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- . with th others, she too ter Pjor on the Hi, becan to quietly rtsticg 9se3m It wasJCresay Mehicstry. ff0joTCrj . dIstQrbe(j at the girl imeereIrrUtea " . master for the moment Bjooioo rn. . , tion co11ly, and affected to v ..uorte appearance, me situation f ignore . w-r a DP : -j cfire D". coof(j h(, p,. entire ignorance of terlovfr, 0 ' nl;whijeto rcint ftut the JS""' i I . . Tin lr.r.eer npeomnaniii r.v brtroK Utenf8SOf .ogtume would be VlDl interference he Knew Indian Spring Ufl .r-Ircelr tolerate. He could only accept v rriination s h raight cloue to give, (oca "P. s much to avert the directed jr3 range -f'nrttn BS to bring the scene to a err)3 Ol ji me eI fcebad removed her cloves and was standing 0P.'.r r.ckon I ean go on where I lei lazily, pointing to the- boos left ofir she she had MStewntr .aid the master dryly. The frstei whs called. Later, when his . ; brought biin to her side, he was surprise I find that she m evidently already prepared t0,tt- eonaeeutive lessons, as if she were serenely ...inns of any doubt of her return, nod as B0e.'I a" if be bad only left scLool the dav be- ? Her stu-iies were still quite elementary, J(y MKmtry trad never been a brilliant ICLlr but he perceived, with a cynical doubt f,L permanency, that she had betowod uni nnmi ber present performance. a, moreorer, a certain deCaocb in it, as fitboot ceetmir her eyes he contented himse! ;ih severely restminine the glances cf tfc v Aren that wandered in ber direction. Sh self he She hal oeer been qnne popunr he .reTiou role of fiancee, De'n and one or two older pir -...rinna fascination, wfci with the school in and only Oct&via 1a appreciated its while the beautiful Fanrt. secure in bis avowed predilection for the jVjjiaced wife of the proprietor of the Indian Snoe Hotel looked upon her as a precocious 4 with more than the usual pro'brcathinjr. Never theless the master was irrUatinly conscious of fcer presence a presence which now had all the Itsa-dity of her ridiculous love experiences superadded to it. He tried to reason with hira!pif tba- it was only a phae of frontier life, Lvicb oucht to have claused him. Hut it did tot The intrusion of this preposterous pirl ,.enied to d'.sarracge th discipline of his life ' wen hi of bis school. The usual vaene, f aroS dreams in which be was in the habit of in'e'nffdarine 6chool hours, dreams that were lerbaps superinduced by the remoteness of his retreai and a certain r?atful fyrapathy in hit little auditors, which had made him the crown- . op dreamer acceptable to them in his gentle naderstandme of their needs and weaknesses Bow seemed to have vanished forever. t recess, Octavio Dean, who bad drawn near Cresy and reached np to plac3 her arm round the older girl's waist, glanced at her with a patronizing smile born of some rapid f reemssonry, cd laughingly retired with th others. The master at his desk and Cressy, who had halted la the aisle were left alone. I have bad no intimation yet from your father or mother that you were coming back to rhool azain," he began. ,4Hat I suppose they tat decided upon your return?" An aneay suspicious of some arrangement with her former lover had prompted the emphasis. Tbe youn; girl looked at him with languid sitoDishment. 'I reckon paw and maw ain't to objection," she said, with the same easy ienoriag of parental authority that characterized Rupert Fileee the day before, and which seemed to be a local peculiarity. "Maw did offer to come yer and see you, but I told her she needn't botner.'' She rested her two hands behind her on the eicecf a desk, and leaned against it, looking down noon the toe of her smart little shoe, wbich was describing a small semi-circle beyond the bsm f her gown. Her attitude, which was balf-dsfiant, half-indolent, brought out the pretty carves of her waist and shoulders. The master noticed it, and became a trifle more austere. "Then I am to understand that this is a per macsnt thmgP he asked coldly. What's thatr said Creasy interrogatively. "Am I to understand that you intend coming rerelarlr to school T repeated the master curtly, "oris this merely au arrangement for a few days onti'. " 'Oh," t&id Cressy coraprehendingly, lifting her unabashed blae eye to his, "you mean that Ob, that's broke off. Yes," she added contemptuously, making a larger semi circle with her foot, "that s orer three weeks aco." MAnd Seth Dvis does ho intend returning toor "Her1 She broke into a light elrlish laugh. Irsckon not much! S'long ' I'm here, at leart." She had just lifted herslf to a sitting feature on the desk, to tnat her little feet itnng clear of the floor in their saucy dance. 'Suddenly she brought her heels together and a!irbted. "So that's all?" Ae asked. ''Kin I go now T Yea." Sbs laid her books one on the top of the other and lingered au instant. ' Been quite wellP she asked with indolent pdteness. "Yes thank you.r "You're lookm' right peart.' She walked with a southern girl's undulating itcraor to the door, opened it, than charged inddenly npoa Octavla Dean, twirled her round to a wild waltz and bore her awav; appearing a tnaaent after on the playeround demurely walking with her arm around her companion's wvst in an ostentatious confidence at once liuy, exclusive and exasperating to the smaller children. When school was dismissed that afternoon and the master had remained to show Kupert f'ilgea how to prepare Uncle Den's tasks, and bal given his final instructions to his youthful virserent, that irascible Adonis unburthened bimself querulously. ''Is Cres3y JJIcKinstry comin' res'lar,' ilr. Ford!"' "She is," said the master drilv. Aftsr a Fanse he asked, "Why" Rupert's curls had decended on his eyebrows in heavy discontent. "It's mighty rough, jest 2 a filler reckons he's got quit of her and her jackass bo, to hev her prancin' back inter school in, and rigged out like ez if she'd been to a fire in a milliner's shop. p'"You shouldn't allow your personal dislikes, RJpert, to provoke you to speak of a fellowaeholar in that way end a young lady too," "Jjeeted the master drily. ; 'k woo- 11 o' aicn feller-scholar and 'ch yonnjt ladies, if yer keer to go a gunning or em" 8aid Kupert with dark and slang sigli ne" "Ef l'd kn0WI- "a comia' back he stopped and broucbt his sunburnt f't ae&inst the seam of his trousers with a boyagMtnref "I'd hev jist w ' V ntf" said the master sharply. i eT rt? hookey till she left school Vf't 1 "oatn't hev been so long, neither," he aae.j with a mysterious chuckle. "That ;! A r ..; .w a. J . - t ism uie msBior perempioruy. r tile CmiiAnt TAnll attanil n vmi. intv J.4 trT to make Uncle Ben see you're aome5no.ro thaQ a Polish, prejudiced school-bov, . he added significantly, -he and I msy boti "rent our agreement. Let me have a good ccoant of yon both when I return.' he? a hU hal from its on the walI a2d l?ft t to ft nddenly formed resolution dl ,t sttol-room to call upon the parents of cKicatry. H6 was not quite certain trStJ bouW say. but, afcer his habit, would oy? the 'opiration of the moment. At the TeaVLi .J eould reaia :a situation that now api K-W mre tact and delicacy than ohiSf 7 50nsi8lent wth his posifon, and he was suifw., teoafei to himself that he had lately tor?,; at h,s DreeQi occupation-the tem'wi expedieDt of a poor but clever young tearJ? twenty wag scarcely bringing, him 1'or t r"llzticn of his daily dreams. Dllerim w ct Ford wa3 a youthful in h. -ought his fortune v I r Vea in v " "Kuwy uippeu thot tue matter tif Lin mr.A' .Hviiani That prospective fortune had S i r 4 i . . . ' Urtntiv V m ln bn "aocisco. had nof tow ill waittt,i 'or him in Sacramento, and 'Merihell-r l hv&Te beon al iDdmn jSKt. 2S6 be lil a ciwr Put bands in his i ttatVoii.i OD Wlth the cheerfulness of otisl, Ir0 h alrra,,y aspersed as mystetMn hVmlletfly atbt?y bad arrived. BeI Spring iSn? tb tralcg hamlet of Indian - tound or andec seemed to be without a which tv vTl)e 00&i upland or ridge j fonher v icool house stood, half a mile ier. on ' lu. lom craaually toward the . .. - uu5f oanK. itn .v. t: a town V V : " . vlu vam uniance, tred - r - - i . fcv uave teen scatthrown together tastily. -kunrif or 4 urch i" . "Vil4nk to tne liaptis pust X H o '"aceag in its tail ol xr IZIXL k.mith.hop; f wreckage while the "tie oUi015 "Trathy with this un J. .u Dad 8ftnrK .!.. . .. ci tnd hia eye glanced quickly beyond

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It to the plne-erested hills across the river, "whose primeval security was so near and yet so inviolable, or back aeain to the trail be was pursuing along the ridge. The latter prospect still retained its semi-savage character in spite of the occasional suburban cottages cf resiaents and tbe few outiyir.g farms or ranches of the locality. Tbe grounds of the cottages were yet uncleared of underbrush; bear and catamount still prowled around' the rude fences of the ranch?; the late alleged experience of the infant Filgee was by no means improbable or unprecedented. A lizht breeze was seeking the heated flat and river, and tbr.lling the leaves around him with the atron? vftaliry of tho forest. The vibrating cross-lights and tremulous chqners of shade cast by the stirred foilage seemed to weave a fantastic net around him as he walked. The quaint odors of certain woodland herbs known to his scholars, and religiously kept in their desks, or left like votirg " offerings on the threshold of the school-houe, recalled all the primitive simplicity and delicious wildnets of the little temple he had left. Even in the mischievous glanees cf evasivo squirrels and the moist eyes of the contemplative raobits there were faint eui'gostiong of some of his own truants. The woods were trembling with eentle memories of tbe independence he hal always known here cf that sweet and grave retreat now so ridiculously invaded. He began to hesitate, with one of those revulsions of sentiment charaeteriftio of his nature: Why thould he bother himself about this girl after all? Why not make up his mind to accept her as his predecessor had done? Why was it necessary for him to find her inconsistent with his ideas of duty to his little nock and his mission to them? Was he not assuming a sense of decorum that was open to misconception! The abrturditv of her echool costume and any responsibility it incurred, rested not with him, but her parents. What right had be to point it out to them, and above all how was he to do it? He halted irresolutely at what he believed was his sober Second thought, but which, like moat reflections that take that flattering title, was only a reaction bs impulsive and illogical as the emotion that preceded it Mr. McKinstry's snake rail" fence was already discernible in the lighter opening of the woods, net far from where he had baited. As he stood there in hesitation the pretty figure and bright gown of Cressie McKin3try suddenly emerged from the more3c!uded trail that intersected his own at an acute ancle a few rods ahead of him. She was not alone, but was accompanied by a male figure whose arm she had evidently just dislodged from her waist. He was still trying to reume his lost vantage; sho was as resolutely evading him with a certain nymph-like agility, while the sound of her half -laughing, half-irate protest could be faintly heard. Without being able to identify the faco or figure of her companion at that distance, he could see that it was not her former betrothed, Seth Davis. A superior smile crossed his face; he no longer hesitated, 'but at once resumed his former path. For eotne time Cressy and her companion moved on quietly before him. Then on reaching the rail fence they turned abruptly to the right, were lost for an instant iu the intervening thicket, and the next moment Cressy appeared alone, crossing the meadow in a shorter cut toward the house, having either scaled the fence or slipped through some familiar gap. Hor companion had disappeared. Whether they had noticed that they were observed he could not determine. He kept steadily alone the trail that followed the line of fence to the lane that led directly to the farmbuilding, and pushed open the front gate as Cressy's light dress vanished round an angle at the rear of the house. Tbe bouse of the McKicstrys rose, or rather stretched, itself before him, in all the lazy ungainliness of Southwestern architecture. A collection or temporary make shifts of boards, of logs, of canvas, prematurely decayed, and in some instances abandoned for a newer erection, or degraded to mere out-housea it presented with singular frankness the nomadic and tentative disposition of its founder. It had been repaired without being improved; its additions had seemed only to extend its primitive ugliness over a larger space. Its roofs were roughly shingled or radely boarded and battened, and the rafters of some of its "leanto's'1 were simply covered with tarred canvass. As if to settle any doubt of the impossibility of this heterogeneous mass ever taking upon itself any picturesque combination, a small building of corrugated iron. transported in sections from some remoter locality, had been set up in its center. The McKiostry ranch had long been an eye-sore to the master; even that morning he had been mutely wondering from what convolution of that hideous ehrysalis the bright butterfly Cressy had emerged. It was with a renewal of this curiosity that he had just seen her flutter back to it again. A yellow dog who had observed him hesitating in doubt where be should enter, here yawned, rose from the sunlight where he had been blinking, approached tbe master with languid politeness, and then turned towards the iron building as if showing him the way. Mr. Ford followed him cautiously, painfully conscious that his hypocritical canine introducer was only availing himself of an opportunity to. gainineress into the house, and was leading him as a responsible accomplice to probable exposure and disgrace. His expectation was quickly realized; a lazily querulous feminine outcry, with the words, "Vers that darned hound agin!Neame from an adjacent room, and his exposed and abashed companion swiftly retreated past him into the road again. Mr. Ford found himself alone in a plainly furnished sitting room confronting the open door leading to another apartment at which the figure of a woman, preceded hastily by a thrown dish cloth, had juat appeared. It was 3Irs. McKinstry; ber sleeves were re lied un over her red but still shapely arms, and as she stood there wipingthm on her apron, with ber elbows advanced and her closed hands raised alternately in the air, there was an odd pugilistic suggestion- in ber attitude. It was not lessened on her sudden discovery of the master by her retreating backwards with her hands up and ber elbows still well forward as if warily retiring to an imaeinary "corner." Mr. Ford at once tactfully stepped back from the doorway. "I bee yonr pardon," he said, delicately addressing tbe opposite wall, "but I found the door open and I followed the dog." "That's just one of his pizenous tricks." responded Mrs. ilcKinstry dolefully from within. "On'y last week he let in a Chinaman, and in the nat'ral hustlin' that follered he managed to help himself outer the pork bar'L There ain't no shade o' cussedness that or'oary hound ain't up to." Yet, notwithstanding this ominous comparison, she presently made her appearance with her sleeves turned down, her black woolen dress "tidied," and a smile of fattened but not unkindly welcome and protection on her face. Dusting a ehair with her apron and placing it before the master, she continued maternally: "Now that you're here, set ye right down and make yonrself to home. My men folks are all out o' door, but some of 'em's sure to happen in soon for suthin'; that day ain't yet created that they don't come huntm'up Mammy MoKinstry every five minutes tor this thing or that. The glow of a certain hard pride bnrned through the care-worn languor of her brows, cheek. What she had said was strangely true. This raw-boned woman before him, although scarcely middle-aged, had for years occupied ft self-imposed maternal and protecting relation, not only to her husband and brothers, but to the three or four men who, as partners or hired hands, lived at the ranch. An inherited and trained sympathy with what she called her "boys" and her "men folk," and their needs had partly nnsexed her. She was a fair type of a class not uncommon on the Southwestern frontier; women who were ruder helpmeets of their rude husbands and brothers, who had shared their privations and sufferings with surly, masculine endurance, rather than feminine patience; women who had sent their loved ones to hopeless adventure, or terrible vendetta, as a matter of course, or with partisan turj: who had devotedly nursed the wounded to keep alive the feud, or had received back their dead dry-eyed and revengeful. Small wonder that Cressy McKinstry had developed strangly under this sexless relationship. Looking at the mother albeit not without a certain respect Mr. Ford found himself contrasting ber with the daughter's graceful femininity, and wondering where in Cressy's youthful coutour the possibility of the grim tieure before him was even now hidden. "Hiram allowed to go over to the school house and see you this morn'," said Mrs. McKinstry, after a pause; -but I reckon ez how be bad to look up 6tock on the river. The cattle are that wild this time o' year, hnntui' water, and haneiu' round the tules, that my men are nigh worrited out o' their butes with 'em. Hank and Jim ain't been otT their mustangs since sun up, and Hiram, what with patrollen' the west boundery all night, watohin' stakes whar them low down Harrisons have been trespassin hasn't put his feet to the eround in fourteen hours. Mwbbee you noticed Hiram ez you kem along? ilf so, didn't remember what kind o' shootin' irons ha bad with him? I see bis rifle over yon. Like ez not he'z only got his six-shooter, and them Harrisons are mean enough to lay fur him at long range. But," she added, returning to the less important topic, "I a'pose Cressy camo all right" , "Yes," said the master, bopeiess.y. "1 reckon she looked so." continued Mrs. McKinstry, with tolerant abstraction. "She allowed to do herself credit in one of- them new store gownds that she got at Sacramento. At least that's what some of our men said. Late years 1 ain't kept tech with the fashions myself." She passed her finders explanatorily down the folds of her own coarse gown, but without regret or apology. ... "She seemed well prepared in her lessons." aid the master, abandoning for the moment that eriticum of hU pupil's dress, which bejaw was utterly futile; "but am I to understand that

she is coming regularly to school that she is now perfectly free to gie her entire attention to her studies that that her engagement Is

broken ollf "Why. didn't she tell yer echoed Mrs. MoKinstry in lnnguid surprise. "She certainly did," said the master with slight embarrassment, "bnt "Kf she said so," interrupted Mrs. McKinstry abstractedly, "she oughter know, and you can tie to what f-he says." "But as I am responsible to parents andnot to schoiars for tho discipline of my school, returned the young man a little stiflly, "I thought it my duty to hear it from vou." "That's so." said Mrs. McKiustry meditatively; "thn I reckon you'ld betier see Hiram. That ar' Seth Dvi engagement was a matter of hern and her father's, and cot in my line. I 'spose that Hiram nat'rally allows to set the thing square to you and icquirin' friends." "I hone you uodeistand," said the master, sliehtly resenting the classification, "that my reasons for inquirine about the p-rmarency of yonr daughter attendance was simply because it mieht b necessary to arrange her studies in a way more suitaMe to her years; perhaps, even to suggest to you that a youngjadies' seminary might be more satisfactory " Sartam, eartain," interrupted Mrs. McKinstry hurriedly, but whether from evasion of annoying suggestion, or weariness of the topic, the master could not determine. "Vou'Id better sueik to Hiram about it. O'ny," fehe hesitated eliKhtly, "ez he's got now sorter set and pinted towards your school, and is a trifle worrited with stock and them Harrisons, ye might tech it lightly. lie oughter be alone yer now. I can't think what keeps him." ner eyes wandered again with troubled preoccupation to tha corner where her husband's Sharpe rifle stood. Suddenly she raised her voice as if forgetful of Mr. Ford's pre3er.ee. "O Cressy'." "O maw!" The response came from the inner roonJ. The next moment Creiy appeared at the door with an odd half-lazy defiance in her manner, which the master conld not understand, except upon the hypothesis that she bad been listening. She had already changed her elaborate toilet for a long clinging, coarse blue gown, that accented the graceful curves of her slight, petticoatless figure. Nodding her head towards the master she said, "Howdy? and turned to her mother who practically ignored their personal acquaintance. "Cressy," she said, "Dad's gone and left his Sharpe yer, dye mind takin' it along to meet him. afore he passes the boundary corner. Ye might tell hira the teacher's yer, wantia' to see him." "One moment," said the master, as the young girl carelessly stepped to the corner and lifted the weapon. "Let me take it. It's all on my way baok to echool, and I'll meet bim." Mrs. McKinstry looked perturbed. Cro?sy opened her clear eyes on the master with evident surprise. "No, Mr. Ford," said Mrs. McKmistry, with her former maternal manner. "Ye'd better not mix yourself up with these yer doin's. Ye've no call to do it, and Cressy has; its all in the family. But it's outer your line, and them Harrison whelps go to your school. Fancy the teacher takin' weppin3 betwixt and between!' "It's fitter work for the teacher than for one of his scholars, and a young lady at that," said Mr. Ford gravely, as he took the rifle from tne hands of the half-amused, hal-reluctant girl. "It's quite safe with me and I promise I shall deliver it into Mr. McKinstry's hands and none other." Perhaps it wouldn't be ez likely to ba gin'rally noticed ez it would if one of us carried it." murmured Mrs. McKinstry in confidential abstraction, gazing at ner daughter, sublimely unconscious of the presence of a third party. "You're quite right," said the master composedly, throwing the rifle over his shoulder and turning towards the door. "So I'll say eood afternoon, and try and find your husband." Mrs. McKinstry conetrainedlv plucked at the folds of her coarse gown. "Ye'll like a drink afore ye go," eho said, in an ill-concealed tone of relief. "I clean forgot my manners. Cressy fetch out that demijohn." "Not for me, thank you,r returned Mr. Ford smiling. "Oh, I see you're temperance, nat'rally," said Mrs. McKinstry, with a tolerant sigh. "Hardly that." returned the master, "I follow no rule. I drink sometimes but not to-day." Mrs. McKinstry's dark face contrasted "Don't you see. Maw," struck in Cressy quickly. "Teacher drinks sometimes, but he don't use whisky. That's all." Her mother's face relaxed. Cressy slipped out of the door before the master, and preceded him to the gate. When she had reached it she turned and looked into his face. "What did Maw say to yer about seein' me just now?" "I don't understand your "To your seem' me and Joe Masters on the trail?" "She said nothing." "Humph," said Cresy meditatively. "What was it you told her about it? "Nothing." "Then you didn't see us?" . "I saw you with some one I don't know whom." "And you didn't tell Maw?" "I did not. It was none of my business." He instantly saw the utter inconsistency of this speech in connection with the reason he believed he had in coming. But it was too late to reeall it. and she was looking at him with a bright but singular expression. "That Joe Masters is the conceitedest fellow goin'. I told him you could see his foolishness." "Ab, indeed." Mr. Ford pushed open the gate. As the girl still lingered, he was obliged to hold it a moment before passing through. "Maw couldn't Quite hitch on to your not drinkin. She reckons you're like everybody else about yer. That's where she slips up on you. And everybody else, I kalkilate." "I suppose she's somewhat anxious about your father, and, I dare say, is expecting me to hurry," returned the master, pointedly. "Ob, dad's all right," 6aid Cressy, mischievously. "Y'ou'll come across him over yon, in tho clearing. But you're looking right pnrty with that eun. It kinder sets you off. You oughter wear one." The master smiled slightly and said "Goodbye," and took leave of the girl, but not of her eyes, which were still following hira. Even when he had reached the end of the lane and glanced back at the rambling dwelling she was still leaning on the gate with one foot on the lower rail and her chin cupped ln the hollow of her hand. She made a slight gesture, not clearly intelligible at that distance; it might have been a mischievous imitation of the way be had thrown the gun over his shoulder; it might have been a wafted kiss. Tho master, however, continued his way in no very self-satisfied mood. Although he did not regret having taken the place of Cressy as the purveyor of the lethal weapons between belligerent parties, he knew he wss tacitly mingling in the feud between people for whom he cared little or nothine. It was true that the Harrisons sent their children to his school, and that in the fierce partisanship of the locality this simple courtesy was open to misconstruction. But he wss more uneasily conscious that bis mission, as far as Mrs. McKinstry was concerned, was a miserable failure. The strange relations of the mother and daughter perhaps explained much of the girl's conduct, but it offered no hope of future amelioration. Would the father, "worited by stock" and boundary quarrels a man in the habit of cutting Gordian knots with a bowie knife prove more reasonable? Was there any nearer sympathy between father and daughter? Bnt she had said he would meet McKinstry in the clearing: She was right, forbore he was, coming forward in a gallop! (TO 15E CONTINUED. How to lie III Comfortably. A. B. Ward, in Jsorember Harper. How to be ilL This is a science uncatalogued as yet. I do not mean how to get there, but bow to comport yourself when there. Tbe sick man's outfit is, perhaps, a closer terminology. Mind, I do not say the sick woman's outfit. Women are born into the world with a talent for that sort of thing. They recline as naturally as they sit, smile oyer the stiff barrier of a tooth-ache, swoon gracefully, and never look so well as in the cap and gown livery of an invalid. The gentle martyr spirit which immolates convenience and comfort on the altar of appearance, mankind will never understand. "Don't go," she says, winningly. Her eyes shine, her cheeks glow, she chats gayly and without a break, until the great blundering ignoramus of woman's ways finally drags his long call to an end. He never doubts that the evening has been as delightful to her as to him. He never dreams that her head ached and she was "tired to death," even while she encouraged his jokes and invited his confidences. Why, in the name of all that's human, didn't she say so? My dear fellow, she couldn't It would bs contrary to alt her traditions and instincts. Whence comes the ambition for suffering inherent in feminine souis I cannot say; but it is there. It may be an inheritance from barbarism. It may bo a merciful provision of nature for what most women are fated, to endure, a heroic stimulus to carry them over the crest of the wave of pain, and prevent their sinking in its murderous trench. Women seem to understand this sentiment in each other, and know how to call forth its exercise: but men look on in a kind of puzzled awe. They have no such quality about them. They go about the bc&iuess of bne ill as if it were its contrary, being well. K?ery muscle is tense, every nerve alive. It sometimes requires the practice 0 years to learn how to relax. Physicians prescribe Ayer's Pills as the safest and moat perfect cathartic compound.

READING FOR THE SABBATH. The King Daughter. She werirs no fawe's upon hand or brow; No badge by whit-h she may be known of met; But, tho' she walk in plain attire now. She is a daughter of the King, and wheu Her Fa'her call her at His thrcre to wait She will be clothed as doth befit her state. Her Father sent Ler in Hi lmd to dwell, Ulvii g to Ler a work that must be done; And since the Kin loves all His people well. Therefore. a'ie, too, e&res for tem, every one. Thuf when she atoops to lift from wsnt a&d siu. The brighter shines Ler royalty therein. She walks erect t'tirouh dangers manifold. While many biiik aud fall on either Lanu; She Leeds not summer's heat r.or winter's cold. For both are subject to the Kind's command; She need not be afraid of anything Dcaue she ia the daughter of the King! liven where the ax;jrel come that men call Death And l.ame with terror it appeals not her: She tarns to look at him with quickened bieath, Thickiufr, "It is the royal mesenper." Her heart rejoices that h'er IVher calU Her back to live within the va'.ace walls. For tho' the land she dwells in is most fair. " Set round with stream, like pictures in a iraiae. Yet often iu her heart deep lorgings are For that "imperial palace" wnence she came; Not perfect quiet seem any earthly thing, because sho is a daughter of the King. Xew York Sun. Snndny.Srlioni L.enson for Nov. 11. 1888. Caleb's Inh: ritance. Joshua xiv, 5-13. Golden Text Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shait thou dwell in tbe land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Psalm xxxvii, 3. An interval of seven years occurs between the last and present lesson. In this time have been fought the battles of Ai snd Dethhoron, and tne conquest of the land had gone forward successfully. The camp of the Israelites is still at Gilgal, ar.d tho people are coming together to divide the land. Hefore the lot is cast, however, Caleb presents himself with a special claim, which is allowed. For the basis of the ciaita read Num. xiii, xiv. L.ESSON OUTLINE. We take faith as our central thought, for of this grace Caleb was a conspicuous instance. 1. Here is the insight of faith (v. 7) The deepest meaning of faith is spiritual insight; for faith is that power by which the soul apprehends spiritual relations. What a man fees shows what a man is. The ten spies saw great cities, giant like enemies, an uueonquerable land. Caleb and Joshua saw a magnificent inheritance for Israel; a promised land, easily conquered, for thev saw God on their side. 2. Here is the fidelity of faith (v. 8) The man who sees God and trusts him is tbe man of faithfulness. There was somethine essentially noble in Caleb's fidelity. He stood, with Joshua, alone among the spies as loyal to God, and aloco among the people, withstanding the whole current of popular opinion. It is eay to do right when right has a majority; Caleb stood for the right when he was in a minority. 3. Here is the patience of faith (v. 9-11) Forty years rolled away between the promise to Caleb and its fulfillment, and during much of the time realization seemed to be only further and further away. The Israelites wandered to and fro, coing away from Canaan as often as they journeyed toward it. Caleb saw his peoplo dying around him. and found himself getting older. A less steadfast faith than his would have faltered and lost its grip on the promise. But Caleb could wait, and did wait patiently, sure that at some time'God's word would bo fulfilled. 4. Here is tbe choice of faith (v. 12) Caleb was an old man when the hour of fulfillment came, and he could enjoy the realization of that which he had long waited for. Old men generally desire ease, but this old man said: "Yonder is the mountain which they said was impregnable, the city with strong walls, and with giants for its defenders. Now give me this mountain.'1 He chose the hardest task of alL True faith does not seek to enjoy, but to labor. It is faith that sends out missionaries and workers for God. Faith makes sacrifices cladly, counts trials as nothing, and rejoices in tribulation. 5. We see faith's courage (v. 12, 13) There is something splendid in the picture Svhich the story dves us; the old soldier of four-score lead-, ing bis little army against the frowning walls of Hebron. He was bold because be rested in tbe Lord. The secret of his courage is in that sentence, "If so be the Lord will be with me." Who would not be bravo with Omnipotence on his side? 6. We sse faith's reward (v. U, 15) The o!d hero sat down at last in peace within the city which he had won. He inherited the promise and enjoyed its fulfillment. He who believes shall enter into rest. "Whose faith follow," says the apostle. SUGGESTIONS. We gain a very fair idea of the oharacter of Caleb, and it would be a good thing to draw out from tbe echolars their conception of the man. 1. He was faithful in the lesser things, and so was advanced step by step. From the first he does faithfully and well tbe work assigned. 2. He was a sincere man, speaking out fearlessly what was in his heart. Caleb means "all heart." 3. He was a courageous man, and seemed to have no fear of bis enemies. 4. He had faith in God, and believed that with his help he could do everything. 5. He was a manly man, and there is all the charm of a high-toned, genuine man. C. He was favored of the Lord and given large success. But all this was based oa his wholly following the Lord. TO INFANT CLASS TEACHERS. 1. Speak of the division of the land of Canaan by lot among the twelve tribes. 2. Tell who Caleb was, and mention the good traits of his character brought out in these notes. 3. Tell about the country which he claimed for himself its advantages and disadvantages. 4. Show that in the way of our best interests lie many Anakim. such as ugly tempers, etc 5. Show that those who succeed in being religious must be willing to endure the toil of conquering their spiritual foes. G. Impress the truth so prominent in the thought of Caleb, that we can succeed only by the divine help. Personal and New Notes. P. M. Arthur, chief of the Locomotive Brotherhood, is a Methodist. The week of prayer for young men and Y. M. C. associations will begin Nov. 11. A congress of eolored Catholics Is to be held in Washington, D. C, in January. The Presbyterians have a home for worn-out and disabled ministers at Perth Am boy, N. J. Whedon's commentary on the New Testament is appearing in bi-monthly parts in England. There are 5,041,000 Jloman Catholics in Great Britain and Ireland. Of these 3.931,000 are in Ireland. Tte Swedish Methodist Book Concern, of Chicaeo, has beeu incorporated, with a capital of $10,000. Mr. George W. Cable has returned to Boston and resumed charge of the great Bible class in Tremont Temple. Kev. William Ireland, for forty years missionary of the American Board in South, Africa, died in Boston, Oct. 2L Elizabeth Taler, Marion, Mass., bequeathed about $100,000 to a large number of religions and benevolent enterprises, Queen Victoria is a Presbyterian in Scotland, and an Episcopalian in England. She dislikes ritualism everywhere, it is said. It is said that it requires the Bible in twentycine different languages to supply the inhabitants of Pennsylvania with the Word of God. The New York Independent, iu a long editorial to Christian voters, asks its readers to go to the polls on Tuesday and vote for the Republican candidates in behalf of morality and Christianity. "One of the strangsst sights in this land," says the New Orleans Advocate, "is a Christian with the New Testament in his lap, and eighteen centnries of church history at his elbow, and yet opposed to foreign missions." Mrs. Charles Turner, of Liverpool, has placed at the disposal of the Archbishop of York the sum of 120,000 towards tbe creation of a fund for assisting with pensions the clergy of the diocese who may have become unfit for the discbarge of their duties through infirmity. Mrs. Turner made an eqnal gift to Liverpool some time ago, for the same benevolent purpose. Mr. Carnegie, the Scotch millionaire, has publicly stated that he does not mean to die rich. He is a liberal, but cot a socialist. He advocates tbe prohibition of the sale of intoxicating drinks, and laughs in sffhrn at the idea of paying compensation to saloon-keepers. Just how he proposes t6 dispose of his immense fortune we are not informed, but that be is sincere in his announcement co one doubts. More Carneries would make the world brighter. Western Christian Advocate. Wortl.4 from Noble Ml ml. Tne highest exercise of charity is charity toward the uncharitable. Buckminister. The best perfection of a religions man is to do common things in a perfect manner. BonaTentura. As pilgrims we approach the great saints and commune with them in spirit, killing tho distance of time and space. We enter into them, and they into us. In our souls we cherish them, and imbibe their character aj J rrU:!-

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pies. They may be male to live and grow in us. Keshub Chunder Sen. Ali the wonders of Greek civilization heaped togother are less wonderful than is this simple book of Psalms tbe history o! the human ?oul in relation to its Maker. Gladstone. With the first touch of frost the leaves of the forest put on their garments of beauty and glory, while tho m on tains break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field clan their hands. So it is with the Christian's soul when the finger of death touches the bad). Selfishness is a capital sin, but self-respect is a cardinal virtue. Against every temptation to do wrong the good man's self-respect is an insuperable barrier. Wben wealth, and position, and fashion, and party demand obsequious devotion, hia self-respect forbids it. And when he pursues culture, or business, or pleasure, it is not for the outward advantages they may furnish, but for the development and glory of his own powers. The more be respecte himself the more efficiently he serves his race and glorifies his Creator. A NATL'HAT, GAS WONDEK. A jrote huic Display That Lasted for Two Years. H.irrisbur? (Pa.) Special. "There are many enrious phenomena ever present at the natural gas wells." 6aid a member of a big natural cas company in Washington county in giving some reminiscences of the development of that great industry, "out I have never seen any that struck me as being so peculiar as those that were witnessed a few years ago at a well in the Canada oil-field at Sarnia. The well was being drilled for oil, and at the depth of GOO feet a great volume of gas was found. The gas was accidentally set on fire as it rushed from the well. A fountain of fiamo more than fifty feet high was the result. That in itself was a wonderfnl phenomenon for that district then, and would be to-day, bnt the flow of burning gas had still greater peculiarities, and such peculiarities as no gas well in Washington county ever had, common as grat fountains of fire rushing from them are in the upper district. One of these peculiarities cf the Sarnia well was that every fifteen minutes, as regularly as a clock could nark the time, a stream of water three inches in diameter spouted from the depths and mingled with the burning cas. The force of the water carried the llames up more than 100 feet, and separated tho mass iu darting sprays and eparkline showers of fire. Tne water's chemical composition was each that there were certain inflammable qualities in it, and these would make brizhtly-cclored lights to mingle with the dull yellow flame of the gas itself, creating a natural pyrotechnical display that I never saw equaled in brilliant and startling effects by any artificial combination of explosires and combustibles. Streaks of bright yellow, globes of purple, and fantastic shapes ia red, pink and blue leaped and danced and whirled about in that warring mass of fire in a manner most enchanting. The eruption of water lasted exactly three minutes, when the flame of gas would resume its .normal condition. While the water was mingling with the tlame a strong smell of sulphur pervaded the air. "A strange thing connected with the burning well was the way in which birds of all kinds were attracted to it whilo tbe water was spouting. They would circle about the pillar of fire, ntterine tjieir different cries and acting as if they were frantic Frequently the flames would catch some unfortunate bird in its flight and it would fall, dead or dying, to the ground. This fire bad such an effect on many kinds of birds that they would alight in the midt of a crowd of spectators and permit themselves to be caught by the pcore. The owner of the well tried every means then known to extinguish tbe burning gas, but all to co purpose. It burned without any evidence of weakening, or that it ever intended to weaken, for over two years, . when it went out one day as suddenly as it had a p pet red. Another curious thing about this well ras that when the gas took lire there were a number of oil wells on the tract, all yielding largely for that region. Their production gradually decreased as the gas well continued to burn, and when it ceased burning cot one of the wells was yielding a drop of oil, and none was ever found on the tract afterward, although on adjoining leases the drill tapped a liberal oil vein. Dr. Dunning Surprises a Drummer. Lewieton Jonrnal. The Rev. A. E. Dunning, 1). D., the manager of the Congregationalist publishing-house ai 1 Sabbath-school work, and one of the busiest men m Boston, is an off-hand, approachable man with a bright, winning face, easy manner and personal magnetism, that contribute much to his success. He has none of the outward signs of his clerical calling, but looks more like a business man. He travels nearly all of the time and he says that in-the cars he generally passes as a drummer and is recognized by the fraternity as one of their number. On going to Minneapolis one Saturday evening, a smart yonng fellow approached him in a free and easy way: "Going to stop over Scnday?" "Yes," replied the Doctor. "Stop at the Blank Hotel, Isuppose?" "No, I am going to stop with a friend." "Come around to the hotel to morrow aftercoon and we'll have a racket. juite a cumber of the boys will be there." "But to-morrow is Sunday." "I know it, and that's why we tn have such a devil of a good time." "Oh, I think that we fellows who are traveling all the time ought to keep Sunday," said the Doctor. "Yes," said the drummer good-naturedly, "but IU bet vou won't." "I'll tell you what HI do; I'll go to church tomorrow if you wilL" 'IU do it Where shall w go?" "To the First Congregational. It's the best church in town." "All right. I ll be there, but I'll bet you won't" The drummer was there according to his promise, and eould hardly believe his eyes when he saw his lriend of the night before ascend to tbe pulpit Dr. Dunning tried to find him after the service, but he had Ced. ilapaueae l'ootwer. Tkio Coneerx-ndence Pittsburg Dispatch. Clatter, clatter, clatter! What a noise the people make as they go along the road! They all wear wooden sandals and their stockings are a kind of mitten with a finger for the big toe. During wet weather their sandals become stilts and the whole Japanese cation increases in stature by three inches whenever it rains. These sandals are held to the foot by straps coming over the toes, and there is a straw sole between the foot and tbe sandal of wood. A tall J apanese on a stilt sandal closely approaches the ridiculous. He sometimes tucks up his long gown under his belt to keep it from being spattered by the mad, and the backs of his bare calves seem to be walking off with the man. Tbe Japanese walk is peculiar. The men put their feet straight in front of them, like the American Indian. They lift them high ol the ground, and they w v a get-there air about them. The womet Mde and wabble; they bend over as they w .nd they have what is now in America the jionable stride. Their little feet in sandai turn inward, and all female Japan is pigeon-toed. Your Japanese beauty is not averse to showing her ankle, and the soul of the Japanese beau does cot flutter when Lb sees a two inch slice of cream-colored skin above tbe three-inch foot-mitten. The Japanese shoe store is one of wooden -ware rather than of leathnr. and the cobbler mends his shoes with the chisel and planer. The Einprsss I'reUerlck's Purchase. The Empress Treierlck has, I hear, purc'n the Yilla Keiss, at Cronberg, in the Taunns, ased for near Konfgstein, and Has in the most beautiful part The Villa Itciss is a fine bouse, and stands in extensive grounds. It is rumored that the Empress intends tbe place to be the residence of Ler second daughter. Princess Victoria, after her marriage with Prince Alexander of Batten-berg.

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