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CHAPTER IX. t bare their exits and their entrances And each man in his time plays many £^4 Parts. ^^fwhich the end is death.” Ui"~*zhakspeare. months which followed spent by Sy 1Leland. t Rachel, for years an invalid, was prostrated by the double shock Delight’s flight and Desire’s bereavement. She became helpless, needing e"n * BtUßt care which Desire took it upon her»eif to give. Scarcely ever away from her bedside, always calm, strong, capable. kxßever speaking of her grief, never spar- ■ ing herself, she was a marvel to them all. z Sometimes her mother feared the tax upon her was too great, but Mistress Esther was a wise woman. She knew that ineest sant occupation is a balm for wounded spirits, and she saw that her daughter L found a consolation in her loving minisMtry to Aunt Rachel that nothing else gave And thus it happened that many new duties fell on Sylvia’s inexperienced shoulders. Gideon, the elderly, not over-strong man who was hired to take charge of the farm, proved unequal to the task without continual appeal to Mistress Esther and “Sylvy,” who virtually managed affairs. It was a hard task for them, but they bent to it with an energy and determination to succeed which showed them to be i true helpmeets of the brave men trying to learn soldiery under still more unfavorable circumstances. If Dave had only ' been at home that she might consult with him concerning the strange new questions forever coming up. Sylvia would have asked no odds of any one. She missed him greatly. Few days passed that she did not find time to run over and sit for at least a few minutes with his mother, of whom she was very fond. Mistress Townsend was also fond of her. much more so than she had ever been of Delight. One pleasant September afternoon, glancing out of her sitting room window, she saw her young friend coming through the yard. “Oh, Auntie, you look just like a picture!” cried Sylvia from the doorway, admiring the trim dress of gray wool, the ahet. muslin kerchief crossed over her bosom, the high, crisp muslin cap beneath which her soft, white hair was smoothly parted, the beautiful blue eyes, a counterpart of Dave's, the kindly, sweet face. Au open Bible lay on her lap. “Nay, child; say not so of my time-worn self,” came in gentlest chiding. “Rather! sit you down and tell me how your little world has fared this day. Not all to your liking, if I can read your countenance aright.” Sylvia threw her hat on the table and seated herself on a stool at Mistress i Townsend's side. “Do I show myself out so quickly as that?’ she asked, half laughing, half an noyed. “My father always says my face is like an open book. If that is true I think ’twill puzzle you to spell it out, for I’m all upside down in my mind, and I don’t know how I’m ever coming right again. Things are so hard to understand. Auntie Townsend.” A long sigh accompanied this serious declaration. | “You are growing into the experience of every thoughtful soul, my child. Things are indeed hard to understand—impossible, truly, without the one only key to all mystery, this blessed revelation of the all-wise Father to his ignorant, seeking children.” • She laid her hand upon the pages of the Book and looked at it as on the face of a tried and trusted friend. But the question was still plainly to be seen in Sylvia's eyes. “I don’t see how that explains things, auntie.” Mistress Townsend turned the leaves. “Read there, Sylvia; read those verses aloud to me,” she said. And Sylvia read: “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, i fhongh the mountains shake with the i idling thereof.” , a ,weet assurance that no c truly His t '■ >■ ' tv. n -^ey do. Now, Delight ... t .^u<i disobeyed father and did wi.e VP d . happy <omewhere with A-chit-while Desire, who gave Gilbert up rath. • than do what she thought was n. r is the one to suffer so bitte: y. | thin! it is not a bi’ just, n r fa [ Why do you sp*ak wrh such .ondenee of Dehir’it’s hr pine-s?” I "Why? Why, b. ause she is married ’ to Archie, and—and- and ’’

| “And do you never think that she has | the constant memory of her disobedience. of the sorrow she brought upon her parents and her home, of my poor Dave's । heavy heart? And 1 doubt not that soon--51 er or later the manner of Gilbert's death 1 will be brought to her knowledge and add ■ to the sum of her wretchedness. The wages of sin is death. Sylvia, and such ' sin as hers can bring nothing but death I to all true happiness and peace of mind. Desire, with all her blighted hopes, her 1 loneliness, her never-ceasing grief, is to / be envied in comparison with Delight." "But why is it so, auntie—why?" asked ' Sylvia again. “You don't know how hard [* it is for us. do you? My father has never held up his head so proudly as before she * went away. My mother goes around so * white and so silent. As for Desire, it makes my heart ache only to see her. al|t ways so sweet and patient and trying for * our sakes to be cheerful. And then, when ft I think of —of—-Dave —l just cannot bear »* She leaned her head against her friend's || lap and sobbed unrestrainedly. The elder woman's hands fell on her M ruddy hair with caressing touch. She, ■ too, was sore at heart at the thought of H her boy's cruel treatment at Delight's K hands. if “It is hard, my dear child, and no one

; ' of us all can answer your natural question and tel! you why such things have to be. They come into our lives by permission of our Creator, whom we can but acknowledge to be infinitely wiser and holier than we are. In His Word He has tohl us that all things work together for good to those who love Him—all things, Sylvia; Delight's error. Desire's affliction, your fathers and mother's crushing sorrow, your perplexity, Dave's disappointment, these and all other experiences of our lives, day by day. hour by hour, are working together for our good, if our hearts are right in the sight of Him who brings all these complex, contradictory happenings to pass. See to it, then, that you serve Him faithfully as a loving, obedient child, and in His own way and good time He will reveal Himself to you in a peace that passeth understanding. “Have I wearied you with my sermon?” she asked, smiling. "I would be far Here they were interrupted by the sound of horsemen. Sylvia ran to the window in time to sv them rein at the gate. There were two of them. The younger, a tall, slender young fellow, dismounted and walked up the grassy pathway. He rapped smartly on the door with his whip handle. Mistress Townsend answered the rather imperative summons. Bowing low, cap in hand, the stranger said: “We would crave kindness at your hands, madam. We have come far, ^ven from the colony of Virginia, to join the army. It was our intention to push through the rest of the way to-night; ’tis but the matter of a few miles. But my companion has been ill all day, and can ride no farther. If you will give us supper and a bed we will pay you well and be grateful indeed. He is Captain Anthony Randolph of the Virginia militia, and I, Harry Read, am a subaltern in his company. We are loyal servants to the best of causes, madam, and as such beg your favor.” There was a winning frankness in both speech and manner which went far toward persuading her. Besides this, the white face and evident suffering of the man, scarcely able, as she saw, to sit in his saddle, touched her motherly heart. Taking it for granted that "the army" they were to join was the one which another Virginian was slowly reducing to some small degree of order and discipline, she looked on these two travel-stained soldiers as on fellow patriots deserving of all aid. "You are gladly welcome here,” she answered him, heartily. "Get your friend within, and I will make his bed ready and prepare a wholesome draught of simples. Sylvia, child, put fresh water in the kettle and set the table for supper. But first run out and tell Samuel to care for and feed the horses." Sylvia, excited by this unexpected ar rival and vaguely disconcerted by the bright, laughing glances Harry Read found opportunity to throw in her direction, hurried off to do her bidding. An hour later the captain was sound asleep between cool, sweet-smelling linen sheets in Mistress Townsend's best bed. and his young companion was sitting down to a bountiful meal with his hostess and Sylvia. He was not an adept in deceit, this handsome royalist from Virginia on his way to Boston with secret messages to prominent Tories there, and his conscience troubled him not a little at the ease with which he hail succeeded in blinding these hospitable souls to the true character of their guests. Partly to atone for his duplicity. partly because he saw their en joyment of the subject and largely for the reason that he loved to hear the sound of his own voice, he told them much of George Washington's home in what was then, to them, the far-distant Southland. “My uncle's plantation is but a few miles from Mount Vernon,” he said. "1 often spend weeks there at a time. Many's the day I've seen him riding over his estate attended by a negro servant.” "I have heard that he has great knowledge of husbandry, and that all things are conducted with precision and economy.” replied Mistress Townsend. "That is his reputation, madam, and the goodly state of his plantation proves it true. Whatever he puts his hand to is thoroughly done.” "God grant that such will be hi* accomplishment in the great work to which he has now been called,” she said, fervently. "There is need enough of some one strong and wise to lead our stouthearted men on to the victory which in the end surely awaits the right.” Subaltern Harry Read seemed on the verge of apoplexy. His face grew fiery red and he choked and spluttered over a mouthful of hot tea. Setting his cup down with hasty motion, he wiped his tawny mustache and made excuse. "Y . x« e!’ent tea is but too recently ™ni‘- from off Uu- fir,-, madam, it would soi-m. to -no my Un-., throat h,. i laua:. en*i'.x nl Ih—tov ng up ion Sylvia another of h -r, idw rii | looks. She -• down her - yes i n conI fusion, bm . | uem again in ,-ia.-r j n . hearing hi- vivaof life in a Virginia ■■ ’ m . -at ' sten- , ing to h in until the level -unbeams slowly withdrew from the -upper table, and they i , heard Samuel, the chore boy. setting down the pails of warm, foaming milk on the

bench outside. "I fear I am detaining yon," he said; then, with the ready courtesy which was one of his charms, "I will take a stroll down your pretty road; 'twill seem good to stretch my muscles after many hours astride a horse's back." Bowing to Mistress Townsend and smiling broadly at Sylvia, he sauntered out of , the house. lis a fair-spoken lad. I'll warrant । his mother's heart grieved to send him so far away with many chances that he does not return. War is a hideous thing a barbarous, cruel tiling, which women would never allow if they could have | their say:” ' The good woman sighed deeply as she bustled about clearing the table and with Sylvia s help doing up the evening work. When it was all finished. twilight was ! fast growing into dusk. Usually Sylvia ■ was well on her way home before so late i an hour. Run quickly now, child, lest your mother be uneasy. I should not have kept you so long. Perchance you may meet little Joseph. He has grown so thoughtful since lie alone is left to be the man of the house," said Dave's mother, bidding the i girl good-night. “ies, auntie, I will hurry, and shall I : not come again to-morrow? I may be

able to help you with the sick man, and I am sure my mother can spare me.” “ ’Twill surely be a pleasure to me to have you here, and I doubt not we can both be kept busy.” With another good-by, Sylvia ran across the yard out on to the highway. The evening was very still, save for the croaking of frogs in the meadow and the anxious chirping of some belated bird, phe walked with brisk step along the dusky road, meeting no one. There were no houses between the Townsends’ and her own home, so no lights shining from windows kept her company. But she was not lonely, for she was thinking of the gay, voluble young officer, who was quite unlike any man she had ever known. The glance of his brilliant eyes as it came to her memory did not seem altogether pleasant. "He isn't a bit like Dave,” was her final conclusion. Just then she stopped. Was she mistaken. or had she heard again Harry Read s musieal voice? Yes. She was ’ sure. But where could he be? She noticed a slight movement under some trees, standing a little distance back from the road. She saw figures and caught one word: "Somerset,” and a quick “Sh!” Darting swiftly to the shelter of some bushes, she crouched there trembling. She knew well enough that the "Somerset'’ was a British man-of-war lying in Boston harbor, and that no true patriot would be speaking of her in this secret way. Suspecting she hardly knew what, frightened, but watchful, she waited. Several minutes passed. No further sound came t<) her ears. Then two figures approached from the chimp of trees. She could hardly make them out as they walked slowly past her place of concealment. , "I knew you beard nothing,” said a . voice, which she recognized as that o| Ebenezer Bidder, a -uspccied Tory, liv ing in Lexington village. " 'Tis the loneliest road after nightfall you ever trod." "We do well to be on our guard,” was the answer. Sylvia's heart leaped to he| throat, for this -peaker was Harry Read, He went on, taking less care to modulate his tones: "We're in clover here. One dull lad. on« old woman, one jhi tty little girl—all good, kindly, unsuspicious souls. I blush t« deceive them, but all's fair in love am) war. and daylight will rid them of us. foi we must not tarry logger. The night's rest will put the captain on his legs again We expected to find Malcolm waiting foi us here, but no message- ” (To be continued.) Copyright. PECULIAR PREJUDICES. i Nearly Every One Manifests Some Favorite Eccentricity. : Everybody, more or less, possesses a favorite prejudice, which, in the eyes of everylxxly else, apiwars nonsensical and unnecessary. In the gay time of the Georges, for instance, the young rakes strove their hardest to develop some peculiarity or curious prejudice, by which their names would become famous, and possibly through this be handed on to posterity. Just now there is an eccentric old gentleman living near Luton, in Bed fordshire, who jwrsists in donning the attire of an earlier time. Any day he may be seen taking his walks, wearing knee breeches and an indescribable green waistcoat, while his silk hat is peculiarly antique. Notwithstanding the remonstrances of his friends, he refuses absolutely to dress up to-date, protesting that lie is a gre.it admirer of the good old days and of all it< ens toms. The present-day orthodox dress is far too sober and severe to suit his tastes. Equally singular is the prejudice against modern tilings shared by an other old gentleman who is the squir* of a small village in Derbyshire. He also shuns from his tables any French or continental dishes, allowing the cook to prejKire only plain food, in which a saddle of beef always play- a conspicuous part. As might be ex peered. he is •> firm ludiever in the greatness of his country, and has never yet evinced a desire to travel further than Scotland, where he possesses another residence. A celebrated aut’ w professes a terrible prejudice a ... cats. He can neither eat nor i . aile one is in the room, and says that, without seeing the animal, he can tell whether one is about. A well-known isditician is similarly prejudiced against the feline race. Music halls and theaters are the pet aversion of another individual, who ascribes much of the wickedness of this world to their influence. His eldest son. of 22. once visited a certain place of this description, and so en raged his father that the latter vowed that if it occurred again lie would cut him off with the proverbial shilling. A wealthy old lady living in Derbyshire has never yet entered a train, although her a.-e mu-: be very nearly SO. Her ideas are naturally very eld fashioned. and so great is her dislike to railways that she has fixed upon a house some fifteen miles away from the nearest line. When she does travel, she accomplishes it by means of a pony-chaise, very similar to the one the Queen uses ar Balmoral.—Pearson's Weekly. I hey A< lo.ilK Kat 'l.tn. \ S.mill, is 11..i1l Whu r.-cciitlx returnid home after a x -it i<> Boston said to a neighbor: Aon know these here little round white lu ans?” The other admitted that be did. j e teed 'em to horses down our way.” 1 "Yes.” "Well, sir. up to Boston they take

them beans, boil 'em for three or four hours, slap a little sowbelly an' some molasses ami other truck in with 'em, and what do you suppose they do with ’em ?" "Gosh, I do’ no.” "Well, sir," said the first speaker, sententiously. "I’m d d if they don’t eat 'em'." New York Tribune. Skim Milk Made Useful. A new use has been discovered for milk, and fortunately it is skim milk that is this time in request. It is wanted to make sizing, to be used by paper manufacturers in the glazing of paper of a fine quality. Heretofore, for the accomplishing of this purpose, a superior grade of glue with other ingredients has been used. It is claimed that a much better and cheaper sizing can be obtained from skim milk. To prepare the milk it is put into a vat, treated with chemicals, and until curd is formed, the curd being then washed, pressed and ground tine, after which it is put into a large drying kiln, where it is dried in about twelve hours, and is j put in bags ready for shipment.

j MOB ATTACKS CAR BARNS, Cleveland Striker* Seek to i>e»tr O y 0 Much Valuable Property. 1 Mob rule held sway on the south in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday night f or 3 more than an hour. A mob of 5.000 p er , e sons attacked the Holmden avenue far ' barns of the Cleveland Electric Railway Company ami rushed through the Jard, which contained sixty cars, destro) nig ev- ’ erything in sight until driven out by the ' police. The mob succeeded in ".ceking 1 ten ears before being compelled to retire. Heavy timbers were driven through windows and woodwork, stones and clubs ’ were used until the curs were completely demolished. The mob had a double purpose in view; its intention was to injure as much as possible property belonging to tile Big Consolidated Company ami to do bodily harm to the twenty five nonunion men living at the barns. In the first it wa s successful, lint in the second it was not, owing to the arrival of the police. The first outbreak took place at Wilson avenue ami Quincy street. Obstructions had been placed on the track ami Motorman Webster left his ear to remove them. One hundred men then began to stone him ami the conductor of the ear, while the passengers rushed out pell-mell. Ihe motortnan stood his ground. A rioter ran in front of him ami threw a brick, whereupc’a Webster drew his revolver and tired, but missed his assailant. Other attacks were made on him, but aftey he had tired several shots the crowd retreated. One man received a bullet in his foot. The police then arrived. Mayor Farley issued a proclamation at noon calling for peace and order, and qg daring that order would be restored if he had to resort to desperate The special committee of the City ''auncil appointed to bring about a setliejuih*. if pos-iblc. c.c.xcu din the . .cnoonß' *nl cials ot the Big Consolidated ami an?ommittec from the strikers were present, and each -ide of the ca-e was heard. The strikers presented their demands in writing. They are greatly modified as compared with the original ones, several concessions being made. Four hundred employes of the Cleveland Foundry Company struck in the afternoon because the company refused to discharge a man who had ridden on a Big Consolidated ct. The mini was a foreman. Wheirit became known that he had ridden on a car the molders went to the officers of the company and demanded his di-charge. The officer- refused to comply with the demand and all the men walked out of the work-. This is the first strike in the nature of a sympathy demonstration that ha- taken place. DETECT BOLD MAIL THEFT. Wholesale Robbery of IHavov ered by (hiengo Authorities. What i- reg I d by I’ -totfb c |n«p, . tor Jame- Nrj .t as ;o- of the largest ami boldest mail robin lies in the history of the Chicago postofliev was detected Tuesday, and the arre-t- of Waiter I’or ter an l John Ycuimin. dr v. r- of mail w agon- at the po-‘ ffli r, followed. I’orter made a full confess'.»» of the crime ami impli. itcd Newman. After a brief I hearing Is-forc I n:<d Stat - C->mmf I smner Humphrey the men were Iwmnd over to the Federal g and jury. Porter's bond- urn fixed at >lu.ih»i nmi New man’s at SS.lMhi, and in I • u of bail both men were taken to joil. A large aim-unt of the ic-rr*. mom v orders an 1 ptukages taken by the men was found in their lodging house. In the eolleetimi W<Tr letters, ninth V order* atld rhccks directed to nil part- of the conn try ami Europe One ch» . k found ,a the pile was for The !a- • f". i’ th. i.bct- had Iwcn in the employ of the Citn ago postoffire ■ ire June 1 an I that all tin- thefts xvere -nmmilted after that time w hile the prisoners were driving their wagon* make- the scheme nm- of th.- boldest in the rcc<»||ic lion of the postoffice insp« tor« The tun I w:i- all taken in pouches while Iwing cur tied hi the wagon* from the itoMoffi.-v to the railroad stations ami buck, and it has been admitted that thr«e sacks were taken in one day. MINERS SHED BLOOD. iAansxUlc Strikers Fire On Imported The coal mim es' strike at Evansville, Imi . iim-d i prions aspect Wednesday mornmg. Opra - .;- of the Sumiy ■ side tmne had imported thirty negro nutlet's trein Kentti ky and were delivering them at the mine at 13” n. m.. when unknown parties eoneealed in bushes near the mine opened tire on the negroes. It w as very dark and a stampede followe I Some of the m n union men responded with revolvers, ami many shots wen* fired. Six men were badly wounded. Janies Moore, bookkeeper ami a stock holder in the mine, was shot in the ba< k. and i< likely to die. Henry Smith and John Phillips, both colored, were probably fatally -hot. Ed Geiger, son of a loin! merchant: Charies Smith,, colored, anc John IL'isweath r, colored, were eack badly wounded. STANDARD OIL QUITS OHIO. Great Trust Will Establish Offices in New York. The Standard Oil Company will remove its headquarters from Cleveland, which will hereafter become a branch distributing point. When the dispatches announced recently that the Standard Oil Company had become a New Jersey torporation, w ith a capital of SW,OVi I,ooo* it w as said that the headquarters wouhßb r. moved to New York, but it w-f'— thought that the company woulf c ‘ w ■ 'h Ohio etnirelv. __ 1 . i ah General M n< i Ui- be- u nuikiw- w\r upon the s i ' i oil Company of Ohio ami the ■ Pipe Line Company, an allied corporation. AMERICAN GIFT TO DREYFUS. Hebrew Dime Subscription to Purchase T est i uionials. The Hebrews of America are pi aun j n g a testimonial to celebrate the release of Dreyfus from Devil’s I s l an(!< , iml the tardy measure of justice to him moled Olli by the I-rem h nation. Funds are being raised in Chicago, New York ami all the large cities of the country It is intended to present to Captain Dreyfus a gold-mounted and diamond-set ami richly engraved sword. To Emile Zola whose (lelense of the army officer led to his exile from his native country, will be given a solid gold pen, neatly engraved. To Col. I icquart. who always stood by the prisoner. will be presented a gold ] ov j n g cup, with a richly engraved inscription. ' SCHLEY TO ASK FOR INQUIRY. Admiral’s Conduct at Santiago Will He Looked Into. Nava! officers believe that a court of , mquiiv should be appointed to ascertain definitely Rear Admiral Schley's conduct m the naval battle off Santiago ' rhe ; statements of Lieutenant Commanders , Hodgson and Hedner have reopened the '" U ' ov *''' s y> an d in the opinion of many ” « rs mngS the case “UP to . Sccl’q! :i rv I , . . ittdij ijong mav nrdpr an > inqmry, but the rear believe he will ask for one.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. | SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. A Scholarly E X p Osltion of she LeßßOn -Thou K htH Worthy of Culm ReUec‘‘O'‘ Hu ' f «« «•’-’« Study of the Scr.pturew-Time Well Spent. The Jesson for July 2 is entitled, “Gracons Invitations,” and is froju Hosea 14: of th/ ‘"’umnig now a six months’ study the exi.e of Judah and the period following the return from Babylon, considerable recapitulation will be necessary to get the proper background tor the lessons to come. It is singular, and rather unfortunate, that the first lesson should have been chosen out of its natural chronological place. 1 he book of Hosea belongs in the series of lessons we had last year; it dales back from the quarter-eentury preceding the tall of Samaria, being approximately contemporaneous with Amos; in other words, iD date may be put at about 740 B. C. I-ollowing that time there came a century and a halt of the history of Judah, including the great names Hezekiah, Isaiah. Micah, Josiah ami Jeremiah, before the Babylonian exile w hich began in 507. 1 he warnings and promises of Hosea's prophecy referred to the northern kingdom, which had not yet fallen, though tottering on the verge of collapse. They apply and are pertinent to the lessons which we are about to study (lessons about Ju dahl, only as the general truths which they contain apply to any sinful nation. The introductory lesson to tins course, if it was desired to use a chapter of prophecy. should have bia n taken from Jen niiali. However, the les-on from Hosea offers a good opportunity to review briefly the history of the two kingdoms, ns it is really necessary to do in order lo prepare for tile further lessons. The general course of that history is familiar; beginning witli a separation of the two southern tribes, Judah and Benjamin, from the ten northern, of which Ephraim was the most importnnt, about the year Uffil. the two nations traveled separate courses from that time on. The capital of the northern kingdom was at various placi-. but from Ahab’s time it was the city of Samaria. Judah's capital was Jernsalcm. The history of Israel is an almost unbroken record of wicked kings ami a Baal-worshiping people for the two centuries that it endured. Four great prophets fought nobly ngaiust the side of evil Elijah. Elisha. Amo-. H >-ea. But comparatively -peaking they a> * -mpli-hed little, itnj in a period when Assyria happened to be push ing lier wes'ern vassals unusually hard the fatal folly of Israel's weak monarch* brough’ ru n The mipreec.lento I age of luxury ami vice which had u irked the reign of J, rol>. Im II 17S1* 711'1 ha 1 under mined the foimdation- of the national eoutagr an ] power f resi-tanee. Decay w.i- upon all the nnturtd pillars of the »tate: and nt a blow they fell. Af’ir ’he fall of Samaria i“22> the southern kitig l m lontinned. with at least two ex i-llent reign*, for more than a renfury b. tor- the t noented death of Jo-mh and the willful disregard of the g’ at • i J. di s ■ a !- bfoiigh* I JmLdi to n - miln” fate it h" hands of N.-l.m had . zar. I t planatorv. Thi* chapter in dramatic in conception; that i«. there are three spe.iker-. the prophet. who entreat- the people; the repent ant people, who eotifv-s their shortcoming* to the Lord; and the Lord, who gra ciousfy answers Th:- ’s'.ti hange -f *p< ik- r* ;* common in the prophet* and tin- p«alm*. The I <-|a«*t< < xampo- ■’ -th. 111-t two chap tors Os ILibakknk Smh passages, read I stra.ght abend. v> r-e after verse, with lout recogie: .op of th.- !r”i*ition or any I particular effort - f the mu.d to understand the < -nm-etion. are utterly unin'elhgibb-. A very little thought, liowen r. especially if a: led by t! •• paragriph- -f :h. Revise.) Ve.-mn. will hr : g order out of confusion and make tie n . i _• <v bin. I’r .f. M .unto: . • .. "Modern Reader-’ Bible,” ha- Jone a great service in this direction by arranging the prophets and poetical b-H>ks a- c rd.ng t > their literary form. The propliei, then, entreats 1-rael to return to Jehovah. He adds that they must make confession of their weakness and sin, and gives them the words which they tire to sp.-ak. There follows the confession. never spoken save in imagination, because Israel did not repent “Tht calves of our lip-.” that is, the sacrifices of our lips; prayers that are sincere substi tilt'd for sacrifices that were formal. "Asahur -hall not save us": Israel had of'en fooii-hly tru- > <1 to Assyria for aid rather than to the Lord: ami had always been deceived. Now, is this time of repentance which the prophet imagines, the people are to confess the impotence of Assyria, or of military assistance (“w< will not ride upon horses" i. They are also io give up the worship of idols ("the work of our hands"). Tlie Lord answers (verses 4-Gl. His free forgivene-s is the outpouring of the love that runs all through the reproaches of th.> prophecy. Seldom indeed in the Old Testament is the wrath of God represented a* unquenchable and inexorable. Almost everywhere it may be turned to forgiveness by repentance. “As the dew": dew is of vast importance in a dry country, where for months at a time no rain fall-. It is all that keeps vegetation alive and make- life endurable. It is therefore the symbol of refreshment. The lily, a wild flower not unlike our flag-, which grew in abundance on th., meadow - ami plains, fjebamm. with its splendid forests, was the symbol of vigor and beauty. "His beauty shall be as the olive tree;” the olive is not a stately or symmetrical tree, but has a beauty of its own in the dark, cool shade of its dense foliage and the attractiveness of its ripe fruit. The renunciation of idols is repeated for emphasis. This had been one of the great sins of Israel, which nothing could eradicate. Tlie Lord replies that lie has heard and noted the confession. Israel rejoices in its renewed vigor, like "a green fir tree.” The Lord responds, reminding Israel of the source of its strength. The conclusion of the whole matter is that righteousness only is safe: unrighteousness is peril. This is tlie foundation principle of Hebrew wisdom, ami lies at the bottom of the whole book of Froverbs. We find it here voiced by a prophet, show ing how the wise men and proverb makers contributed to the teaching of the pro pilots. These Iwo classes of the national leaders of both kingdoms, corresponding roughly to the philosophers and the preachers of to-day, worked along different lines, and their teaching emphasizes different truths, but they co-operated to a considerable extent in their effort to guide the people aright. Next Lesson—“ Daniel in Babylon.”— Dan. 1: 8-21. India's Married Girls. The latest Government census in India showed 6,01G,759 girls between five and nine years of age, who were already married, of whom 1 <O,OOO bad become widows.

| CLEVELAND STRIKE SETTLED, street Car Men and the Company Reach an Agreement. Cars are running on all the lines of the Big Consolidated Street Railroad Company in (’leveland. The big strike was settled Saturday night through the efforts *’* * ouncil peace eommittee after all hope of settlement seemed gone. i his eommittee drew up a set of articles of settlement which both sides readily signed, ami the trouble was over. Cars were started early Sunday morning. The agreement provides for the hearing of grievances and a resort to arbitration m ease the men ami the company cannot agree, and it also provides for tlie reinstatement of practically 80 per cent of the old men at once, the remainder, except those who have been guilty of violence, being placed on the waiting list. Only one outbreak attended the resumption of traffic. There was objection in some parts ot the city to the retention of the non-union men who were kept by the company. A party of twenty-five men assembled near the Brooklyn bridge, just south of the city, and whenever a car came along with a non-nnion crew tlie passengers were asked to disembark and wait for a car manned by a union crew. In most cases the passengers did as requested. Finally a non-union conductor undertook to argue with the crowd and lie was promptly struck over the head with n club, and he mid the niotorman driven away. The mob refused to permit the car to be moved mild a imion crew came along ami pushed it to the barns. A member of the company -ays tlie company expects most of the non-union til' ll to have now. The Strike lasted just thr<'e weeks. The men praetieally gain ed what they were after, tacit recognition of the union and arbitration of differences. BANK THIEF SOON CAUGHT. George Shea Carries His SIO,OOO of Plunder Only Fix Hours. George Shea, alias Philip Lmnbele, a resident of Chicago, is likely to serve many years' imprisonment in payment for one half day’s use of SIO,OOO. Shea went into the Metropolitan National Bank. Boston, at noon and got away undetected with slo.<m*o. He made for New York, where he was promptly arrested, a good description of the thief having been sent all over the Eastern State- within an hour after the robbery. He offered tlie officer making the arrest the whole SIO,OOO to set him free. All of the money was recovered. The story of the robbery, as told by the bank officials, is that a man came into the bank and made some inquiries as to where he couhi obtain a money order. He carried on his conversation with Clarence S. Delfendahl, the receiving teller, who wa- acting paying teller. The teller, after answering the man's questions, went on with his work ami paid no further attention to the stranger, meantime going to a telephone. While the official's back was turned toward him. Shea seized a roll of bills ami es -ai>ed. A stenographer saw him take the money ami gave the al.'iitn as he was going out, but it was too late to stop the till f. BIG STORM IN NEW ENGLAND. Rain, Hail an l Lightning Do Great Iminuige in Vicinity of Boston. Flie s rhe.'stern portion of New" England was the center of heavy electrical storms tlie other night, in which a eoml>inat;on of the co ntents wrought extensive damag. . h i:! destroying crops and breaking w imiow glass. rain causing wa-h"tits ■ n lines of suburban street railways ami electricity wrecking buildings and causing some loss of life. At Sandwich. Mass, an electric bolt k A’ ■ im L ■-. but did not injure his " :>• and ch 4. who w.ie in the same i'"' i. \t Fall River several structures w- ic so: -m fire, including the Glols' yarn mill, bn! the losses were not great. Lt Wareham, three men in a vehicle :<"'k refngo in a barn. The lightning demolished the structure, killing the horse and two men. Perry and Westgate, and injuring the third. New Bedford had a very so vert' experience, many-houses catching tire. A summer hotel at Dartmouth kept by Ben jamin Potter was burned and the guests lost aii their effects. RECRUITING GOES ON RAPIDLY. The Army Is Now Vp to the Maximum of (>5,001) Men. It is said by officials at the War Department interested in tlie recruiting movement that this work is progressing with phasing rapidity. Recruits have been received at the rate of 1.””” a week for three weeks. The army is now practically recruited up to its legal maximum of <15.000 men. but it is understood that the recruiting at the present rate will be kep: up for some time, or at least till the department receives further advices from Gen. Otis. DEIGNAN DECIDES TO RETIRE. Sailor of Merrimac Fame Not to Enter the Military Academy. I Oscar W. Deignan of Merrimac fame ■ has given up the idea of becoming a naval cadet. A bill was introduced in Congress authorizing the President to make him a miva! cadet, but it was amended, requir- > ing him to pass an examination the same i as tiny other <adet. He lias not the : means to go through a preparatory course . and has rejected offer- of support made by friends. SUN EXPLODES DYNAMITE. Missouri Zinc Miners Narrowly Escape Being Blown Up, A strange story of an explosion of dynamite by tlie sun comes from the Turkey ' Track zinc mines, near Aurora. Mo. The miners left half a dozen sticks of dyna- । mite in an open box not far from the shaft. Just before noon the rays of the ■ sun. becoming focused on the dynamite, caused its explosion. Some of the hoister men narrowly escaped. ot Current Kvents. Over 12,009 miner-. Monceau, France, struck for higher wages. Slight earthquake shock felt in San Francisco. No damage. Seven persons suffocated in a burning residence, Stetten. Germany. Rochester. N. Y.. street railway company increased wages 10 per cent. Jolin Sebree, wealthy lanier. Owen County. Ky., convicted of passing eoun terfeit money. Jeff Dunlop, 80. St. Bethlehem. Tenn., killed by a roek thrown by Stephen C. Meri weather, IS. Arrested. Military order of the Loyal Legion of the Fnited Stab's elected Rear Admiral W. S. Schley commander. Bennett Lukens, father of Albert Lukens. boy murderer. Cincinnati, died from grieving over his son's act. Chinese papers are howling over the action of the Italian minister in trying to grab a naval station in China. John C. AVood, Mount Sterling. Ky„ I has been renominated railroad commissioner for Kentucky, district 3. AVcsley Richard was arrested in London lor attempting to pass money stolen from Paris bank when £60,000 was taken.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Mystery in a Disappearance—A Boy Kills Two Men—Beer Causes a Murder- Y. M. C. A. Homes Are Projected —Sale of Light and Power. Most mysterious circumstances surround the disappearance of Henry S. Brown of Anderson, one of the best known and wealthiest men in that section. It is thought that he has killed himself. He left home the first of last week anfl later addressed a letter to the members of his family, stating that he had gone for good and that they would never see him again. Ho told them how all of hi* financial affairs stood, where his money was and that he had taken but $lO all that he would need. No trace has since been found as to his whereabouts. Brown is 03 years of age. His finances were in good condition and his family relations were pleasant. Boy Shoots Pawnbrokers. AA'iHie Brown, a 1 (’,-year-old boy. entered the pawnshop conducted by H. Horwitz at Marion ami asked to be shown a revolver. Jhe clerk, Max Cuuapop, waited mi him and filled the chambers with loaded shells. A dispute arose as to the payment of the purchase price, and the proprietor and clerk attempted to throw the boy out of the store, when he opened tire on them, shooting Cunopop twice through the stomach anil Horwitz once through the bowels. Uunopop is dead. The boy was taken to jail. Plan 1, M. C. A, Homes in Cities. At a State conference Anderson was selected as rhe place and Nov. 23 to 26 as the dates for the State Y. .Al. C. A. convention this year. There are many issues on which will make this the most impor* I taut annual State convention yet held. 1 lie movement to establish and build Y, M. ('. A. homes in all cities of 20,1)00 and over will be pushed through. AAedding Ends in a Tragedy. At Jonesboro a keg of beer given tc friends by the bridegroom resulted in ths killing of one of the wedding party. After drinking the beer James Terrell and Samuel A\ iley quarreled and AViley killed Terrell. AViley says that he killed Terrell iu self-defense. AViley was arrested. Light and Power Plant Sold. rhe Hartford City Light and Powei ( ompany has disposed of its business to H. M. Herbert of Cambridge City and R, Ellison of La Grange, who took imme diate possession. Within Our Borders. Robbers are making nightly raids ir rrinceton. Ed H evenridge, Ladoga, cigarettes golden gates. Leah Stanton, 2, Sweetser, drank gasoline and is dead. Mrs. Mattie Gorman, Centerville, sud' denly went insane. Edwin I’errell, farmer near Franklin, found dead in his barn. Logansport police will get more money for guarding the town. Mrs. I.ucretia AA. Denlingen, Morristown, found dead in bed. AA ashington letter carriers promotec from S6OO to SBSO a year. George Armstrong, 32, Newport, near ly sawed in two iu a sawmill. Charles AA’ilcox, Elkhart, caught a 23 pound pickerel in Baldwin lake. Evansville cops are arresting everybody that hasn't taken out vehicle license Swain Bros.’ sawmill. Rushville, is in ashes. Loss S2O.<MM), and forty men arc out of work. Rev. Alonzo Childs, 88, Franklin, sixty years in the ministry and an old circuit rider, is dead. Airs. R. E. Johnson, Hartford, founc a blue racer eoiled on the bed with het sleeping baby. No one hurt. Godman Brake Company, Anderson has been taken from a receiver’s hands by a new company, which paid all debts A\ illiam Eichele, 26. Evansville, wat drowned in Pigeon creek by a boat cap sizing. Three companions narrowly es caped. James Lytle, Strawtown, returned from the Valparaiso school, with what hac been diagnosed as chickenpox, but it has turned out to be smallpox. Charles Schultze, aged 50 years, a farm er, committed suicide at Valparaizo by taking half a pound of paris green, lit leaves a wife and six children. 11l health was the cause. The whole family of John Houk al Bruceville, consisting of eight persons, was poisoned by eating green beans that had been in a brass kettle. The prompt arrival of a doctor saved their lives. The Russell Harrison Street Railway and Electric Lighting Company’s property at Terre Haute has been sold at re- , ceiver's sale for a total of $56,000. The purchasers are representatives of Lee - . Higginson & Co. of Boston, who in turn represent Boston capitalists. Thomas AA'. AV right of St. Louis paid down $503,120 in cash for the Union steel mills in Anderson, which he purchased at receiver’s sale. He will at once turn them into the Republic Steel Company. The Standard Oil and other unseciired < reditors, who will not get a cent mi the settlement, began suits testing ihe validity and tlie priority of the secured claims. The extensive barn owned by Nathan Lawson, near Gaston, was burned the . other night. This makes the tenth building that has been mysteriously burned . and the farmers are greatly exercised, . believing that a gang of robbers are looting the buildings and then setting them on tire. The farmers will organize a vigilance eommittee and endeavor to run the gang to earth. Edward Fitzpatrick, 13 years and 7 months old. is the youngest graduate the Terre Haute high school has had. The Hartford City Natural Gas and i >i| Company has notified its patrons of a 50 per cent reduction iu the price of gas for domestic purposes. John Year’s elevator. Overman & Zimmerman’s store and the Odd Fellows’ Hall at Amboy burned. The loss is $6,0(H). On petition of the creditors of the AVayne Club, the most fashionable societyorganization of Fort AVayne, went into the hauds of Hugh Keegan as receiver. AVestminster Seminary, Fort AA’ayne, failed with $4,900 liabilities. Human skull found in the creek near Monmouth. The creek is being dredged for the body. Murder suspected. A gasoline stove explosion occurred at the New- Albany residence of Capt. AAQ J. Coleman, which was destroyed by fire' together with the dwelling and grocery of A’alentine Mix. Indianapolis has entered into a ten years’ contract with the Indianapolis Gag Company, which is to furnish gas at $1 per 1,000 cubic feet. AVhen the consumption shall exceed 300,000,000 cubic feet annually the price is to be 95 cents ami above 330,000,000 90 cents.