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4 KITTY'S By Author of S (Mi AI' 1 Kit VIII. -tCnntinued.) "Well. John homo aaia? May 1 come in?" a!;ed a quid;, clear, decisive voice; anl across the room came with a self-assured air a lady who 1 new at once must h John's sistor. lie took no notice of me; but she put out her lurse. un?!ovl hand cordially to John, and looked at hi in with a straight, frank, friendly glance that aonuhow made me like her. and made tn forgive her for her slighting thoughts of girls." "This is my vif, Carrie." said John. as I roe with a .scorched face from my Jowly seit. "Kitty, this is my sister." S!i did not kiss me. Hut she took my hand w'th a firm clasp tht was not infriendly, and she looked str;'ht and keenly at nie. w'th an intererted. vonderiiij;, slightly humorous look. Her eyes vje like John's, with the same capacity for sternness and gentleness, but they vtp more humorous is tlian John"? or people said so. She was a fine woman, tall, massively marie, hut v.f',1 p'-ij.oitioned, and not without a certain 5-Jatt-.lv dignity. Her tiair. just turning m; was brushed back from her fact. . .Ing her wide brow bare. She made a few rev rks to me in a half-kindly, half-p .unctory tone, ihen took pity on my shyness, or felt that she had done her duty, and addrvseI hessHf to John. Dut very flow and ihen. while she talked to him. her eyes fell upon mo and I read her thoughts in thfin. "What rou'. i John j oavo seen in her? they said. "What t could have induced h:m M marry I her?" I "You have never ask-.l me for Ltwh, ; John," she said jue.-entiy in a tune of j ecus::! ion. I "I have been g ;ng to ask you. How j U she?" j "I don't know hw sin f don't ' ki ow what is the :r..it!r with her. J Sä's in a pensive üi ;l. She won't j rouse her.-rlf. She is '.orried. She i AS I KNHIT TUl'Jti: says she must sec you. You must coiuc j and see her. John." j "Yes. I want to see her," s::id John ; In a thoughtful tone. i "She sent half a dozen message to Vau Kirl itf or i'ulll P 11 1 I -au deliver them in person." CHAPTER IX. John was looking before him. away from his sister, into the fire, with a somewhat abstracted glance. "How did she bear leaving her old home?" he asked presently in a musing tone. "Hear it? There was nothing to bear. It was never home to her. Ilrittany was always a foreign horn? to I-"ia she never got over her feeling of loneliness. There was not a day. I believe, but that she longed for Lonlon: she used to tell me that she dreamed at night of the lights and the roar of the London streets she awoke :o the silence of our country life, and ho sttllnes oppressed her, weighed upon Iter spirits. She was homesick for ten years if that is psib;e." John was looking before him with a .sorrowful, contemplative glat.ee. "She regretted her marriage?" be said after a moment. "Slie could not rtgret It. It was inevitable." "She tnought so." "It waj 30." "There." Paid John, quietly, "we hall always differ." There was a minute's silence; when ronvereation began again It drifte! to other topics Jol-a joined but little In it; his sister turned her attention once more to rn and began to sound the shallows of my knowledge, the depths of my ignorance. In ten minutes she had discovered all that I had nor rea l, all tho fundamental subjects on which I had not thought; .-ho had found out that my knowlelge of art was nil. of music superficial, of literature .superficial and fcchool-cirllsh. I had never In my life fcH myself so entirely uninformed. Rut, if my questioner gradually tinteiled rny ignorance, it struck me no.v and then thin she looked at me more humorously than scornfully tho while, and with more kindliness. She stayed for an hour; then she rose to go. John went slowly with her from the room. I breathed more freely as the door closed. Left alone. I strolled slowly tcross the room to the window, parted the curtains and stood looking out. The sky, which had been overcast.

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HUSBAND "Hetty," Etc. hail grown cl trer by now; it was starlit. I opened the window and knelt down, my arms on the sill. How quiet it was! Now and then a footstep passed I heard it advance and heard it slowly die away; now and then the distant murmur of the streets seemed for a moment to grow more distinct, then seemed far away again. As I knelt there, a door opened slowly; a clear voice struck my ear. "She is such a child, John! I knew she was young but so young! I don't approve of your marriage--! tell you frankly." "You told me that before. In your letters. They did not surprise me. I knrw you would not approve." "I had hoped no. don't Interrupt me, let me i-ay it, John I had hoped, now that Lucia wa.' free again, that you and she at last might both he happy." "That subject is threadbare, Carrie. Why discus-; it any more?" "No" with an impatient little sigh "it is useless to discuss it now. llut what induced you. John? " "I wrote and told you what induced me. "Hut was it a sudden I bought?" "Not very sudden. The thought first came to n;e, 1 own. a good many years ago. Half a dozen years ago I began o consider whether I might not one day induce h"r to le my wife. I did not ofien think of it but now and then the idea would recur to rue." -j u t ..,f a u()ZOn years ago, 'lohn. yi'j could not have lier." "No." A nK.r.ient's pauMbeeu in !o' e with Then in a clear. regretful voice "Th; old story again! John, what a

son yu have be.-n! Is the-e a single j cier t.;,üs fur . xceiuional treatment, debt of our father's that you have not a groom who could thus carry the dogleft uncleared : Your lifr b.i ; been one j in-the-manger print ipl" into the instilong act of rep.-iration. and this is tho tution f marriare is yMogelher so inlast of a.'l! Me mad that po.:r chihl a j concf ivahle a reprobate that no sched

A DOOR OPKXIil. pauper -at 'l you could not forge. Yes, I knew that that w:s it! 1 said it to Lu(-i;i, but she knew It too. Oh, it is fund. John ha id upon you!" i;ul yon mistake." said .John's grave i voice, ewn, quiet, deeply .serious the ! j voice that thrilled nie wlnue I knelt. 'My first thought long ago, very long ago was wh.it you say, a thought of reparation. Hut I did what at that time I did not think of doing;. I fell in love with Kitty fell honestly in ! loe with her." "Beruh.-o you w ished." "The whfh may have had something to do with it may not have had. I cannot say." "Do you think such love Is trustworthy, John.' Will it wear, do you think, a lifetime?" "1 hope so." "So do I from rny heart. Shall 1 give you my frank opinion?" "Do." "I think you oeght to husband that lo". e of vours with 11 vour energy. Seventeen and thiity-five have not j many common interests. If you have any common interests, cherish them, John and phut all other Interests out. Don't be vexed with me. Theje is one 1 thing more I want lo say." "Say it." "I am lujt very fond, as you know, of girlish simplicity, hut there was something in that little wife of yours that touched nie. I asked you to come and see. Lucia, but I ask you now not to come." "Not come? Why not?" "There are manifold reasons why not. You know them as well as I. Kilty is an unformed pretty girl no more. Lucia is a woman beautiful, cultured, clever, more than clever and the woman, John, whom you passionately loved!" 1 hail knelt as one spellbound, had listened in a breathless, tremulous way. with no definite thought that I was listening, with only one eager, overmastering wish to hear John convince me once again that ho loved me, that he loved me for love's sake, not for pity'3 sake, or Aunt Jane's sake, or anyone's sake, but Just for his own sake, for pure, reasonless, passionate need of loving me. I had longed to hear thh sweet assurance, and Instead I had heard what had I heard? I rose from my knees hurriedly In a dazed and dizzy way. "I say, don't come," continued the full, clear voice In a warning tone. "I say what I think Is kindest, John, Tut

q tlon to yomse.r-can r tr rseif to come? i your I did not hear John's answer. I would not hear it, I dared not. I moved away from the window, and went back to my old place beside the hearth, and stood looking down into the fire. Presently the house-door shut, and John's step came back through the tiny hall. In another minute he stood beside me. "You are looking tired, Kitty," he said in a half-inquiring tons. I turned my face toward him and tried to laugh cheerily. The laugh was a most mirthless one. I was conscious that his eyes were observing me in an anxious, questioning way. I must say something I could not think of a tiling to say. "Io you think th yir's will come?" I asked him with eagerness. "I wish the girls would come; don't you?" "You want the girls?" he asked. My voice had trembled; I felt that I must account for the tremor In it, and for the tears with which my eyes had suddenly grown dim. "I want them dreadfully," I criod "oh, dreadfully I" (To be continued.) THE DOG IN THE MANGER. Man U'Iki C'urrU' Tiiit I'olioy Into M:ir rlajjo Deserve Horit I'titi Uli incur. Uetween a falling oft in the marriage rate, an increase of divorces and other lamentable circumstances, anything affecting the wedded state becomes not only a matter of curious 'interest, buc also of deep solicitude. Thus a new danger that has tome to the surface in a recent Washington suit calls for Jue consideration. In this instance a ; oung woman whose hand was sought for by quite a number of candidates, chose whom she thought the most acceptable, and in due time tho twain were made one. Alighting at the station, the husband told his astonished bride that he did not want a wife, and had only nmrrird her Leau.se he could r.ot endur the idea of anybody els- possessing her. He then disappear-.-.!. Five weeks have since passf'd and .he has neither heard ot nor son him. Consequently she wants a divorce on the ground of desertion. It is hard, of course, to always grudo the punishment to lit the crime, but it would icem that an affair f this charule of sinners in the criminal codes is likely to include him. I'.esides, as to afllieting an adequate penalty, it is not probable that he can be got at. In such a state of u flairs the only thing I hat seems aivisjl!: is to grant the lady's application for divoice with a generous readiness that ni;y tend to give Iter a better opinion of men in fiencral in case she should think ot Venturing on giving any of them another chance.--Philadelphia Times. LASHED COOKING STOVE ItitHI..! th 1 To til IIllL;kneft l'iltt anil ! Custom 4IUi-i:il. 1 New Orleans Times-Democrat: I .sicai-ing of smuggling.'' aid an oldi time ftdertl deputy, "' ielt yoi a j curious little .-loi v. Shortly after tho I opening of one d the Mexican roaus, never mind which, a locomotive engineer got married to a native belle in the tow ik at the 1 wt r end of hi-, run and set up housekeeping. Among otfcrr thinnri i hey ntdfd Wr.a a cooking stove. He could get exactly what they war.ted on the American side, but tho duty on h:Mlw:!re of that kind was extremely high ami hr ra his brains to think of Mi!.-- way lo slip it down to his horn 1 wiihout paying the exorbitant tariff. A cooking stoe I about a-- easy to smuggle as a baby elej phant, hut at last he struck a brilliant j scheme, ai.d on his next trip he sirapiy j lashed the thing to the pilot of his engine. It looked as nine); out of place j as a piano on top of a hearse, but tho I yardmen were conveniently blind, and he pulled our in triumph. When he stopped at the customs office the Mcxic.tn officials stared at the sto'e in amazement, but they concluded at once that it was some new Yankee device in connection with th? locomotive, and asked no questions for fear of betraying their ignorance of up-to-date machinery. The consequence was that the engineer got his stove without paying a I cent of duty. He always claimed that lie was not guilty of smuggling hecauso there was no concealment, and the Mexican guards themselves passed it without a word of protest." Some Oii.il nt licrord. Some singularly qualnr records have Just been discovered in the parochial legisters at l-'oottield, near Marlborough, the name of the parish church of which place date3 from the eleventh century. One of the earliest entries 1 decipherable is as follows: "1582, the I d of December, buried Robert Water man, kylled with a tree." In 1609, "a pore man whose name is unknown," is mentioned as having tiled In a "dogg's kennel;" while in 1M2 it is stated that "on Tuesday the one and twentieth of July, was here entombed the body of the Right Hon. Edward Lord lleaucharape, who deceased at week." This was a son of Lord Reauchamp, who secretly married the Lady Arabella S uart in the reign of Jame3 I., and was imprisoned in the Tower for thus wedding a lady of royal descent without the kings consent. In 1C73 a "poore travelling man" was buried; and in 170S a note is appended to the registration of the marriage of John l'crkins and Mary Overs, stating that they "made a rude disturbance and abused ye people coming out of the church!" Un of TlHMt rriMlurfe. The utilization of waste products Is sure to increase every year. Almond oil is to be made from peach and apricot pits. Whether this is to be used for llavoring purposes or In cosmetics is not yet stated. Avriiy .Alien.!. The Doston Matron "This is my thirtieth wedding anniversary." The Chicago Matron "And yet they revile Chicago. Why, I have only had eleven weddings." Philadelphia North Araer lean. If love weren't so catching a disease It would probably be a Jet lesa curablt

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FAULT FINDERS WITH THE WORD OF COD. The A11ffd Unrlrannen of the It!l!e Unly the V net Mumm at tlio Uran tut .Mind of the Would-lie tlxlurgutum. In his sermou Sunday Rev. Dr. Talmae deals with a subject thit is agitating the entire Christian church at the present moment, viz., "Expurgation C! me Scriptures." The text chosen was, "Let Cod be true, but eery man a liar." Romans Iii., 4. The Rible needs reconstruction according to some inside and outside tho pulpit. It is no surprise that the world bombards the Scriptures, but it is amazing to find Christian ministers picking at this in the Bible imi denying that until many good people are left in the fog about what parts of the Bible they ought to believe, and what parts reject. The heinousness of finding fault with the Rible at this time is most evident. In our day the Rible i3 assailed Ly scurrility, by misrepresentation, by Infidel scientists, by all the vice of earth and all the c-norn of perdition, and at this particular time even preachers of the (lospel fall Into l:;ö of criticism of the word of Cod. Why, it makes me think of a ship in a September equinox, the waves dishing to tho top of the smoke stack, and the hatches fastened down, and many prophesying the foundering of the eteamer, and at that time some of the crew with axes and saws go down into the hold of the ship, and they try to saw off some of the planks and pry out eome of the timbers because the timber did not come from the right forest! It does not seem to me a commendable business for the crew to be helping the winds and storms outside with their axes and saws insid. Now. this old Gospel ship, what with the roaring of earth and hell around the stem and stern, and mutiny on deck, is having a very rough voyage.but I have noticed that not one of th1 timbers has started, and the captain says he will see it through. And I have noticed that keelson and countor-timber-kneo are built of Lebanon cedar, and she is going to weather the galr?. but no credit to those who make mutiny on deck. When I see profess: d Christians In this particular day finding fault with the Scriptures it makes me think of a fort revs terrifically bombarded, and the men on the ramparts, instead of swabbing out and leading . the guns, and helping fetch up the ammunii'on from the magazine, are trying with crowbars to pry out from the wall certain blocks of stone, because they did not come from the right quarry. Oh, men on the ramparts, better tight back, and Cght down the common enemy, instead of trying to make breaches in the wall. While I oppose this expurgation of the Scriptures, I shall give you my reasons for such opposition. "What!" say some of tho theological evolutionists, whose brains have been addled by too loig brooding over them by Dar in and Spencer, "you don't now really believe all the story of the (Jarden of Eden, do you?" Yes, as much as 1 believe there were tox.es in my garden last summer. "Rut," say they, "you don't really believe that the sun r.nd moon stood still?" Yes, and if 1 had strength enough to create a sun and rroon I could make them rtand still, or cause the refraction of the tan's rays so it would appear to stand still. "Rut," they say, "you don't believe that the whale swallowed Jonah? " Yes, and if I were t-troug enough to make a whale 1 could. have made very easy in gress for the refractoiy prophet, hav ing to evolution to eject hini.if he were an unworthy tenant! "Rut," say tl.?y. you don't really believe that the water was turned into wine?" Yes, just as easily as water nw Is often turned into wine with an admixture cf strych nine and logwood! "Rut," they say. you don't really believe that Samp son slew a thousand with the jaw bone of an ass?" Yes, and I think that the man who in this day assaults the Rible Is wielding the same weapon! I am opposel to the expurgation of th3 Scriptures in tho first place, be cause the Rible in its present shape has been so miraculously preserved. Fif teen hundred years after Herodotus wrote his history, there was only one manuscript copy of it. Twelve hundred years after Plato wrote his book. there was only one manuscript copy of It. God was so careful to have us have the Rible In just the ritht shape that we have fifty manuscript copies of tho New Testament a thousand years old. and fone of them fifteen hundred years eld. This book, handed down from the time of Christ, or just after the time of Christ, by the hand of such men as Origen in the second century and Tertullian in the third century, and by men of different ages who died for their principles. The three best copies of the New Testament in manuscript In the possession of the three great churches the Protestant church of England, the Greek church of St. Petersburg, and the Romish church of Italy. It Is a plain matter of history that Tischendorf went to a convent In the peninsula of Sinai and was by ropes lifted over the wall into the convent, that being the only mode of admission, and that he saw there in the waste basket for kindling for the fires, a manuscript of the Holy Scriptures. That night ho copied many of the passages of that. Rible, but it was not until fifteen years had passed of earnest entreaty and prayer and coaxing and purchase on his part that that copy of the Holy Scriptures was put into the hand of the emperor of Russia that one copy so marvelously protected. Do you not know that the catalogue of the books of the Old and New Testa ments as we have It, Is the same cat alogue that has been coming on down through the ages? Thirty-nine books of the Old Testament thousands of years ago. Tblrty-nlne now. Twenty-seven books of the New Testament sixteen hundred years ago. Twentyseven books of the New Testament now. Marcion, for wickedness, was turned out of the church In the second century, and In his assault on the Ri hie and Christianity ho Incidentally gives a catalogue of the fcooks of the Bible that catalogue corresponding

exactly with ours testimony given iy the enemy of th? Hible and the enemy of Christianity. The catalogue is now just like the catalogue then. Assaulted and spit on and torn t pieces and burned, yet adhering. The book today. In three hundred languages, confronting four-fifths of the human race In their own tongue. Four hundred million copies of it in existence. Dors rot that look as if Urs book had been divinely protected, as if God had guarded it all through the centuries? Nearly all the other old bonks are mumiricd and are lying in the tombs of old libraries, and perhaps once in "0 years forne man tonus along and picks up one of them ami blows the dust off, and opens it, and finds it the Look ho does not want. Rut this old book, much of it forty trnturies old. stands today more discussed than any other book, and it challenges the admiration of all the good and the spite and the venom

and the animosity and the hyper-criti cism of earth and hell. I appeal to your common sense. if a book so divinely guarded and protected in its present shape, must not be in just the way that Cod wants it to come to us, and if it pleases God, ought it uot to ph?aso US? Not only have all the attempts to detract from the book failed, but all the attempts' to add to it. Many attempts were made to add the apochryphal books to the Old Testament. The Council of Trent, the Synod of Jerusalem, the bishops of Hippo, all decided that the apochryphal books must be added to the Old Testament. "They must stay in," said those learned men; but they stayed out. There is not an intelligent Christian man that today will put the Rook of Maccabees or the Book of Judith beside; the Rook of Isaiah or Romans. Then a great many said: "We must have books added to the New Testament," and there were epistles, and gospels and apocalypses written and added to the New Testament, but they have all fallen out. You cannot add anything. You cannot subtract anything to the divinely protected book in the present shape. Let no man dare to lay his hands on it with the intention of detracting from the book, or casting out any of these holy pages. I am also opr-oi-.od to this proposed expurgation of the Scriptures for the fact that in propoition as people become self-sac rilicing and good and holy and consecrated, they like the book as it is. 1 have yet to find a man or a woman distinguished for self-sacrifice, for consecration to God, for holiness of life, who wants the Rible changed. Many of us have Inherited family Rihles. Those Riblcs were in use twenty, forty, fifty, perhaps a hundred years ia the. generation. Today take down these family Ribies, and find out if there are any chapters which have been erased by lead ikmicII or pen, and if ia any margins you ran find the word-?, "This chapter not fit to read." There has been plenty of opportunity during the last half century privately to expurgate the Rible. Do you know any case of such expurgation? Did not your grandfather give u to your fatner. and did not your father give it to you? faH-e that. I am opposed lo the - purgation of the Scriptures because the so-called indelicacies and cruelties of the Rible Lae demom-trat.-d no evil result. A c.uel book will produce cruelty an mu-ioaa book will produce uncleanncss. Fetch me a victim. 0::t of all Christendom and out of all the ages. fet. ii me a victim whose heart lias been hardened to cruelty, or whose life has been mad impure by this book'. Show me one. One of the best families 1 ever knew, for thirty or forty years, morning and evening, had all the members gathered iogother.aud the servants of the household, and the strangers that happened to be within the gates twice a day. and without leaving out a chapter or a verso, they read this holy book, morning by morning, night by night. Not only the elder children, but the little child who could just spell her way through ths verso while her mother helped her. Tho father beginning and reading one verse, then all the members of the family in turn reading a verse. The father maintained his integrity, the mother maintained her integrity, the sons grew up and entered professions and commercial life, adorning eve ry sphere in the life in which they lived, and the daughters went Into families where Christ was honored, ami all that was good and pure and righteous reigned perpetually. For thirty years that family endured the Scriptures. Not one of them ruined by them. Now, if you will tell me of a family where the Rible has been read twice a day for thirty years, and the children have been brought up in that habit, and the father went to ruin, und th? mother went to ruin, and the sons and daughters were destroyed by it if you will tell me of one such incident, I will throw away my Rible, or I will doubt your veracity. I tell you, if a man is shocked with what he calls the indeli cacies of the Word of God, he is prurient in his taste and imagination. If a man cannot read Solomon's Song, without impure suggestion, he is either in his heart or in his life, a libertine. The Old T.tament description of wickedness, uncieanness of all sorts. Is purposely and righteously a disgusting account, instead of the Byron ic and the Parisian vernacular which makes sin attractive instead of appalling. Wnen these old prophets point you to a lazaretto you understand It Is a lazaretto. .When a man having begun to do right falls back Into wickedness ami gives up his Integrity, the Rible does not say he was overcome by the fascinations of the festive board, or that he surrendered to convivialities, or that he became a little fast In his habits. I will tell you what the Rible s:ys: "The dog Is turned to his own vomit again, and the vow that was washed to her wallowing In the mire." No gilding of iniquity. No garlands on a death's-head. No pounding away with a silver mallet at Iniquity when it needs an Iron sledge hammer. I can easily understand how people, brooding over the description of uncieanness in the Rible, may get morbid in mind until they are as full of it as the wings and beak and the nostril and the claw of a buzzard ure full of the odors of a carcass; but vhat Is wanted is not that the Bible be disinfected, but that you, the critic, have your

mind ai.J heart washed with carbolic acid! I, tell you at this point in my discourse that a man who docs not like thi.3 book and who is critical as to its contents, and who is shocked and outraged with its descriptions, has never been soundly converted. The laying cn of the ham's of Presbytery or Episcoracy does not always change a man's heart, and men sometimes get Into the pulpit as well as into the pew, never having been changed radically by thr sovereign grr.ee of God. Get your heart right and the Rible will be right. Tho trouble is men's natures are not brought into harmony with th.' Word of God. Ah! my frii-ads. expurgation of the heart is what is wanted. You cannot make me believe that tho Scriptures, which this mo-neiit lie on the table oi the purest and best men and women of the age, and which were the dying solace of your kindred passed mto the skk-s. Lave in them a taint which the strongest micro -'ope of honest criticism could mak- visible. If n:ei. are uncontrollable in th ir indignation when the integrity of. wife or child is assailed, and judg-s and jurors as far as possible excuse violence under such provocation, what ought lo b.-1 the overwhelming and long resounding thunders of condemnation for any man who will stand in a Christian pulpit and assail the more than virgin purity of inspiration, the well beloved 'laughter of God? Expurgate the Bible! You might as well go to the old picture gallerh-s in Dresden and in Venice and in Rome and expurgate the old paintings. Perhaps you could find a foot of Michael Angelo's "Last Judgm nt" that might be Improved. Perhaps you could thiew more expression into Raphael's. "Madonna." Perhaps you could put more pathos in Ruben' "Descent from the Crosr.." Perhaps you could ehange the crests of the waves in Turner's "Slave Ship." Perhaps you might go into ths old galleries of sculpture and charge the forms and the po-ture of the stat

ues of Phidias and Piaxtclcs. Such au iconoclast would very soon find bims-1! in the p n:t.-nt:ary. Rut it is worso vandalism when a m m proposes to refashion these masterpieces of inspiration, a::.i to icmode! the moral giants of this gallery of God. Of all the works of IVre, the grrat aitist, there was !etiiMg so impressive, as hi-1 illustrated Rible. What scene of Auia'fMuie f.uth. or Edenio b'u:ty, of dominion Davidic, or Sohinio"'. o; mhach', ur parable, of nativity or o! crucifixion, or of last judgmcn '.ut -.we thought leap'd from the gr-aT oiv.in to the- skillfi 1 pencil, and from the skillful pencil to itrmorliil canva.i. Tue Louvre, the Luxembourg, the National Calliry of London compressed within two volumes of Dre's illustrated Rible. Rut the Rible will come to better illustration than that. r..y friends, when all the deserts hae become gardens, and all the armories have1 become academies, and all the lakes have become Cf nncsarcl:; with Christ walking them, and all the cities have- become Jerusalems with hovering Shc-kinah; and the two hemispheres will be clapping symbols of divine praise, and tho round earth a foot light to Emanuel's throne that, to all lands, and all ages, and all centuries, and all cycles will be the best specimen of Rible illustrated 3CK) MILES TO SEE A PATItMT. DitJi'-vill it h lliicniiiitrrt'd by riiysii l.iti in VnUinc CmII In ImM.i. The long-distance record for a in -1-ieal call st ems to have been established by a young man in India, s.iy Holden Ronny, lie says: 4,1 have just, returned from a :e-miie walk into tU -very hvan of tho Himalayas. 1 ha 1 to set off at a day's nethe to look aft' i' a Mr. Rlw.k of the India civil set lee, who was said to be lying dangerous') ill at a place called Skardu. lie h: d gone: there this year to settle the vewnue, and in the winter was the on y white man in the country. 1 had sixteen days' march to get there, most ot the way through snow and all the v.:y over tiie most impassable road I have yet se.ii. The road, or rather pat ?, lies along the Indus, and mi bad is it that it is quite impossible to ride any of the way, which is saying much in this country, where we ride, almost anywhere a goat could go. Rut on every march to Skardu there are obstacles. The path winds up and iloun tb rocky mourn a ins on either side of the Indus; in places along narrow ledges of rock, galleries of very rickety stone and wood built out from the face of cliffs, and even up and down ladders and notched poles, (me march is over a snow mountain, a limit of l.V.'H) feet, up one side and down the other. Several of my coolies got frost-bitten, as the cold was extreme. .My water-bottle, which I carried with me, froze solid as I walked along. 1 had to sleep on the ground with lots of blankets, all my clothes on, two thick overcoat--, fur-lined stockings and gloves." Vaarlr of Mr. MacCoriolcW. The vagaries of Mrs. MacCormiek, as disclosed the other day to the Divorce Court at Dublin, Ireland the Quo n's Proctor Intervening are remarkable. In 1896 the lady left her husband suddenly, and disappeared. The next jear Mr. MacCormiek went through a farm of marriage with a young woman, whose brother litter on prosecuted him for bigamy. Mr. Justice Riiillimore heard the case, and Mr. MacCormiek was septe'iced to a long term of imprisonment. Rut in the meantime tho lady, as it turned out afterward, had married and became a widow, and drawn her husband's insurance money. Not satisfied with her position ven then, the widow hi ought an action for divorce against her imprisoned husband, and secured a decree, it is a bewildering story, and it is uot surprising that the decree has been rescinded. rrao Moilcrult j. From the Detroit Journal: Ronnnce and chivalry are not what they were, alas! Once, the hero, having rescued tho maiden from the tower, paused In his flight to exclaim: "Hark! The hoofbeats of pursuers!" Rut now "Smell! The odor of thy father's automobile!" It Is terrible, this sordii utilitarianism!

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