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3g®Mß g^fewfcf WTOfy FffiWiEVF ULMB& CHAPTER 111. A STARTLING ACCUSATION. “Something’s wrong!” Paul Dalton uttered the words more than once upon the day that preceded the meeting of two precious rogues' at the Ridgeton tavern. The field hands repeated them as they cast askance glances at their master. Farmer John was “out o’ sorts,” “in the dumps,” with a temper “exceedingly contrariwise,” and a face that lowered like a rain-fringed cloud. All that day he barely spoke to Ruth: he treated Dalton with gruff incivility; and wbe betide the laborer whom he caught shirking his duty. “Wheat’s gone down.” “No; he’s been caught on a bad horsetrade.” “Mebbe it’s Dalton. He’s getting rather spoony on the girl, and you know Farmer John has set his heart on a match with Ralph Prescott.” These and like gossipy explanations floated on the air—all very far from the true solution to the mystery of Farmer John’s bad temper, however. Meantime, w’ith Ralph Prescott nursing and developing his spite, and Farmer John storing up wrath for a near explosion, there were two happy, unconscious souls that saw only gold in the dazzling sunshine, and fancied the songs of the birds the sweetest music, in harmony with hearts vibrating to new and delightful emotions. They loved, these two, Ruth and Paul; they had loved long and purely, but in unexpressed fervor. Now, with tKe revelation of the white violets, their eyes spoke; a tell-tale flush, an ardent glance, a murmured term of endearment brought them to the threshold of life's sweetest, holiest experience. If a memory of a false position and a mysterious past shadowed the lover’s heart momentarily he drove it away. If a thought of the stern will of the erratic grandsire, of her stubborn father, ■with eyes blinded to the deficiencies of Ralph Prescott, came to Ruth’s mind she blotted it out with a realization of the Teat bliss that had come into her life to. overshadow . 1 y l *" 1 <S«ythese two golden hearts, with unseen banners already placed between I them, glided on to the bitter fate that man’s subtlety and the workings of a stern, merciless destiny were weaving | for them. “I’ll not speak,” muttered Farmer John as he entered the house for supper, “I’ll not make a mistake and accuse an innocent man. I’ll wait once more. I should miss a penny the way I have j fixed things, and I’ll watch again. The I next thief who visits my room gets | caught.” He was silent and unsocial all the evening meal. Had he been less absorbed in his grim suspicious thoughts of those present, however, he would have noted the lurking figure J of Ralph Prescott as he stole into the house and then stole out of it again. The meal over, with a quick glance at Ruth, Paul Dalton left the room. The farmer supposed he had gone to his own apartment and sat down to read * the weekly newspaper. At his task—for it was such that even- | ing, wuth his mind torn with conflicting doubts—Farmer John moved restlessly, lay down the paper, took it up again, pondered, dozed and finally fell into a nap. He was aroused about nine o’clock by ■ the entrance of Paul Dalton, apparently ■ from up stairs. A minute later Ruth appeared, her | -cheeks flushed, her eyes vaguely ques- ■ tioning the keen glance her father fastened upon her. ■ About to ask her if she had been to ■ visit a girl friend on the next farm, John W Elliott was interrupted by the entrance ■ of two farm hands. They had decided to leave his employ S^with the morning, and, according to Kg agreement had come for their pay. I “Better stay in a comfortable home for oKthe winter, boys, ” spoke Elliott, always ■considerate to his help. No, the men were obdurate. They ^■ad quite a little store of savings, and gSKieir ambition was to try the attractions ||B&1 the way of money-making of the JMKreat, magnetic city. ■ “All right. What do T owe you?” gS^ueried the farmer. “He’ll tell, he’s got it all down in vwg&.ack and white,” returned one of the I^Hsen, with a nod to Paul, whose figures S^ver made a mistake in their admiring viction. faHSraurgot down the books and stated amount. Farmer John took out his Hyj, and, lamp in hand, proceeded to K room up-stairs. ^Those below heard a startled cry a Smute later. Then the angry tramp of ; lurried man’s feet, and John Elliott I -entered the room. Lagg His face was white with passion, his rW^'es were terrible. Absorbed with some 1Sr * erwhelming emotion, he seemed on 1 g verge of choking. l ; In one hand, he bore the lamp, in the t^^er, a roll of bank-notes. Placing the ° n the table, trembling like i leaf, -pent-up volcano of rage, he counted ~_X.. t several of the bills, and extended •I f? em to the wondering Paul Dalton. There’s your month’s pay,” he said, a tone that grated on Ruth’s alarmed rgHLg until she shuddered. “Take it, ■ W ick your traps and go! ” Elliott!” cried Dalton, in dumbewilderment, “what does this ' - ean?” - feWGo!” snapped the farmer, savagely. R Ie wise, young man, don’t tempt me to eak! You know why. I’ve found you Go, while you may, before I for'/tnat you were once honest, once a ? to me. Go!”

“Father, are you mad?” cried Ruth, advancing to Elliott’s side. “This ain’t your place to speak,” interrupted the farmer sternly, putting her away with his hand. “Paul Walton, I have no time to waste on you. You’ve heard me—go!” “Not until I know what this extraordinary accusation means,” responded Walton firmly, and flushing with indignation. “What does it mean!” fairly roared Elliott, losing all control of himself. “Yoh -will have the truth, will you? You won’t leave matters as they are? What does it mean? Dare you ask me, ingrate, hypocrite?” Ruth Elliott tunned frightfully pale, but an indignant flush appeared on either cheek. “Father!” she cried reproachfully. “Do not forget that Mr. Walton is a j I gentleman.” } “A gentleman!” blazed out Farmer t Elliott. “No, I call him —a thief!” CHAPTER IV. DENOUNCED. ! The scene that ensued to the wild declaration of Farmer John was a start1 ling tableau. Somewhere back in Paul Walton’s ; । life there had been a time when that . proud spirit of his would have sprang to 3 arms in a flash, at the touch of the goad of injustice. His flashing eyes, his quickening _ breath showed it now, as with clenched hands he strode forward, as if bo ’ay the T s author of the daring accusation a is ; feet. a Then, with superb control, and remembering that his accuser was the father of the woman he loved, the young man folded his arms calmly and said, in r clear, steady tones: “Mr. Elliott, you will regret those unjust words. You are laboring under r i some honest mistake. lam no thief.” j John Elliott tried to crush the speaker , with a single look of utter incredulity ’ } and contempt. ’ j Then, firm in the conviction that aur ! dacious hypocrisy deserved its fate, with merciless roughness he told his story. [ He had missed various sums of money for a month past, first a trifle, then quite ’ a large amount. Some one was in the habit of feloni- . ously entering his room and rifling the cabinet in which he kept his money. - At six o’clock that evening he had visited his room, assured himself of the exact contents of the cabinet, and had locked it securely. Since then, no one had gone into the upper portion of the house except the accused. i At this statement, Dalton’s lips moved as if to speak. Then with a start and a glance at Ruth, he allowed it to go uncontradieted. ■” When he went up stairs to obtain the money for the men, Farmer John per- । ceived to his amazement, as ho opened i the cabinet, that two packages of bank- ! notes, representing nearly four hundred j dollars, were missing. He had entertained grave suspicions lof his superintendent before. Impulse j drove him to enter his room. A disar- | ranged pillow on the bed directed a : I search. Beneath it he -had found—one ■ | of the packages, the one now in his 1 j hand. ’ : More than that, on the floor of the ’ room he had picked up a key. It fitted to the cabinet. Paul Dalton was an ac- > complished thief. ’ ( “You entered my room to-night,” was ■ : the unwavering accusation; “you stole • the mpney. ” > “He is innocent!” ’ A wild, convincing cry, expanding with the certainty of proof, sentient with ; the trustfulness of a loving woman’s heaft, the words rang forth from Ruth 1 Elliott’s lips. She knew! 'h! with happy, fervent delight she realized the frail rock of ■ certainty upon which her prejudiced 1 father had erected a stupendous fabric of suspicion. “Girl!” scowled Elliott angrily, “I told ‘ you once that this is no concern of yours. ” “No, it is mine alone,” interrupted ■ ' Walton quickly. “Ruth,” he whispered j tumultuously, “silencefe To reveal the ’ truth, in his present mood, would invoke | his deepest anger. ” With a moan Ruth Elliott sank to a chair, her face colorless, her heart flutter- i ing like an imprisoned bird. Paul Walton had spoken truly. He j was innocent; she knew it. He had not J been near his room that evening. A loving tryst at the moonlit glade had | filled in those two precious hours, and her lips were sealed, because he had bade her be silent. But he was innocent. Oh, the joy of ■ it! Standing there, accused, mute for । her sake, her heart went out to him in strengthened lo T .e. “You can give up the other package of money or no* as you choose,” spoke ; Farmer John. “I shall not have you arrested on account of your past services, but you must leave this house to- | night; you must go at once.” “Innocent or guilty?” murmured Wal- ■ ton. “Innocent? Does the key show it? ; Does hidden plunder show it?” “I never saw key or money before. ! ■ Some one placed them in my room, some 1 enemy ” “Bah!” scornfully interrupted Elliott, • “you have heard my decision—go!” 1 “He shall not go.” Trembling all over yet with resolute face, Riith stole to the side of her accused * lover. - She caught his hand in her own. Love, unmistakable, unhidden from all the world, spoke in her words, manner, and > attitude. > “Are you crazy?” exclaimed her father, , staring vaguely at her glowing face. I “Girl!” in a terrible tone of suspicion, I “what does this mean?” “It means that I know him to be innocent —that, in one word, I can prove it. I He did not steal your money because he , was not in the house to-night—he was was not in the house to-night ” “Ruth—Ruth, silence! Do you not see i that this will anger him ” “I will speak! He was not in the house, because he met me at the stile. He met । me therebecause our troth is plighted, and I against all the world, against all yio/r cruel unjust accusa- . tions. ” Shs flung herself into his arms as she

spoke, ar>4 then, woman-like, hei strength, resolution, and defiance vanished, and she burst into tears. Into the amazed face of John Elliott blazed a furious rage. With a cry more like a roar than anything else, he tore Ruth from the clasp of her lover. Roaring like a madman, he confronted Paul Dalton, menacing him, anathematizing him, ready to crush him with uplifted hands. “Thief! Miscreant! Hypocrite!” ho fairly ch bed out. “Oh! I could forgive a thief oi money, but this—you serpent, with your smooth, wily ways, to steal my-girl’s heart —go, 1 warn you, or I will do you harm!” The two astounded laborers, well knowing Farmer John’s ungovernable temper, pressed Dalton toward the door. M ith a last look at the crushed and weeping Ruth, the accused turned upon her father. “J«*hn Elliott,” he spoke firmly, almost sadly, “some day you will regret your unjust accusation—the truth concerning that will come to Mght soon. As to Ruth, a heart of stone could not help loving her. You drive me from your door, ruined in reputation and happiness. I will never darken its tiireshold again until I can stand before all men, by your own words proven innocent of the hideous charge you bring against me.” “That will never be. Don’t be in a hurry, Mr. Paul Dalton. I have sor#othing to say to you.” The impressive tableau was rudely disturbed by the jeering, bantering words. The door had opened, and, his face flushed with drink and excitement, his malevolent eyes glowing with the certainty of a mean and crushing revenge, Ralph Prescott entered the room.

“What’s this?” thundered Farmer John, his brows knit frowningly. “I’ve heard your talk from the outside,” explained Prescott, glibly. “I’ve heard this highly indignant gentleman’s high-flown talk, too. He’s innocent, is he? Then he’s changed from what he once was. Time to find him out, Mr. Elliott—time to get him out of the house where he’s lurked, a hypocrite, a serpent, so long.” “What do you mean?” demanded Farmer John, dubiously. “I mean,” replied Prescott, bis face aflame with concentrated deli'ght and malignity, “that I’atd Daitou is worse than a thief!” “Worse than a thief!” repeated Elliott, excitedly. “Yes, 1 < harge him—and I dare him to deny it—with being an ex-convict!” |TO BE CONTINUED.! Lafayette's Home. The Chateau de Chavaniac is on a high hill, and in the misty background are the slopes of Mounts Dome, Laguet and Cantal. A lovely wide avenue at least a mile long leads to it from Paulhaguet. The avenue is tHirdered by jMiplars, ash and elm trees, all of which were planted by the General. The chateau itself is a rather new building, for it stands on tile place of one that was burned in the eighteenth century. It forms a parallelogram, each side of wljich is seven! y-tlve feet long and with a height id’ about forty. ’The principal front faces the north, but on each side several doors oiler easy exits. ’l’he construction lacks elogance. and if it were not for its tinn situation, the lovely site on which it stands and the ancient trees that form a splendid framework, it would present a rather heavy physiognomy. The ground floor is only occupied by kitchens, pantries and wine cellars; the first story is divided into several fine rooms, and on tlie upper floor are the bedchambers, most of which have, however, remained unoccupied since 1829, when Lafayette made his last visit to his native place. The most important room on the first floor is about forty-two feet long, and has served in turn for dining hall a<nd ball-room. In it are the family portraits, most of them modern, and several busts, among which are those of Washington, Franklin, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Cajsar, Brutus, Cicero and Socrates. The library lias perhaps a thousand volumes, and the books still bear the “ex libris” of the General’s arms, and “Cui non?” his proud device. Tlie Indian. The popular idea of the Indian roaming over the prairies, living on the fruits of the chase and just what he can gather, does not properly characterize all of the tribes. Some of the Indians of the South and Southwest were e-xcellent agriculturists. In Georgia and Alabama, when the white man first went among the Natchez Indians, they found them all cultivating maize, beans, sunflowers, sweet potatoes, melons, pumpkins, and a large number of the native fruits growing in orchards — persimmons, honey - locusts, mulberry, black walnuts and shell barks of the best kind were sorted and planted by them. Many of the New Mexican and Arizona Indians were also far advanced in the agricultural art. The Daisy. In Scotland the daisy was, and in some parts still is, regarded as a healing plant; and if the sick man can only put his foot on a fully expanded daisy, he has hopes of recovery, just as tn some other parts some mountain stream or quiet spring is supposed to possess magical powers. Faith, no doubt, has a good deal to do with the cure, and the thought that touching any given object would effect a cure would do much to accomplish the same. It is further believed that if the farmer kneels down and bites off the first daisy of spring a plentiful crop will be the reward. The more we reflect upon the unspeakable meanness of the man who stole a fine overcoat belonging to a distinguished New York clergyman while lie was preaching to a Chicago congregation the more firmly do we become convinced that the thief was some bitter and unforgiving St. Louisian who committed the act in order to bring reproach upon Chicago.

WIDE WASTE OF WATER MOST DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS IN MANY YEARS. Thousands of Acres Laid Waste-Losses Will Run Into Millions—Fears Entertained at St. Louts—Farmers Suffer— Cyclone in Arkansas—Snow in Dakota. Rivers Are All Raging. rz ’ & w 7 I fir ■ I I 'F "G" I HE Die Missip is V/ . a loomin’ ’’ is the .Vr * correct river expres- | s *on for the eondiJ tion of the father of -5-fe ; * ? waters at St. Louis. ‘ The danger line has been reached and the mighty stream has already spread itself over territory not rightfully its own, doing great damage to its banks and to the movable property of citizens along the shore be- : tween Bremen on the north ami River des Peres on the south. The rise came within thirty-six hours, and the water is still creeping up. Near the Merchants’ bridge, in North St. Louis, scores of men in the employ of the lumber companies areatwork securing lumber piles from the water. Last Saturday these piles were I from twenty to thirty feet from the water. Where the river seems to have created the greatest havoc is a squatter” settlement about half a mile below the Merchants’ bridge, called "Oklahoma.” The greater number of the squatters’homes are small flatboats or flouting houses, some of them in the water, others on land supported on stilts. The danger lino is 28 feet for a number of houses along the river front. At last reports the water was 27 feet 7 inches. Damage Beyond Estimation. Near Brunswick, Mo., the Missouri and Grand Rivers have b 'en rising rapidly for st ’ days. Momlr.y was spent in res ig the inhabitants of the bar south ot that place, which was formed about twenty years ago by the Missouri River changing its channel, ami has lately become valuable farming land. Much stock was also taken off the bar. Hundreds of acres are covered by the floods and dozens of homes destroyed. Monday evening the ferryboat, loaded with people ami horses, was broken from its cable by drift ami floated down tlie stream. One woman ; fell into the river, but was rescued. The drifting ferry-1 ont was carried down the stream for almost four miles, where it landed on a bar in the Missouri River and tin* people were rescued by some fishermen. ti <» *■ u l -rinj; in X ”br,*nka. Never has Nebraska experienc d sm h ■ n long-eontinib'd down-pour of ra n. The Missouri Riv r is nine foot a! o.e low water mark. Th< re is no two lat Omaha, but r< ports from io nts b.dow indicate that the river i- rising rapidiy ami already out of its I auks an I flo ding the lowa ; ml Missouri bottom lan is Keports fl, .11 all along the iii.es ~f he Omaha loads fell of rain and snow n the Black Hills and in W,-fni Nebraska ami cloudiness all the way to Salt Lake. Ail trains were late ami there are a numb r : of washouts reported, though none o: them have caused aceidcn’.s. There is a washout between Beatrice ami L n oin on the Union Pacific branch, ami ill' Rn k Island main line trains ar- using the Burlington tracks inst ai. The rain iias so tilled the approneln s of the Missouri Pacific Plattsn outh bridg ‘that tlie , op ning of th ' bridge lias been delayed until June. Snow Ims fallen in Western Nebraska, ranging in depth from sixteen inches in the northw. sti rn porti< n to two inches in the southwestern portion of tii" State. lowans .May ' ■ k til ? Hills. At Ottumwa, lowa, a heavy rain has set the Des Moines River bo >mii g again. Tin* water has risen rapidly ami continues io rise. The rain, it is feared, will swell ihe river to the highest point since IS5(>, when all the city except that part on the hills was submerged. I'ead Farm Animals F.oating I*y. The Maumee near Toledo, Oh o, is on the rampage, being higher than was ever known before, except at the floods ■ caused by ice gorge in 1883 and 1881. Parts of buildings, trees, fence rails, dead cattle, hogs, sheep and general debris came down- Reports tell of extensive devastation at D<Ti-.nee, Antwerp, Napoleon, Fort Wayne, Maumee i and Perrysburg. Marengo Island, off Perrysburg, where are many summer cottages, wa- nearly covered, and six or seven houses have been washed away. Ha l Snow in South Dakota. At Redfield, S. D., quite a heavy snowstorm occurred Tuesday morning, but melted almost as fast as it fell. Rain has been falling all the time since. During the past forty days eight inches of water has fallen there, the heaviest downpour known since the settlement of the country. There has been no damage to crops. Five Children Killed Outright. William AVilkins and wife and five children, colored, thinking a storm was brewing, retired into a cyclone cave at their home in the southwest part of Anthony, Kan. The heavy rain so undermined the house that the roof fell on the sleeping people. Wilkins succeeded in getting out and arousing the neighbors, who assisted him in rescuing the wife alive. The five children, from 6 months to 14 years of age, were taken out dead. Worlil’s Fair Notes. The Administration Building will have a mosaic floor costing $5,000. The fine art exhibit will be much ' more extensive than was at first ex- ■ pected. Visitobs to Machinery Hall will be ■ enabled to pass from one end of the building to the other at an elevation, and thus gain a birdseye view of the vast area of exhibits, and to see many ; of the larger exhibits to much greater ! advantage than will be possible from the floor. Db. Henry J. Reynolds and gamut 1 B. Foster, Chicago tourists, recently climbed to the summit of South Dome, one of the highest points of the Yosemite range, and ; ainted in enormous letters on one of the most conspicuous cliffs the words, “Visit the AVoild’s Fair in Chicago in 1893.” * -»

FROM SLEEP TO DEATH.’ FRIGHTFUL WRECK OF A TRANSCONTINENTAL EXPRESS. Seven Persons Killed and Twenty-five More Injured Near Revere—Only Meager Reports Received, as Heavy Rains Cut Off Kail Coinuiunication. •'And tlie Floods Came.” Without a word of warning, in the midst of a frightful storm, the eastbound transcontinental express on the | Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, filled i with human beings wrapped in slumber, plunged through a trestle weakened by i rain to death at about 1:45 Thursday morning, between Revere and Medill in Missouri, about 265 miles from Chicago. It was a frightful night, the rain fell as it never fell before, and only an occasional flash of lightning could be seen in the gloom. The great express had : come through from San Francisco. Los Angeles, and Mexico to Kansas City on time. On arriving at Kansas City at 4:40 Wednesday afternoon orders were received to hold' it until 6:40, and run to Chicago on the time of the Denver : limited, which was very late. At 6:40 । the train, which was composed of a p sj tai ear, a baggage car, smoker, chair ear, tourist sleeper, and two Pullman ’ coaches, commenced its run to Chicago. : All went well until a pile and trestle bridge over the Fox River near Revere i was reached. This bridge was about 175 feet long and 30 feet high. Two i hours before the transcontinental ex- ; press struck the bridge a heavy freight train passed ovt r it in safety, but the pouring rain had swollen the raging torrent which rushed beneath the rails to a miniature Niagara, which finally carried the bridge out of line, yet left it standing and, so far as the engineer cn the locomotive could see, all right. With wheels turningslowly for safety’s sake, for the storm was terrific, the train crawled slowly on the bridge. The engine crossed in' safety. Then the bridge went down. Only the engine and real - sleeper were not precipitated into the swiftly flowing waters which coursed through the ravine below. Five cars, with their load of human freight wearied into deep sleep with a long trip, and the remains of the bridge sank together in । one conglomerate mass of crushed timbers, torn and twisted iron work and mangled humanity. Then camo a wild cry from the wounded and dying rising above the noise of the storm. Lighted to their work of rescue, the engineer and fireman from one side of the stream and the uninjured occupants of the rear sleeper from the opposite bank hurried to give what aid was possible to those in the ravine. Men sprang from the windows of the wrecked cars, and fighting their way through whirling waters filled with debris reached the banks and foil exhausted. Not less than seven and possibly nine or more sank in the wreck to die. Twenty-five are known to have , been injured. Telegraph wires went down in the storm ami only meager information reaehed Chicago regarding th® wreck. Third Vice President J. D. Springer of the Atchison, and W. F. White, the passenger traffic manager, used every effort to obtain full details of the accident, ami freely furnished all information in their power to the n porters and anxious relatives of passengers who besieged the Atchison offiees demanding information. It was with great diflleulty that messages could be put through, but the Atchison officials received tlie following list of dead and injured, which was at once made public: Killed—Wiliiam Hynes, Oklahoma City, Ok.; Lou Markel<or Markee) Kansas City, Mo.; Luther Cornelius, Kirkville, Mo.; S. E. Verkier, Westport, Mo.; John C. Grones, Macon, Mo.; lady and child, names unknown. A press dispatch confirms this list, and adds an unknown child, the engineer, and fireman as killed. This is not confirmed by the Atchison report from the officers on the ground to Vice President Springer, and regarding the engineer and fireman was denied, as the locomotive crossed the bridge in safety. Injured. —J. Tucker, conductor, Downers’ Grove; Ala:tin Regan, brakeman; W. A. Isham, brakeman, Riverside; Andrew J. Ronan, express messenger; Claud Bell and R. E. Dutcher, postal clerks: Airs. Jane Hisey, Riverside; J. C. Winslow, H. M. Cutler, H. C. Cowling, and N. Lancaster, Chicago; W. A. Allen and Mrs. E. T. Allen, Athens, Pa.; Robert Schultz, Lexington Junction, Mo.; J. F. Hartgen, Reading, ' Pa.; William Adams, 0. L. Boys, J. Gunther, AV. B. Barnes, J. H. Snider, . S. H. Laugh, J. Alason, F. Graves, and ■ AV. G. Smith. In addition to this there is an uncon--1 firmed report that an Italian woman and [ child were injured. The extent of the injuries could not be ascertained. The Atchison was in very bad shape. Superintendent H. C. Ives started for the wreck early, but was confronted with three feet of water on the track at Lockpi rt. The road was also under water east of Fort Aladison, between Fort Aladisoa and the wreck, and wires were down in places for many miles in length. The east-bound Denver express, which followed the transcontinental express, attempted to ruq around the wreck on the Keokuk and AVestern branch of the Burlington, but was stopped by u landslide a few miles out of Keokuk. The accident seems to have been one of those unfortunate events that human foresight can not guard against. The bridge was as strong as such a structure could be built, but the heavy rains of the last few weeks, crowned by the awful storm of AVednesday night, so weakened it that it went under. The accident will cost the Atchison over SIOO,OOO, and probably $150,000. Sure Cure for Corns. Alix nine parts of salicylic acid with one part of extractor cannabis indica and forty-eight parts of collodion. After bathing the feet in warm water apply this mixtu e to the affected parts with a camel’s hair brush. Do not resume the stocking until the foot has bee ;me perfectly dry. Cleaning; Gold Jewelry. To dean gold jewelry, make a lather of plain yellow soap and tepid water and wash the ornaments in it; dry them thoroughly and afterward brush them with a little dry whiting, Anally polishing them with a very soft leather. Mercurial Paris has a grim humor, even in the presence of dread danger. Several houses display this notice to the dynamiters: “No magiutrates lodge here.”

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. A Scholarly Exposition of the LessonThoughts Worthy of Calm ReflectionHalf an Hour’s Study of the Scriptures —Time Well Spent. A Song; of Praise. The lesson for Sunday, May 15, may be found in Psalms 103: 1-22. INTRODUCTORY. We have willed this-Worship Psalm.” It opens and closes with the same exhortations to praise. And the ap eal is to the human soul. Nature praises God, heaven adores him, but God waits yet for one other note of homage the sweetest to him of all—--bless the Lord, O my soul.” With this beautiful selection we pass out of the psalms for a season. It is a fitting close to th s study of the lyrical portion of the saci I word. With these earnest, tender strains of praise t,o God let us study all the holy book and live all the holy life. The Psalms are. as sjpme one has called them, -the inspired response of the human heart to God’s revelation of himself, in law and history and propl ocy and phi osophy. ” WHAT TRE I.ESSOX SAYS. , Bless. In the sense of worship, adore. Tlie original meaning of the word is to break or bend (as of the knee). Uis holy name. Hebrew: the name of his holiness, j. e., the attributes of his holy nature. Bless the Lord. The repetition suggests the lyrical character of the composition. Beneflts. An Interesting word, literally, bearings, deportment God's attitude toward us. Same word as rewarded In v. 10. Douay: -Never forget what he hath done for ihee.”

Who forgiveth. Or forgiving. Thus: Forget not all his benefits, namely: forgiving all thine iniquities, healing all thy diseases, etc., etc. Diseases. From the verb t > slacken, to be weak, to be in pain. Redeemeth. A strong word and of sacred associations. Ceremonially, to release or recover what is devoted (Lev. 27: 13): also, to recover what is sold or buy it bacK from its possessor. CLev. 23: 25.) Destruction, or death. Rendered grave or pit at Job 33: 24; Eze. 2S: 8. Crowneth. Same word used at Ps. 8: 5. Rendered eompass in Ps. 5: 12. (See Margin.) Satisfleth. The word for full-rounded completeness. From it comes our number sovoa, the mnemonic for perfectness. Thy mouth. Rather thy life, or age, in contrast with the word youth in the same sentence. Renewed. Freshness given in old age. _ Executeth or performeth. A word for the actual doing of righteousness. Oppressed or defrauded. Justice for those unjustly treated. Douay: All that suffer wrong. The first meaning, however, is pressed; and hence Pentecost may be right in applying this to the redemption which is in Ghrist, who paid the debt wo could not pay. Mis ways. From the verb to step or walk. Acts, or doings (Revision), same word at Ps. 9: 11. Douay. His wil's. Merciful. Same word as tender mercies, v. 4. Slow to anger and plenteous in mercy. Literally, much or great in mercy. Toe two phrases seem to balance each other. like backward with his anger; ready with his mercy. Chide. Or strive, contend. Keep his anger. First meaning to keep watch, as of a vineyard. The meanjng^eemYlO-bertltSt — there Is coming a time when God’s rnonitive anl retributive work shall have, as it were, an end. his mercy putting all else out ot sight. Pitieth, same word translated merciful in v. 8, and tender mercies in v. 4. Frame or framing, same word used of creation at Gen. 2: lit. -Out of the ground tlie Lord God formed every beast of the field.” J hist, as noted in tlie same chapter alluded to above, Gen. 2: 7; cf. Ps. 11<»: 25. As for man, his days are as grass literally. man like grass, his days, as if spoken in soliloquy. Douay: Man's days. Flourisheth; first meaning glitter, of a momentary bloom. fPs. 90: 6.) WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. Forget not all his benefits. And now so - lows a list of these wondrous benefits, to wit: iniquities forgiven, diseases healed, life redeemed from destruction and crowned with loving kindness and tender mercies, mo'uth satisfied with good things, youth renewed like the eagles. How many of these things are you ^enjoying? Certainly they cannot be enjoyed if they are -forgotten.” A great man/ souls there are who have never o much as thought that these benefits were theirs, or that they come from God’s hands. They are living right on as almoners from the bounty ot God arid never thinking to return him praise. It is w rthy of inquiry, too, whether there is not a lurking intimation here of benefits ignored and so forfeited. It is the promise that most of us have forgotten, and only those who accept and acknowledge enjoy the highest blessings of God. The rest go on living a poor half-empty life. They have forgotten their position. Remember what Paul said to the Romans: ‘-The same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.” A rich Lord—does your faith realize such? Who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies. The crown of God’s love. Now we may understand the margin of that strong passage at Ps. 5: 12: “With favor wilt crown him as with a shield.” God's goodness to his people is both crown and shield. When men see God's favor cn our brows they fear us. Be sure of this, the world is afraid of a Godgblest man. Know Ged—defy Satan. It i> blessed to see that this besto.vment comes by God’s free grace. It is free and ready, for the Lord is -slow to anger and great for mercy.” 1. e., he Is. as it were, behindhand with his wrath and beforehand with his forgiveness. It is of grace: for “he hath not dealt with us after our sins,” i. e., as we have treated him, “nor rewarded (Hebrew benefited) us according to our own iniquities.” There is only one way of accounting for it. He loves us, and so he has put the crown of sonship on our brjws. Loving kindness and tender mercies must needs accompany. “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow meiall the days of my life.” He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children. May we not be justified in drawing a distinction between the two balancing words of this sentence? The writer well recalls an Intimation that came from the lips of Dr. Henson as he held^us a moment in his genial, friendly way at his doorstep. “Have you ever noticed,” he said, “on what special terms of intimacy God put himself with his servant Moses? He made known his ways unto Moses, only his acts unto the children of Israel.” At any rate there was sweet comfort In the reflection. God brings into very close fellowship with himself those who love and trust him; before their eyes he causes his glory to pass, he makes them to know his ways. His acts, majestic, w< nderful—all men must see them to-dav. But his ways, glorious, subduing, transforming, only the Spirit can reveal. “Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways.” Next Lesson—“ Daniel and His Companions.” Dan. 1: 8-21. Tough Boys. In Edinburg a child of 5 has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for stealing clothes and furniture from his father.—Milwaukee Sentinel. The champion precocious toy has been discovered at Kansas City, Alo. He is only 9 years old, but he pointed a pistol at the paying teller and demanded all the coppers in the bank. AVith the cheap novel and the sensational newspaper always at hand youtl^>^ morals are very fortun”^ '* ly esco”” •