The diamond drill., July 10, 1897, Image 5

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MOT FAREWELL.
Dear chJU. how can I let thre go!
fk often have I ric-stlt-j theo
Upon my bosom, lovingly, ' ;
And lulled thee Into slumbers swtt.
WUh tender soncs ana low f-
How dear thy tiny Anger' i?rap '
, Itpund on ', of mint, ; whtn f rst you
topped, "
An.l falling helplessly, gladly crept
Hack to the heart that loved you bo,
Wt.ere mother's arms coukl cjaap.
And when there came a merry day,
When.'irrdwlng i,0ijf you travely ran.
Bweet, childish forecast of the man,
Around the room, away from, me,
All laughing In your play. .
- - V"
A few years more, and larger urovrn
With all a bright boy's love of fun
Of horse and wheel and rod and n,
Tou ne'er forgot the loving kiss
For mother, Isft alone.
And now at last, equipped fof life.
My baby wanders out afar
Across the sandy harbor bar
Perhaps for days of sunny speed. ,
Perhaps for storm and f trlfe. '
Cod speed his course' across these
. The, honored name he hope to win
And when his ship comes blithely In
Bweet answer to a mother's prayers
My ship will come to me.
, Mildred McN'eal. In Farm Had Horn.
A CASE IN EQUITY
BY FRANCIS LYNDE.
(Copyright, ilfssy J. B. Llpplncott Co-1
IX.
CROSS-EXAMINATION.
As a result of JTlsie s promise to tell
lier father, James Duncan tappedatthe
door of his guest's room that night just
as Thorndyke had begun a letter to Ida
mother.
"Come in," said Phjlip, pushing aside
Ids. writing" rnaterials.
Duncan, entered," 6idr after beating
cautiously about among indilTcrcnt
topics for a few moments, came, warily
to the object of his visit. '.
"Elsie's been tellln mo ye're a bit of
tp, lawyer, Mr. Thorndyke," he said, by
way qf beginning.
"Yes, I have read law In the schools.
"?ocr, that a varra singular, re
marked Duncanj thoughtfally, much as
if 'Philip had averted that ho was a
' high caste Rrahmin "verra singular;
but then, it may be no so inopportune,
after a'. Would ye min' teTlin me, noo,
what for ye cam to study the law ?
"Chiefly because my father wished it.
It was his profession." '
"Ow, :aye," saul Duncan, rubbing his
chin and relapsing into a silence which
eecmed to indicate that ho h:ul come to
the end of his introductory resources.
Philip thought to help him along by
asking if there we're need for legal ad
lice iu the ulTairs of the family.
"Na, na, it's no just that; but there's,
is one may say, aJricn' o' the family
wha wouldna be tho waur for a wee bit
' thati sain?. I'm thiukin Elsie's been
clavcrin aboot it when, ye was ower
yon."
"She told mo about tho trouble of
.yoirr old friend Kilgrow, and. J offered
" - " , "
you meant?"
"Aye," said Duncan, and, as he showed
uo disposition to bo more explicit
Philip continued:
"If I nm to act as attorney forour
friend, It is needful that I should know
all this facts. .Are you prepared to give
them?". ' ! ; .
Duncan was evidently making a coiy,
aclentlous effort toward .frankness, but
with such meager results that Thorn
dyke was finally compelled to exact the
desired, information iicccmeal, as from
en v "willing witness. After getting tho
v 'outline 'of .Elsie's story vcriucd. he pro-
ceeded t 'particulars.
' '.yiow 'long had Kilgrow owned the
'and when ho took Cates as a tcnKtft?"
"I'm no verra clear upo thaWpoInt,
trot it's a matter o 20 year or tyore, as
Ikenroyser." V
"Was his title clear?"
"I think there's na doubt elootthat.
"What's the name of this county?"
. ."Chilmath."
tAnd Allacoochec Is the county seat?"
"Aye., '
"Does this farm ofKllgrow's lie wjiol
ty witlun the limltf tho new town?"
"I c'anna say as t the'preceesc lcemr
ts; I'm thinkin it'll tak in aboot half
the town. 4
"J supjoso no one knows anything
about' the exact naturo of thetransac
. tion beiweenthe' town company and
ntes?
Waethlng malr than that Catesjot
n thousand dollars on' the nail.'
"Was that a fair price for the land at
the time?" - .. ,
4Na, it wasla muir than half price."
' .Thorndyke" mado a note of this.
""That's our starting point. You knew
CAtest'wnatf kind of a man was he?
"Would he be likely to sell anything at
lialf price of his own; accord ?
"Na, that he wouldna; he was a canny
chlel, an ower fond o' the main chance.
"Thtn there was probably some pres
ure brought to ucor UP0" h.lm Now,
'what do you know about tho town com
pany people? Who made the deal with
Cates?"
"A lawyer by the name of Sharpies,
n the oge'nt, MastertfenkinsFcnch."
"OhoP.sald Philip, recalling his mar
tyrddm on the train. "That fellow was
iu It, was ho? He's a rascal, if ever there
-was one out of jail. If his face doesn't
ll!e himiies equal to anything in the
way pf fraud. How alout his part
ner?" '
"Tile lawyer? I'm thinkin he's a deal
waur than t'other.
"It isn't very likely that they bought
the land without knowing all alnmt the
flaw in the title, unless there's been
more crookedness thnp we know about.
Is Kilgrow sure "tha he never signed
any pnpert for Cates or nnvoncolse?"
"He's verra willin' to ta his oath,
io that; nn it's tho inar unlikely,
sin he canna rcadorwrite." '
And you a Cates got his money
nnd then dinapix'arcd?"
"Aye."
"That nd.ls a little to the suspicious
Wck pf ik thing; ,bt. then, its a fre
country; I tuppoc amaa may go cr
staj', os'he plousrs.
Thorndyke locked his fingers behind
his Lead and sat back with half-closed
eye while he went over the facts again,
weighing each point in turn. Duncan
misunderstood his silence and grew un
tsf y. '
Tm thinkin ye'll be countin the cost
o the lectigallon, Mr. Thorndyke; I'm
no that weel abfo "
"Make yourself easy on that point,
Mr. Duncan," Interrupted Philip; "I
wasn't thinking of demanding a re
tainer. We'll try to make theothersldo
do Uie paying w hen the time comes. In
tho meanwhile, if I take hold of the
easo it'll be merely out of friendship
to you and because I need something to
do. What I was thinking of just now
was the chance of our being able to
prove collusion between the town com
pany and Cates. If we can't do that we
may have our labor for our pains.
"Aye?"
"Yes. Cates is well out of the coun
try, and, any way, I suppose he has noth
ing. No, we've got to recover from the
town company, and in order to do that
we must be prepared to prove that its
agent knew of the fraud when he
bought the land. Then it would be n
plain case in equity, and no chancellor
would hesitate about issuing a w rit of
possession."
"Would Keclgrow hae to show hlm
sel in court?"
"Xoto necessarily. Tho evidence in
chancery caws is taken by deposition,
and tlre is no formal trial ns In com
mon law procedures; the chancellor ex
amines the evidence and hands down a
decree In accordance with tho facts."
"That's anc thing in our favor, then;
KeelgroNv is that fearsome o' courts an'
constables that I'm thinkin we'd hae
muckle trouble persuadin him to tes
tify." ,
Thorndyke laughed. "I suppose he
hadn't got over the apple brandy 'scare.
That'll ntrver be. revived, and if it were
we could easily clear him."
Duncan shook his head doubtfully.
"I winna be so sure o' that. It's na mair
than a month sin' I got word that the
revenue men were speerin round after
auld Johnnie again."
Thorndyke came out of his nonchal
ance with a bound.
"You didl Who told you that?"
"I had a bit writing froo some mcr
cifu body in the town."
"Mr. 'Duncan, that's the zoost im
portant thing you've told me yet! Find
mo that letter, if you can."
rhllip walked the floor excitedly tin
til Duncan came back with the missive
in question. It was written in type
writing on a blank letterhead, and it
was dated at Allacoochee.
"Dear Sir: It Is known that you are
friendly toward an old mountaineer nam1
Kilgrow, who Is wanted Ly the United
States officers for a breach of the revenue
laws. It is rumortd herenhat the ofTlccra
have information of his whereabouts, and
that If- found ho will be arrested and
brought to trial. It would seem, to one who
knows. tho circumstance, to be merely nn
act of common humanity to warn the old
man. , , A FRIEND."
"WbatjJo ye make out o' that, Mr.
Thorndyke?" oed Duncan, after
Philip had read and examined the let
ter. "Just what I expected when you men
tioned it. There's only ouo man or one
set of men who could be benefited by
getting Kilgrow out of the way. When
we trace this letter to its source we'll
find that either Sharpless or Tench dic
tated it. It's the most important bit of
evidence I've had, so far, l?causc if I'm
right it proves that Sharpless and Fench
are not innocent. The next thing in
'order is for mo to have a talk with Kil
grow; you'll have to see him and smooth
(ue way for nie.".
Duncan promised and bade his guest
nood-nlght; after which Thorndyke
went to bed to dream of endless law
suits and interminable weddings, in
which Helen and Kilgrow, Janjcs Dun
can and Elsie, were confounded in hope
less confusion. And- for a grotesque
background, the scenes of his dreams
had for a stnge setting the new city of
Allacoochee, rising and spreading liko
another flood until the waves of build
ings surged up the valley and over the
mountain to tumble In a cascade of
bricks and mortar into the quiet depths
of the DevU's rocket.
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X. .
foh good on ilu
In offering to fight the battle for the
old mountaineer, Thorndyke had reck
oned without his host in one very im
portant particular. When ho awoke
from a troubled sleep on the morning
following tho talk with Duncan he was
too ill tofert up, and he was still in bed
when tha farmer emo to call him to
break fa&t.
"I feel as if I'd been brayed'In a mor
tar," ho said, in reply to Duncan's in
quiries. "I suppose it was the long
tramp yesterday; I ought to have had
more scuso than to try it."
"Na, na, then," said Duncan, sooth
ingly; "it's mair the fau'to' tho bairn;
she winna be considerin' that ye're
ower pawky to be scram'lln' sax or
aught miles on the mountain.
"Please don't blame her; she couldn't
know how good-fp-nothlng I am. I
didn't believo it myself. Hut I'm glad
you came up; 1 wanted to see yon about
this Kilgrow business. It mustn't bo
allowed to drag, you know; the old man
isn't safe from one day to another while
he stands in the way of such men as
Tench and Sharpless. That letter you
luwo Is only a beginning; if they find
out it hasn't driven Kilgrow out of tho
country, we may look for harsher meas
ures. Can you see the old man and bring
him to me to-day?"
"Na, na," objected Duncan; "ye'll no
be able to (ash yer brsin wi business
this day. ''Johnnie Ketlgrow's case has
kept weel enough these sax years, nn' a
tlay or so maire or less winna make or
break him." '
"Hut you don't understand, insisted
Thorndyke, rising on his elbow and
pushing buck the dlaziness that threat
ened to submerge him. "A single tl iy
xisy make all the difference between
'success Hod fa'Jur You must rcmMn-
Oer that Iff the life or the iiberty of
cne poor old man against more mosey
than you ever saw. If you don't prom
ise to bring Kilgrow here to-tlay I'll
get up and go to him, sick as I am."
Duncan yielded at discretion, secretly
proud of the invalid's pluck. "MaJc
ycrsel' easy, Mr. Thorndyke, an' dinna
fash yersel waur than ye need. I'll
fees ould Johnnie down, gin I hao to
tie him neck an heels an lug him. Do
ye just be' quiet,, noo, an Martha'll
bring ye a bit an a sup."
Thorndyke sat up to eat the break
fast brought him a little later by Mrs.
Duncan, and he w as able in tho course
cf the forenoon to dress and godownto
tho sitting-room. Elsie had been re
proaching herself all tho morning for
her part in the imprudent excursion of
the day lefore, and when the invalid
came down she installed herself atonce
as his nurse and companion, riiilip was
made comfortable upon the lounge, and
when he was tucked in with rugs and
propped to the exact angle of restful
ease with pillows the girl ransacked tho
nncient bookcase for something to read
to him. rhllip saw and protested.
"You mustn't waste your time cod
dling me," he said; "just bring your
wock nnd sit here where I can see you.
I'm not half as sick ns I might be, and
if you start in humoring me now there's
no telling what you'll have to endure
later on."
She brought her sewing and sat down
beside tho lounge. "I don't believe
you'd be very hard to manage.
"That's because you don't know me;
my mother could tell you how exacting
I can lie, though I say it's chiefly her
fault for not letting me shift for my
self." Elsie held her peace for a moment
and then asked: "Does your mother
know what you told me yesterday?"
"About my health? No."
"Don't you thJnk it vas cruel not to
tell her?"
"No. Why should I add months of
suspense to a sorrow that will be long
enough nnd bitter enough ot the best?"
"She won't look nt it that way; and
if the sorrow comes it will le all the
harder to bear for not having known.
And that's nt least one good reason why
you shouldn't give up; you know you
said you hadn't any yesterday."
"Did I? Perhaps I should have made
nn exception; but I was thinking of
other things just then."
Whrreuion the "other things," sum
moned by name, came lmek to demand a
reconsideration. Philip resisted, inter
posing the inertia of Illness between
himself nnd the, nagging of the self-examining
impulse. It was much plens
nnter to lie back nmong the pillows
watching Elsie's skillful fingers ply
tho industrious needle pleasanter and
more reptful. After a time he said:
Ska breaght k-er sewing and sat down betide
the lounge.
"Ydu ore all very good and kind to me
here."
Elsie looked up quickly. "I shouldn't
think you'd say that after I made you
sick dragging you all over the moun
tain." "It Isn't your fault that I haven't nny
more vitality than a transplanted chim
panzee; nnd, besides, tho tramp was my
own proposal."
"Hut I do blame myself. You didn't
know how far it was over to the Pocket,
and I did."
"That's nothing; if I wasn't so nearly
done for a little walking wouldn't put
me down."
"You mustn't get discouraged. Think
of what you have to live for, nnd just
make up your mind you won't give up."
"Is there, so much?"
"Isn't there always? while there Is
good to bo done and evil to bo pre
vented? You found one thing yester
day." "Yes, if I can only liv long enough to
set it right."
She caught at the hopelesncs in his
voice, and answered it out of a heart
full of pity. "You oughtn't to look at
It in t hat way. Why can't you turn Mr.
Kilgrow's trouble, and everything else,
into so many stepping stone to carry
you across to where you can foci the
solid ground under your feet again?"
There wn a swift undertow of in
ference in her question that carried
him quickly out into the sea of im
pulse. "Do you really mean that? Do
you think I should be Justified In taking
the help I need wherever I find it?
"Why not? Isn't it right nnd neces
mry that you should? Father sayn if
we will look around us we'll always find
something to make bridges out of, no
matter how deep or how wide the
stream is."
"And you think thcTC Is hope for me;
I don't mean for a mcro existence
that nlono isn't worth fighting for but
that I could win nomo of the letter
things if I should gird myself for the
1-nttle?
"Surely you could. What i there
that you couldn't w in, with health nnd
strength nnd the will to win it? noth
ing that is worth having."
Tho fervor of her own oppeal carried
Elsie out of herself, and, remember
ing only that a man before her needed
help, kIhi answered out of the depths
of a commission which was ns profound
and comprehensive as it wu impcr
somnl. She saw, -as only a woman can
see, tho besctmrnts that were drag
ging Philip down Into the qiagmire
of despair; nnd the passionate 'desire
to re-cue, speaking in her voice nnd
eyes, gave Thorndyke Lis first pllmp-o
tt that sexlca shrine hiddra deep In
ium bt art of all r. czronhc '1, npons-hces
altar burns the. light of pity and compac
tion for all the world a lig&t which is
not divine only because it i human.
To the woman who first reveals her
self to any man in her true character
of ministering angel Is given the power
to bind and loose, and the opportunity
which Elsie had unconsciously grasped
had never been offered to Helen save
at the moment of parting, when Philip's
abruptnewi had forestalled it. It wa
inevitable, therefore, with Elsie's words
ringing in his ears, and w ith the con
sciousncsa that he had been permitted
to see the light of tliat sanctuary w hich
is clased to all but the suffering and
despairing, that Philip should be swept
far beyond tho bounds of his allegiance
to Helen; and since ho was a man. It
was equally inevitable that he should
be unable to dissociate the offer of help
from the personality of tho woman who
tendered it. Raising himself among
the pillows, he answered her with the
fire of a new ambition In-ginning to
quicken his pulses.
"I can win or, if not, I can at least
die in harness. If I try, will you help
me in tho heat of the battle as you have
helped me just now? Think well before
you answer; it's a gTaver responsibility
to save life than to take it."
"Didn't I promise, yesterday, that I
would help you? We will all do that
cheerfully and gladly."
"No, but that is not what I meant.
You know what I mean, Elsie. Look
nt me. Will you be to me all the way
through what you ore just now, the
cne person in the world who knows
my weakness and my need of inspira
tion who will hold up before me tho
crown of reward when I nm down un
der the hoofs of the horses?"
There was no mistaking him now,
nnd in a twinkling Elsie the priestess
lecamo Elsie the simple-hearted maid
en, blushing painfully under the ruth
less questioning of his eyes. What she
might have said in reply Philip was not
to know, for in the moment of embar
rassed silence Mrs. Duncan called her
to tho kitchen. When she w'as gone,
Philip was left to compound as best ho
might with tho throng of merciless ac
cusers rising up in the name of justice
and honor to demand satisfaction.
Through nil the desperate assault he
flung obstinately to the thought that
he was fighting for his life.
"Do what you will and say what 3-011
will," he said to himself, when the battle
with his aroused conscience raged tho
fiercest, "my life is my own, and I mean
to live if I can. So far, I have been
nothing better than a child in leading
strings, but from this day I shall live
what Is left of my life In my own way;
nnd if thLs girl hnd to be raised up to
help me, why, so much the worse for
those whoso opportunities were great
er." And with such reckless shifting of the
responsibilities, Philip made the first
entxy in the book of self-reliance, re
fusing to have his dinner brought to
him, and Insistingpcrversely on joining
the family at table.
TO PB CONTINCirXl
A TELL-TALE N A I L.
Work of a Mterlork Holm Three Hun
dred Years Ag-o.
Dr. John Donue, the famous English
divine and ioet, who lived in the reign
of James I., was a veritable Sherlock
Holmes in bent of mind.
Ho was walking In the churchyard
while a grave was being dug, when tho
sexton cast up a moldering skull. Tho
doctor Idly took it up, and, in handling
it, found a headless nail driven into it.
This ho managed to take out and con
ceal in his handkerchief. It was evident
to him that murder had been done. lie
questioned the sexton and learned that
the skull was prolmbly that of a certain
man who won tho proprietor of a
brandy-shop and was a drunkard, being
found dead in bed one morning after a
night in which he had drunk two
quarts of brandy.
"Had ho a wife?" asked tho doctor,
"Yea."
"What character does she bear?"
"She bore a very good character, only
the neighbors gossiped because she
married tho day after her husband's
funeral. She still lives here."
The doctor soon called on the woman.
He asked for and received tho par
ticulars of the death of her first hus
band. Suddenly opening his handker
chief he showed her the tell-tale nail,
asking, in a loud voice:
"Madam, do you know this nail?"
The woman was so surprised that she
confessed, was tried and executed.-
Tit-Hits.
Ah Hln m Knowing Traveler.
Is it because Chinamen aro endowed
with n faculty not jo.sossed by other
races that they never seem to Ixxml a
WTong street car or elevated train, are
very rarely obliged to ask questions in
getting from place to place, and in
vuriably tako full advantage of our
comjJcx and puzzling system of trans
fers from, ono conveyanco to another'
Anong the thousands of Chinese la this
c.'ty there must be many to whom west
ern civilization nnd all its ways are en
tirely novel, and it is a mystery of no
small proportions why they do not oc
casionally get con fused by their strange
surroundings. Such almost never ap
jenrs to be the cae, however. N. Y.
Timc.
Well lUltarml,"
"You have a well-balanced company.
said the.kind critic.
"I think so," responded the manager.
with pride.
"Very well balanced, indeed. The
heavy villain is so light and the com
edian so heavy that the balance may le
called almost ierfcct." Indiannpolii
Journal.
Why.
Mrs. Crlrnsonbeak It Is said that the
ear of the cat Is very sensitive; that It
can hcrvr a sound a long distance.
Mr. Crlmsonbeak - Why In thunder,
then, do they have to make so much
r.olfe nt night when talking to one an
other? Yonkera Statesman.
'FOR SUNDAY READING.
SOMETIME.
Fometlme, we shall know why
Our aunnlcet mornings change to noons of
rain;
Andwbyour steps areshaJow4 sohy pain.
And why we often lie
On couches, sown with thorns of care ana
doubt:
Arl why our lives are thickly hedged about
With bars ttuU put our lofilvst plans to
rout.
Sometime, we shall know why
Our dearest hopes are swept so swift away.
And why our brightest flowers first decay;
Why sonic 1 lost In sight.
Why clasvlng nngers slip ao soon apart
Estrangement, space and death rend heart
from heart,
Until from devvest depths the tear-drops
start.
Sometime, we all shall know
Each other, aye, as we ourselves are known;
And see how out of darktvess light has
grown.
And lie who loves us no
Despite our wilfulness and blind com
plaint Will show us how Ills kind and calm re
straint Can mold a human soul into a salnC
Sometime, our eyes eh all e
The silver lining to the darkest cloud.
While Hllvery echoes follow thunders loud.
Sometime, our hearts shall be
Content, forgetting ail our rvstlesa moot!.
And know lag everything hae worked for
good
The how, and when, and why, bo under
stood. Lillian Gray, In Watchman,
A LESSON IN GRATITUDE.
Some Contrail! to Oar Homely Com
mon Way of Llvlajr.
Human lives for tho most part run
in the same great grooves of home, fam
ily, work and wages, but there are men
in the world who are set apart for fates
so abnormal and different from all oth
ers that it is difficult for us even to con
ceive them.
Among these, for instance, are the
two Danish missionaries to the Esqui
mos. Each of them is banished of his
own choice to a life amid eternal ice and
snow. His companions are savages.
Once a yenr a ship brings him supplies,
papers and letters from home, and go
ing back, leaves the self-immolated man
alone for another year.
Another virtually isolated, and from
many points of view factitious, lot is
that of the young Tsar of Ilunsia. Con
sider it for a moment. A little black
avlsed man, so ordinary in appearance
that ho might be passed on the street
unnoticed many times a day, a young
fellow of character, emotions and men
tal traits no more strongly marked
than those of countless other young
lads Is tho ruler, the father of more
than 100,000,000 human beings. Their
happiness and misery, and the fate of
Armenians, Moslems and Greeks, de
pend largely on his wish and whim to
day. The responsibility, the Isolation,
the artificial restraints, the apprehen
sions of such a life aro unique and mon
strous. Still stranger Is the fate of two men
who, as stated by Mr. Frederick Hoyle,
are human gods. They are worshiped
by a race dwelling in the mountains of
Cambodia. They inherit their position
ns god. As soon as one of them suc
ceeds to tills oftlce, he is Bent
to u tower in tho mountains, where
ho lives alone for a year, supplied
with food by his people, who leave It
within his rcuch, but do not speak to
him. There are seven of these towers,
and the wretched deity spends a year
alone In each. At the end of seven years
he is allowed to return to the world, if
he Is alive and sane; but the solitude
usually ends In his death or Idiocy.
It is worth our while to consider
sometimes such strange, abnormal
lives, to see more clearly how much of
our own happiness comes from tho
homely, common, everyday blessings
which are tho birthright of every man
and woman, and for which we seldom
remember to thank God. Youth's Com
panion. '
CHOICE SELECTIONS.
It is a great thing to havo a clear
head; It is a greater thing to have a
clean heart. N. Y. Observer.
Only the brave know how to for
give! it is the most refined and generous
pitch of virtue human nature can arrive
at. fiteme.
The man of faith may roll every
mountain out of his way, and pull up
Interfering sycamine trees by the roots.
Iiam's Horn.
The failures of life come from rest
ing In gxxl intentions, which are in
vain uuless carried out in wise action.
C. Simmons.
Men of the noblet dispositions
think themselves happiest when others
share their happiness with thcin.
Jeremy Taylor.
The lottery of honest labor, drawn
by time, Is tho only one whose prizes
are worth taking up ami carrying
home. Theodore Parker.
Good naturo is the very air of a
good mind; the sign of a largo and gen
erous soul and the pf cullar soil In which
virtue prospers. Goodman.
Keep close to duty. Never mind
tho future, if you only have peace of
conscience. IVs whot you ought toLe;
the rest is God's affair. Amiel.
It is well to halt a man with a
"Why?" Men drift into many evils.
They do as others do. Why? Press the
question and compJl the answer. Why?
Itemember this truth, tlint no in
trigue, no conspiracy, no artful design,
no unbelief, enn prevent the successful
Issue of the purposes of God. Ilev. Dr.
Lee.
Too much time Is taken up in con
templation of tho species of others'
enjoyment. If this time was taken up
In developing the menus of enjoyment
within the reach of all there would be
more happiness and contentment In
tho world. Uev. Charles II. Purkhund.
Pnrpoae In Life.
Wo must have a distinct purpose Im
living nnd we cannot put that purpose
too high. A man only becomes what
lie makes himself, and we rarely rearh
the goal wlthoutexertlngctcry energy.
ttishop Whittaker.
THE FEAR OF GOD.
Lot Does Not Involve tho t'eakem-4
Ing of Authority. !
The beginning of wisdom, in the es
timation of some who deem themselves
leaders of modern thought, is the fear
of nobody and nothing God, man or
devil. When, by long intellectual train
ing, one reaches the point at which he
can pursue his investigations with ab-
solutely no regard for the consequences,
ho is thought by a circlo of
admiring disciples to have attained
the perfect balance of mind which'
should bo the scholar's ideal. The
startling similarity of ' such no
tions to tho lawless recklessness of
the man who experiments on a like
principle in the domain of conduct may
wcll make us pause beforo we decide
to give up the saying of holy Scrlpturei,
"The fear of God is the beginning of
wisdom."
It is a saying worthy of all accepta
tion, but little esteemed in these days,
Even Christian teachers lay far too
small emphasis on the cardinal place of
reference in any true and worthy char-
acter. They urge upon men tho evi
dences of divine love and care in nature
and revelation, and speak persuasive
ly rather than authoritatively in com-j
mending to men's minds and hearts the,
constant, all-perv ading thought of God.
No sentlmentallsm inheres in the docj
trine of the divine Fatherhood, rultlt
does not exclude fear, if wo remem-i
ber what is meant by the fear of God;;
no cringing terror before un irresistlblo
and unknown power which threatens,
but a willing submission to one whoso
purposes, though dimly understood,
are believed to bo just beyond measure
and full of grace.
Such decent abaseihent beforo the
Creator and preserver of all things lias
too llttlo place in the education o
youth. There was a time when ir
reverent or careless speech concerning1
divine things was considered as sure a
mark of an ill-bred man as discour
tesy towards women. It seems to be
no longer, for tho fashion la among
young men to affect Indifference to the
supreme claims Qf God as a mark of in
dependence. The youths in our col
leges and in business life who thus be
tray their Immaturity and lack of In
sight Into the true meaning of life aro
often iu other respects amiable ami
measurably discreet. Many of them
outgrow thelrshallowagnosticlsm or in
difference us they abandon youthful ec
centricities of dress and speech. But
it is for many reasons unfortunute that
such a stago should intervene in so
many useful careers, dwarfing their de
velopment und narrowing their influ
ence. The great problem of tho re-
llglous training of children seems to
bo un nearer solution than it was a
generation ugo. Kven in the public
schools, however, where any but the
most general religlovas teaching is pro
hibited, a competent teacher should b
able, by example rather than by di
rect instruction, to guide most pupils
into at least that reverence which is
appropriate in all citizens of a natlom
predominantly Christian and almost
wholly thelstie. Independence of church:
and state certainly doc not requlro
that teachers paid by the. state should,
conduct themselves during school hours
as If thero were no God.
The fear of God seems sometimes tq
have almost disappeared from tho busi
ness world, the realm of "practical pol
itics," the negotiations of diplomacy
How dare we divorce economics front
ethics, politics from purity, diplomacy
from duty? Is there not a God in
Heaven, or does He no longer regard,
the affairs of nations and defend the op
pressed, remembering tho crimes of
capital and the follies of labor, the sin
ful silence of rulers, the Iniquitous bar
gainings in human life and liberty,
against a day of Judgment? There have
leen days within a single year when
chapters f rom the looks of the prophets
Isaiah and Jeremiah should have been
sent ringing through the world,
straight to tho ears of monarchs and
ministers, legislators and governors,
armies in the field and voters at the
polls. There have been times when an'
Amos might have thundered forthcom
ing disaster against complacent cow
ards and luxurious idlers, unworthy of
grit trusts conferred upon them by
the accidents of wealth and power. Such
voices have been heard from many pul
pits and from newspapers awake to
the needs of the time. Hut they werw
all too few, and sometimes met little
response. The fear of God has not dis
apieared from this land nor from the
world far from It. Each year Chris
tian people translate their religion
more accurately into terms of conduct,
and strive to enter by the straight gate
of obedience to Christ into that king
dom of HeaVen which He so insistent
ly and paradoxically located upon the
earth. Hut not for a moment can Chris
tian leaders and Christian follower
safely cease to declare that the Lord our
God is one Lord, sovereign and demand
ing the service of all His creature. A!
gospel of love was never meant to Ixj
preached apart from a doctrine of obe
dience and worship to the Most High.
Chicago Standard.
A Handicap Itac.
Life's race is a handicap. No one
has every advantage all the time, and
every oneflioa disadvantage sometimes.
"Every man I meet is my master at
some point," ay Emerson. Hut lie
is never master at all points. Youth
and old ago are in their way handicaps;
so are health and wealth, as well as
poverty and infirmity. Two things.
then, are to be remembered. In some
direction each one of us may win high
success whether our name bo Wash
ington or Helen Keller; in somo other
direction our neighbor is handlcappedj
ond we must make duo allowances and
Judge him leniently. S. ti Tlnvcs. .
l)ty. !
The climnx of a human career Is
reached not necessarily when what tho
world calls success comes, but when,'
In the prmeneo of probable defeat ami
surrender, the resolvo Is made to walk
alone. If need be, and one's duty J
Her. T. A. LInkeley, -