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J.PTER VII.—(Continued.)
Ir, so good!" he muttered. He
I round to take another cau-
By of the room, and then
tore oft the sheet of blot
pr. "With my heartfelt apolo
(r. Gillibrand!" he added, as
secured it between the
bfcketbook. "If this is
ghtest use to me, how-
Jisst difficulty will be in
(fit is genuine or not. Is
ttiat Miss Luttrell herself
beeq in here writing, or can it
Ithat somebody else has been sim
I directing an envelope to her? That
"the question and, considering that
lam at present hopelessly in the dark
pn as to the hand Miss Luttrell
Ites, I hardly-see how this blotting
|er affair is to benefit me in any
unless—" Here the Major broke
Qmewhat abruptly, and, walking to
window, gazed out dubiously
trough the blurred panes. "Nonsense,
|oiigh! I will manage it somehow!"
limed after a moment's reflec
3y the aid of a little diplo
id a plan which I believe I
out, the rest should be easy,
thout raising the suspicions of
[Miss Luttrell or anybody else.
Id gain for myself some knowl
of considerable value. All the
kif I intend to go seriously to
\he sooner I make a beginning
ptter and, as In this case the
Inning means a walk- to the town
the pouring rain. I may as well
irt at once, without putting oft the
II moment any longer. Ah—it is a
flous affair"—he gave a significant
ng of his shoulders—"and to think
of all people in the world, that
should be the victim!"
*o minutes later the Major, with
lhat drawn well over his eyes and
[collar of his mackintosh turned up
closeljr round his throat, set out at a
swinging pace upon his unpleasant ex
pedition.
CHAPTER VIII.
Notwithstanding that the rain nev
er ceased during the Major's walk into
Saltcliffe and back, and that he re
turned with his gaiters splashed to
his knees and with the water run
ningina thin but steady stream from
the brim of his hat, fortune certainly
favored him that afternoon. In other
circumstances he might have waited
fa yailn for hours, but, as it happened,
be bad scarcely returned to the library
and taken up his position before the
Are more than a couple of minutes,
when the door opened and Evelyn
Luttrell entered the room.
"Oh, please do not move!" she ex
claimed, as the Major pushed back his
chair and, glancing round to discov
er who the intruder might be, imme
diately started to his feet. "I have
only come for a book which my aunt
^wanted, so do not let me disturb
pbu."
"Oh, do not mention such a thing!
fFerbaps I can help you to find the
bobk for'Lady Howard."
"Weil, most likely you can," was the
'reply, accompanied by a bewitching
emile. "It is a thick green— Ah, that
Ir the one! Thank you very much!'
ihe broke off as the Major handed
her the rather ponderous looking vol
ume. "Aunt Lydia will have plenty
to occupy her for the rest of the day
it she reads this through."
"Yes, from its appearance, I should
.say that one wet day would be hard
ly enough. She will need two or three
juoQB of the same stamp. But I am
Just wondering," he proceeded, regard
ing ber with a slight air of perplex
,ity, "whether you happen to be in a
^particularly neighborly frame of mind
j^ftis afternoon. The fact is— Do you
li^nowr, Miss Luttrell, I have rather a
|trange fancy—at least, it is not ex'
ctly strange, for dozens of people have
[cli fancies at one period or another
ANYHOW, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO REFUSE.
Itheir lives. With some it takes the
tam of collecting all kinds of stamps,
Stic and epigraphs, whilst with me"
fee in a somewhat apologetic
i$T^*-'tbe mania is for keeping a rec
of the birthdays of my friends."
h'The
birthdays of your friends!"
toed Evelyn.
is a peculiar taste no doubt, Miss
£11 but still" I must acknowledge
if you will condescend to add
aihe ^o my list of signatures, I
bateem it the highest of compli-
commented Brelyn,^ "how
Ml-' 'Eto you tno*1. I 'always
before that the host olr girth-
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day books which are constantly being
published were used principally by girls
at school and certain individuals whose
whole existence is one perpetual remin
iscence of pressed flowers, faded rib
bons, and sentimental odes."
"Oh, yes—I know the persons ex
actly! Your description is most graph
ic!"—and the Major laughed heartily.
"But, as I never wrote an ode in my
life, pressed even a leaf, or have such
a thing as a ribbon—faded or other
wise—in my possession, there must,
at all .events, be one exception to the
rule."
"Well, certainly. Still I was Just
thinking" contemplating Major
Brown with an expression of decided
gravity—"that you are the very last
person in the world I should have
believed would trouble with anything
so trifling as a birthday book."
Again he laughed—an apparently
careless laugh—as he made a futile
attempt to balance a paper knife on
the edge of the table, but this time
his laugh rather lacked its hitherto
cheerful "ing.
"Anyhow, Miss Luttrell, you are not
gclng to refuse? Tell me—what are
the day and month of your birth?"
"The day and month?" repeated
Evelyn, raising her eyebrows. "Oh, the
15th of August! I suppose you do not
insist upon the year as well!"
"No—I do not insist but anybody
who is particularly anxious to give it
is quite at liberty to do so. There,
Miss Luttrell—the 15th of August!"
lie had pulled out of his pocket a
small rather fantastically bound book,
and, opening it at a certain page, he
now laid it down before her. "There
is a verse of poetry for you, and a
line of Shakespeare but whether eith
er the poetry or the Shakespearean line
is in the least appropriate I do not
know."
1
But how strange—nobody elscfchas
written on this page at all! Am 1 to
have it quite to myself?"
"Yes—it seems as if you are to reign
supreme. It is all the better, though,
for, with five lines at your disposal"
—and the Major glanced at her signi
ficantly—"you can add as many par
ticulars as you like. Want of space
cannot be made an excuse for omit
ting' the all-impdrtant year."
"Well, at any rate, let me have a
good pen!" She drew the ink stand
towards her, took up a quill, and in
clear legible characters wrote "Eve
lyn C. Luttrell." "There, Major
Major Brown—will that satisfy you?"
—looking up, to find the Major,'who
had come close to her side, staring
down at her signature most attentive
ly.
Her wordB seemed to recall him to
himself.
"Thank you. I cannot tell you how
much obliged I am. You have done
me a great service, Miss Luttrell."-'
"No, indeed—I have done nothing. I
am honored that you should care for
my signature at all. But have you
a great many names down? May I
look through the book?"
"Certainly, if you care to do so,
only—"
Why did he suddenly hesitate? Eve
lyn, who had turned over a couple of
pages and was contemplating in ob
vious astonishment the blankness of
tfelr condition, instantly dropped her
pei and glanced quickly from the
leases before her to the Major, who
stool, watching her movements, with
the .color mounting slowly but surely
to his very brow.
"This is a new book," she announc
ed in a »ather ominous tone. "It is
not only ihe 15th of August which is
empty—eve?y page is the same!"
"Yes, of caurse—did I not explain?"
The Major's iace. was steadily averted
from the inqUring gaze of Evelyn's
blue eyes. "Y»u see, books of this
kind do get fillet, up in time. When
there are only fiv, lines to each date,
they are gone diri^tly—the result of
which is that a ney book has to De
immediately supplied"
Evelyn looked sligU.ly Incredulous.
"What a number of fiends you must
have!" IjjTl
The Major gave an expressive shrag
of his shoulders.
"Yes when one comes to odj
by the lines in a birthday boi^,
really astonishing how man? one
seems to have. HoWever, Miss Lut
trell, as you have bjepn the flrft\ tp
enter your name in this ope*V-he
turned to ber with a smile—"for
future*'I shall reserve It only for tw
k*M
most particular mends,
•Special!'"
"So you do not mix
friends indiscriminately-^
ferent grades of birl
Evelyn clasped her hi
head and laughed ami
idea. "A book for tl
them
it is
label it
all your
liave dlf
books?"
behind her
ly at the bare
pie you like.
a book for the peojwyou dislike, and
another for thosqjyou simply toler
ate!"
"Yes—that IsMiy method," replied
the Major, retwy accepting the sug
gestion. "As ft happens, though, you
see you did not come exactly under one
of my three headings therefore I had
to start a new book entirely on your
account."
"It was very kind of you, I am
sure but how will you manage in the
future? If you now have four instead
of three books, you will have to di
vide your friends quite differently."
"Well, it would seem so, certain
ly." Tho Major possibly detected the
touch of cynicism underlying Evelyn's
words. "I believe I shall have a diffi
culty in finding any one else to place
under this new heading. The book
has been begun with your name, but
there, I am pretty well sure, it will
have to end. Mis3 Luttrell, please do
not go! I know you think I am stark
staring mad, and in tlie circumstances
you may be. excused if you do but.
believe me, I was never more sane in
my life."
Evelyn, however, had pushed back
her chair, and at the sound of steps
in the corridor had risen somewhat
hastily to her feet.
"Oh, no—I do not think you are
mad! It is not that at all," she re
turned, putting the writing paper to
gether and closing the blotting boolt
with an unusually calm air. though
his words, spoken so earnestly, so
much more earnestly than the occa
sion or subject seemed to demand, had
sent ail the hot color rushing to her
cheeks. "It is Aunt Lydia's book
which is troubling me she will be
In despair. But here comes Mr. Falk
land! Ask him to write his name
in that wonderful birthday book of
yours only remember, whatever you
do"—in a tragic aside—"insist upon
the year!" And, with a parting nod,
Miss Luttrell turned and fled.
(To be continued.)
CONDITIONS IN ALGERIA.
The Idea of Assimilating the Native Is
Absurd.
The present constitution, based on
assimilation of Algeria to France, was
framed with the chimerical idea that
the native element would shrink and
the French increase, says the National
Review. The contrary has happened.
The Mohammedans increased between
1856 and 1876 by 155,000 between 1876
and 1896 by 1,300,000. During the ter
mer period famine and typhus and the
insurrection of 1871 kept down their
numbers also the oriental dread of
being counted led to some falsification
of the records. The idea of assimilat
ing the native is absurd. Mixed mar
riages between them and Christians
are practically unheard of, and they
do not take up French citizenship, pre
ferring to live under their own law.
Nor do they aspire to be represented
directly in the French chamber, and
any idea of the sort is as extravagant
as that of directly representing Hin
doos at Westminster. Machinery
must, however, be provided by which
the natives may make themselves felt,
and secure respect for their interest
in the local councils. The result of the
laws in force during the last twenty
or thirty years, whether laws of prop
erty, justice or taxation, has been the
impoverishment and discouragement of
the Arabs. Yet Algeria will never be
prosperous till they are rich, nor se
cure till they are contented. In par
ticular, the local functionaries should
be able to talk their language, as our
civil servants are required to do in
India. When at Biskra, the chief cen
ter of the Constantino Sahara and
mainly an Arab city, I ascertained that
in the local postoffice there was not a
single clerk who understood Arabic,
andMn one occasion I was able myself
to explain to one of them what an old
gesticulating sheik wanted him to do.
It was merely a matter of telegraph
ing a remittance of 50 francs or so to
his son in Algiers. Such ignorance in
the chief postoffice of the Sahara of
the language of the people is inex
cusable.
TEACHING MUSKRATS TO SWIM
How the Mother Animal Gave Her
Babies a Lesson*
That sensible portion of the animal
kingdom which naturalists are wont
to term the "brute creation" has a
wonderful faculty for distinguishing
between friend and foe also a no less
wonderful aptitude for encouraging a
close acquaintanceship with those
whom it trusts, says Forest and
Stream. Were it not for terror, in
herited through, generations of abused
confidence and malicious cruelty, the
timid thrush would proudly lead us to
the sylvan paradise where she has hid
den her birdlings, and the coy doe
would bring Us to her trembling off
spring that we might stroke its spotted
side. At the pool our attention was
attracted by a comical picture made
by an old muskrat trying to teach her
babies to swim. It struck us as strange
that she should go to such trouble
the little rats should have known in
stinctively how to navigate, but they
clung to the bank and to shallow wa
ter, above' which arose their fluffy
backs, bright eyes and uharp noses.
The mother set them the example of
swimming across and back. She en
deavored to coax and finally she push
ed them over their deptl\ and let
them make their own way to the shore,
though you may be sure she-stayed
close by. When we were seen the old
lady shrieked "Tramps!" in character
istic muskrat language and fled to her
subaquatlc vestibule I suppose to call
the police. The little ones did not at
tempt to escape. Ostrichlike, they hid
their heads among the roots and left
their naked tails waving above the
water like a new species of juncus
waiting to be examined. The madam
could not quite ignore the maternal
instinct, as she returned and conducted
her happy family to the nursery,
where they received their first lesson
in misanthropy.
Austrian returns indicate, that there
are In that country 1,101 persons whose
ineome exceeds 40,000 ritt a year,
and who a^e, therefore, rated as mil*
UonalreSi{ ,»
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THE LEON lpiPOKTEK. 'THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1800.
TALMAGI'S SERMON.
THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL AND ITS
HEAVENLY LIGHT.
rht Text Cliosen Being "Acoordlag to
the Glorious flospel of the lint
Biceaea Uod Wlijch \V»» Committed
to My Trunt"—Tim. 1:11.
The greatest novelty of our time 13
the gospel. It is so old that it is new.
As potters and artists are now attempt
ing to fashion pitchers and cups and
curious ware like those of 1,900 years
ago recently brought up from buried
Pompeii, and. such cups and pitchers
and curious ware are universally ad
mired, so any one who can unshovel
the real gospel from the mountains of
stuff under which it ha3 been buried,
will be able to present something that
will attract the gaze and admiration
and adoption of all the people. It is
amazing what substitutes have been
presented for what my text calls "The
Glorious Gospel." There has been a
hemispheric apostasy. There are many
people in this and all other large as
semblages who have no more idea of
what the gospel really is than they
have of what is contained in the four
teenth chapter of Zend-Avesta, the bi
ble of the Hindoo, the first copy of
which I ever saw I purchased in Cal
cutta, India, last September. The old
gospel is fifty feet under and the work
has been done by the shovels of those
who have been trying to contrive the
philosophy of religion. There is no
philosophy about it. It is a plain mat
ter of bible statement and of child-like
faith. Some of the theological semi
naries have been hotbeds of infidelity,
because they have tried to teach the
"philosophy of religion." By the time
that many a theological student gets
half through his preparatory course
he is so filled with doubts about plen
ary inspiration and the divinity of
Christ and the questions of eternal
destiny that he Is more fit for the low
est branch in the infant class of a Sun
day school than to become a teach
er and leader of the people. The
ablest theological professor is a
Christian mother,' who, out of her
own experience, can tell the 4-year
old how beautiful Christ was on
earth and how beautiful he is in
heaven and how dearly he loves lit
tle folks, and then she kneels down and
puts one arm around the boy, and with
her somewhat faded cheek against the
roseate cheek of the little one, con
secrates him for time and eternity to
Him who said, "Suffer them to come
unto me." What an awful work Paul
made with the D. D.'s and the LL. D.'s
and the. F. R. S.'s when he cleared the
decks of the cSd gospel ship by saying:
"Not many wise men, not many noble,
are called, but God hath chosen the
weak things of the world to confound
the mighty."
There sits the dear old theologian
with his table piled up with all the
great books on inspiration and exegesis
and apologetics for the Almighty and
writing out his own elaborate work on
the philosophy of religion, and his lit
tle grandchild, coming up to him for
a good-night kiss, he accidentally
knocks off .the biggest book from the
table and It falls on the head of the
child, of whom Christ himself said:
"Out of the mouths of babes and suck
lings thou hast perfected praise." Ah!
my friends, the bible wants no apolo
getics. The throne of the last judg
ment wants no apologetics. Eternity
wants no apologetics. Scientists may
tell us that the natural light is the
"propagation of undulations in an
elastic medium, and thus set in vibra
tory motion by the action of luminous
bodies" but ho one knows what gos
pel light is until his own blind eyes,
by the touch of the Divine Spirit, have
opened to see the noonday of pardon
and peace. Scientists may tell us that
natural sound is "the effect of an im
pression made on the organs of hearing
by an impulse of the air, caused by a
collision of bodies or by some other
means" but those only know what
the gospel sound »is who have heard
the voice of Christ directly saying:
"Thy sins are forgiven thee go in
peace." The theological dude unrolls
upon the plush of an exquisitely carved
pulpit a learned discourse showing that
the garden of Eden was an allegory,
and Solomon's song rather an indeli
cate love ditty, and the book of Job
a drama in which Satan was the star
actor, and that Renan was three-quar
ters right about the miracles of Jesus,
and that the bible was gradually evo
luted and the best thought of the dif
ferent ages, Moses and David and Paul
doing the best they could under the
circumstances, and therefore to be en
couraged. Lord of heaven and earth,
get us out of the London fog of higher
criticism!
The night is dark and the way is
rough, and we have a lantern which
God has put in our hands but instead
of employing the lantern to show our
selves and others the right way we
are discussing lanterns, their shape,
their size, their material and which
is the better light—kerosene, lamp oil
or candle and while we discuss it, we
stand all around the lantern so that
we shut out the light from the multi
tudes who are stumbling on in the
dark mountains of sin and death.
Twelve hundred dead birds were found
one morning around Bartholdi's statue
in New York harbor. They had dashed
their life out against the lighthouse
the night before. Poor things! And
the great lighthouse of the gospel—
how many high-soaring thinkers have
beaten all their religious life out
against it, while it was intended for
only one thing, and that to show all
nations the way into the harbor of
God's mercy, and to the crystalline
wharves of the heavenly city, where
the immortal's are waiting for new ar
rivals. Dead skylarks, when they
might have been flying seraphs.
Here also come, covering up the old
gospel, some who think they can by
law and exposure of crime save the
world, and from Portland, ^Maine,
across to San Francisco and back again
to New Orleans and Savannah, many
of the ministers have gone into the de
tective business. Worldly reform by
all means but unless it be also gos
pel reform, it will be dead failure. In
New York Its chief work has been to
give us a change of^sses.
The glorious gosjmi'lof the blessed
God as spoken of in my text will have
more drawing power, (and when that
gospel gets full swing it will have a
momentum and powej mightier than
that of the Atlantic otean when, under
the force of the SfiatHiMMillapx, tt
strikes the highlands of the Navesink.
The meaning of the word "gospel" Is
"good news," and my text says it Is
glorious news, and we must tell it in
our churches and over our dry goods
counters and in our factories and over
our threshing machines and behind our
plows and on our ships' decks and in
our parlors, our nurseries and kitchens,
as though It were glorious good news,
and not with a dismal drawl in our
voice and a dismal look in our faces,
as though religion were a rheumatic
twinge or a dyspeptic pang or a ma
larial chill or an attack of nervous
prostration. With nine "blesseds" or
"happys," Christ began his sermon on
the mount: Blessed are the poor,
blessed the mourner, blessed the meek,
blessed the hungry, blessed the merci
ful, blessed the pure, blessed the peace
makers, blessed the persecuted, blessed
the reviled, blessed, blessed, blessed
happy, happy, happy. Glorious good
news for the young, as through Christ
they may have their coming years en
nobled, and for a life time all the an
gels of God their coadjutors and all the
armies of heaven their allies. Glori
ous good news for the middle aged, as
through Christ they may have their
perpiexities disentangled and their cour
age rallied, and their victory over all
obstacles and hindrances made forever
sure. Glorious good news for the aged,
as they may have the sympathy of him
of whom St. John wrote:J "His head
and his hairs were white nice wool, as
white as snow," and the defense of the
everlasting arms. Glorious good news
for the dying, as they may have minis
tering spirits to escort them and open
ing gates to receive them and a sweep
of eternal glories to encircle them and
the welcome of a loving God to em
bosom them.
Oh, my text is right when It speaks
of the glorious gospel. It is an invi
tation from the most radient being
that ever trod the earth or ascended
the heavens, to you and to me, to
come and be made happy, and then
take after that a royal castle for ever
lasting residence, the angels of God our
cupbearers. The price paid for all of
this on the cliff of limestone about as
high as this house, about seven min
utes' walk from the wall of Jerusalem,
where with an agony that with one
hand tore down the rocks and with the
other drew down a midnight blackness
over the heavens, our Lord set us for
ever free. Making no apology for any
one of the million sins of our life, but
confessing all of them, we can point
to that cliff of limestone and
answer comes, "Christ is all
Bay,
"There was paid our indebtedness and
God never collects a bill twice. Glad
am I that all the Christian poets have
exerted their pen in extolling the
matchless one of this gospel. Isaac
Watts, how do you feel concerning
him? And he writes, "I am not
ashamed to own my Lord." Newton,
what do you think of this gospel?
And he writes, ""Amazing grace, how
sweet the sound." Cowper, what do
you think of him? And the answer
comes, "There is a fountain filled with
blood." Charles Wesley, what do you
think of him? And he answers, "Jesus,
lover o- my soul." Horatius Bonar,
what do you think of him? And he re
sponds, "I lay my sins on J^gus." Ray
Palmer, what do you.^^^f him'/
And he writes, "My fait
thee." Fannie Crosby, what doyou
thin1™of him? And she writes, "Bleskt?#
assuran'r«, Jesus is mine.
higher testimony: Solomon, what do
you think of him? And the aiswer Is,
"Lily of the valley." Ezekiel, vhat do
you think of him? And the aitwer is,
"Plant of renown." David, jHTll do
you think of him? And the aiwertis,
"My shepherd." St. John, jjp
rou think of him? And the aiWer'is,
"Bright and morning star." Paul,
what do you think of him?
Bit I take
gardens, where immortals walk, linked
in eternal friendship and the banquet
hall of that castle has princes and
princesses at the table and the wine
is the "new wine of the kingdom," and
the supper is the marriage supper of
the lamb and there are fountains into
which no tear ever fell, and there is
music that trembles with no grief, and
the light that falls upon the scene is
never beclouded, and there is the kiss
of those united after long separation.
More nerve we will have there than
now, or we would swoon away under
the raptures. Stronger vision will we
have there than now, or our eyesight
would be blinded by the brilliance.
Stronger ear will we have there than
now, or under the roll of that min
strelsy and the clapping of that accla»
mation and the boom of that halle
lujah we would be deafened. Glorious
gospel! You thought religion was a
straight-jacket, and it put you on the
limits, and thereafter you must go
cowed down. No, no, no. It is to be
castellated. ,By the cleansing power
of the shed blood of Golgotha, set
your faces toward the shining pinna
cles. Oh, it does not matter much
what becomes of us here—for at the
longest our stay is short—if we can
only land there. You see there are so
many 1 want to meet there. Joshua,
my favorite prophet and John among
the evangelists and Paul among the
apostles, and Wycliffe among the mar
tyrs, and Bourdaloue among the
preachers, and Dante among the poets,
and Havelock among the heroes, and
our loved ones whom we have so much
missed since they left us, so many
darlings of the heart, their absence
some'.imes almost unbearable and,
mentioned In this sentence last of all,
because I want the thought climacteric,
our blessed Lord, without whom we
could never reach the old castle at all.
He took our place. He purchased our
ransom. He ^ept our woes. He suf
fered our strines. He died our death.
He assured our resurrection. Blessed
be his glorious name forever! Surging
to his ear be all the anthems! Fac
ing him be all the thrones!
And then from that vastest audience
ever established in all the universe
there will go up the shout, "Crown
him! Crown him! Crown him!" and
the Father, who long ago promised
his only begotten Son, "I will give thee
the heathen for thy inheritance, and
the uttermost parts of the earth for
thy possession," shall set the crown
upon the forehead yet scarred with
crucifixion bramble, and the hosts ot
heaven, down on the levels and up in
the galleries, will drop on their knees
crying, "Hail, king of earth! King of
heaven! King of saints! King of
seraphs! Thy kingdom Is an everlast
ing kingdom, and to thy dominions
there shall be no end! Amen and
Amen! Amen and Amen!"
Slionld Coal Give Outj
What then? Are we utterly depend-V
ent upon coal, so that the wheels of in
dustry will stop and the foipsts be
consumed for fuel when co
out? Of course not. it is an
Already we have the begi:
new method of utilizing
gy which will prov
than cc
prai_..4
iatever extent
energ water powe
nm ti
rld's industries, turnyiuTits'
light andneat'
nd
the
all."
Do you think as well of him,) man,
O woman, of the blood-bought inmor
tal spirit? Yes, Paul was righ when
he styled it "The Glorious GSpel."
And then as a druggist, while yu are
waiting for him to make up th doc
tor's prescription, puts into a .ottle
so many grains of this and so oany
grains of that, and so many dro^ of
this and so many drops of that, and
the intermixture taken, though -,our
and bitter, restores the health, so
Christ, the Divine Physician, prepares
this trouble of our life time and iiat
disappointment and this persecuim,
and that hardship and that tear, ¥ad
we must, take the intermixture, et
though it be a bitter draught, unler
tue divine prescription it administlrs
to our restoration and spiritual hear
"ail things working together for gooi
Glorious gospel!
And then the royal castle into whlc
we step out of this life without so
much as soiling our foot with the up
turned earth of the grave. "They
shall reign forever and ever." Does
not that mean that you are, if saved,
to be kings and queens, and. do not
kings and queens have castles? But
the. one that you are offered was for
thirty-three years an abandoned cas
tle, though now gloriously inhabited.
There is an abandoned royal castle at
Amber, India. One hundred and sev
enty years ago a king moved out of it
never to return. But the castle still
stands in indescribable grandeur, and
you go through brazen doorway after
brazen doorway, and carved room after
carved room, and under embellished
ceiling after embellished celling, and
through precious-stoned into wider
halls precious-stoned, and on that hill
are pavilions deeply dyed and tasseled,
and arched, the fire of colored gardens
cooled by the snow of white architec
ture birds in arabesque so natural to
life that while you cannot hear their
voices you imagine you see the flutter
of their wings while you are passing
walls pictured with triumphal pro
cession rooms that were called "Al
cove of Light" and "Hall of Victory"
marble, white and black, like a mix
ture of morn and night alabaster and
mother-of-pearl and lacquer work.
Standing before it, the eye climbs from
step to latticed balcony, and from lat
ticed balcony to oriel, and from oriel
to arch, and from arch to roof, and
then descends on ladder of all colors
and by stairs of perfect lines to tropical
gardens of pomegranite and pineapple.
Seven, stories of resplendent architec
ture! But the royal castle provided
for you, if you will only tal^tf it on
the prescribed terms, is grander than
all that, and though an abandoned cas
tle while Christ was here achieving
your redemption, is again occupied by
the "Chief among ten thousand,^' and
some of your own kindred who', have
gose up and, waiting for you, are ttetm
injg from the balcony. The windows
of that castle took off on the Ring's
and be 1 he
substitii"
uyversal
for a11 forms o£
method'
CODlbustion
Water
P°wer
is
practically
uniifjiTed, and it will be utilized more
and more in proportion as the need for
it -.rises and as its use becomes, at dif
le.'ent places and at different periods,
cheaper than coal. The substitution
will proceed gradually, until, when the(
coa"l supply finally is exhausted, no
body will hav\a anything more than a
curious or academic Interest in the
matter, and probably not a ripple will
be produced in the steady onward flow
of the world's industry. As the use of
water power to develop electrical en
ergy increases to the point of formida
ble competition with coal, electrical
students and inventors will doubtless
bring out improvements making it pos
sible to store the power or conduct it
long distances at small cost, until our
factories, railroads and ships can be
operated by it, our houses lighted and
warmed and food prepared all at even
less expense than la possible today
with coal.
A British School at Rome.
A movement, supported by a strong
general committee, for the establish
ment at Rome of a British school sim
ilar to that which has existed for thir
teen years at Athens, Germany .France
Austria, and the United States already
possess institutionr of the kind in
Home, but Great Britain, almost alone
among European nations,'is unrepre
sented. The need is recognized in that
city of a British center of study and
research, offering to British students
the advantages enjoyed by members of
other nationalities. The formation of
such a center would be welcomed by
the commitee of the Athens school, as
a means of enabling students to com
plete in Rome the training they have
received in Athens, though the work
done in both cities would be of a sim
ilar character. The school in Rome
like that in Athens, would be a train
ing ground for students fresh from the
universities or other institutions, as
well as a place where more mature
students could gather, to the stimula
tion of intercourse and sympathy and
the achievement of more concerted and
continuous work.—London Echo.
A Five-Leveed Frog,
A flve-legged frog has come all the
way from Connecticut and taken up his
abode in the New York aquarium. He
did not hop here—even a frog with five
legs could not do that—but traveled in
a box with some wet moss to keep him
cool. When he was transferred to
tank he uttered a graceful chirrup and
blinked his golden-rimmed eyes. At
first glance this newcomer seems to
carry his extra leg so gracefullly that
the beholder is tempted to think that
all frogs ought to have three front legs,
Closer examination, however, shows
that the middle leg is really an excres
cence from one of the others, and is
not of much service to ItA proprietor.
He does not use it In swimming or
hopgiAg, but it imparts a cfertain dig
nity to his aspect.—ifow YoVk World,
-yc
Cheerfulness was never
duced by effort, whiih is
painful.
An automatic cart, for s:multa
ously watering and sweeping tht
streets, is in use in Paris. The so&nk
ling hose is just in front of.&hcSfollia*
brush.
Hornonltm
Is a blot upon our land—a symptom of'
governmental ill-health. The right
laws would act upon it as Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters does upon constipa
tion, or dyspepsia. They would quick
ly restore healthy purity and this is
just what the Bitters does for the hu
man constitution. It makes the stom
ach strong by curing indigestion and
biliousness.
At the University of Illinois 307
women are registered as students.
"An Empty
Cannot Stand Upright."
ShCeither can poor, 'weak, {fun blood
nourish and sustain ihe physical system,
Fdr strength of nerves and muscles there
must be pure, rich, vigorous blood.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is established as the
standard preparation for the blood by da
many remarkable cures.
Joseph of Hebrew origin,
addition.
lyet pro
In iuelf
I
J-.
Is
ti&VBr Diss pp in ts
Maurice is of Kouian origin, the son
of a Moor.
There is more Catarrh in tins section of th«
country than all other diseases put together.
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For a great many years doctors pro
nounccd it a local disease, and prescribed local
remedies and by constantly failing to curd
with local treatment, pronounced it Incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be a constitu
tional disease, and therefore requires consti
tutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, man
ufactured by P. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
is the only constitutional cure on the m&rket.
It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops
a teaspoonfuL It acts directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cureu
bend for circulars and testimonials Address
& CO.. luledO- Qiiio,
Sold by Dru[?f ists, T5c. '-wis
Hall's Family Pills are tfce best. \J_
Informal callers sKould be most care
ful to avoid the hours for meals.
The constantly increasing business
of th6 B. & O. R) R. has necessitated
very material additions to the tele
graph service. During the past year
nearly 2,000 miles of copper wire, 168
pounds to the mile, have been strung.
New lines have been placed in service
between Baltimore and Pittsburg, Bal
timore and Parkersburg, Newark. O.
to Chicago, Philadelphia to Newark,
Philadelphia to Cumberland and Cum
berland to Grafton. During the sum
mer several of these wires were quad
ruplexed between Baltimore and Cum
berland and duplexed west.
Shoemaking machines were invented
by Fallahue in 1858.
The Health and 1 lea lure Reaort*
Of Texas, Mexico, Arizona and Cali
fornia are quickly and comfortably
reached via the Southern Pacific Com
pany's, Sunset Route. Daily through
service froa^New Orleans to Saa
Francisco v!#»ipusrton, San Antonio.
El Paso and Angeles. Specials
semi-weekly eerVw
it
to
y'
Sunset
Limlt^^
tfrom New Orleain,^wnTlf,flTO
Thursdays, composed Smok
ing Car, containing Room and
Barber Shop, DrawinaRoom Compart- j,
meat Car, regular Ptlman Sleepers. $
Dining Csy (mealfa la carte), all
C'.jaign luxurl
gtlona
and East." tnforma
cheSi '-alltait pish-'d by W. 6.
Ntiwayer, G. V?^i:.,So.-Pac. Co., 23#
Clavk St., Chicago "W. H. Connor,
Com'l Agt., ChamberComimerce Bldg..,
Cincinnati, O., W. J. Berg, Trav. Pass.
Agt.., 220 Ellicott Square, Buffalo,
N. Y.
means an
La Porte. Texas-
The progress of the construction
work at La Poke, Texas, the future
great deep-water /shipping point at the
head of navigation on Galveston Bay
on the Gulf oifli^ico, is progressing
favorably. The wharvts anT*switch
ing tracks are nearing completion and
the work on the streets and on tb»
sewerage and water systems is now
under way. Mr. I. R. Holmes, the gen
eral manager of the La Porte Improve
ment Company and the La Port*
Wharf and Channel Company, Is per
sonally superintending the improve
ments. Mr. Holmes makes bis head
quarters at the Sylvan Hotel and vis
itors to La Porte during the next six
weeks and before the time of the first
general La Porte sale, which will be
held in February, 1900, should Intro
duce themselves to Mr. Holmes and al
low him to extend to them facilities
for getting a thorough understanding
of the conditions surrounding the L*
Porte enterprises.
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Wherever pold has value brass will
be shining up trying to look like it.
Baker's Breakfast Cocoa
Is dellctons. Costs lens than one cent a cop. KM
only by Walter Bafccr & Co. Ltd., Dorchester, lint,
A good boy is worth far more than a
bad man.
Reliable Help Wanted
(Either nex.) The Humanitarian Home and 8«ntta*
lum for Invalids and Health Seekers, Incorporated
Send 12c In stamps for full Information. Addreaa
J. H. TelUebaum, Treasurer, Las Vegas, N. M.
When some people die the bells ought
to ring instead of toll.
Dally Paper for 81 a Tear.
The Iowa legislature meets this winter, eonmera
will deal with many problems, and wars In Africa
and the Philippines will lead to great results. Th*
IJes Moines llally News will tell you all about
these events and all other news of Iowa and the
world. Including telegraphic markets. Subscrip
tion price, one year, $1 six months, 75 cents
three months. &U cents, cash in advanoe. Addresc
The NcwsvDes Moines Iowa.
Do not apologize too much for not
having called before. Your neglect to
do so lias probably not been observed.
If afflicted with
eore eyes,
Thompson's Eye Water
ARTERSINK
Grow up with it.
•it
A
SUBSTANTIAL
PROFIT
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will be made by every buyer of l* Pone
property. First general sale In Febru
ary, 1900. La Porte, Texas, Is degtlned
to be the future greatest seaport of tbe
Gulf of Mexico. Every farmer, merchant
and manufacturer of the United States
west of the Mlshlsstppl Elver Is directly
interested in La Porte. A smull invest
ment will return handsome profltn, Write
lor FREE Folder, Maps and Art Boek
AMERICAN LAND COMPANY,
188 Madlaor. St., CHICAQO.