dragged out of her hut" (Bump!) "like a snail from its sheil and thrown by the earth-shaker into a tree!" (Bump, hn mn'l "Mercy, my father, mercy!'' gasped the old fellow. "Truly I have done amiss?my heart tells 1110 so!" "I should hope it did, you old villain!" (Bump!) "Mercy, great white man! 1 thought the log was sound. Rut what says the unequaled chief?is the old woman, my wife, indeed dead? "Ah, if she is dead, all may yet prove 4o have be?n for the very best!" .And he clasped his hands and looked up piously to heaven, in which the moon was once more shining brightly. I let go his ear and burst out laughing, the whole scene and his devout aspirations for the decease of the partner of his joys?or, rather, woes?were so intensely ridiculous. "No, you old iniquity." I answered. "I left her in the top of a thorn tree, screaming like a thousand blue jays. The elephant put her there." "Alas! alas!" he said. "Surely the back of the ox is shaped to the burden. Doubtless, my father, she will come <lown when she is tired." And without troubling himself fur ther about the matter be began to blow at tbe smoldering embers of tbe tire. And, as a matter of fact, she <lid appear a few minutes later, considerably scratched and startled, but none tbe worse. After that I made my way to my little cainp, which, fortunately, the elephants had not walked over, and, wrapping myself up in a blanket, was soon fast asleep. " CHAPTER IV. TIIE LAST ROUND. On the morrow I woke up full of painful recollections, and not without a certain feeling of gratitude to the Powers above that I was there to wake up. Yesterday had been a tempestuous day indeed. What between buffalo, rhinoceros and elephant it had been Tory tempestuous. Having realized this fact, I next bethought me of those magnificent tusks, and instantly, early as it was, broke the teuth commandment. I coveted my neighbor's tusks, if an elephant could be said to bo my neighbor de jure, as certainly, so recently as the previous night, be had been de facto?a much closer neighbor than I cared for indeed. Now, when you covet your neighbor's goods, the best thing, if not the most moral thing, to do is to enter his house as a strong man anneu and take tlieni. I was not a strong man, but having recovered my eight-bore. I was armed, and so was the other strong man, the elephant with the tusks. Consequently I prepared for a struggle to the death. In other words, I summoned my raitniui retainers ana toki tnom iuat I was now going to follow those elephants over tiie edge of tlio world if necessary. They showed a certain bashfulness about the business, but they did not gainsay xne, because they dared not. Ever since I had prepared with all due solemnity to execute the rebellious Gobo, they had conceived a great respect for uie. So I went up to bid adieu to the old headman, whom I found alternately contemplating the ruins of his kraal aud, with the able assistance of his last wife, thrashing the jealous lady who had slept in the mealie hut, because she was, as he declared, the author of all his sorrows. Leaving them to work a way through their domestic differences, I levied a supply of vegetable food from the kraal in consideration of services rendered, and left them with my blessing. I do not know how they settled matters, because I have not seen them since. Then I started on the spoor of the three buiis. For u couple of miles or so below the kraal, as far. indeed, as the belt of swamp that bordered the river, the ground was at this spot rather stony, and clothed with scattered bushes. Rain h.*:d fallen toward the daybreak, and this fact, together with the nature *?/Cf'*' : ^ REVENGE R <g? 3REATEST ADVENTURE. R HAGGARD. I Solomon's Mines,"1 Etc. < of the soil, made spooring a very difficult business. The wounded bull had indeed bled freely, but the rain had washed the blood off the leaves and grass, and the ground being so rough and hard, had not taken the footmarks so clearly a6 was convenient. ! However, we got along, though slowly. partly by the spoor, and partly by carefully lifting leaves and blades of grass, and finding blood underneath them, for the blood gushing from a wounded animal often falls upon their inner surfaces, and then, of course, unless the rain is very heavy, it is not washed away. It took us something over an hour and a half to reach the edge of the marsh, but once there our task became much easier, for the soft soil showed plentiful evidences of the great brutes' passage. Threading our way through the swampy land. Ave came at last to a ford of the rivfi*, and here we could see where the poor wounded animal had lain down in tbe mud and water in the hope of easing himself of his pain, and could see also how his two faithful companions had assisted him to J1SF> ilgHIU. . We crossccl the ford, and took tip the spcor oil the farther side, and followed it into the marsh-like land beyond. No rain-had fallen on this side of the river, and the blood marks were consequently much more frequent. All that day we followed the three hulls-, now across open plains, and now through patches of bush. They seemed to have traveled on almost without stopping, and I noticed that as they went the wounded bull got up his strength 'a little. This I ooukl see from his spoor, : which had become firmer, and also from the fact that the other two had given up supporting him. J At last evening closed in, and bav-, ing traveled some eighteen miles we J camped, thoroughly tired out. Before dawn the following df,y we were up, and the first break of light found us once more 011 the spoor. About half-nast 5 o'clock we reached the piace where the elephants had feci and slept. The two unwounded bulls had taken their fill, as the condition of the neighboring bushes showed, but the wounded one had eaten nothing. He had spent the night leaning against a good-sized tree, which his weight had pushed out of the perpen-, dicular. They had not long left this place, and could not be very far ahead, especially as the wounded bull was now again so stiff after his night's rest that for the first few miles the other two had been obliged to support him. But elephants go very quick, even when they seem to be traveling slowly, for shrub and creepers that almost stop a man's progress are no hindrance to them. The three had now turned to the left, and were traveling back again in a semi-circular line toward the moun; tains, probably with the idea of working around to their old feeding-grounds 011 the farther side of the river. *1-t *4- fol jLueve "was hoiliiii^ iui ik uui. iu jvilow tlit?ir lead, and accordingly wo followed with industry. Through all that lone hot day did we tramp, passing quantities of every sort of game, and even coming across tbe spoor of other elephants. 1 But, in spite of my men's entreaties, I would not turn aside after these. I would have those mighty tusks or none. By evening we were quite close to our game, probably within a quarter of a mile, but the bush was dense, so once more we had to camp, thoroughly disgusted with our luck. That night, just after the mooa got up, while I was sitting smoking my pipe with my back against a tree, I heard an elephant trumpet, as though .something had startled it, not three hundred yards away. T huf mr fiirinftitv overcame my weariness, so, without saying a word to any of my men, all of whom were asleep, I took my eightbore and a few spare cartridges and steered toward the sound. The game path which we had been following all day ran straight on in the direction from which the elephant had trumpeted. It was narrow, but well trodden, and the light struck down upon it in a straight white Hne. . I crept along it cautiously for some two hundred yards, when it suddenly opened into a most beautiful glade a hundred yards or more in width, wherein tall crass ?rrew and tiat-tODped trees stood singly. With the caution born of long experience I watched for a few moments before I entered the glnde, and then 1 saw why the elephant had trumpeted. There in the middle of the glade stood a great maned lion. He stood quite still, making a soft, purring noise, and waving his tail tc and fro. Fresently the grass about forty yards on the higher side of him gave a "wide ripple, and a lioness sprang out of it like a flash, nud bounded noiselessly up to the lion. Reaching liim, the great cat halted suddenly, and rubbed her head against his shoulder. Then they both began to purr loudly, so loudly that I believe that one might in the stillness have heard them two hundred yards or more away. After awhile, while I was still hesitating what to do, either they got a whiff of my wind, or they wearied of standing still, and determined to start in search of game. At any rate, as though moved by a common impulse, they suddenly bounded away, leap by leap, and vanished in the depths of the forest to the left. I waited for a little while longer to see if there were any more yellow skin? about, and seeing none, camc to the conclusion that the lions must have frightened the elephants away, and that I had had my stroll for nothing. But just as I was turning back I thought I heard a bough break upon the farther side of the glade, and, rash, as the proceeding was, I followed the sound. I crossed the glade as silently as my own shadow. On its father side the path went on. Albeit with many fears, I went onv too. The jungle growth was so thick here that it almost met overhead, leaving so small a passage for the light that I could scarcely see to grcp my way along. Presently, however, it widened, and then opened into a second glade slightly smaller than the first, and there, on the father side of it, about eighty yards from me, stood the three enormous elephants. They stood thus: Immediately opposite and facing me was the wounded one-tusked bull. He was leaning his bulk against a dead thorn tree, the only one in the place, and looked very sick indeed. Vonr him stnncl tho second bull, as thougli keeping a watch over him. The third elephant "was a good deal nearer to me, and broadside on. While I was still staring at them this elephant suddenly walked off and vanished down a path in the bush to the right. There were now two things to be doi*?either I could go back to the camp, and advance upon the elephants at dawn, or I could attack them at once. The first was evidently by fax- the wiser and safer course. To go for one elephant by moonlight and single-handed is a sufficiently rash proceeding; to tackle three was little short of lunacy. But, on the other hand, I knew that they would be on the march again befr\fn /lovllfrllt fltl/1 IllPV? mifflll" POUIO another (lay of weary trudging before I could catch them up, or they might escape me altogether. "No," I thought to myself, "faint heart never won fair tusk. I'll risk it, and Lave a slap at them. But how?" I could not advance across the opeD, for they would see me; clearly the only thing to do was to creep round in the shadow of the bush and try to come upon them so. Ro I started. Seven or eight minutes of careful stalking brought me to the mouth of the path down which the third elepbnnt had -walked. The> other two were now about fifty yards from me, and the nature of the wall of bush was such that I could not see how to get nearer to them without being discovered. I hesitated, and peeped down the path which the elephant had followed. About five yards iu it took a turn round a bush. I thought that I would just bare a look behind it, nnd advanced, expecting that I should be able to catch a sight of the elephant's tail. As it happened, however, I met his trunk coming round the corner. It is very disconcerting to see an elephant's trunk when you expect to see his tail, and for a moment I stood paralyzed almost under the vast brute's head, for he was not five yards from me. He, too, halted, having either seen or winded me, probably the latter, and then threw up his trunk and trumpeted, preparatory to a charge. I was in for it now, for I could not escape either to the right or left on account of the bush, and I did not dare turn my back. So I did the only thing that I could do, raised the rifle and fired at the black mass of his cbcst. it was too uarii ior me to pick <i shot; I could ouly brown it, as it were. The shot rang- out like tbunder on the quiet air, and tbe elephant answered it with a scream, and then dropped his trunk, and stood for a second or two as still as though he had been cut in stone. I confess that I lost my head?I ought to have fired my second barrel, but I did not. Instead of doing so I rapidly opened my rifle, pulled out the old cartridge from the rgiht barrel and replaced it. But before I could snap the breach to, the bull was at me. I saw his great trunk fly up like a brown beam, and I waited no longer. Turning, I fled for dear life, and after me thundered the elephant. Right, into the open glade I ran. and then, thank Heaven, just as he was coming up with me the bullet took effect on him. (To be continued.) A PhODOjrrftph Treasuro House. Several months ago the Imperial Academy of Sciences decided to form a collection of phonograph records which would preserve thr? exact sounds of languages and dialects for future generations. Austria-Hungary, with its manifold diversities of nationalties and races, affords a very favorable field for such investigation, and the phonograph archives are already assuming considerable form. From North Tyrol and Vorarlberg fifty-seven specimens of German dialects have been obtained, and another forty-seven from Carinthia. The academy has also carried its quest far abroad. From New, Guinea have been sent thirty-two phonographs recording the language and music of the natives, with especially interesting war songs and the accompanying drum music. From India come valuable records of old Sancrit songs. An expedition which was sent out to Australia is now on its way back, and another party is about to start for Greenland. Many of these records have ueen xaseu on me iluisuu ynuuufciuimi, from wliicli they are '.rauslerred, by an apparatus made in tho academy, to a special archive - phonograph. ? Vienna Letter to Tall Mall Gazette. Writeg Novel# For a Novel Pnrpose. Mary A. Fisher, of New l'ork, will write a novel and devote the proceeds oi' the sale to the support of a home, nonsectariaD, and to care for those "who have labored in literature, art, education, or any of the various professions." Nevr Kailroads For tlie Finn*. The Finnish Senate has ordered a loan to be raised to the amount of ?2,000,000, which is to be spent in the varipus railway projects. <?3 HIWGS I J?,WORTH KNOWING^ It is noted that English ideals of comfort are gradually altering the style of German domestic architecture. A Chinese Emperor's name is too sacred to be used by the general public, and no one is permitted either to read or write it. The Russian State sceptre is of solid gold, is three feet long, and contains among its ornaments 2C0 rubies and fifteen emeralds. Representing some thirty schools, nearly 4000 public school volunteers were engaged the other day at Aldershot, England, in field operations. The Japanese imperial library, at Tokio, has on its shelves something like 2000 written and printed mathematical works, extending as far back as 1595. Sycamore is an exceedingly durable wood, and a statue composed of it, now in an Eastern museum,' is said to be quite sound, although nearly 6000 years old. vv " ' According to La Tribuna di Roma, one of the gaiters worn by Garibaldi when he was wounded in the Battle of Aspromonte, August 28, 1S62, has been presented to the Mayor of Rome. The authorities of Clacton, a leading British seaside resort, grant licenses for donkey ridinc; only on the stipulation that the owners of the donkeys don't beat the animals or uso any bad language. One hundred pound? was given in London for the first edition of Daniel Defoe's "The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe," 1819, together with "The Farther Adventures," issued in the same year. Without doubt. China is the original home of silk, and from the twenty-third century B. C., and even earlier, the care of the silk worm, the spinning and the weaving of its produce have been the special province of the Chinese women. 'In some parts of West Africa the girls have long engagements. On the day of their birth they are betrothed to a baby boy a trifle older than themselves, and at the age of twenty they are married. The girls know of no other way of getting a husband, and so they are quite happy and satisfied. As wives they are patterns of obedience, and the marriages usually turn out a success. Women sailors are employed in Denmark, Norway and Finland, and are often found to be excellent mariners. In Denmark several women ar9 employed as State officials at sea, and particularly in the pilot service. They go out to meet the incoming j ships; they climb nimbly \out of their J boats; they show their official di| ploma and they steer the newcomer safely into the harbor. It is the same in Finland. HOPE FOIi BIG EATERS. ' Snmo Famous Gl(l Men Always In dulgcd in Good Square Meals. The man with a good appetite has a hard time nowadays. All the faddists are shouting that he eats too much. If he doesn't jump at the j chance of fasting forty days he is J snubbed. And if he doesn't joyously cut out two of his quondam three meals a day he is scorned. Eut once in a long while he does get a little comfort. A writer in Truth gave him hope recently by telling about famous old men who had been hearty eaters. There was 'Victor Hugo, who, in the very stronghold of French chefs, kept an Irish cook who herself atl tended her master at table. She had j her reward in the heartiness with i which he ate of her roast and boiled i viands?such as a leg of mutton, rib of beef, ham, gammon of Wiltshire bacon and greens, a dish one hardly ovor tastes in France. She aiul Mine. Drouet, the tactful friend and secretary of Victor Hugo through the greater yart of his literary career, were agreed in satisfying to the full his fondness for early spring vegetables and new potatoes. As he insisted on their being passed around the table, which was spread for many disciples, admirers, hangi ers-on, they must have cost him a ! small fortune. I Asparagus, which cost twenty-five j ccnts and more a stalk, was often served, Hugo always taking a gener; ous helping and then calling for more. He arranged ihe stalks circularly on his plate, with the points in! ward like the spokes of a wheel, and | placed the sauce in the middle in a round space left vacant for it. This arrangement was always symmetrical. He disliked to see a broken ^ i-ii?i "Hio Q!t+intr and ate, ' point, laiKeu tvmib v.u.v.?.OP one might have thought, enough for two or three laborers. All the sons of Louis Philippe were bonnes fourchettes, and, without being tipplers, were fond of the highclass French vintages. Two of them ?Nemours and Joinville?exceeded the fourscore limit of age. Aumale attained his seventy-sixth year. The Due de Montpensier 3ived only to the age of sixty-six, but his early vleath has been attributed to his habit of sharing the chocolate made for the Duchess. She required half a kilo of chocolate for each person at the petit dejeuner, with toast allowed to cool in a toast rack, which she buttered thickly herself. The Princess Clementine, now the only surviving child of Louis Philippe, has all her life been a hearty, eater, without, however, Bourbon excess. She is now eighty-six. ,.. ..... A wonderful pearl bearing the exact likeness of the late Queen VicI toria of England was found in a I fresh waier mussel in the Mississippi | j River pear DaveDport, la. ; J "THE SUNDAY SCHOOL ' INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUGUST 26 Subject: The Rich Foung Ruler, Mark x., 17-31?Golden Text, Matt, xvi., 2-1 ? Topic: Great Facts Connected With Salvation. I. Jesus and the ruler (vs. 17?2). 17. "Was gone forth." From the house where He had blessed the children (v9. 13-16). He now starts again on His journey to Jerusalem. 'Came one running." From this and parallel accounts we learn that this tnan was, (1) young, (2) rich, (3) a ruler?probably of a synagogue and possibly a member of the Sanhedrin, (4) very moral, (5) humble?he fell jit Jesus' feet, (6) in earnest?he came running, (7) anxious to learn :?he came as an inquirer; but he was also (1) seif-righteous, (2) ignorant concerning spiritual truth, (3) unwilling to give up his earthly possessions and worldly prospects, (4) unwilling to trust all to Christ. "Kneeled." In this he was showing Jesus great respect and was recognizing Him as a spiritual authority above the priest or rabbi. "Master." Or teacher. "What shall I do," etc. His question shows that he believes in a future state; he was not a Sadducee. ' Eternal life." The divino life implanted in the soul by the I-Ioly Spirit. It begins in this life but will endure forever. 18. "Why callest thou Me good?" Christ did not say that He was not good, or was not God. If the young man called Christ "good," the o.uestion Jesus ' asked would lead directly to His divinity. 19.. '.'The commandments." According to Matthew Jesus said, "If thou wile enter' into life, keep the .commandments." The young man asked Jesus which special or great commandment He referred to. Jesus replied by enumerating the commandments in this verse. He vre- r" ferred only to the second tablo of the law, which relates to the duties of man to man. 20. "Have I observed." He was smcuy moral mm iiau uveu a guuu i life outwardly. He tben asked (Matt. 19:20) what he lacked yet. He was conscious of a lack in his j spiritual life, and this question was a I serious inquiry as to its cause. 21. "Jesus?loved him." The Saviour was drawn- toward him. , He saw in the young men great possibilities. "Sell ? give." Jesus struck right at the centre of the young man's difficulty. He was ready to give all to God but his property; this was the "one thing" over which he was about to stumble and fall. 22. "Went away grieved." His countenance fell and be went away sorrowful. He went away reluctantly, but he went. He wanted eternal life, but he wanted his possessions more. II. Jesus' statement concerning riches (vs. 23-27). 23. "Plow hardly." etc. That is', they shall enter with great difficulty. This is amply confirmed by experience. Rich men seldom become true Christians. * ' 24.. ' "Trust in riches." Hiere is the danger, the place where many a rich man will lose his soul. Riches cannot drive away anxiety. They cannot purchase contentment. They cannot buy friends. They cannot lure fclsep. They cannot buy appreciation. They cannot bribe death. I They cannot purchase eternal life. I O rt "Tho ovo nf o noorllp.'* Tt I I has been suggested that the needle's j eye was a small gate, leading into the city, intended only for foot passengers, and that the camel could oniy -squeeze through with the greatest difficulty, but "It is now generally thought that the calling this small gate the needle's eye is a modern . custom, and net in use in the time of Christ." 2C. '"Astonished." Like all Jews, they had been accustomed to regard worldly prosperity as a special mark of the favor of God. "Who then can be saved?" All men by nature share the same guilt and love of the world. 27. "With men it is impossible." According to the power and ability of men this i3 impossible, but God, by Kis po7/er, is able to so save a man that even the things that allured him most will lose their attraction to him. 1 III. Rewards of following Christ (vs. 2S-31). 28. "Have left all." Their boats and nets and psh and father were everything to them. 29. "That hath left house," etc. In the j days of Jesus those who followed I Him were obliged, generally, to forI coi-a imnco nnrl hnmp ami to attend | Him. In our time it is not often required that we should literally leave them, but it is always required that we lcve them less than we do Him. 30. "An hundredfold." There are few greater promises than this. This is symbolical, and expresses an immeasurable ad vantaga "Houses," etc. Not literally a hundred houses, etc., but he obtains a hundredfold more of joy and satisfaction than he loses. "What was a barren rock before becomes a gold mjne." "With persecutions." That is, he must expect persecutions in this world. "Eternal life." Which will infinitely more than make up for all the Christian s trials' here. Here are ages of enjoyment that no arithmetic can compute; oceans of pleasure, whose majestic billows rise from the depths of infinitude, and break on no shore. 31. "First shall be last." The lesson intended to be taught here is that those who occupy important positions and who appear to be first in labor and wisdom here may place to others who have been of less in the next world be forced to give renown here. God does not measure men as we do. i Will Take SLx Private Roads. Tho Tnnanp.se Government, it was announced, has fixed the dates on which it proposes to acquire the six private railroads authorized by both houses of the Diet last March. The ] Hokkaido Tanko Tetsudo and the ! Kobu Tetsudo will be taken on Octo- ! ber 1, 1906; the Nippon Tetsudo and 1 the Ganyetsu Tetsudo on November < 1, 1906, and the Nishinari Tetsudo 1 and the Sanyo Tetsudo on December ' 1, 1906. I < I Election in Leper Colony. Even leprosy cannot fores Filipinos to abandon politics. The Bureau of Insular Affairs, at Washington, D. C., has received reports of an election recently held on the island of Culion by . the leper colony for the choice of a j presidente and "consejales," or coun- . cilmen. The lepers also passed reso- * lutions thanking the Philippine Gov- ^ ernment for the excellent quarters it Las provided for them. Exports From France. Exports from France to the United | States for the year ended June 30 f reached $107,240,547, or seventeen j. per cent, over the previous year. : THE GREAT DESTROYER ( some startling facts about the vice of intemperance. tnlcmpernnce Destroys the Health of the Drinker, Iluins the Home j and Often Puts the Family Into a Dreadful Poverty. Intemperance not only destroys the * health, but inflicts ruin upon the in- . nocent and helpless, for it invades the family and social circle, and spreads woe all around; it cuts down youth in its vigor, manhood in its e strength, and ago in its weakness; it breaks the father's heart, bereaves a dear mother, extinguishes natural affection, erases love, blots out filial 11 attachment, blights a parent's hope, and brings down mourning age in "E sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength; sickness, not c health; death, not life. It makes wives, widows, children, orphans, and all at last beggars; it covers the land with idleness and poverty, disease and crime: it fills our jails; it P condemns law and spruns order; it crowds the penitentiaries, and fur- ti nishes the victim of the scaffold; it k countenances the liar, respects the d thief, and esteems the profane; it ci incites a father to kill his children, ci helps a husband to kill his wife, detests life, curses God, and despises a Heaven, then curses the world and ti laughs at the ruin it has inflicted s< upon the human race. , - if My reader, let me picture to you a a youth?a noble, generous youth K ?from whose heart flowed a living f< fount of pure and holy feeling, which V spread around and fertilized the soil tl of friendship. The eye of women a! brightened at his approach, and c< wealth and honor smiled to woo him ft to their circle. -lis days sped on and s< as a summer's brook sparkles on its e; gladsome way, so sped he on. He it wooed and won a girl of peerless charms, one who bestowed the har* w vest of her young heart's love upon n him. The car of time rolled on, and u clouds arose to dim the horizon of fi worldly happiness; the serpent of fi inebriation crept into the Garden of i ei ? - - ' * x. i'.. I i.1 JBJaen 01 ills ueari, cut; puic emu uuij | u feelings which the God of nature j is had implanted in his soul became j G polluted by the influence of the mis- j h called social cup; the tears and ag- | ir ony of his afflicted wife round no re- ni sponse within his bosom; the pure w and holy fount of love within his d; heart, that once gushed forth at the s< moanings of misery, sent forth no s< more its pure and benevolent offpr- b ings; its waters had become inter- w mingled with the poisoned ingred- fj ients of strong drink, and the rank tl weeds of intemperance choked the g fount from which the stream flowed. s< Thedarkspiritofpoverty had flapped w its wings over his home, and the a burning hand of disease tad dark- si ened the brightness of his eye. The | 01 friends who basked in the sunshine j g] of his prosperity fled when the win- j d, try winds of adversity blew harshly I around his home. j ti Pause, gentle reader! Go with me | T to yonder cemetery. We will stop j o; at this lowly burial place; you ask' p me who rests in this newly-made | n: grave? I answer: "The mouldering i remains of a drunkard." The days pi of whose boyhood were hallowed by ; al 1?? ? *3 AonioqfinnC* tllfi J K' Ill^U tf.HU IIUUic aopiiauuuo, i UJ hours of whose early manhood were oi unclouded l}y care; the setting orb ' pi of whose destiny was enshrouded in tt a mist of misery. ai Oh! liquor! How many happy n: homes hast thou made desolate! ri How many starved and naked little s? orphans hast thou cast upon the cold charities of an unfriendly world! How many graves hast thou filled ta with broken-hearted wives! See the j V\ father's pride and mother's joy, hur- j tl ried to an untimely grave, see the J p< flower of youth and beauty shedding j ti its fragrance and displaying its I al glory; but ere the morning dew had j w escaped on the breeze, it sickens, ! w withers, and dies, all poisoned by in- j w temperance, all doomed to an un- : oi timely and disgraceful death; look j di at tnese ana oeware. j j Ob! would to God there was one , n< universal temperance society, and all tt mankind were members of it. The pi glorious cause of Christ would be ' w advanced, and thousands of broken- | si hearted wives and bare-footed or- j el phans would sing praises to Heaven | m for the success of the temperance j li, cause. ui I say beware of this "one glass"! m more and I have done," for this once !' tr has led its thousands to ruin. A j p] kind word, an obliging act, even j tt though it be a trifling one, has a ! io power superior to the harp of David in in calming the billows of the soul.? j Ella McClure, in the Reveille Echo, : tj New Waterford, Ohio. le ai ' ei Chief Cause of Divorces. R cl It is nothing unusual, but on the g contrary quite common, to read of divorce complaints being filed in our courts?one day thirteen were reported?and with scarce an exception liquor has more or less to do j as the inciting cause. Here is one i of the more recent cases reported: ! ^ Emma F. Waldon in her petition for j divorce from Chas. F. Walden, al- ! tt leges that he is an habitual drunk- I S1 iv/1 A tul Vioro ic onnthov t?ino T. 1 T11 Fletcher files suit for divorce from j w M. R. Fletcher, alleging habitual b< drunkenness. It is almost the rule, tr without exception that liquor is the ' .H prime'cause of these sad, disgrace- ! ful divorce cases, and yet we con- j ti< tinue to permit the places to exist ! a where drunkennes is fostered. But I C'4 for the saloon there would be but of little or no drunkenness, and if the ck voters said no, there would be no bj saloons. AVho is to blame for them? (W ?Indiana News. ! ? Refused To Preach. When Rev. C. M. Sheldon, of To- a peka, arrived at the Portland Lewis sp ind Clark Exposition to keep an en- el jagement with the management, he tb found that the amusement features R 3f the fair "/ere open on Sunday, in tfaivng consented to speak on the gj inderstandin~ that such was not the cc lase, he refused to speak when he ijj :ound that he had been misled. He w ivoc h nn-ouor "h pa rrl in tu*n nf tho ? :ity churches. Man With Clear Brain. The simple idea that a man vrl.'i ? i clear brain is a better employe 0 han one with a muddled brain is ^ sarrying this question forward to iuccess. So that which is right is ,est- p S< Drinking Prohibited. 01 More than thirty-five years ago he Old Colony Railroad Corporation ?] ssued an order that no employe " vould be retained who drank during lusiness hours. Results justified this rder. * 4 *" ra^ucHTs_^^^^m6 i toui?r?^rSuR. ' "Keep Texts" to Learn. These "keep texts" are all in the Jiblo. Find them and learn them; nd so make them yours: "Keep tlv heart with all diligence, or out of it are the issues of life'." . "Keep thy tongue from evil, and V" hy lips froa speaking guile." > "Keep thee far frqm a false matter." ^ "He that keepeth his mouth keep; th his life." "Take heed to thyself and keep thy; oul diligently." "Little children, keep yourselves rom idols." i "My son, keep thy Father's com* aandments." ' | "My son, keep sound wisdom and iscretion.' ' . ' & Out Unknown Faults. Cleanse Thou me from secret faults.-* salms, xix., 12. To know ourselves iB a difficult isk. We are contented with a-slight nowledge of our hearts and of our, uties as creatures of God, and ia' insennenre we have only a sunerfi ial faith. Willful sins need no light, for they( re, unfortunately, too evident to the -ansgressor.. It is the list of unobjrved sins to which we must attend' ! we wish to be better to mankind1 nd more acceptable in the eyes of tim who will demand a reckoning )r every "thought, word.and deed."' /hen we have come to comprehend' le nature of disobedience and to relize our actual unworthiness on ac3unt of imperfections we can then >el what is meant by the removal of icret faults, by pardon and by soul ise, which otherwise are to us as leaningless words. _ The poet, the writer, or the man ^ ith some commercial scheme canot work out that which ha desires nless he permits his mind to be ally impressed, quietly and careilly with tHe subject under cpnsidration. He is bent alone with his loughts, books or figures. And so i it with matters of the ?oul, for od speaks to us primarily in our il earts, which are best when search- I lg thoughts of our "natural weak- | ess. Let us consider how plainly, I e see the faults of others. Do we ; iffer in nature from them? If we ;e defects in them of which they. ;em unconscious or heedless by. abit they also see faults in uu which'; ould surprise us to hear. The iijlts which we commit even loughtfully weaken and give disareeable color to our characters as ;en by our fellows. How, then, do e appear to God, who sees what nt> ian can see, and who knows the :irrings of pride, the vanity, covet-' usness, discontent, resentment and; avy which we nurture in our hearts ay after day? : ;"J It Is necessary fdr us to be disirbed about our spiritual condition.; o be at ease is to be unsafe. No' ae knows his hidden weakness. eter, not suspecting his heart, deied his Master. David continued, titljful to his God for ye&rs, and yet uwer and wealth weakened his loy t j iuj, a niuci nc^civiau uui c i.iuu~ le, but prosperity misled him. It is Qly by earnest examination and rayer that we can begin to learn of le abundance of our faults, which' e either entirely or almost entirely, nknown to us. Hence the best men ' re ever most humble, because they ;e somewhat of the breadth and * 2pth of their own sinful natures. Everybody knows that care of detils is essential in all'callings of life, ^hat possible reason tan we give, terefore, for lack of care in matters jrtaining to our spiritual perfecon? Do we care more for perishJle things than for God? Perhaps e have yielded to the force of habit hich tehds to self-deceit, for by it e forget things to be wrong which' ^ ice shocked us. We speak peace to ir souls when there is no peace, for. nany are the scourges of the sinsr, but mercy shall encompass him lat hopeth in God." The future > rize is worth a struggle. We die ith the grave only In body, but the )irit will live in happiness, or pain, :ernal. Without self-knowledge we ay persist for a tim?. O'it self-reance, however, will not be adequate Qto salvation. In truth, ther.e is uch danger that we shall be " "as ees of withering fruits * * * lucked up by the roots," even tough we die in outward communal with the church. Let us cry out ' i contrition, with the Psalmist, Wash me yet more from my iniquir and cleanse me from my sin!" and t. us be ever mindful that "Blessed e they whose iniquities are forgiva and whose sins are covered."? ev. William J. B. Daly, St. Malaly's Church, New York City, in the anday Herald. A . ; H t God Requires Tatience. \ We ought quietly to suffer whatter befalls us; to bear the defects ! others or our own; to confess lem to God in secret prayer, or with oans which cannot be uttered; but ever to speak a sharp or peevish ord; not to murmur or repine, but ; thoroughly willing that God should eat you in the manner that pleases im. If we suffer persecution and afflic- < on in a right manner, we attain; lareer measure of eonfonmitv to ferist by a due improvement of one these occasions than we could have > me merely by imitating His mercy. ( r abundance of good works.?Jehu 'esley. , ^ The Building of Character. The week-day side of our life has ^ great deal more to do with our ' iritual life, with the building of our laracter, with out growth in grace,1 an many of us think, writes Dr. J.! . Miller. Some people seem to aagine that there is no moral or.' jiritual quality whatever in life's immon task-work. On the other! md, no day can be made beautiful; hose secular side is not as full and )mplete as its religious siae. y h tncle Left Him 000,000. I J. R. Miller, a saloonkeeper at S ristol, Tenn.,'has fallen heir to $2/ H 00,000 by the will of his uncle in H /yomiug. Miller left to take charge H f the estate. Before leaving h< Bj lade his partner, W. O. Trenor, a H resent of his half interest in theif H xloon, worth $1000, and gave away H ther valuable property to hil H iends. Miller's uncle left Bristol H ighteen years ago for Wyoming witH Hj is ticket and $9. He becamo in? Bj crested with Senator Clark in th$ H Dpper mining business and became fl nmensely wealthy. B