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< ? ?i LADl THE SEQU BY MR! CHAPTER IX. 1 Continued. "What did mother think I was inor tn (In with vnn ? Take VOU TO ;by the Red Scaur and break y neck?" Tom said to Janet. "Oh!" cried Janet to Tom, \ wide-open eyes; then added in a tone, "that was where father killed. I have never been there. "And I'm not going to take there. It's all shut up ever sii But I'll tell you what we'll do, 1 We'll have a long spin?as far Blackmore's farm." "Blackmore's farm! That is place?" He gave a loud laugh. "Well, and what then? A tt may happen once and not again. T were tremendous friends of fathe I don't mean friends like?like Ersklnes and so forth. Blackmo not a gentleman, but he's a ratt! good fellow. And you should just his stables! There's one hunter buy in a minute if I had my Ube It's ten miles, or perhaps a li more. Perhaps you're not up that?" "Oh, yes, I'm quite up to it B' wonder if we should go?it gets d so soon?and perhaps mother?" "Oh, bother mother!" cried boy. "We can't, at our age, be ways stopping to consider what vuu iauj IUIUA. o. "Mother's not an old lady, Ton "She's a great deal older than are, or she couldn't be our mot! Come, Jan, are you game for a 1 spin? It's almost the last time tt holidays. Hurrah! then, off we g And off they -went in a wild car Janet following, breathless, gasp: her dark hair flying behind her, hat often in danger, wherever he She would not allow that she had fear; but it was a long ride, and way was confused by the cross < which Tom knew only imperfec and which made it longer, besi leading them over moors and aci fields which excited their horses ; . kept the young riders at a full stri ta which Janet's immature pow were ^uite unaccustomed. She ' greatly dishevelled and shaken pieces upon their arrival at the lai rough establishment to which brother had already paid many vis and where they were received b chorus of innumerable dogs i lounging men whose appearance ' very alarming to Janet They loo like keepers, she thought, or grooi not like people who would be gree as friends, which was what Tom ' doing, shaking hands with the and bearded master of the house 1 the younger man, presumably his e and calling out salutations in as g an imitation of the broad country < lect as he could accomplish to others. Janet was aware thai own aspect was very wild, and was very tired, but she clung to saddle, when that big gamekeeper protched with a mixture of pride i shame. "So this is your sister, Mai? Tom? Charlie, cry on your mothe cried the man. "The mistress wil] here in a moment, missie. Let lift ye down." "No, no," Janet said, *we cj wait long. ' We must soon go bach will be dark. Oh, Tom, we must back." "Nonsense, Jan! Now I've got h 3 mean to stay awhile. And Bk v more's awfuly jolly; he'll take through the stables. Come, ju down.." "Cry upon your mother, Charl said Blackmore again. "The yoi leiidy thinks we're a' mon folk hi and she's frichtened. But ye m not be frichtened, my bonnie c Hey, Marget, wbere's the mistre And the powney's in a lather. your hand upon my shoulder if yo no let me lift ye down." When Janet saw a woman app at the door, hurrying out in a and a white apron, she allowed 1 self to be lifted from her ho feeling all the time as If she ! fallen into some strange adventi such as were described in books, anything that would happen to g like herself in common life. She not know that she might not be tained, locked up somewhere, for to sign something, or to come un some fatal obligation as happenec the heroines of some old-fashio novels which she had found in library at the Towers. The mis1 fatigue and alarm In her eyes m her even more confuscd than it natural she should Te in so new unexpected a scene. And the ro and dingy house, the clamor of dogs, the heavy steps of the man ^ followed her in, the sense of her < x dishevelled and disorderly condit and of the distance from home, q; overcame noor Janet. "Oh. Tom us go home," she cried, in an ag of compunction and fear. "Is it Miss Torrance from the T ers? Dear me. but it's a long i for her?over long and a wild re But you must rest a little now yoi here, and I'll get you a cup of t< said the woman of the house, was a fresh-colored, buxom won not at all like a brigand's housek< er. and she smiled upon Janet v encouraging, kindly looks. "I'm i glad to see your sister. Maister T< but you're a thoughtless laddie bring her so far, and her not ac< corned to rough riding. Marget the kettle boiling?for Jhe young die must have some tea?" "And you can bring in the water and a' the vest of it," s Blackmore. "for us that are no fond of tea?eh. Maister Tom? A your ride a good glass will do ye harm." Janet sat still and gazed w: these hospitable preparations -vv going on. The large table was c *?red with oilcloth, not unconsci .T77> t CAR; ?OR. EL or A LIFE 5. OLIPHANT. 0 I of stains. And the men gathere round one side, upon which a tri with "the hot water" and a black bo o?" tie and a strange array of glasse un<* big and little, had been placed. Th our seemed the first thing thought of i the house; for Margaret, the b: "1th woman servant (everything was big low brought in the tray, pushing open tl ^as door with it as she bore it in front < her before the order had been give; y?u And presently the fumes of the hi nee. "toddy" fllledthe room, pungent ar r&n- strong, making Janet feel faint ar 43 sick. The men flung themselves ini chairB, or ' stood about, filling tl *ke other end of the room?a smal rough, dark crowd with Tom in tl midst. They were all very "kind" 1 ling Tom, patting him on the shoulde addressing him by name, filling h -'r s- glass for him, while Janet, alone i '.he end of the table, looked c re's alarmed. The mistress was bringir out from a cupboard cups and sai s?e cers, a basin of sugar and other pre; I'd arations for the tea. rty. "Tt omnlr! rln thp little miRS fj ttle more good to taste a glass o' n 1 brew, and put some color into hi cheeks," said the master of the hous at I "Haud you tongue, goodman, ar ark leave the young lady to me. Ta! you care what you're about. You' the get both yoursel' and other folk im al_ trouble if you dlnna pay attention.' an "Toots! a glass will harm na body," Blackmore said. "I want my sister to see thi we mare," said Tom?"that mare, yc her. know, Blackmore, that you said you ong keep for me. I want her to see tl lese stables. I told her all about yo ;o!" and that we were tremendoi eer, friends?" ing, "Ah, laddie!" said Blackmore, "tl her sight of you brings many a thii led. back. Many and many's the tin any your father?" the "I told her so," said Tom, with h ;uts glass in his hands. "Here's to all i itly, you. And I mean to stick to father ides friends." ross "Tom!" cried Janet, with a star and The smell of the whisky, the cro-w ain, of men, the loud voices and sound < rers their feet upon the floor, scarce was deadened by the thin carpet, scart to her altogether. "Oh, Tom," she Bali rge, "I'm too tired to see anything. Lett her go home?oh, let us go home!" ac sits, overcome by excitement and coi y a iusion, janei Degan 10 cry.and "My bonnie dawtie," said the mi was tress, "wait till ye get your tea." ked "Oh, let us get home," cried Janei ms; "it will soon be dark. I'm frightene ited to ride after it is dark. All thos was dreadful roads! Oh, Tom, let us g< big home?oh, Tom, let us get home!" and "Maister Tom," said the mistres ion, "it's true she says. It's not a fit for ood bit thing like her to be galloping i iia- those uncivilized roads in the darl the Charlie shall put in ane of the hors< hn in the dog-cart and drive her hame. she "That will I," said Charlie," risis her with a great deal of noise. He wj ap- the best looking of the young me: and and he put down his steaming glai with alacrity. "I'll put in Spanke ster and she'll gang like the wind." x!" "You'll have to be very canny wit I be her, for she's awfu' fresh," said ai me other of the men. "Don't be a fool, Jan," cried tfc m't boy; "she'll ride home fast enoug] it And I'm not going to have it; do yo go hear, Charlie? What's the good < making a fuss? I'm not going 1 lere have it," he cried, stamping his foo ick- "Do you want me to get into a row you Why, I as good as gave my word? imp He stopped short himself, and the all paused; Janet, too, hastily chol ie," ing the sob in her throat, gazed i ung him with a startled look, ere, "Maybe it was never to come bac lust here that ye gave your word, M loo. Tom," said Blackmore, rising up; 1 iss? would guess that by the looks of y Pit Well, ye'll keep your word, my youn u'll man; at least ye'll as near keep it i is possible now. Charlie! out wit lear the cairt, man! what are you wai cap ing for? and Aake the young lad lor. bnmp Tt wqc -n q r?o nf V>nr nwn wll rse, that's clear, that brought her her had Ye can say that if it was his fault, it ires clear that it was nane of hers. Ti not had better take him on behint, an iris we'll send the horses back the morn, did "By Jove," shouted Tom, "I'll n< de- be taken on behind! I'll ride my ow ced horse or I'll not stir a step?an der catch me ever coming out with h< L to again!'' he cried with a shout whic ned made the heart which was beatin the so wildly in Janet's breast drop dowi : of down to her shoes. But when sh ade found herself in the dog-cart t was Charlie Blackmore's side, wrapped u and warm, and flying like the wind, bi ugh hind Madam Spanker, who was : the fresh, Janet's senses turned into vho consciousness of bien-etre which wi )wn very novel and very sweet. She ha ion, been persuaded to take the cup < uite tea. She had even eaten a bit < let scone with fresh butter and marmi ony lade, which was very good. A war: shawl was wrapped round her shou ow- ders; and the delicious sehsation < ride repose and warmth over her tire >ad. limbs, while yet sweeping at so gre< u're a pace over the country, with tfc ja," wind in her face and the long, doi Qlio li 1! n- flvinn1 r\ocf uroe jiic uwiif, luauo 11 j *'? cio uuugii ian, ful to Janet. The sound of Tom jep- horse-hoofs galloping, now behim with now in advance, added to the sens real of supreme comfort and pleasur )m; She had been so tired, and the pro to pect of riding back had been so te :us- rible! She felt as if flying throug , is the air. which caressed her cheek, a led- warmly tucked in by Charlie Blacl more's side, she was carried hom hot Charlie was very "kind''?almost ui ;aid necessarily kind. He spoke loud i so her ear, with intonations at whic fter Janet wondered vaguely, finding the' nae very pleasant. He told her a gres many things about himself?how li hile had never intended to stay at hom ere "among the beasts;" how he ha :ov- been a session at collegc. and meat ous to go back again; how he had on< - hoped to be something very much " better than a horse-couper like his father; and how to-day all his ambition had come back. Swept along so lightly, so smoothly, with such ease, with such warmth and comfort, almost leaning against Charlie Blackmore's strong shoulder, with his voice in her ear, and the sweetness of the 9 wind in her face, Janet felt herself held in. a delightful trance almost like sleep, yet which was not sleep* or how could she have felt the pleasure that was in it? It was only when the drive was almost over, and the mare made a whirl into the avenue, scarcely to be held in until the gates ! were opened, and flying, after that iy momentary, enforced pauBe, like an arrow under the dark waving of the s' trees, that her heart suddenly sprang up with a sickening throb of what n mother would say. Janet had been s in a sort of paradise. She came down ' now in a moment to all the anguishes of earth. She broke in upon something Charlie Blackmore was saying, ' with the utmost inattention and in"7 consequence. "Can you hear Tom?" 'j: she said. "Oh, where is her? Tom, lfl Tom!" t0 "He is just behind us. Don't be 16 I A? J . V.? ?11 ? nntA OViot._ Xl iUillCUCU? UC ID ail oaiC) oaiu vuat" ' lie, casting a glance behind. *e The mare made a start at this moment, and, straining at the curb, J"' bounded on again. Some one had come out upon the road almost under at her nose?a dark figure, which just ,n eluded the wheel, and from which lg came a voice almost echoing Janet's? a" "Is that Tom?" p" "Oh, it's me, Beau," cried Janet, wildly, "and Tom's behind." She was iT carried on bo quickly that half the iy words were lost. sr "Was that your stepfather? They will be anxious about ye. I would ', say"?Charlie made a little pause to , secure her attention?"I would say you were paDsing near our place, , never thinking ye had come so far, and that my mother came out to ye, ^ seeing ye so tired, and bid me to bring ye home in the cairt?that's what I would say?" I" -Say!" cried Janet, fully roused up. Dou you mean that I should say ie that? But It would be a lie." u' " 'Deed, and so it would," said the 18 young man with a shamefaced laugh. "But to make an excuse for yoursell ie is aye pardonable, do ye no think? lg And then it would save Mr. Tom. Be ie you sure now my father knows he has given his word against it, he shall iB never be asked into our house more." "Oh," said Janet, "I could not say B anything I had made up. When the moment comes and mother lookB at me, I can only say?what has hapr<* pened." "But nothing has happened," said J Charlie. "Except," he added, "one thing, that I'll maybe tell you about some day. But that has happened tc 18 me, and not to you. Miss Janet, you'll not forget me clean altoQ" gether?" "Oh, how should I forget you," ?~ cried Janet, with a sob, "when I know I shall get into such dreadful trouble ^ as I never was in before in all my life! Oh, mother!" 'e The girl had thrown off her wraps 2t and tumbled down from tl^e dogcart, almost before it had stopped, into the s' middle of the group on the steps, * which consisted of Lady Car herself, a wrapped in a great shawl, her sister, ^ and half the servants in the house. "Janet! Oh, where have you been? And where is Tom? What has haD Ig pened??tell me!" cried Lady Car, 18 taking her daughter by the arms and Q? gazing into her eyes with an agonized 38 question. The arrival of the cart at r> such headlong speed seemed to give sort of certainty to all th^ fears that " had been taking shape among the 3" watchers. "Oh, Moyer!" Janet cried, her ie childish cry coming back In the ex" tremity of her apprehension and "J consciousness. But Charlie Black" more, with his wits about him, called "? out from the cart, "There's nothing wrong. Mr. Torn he's just behind, They've ridden owre f?.r and wearind themselves. Mr. Tom he's just be!y hind. But my mare's fresh?she'll ?" no stand. Let go her head, dash ye! Do ye hear? She'll no stand." The little Incident of the mare whirling round, the gravel flying un!" der her feet, the groom recoiling backward, turning an unintentional e* somersault upon the grass, made a pause in which everybody took 18 breath. k "Thank God!" cried Lady Car, "if i that's all. Is that all? You are not y concealing anything, dear?" '? To be Continuea. e. 's * e Never Stops. ' ? The minister was addressing the ^ ! Sunday-school. "Children, I want to n talk to you for a few moments about [(j one of the most wonderful, one of jr the most important organs In the 'jj whole world," he said. "What is it |g that throbs away, beats away, never a stopping, never ceasing, whether you wake or sleep, night or day, week in iy and week out, month in and month p out, year in and year out, without e_ any volition on your part, hidden ;0 away in the depths, as it were, una seen by you, throbbing, throbbing, ls throbbing rhythmically all your life (j long?" During this pause for ora3f torical effect a small voice was heard: 5f "I know; it's the gas meter."?Argoj. naut. m 1- The Best He Knew. Jf Gladstone, a Jamaican negro, was id assistant to a district physician in it the Canal Zone, and being rather poor ie in his Latin, the bottles had been i- numbered for his benefit. One day t- a Spanish laborer came in for medi 's cine, and the docto:- told his worthy iJ, assistant to give him two pills out of >e number six. After he had gone the e. doctor asked: s- "Gladstone, did you give the man r- a dose of number six?" ;h "Oh, no, sah, doctor;- numbah six s, war finished, so I just give him one i- pill out of numbah foah and one out e. of numbah two."?Lippincott's. a ij" .^7,000,000 a Year for Consumptives, m According to a statement made by it the Pennsylvania Society for the Pre* ie vention of Tuberculosis, consumption ie costs the people of Philadelphia more <1 than 520,000 a day, or more tban it $7,000,000 a year. At present there :e are 10,000 consumptives in that city. A railroad section laborer in N< Carolina has patented a tie-tam] machine, practical tests of w have shown that on both old and roadbeds it will do the work of ! men. ___ , Professor Percival Lowell nounces that spectroscope proof been obtained of the presenc< water on Mars. This would s< according to the Scientific Ameri i to settle once and for all a moot ] tian question in Lowell's favor. According to the Elektrotecl cher Anzeiger, a company in B< is fitting a steamship which run I 1 1 A , me uoeruavei, wnu a ayai.cm ui < trie propulsion. The equipment sists of a suction gas plant, com ing anthracite; a gas engine cou to a direct-current generator ;a tery of accumulators and electric tors on the propelling shafts. Dr. D. bimmer, a noted scie in Vienna, has invented apparatu means of which the back of the man eye can be seen and pi graphed while it remains in the h With this machine he can tell, 1 the appearance "of the back c man's eye, whether that man chronic drunkard. i The discovery of a new cher i substance was announced by finder, Dr. L. H. Baekeland, -j meeting of the American Chen Society in the Chemists' Club, , West Fifty-fifth street, New "! - City. The new chemical Is oxy zyl-methylenglycolanhydride, but [ the sake of euphony it has ' called Eaekelite, after its invei Tt 4a a cnal.tar nrndnrt comhi , , ? - . ( I the properties of amber, cellt and carbon. In spite of its namf new substance is much cheaper . either celluloid or hard rul though it is neither so flexible i elastic. Dr. Baekeland said it valuable for electrical insult > where a high voltage current is i as it greatly reduces the liabilit , burning out under overload. i 1 AUTOCRAT OP PARIS FLA I? ' r What the Concierge is Snppose Do?Good and Bad Tenants. The "concierge" is considered 1 I the bane of the Parisian flat d [ er's existence. His functions are , posed to be the following: ; The first and most important i collect the rent on quarter day; i that he must see that the tenant . not surreptitiously remove. The ter seems, to pe somewhat unn 1 sary, as rents in Paris are al r p&id in advance. , . He should also bring up your ters at least twice a day, but as concierge is generally a stout, i die aged woman who has a de< objection to.climbing stairs the 1 i regulation remains somewhat i dead letter. In Paris the front door of houses is generally closed at o'clock: after that time cdmitt can only be obtained by ringii . bell. Th? concierge is obliged to the door, and she does this, as [ as she is awake, by pulling a which hangs by her bedside. ; It she is a sound sleeper and i are accustomed to come home ; at night, the best thing to do i look for another flat, as the conci will put you down as a "bad teni > and make things as unpleasant . you as possible. If you never stop out late at n . receive very few friends and fee [ j heavily at Christmas the conci ; will consider you as a "good , i ant" until you jive notice to li [ when her interest in you sud<3 vanishes. [ As there is nothing more to bi pected from you and the incoi tenant is obliged to give a subi , tial tip called a "denier a Dieu,' is anxious to "speed the pa; ; guest" as much as possible. I I The concierge does sometimes i , i a final effort to extract somet : I uore from you by attempting makfe you pay one franc for e ; i nail Knocked in the wall6 of your | but this has been decided to be gal and may be safely resisted. 1 T),if 4-V* "D n i r jjul luc x ai loiau vuxioici 10 ly unpopular because she repres a landlord.?London Dally Mail. Texas Bees Bring Much Mone The output of honey in Texas ; I year was 4.96.8,'000 pounds. ! fornia came next, with 3,6 G7 pounds, and New York third, 3,442,000 pounds. Missouri ! fourth, with 3,018,929 pounds. | as also stands first in the numb< colonies of bees, there being 417, i The honey crop of Texas bring : annual revenue of approxims j $500,000. the price for which it | ranging from eight to ten cen i pound. In addition the beekee I sell many thousand dollars' wort bees each year. These colonie bees are shipped to all parts of United Stats and to foreign count How He Does It. Notice the man of whom it is i 11.. -1 utt. j - ] erany sain: ne is suuuc&siui is getting along." Notice thai attends to his work; he is polite doesn't drink; he is honest and his debts. No man ever succe without these qualities. ? AtcJi (Kan.) Globe. Paying the Fare. j Annette was attending her service at church. When the o I tory began she watched the perfi ! ance with interest, and as the i basin was handed in at the where she and her mother sat sh< .'laimed, excitedly: "Mamma, le pay the fare." Vain Desire. The man whose greatest pur is to get even with his enemies k making so many of them that his sire for satisfaction can never be filled. t 5 . 5TFwl , |j ?>unbati-?>cfjo<>f orth " ping ? hich INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMnew MENTS FOR MARCH 21. fifty Review of the Lessons For the First an- Quarter ? Golden Tex/: "They has That Were Scattered Abroad i ?f Went Everywhere Preaching th?: ;em, Word." Acta 8:4. can, . , , , Hjar_ The lessons of the quarter extend over a period of perhaps ten years, from Thursday, May 18, A. D. 30, to perhaps A. D. 40. They are all coninis cerned with the things that Jesua jrlin continued to do after His resurrection s on through the Holy Spirit. A profitable elec- review can be conducted along the con_ line of the power of the Risen Christ. mm_ j' Lesson I. shows us the Risen Christ Died as the Giver of ttie Ho'y Spirit. V, . LesBon II. again shows us the Risen Dat' Christ as the Giver of the Holy Spirit mo_ . Lesson III. .shows us the Risun Christ exalted, receiving from tie Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, ntist and pouring Him forth on the church s by Lesson IV. shows us the Risen ky. Christ healing and making strong the x man born lame. Lesson V. shows us the Risen ieaa. Christ bestowing the Holy Spirit upon from His faithful servants^ and making >f a them fearless in the presence of great is a peril. It also shows us the Risen Christ as the only One in whom there is salvation. Qlcai Lesson VI. shows us the Risen .. Christ executing judgment in His church. ay a ' Lesson VII. shows us the Risen oical Christ delivering His faithful serv108 ants from peril and filling them with fork dauntless courage. ben- Lesson VIII. shows us the Risen for Christ imparting power and grace to hppT1 His faithful servant. It also shows . us the Risen Christ in the glory at the right hand of God. Lesson IX. shows us the Risen lloid Christ bestowing the Holy Ghost in i the answer to the prayer of His servants, than Lesson X. shows us the Risen )ber, Christ winning a man of great aun0r thority to Himself. w . Lesson XI. shows us the Risen I nv.i.t mob-ino- u/hnip the sick and .! V^lillOW UiUiii II ? raising the dead. lsed. - . . y ?' Onr Two Natures. There are two natures in man that are as distant as day and night. With ji the old Adam within us if we do not keep him down in the place of death he brings ub Into captivity. a to It takes us about all our lifetime to find out who and what we are. and ' when we think we know something -o De happens to make us think we are well" farther away than when we started, sup- The heart is deceitful above all things. to In the sixth chapter of Romans it after *s written: "Knowing this, that our s old man is crucified with Him, that ' , t the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve eces" sin. For he that is dead is freed ways from sin/.' And in the eleventh verse there are just three words to bp es let- pecially considered: "Reckon youri the selves dead." If we were really dead mid- we w?uld not have to reckon our'ided selves dead. Judicially we are dead, * but in reality we are still fighting the world, the flesh and the devil.. Some a people seem to think they have got away from the flesh, and that they most are soaring away in a sort of seventh 10 heaven, but they getback again soonance er or later. You cannot make the ag a flesh anything but flesh. It will be open time-?D- k- Moody. S00n His Own Pilot. TO d0 A bright boy, who loved the sea, entered on a sailor's life when very you young. He rose to quick promotion, late aIQ(j whne quite a young man was is to made the master of a ship. One day ierge a passenger spoke to him upon the int," voyage, and asked if he should anfor chor off a certain headway and telegraph for a pilot to take the vessel. . .. into port. "Anchor? No, not I. I ? mean to be in dock with the morning ! her tide. I am my own pilot," was the ler?e curt reply. ten- Intent upon reaching port by mornsave, I ing he took a narrow channel to save lenly j distance. Old, bronzed, gray-headed seamen turned their swarthy faces to the sky, which boded squally weath. " er, and shook their heads. We need not describe a storm at sea. Enough 5tan* to say that the captain was ashore she earlier than he promised ? tossed rting sportively upon some weedy beach, a dead thing thatthewaves were weary nake of?and bis queenly ship and costly hing freight were scattered over the surfy r tQ acres of an angry sea.?Expositor. svery ^ SJf*u of Greatness. flat "j* The highest greatness is that which ille" is unconscious of itself. The very forth-putting of an effort to be great real- in any direction indicates that we sents lack that greatness. How true this is in art, for example, every one who j has had an artist among his friends I fan tell. The greatest achievements y. made by the sculptor or painter have last been those in which they have been r ,. least conscious of their greatness, nn ?0, t00' in the Christian life, which is ,000 grandest of all arts, we have not with yet attained so long au we are conwas scious ofxexertion. If I make an efTex fort to be humble, then very cleariy ?r of I have not reached the perfect humil000 tty* for * had> ^at Srace would sit g * u])on me as unconsciously as do my garments. "Moses wist not that the 1 y skin of his face shone while he talked sells with Him.'"?Dr. W. M. Taylor. pers No Reason For Envy. ;h of We who have the Sun need no/ s of nnvy ihose who saw the Star. the Ties New Postage Doubles Mail. Fully twice as much mail as she would bave otherwise have brought, according to the postoffice authorigen ties of New York City, there being ; he 1075 sacks on board, came over on I he Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm. She is . he the first steamer to leave Germany ' for the United States after the reduced rate of postage on letters from eded twenty pfennigs, or five cents, to lison eight pfennigs, or two cents, went into effect between that country and this. I \Morgan to Have Game i'reservc. At Trinidad, Col., Colonel J. A. r" Owenby announced that 2000 acres Drm- 0f coai iand?owned by himself, J. P. alms Morgan, of New York, and B. F. Chepew ney, of Boston, situated near the Colj ex- orado and New Mexico line, would be t nie made into a game preserve, and thoroughly stocked with wild animals. The land will also be worked for its coal deposite. pose Hatched by Eleotrohen. eeps In full view of thousands at the 5 de- electrical show in Chicago the elecful ' trohen hatched broods of chickens I It. is a couple of hours after each I chicken fights his way into the world before it is entirely presentable. -\ j Religious Thuths\ ^ TE i i From the Writings of Great Preachers., i ? ^ THE TRUE LIFE Cor FROM THE SWEDISr F Live lor Jesus! All the gladnesb That may comc from earthly things B Equals not one hour's enjoyment Which His blessed service brings. Live for Jesus! For thus only Does our life deserve the name. T)u To thy heart, before all others, X Jesus has a perfect claim. The Live for Jesus! 'Round His tanner Gather souls, while time doth last, ^ To His cross invite poor sinners, Soon the work-day will be past. Thousands of such wanderers 'round tnee ? f After peace and comfort sigh; Jj Tell them of the Friend who only Xn Can their lougings satisfy. * T Tell them simply of salvation Thou thyself in Him hast found; Of the grace and loving kindness Wherewith He thy life has crowned. Live for Jesus! Life's young Springtidi Give Him, and thy Summer s prime; We T.ivp for Him when fadincr Autumn ' Speaks to thee of shortening time. , 3 Give thyself entirely to Him: Thus He gave Himself for thee, , When He lived on earth despised, \ye When He died on Calvary. j; Th< Give up all for Him. well knowing Thus to lose is all to gain; / Live for Jesus, till with Jesus Thou for ever rest and reign. ?Alice Jane Home, in London Christian. ' Wt A Service in Henven. "They serve Him day and night In His temple." "And His servants shaH serve Him." So, Just what these declarations ma3 mean In regard to the employment oi the children of God in heaven we may not know. But they certainly indicate that God has something foi His servants to do on the other sid? * of the river of death. The highway, to service in the kingdom of God is not by the ocean liner to the foreign ha fields; it is not by the transcontinental jja train to the needy home fields beyond a8 the plains and the mountains, but it WG is down the death valley to the king- pri dom of the immortals. There God is jn( calling His servants, one by one. wj When one has learned the secret of service her?r God calls him. When ' I he has completed a certain allotted jn work, God calls him. When he has 6jj( proved himself true and faithful, God cju calls him to a wider service where [n there shall be no night and the day of usefulness is never ended. a , And God will there take care of jn, His servant, so that the privations of va' service here -will be unknown there. ,jr He will spread His tabernacle o,ver tj them. They shall hunger no more, Wf neither thirst any more; neither shall pi, the sun strike upon them, nor any gri heat; for the Lamb that is in the ^ midst of the throne shall be their ro shepherd and shall guide them unto mt fountains of waters of life, and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes. It will be a magnificent serv- ^ei Ice in that nightless land where all f0, have washed their robes and made etj them white in the blood of the Lamb! W( ?United Presbyterian. th ' ve Always Keep Faitli. wTany a woman who would not think of lightly breaking a promise made to a grown-up person is utterly careless about keeping her word with her children. She promises whatever is convenient at the moment, and apparently thinks that the breaking or keeping of those promises is a matter in which she can please herself, and b,, that her children have no right to consider themselves aggrieved if she does not do so. A mother who acts thus does her child grievous harm. She forgets that the sense of justice is strong in cjj quite a little child, and that it is natural and reasonable that he should ag | expect ms parents to oe as guuu oa p0 | their word, and to fulfil their prom- at ises even at the cost of convenience. jn Promises should not be- lightly m< broken, and the parent who is guilty po of this soon loses her children's con- su fidence, which is one of the sweetest things our little ones can give us. da When boys and girls learn to doubl pj( their parents' truthfulness they soon look around for some one else whom an they can trust, and on that persoD jjS they shower their affection and bestow their confidence. ? Scottish gc American. di w< God is Able. in Jehovah, the loving God, distinct!? 8,s promises to answer the prayers of HiJ ?J children. He that gave parents a 01 love for their children, will He nol listen to the cries of His own sons Ia and daughters? He has wonders in ?p store for them. What they never dr heard of, never saw or dreamed of, He will do for them. He will invent ?P new blessings, if needful. Hp- will ja ransack sea and land to feed them; *n. He will send every angel out ol " Heaven to succor them, if their distress requires it. He will astound Qe them with His grace, and make them feel that it was never before done in this fashion. All He asks of them is that they will call upon Him.? Jr Spurgeon. j M sa As a Little Child. Cc "Some are so unwise as to think tw that because they are men they can ^ escape the infancy of faith and at V1 once attain the manhood of Christ's knowledge; but the highest degree of perfection requires that we become * little children, in very likeness to the . childhood of our most loving, humble and obedient Saviour."?Rev. Joseph 1 W. Reynolds, M. A. tw ? I Source of Drawing Power. Solomon, the prince of peace, alone could build the temple. If we would be soul-winners and build up the church, which is God's temple, let us note this: Not by discussion nor by urgument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him.?Hudson is Taylor. mi Some Coed Seed. When you see a life feriile with ! we weeds, think what it might do with | pr< om.rl cdPfl | te< Sweden Has Universal Suffrage. ab The franchise reform bill, which, wc in one shape or another, has been be- co fore the Legislature at Stockholm, Sweden, for two years, finally passed un both houses. The first chamber car- Tfc ried it by 119 votes to 22, and the eis second chamber by 153 to 53. The js" Social Democrats voted with the minority. The plan is based on the j pa principle of a proportional electoral pr system for both chambers and univcrsal suffrage for the second eham- ^0 ber. Qualification for election to first Tj, chamber is reduced to the point that those enjoying an income of $1800 a on ' year are eligible. I \ ! , E WARFARE AGAtMST DRINK C ' H MPERANCE BATTLE GATHERS H STRENGTH EVERY DAT. jUj Rollicking Drinking Song. j^H With a Check on the Rollick. HH ie! Pour us the ruby red wine! D or in it real happiness lies, HH piring philosophy richly divine, To every true thinker endeared! - H right Rcintillant sparkles it brings to the eyes. HjH (And makes them at last rather bleared.) B|H ! juice of the palpitant grape-' BH he soul optimistic expands; i Future takes on such a ravishing Bfl shape Twere idle with Hope to dissemble. ^Hj mbition itself you might grasp with your hands! (Until it's observed that they tremble.} ig for the foolish who think i temperance joy they can find! Hfl idle indifference gaily we drink lX7k>1n +kfl afai'ab wKrt nAtir?M* I^^HI IT Ull^ tuir ObVlWO nuv VVH%IV*> 0 quaff; and quaff deeply, we nave but one mind. ... H (A mind which before long will ,* wander.) ht clear through the night, as we sap, Ve drink the rich juice of the South; HI nee no To-morrow inside the wine cup? MS So what of its thought is the use? , HH 'hen pour the delicious red wine in your mouth! HH (Soon painfully thick lipped and looee.> KH : laugh at the progress of Time, .. To matter how sternly he qtalk; HM 2 roseate liquor is far too sublinle Hi To urge us to more than a rambling. BH aid filled with our nectar we proudly may Walk! HI (Until it drifts into a shambling.) HH >'11 live fust as long as we en, >^H ind in the bright Present repose; ' e Future we'll leave to the non-drinking H| man, Who has no real sense in his head. " ere you imbibe, sniff the wine in yous ^H (Which will soon be a furious red.) -^H ?Associated Sunday Magazine.A^H Why Do They Drink? |H As one walks along the ugly street, 3 big black bottles stand oat in ?B| 1 wide glass window, ,so close at ^H nd that one might almost put one's . nd on them. Liquid damnation, H our friends the prohibitionists mid say. But. even tnougn me oprietor of this place might be luced to wash the thirsty gutters ^B th his wares, there is no pressing ste for this. Pray ask him first HI tether he has yet other commoditlea - stock. Up there on that' high elf, inside the store, has he per- I ance, in bottles that we can empty H| the gutter, too, such miserable iffs as these: The quintessence of selfish heart; the scourge of scoldi tongues; the haste of wealthy ;^B gabonds to kill themselves, and agging hours; the memories of lit- / Hj ! ones who died because the great ' ^B >rld, that had called them here to H| ly their parts trifling time, had H eedlly withheld her bounty from eir pallid lips; or the unceasing H| und of drudgery that changes bu- ^B in beings into mere aching cogs in ' IM leels? WM All these must run along the gutr there; else do you not know that, H| r the temporary washing of the w? tin of sorrow from the heart, men >uld perform a miracle and make em fiery beverages from but the ^B ry paving stones of the < street? H is, ifthey shall ask for daily bread *^B d have but stones, they will trans* ^B rm the unpalatable diet into mo- ^B entary cioua casttes, irom wuepte. Is true, they shall descend to a ill sadder and more sordid earth, it what would you wish? Stones e highly Indigestible, good tern* ranee friends, and grate unpleasitly upon the teeth of those who te at them..?Louise Harding, in iristian Register. One Canse of Child Labor. A common contributing cante to ild labor is the saloon and the verage liquor traffic, which discotuv ;e thrift and frugality among the ior and often force their children a too early age from the school to the mill or shop. When poor * ;n undertake to support saloons and olrooms, their families are sure to ffer. To relieve that want, the wife akes in washing" and the son or iughter leaves- school to seek emoyment. , Child labor voluntarily undertaken id the experience accompanying it tve in many cases proven more neficial than the schooling sacrled. However, there is a great fference between Mr. Lawrence, the jalthy contractor at Fairfield, leav- ' g hom} at eight years of age to asit his poor mother in the support a large family, and the children an able-bodied spinner in Lewiston lio are forced to toil in the cotton v pfnrv tn simnnrt their father, whe ends his time playing billiards and inking in beer shops. Intoxicating liquors, more than * iy other thing, tend to make people le, wasteful and vicious, thus strikg at both morals and wealth, 1 quor blights the last hopeful prosct of the poor and creates paupers, fectives and criminals. Cauue of Pneumonia. "Men drunk from liquor and men unk from overeating are most susptible to pneumonia and die of if,'id Dr. Evans, Chicago's Health immissioner, in an address a day 01 o ago. "The majority of cases ol leumonia are of patient? who conicted the disease after a drunken bauch or who were drunk frons erfeeding," Dr. Evans continued ' 'eople drunk from overfeeding, I ink. are almost as immoral as those 10 stupei'y themselves with liquors, le effecti; of pneumonia in s.ich paints are much the same." Temperance News and Notes. The "bumper" is well named. t A sherry cobbler does not mend e soul. We favor shorter hours for over* >rked bartenders. The use of the cup that inebriates often bowled out. If rectifiers could only rectify the stakes of alcohol? ( One month aft<?r Galeslnr.^, 111., nr. dry, her "drunk list" hid deeciated from ninety-one to seven* ?n. Every moderate drinker could andon the intoxicating cup if he >uld; every inebriate would if he uld.?John B. Gough. The National \V. C. T. U. has local 1 ions in 10,000 towns and cities, le work is carried on by thirty ;ht departments. The organizationbut thirty-four years old. The value of farm products in the st.year is placed at 57 778,000,000; ettv soon <he liquor manufacturer * 11 come along and want to know _ w the country could possibly sur. ire if it didn't have him to rot up s little sixty-four one-hundredth ot e per cent, of that amount. _