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' A MAIWA'S ALLAN QUATERMAIN'S I ^ By H. RIDE! Aulhor of "She,1" "Kiti( CHAPTER V. 0 r?? Continued. My men, being directed thereto by (Maiwa, had most fortunately rolled up some big bowlders .which lay about, and with these we soon managed to block the passage through the overhanging ridge of rock in such fashion that the soldiers below could not possibly climb over it. jnaeea, so iar as 1 coum set; iuvy uiu not even try to do so; the heart was ?at of .hem, as the Zulus say. 4 Then, having rested a few moments, iwe took up the loads, including the tusks of ivctry that had cost us so dear, and in silence marched on for a couple of miles or so, till we reached a patch of dense bush. And here, being utterly exhausted. ;we camped for the night, taking the precaution, however, of setting a guard to watch against any attempt at surprise, ? ' CHAPTER VI. THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. Notwithstanding all that tte tad gone through, perhaps, indeed, on account of it?for I was thoroughly worn out? i I slept that night as soundly as poor Gobo, round whose crushed body the lyenas would now be prowling. Rising refreshed at dawn, we went ? Vnlrt'f, Irvool tt'lnVh vu uui way iv/waiu nuiu & uiuat, . we reached at nightfall. It is built on open ground after the Zulu fashion, a ring fence and with bee-hive huts. The cattle kraal is behind, and a lit41e to ihe left. Inieed, both from their habits and their talk, it was easy to see that these (Butiana belong to that section of the Banu people which since T'C-'haka's time has l een known as the Zulu race. (We did not see the chief Nala that, night. His daughter Maiwa went on to his i private huts as soon as we arrived, and .very shortly afterward one of his beadmen came to us, bringing a sheep and 6ome mealies and milk with him. The chief sent us greeting, he said, and would see us on the morrow. Meanwhile he was ordered to bring ms to a place of resting, where we and . our goods should be safe and undisturbed. Accordingly, Ire led the way to some >very good huts just outside Nala's private inclosure, and here we slept comfortably. On the morrow, about S o'clock, the Sieadman came again, and said that <Nala requested that I would visit him. Accordingly, I followed him into the private inclosure, and was introduced tto the chief?a fine looking man of ?bout fifty, with very delicately shaped (hands and feet, and r?. rather nervous auoutb. The chief was seated on a tanned ox bide outside his hut. But his side was his daughter Maiwa, and round him, squatted on their iiaunches, were some twenty headmen Tn/lnnoe trhncD nnmhoi' TTfl R PfiTl MJK iUUUUUC, H iiv?JV .. tinualJy added to by fresh arrivals. These men saluted me as I entered, and the chief rose and took my hand, ordering a stool to be brought for me to sit ou. When this was done, he with much eloquence and native courtesy, thanked ? me for protecting his daughter in the painful and dangerous circumstances in which she found herself placed, and also complimented me very highly upon what he was pleased to call the (bravery with which I bad defended the pass in the rocks. I answered in appropriate terms, saying that it was to Maiwa herself that mA?A harl if nnf hoon 4U<llI&d ??UC VIUV, iUl Aiuu lb MVV MWM | ifor her warning aud knowledge of the -country we should not have been bere .to-day, while as to tbe defense of tbe pass, I was fighting for my life, and - . that put heart into one. These courtesies concluded, Nala called upon his daughter Maiwa to tell iher tale to the headmen, aud this she . . did most ^iffiply and effectively. She reminded them that she had gone as an unwilli ; bride to Wambe; that no cattle had been paid for her, (because Wambe had threatened war if * . ehe.was not sent as a free gift. Since she had entered the kraal of fWambe her days had been days of heaviness, and her nights nights of [weeping. She had been beaten, she had been neglected, a.*J made to do the work of fi low-born wife?she, a chief's daughter. U. .1 ? ? TT1C out; uau uuiuc a ?.uaiu uuu. ilhc story of the child. Then, amid a dead silence she told them the awful tale which she had already narrated to me. When she had finished, her hearers gave a loud ejaculation. "Ou!" they said?"ou! Maiwa, daughter of Nala!" "Ay," she went on, with flashing eyes?"ay; it is true. "My mouth is as full of truth as a flower of honey; and for tears, my eyes iare like the dew upon the grass at <la\vu. "It is true: I saw the child die. 1 "Here is the proof of it. councilors,*' ?nd she drew forth the little dead hand and held it before them. "Ou!" they said again?"ou! it is the dead hand." "Yes," she continued, "it is the dead hand of my dead child, and I bear it with nie that I may never forget, never for one short hour, that I live that I may see Wambe die, and be avenged. "Will you bear with it, my father, that your daughter and your daughter's child should be so treated by a Matnku? "Will ye bear it. men of my own people?"' "\'n " snId an oid Indues, rising; "It is not to be borne. "Enough ~ave we suffered ft the linnris of these Mntuku dogs and their loud-tongued chief. "Let us put it to the issue." "It is not 1o be borne. indeed!"' said Na!a: "but how can we make head gainst so great a people?" h-y--' * ' REVENGE 3REATEST ADVENTURE. 'WW R HAGGARD. / Solomon's Mines," Etc. 1 "Ask of him?ask of Macumazahn, the wise white man," said Maiwa, poiuting at me. "How can we overcome Wambe, Macumazahn the hunter?" "How does the jackal overreach the lion, Nala?" "By cleverness, Macumazahn." "So shall you overcome Wambe, Nala." At this moment an interruption occurred. A man entered, {jnd said that messengers had arrived from Wambe. "What is their message?" asked Nala. "They come to ask that thy daughter Maiwa be sent back, and with her the white hunter." "How shall I make answer to this, Macumazahn?" said Nala, when the man had withdrawn. "Thus shalt thou answer," I said, after reflection. "Say that the woman shall be sent, and I with her, and then bid the messengers begone. "Stay; I will hide myself here in the hut, that the men may not see me." And I did. Shortly afterward, through a crack in the hut, I saw the messengers arrive, and great truculent-looking fellows they were. There were four of them, and they had evidently traveled hard. "They entered with a swagger, and squatted down before Nala. "Your business," said Nala, frown-> ing. "We come from Wambe. bearing the orders of Wambe to Nala, his servant." answered the spokesman of the party. "Speak," said Nala, with a curious twitch of his nervous-looking mouth. "These are the word* of Wambe: " 'Send back the woman, my wife, who has run away from my kraal, and send with her the white man who has dared to hunt in my country without J my leave, and to slay my soldiers.' "These are the words of Wambe." "And if I say I will not send them?" asked vrJala. "Then on behalf of Wambe we declare war upon you. "Worn ho Tfill on t I'ftll lm. "He will wipe you out. "Your kraals shall be stamped flatso"; and with an expressive gesture he drew his hand across his moi?th to show how complete would be the annihilation of the chief who dared to defy Wambe. "These are heavy words," said Nala. "Let me think before I give an answer." Then followed a little piece of acting that was really very creditable to the untutored savage mind. The heralds withdrew, but not out of sight, and Nala went through the show of earnestly consulting his Indunas. The girl Miawa, too, flung herself at | his feet and appeared to weep and implore his protection,, while he wrung ! his hands as though in doubt and tribulation of mind. At length he summoned the messengers to draw near and addressed them, while Miawa sobbed very realistically at his side. "Wambe is a great chief," said Nala. "and this woman is his wife, whom he has a right to claim. "She must return to him, but her fnot nrp sm-p with TVfllkine: slie can not come now. "In eight days from this day she shall be delivered at the kraal of Wambe; I will send her with a party of my men. "As for the white hunter and his men, I have naught to do with them, and canuot answer for their misdeeds. "They have wandered hither unasked by me, and I will deliver them back whence they came, tbat Wambe may judge them according to his law. "They shall be sent with the girl. "For you, go your ways. "Food shall be given you without tbe kraal, and a present for Wambe in atonement for the ill-doing of my daughter. I have spoken." At first the heralds seemed inclined to insist upon Maiwa's accompanying them then and there, but ultimately on being shown the swollen condition of her feet, they gave up the point and departed. When they were well out of the wny T emerged from the hut, and we went on to discuss the situation and make our plans. First of all, as I was careful to explain to Nala, I was not going to give him my experience and services for nothing. I heard that Wambe had a stockade round his kraal made of elephant tusks. These tusk?, in the event of our succeeding in our euterprise. I should claim as my perquisite, with the proviso that Nala should furnish ine, with men to carry them down to the coast. To this modest request he and the headmen gave an unqualified and hearty assent, the more hearty, perhaps, because they never expected to tinger them. The next thing I stiplated was that if w.e conquered tlie white man. John Every, should be handed ever to me. together with a J? goods that he might claim. His cruel captivity was. I need hardly say. the ouly reason that induced me to join in so harebrained an expedi. tion, but I was careful, from motives of policy, to keep this fact in ihe background. Nala accepted this condition. My third stipulation was that no women or children should be killed. ! This beincr agreed to we went on to i consider ways and mean?. I Warn be was, it appeared, a very powerful petty chief; that is, he could put at least G(KX) fighting men into the field and always had from oOOO to 4000 collected about his kraal, which was supposed to bo impregnable. Xala. on the contrary, could not at such' short notice collect more than ! from 1000 to 1200 men, though, being <j? the Zulu stock, they were of much better stuff for fighting purposes tba& r Wambe's Matukus. r These odds, though large, *were not, under the circumstances, overwhelming. The real obstacle to our chance of success was the difficulty of delivering j a crushing assault against Wambe's j Q strong place. This was, it appeared, fortified all | round with schanses, or stone walls, and contained numerous caves and boppies in the hillside and at the foot C of the mountain which no force had ^ ever been able to capture. It was said that in the time of the T Zulu monarch Dingaan, a great Impi of that king having penetrated to thi.* district, had delivered an assault upon the kraal, then owned by a forefather of Wambe, and been beaten back with the loss of more than 1000 men. ol Having thought the question over. I gj closely interrogated Maiwa ae to the 6j fortifications and the topographical pe- L culiarities of the spot, and not without ^ results. I discovered that the kraal was in- r< deed impregnable to a front attack, but ^ that it was very slightly defended at the rear, which ran up the slope of the C mountain?indeed, only b7 two lines of tl stone walls. p The reason of this was that the r. mountain is quite impassable, except tj by one secret path, supposed to be tr known only to the chief and his coun- r< __j ii.;- 11 o /I nrtf 0] ciiors, anu iujis uuiu^ ji been considered necessary to fortify it. ? "Well," I said, when sbe bad done. "and now as to tbis secret patb of tbine, knowest thou aught of it?" Sj "Ay," she answered, "1 am no fool, 5I Macumazahn. ti "Knowledge learned is power earned, tl "I won the secret of that path." 12 "And canst thou guide an Impi thereon, so that it shall fall upon the town from behind?" tj "Yes, that can I do. if only Wambe's ,j people know not that the Impi. comes, n for if they know, then can they block a the way." ei "So, then, here is my plan. P "Listen, Nala, and say if it be good; or, if you have a better, show it forth. 0 "Let messengers go out and summon jjj all thy Impi, that it be gathered here w on the third day from now. ! "This being done, let the Impi, led by tl Maiwa, march on the morrow of the a: fourth day, and crossing the moun- " tains, let it travel along on the other ^ side of the mountains till it come to the place on the fartiier side of which ? is the kraal of Wambe; that shall be 0 some three days' journey in all (about 120 miles). T "Then, on the night of the third day's N journey let Maiwa lead the Impi in silence up the secret path, so that it P comes to the crest of the mountain ^ that is above the Strong Place, and c, here let it hide among the rocks. ".Meanwhile, on the sixth day from c now, let one of the Inuudas of Nala p bring with him two hundred men that e have guns, and take me and my men as prisoners, and take also a girl from among the Butiana people who by " form and face is likg unto Maiwa, and ^ bind her hands, and pass by the road a on which we came, and, through the cutting in the cliff, on to the kraal of Wambe. "But the men shall take no shields or F plumes with them, only their guns and otffc Short spear, and when they meet the people of Wambe they shall say [ that they come to give Tip the woman 0 and the white man and his party to a Wambe, and to make atonement to 6 Wambe. \ "So shall they pass in peace, and v traveling thus, on the evening of the 0 seventh day we shall-come to the gate i of the place of Wambe, and nigh the b gates there is, jso says. Maijra, a koppie b very strong and full of rocks and caves, s but having no soldiers thereon except v in time of war, or, at the worst, but a 1 few such as can easily be overpowered. ? "Tbis being done, at the dawn of day s must the Impi on the mountain behind the town light a fire, and put wet I grass thereon, so that the smoke goes up. E "Then at the sight of the smoke will we in tlie koppie begin to shoot into the town of Wambe, whereon all the ? soldiers will run to kill us. c "But we will hold our own, and while b we fight tbe Impi shall charge down f' the mountain side and climb the c schauses, and put those who defend 51 them to the assegai, and tben, falling p upon the town, shall surprise it, and n drive the soldiers of Wambe as the t wind blows the dead husks of corn. C "This is my plan. I have spoken." o "Ou!" said Nala; "it is good; it is 5 very good. ^ _Mi.. (To be continjed.) An Eye Test. Most people believe that they see the same with both eyes. Tiiat tms is j, not tlie case one can easily convince liimself by the following simple experiment: Cover one of the eyes with a hand or a bandage and let the ex- E perimenter attempt to snuff out a can- ^ die suddenly placed within a few feet r of him. He will almost invariably ruiss the flame, either overreaching, under- c reaching or putting the fingers too far 1 to the right or left of the flame. With i both eyes normal and open the nccom- c modation for distance and direction is * instantaneous. . Individiih! Lutt. j A man's interest often gives a bias to * his judgment, but the relation between law and individual opinion is seldom j so close as it was believed to be by a | juryman who figures in* a Century | Magazine story. ] A far Western judge summed up a case fully and learnedly, but tlie jury were unable to agree. "Judge, this 'ere is the diff'oulty," , the foreman explained. "The jury ^ wants to know if that thar what you j told us was r'all'y the law, o\' only just j your notion." < i Public 'I'lioueB on Verlin Street*. The German postal authorities have decided to erect public telephone etations in the streets of Berlin to be operated on the penny-in-the-lot sys IC UJ* J Knftlroad Construction. ; Reports for the year show that in ' railway construction North Dakota ] stood first in the whole list of States, ! with 525 miles of new track, and Minnesota ranked fifth with 201 miles. , The trouble with much preaching 13 < that it is advertising truffles when the 1 people need potatoes. 1 UHLHUDS EAGER TO COMPLY WITH RATE LAW fficers Meet the Interstate Commerce Commissioners. HARGES OF SHIFTING TARIFFS i,... _ merce Commission For Time? Shippers Protest Against Shifting Classifications. Washington, D. C.?Five members ? the Interstate Commerce Commiscn, Chairman Knapp and Commisoners Clements, Cockreil, Clark and ane, were present at the hearing uner the new railroad freight rate law ecently enacted by Congress, which as become effective. The Trunk Line, New England and entral railroads were heard, through f 1 leir representatives,,;as y to come hases of the operation of the new ite law. Thirty-four representaves of these railroads, including affic officials and counsel, and eight jpresentatives of various shipping rganizations were in attendance, very speaker representing the railjads of the country had no disposion to lay obstacles in the way of ita fcrcement of the act, and the ;>eakers vied with one another in asfiring the commission of their intenon to comply with the provisions oi le law in every substantial particuir. B. D. Caldwell, a vice-president ot le DelaAvare, Lackawanna and West-' rn road, told the commission that, irough conferences with traffic offials and attorneys of various lines of lilroad, they had sought to reach an nderstanding of the new law, to th<? ad that they might be in position roperly to observe it. George V. Massey, general counsel f the Pennsylvania Railroad Com? any, assured the commission that it. ras the desire of all tue roacis wun hich he had conferred to conform bsolutely with the law, and he told ie commission thatsuch publications* s had been made to the contrary rere without the shadow of foundaon in fact. "We have endeavored," lid he, "to find out what the law reuires, and we kave done our best to leet those requirements as they are perative." James Maynard, of Knoxville, enn., president of the Brookvillo fills, a large shipper of cotton goods, spressed his opposition to the mere osting in stations of railroad tariffs. Ie said that the great trouble was iat the railroads shifted the classify ation on shippers, which enabled lem to put up a higher rate. He adlonished the commission that if this oint were cot provided against the ffect of the new law would be nullied. Through Chairman Knapp the comlission announced at the close of the earing that it would take up the uestion presented for consideration nd would make known its decision. D. B. WESSON'S WILL. 'ortune Divided Among Forty Relatives?Son-in-Law Cut Out. Springfield, Mass.?By the will ol >aniel B. Wesson, filed here, $650,00 is given to the Wesson Memorial nd Maternity Hospitals, of Springeld, and the remainder of his forune of $15,000,000 or more is diided among forty relatives. Specific bequests totaling $5,000,00 are made, and it is provided that be income from the remainder shall e divided among twenty-four memers of Mr. Wesson's family. His on-in-law, George J. Bull,'is not prowill AvnvAodv molrinp 1U U iUl, LlIC Will OAJUbOOiJ his clear. Among the specific beuests are $1,000,000 to J. H. Weson and ?S00,000 to Walter H. Weson. 0 MOVE WHOLE TOWN A MILE. efect in Title of Land Given by Relative ol' Jay Gould. Topeka, Kan.?All the houses in ]nglewood, the county seat of Clark lounty, will be moved one mile south y its founder, A. J. Gould, who also ounded and built Englewood, a Chiago addition. Five big house-movag outfits were shipped there for the urpose. The removal of the county seat is necessitated by a defect in the title of he town site, which was a gift by }ould out of thj centre of his ranch f 21,000 acres. He now gives the 00 inhabitants 240 acres. The Santa Fe Railway will remove fc iranlrq tn the new town. Gould IS , relative of the late Jay Gould. GOVERNOR GOES A-SLOIMING. Nebraska Executive Orders Omaha Police Board Fired. Lincoln, Neb. ? Governor Mickey aade a secret, solitary slumming exiedition to Omaha to discover whethr the laws are being enforced by his olice commissioners. The Governor is a Methodist deaon, and he was so horrified by what le saw that he has decided on the renoval of the police board and the ifflcers who have permitted the things le witnessed. "It was a mass of corruption," h? leclarea. .remaps 11 is uu nuiei han other cities, but as Ion?; as I an Governor such scenes as I witnesse.l hall not be permitted." SPAIN OPPOSES PAPAL CLAIM. rSoynl Decree Restores Civil Marriages?Struggle Expected. Madrid, Spain.?A royal decree re? 'tores the civil marriage formalities, >nd suppresses the obligation, on tha ?art of persons desiring to get mar ied. to declare their religion. This s directly opposed to the Papal Nunno's claim. It is expected to arouse i political struggle when Parliament reassembles. SOT A CRIME 'JO ROD A WIFE. Ivcnrnd, alias Karon Santos, Evc:ier? ated Under German Law. Hamburg, Germany.?Ewald Kon rad, alias Baron Santos von Dobrowski Donnersmarck. who was allege.1 to have deserted his American wife in Paris, taking with him jewels worth $S000 and some money, r.nd (vho was arrested here on the charge Df robbery, was discharged, the court holding that he was not culpable ucIcr German law. t THE ?REAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT | THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. A Hard Nut to Crack?Drinking of Beer Does Not Tend to Discourage Use of Distilled and Other Strong Liquors. A professional English statistician, Mr. J. Holt Schooling, who has naa twenty years' experience tabulating the. reports of Governments, has furnished a hard nut for the advocates of beer drinking to crack. These latter are wont to declare that the drinking of beer tends to discourage the use of distilled and other strong liquors. We quote from an exchange a summary of a strong article by Mr. Holt in the London Fortnightly Review: "So large a proportion of the revenue of States is now raised by a tax upon wines and liquors that it is not easy to misrepresent the facts. We have not 'estimates' or 'impressions,' but official data prepared by appointees of the Governments, whose duty it is to see that each product is duly taxed. And from these reports Mr. Schooling clearly shows that the more the use of malt or fermented liquors is encouraged the more rapid becomes the consumption of rum, gin and brandy. This destroys the theory upon which the German beerbouts have been recently introducing into the schools of Boston and Cambridge. In the year 1900 the beer consumption of Germany was 27.5 gallons per capita; in America, 13.3. Of course, we ought to find that the beer 'drove out' distilled liquors. On the contrary, we discovered that the German demanded 1.9 gallons of spirits per capita to the 1.1 consumed in America. In France 'ono of those wine producing countries where,' travelers assure us, 'there is no drunkenness,' there were consumed 25.4 gallons t<? wine per cap- ] ita, and more spirits than in Germany, nearly twice as much as in the United States. These facts are just as patent as those of population, or import and export; but nevertheless professors and tutors who have a j weakness for mugs and bottles will go on assuring the innocent public that the only way to-keep a boy frori whisky is to fill him up with beer. Mr. Schooling in the article referred to attributes the present commercial supremacy of America to 'the relative sobriety of her workmen.' " Drinking a Farm. My homeless friend, with the chromatic nose, while you are stirring up the sugar in a ten-cent glass of gin, let me give you a fact to wash down with it. You say you have longed for years for the free, independent life of the farmer, but have never been able to get enough of money together to buy a farm. But this is just where you are mistaken. For several years you have been drinking a good improved farm at the rate of 100 square feet at a gulp. If you doubt this statement figure it out yourself. An acre of land contains 43,560 square feet. Estimating, for convenience, the land at $43.56 per acre, you will see that it brings the land to just one mill per square foot. Now pour 'down the fiery dose and imagine that you are swallowing a strawberry patch. Call In five of your friends and have them help you gulp down that 500 foot garden. Get on a prolonged spree some day and see how long a time it requires to swallow a pasture large enough to feed a cow. Put down that glass of gin, there's dirt in it, 100 feet of good, rich dirt, worth $43.56 per acre.? Robert J. Burdett. Crime is Condensed Alcohol. A remarkably strong condemnation of the drink traffic was uttered at the Church Congress at Weymouth by the chaplain of Preston Jail, Rev. St. G. Caulfeild. He pointed oijt the fallacy of the common opinion that all prisoners belong to what is called "the criminal class," "whereas in reality they spring from every class low, rich and poor." Mr. Caulfeild said, as to the causes: , "The first Is drink; this stands n?ri eliAnl/lora ahnvp PVATV I ULCdU CiiU ouvuiuvt w mvv w ? . ?.tf other, and those who say that nineteen out of every twenty convictions are caused by indulgence in alcohol are not far from the mark. Crime is, indeed, condensed alcohol." Coming, as they do, from one whose statements are based upon ministerial experience in a large prison, these words have a weight and importance which cannot be de- j cried.?London Christian. What is Wanted. Coloney J. A. Ferguson, of the British Army, says: "Spasmodic efforts at abstinence, foNowed by periods during which drink indulgence is sanctioned or palliated by those in authority, tend to keep alive that faith in alcoholic liquors as a means of enjoyment, and that opinion of them as a fitting reward for bravery and endurance, which is the bane of the army. What is wanted is a public and official opinion which shall say that the abstinence asked for in the men shall be encouraged by the example as well as enforced by the I authority of the officers." Women to Vote. One of the bills that the Ohio Legislature will be urged to enact into a law will accord to women the right to vote at local option elections. It is a most righteous- demand, and should succeed by all means. The I saloons are the most defiant and woe' begetting enemy of women and children in the world. Progress in Illinois. Nine counties of Illinois?Moultrie, Warren, Saline, McDonough, Johnson, Lawrence, Hamilton, Crawford and Edwards?are now wholly under prohibition law. More than 200 towns and cities are now free from the saloon. Sunday closing in Minneapolis, the Mayor estimates, A?ill save to the inhabitants $250,000 a year, though it may lose to the city $100,000. "About a quarter of the men who are stripped and stranded and show up here arc college men," sa^'s the secretary of the Botvery branch of the New York Y. M. C. A. The great majority of tlio.se educated who become moral wrecks, he says, owe their downfall to drink. The Texas Liquor Dealer, published in San Antonio, declares that it is the duty of the liquor men throughout the country to "spot" every congressman and member of a legislature who is susnected of strong temperance proclivities and exert themselves ?* A : witajsi to defeat hip?. TEE SUNDAY SCHOOL. [NTEIIXATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOI1 SEPTEMBER 22. Review of llic Quarter?Read Malt, x.vii., .H-48?Golden Text: Luke iv., .'5-?Topic: Christ's Lasi Messages?Summaries. Lesson 1. Topic: Leszons from a , 'child" text. Place: Capernaum. i +V?r\ 4?*nne(io>tn*ctiAn Tocnc i OUUil <1HCA uixc; iiaucu^uiuuvii, in Capernaum for the last time; a question asked: Who is the greatest? A little child called: to enter the kingdom of heaven it i3 necessary to "become as little children;" those who offend a little one will suffer punishment. II. Topic: Forgiving one another. Place: Capernaum. Peter came to Christ; asked how often he should forgive; Jesus said until seventy times seven times; Jesus spoke a parable to fully illustrate the duty of the Christian. III. Topic: Love to our fellow men. Place: In Perea. A lawyer (or scribe) asked Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life; Jesus asked him how he read the law; the lawyer replied, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart;" Jesus cold him he had answered right; the lawyer said, "Who is my neighbor?" Jesus spoke a parable; a man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho fell among thieves; a priest passed by on the other side; a Levite did the same; a Samaritan helped the man, 'Go, and do thou likewise." IV. Topic: Jesus teaching how to pray. Place: In Perea. When Jesus had ceased praying in a certain place Dne of the disciples asked Him to '.eacn mem to pray; jesus gave mem i form of prayer. V. Topic: The believer's social iluties. Place: In Perea. At the (louse of a chief Pharisee: Tesus sees a man with the dropsy; it is the Sabbath day; Jesus asked then whether it was lawful to heal the man on that day; they refused to answer; Jesus healed the man; He then asked^them tf they would not take an animal out of a pit on the Sabbath day; call the poor and not the rich neighbors. VI. Topic: -Blessings and conditions of salvation. Place: In Perea. Jesus is still at the Pharisee's house; Dne at the table thought it would be a great privilege to sit at a banquet in the Messiah's kingdom; Jesus spoke a parable to show that although the blessings of the gospel would be offered them, yet they would refuse the invitation. VII. Topic: God's great love for the sinner. Place: In Perea. The parable of the two sons; the younger left home after receiving his portion of the inheritance: went into a far country and wasted his substance in riotous living; decided to return and confess his folly to his father; ho did so and the father received him joyfully and made a feast: the elder broth6r came from the fields and was angry; the father entreated him. ' VIII. Topic: Characteristics of effective prayer. Place: In Perea. A parable on prayer; a widow asked a judge to avensre her; the judge refused; the widow urged him; the judge finally did as he was requested: the Lord will avenge those who j - - It TT! . fU/. CHI 1 11 pull niuj , auuui^i |jui awir, hiij Pharisee's prayer; the publican's prayer. IX. Tonic: Great facts connected with salvation. Place: In Perea. A rich young ruler came running tc Jesus and asked what he must do tc inherit eternal life: Jesus said, Keer the commandments. He asked. Which? Jesus mentioned several; the young man had kept these: he asked what he still lasked; sell what you have and give to the poor; went away sorrowful; the rich are saved with great difficulty. X. Topic: Finding salvation Place: Jericho. A great number ol people; blind Bartimaeus by the highway, begging; hears it is Jesus passing; calls loudly for mercy; i: rebuked by those standing near; cries louder; his cries reach Jesus; He stops; commands Bartimaeus tc be called; Bartimaeus went: madf known his request: Jesus heals him: his faith has made him whole; hf follows Christ. Zacchaeus was a rich publican who sought to se( Jesus; he was small of stature and /iHtwVio/1 in fn o troo' .Tpsim Raw hilT and told him to come down; Jesus went to his house; the Jews mur mured; Zacchaeus truly repented; gave half of his goods to the poor; confessed h:3 sins; restored fourfold; Jesus forgave and saved him, the Son of Man came to save the lost XI. Topic: The kingship of Jesus Place: In and near Jerusalem. Jesut and His disciples journeying toward Jerusalem; two disciples sent to Bethphage to secure a colt; tbe prophecy of Zech. 9:9 is fulfilled; i great multitude shout "Hosanna!" and spread garments and stre^ branches in the way; Jesus cleanse* the temple; the ch',ef Pharisees an? scribes are sore displeased. XII. Topic: Christianity's conflici with the world. Place: In Jerusalem, in the temple courts. The Phar isees and Herodians try to catct Christ in His words; He answers them wisely; they marveled at Him; they ask whether it is lawful to pay tribute to Casear; He says, "Rendei to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that arf God'sthe Sadducees come to Hiiri and ask Him a question dealing with our relation after death: seven brothers, In turn, married the same woman, in the resurrection whose wif? will she be? Jesus said that whei: they rise from the dead they neith/ Marry nor are given in marriage. Farmers' Postal Boxes. Farmers can make their own postal boxes. Postmaster-General Cortelyou lias issued an order rescinding the regulation under which patrons of rural free mail routes are compelled to purchase boxes from one of the 200 listed manufacturers. The boxes must conform to the requirements of the department as to size, durability, safety and protection from the weather. nCnindlae in ^prmflnT. V-UllUii . ... v There are 9,730,209 spindles engaged in the German cotton industry, an increase of 1,295.608 since 1901. There are 2,731,911 in Rhine province and Westphalia. The number of looms is at present 261,139, or 19.3S1 more than in 1901. They are distributed relatively the same as spindles. Bavaria, however, devotes more attention proportionately to spinning than to weaving. Cannot Leave Manchnrin. Manchuria must be an awful hard place to get out of. It took Russia several years to make the move, and Japan is having a desperate time getting out. a , j ": ijj "OUR SUFfrCIENCY IS OP GOD.* "Lord, some are rich in house and land* Can 'thousands give at Thv command; Mine is an almost empty nand." _' "Thou hast thy Lord." "Lord, some have friends, a circle wide;' A?d strength to work Thou hast supplied With open doors on every side." "Thou hast thy Lord." "Lord, some are fair ' form and face: a _j ??? * nuu iii tucu oopc^Mj nc wav vj-uv^c The workings of Thy heavenly grace." "Thou hast thy Lord." "Lord, some have store of earthly fame, And hardly feel the Dreath of blame, While mine is hut a hidden name." "Thou hast thy Lord." Lord, I am rich since T ' .re Thee, Thy beauty Thou can t put on me; And, if npt time. Eternity , Will set me for Thy service free; i I have my Lord. ?E. E. Trusted, in London Christian. God's Forgiveness. The forgiveness of sin Is of God's free grace, but It must be sought. It ' is not enough that there is a way of salvation, we must "walk in" it; not enough that there is forgivenewr with God, He will "be entreated -of."" The promise is: "Ask and ye shall receive.' He who asks not, receive* not. An old writer describes the arrival of souls at the gate of Heaven, an<F^ their triumphant entrance. Satan comes also among them, but is refused. "You cannot enter here." "1/3 sinned but once; these have entered" who sinned a thousand times. They, are forgiven; why am not I?" The condemnation of many a soul at the Day of Judgment may be put in the . form of a question: "Have you ever asked forgiveness?" Prayer is "the soul's desire." The prayer of the publican, "God be merciful to me, a sinner," offered honestly and in faith, will always secure forgiveness. The publican "went down to his house justified." He anked; and received; the Pharisee, a ' much better man, asked nothing, and received nothing. . I know a young man who for five years has exiled himself from home. His father's commands .were just, bat he rebelled, and was guilty of grievous offense. His home, with ten times the comfort he can earn for. himself, is open when he asks forgiveness for his offense. He admitted to me that he had done wrong, and* said that he had been a fool; bat the natural pride of bis heart will not allow him to say to his father what he said to me. Any reasonable person will say that, while his sin wae folly, his refusal to seek forgiveness is worse. So may we say of those who will not seek the forgiveness of sins. The sins themselves were folly; but the greatest folly is that which refuses to ask the forgiveness God, more just and loving than any earthly parent, is ready to give.?"Sermon for Silent Sabbaths." The Way to Learn Religion. f Go to work! Nothing is more salutary to the human bouI than the direct work of saving men. Whatever your theory may be of this or that doctrine there is a man dying in hi? need, and there is a power which vnn niflv annlv for his transforma tlon. Therefore' go to work upon men and with men. ' And let me tell ypu there is nothing you can do that would ba more satisfactory to your own soul. I speak what I do know when I say that there is nothing which bring* men back from the desert of sandy and arid speculation, nothing whicb brings a man in again to the shore 2 from the cheerless ocean of doubt, nothing which gives us such faith and certainty, as laying aside all reasoning and engaging in the practical1 work cl the Gospel. I know that there is restorative influence in that work. I know that, whatever doubtsI may once have, once let my heart and hand join together in working with men for their salvation, and my dojibij disa^ear: I know in whom 1 believe;"I know" the work to which t am appointed, ana tne sweeiesi thought I ever had of God came to me in the act of laboring for my fellow-men. The most glorious views I ever had of man's interior life and of essential divlnetruths wereadmtnistered to me when I was working-' for the salvation of others.?H. W. Beecher. The Decay of Heathen Faiths. wfa The statistics of our mission V boards do not tell the full story of our mission results. The decay of ' heathen faiths, the turning of the people away from the tyranny of their superstitions and ignorance, evidence a condition full of migtity, possibilities in the early future. The idol market in many a laud is destroyed. The blackness of heathen , despair has turned to the gray of Christian hope, prophesying the rising of the Son of Righteousness. Not long since a prominent heathen official said: "We adults will remain as we are; but our children will be Christians." A true prophecy. Only the spiritually blind fail to see that God is bringing to pass an answer to the prayer He taught us so many centuries ago: "Thy kingdom come."?Baptist Argus. All Things Through Christ. Take Christ for your strength, , dear soul. He'll give you power. Power to overcome the- world, the flesh and the devil; power to crucify every besettiDg sin, passion and lust; power to shout in triumph over every I trouble and temptation of your life: I "I can do all things through Christ which strengthens men."?ij. l. Moody. W He wears the devil's yoke who ^ thinks that sin is a jofco. ^ Coffin For Kentucky Giant. Ordinary coffins would not fit Theodore Bohlsen, who died in Louisville, so a special coffin was made for the Kentucky giant. Bohlsen weighed over 400 pounds, and it was impossible to get the coffin through the door into the house. He died from stomach trouble. Bachelors Ld Maryland. 'j In Maryland there are ?ver 100,flflO sinirle men.