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ill 75?5$??;wtf?;f Jw CHAI'TKK XII. vContinuod. ' "I thought you would want to hear ; the storv some da v." sail Clarice. And then sh3 told it very simply, as tne Doctor hail told it to byv. of tho poor boy's promis -.' of nr,.vn Inient of life, and of the ::Ct of brawry which had brought it to a olrv"Doctor Drake paid that whatever his life may have been, h? died like a ! hero." said Clarice, bor own voice breaking a lilt!? as repeated tie wor-1. i "TVrl ha ?1V th.lt? YVht 1 Vnr ! kind iv an ho is; the best friend I have ever hid. except yor.. Clarice." said Jai.ctta. sniilin? through hor tsars. "Your brother's deah seetred ?o peacfi 'I by comparison with that p;.or wret ! 's whom the Do.'tor hunted down," continued Clar: "I ftn wonder where Mason i-. -'he went n:T apr:: -fitly 1- ..nv'!,- nry th' Vii-'ht f) f tht" r.u i i j . . . . . v - robV-r;. and fie po'.:- nave rv-T been able to obtain H."1 faintest cue to her whereabouts. It v.-ad quite okar J from th- letters sli left behind h?r that th mnn ws !i ; lover, p.rvl h vl obt;::;i'-(l all his infoi-M m from her." "Oh, ye?: it was k" same voice." said Janetta, tbn start I and colored. She had not m -mt t. betray tho fact that sho had overheard Mason talking to some unknown nun in the shrubbery. and had warned Mrs. Mortimer . about her. The words had slipped from her. "What voice?" asked Clarice eagerly. And Janetta thought it best to relate the story. "Ah! that makes many things clear which I found it so hard to explain." said Clarice, thoughtfully. "T could never make out why Mrs. Mortimer seemed to blame herself bitterly for the burglary having happened. I quite accepted her confession of injustice to you and declined ta take h--r notice to leave, ys you freely frive her; but I could, not see in what way she coul 1 consider herst.if resp nsible for the robbery. Poor woman' how terribly she hs suaere l: but it has done he" gaod. Jnr.ett?. She is far gentler and kinder than fb w aal .-he has kept a dragon watch over thu house, apparently, during our "bsen.-e I think it's getting (hilly. Hadn't we better be making our way back to the hotel?" When they got back to their hotel they found that tabl-3 d'hote was already served. "We will go in a. we are," said Clarice, brill ; an replace?. ? was D ;e with "Wi::.t. nod ar.r: r they h.;..-: f "You mus tune i:: t.v your .yv-.-. with a pi' docs r.ot doctor::, if. "My vis said L Ard tey adv iced into tli"' - :1 sal took ineir 1 cra' tlv pnosite th'ru ke. c. o r aided them j e?. i?" sai ! Har gh. g "trt- I !'. 1 :ii :-e. vcr.n :: g him as : 1 ::i-'iT b-f.": a p.-rfct f.ir bo spending a i Hug exp'-n An .1 tnrC.?a:d. I.-neiia. ".She If mv.ca is -ntirr:y : ple-.sure," '.i . "I'm out world was y and If I've Ives to visit you should for a hr;'.i'lay at last. bcforc' rr.o "a 'here to ci. taken a fancy like yo Spain. I cannot see 7, make any objection." "Xone in the world." r-torted Clarice, merrily. Vh'-n dinner was en !' natural that the do t jr the girl in the hll, and. d it was but should join sluing down by their side, t-ll then; all the home news. "Ve ha v.-- agreed this afternoon that w? will go back," said Clarice. "We are tired of wandering, aren't you, Janetta?" Janetta nodded. "We are waiting for an outburst of wr-kom from you," Ehe said, smiling at tfi- doctor, who se-'med lost in a fit of abstractin. "It would have founJ vent before this, except that your home-coming will not benefit me mu h. I'm going to leave Northcliff." The faces of both his listeners grew tlank. "How horrid of you!" cried Clarice petulantly. And the impetuous words brought a pink flush to the doctor's fair face. "I suppose it's a case- of money." "Yes; It's money and a baronetcy," replied the doctor, dryiy. "You are Joking." "I'm not I'll go and write my name in the visitors' book this instant if you don't believe me. "Sir Robert Drake!' Do I look the part?" be went on, with rather a forced laugh. ' Two distant male relatives died on after the other, and I awoke one morning lately to find myself transformed from a doctor in a country town into a baronetcy and th fortune." "Then I suppose we must congratulate you," said Clarice, in a voio that nevertheless sounded a little cold and stiff. To tell the truth, she did not at all relish the notion of the sudden removal of a knight upon whose willing devotion she could always depend. "You need not Life is one big disappointment It offers gifts that one does not care for. and denies me the only one which would make it worth living." He rose abruptly and went off to the smoking room, and when, some five minutes later, Janetta stole a furtive glance at Clarice, she saw th&t her face was white and that her lips trembled. "Sir Robert choose to be cynical," she said, throwing back her head with A pretty gesture of define-: "but I've no doubt he'll soon reconcile himself to the baronetcy and the fortune." Sir Robert's route adjusted Itself rery much to that chosen for their return Journey by the girls. Sometimes he would be away for a day or two at wl time, then reapnear at the town and hotel where he wa3 tolerably certain to find them, and they nrrived In England on the same day, but whilst he topped In Tmdon, the girls went 0:1 to Northcliff. The welcome they received from Mrs. Mortimer was of a warmth they could have hardly Relieved possible In a woman so self-contained; and It was

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'x pleasant to find thoinsolves once more seated by the fire- In Clarice's sitting room, with their feet on tho render. reading the several letters they had found awaiting their arrival. "I've got a long letter from Harry," said Clarice. Janetta started violently. Carefully as each of the girls had followed Captain Merivalr's brilliant career in tin Indian campaign, his name until now had not b:-cn mentioned between them ine'- tho iii.cht cf .TaiT'tta's confession. Clarice's eyes wre shining.there was radiant triumph in her sn ilo. "lie is coming back, Janetta. And he says he says that ho should like U3 to be married at once. There can bs no possible reason for del iy now I am w. 11. and ho hopes I will be getting my clothes ready. He adds in a postscript that he thinks I n.'ist pension off the good Mrs. Mortir.:er," Clarice said, with n little gay l.ur;h; "but he makes r.o susrg'-'stion for your future." "Hp med not," :-aid Janetta, sitting upright, and clasping her hands tightly. "I shall find another situation." "That sentence and the way you say it makes me quite certain that you are well. It was spoken with all your old horrid pride and independence," said Clarice. "But would it not be well to suit my convenience? I've not done with you yet, you see. You must stay until I marry, and that" there wa3 a little break in the voice she had tried to make so gay may be some time, or may never be. I'm not going to marry Harry, and tomorrow I shall write and tell him so. No. Please don't look at me like that nor say anything. I can't bear it! "You have prevented me from making the awful mistake of marrying a man whom I have loved, but who never loved me as he is capable of loving si woman really suited to him. I've thought a great deal over it, and I've said my prayers about it and that ia the only conclusion that I can arrive at." "And I have prayed, too or, how earnestly that he may live to marry you, that so I might feel myself forgiven!" sobbed Janetta. "But you put your own sense of forgiveness before my happiness," said Clarice," and so God has not listened." Before Clarice went to bed that night she had written her letter. ' Ccod by, dear Harry (wererthe closing words). Some day. if not at once, you will bless me for setting you free. Looking back, I can see now that you I - 1 T 1 1 1 never careu lor me us i joeu you; ana 'hen you met this woman who could ; stir your neart to its very depths you ! found it out. Some day I hope I may j live to see you married to her. I "Believe me, ever your friend, I "Clarice Seymour." The breaking off of Clarice Seymour's engagement was a nine days' wonder in Northclifi and its neighborhood. ".-he chooses to say that it is her own doing," said the gossips; "but, depend upon it, there is more behind than meets the eye. It is not to be wondered at if Captain Merivale turned restive over the evident flirtation that girl carried on with the doctor. Anybody can see with half an eye that he has been bead-over-ears In love with hr for years past." Certainly it was a fact Sir Robert made no attempt to conceal at present. He was always back in Northcliff upon some pretext or other; but month after month passed by, and he still waited, not daring to put his fate to the test. (To be Continued.) How II Fonnd Hit f'aPIng. Large numbers of persons are as unconscious of their .strong polnt3 as they are of their weak ones. A man or woman may be bom with a strong talent or genius for some special line and yet be utterly unconscious of It. A. T. Stewart was educated for the ministry, and an idea which an old uncle had instilled into his mind, that a call is necessary to success In life, clung to him so tenaciously that he became, almost discouraged because ha could not hear his call. He tried school teaching, but was not satisfied, and might never have found his real calling had he not loaned to a friend who was anxious to start in business the sum of seventy dollars, the accumulation of his savings. The young business man did not succeed in his venture, and not having the money to pay Stewart the loan which he had so kindly advanced, he begged him to take, in its stead, the little shop, the only means of payment in his possession. Stewart took the unpretentious store and became a merchant prince. Itoyal Mint In ran la. The establishment of a royal mint in Canada will make the fourth branch of the English mint in operation outside of London. The other throve ramifications are located in Australia, at Melbourne, Sydney and Perth respectively. According to recently published returns, the value of the -gold coin output from these four mints during 1835 was as follows: The royal mint. Lindon, I42.C01.555; Melbourne, $28,138... 835; Sydney, $10,620,000; Perth $3,458.530. It has also been mooted that th government proposes ultimately to establish another branch In the Transvaal. Waterfall to Heuernte Klertrlrlty. The Adriatic Itiilway company ot Italy has decided to equip electrically two branches of the main line down the coast to Rrindisi. These branches extend from the main line toward th interior, where the Apennines furnlsb abundant water power. In tho highlands of Italy there is considerably water power which has never been utilized and It I considered possible to use these faill for the generation of electrical power. A promise should be given with cau tion and kept with care.

John's Cue I Doom!, According to a resident of Chinatown tho statesmen of the flowery kingdom are now considering the advisability of altering the Chinese law which requires Mongolians to wear cues, says the Portland Telegram. The local Informant is authority for the utatement that the Chinese wore their hair American fashion some 300 years ago, at which time they likewise wore Karmcnts similar to those in use In this country today. With a new emperor came an alteration in the two fashions and ever since cues and blouses have been quite the proper thing. Now there it a groat agitation for a change back to the old style. The Chinese are of a practical turn of mind and Insist that too much time 13 required to dress their long braids. There is considerable objection to the style now i" vogue, and so persistent for a cb::ngo ha.i becom; the demand that it is lifc'dy tlia law establishing the style of head dress will be altered. It is stated that the Chinese will not wear their hair long, but that their heads will be kept shaven. Only indefinite Illinois of the proposed change have been received from tho old country, but local Chinese express the belief that the present unpopular style will be abolished.

INDIAN MISSIONARY'S STORY. Yeura of ToiNomr Mitti-itry Among !! C'hi'Ot uwh. Little York, Ind., April 1. (Special). Twenty-five years ago the Rev. C. II. Thompson left Indiana. For a time he preached in Arkansas, afterwards entering on the regular missionary work among the Choctaw Indians. For five years he lived and labored among the full bloods of the western prairies, until on April 5th, 1885, having lost his wife, he left the circuit on which he had preached so long, and commenced traveling missionary work among the Indians of the various tribes scattered in the west This irregular work involved a great deal of travel over the prairies. The drinking of so much alkali water, brought on kidney troubles which terminated in Diabetes. Finally, while laboring among the Creek Indians at Wagoner, Indian Territory, this noble man was stricken down completely. A Chicago specialist was summoned, and after a careful examination declared that there was not the slightest chance of his recovery. Besides the prescriptions of the doctors he tried many other medicines, but all to no avail. He says: "I had concluded that my days were drawing to a close, when I picked up an almanac telling of the cures of Diabetes by the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I sent for two boxes. I gained strength and spirits from the time I commenced to use them, and so I sent for more. I am now completely cured, and have not the slightest symptom of my old trouble. "I am CS year of age. I tell everynody of the wonders Dodd's Kidney j Pills have done for me. I can certainly endorse them heartily, and vouch that they are all that is claimed for them. They have certainly been a God-send to me." Dodd's Kidney Pills are the only Remedy that has ever cured Bright's Disease. Diabetes or Dropsy and they never fail. I.S4oris In Cooking-. Every woman who visits the PanAmerican Exposition will make comparison between her home methods of cooking and those she wil1 find in the electrical kitchen of the Exposition. It will be an interesting study for all the ladies, and one from which they will receive benefit. Many mothers will recognize a vast improvement in the kitchen equipment and facilities of today as compared with their childhood, while hopeful girlhood will eagerly long for a kitchen electrically equipped. What Do the Children Drink? Don't give them tea or cotfee. Have yon tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more (Jrain-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. (Irain-O is made of pure grains, ami when properly prepared tastes like the choice grudes of coffee, but costs about H as much. All grocers sell it 15c und i?öc. Work on Longfellow Memorial. The fund for a statue of Longfellow for Longfellow park, in Cambridge, has reached $S1G.44, and work will be begun on the memorial early in the spring. Should lte In Every Household. A Jar of KUI5KFACIKXT ehould he kept In every Louse. It Is the most wonderful ejtecillc lu all cases of internal Intlaumcitiun and will FpeeüMIy tili lu the lul ouy ease of Pneumonia, 1 iphtlnriu. Ii ;ripe, etc. Write to the Kiilx-faclent "o., Newtou L'jiH?r Falls, Mass., fur free booklet. London' Army of Mail-Serrant. There are 320.000 maid-servants in London that is to say. they are nearly equal in number to the whole population of Sheffield. Coughing Lead to Consumption. kunpö üaisam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist today and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. The Louisiana Commissioners to the Pan-American Exposition state that nothing will be left undone by them to have the Pelican State Exhibit equal to tbe best at the great show. All diseased conditions of the blood and fckin are benefited by the well known remedy, Garfield Tea; It purifies the blood and clears the complexion. "What, with all your debts you have, bought a motor car?" "That's precisely why I bought it. I had to have some way of escaping my creditors." Most of the upper classes In China are of Tirtar origin. Of course, then. It followfc the very select are the cream of Tartar. Yellow Clothes Look Had. Keep them white by using Maple City Self Washing Foap. All grocers sell It or can get It for you. Try It once. 'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come In low disguises. Emerson.

TALMAGE'S SERMON.

THE AGONY OP GETHSEMANE THE SUBJECT LAST SUNDAY. "T Ar Kon cht with Prle" First Book of Corinthians, Chapter TI, Terse 20 The Temptation of tb Sarior Tlne Sympathy. (Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. T.) Washington, Maren 31. in this discourse Dr. Talmage shows the Messianic sacrifices for the saving of all nations and speaks of Gethsemane as it appeared to him; text, I Corinthians vi, 2u, "Ye are bought with a price." Your friend takes you through his valuable house. You examine tho arches, the frescoes, the grass plots, the fish ponds, the conservatories, the parks of deer, and you say within yourself or you say aloud, "What did all this cost?" You see a costly diamond flashing in an earring, or you hear a costly dress rustling across the drawing room, or you see a high mettled span of horses harnessed with silver and gold, and you begin to make an estimate of the value. The man who owns a large estate cannot instantly tell j'ou all It is worth. He says, "I will estimate so much for the house, so much for the furniture, so much for laying out the grounds, so much for the stock, so much for the barn, so much for the equipage, adding up In all making this aggregate. Well, my friends, I hear so much about our mansion in heaven, about its furniture and the grand surroundings, that I want to know how much it is all worth and what has actually been paid for it I cannot complete In a month nor a year the magnificent calculation, but before 1 get through today I hope to give you the figures. "Ye are bought with a price." Bringing Glad Tiding. Let us open the door of the caravansary in Bethlehem and drive away the camels. Pass on through the group of Idlers and loungers. What, 0 Mary, no light? No light," she says, "save that which comes through the door." What Mary, no food? "None," she says, "only that which was brought in the sack on the journey." Let the Bethlehem woman who has come in here with kindly attentions put back the covering from the babe that we may look upon it. Look! Look! Uncover your head. Let us kneel. Let all voices be hushed. Son o Mary! Son of God! Child of a day! Monarch of eternity! In that eye the glance of a God. Omnipotence sheathed in that Babe's arm. That voice to be changed from the feeble plaint to the tone that shall wake the dead, liosanna! liosanna! Glory to God that Jesus came from throne to manger that we might rise from manger to throne, and that all the gates are open, and that the door of heaven that once swung this way to let Jesus out now swings the other way to let us in. Let all the bellmen of heaven Jay hold the rope and ring out the news, "Behold, 1 bring you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people, for today is born in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord!" The second installment paid for our souls' clearance was the scene in Quarantania, a mountainous region, full of caverns, where are today panthers and wild beasts of all sorts, so that you must now go there armed with knife or gun or pistol. It was there that Jesus went to think and pray, and it was there that this monster of hell more sly, more terrible, than anything that prowled in that country satan himself, met Christ. Jesus to Unman Senate. The rose in the cheek or Christ that Pubiius Lentullus, in his letter to the Roman senate, ascribed to Jesus that rose had scattered its petals. Abstinence from food had thrown him into emaciation. A long abstinence from food recorded in profane history is that of the crew of the ship Juno. For twenty-three days they had nothing to eat. But this sufferer had fasted a month and ten days before he broke fast. Hunger must have agonized every fibre of the body and gnawed on the stomach with teeth of death. The thought of a morsel of bread or meat must have thrilled the body with something like ferocity. Turn out a pack of men hungry as Christ was a-hungered, and if they had strength with one yell they would devour you as a kid. It was in that pang or hunger that Jesus was accosted, and satan said, "Now, change these stones, which look like bread, into an actual supply of bread." Had the temptation come to you and me under those circumstances we would have cried, "Bread it shall be!" and been almost impatient at the time taken for mastication, but Christ with one hand beat back the hunger and with the other hand btat back the monarch of darkness. O ye tempted ones! Christ was tempted. We are told that Napoleon ordered a coat of mail made, but he was not quite 'lertain that it was impenetrable, so he said to the manufacturer of the coat of mail, "Put It on now yourseir and let us try it." And with shot after shot from his own pHtol the emperor found out that It M as Just what It pretended to be, a good coat of mail. Then the man received a large reward. I bless God that the same coat or mall that struck back the weapons or temptation fro u the head of Christ we may now all wear, for Jesus comes and says: "I have been tempted, and I know what It Is to be tempted. Take this robe that defended me and wear It for yourselves. I shall see you through all trials, and I shall see you through all temptation." The Temptation of Jean. "But," says satan Btlll further to Jesus, "come, and 1 will show you something worth looking at" And arter a half a day's Journey they came to Jerusalem and to the top or the temple. Just as one might go up In tne tower of Antwerp and look on upon Belgium, so satan brought Christ to the top of the temple. Some people at a great height feel dizzy and a strange disposition to Jump. So satan comes to Christ in that very crisis. Standing there at the top or the temple, they looked off. A magnificent reach of country. Gralnfleids, vineyards, olive groves, forests and streams, cattle in the valley, flocks on the hills and Tlllafet and cities and realms. "Wow,"

says satan, "I'll make a bargain. Just Jump off. I know it is a great way from the top of the temple to the valley, but If you are divine you can riy. Jump off. It won't hurt you. Angels will catch you. Your Father will hold you. Besides, I'll make you a large present if you will. I'll give you Asia Minor, I'll give you China, I'll give you .Ethopia. I'll give you Italy, i ll give you Spain, I'll give you Germany, 1 ll give you Britain, I'll give you all the world." What a temptation it must have been! Go tomorrow morning and get In an altercation with some wretch crawling up from a gin cellar In the lowest part of your city. "No," you say, -1 would not bemoan myself by getting into such a content." Then think or wüat the king of heaven and earth endured when he came down and tough the great wretch of hell and r. ug'it irm in the wilderness and on top of tne temple. But bless God that in the triumph over temptation Christ gives u? the assurance that we also s' a'l triumph. Having himself been tempted, he is able to succor all those who a;e tempted. The Agonv nt Gi llismmn . The third installment paid for our redemption was the agonizing prayer in Gethsemane. As I sat in th it garden at the foot of an old gnarled and twisted olive tree tho historic scene came upon me overwhelmingly. The.-o old olive trees are the lineal descendants of tho.se under which Christ stoo l and wept and kmdt. Have the leaves of whole botanical generations toll the story of our Lord's agony to their successors? Next to Calvary the solemnest place in Palestine is Gethsemane. While sitting there it seemed as if I could hear our Lord's prayer, laden with sobs and groans. Can this be the Jesus who gathered fragrance from the frankincense brought to his cradle and from the lilies that flung their sweetness into his sermons and from the box of alabaster that broke at his feet? Is this Jesus the comforter of Bethany, the resurrector at Nain. the oculist at Bethsaida? Is this the Christ whose frown is the storm, whose smile is the sunlight, the spring morning his breath, the thunder his voice, the ocean a drop on the tip of his finger, heaven a sparkle on the bosom of his love, the universe the dust of his chariot wheel? Is this the Christ who is able to heal a heartbreak or hush a tempest or drown a world of flood immensity with his glory? Behold him in prayer, the globules of blood by sorrow pressed through the skin of his forehead! What an installment in part payment of the greatest price that was ever paid! The MirtiU Trial. The fourth installment paid for our redemption was the Saviour's sham trial. I call It a sham trial there has never been anything so indecent or unfair in any criminal court as was witnessed at the trial of Christ. Why. they hustled him into the court room at 2 o'clock in the morning. They gave him no time for counsel. They gave him no opportunity for subpoenaing witnesses. The ruffians who were wandering around through the- midnight, of course they saw the arrest and went inio the couri room. But Jesus' friends were sober men. were respectable men. and at that hour, 2 o'clock in the morning, of course ih y were nt home r.sbr p. Consequently Christ entered the court room with the ruffians. Oh, look at him! Xo one to speak n word for him. I lift the lantern until I can look into hi3 face, and as my heart beats in sympithy for this, the best friend the world ever had, himself now utterly friendless, an officer of the couit room comes up and smites him in the mouth, and I see the blood stealing from gum and lip. Oh, it was a farce of a trial, lasting only perhaps an hour, and then the judga rises for sentence! Stop! It is against the law to give sentence unless there has been an adjournment of the court between condemnation and sentence, but what cares the judge for the law? "The man has no friends. Let him die," saj-s tbe judge. And the ruffians outside the rail cry: "Aha, aha, that's what we want! Pass him out

here to us! Away with him! Away with him!"' The Divine Symp ithlzer. Oh. I bless God that amid all the injustice that may have been inflicted upon us in this world we have a divine sympathizer. The world cannot lie about you nor abuse you as much as they did Christ, and Jesus stands to-day in every court room, in every house, in every store, and says: "Courage! By all my hours of maltreatment and abuse I will protect those who are trampled upon." And when Christ forgets that 2 o'clock morning scene and the stroke of the ruffian on the mouth and the howling of the unwashed crowd, then he will forget you and me in the Injustices of life that may bo inflicted upon us. Further, I remark: The last greai installment paid for our redemption was the demise of Christ The world has seen many dark days. Many summers ago there was a very dark day when the sun was eclipsed. The fowl at noonday went to their perch, and we felt a gloom a3 we looked at the astronomical wonder. It was a dark day in London when the plague was at its height, and the dead with uncovered faces were taken in open carts and dumped in the trenches. It was a dark day when the earth opened and Lisbon sank, but the darkest day since the creation of the world was when the carnage of Calvary was enacted. Drawlnc the Curtain. It was about noon when the curtain began to be drawn. It was not tho coming on of a night that soothes and refreshes. It was the swinging of a great gloom all around the heavens. Cod hung It As when there is a dead one in the house you bow tho shutters or turn the lattice, so God in the afternoon shut the windows of the world. As it Is appropriate to throw a black pall upon the coffin as it passes along, so it was appropriate that everything should be somber that day as the great hearse of the earth rolled on, bearing the corpse of the King. A man's last hours are ordinarily kept sacred. However you may have hated or caricatured a man, ! when you hear he Is dying silence puts its hands on your lips, and you would j have a loathing for the man who could stand by a deathbed making

faces and scoffing. But Christ in his last hour cannot be left alone. What pursuing him yet after so long a pursuit? You have been drinking his tears. Do you want to drink his blood? They come up closely, so that notwithstanding the darkness they can glut their revenge with the contortions of his countenance. They examine his feet They want to feel for themselves whether those feet are really spiked. They put out their hands and touch the spikes and bring them back wet with blood and wipe them on their garments. Women stand there and weep, but can do no good. It is no place for the tender hearted women. It wants a heart that crime has turned Into granite. The waves of man's hatred and of hell's vengeance dash up against the mangled feet, and the hands of sin and pain and torture clutch for his holy heart Had he not been thoroughly fastened to the cross they would have torn him down and trampled him with both feet. How the cavalry horses arched their necks and ehamped their bits and reared and snuffed at the blood! Had a Roman officer called out for a light, bis voice would not have been heard in the tumult, but louder than the clash cf spears, and the wailing of womanhood, and the neighing of the chargers, and the bellowing of the crucifiers, there comes a voice crashing through loud, clear, overwhelming, terrific. It is the groaning of the dying Son of God! Iook, what a scene! Look, world, at what you have done! ClirUt n the Crom. I lift the covering from the maltreated Christ to let you count the wound3 and estimate the cost. Oh, when the nails went through Christ's right hand and through Christ's left hand, with all their power to work and lift and write! When the nails went through Christ's right foot and Christ's left foot, that bought your feet, with all their power to walk or run or climb. When the thorn went into Christ's temple, that bought your brain, with all its power to think and plan. When the spear cleft Christ's side, that bought your heart, with all its power to love and repent and pray.

FOR THE YOUNG MOTHER. Cnnecessary Attentions Make Young: Children the Tyrant of Household. A writer in the Nursery makes a plea for the young mother who too often is neglected and even ill-treated while the baby absorbs all the attention of the nurse and relatives. To be clean, to be warm, to be fed when necessary, to be let alone this would be the beau ideal of the baby, only the baby cannct have a b'-au idal far th first few days of its existence, at any rate. It can hardly see or hear much less speculate about its surroundings. But the mother; ah, the young mother; hcr's is the- k eiiii; of perception, the nervous tension, the capacity for silent suffering that no other kind of sick-bed affords. Let her have a glimpse of her husband or her mother, if she be so happy as to have one, and then rest a long rest. Too often the jealousy an 1 the ill-concealed malice of those about her is already manifest. Never is tho bottomless capacity for cruelty in some hearts better shown than ia tho ?e!:?eless attentions of meddlesome relativ s to the baby, coupled with covert cruelty to the young mother, weighed down with the helplessness of new and untried responsibilities. If the baby cries the mother is at fault; if every bit of useless trumpery is not at hand the mother must be awakened, and so on ad infinitum. Happily this is not always the case, but we see it too often; too often is the dark side of nature exposed at this time. The baby needs care from those who are best able to give it, but it is the mother who needs rest and sympathy. One hardly knows which she needs most. She is the true mar tyr here. Let the curtains be drawn and let the house be still. Between the hours of pain which i;re past and the untried responsibilities which are to come, let her have such surcease of care as we can give her. The constant handling and the unnecessary attentions received by young infants and, indeed, by older children result too often in making the child the tyrant of the household, and in doubling the mother's labor. DEATH'S VISITS IN SLEEP. Apoplexy Frequently Attack It Victims While They Slumber. The frequent occurrence of apoplexy during sleep was illustrated in the case of Colonel Albert D. Shaw. He had made a patriotic speech during the evening and had retired in apparently good health. In his instance there was a combination of causes to bring about the result a banquet, mental excitement, probable indigesetion and a coincident lowering of vital tone. In some respects the circumstances were similar to those attending the demise of Henry George, who was likewise stricken after forced efforts on the platform. Why the accident in question should occur at a time when all the bodily functions are seemingly at rest is at first thought somewhat difficult to explain. When, however, the arteries of the brain become brittle by age the slightest change of blood pressure is often enough to precipitate a rupture of those vessels and cause the escape of a clot either upon the surface or into the substance of the brain. High mental tension, being always associated with congestion, is In itself an active predisposing cause of apoplexy. This condition is apt to continue during 'a more or less troubled sleep, and with an overtired nervous system there Is less resistance to overstretching of the cerebral arteries than during the waking hours. Nature, instead of rebounding, simply succumbs. The fullness of the vessels increases until the final break occurs. Generally the effusion of blood is sufficiently large to be followed by instantaneous death, causing one sleep to pass quietly Into the other. As evidence of this peaceful ending, it is often noticed that the patients are found as if In natural slumber, comfortably lying on the side, with bedclothes undisturbed and with countenance perfectly calm. New York Herald. In German cities fresh oysters cost from CO to 75 cents a dozen,

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