The diamond drill., November 13, 1897, Image 5

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TH03K little jhoes.
Oh, little shoe! tf only you could speak,
Aa4 tell us who you were whose dainty
feet
One trod In you whoa lovely head waa
bent
Far tyea to see how aweet you looked ah
met
Hear aeventy years ago!
Bo long ago, and yet not long ago!
The date, In faded Ink. recalla the time
.When "O rand mamma" vai young, and
ellm, and gay;
Terhaps ber wedding shoe ah, happy
day!
Near seventy years ago!
Did you belong, perchance, to her first ball?
You little golden shoes bo bright and small!
Where, while the hours slipped by, In
bright array,
Bhe danced her heart, as well as his, away.
Till ribbon sandals broke, and off ahe flew
To coax old Nurse. Who was ahe? Tell us,
who?
Old dower chest ! what secrets must be hid,
Iast all recall, beneath your heavy Ud!
in your old drawer repose some treasures
yet,
IUllca of those forgot -as we forget.
Present and past; the lost romance of
years;
An4 Ihl tall rt - r. mA mrw .Va.I
Who was the pretty maiden? tell ua, Who?
Declared that speech was silver silence
.,1 A I
Golden these shoe and silent too snd well
They keep their secret. Would that they
Her rarve, and so fond memories recall!
But "January, 1823,M Is all.
Cicely McDonell, In I'all Mall Magazine.
From Clue to Climax.
I did tint rrwt nt. At nresent I
1 - -
Lave the murderer handwriting, and
that Is ali; but" Ills face darkened.
and he clinched his fist, and swot
under bis breath.
'What it It?" Whidbvouestloned.
I don't know myself," said the de
tective. MI have keen something like
this before, hut I can't tell where. By
Jove! it will drive me crazy if I don't
make It out. There is something ouout
this envelope that is familiar, but it
eludes me like the memory of a night
mare. But I'll get It after awmie.
Leave me, you and your man. 111 walk
back alone. I want to tussle with the
thing. I shall see you as soon as I come
to any conclusion."
BY WILL N. HARDEN.
(Copyright 1896. ty J. B. Llpplncott Co.
CHAPTER, XIII. COXTIXUED.
"We want to find a certain blue en
velone. Matthews." the detective beeran.
"It was thrown into this basket by Mr.
Strong about a month ago. can you
1 -
"I don't know, sir. I have been cmp
tyin everythln of that kind in the cel
lar. I k(n all the miners In one barrel
and all the rnirs in another, and a junk
ahop man comes ever now and then "
"And frives vou a little aomethlncr for
keeping the atuff for him," interrupted
Hendricks.
"Yes, sir," the servant nodded.
"Has he been here lately?"
"Just a day or so before the murder,
tir. I remember
"Could tou take Mr. Whidbv and mv
self to his place?" said the detective.
"We might be in time to keep our bit of
evidence from being made up into new
tianor."
"Yes, sir, without any trouble. Ille
thop is on First street, under the bridge.
It is a pretty tough place, sir, but wo
can take the cars and get down quicK
enourrh."
"I see I urn to be of no further assis
tance." Jested Miss Delmar.
"I didn't quite think you would care
to soil vour skirts in a rncman's ahop,"
replied the detective. "But as soon as
we get a clew, Mr. Whldby may bring
the news to you. We'd better be going,
Hendricks and Matthews started out
at once. Whldby lingered in the draw
ing-room with Miss Delmar.
"If vou have the time, you might stay
here until we return," said Whiflby.
I nm sure we shan't be Jong."
"I'll waltanhour.any way," the young
lady promised. I am dying to Know
if you accomplish anything. But run
on; they are waiting for you, and here
crime the car."
In ten minutes the three men bad
reached the bridge spanning the murky
liver and were entering mo snopinui
M bv Matthews.
"We must tell him exactly what we
xvnnt." Hendricks whispered to Whidby
nt the door. "He hasn't a very honest
face, and if bethinks we have lost some
thing of Intrinsic value he may tell us n
lot of lies. Usually they do all they can
nt.l a detective."
Ah T see." answered Whldby. "I
should have blundered there If I bad
lrin nlnne."
The dealer, a little Jew, with a very
crafty face, came from behind a coun
ter piled up high with sacks of rags and
paper.
"What can I do for you, gentlemen?
V indeed.
In a few words Hendricks explained
xvhnt thv were searching for.
"Ah! and you w ant to catch him, eh?
Well, I hope you can, sam ineuew.
"I think I know the bags I got from
,w Thev ore un in the loft. I will
throw them down, and you can look
through them here.
"You are very good," sai l Hendricks;
"that's exactly what we want."
The Jew ran up a ladder through a
linln In the ccilnrr. and in a moment
three socks filled with old paper tum
bled down at their feet.
Hendricks pointed to a clean place on
the floor, and said to Matthews: "Shake
them out."
Matthews emptied one of the bags In
a heap, and Whidby bent over it.
"No doubt about the stulT being from
honsf." he said. "Here is a note nd-
,iri.ioi to me. and there ore some old
bills of uncle's." But after five min-
reh he declared he saw no en
hleh looked like the one he had
in mind. The second log was c arched
without success. but the third had hard
ly been opened before Whldby picked
up a large, square envelope.
this must be it." he said.
"You are right; it matches the color
ihn nnner. Thcv must have cone
together," replied the detective; and he
the ease of his watch nnd held
the corner of the en elope down to the
front of the tiny V)lL "We arc oil right
so far." Hendricks walked to the front
of the hop alone, studying, with a
wrinkled brow, the envelope. Whldby
ralJ tho Jew for his trouble, and then
Joined him. .
"Can you make anything out of Itv
he asked.
"Vot Masted thing," replied Hen
dricks "I ojalbd in New York.
CHAPTER XIV.
Half on hour afterwords the detec
tive arrived at his hotel, and wvnt up to
his room. His face still wore a look
of deep perplexity. He aat down at a
window and stared at the envelope
steadily for ten minutes. Then there
was a rap at the door. Itw as a servant,
to say thatCapt. Welsh was downstairs,
and that he was anxious to see-him.
"Send him un." said Hendricks, and
he put the envelope into his pocket.
He picked up a newspajwr two or three
days old, and was bidden behind it
when the captain rapped.
"Come in," the detective called out.
"I am sorry to disturb you," began
Welsh, "but the truth is we are making
I so little headway that the mayors peo
ple are showing o good deal of Impa
tience. Mrs. Koundlree says we are
entirely too slow, and she is laying it
all on me and my men. The mayor
himself has Just left my office. Of
course, I could not tell him what you
auioctcd about his daughter, and
"I should think not, captain, since
you yourself don't know what I do or
do not suspect." And Hendricks threw
his paper on the floor.
"Of course, of course; but aren't you
really going nny further with your in
vestigations up there I thought wnen
I told you that I spent the night in iront
of the house, and saw her come out and
secure the revolver from the grass,
thnt M
Hendricks broke into a low laugh,
bent forward and rubbed his hands be
tween his knees. ,
"You didn't see me, captain, that
night. We were both a pretty pair of
fools. I recognized you In the flaming
di&k of your cigar a block away. You
looked like a head-light, and 1 made ror
you as soon ns I turned trie cornr.
I knew the gate must be near w here you
stood."
"What do you mean?" cried Welsh, in
surprise.
"I was In Mrs. Walters' room from
half-past nine till ten o'clock that night
nnd made n thorough examination of
her belongings."
"Why, I was on watch at that time!
You could not have gone In nt the
front, nnd my men were In the rear.
Hendricks smiled broadly.
I never go In nt a back gate 11 1 can
help it. I wos the driver of the cab
that took the mayor home from ms
office that night. I overheard him ask
the fellow to wait for him. I called
tho man into a barroom, explained vho
I was. promised him live dollars, ex
changed coats and hats with him nnd
took his cab. Of course, I wore my
whiskers. I would not be without them
when I iro drivlncr on cool nights. I
catch cold easily, and they protect my
throat.
"I nulled un when you waved mo
down to tell tiie mayor you were watch-
fnc li s houRe personally, on account 01
your special interest in his family, and
that you would see to It tnat uiey
were not disturbed through tnc nigni..
When the mayor got out at the side
door of his hou-so I took my fare, ex
plained that a piece of my heirnoss had
given wny nnd was tinkering wun a
st ran tinder tho belly of the horse when
the mavor went in to his supper. Then
I ran my rig out of sight behind n sort
of woodshed and went up tho bacK
stairs to Mrs. Walters' room. 1 Knew
it bv her dresses In the closets."
"What were you looking for?"
Books, ch eflv. I hail found out thai
she had purchased a box of them. In
New York the other day and I wanted
to see them. I thought they might be
treatises on hypnotism and things In
that outlandish line; but they were only
modern yellow-backed novels, transla
tions of Emile daboriau nnd detective
stories bv Doyle and Anna K. Green.
They iut mo on a new scent. A new
light broke on me. I felt like a fool. 1
went down, got on my cab and drove off
like mnd. I passed you nt the carriago
gate and osked you the time. You told
me, nnd I said I bad to catch a train
and whipped up my horse.
I remember. hat a uiameo 1001 1
... . . ... 1 n t.
was!" said WClsli, wun a tiecp numi.
"What did you do next?"
"Turned the cab over to us owner
and went and had a private talk with
the family physician or the i.ouniurces.
After that, to uso slang, 1 kicked my
self soundlv. and in 0 minutes was
dogging the footsteps of the distin
guished stranger of whom 1 spoke to
you.
"But don't you think Mrs. tuners
had anything to do with tho murder?"
nkcd Welsh.
"Nothing at all. Here it Is In a nut
shell: She will be a mother in about
three months. In her condition she Is
iltvnvs nueerlv Imarinathe and deceit
ful. She lost a child a year ogo in cnim
blrth, nnd for several months beforo
It was born she almost ran her family
wild with her strange fancies. She has
been readlnir sensational literature for
a long time, and when that murder oc
curred and her father offered a reward
for the rapture of the criminal it struck
her that the murderer would W apt to
resent it. She tried to rouse the fears
of her father nnd huslmnd on this line,
but, as they failed to fee it her way,
fhe determined to make thcra do so.
She Invented the, yarn about having
seen a man on the lawn the nlcrht h
astonished them by going to the gntc
with her husband's revolver, nnd, fol
lowing the murderer's idea of using a
typewriter, she wrote the threatening
letter to her father ona enjoyeu iae ex
citement it caused. Later, fearing that
some one would see through her little
deception, she determined to make the
circumstances more convincing. The
detective stories she had read gave her
tb idea of pretending to be shot at.
A I have shown you, she dampened
the clay with the watering can, made
the footmarks by wearing her father's
tdippers, shot a hole through her sleeve,
hid the revolver in the grass and has
had a lot of fun out of our careful in
vestigations. If she had dreamt, how
ever, that she herself would be suspect
ed of that murder she would have shown
the white feather long ago."
"What are you going to do now?"
asked Welsh, completely crestfallen.
"I am on quite another line, and am
at a standstill. I hardly know what I
I shall do."
"Can I aid vou In any way?"
"I think not, now. I shall come round
as soon as I find out anything tangible."
CHAPTER XV.
The next morning at nine o'clock Miss
Delmar called at Whidby'a.
"I have had to run for it," she said,
laughingly, as the young man came
into the drawing-room. "I had to give
papa the slip. He heard that I waa out
all day yesterday and demanded an ex
planation. Of course, I refused to tell
him anything, and he ordered me not to
show myself out of doors to-day. But
when I got the telegram from Mr.
Hendricks to meet him here at nine I
slipped out at the back gate and have
run nearly all the way."
Whidby drew her to him ami kissed
her.
"You were bound to pull me out of
this hole," he said. "A week ogo I was
r.esriy crazy with forebodings, but now
I really enjoy It."
I nm sure I do, almost," she laughed.
"I wonder If Mr. Hendricks can have
discovered anything more? Here he
comes now. I heard the gate click. Let
me admit him."
She went to the door, and in a mo
ment entered with the detective.
"He know s something new," she said,
laughingly, to her lover. "I can see it
in his eyes."
"You certainly don't seem so per
plexed as you did when I left you yester
day," said Whldby.oa he cordially shook
hands.
A little nearer, that'H all," was the
reply of tho detective, as he pat down
and took out the envelope they bad
found at the shop of the rag dealer.
"You know," he went on to Whldby,
mmt e-rervthlnr. I had written the nons
ber of my room. Well, in a few day it
waa returned to me marked: 'Not De
livered
This at once excited a suspicion that
something was wrong that some de
signing person, for reasons of his own,
had tricked me into betraying my
whereabouts. The telegram had not
been returned. That showed that some
one at 234 Union street, Brooklyn, bad
received It and signed for it in due
form, or I should have been advised of
his failure to do so by the telegraph
ofllce here. The letter addressed in the
same way had been returned. That
proved that Frederick Champney either
was not there or wanted me to think he
was not, and my curiosity was roused.
But, as your case w aa Just then becom
ing more interesting, I put the letter
away for safe keeping, along with the
note to my mother, to take up ogaln
when I was more at leisure, and dis
missed them from my mind. However,
as I said just now, there w as something
atrane-elv familiar obout the envelope
we found nt the racrshon vesterdav. and
I could not for the life of me tell what it
could be. It was not until I had left
you and reached my hotel last night
that I found out. It was simply the
large capital I) in the center of the New
York tmstmark. for It corresponded ex
actly w Ith the big D in the postmark of
the letter my mother had received.
You smile. You think that a very little
thing. Well, so it was; but wait. The
T) Indicated the station at which the
letters were posted; they had both been
mailed in the same postal district. I
know that much, you see, as a starter;
but I was not satisfied. I was sure the
two envelopes held a letter clew be
tween them, nnd I was bound to have it.
I "I lav awake half the nlirht. thinking.
thinking, till I got so wrought up I
FOR SUNDAY READING.
A WOMAN'5 PRAYER.
c t m-hn knowfit every need of mine.
Help me to lAr eacn cross, anu nui n-
ttln!
Orant me fresh courage every day,
Help me to do my wora aiway
Without complaint:
O Lord. Thou knowest well how dark the
way,
rin 1.1 a Thou my footsteps, lest they stray;
Give me fresh faith for every hour,
Lest I should ever ooudi 1 ny power,
Ana msae compiainu
Olve me a heart, O Lord, strong to endure,
Help me to keep It simple, pure;
Make me unseMsh, helpful, true
In every act whate'er 1 do,
And keep contenii
Help me to do my woman's share.
Make me courageous, strong 10 or
Sunshine or shadow In my life;
Sustain me In the dally strife
To keep contentl
Anna li. Baldwin, in Ladles' Home Jour
nal.
PETTY ANNOYANCES.
could not reason loiricallv at all.
knew thnt would do no one any rood, so
I banished thouchts of nil kinds, and
was getting Into a drowsy state, in fact
was almost dropping oil, w hen sudden
Iv an idea popped into my brain.
"I snranc un. lit the cas. and with mv
magnlfying-glass examined the letter
which had Wen returned to me from
New York marked: 'Not Bellevcred.
What do vou suppose I discovered? My
letter had been steamed and carefully
opened.
tTO BE CONTINUED.
IT RANG THE BELL.
He picked p a newspaper end was klddea ee
hind It.
"I Bald yesterday that there was some
thing familiar about this envelope that
I couldn't make out. Well, last night,
as I was studying over it, this large I)
in the center of the postmark suddenly
recalled on Incident to my mind, nnd I
must rclato it to you, so that you can
follow a certain chain of circumstances
In which I am interested nnd which may
lead us to something definite.
"Three days after I had been detained
down here by the murder, my mother,
who lives with me in New 1 ork, received
a letter. Here It is. I will read It to you:
Tear Madam
" 'An Important business matter makes
It necessary to wire your son, Mr. Mlnanl
Hendricks, at onee. He and I are friends,
T , ova mlanml him round town lately.
I was tol 1 at his club that ho had left the
city. If you will kindly send his address to
me, I shall bo greatly obliged. I am, dear
madam,
" 'Very sincerely yours,
" 'FRKDliniCK CHAMrNKT.
" '231 Union atret. Drooklyn.'
"There seems to be nothing remarka
ble about the note. Do you think there
Is?" asked Hendricks, when he had fin
ished. "Not that I can see," said Miss Delmar,
deeply interested.
"Kathcr a lold thine to do. If the fel
low that wrote it wanted to sUer clear
of you, I should think," Whldby re
marked. "Tho bold things arc the very ones
we ore less likely to suspect, as a rule,"
said the detective. "But I haven't told
you how it came Into my hands. My
mother, while very old and naturally
unsuspicious, has learned a good deal
of caution from me, especially where
anything jiertains In the slightest to my
profession; so she did not reply to the
note but sent it down here to me. I fell
readily Into the trap set for her. I
could remember no one by tin- name of
Champney, but I flattered myself it w as
one who knew me better than I did him;
so. thinklnc that mv mother's tautlon
In not replying to the note hail perhaps
caused tho writer some Inconvenience,
I wired my address, and at the same
time wrote a cordial note of explana
tion and apology, w hich I mailed to the
address given.
"The matter might then- have escaped
my memory, If the note had not left a
Rort of unensv Impression on my mind
that I might suddenly le called to New
York, nnd, ns I was deeply Interested
In this rnKC, I dreaded Interruption. It
was this frame of mind that caused a
very trifling circumstance to bring
bak the whole thing to me.
"The letter of apology uhlch I had
Fcnt after the telegram happened to be
put in an envelope bearing the business
card of my hotel In this city, under
which, l eing rath' methodical in al-
IIow an Earthquake Warn Announced
In Italy.
A writer sojourning in an Italian city
tells how an earthquako announced it
lf: Late one evening Isolctta and Cater
ina rushed In upon us in terrified excite
ment ns we sat reading by the light of
an oil lamp In the "yellow room;" their
face were of the whiteness of paper,
and their eyes had a wild expression of
fear.
"Signora, w hat Is tlio matter? Every
bell in thJ house is ringing. Maria Sanc
tisima, w hat will become of us!"
I must explain tliat the bells were of
the old-fa-shloned variety, which hang
on w ires nnd are pulled by a lcll rope.
"Per carlta, signora, come and see
what has happened."
Tlney were, so much In earneetthat, to
calm their fears, we went into the hall.
There wrre tho ten bells hung in a row
and ringing as though the furies were
at the other end of the rope! Kinging
of their own accord, apparently, or at
least pulled by no visible hand.
Of a sudden wx became, nwaro that
the floors were trembling, the wall
were shaking. The whole building
moved on its foundations; it swayed
from s ide to side, at first siighlly, then
further and further, with a slow, rhyth
mic motion, full or grace nnu majesty;
but we could realize no seuaation be
yond sickening terror.
Tt wilh an ea rthnuake. The motion
lasted a few seconds, then ceased grad
imllr H.nl It continued three seconds
longer tho tall obelisks, the beautiful
eamiKinili, would have fallen.- N. Y.
Tribune.
A IX May Made Noble la Spite of
Many Trifles.
The -nettv annoyances of life consti
tute a very formidable moss, if one
chooses to dwell upon and remember
them. They are curiously combined
w ith the most delicate pleasures, as uie
thoru is set on the same stem w ith tbe
rose. Those who have the highest qual
ity of receptivity and are mof.i sensi
tive to the finer deliirht are the elect
victims of the Imperfections, the dis
sonances and the mau grievances mai
beset the wav of the aspiring and trie
path of -the ardent. No one, however
well poised, can be entirely indifferent
to the stings and discomfort or uiese
minor troubles; but the healthy nature
will keep them well below the horizon
of habitual thought. A man is strong
In the degree In which he is able to
subordinate the minor to the major con
cerns of life, and fruitful In the degree
in which he "pushes aside petty obsta
cles and keeps to his path, not only with
fidelity but with delight. The good
traveler does not miss the chance of
beautiful scenery because his compan
ions of the hour are pot of his kind,
nor does he suffer a bad cup of coffee to
overshadow a day which brings him to
the shrines of history or literature. .
statesman does not yield his measure
because he is. surrounded by scoffers
and triflers. The man of religious con
viction does not suffer his faith to bo
clouded because churches ore such Im
perfect administrators of the spirit
ual Interests of society. The artist Is
not plunged Into melancholy because
paints and brush are often so obstinate
and unsympathetic to his hand; nor
does the sculptor despair of his vision
because stone is hard and dust and dirt
enveloo him. The writer does not turn
aside from his work because language
e-uards Its felicities and melodies wun
such persistence; nor does his Imagina
tion lose its freshness because the use of
the ren Involves such drudirery. Lvery
fine achievement Is beset with difficul
ties: it is only the ardent lover who
bursts through the hedge of thorns and
awakens the princess. No little char
acter of the uterner sort is wrougni oui
of the overcoming of small difficulties
and the patient bearing of petty annoy
ances. And the supreme work of living
frcelv. lovouslv nnd Xrultruiiy is ac
complished by those only who know
how to ignore trifles, to endure minor
discomforts nnd to make the day nonie
In spite of the annoyances which are
set about like thorns. N. Y. Outlook.
SABBATH REST.
A Doty Fennded on Lofi to Doth Codt
and Man.
The Ten Commandments, as wrlttea
on the two tables of stone, and pre
served in tho ark, were probably all
very short. The specifications and tho
reasons attached to them are amplifica
tions added in writing tho books of
Exodus and Deuteronomy. This op
peara beyond question by a comparison,
of the Fourth Commandment as given
in these two accounts of the giving of
the law at SInal.
The primarj' command is the same irt
both cases; It Is "Kemember" or "Ob
serve" "the Sabbath day to keep It
holy." The specifications are tho same,
the son, the daughter, tho catthi and tho
stranger; all were to rest from work.
But the reasons differ. In Kxodus it
reads:
"For in six days tho Lord mad
Heaven and earth, the sea and all that
In them Is; wherefore the Lord blessed
the Sabbath day and hallowed it."
The reason In Deuteronomy Is quite
different:
"That thy man servant and thy maid
servant may rest as well as thou. And
thou shalt remember that thou wast a
servant In the land of Bgypt, and the
Lord thy God brought thee out thence
by a mighty hand and by a stretched
out arm; therefore the I-ord thy God
commanded thee to keep the Sabbath
day." , '
Tho difference letween the two is
this, that one looks Godward, and the
other manward; the one has a Divine
outlook, while tho other is completely
humanitarian. Both command rest for
A Vevr Words Aloa Toads.
A toad's eyes aro the only tilings in
rature which could not be represented
without using gold.
As to toads being poisonous, as the
Trench teasants say, or making warts,
as some old people tell us, that is pure
l.onsense. Their tongues are as curious
ns their eves are beautiful. The root of
tho tonguo is Just behind the under lip
nnd folds backward, hen .Mr. ioai
sees a fly he darts his long and active
tonguo out so quickly that It Is hard to
seo him do it, anil Jerks the ny onve
down his w ide gullet.
How munv of my Merry Timers can
tell me in what play Shakespearospeaks
of the toad, and quote the passage in
which he does soV Ietroit k ree rress.
Artful Liar.
Count Saint Germain, who oppearcd
In Paris in the reign of Louis A . and
nroteinled to Iks tiosseswul of the elixir
of life, Jiad a valet who was ulmostos
p-rcat cus his master in the ort of lying.
Once, when the count was describing
nt a dinner party 0 clrcumstanco w hich
neeurrml at the court of "his friend
King Klchard I. of Knglar.il." he op
needed to his servant for tlio confirma
tion of his sUrry, w Ito, with the greatest
composure, replied:
"You fcirget, sir, I have only been 00
venrs in vour Hcrvioe.
True" said Lis master, musingly,
j"it was a little beforo your time."
Household Words.
Aa Anatomical Cariosity.
Browne Of course Jones 1ms hit
faults, but his heart is on the right aide.
Towne No wonder ho died. N. Y.
Journal.
How many times we have missed
getting rich by not following rome
body s advice.
In the winter months a child prows
only one-fifth as much an it doe la
, June and Jul.
CHOICE SELECTIONS.
No right thing Is impossible.
Kam's Horn.
Hoi has tho four seasons in a day.
Chicago Standard.
The voice of tho Lord is to the indi
vidual. Saul's companions saw tho
light, but did not hear tho voice
United Drcsbj-terlan.
Our douht are traitors
And make us lono the g-ood we oft might win
Uy fearlntr to attempt.
-All the doors that lead Inward Into
the secret places of the Most High are
doors out ward out of self, out of small-
ness, out of w rong. George Macdonald.
You mav be a double man In spite
of yourself, but you cannot lo a double
mnn bv agreement: the oui is capa
ble of only one allegiance. Christopher
G. Hazard.
Choice and service the? were de
manded of tho Israelites, these are de
manded of you, these only. Choice nnd
rvlt-ein these aro the whole of life.
Mork Hopkins; D. D.
Tullevnind wild that a blunder was
worhe than a crime. Tho guilt of the
blunderer Is not ns great as that of
the criminal, but he may do as much
harm. Kev. C. W. Gullette.
Tim firm "lnve " oauscd In the New
Testament, Is the generic expression
for the sum of all benevolence. It Is
the all-Including symbol for the whole
content of man s duty to man. Jiev. A.
A. Berle.
When It is a duty to do a thing, it
ought to be done, whether it can be
done or not. Simply because a duty is
ImposJble Is no excuse for refusing to
do it. A large sJinre of a man's lt
work In life consists Iru accomplishing
the Impossible when It must be done.
8. S. Times.
Illranedneaa of Giving-.
That saying of our Lord, recorded by
the. Aiostlo Paul "It Is more blcswd
U give than, to receive" docs not apply
alone to the giving of money, l'eter
hod neither silver nor gold, but he gave
te the lame man something which
money could not buy. Any man wortnj
of the name desires to be of smn tw
in the world ; he wants to do some-thing
for God's glory nnd humanity's good.
N. Y. Ol crier.
KnnohllnK mlth.
There is nothing faith canrot mnke
noble v.lien It touches It. You need
not say I want to get oway from my
daily business or from my domestic
concerns in order to show my faith.
No. r.o, ?np w here you are nnd show it.
D. L. Moody. . ...
man nnd beast; but one says thatthl
rest is enjoined becauso God rested on '
the seventh day from the six days' work
of creation, nnd that the Sabbath com
memorates this rest and makes it tho
example for man; tho other declares
that servants and slaves, under the will
of a master, who cannot command their
times of rest, must be cared for, and
have a regular rest day provided for
them; and that tho people of Israel .
must remember, even the richest of
them, their nobles and kings, that they
served with rigor in Bgypt, where no '
rest was allowed them.
We sometimes distinguish between
the two tables of tho law, as If one con
tained duties to superiors, to our
Hearerdy Pexrt and our earthly pa
rents, while tho ot!er has to do with
duties to our fellow man. But tho
Deuteronomy version of the Fourth
Commandment, which Is of equal au
thority with that In Exodus, shows u
that this distinction cannot be sharply
drawn; or may wo say, rather, that God
Identifies Himself with the humblest,
even aa Jesus Identified Himself with
the least of Ills disciples; and that on
nfTensc niranlst the meanest day lalorer
or household drudge Is an offenso
ngnlnst God?
It may bo n relief to some who have
been troubled by tho Idea that God
wrote on tho table of stone, with His
own finger, an account of the creation
in six literal days, to discover w hat care
ful readers have long known, that tho
comment was no part of the original
commandment; but the chief lesson to
bo drawn from the comparison of tho
two versions Is the very same which
our Lord taught when Ho declared:
"Tho Sabbath was made for man, not
mnn for the Sabbath." The Fourth
Commandment Is tho worklngman'a
palladium, his best defense ngainst op
presHlon, and was so intended from the
first. Masters, employers, can take rest
w hen they please; rest must also be pro
vided, both by law and religion, for
those whom constant enforced labor
would otherwise imbrute. Every pro
vision to guard ngainst excessive hours
of luW on the week day Is In tho very
Ki.lrlt. nf this commandment. We nro
to maintain a rest day equally out of
honor to God, according to Exodus, and
out of mercy to man, according to
Deuteronomy. The two versions glvo
us Illustrated, in concrete duty, tho
double command of love to both God
nnd man, on which our Lord tells us
hang tho law nnd the prophets.
"That thy man servant and thy maid
servant may rest as well as thou." How
this purpose and command of God con
demns tho lieartlessness, too often the
brutality, of masters of industry nnd
mistresses of households! For tho
workman's sako the wheels and tho
hammers ami tho plows must cease to
move on the day of rest. For the sake
of the servant girl, the slave woman, the
spinning and the w caving nnd the cook
Incr prn tn cense on the Sabbath day.
Men may doubt whether an old Jewish
law Is binding now on Christmas, nnd
they may declare that the world wns not
made in six days; but the reason of hu
manity will never grow obsolete, "that
thy man servant and thy maid servant
may rest as well as thou." N. Y. Inde
I'urlflera of Life.
There arc some men and some women
in whoso company w e arc always at our
best. While with them w eennnot think
menu, thoughts or Meak ungenerous
words. Their mero presence Is eleva
tion, purification, sanctity, ah uie oesi
stops in our nature are drawn out by
their Jncrcourse, nnd we nnu u uumu
r. nnr .ut thnt w as never there before.
I Suppose that Influence prolonged
through a month, a jvar, uieumc,
and what could not life lecome. Here,
even oi the common plane of life, talk
ing our language, walking our street,
working side by side, am snnetlfiers of
souls; here, breathing through common
clay, Is Heaven; here, energies charged.
even though a temporal medium, -win
the virtue of regeneration. If to live
with mea diluted to the millionth de
gree with tho virtue of tbe highest can
exalt and purify tho nature, what
bounds can be set to the Influence of
Christ? Frof. Dnimmond.
llrvrlsHnn of t herecter.
r.rent occasion do not make heroes
or cowards; they simply unveil them to
the eyes of mm. Mlcntiy nnu imper
ceptibly, ns we wake or sleep, we grow
nnd wax strong, we gTow ana wnx
weak; and nt last some crisis shows 11
what wo have become. Cocon Wr?fc