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T5he Bondmar
By HALL CAINE
CHAPTER III Continued
He was crushed but he was strong
of heart and would not despair So he
pushed on over this green plain
through a hundred thousand mossy
mounds that looked like the graves
of a world of dead men
But when he came out of it his case
seemed yet more forlorn for leaving
thosoft valley behind he had come
upon a lava stream a sea of stones
-not dust or cinders but a bleached
cake of lava rock with never a soft
place for the foot and never a green
spot for the eye Not a leaf to rustle
1n the breeze not a blade of grass to
whisper to it not a birds sweet voice
or the song of running water Noth
ing lived there but dead silence on
earth and in air Nothing but that
or in other hours the roar of wind
the rattle of rain and the crash of
thunder
All this time Jason had walked on
under the sweltering sun never rest
ing never pausing buoyed up with the
hope of water water for the fainting
man that he might not die But in
the desolation of that moment he
dropped Sunlocks from his shoulder
and threw himself down beside him
And sitting there with the head of
his unconscious comrade upon his
knees he put it himself to say what
had been the eood of all that he had
None and if it would not have been
letter for them both if he had sub
mitted to base tyranny and remained
at the Mines Had he not brought
this man out to his death What else
was before him in this waste wilder
ness where was there a drop of water
to cool his hot forehead or moisten
bis parched tongue And thinking
that his yoke fellow might die and
die at his hands and that he would
then be alone and the only mans
face gone from him that had ever
brightened life for him his heart be
gan to waver and to say Rise up
Jason rise up and go back
But just then he was conscious of
the click clack of horses hoofs on the
echoing face of the stony sea about
lim and he shaded his eyes and look
ed around and saw in the distance a
line of men on ponies coming on in
his direction And though he thought
of the guards that had been signalled
to pursue him he made no effort to
escape He did not stir or try to hide
himself but sat as before with tne
liead of his comrade on his knees
The men on the ponies came up and
passed him closely by without seeing
Tiim But he saw them clearly and
heard their talk They were not the
guardis ffrom the settlement but
Thing men bound for Thingvellir and
the meeting of Althing there And
while they were going on before him
in their laughter and high spirits Ja
son could scarce resist the impulse to
cry out to them to stop and take him
along with them as their prisoner
for that he was an outlaw who had
broken his outlawry and carried
away this fainting man at his knees
But before the words would form
themselves and while his blistering
lips were shaping to speak them a
great thought came to him and
struck him back to silence
Why had he torn away from the
Sulphur Mines Only from a gloomy
love of life life for his comrade and
life for himself And what life was
there in this trackless waste this
mouldering dumb wilderness None
none Nothing but death lay here
death in these gaunt solitudes death
in these dry deserts death amid these
ghastly haggard wrecks of human
things What chance could there be
of escape from Iceland None none
none
But there was one hope yet Who
were these men that had passed him
They were Thing men they were the
lawmakers WTherewere they going
They were going to the Mount of
Laws Why were they going there
To hold their meeting of Althing
What was Althing The highest pow
er of the State the Supreme Court of
legislature and law
What did all this mean It meant
that Jason as an Icelander knew the
laws of his country and that one great
law above all other laws he remem
bered at that instant It concerned
outlaws And what were they but
outlaws both of them It ordered
that the condemned could appeal at
Althing against the injustice of his
sentence If the ranks of the judges
opened for his escape then he was
saved
Jason leaped to his feet at the
thoueht of it That was what he
would do for his comrade and him
self He would push on to Thingvellir
It was five and thirty heavy miles
away but no matter for that The
angel of hope would walk with him
He would reach the Mount of Laws
- carrying his comrade all the way And
when he got there he would plead
the cause of both of them Then the
judges would rise and part and make
way for them and they would be free
men thereafter
Life life life There was left for
both of them and very sweet it seem
ed after the shadow of death that had
bo nearly encompassed them Only to
lire Only to live They were
young yet and loved one another as
brothers
And while thinking so in the whirl
of his senses as he strode to and fro
over the lava blocks Jason heard
what his ear had hitherto been too
beavy to catch the thin music of
falling water near at hand And look
ing up he saw a tiny rivulet like a
lock of silken hair dropping over a
round face of rock and thanking God
for it he ran to it and filled both
hands with it and brought it to Sun
locks and bathed his forehead with it
and his poor blinded eyes and moist
ened his withered lips whispering
meantime words of hope and simple
nothings such as any woman might
croon over her sick boy
Come boy come then come boy
come he whispered and clapped his
moist hands together over the placid
face to call it back to itself
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And while he did so sure enough
Sunlocks moved his lips parted his
cheeks quivered and he sighed And
seeing these signs of consciousness
Jason began to cry for the great rude
fellow who had not flinched before
death was touched at the sight of life
in that deep place where the strongest
man is as a child
But just then he heard once more
the sound of horses hoofs on the lava
ground and looking up he saw that
there was no error this time and that
the guards were surely coming Ten
or twelve of them there seemed to be
mounted on as many ponies and they
were driving on at a furious gallop
over the stones There was a dog
racing in front of them another dog
was running at their heels and with
the barking of the dogs the loud
whoops of the men to urge the ponies
along and to the clatter of the ponies
hoofs the plain rang and echoed
Jason saw that the guards were
coming on in their direction In three
minutes more they would be upon
them They were taking the line fol
lowed by the Thing men Would they
pass them by unseen as the Thing
men had passed them That was not
to be expected for they were there to
look for them What was to be done
Jason looked behind him Nothing
was there but an implacable wall of
stone rising sheer up into the sky
with never a bough or tussock of
grass to cling to that a man might
climb He looked around The ground
was covered with cracked domes like
the arches of buried cities but the
caverns that lay beneath them were
guarded by spiked jaws which only a
mans foot could slip through Not a
gap not a hole to creep into not a
stone to crouch under not a bush to
hide behind nothing in sight on any
side but the bare hard face of the
wide sea of stone
There was not a moment to lose
Jason lifted Sunlocks to his shoulder
and crept along bent nearly double
as silently and swiftly as he could go
And still behind him was the whoop
of the men the barking of the dogs
and the clatter of hoofs
On and on he went minute after
precious minute The ground became
heavier at every stride with huge
stones that tore his stockinged legs
and mangled his feet in his thin skin
shoes But he recked nothing of this
or rejoiced in it for the way was as
rought for the guards behind him and
he could hear that the horses had been
drawn up from their gallop to a slow
paced walk At each step he scoured
the bleak plain for shelter and at
length he saw among piles of vitreous
snags a hummock of great slabs
clashed together with one side rent
open It was like nothing else on
earth but a tomb in an old burial
ground where the vaults have fallen
in and wrecked the monuments aboVe
them Through the cankered lips of
this hummock into its gaping throat
Jason pushed the unconscious body of
Sunlocks and crept in after it And
lying there in the gloom he waited
for the guards to come on and as
they came he strained his ears to
catch the sound of the words that
passed between them
No no were on the right course
said one voice How hollow and far
away it sounded You saw his foot
marks on the moss that wes just
crossed over and youll seem them
again on the clay were coming to
Youre wrong said another voice
we saw one mans footsteps only and
we are following two
Dont I tell you the red man is
carrying the other
All these miles Impossible Any
how thats their course not this
Why so
Because theyre bound for Hafna
fiord
Why Hafnafiord
To take ship and clear away
Tut man theyve got bigger game
than that Theyre going to Reykja
vik
What To run into the lions
mouth
Yes and to draw his teeth too
What has the Captain always said
Why that the red man has all along
been spy for the fair one and we
know who he is Let him once set
foot in Reykjavik and hell do over
again what he did before
Crouching over Sunlocks in the
darkness of that grim vault Jason
heard these words as the guards rode
past him in the glare of the hot sun
and not until they were gone did he
draw his breath But just as he lay
back with a sigh of relief thinking
all danger over suddenly he heard a
sound that startled him It was the
sniffling of a dog outside his hiding
place and at the next moment two
glittering eyes looked in upon him
from the gap whereby he had entered
The dog growled and Jason tried to
pacify it It barked and then Jason
laid hold of it and gripped it about
the throat to silence it It fumed and
fought but Jason held it like a vice
until there came a whistle and a call
and then it struggled afresh
Erik shouted a voice without
Erik Erik and then whistle fol
lowed whistle
Thinking the creature would now
follow its master Jason was for re
leasing it but before he had yet fully
done so the dog growled and barked
again
Erik Erik shouted the voice
outside and from the click clack of
hoofs Jason judged that one of the
men was returning
Then Jason saw that there was
nothing left to him but to quiet the
dog or it would betray them to their
death so while the brute writhed in
his great hands struggling to tear the
flesh from them he laid hold of its
jaws and rived them apart and broke
them In a moment more the dog
was dead
In the silence that followed a faint
voice came from the distance crying
Sigurd Siguard why are you wait
ing
And then another voice shouted j
back from near at hand very near so
near as to seem to be on top 01 -hummock
Ive lost my dog and i
could swear I heard him growling
somewhere hereabouts not a minute
sines
Jason was holding his breath again
when suddenly a deep sigh came from
Sunlocks then another and another
and then some rambling words that
had no meaning but made a dull hum
in that hollow place The man out
side must have heard something for
he called his dog again
At that Jasons heart fell low and
all he could do he did he reached
over the stretched form of his com
rade and put his lips to the lips of
Sunlocks just that he might smother
their deadly babble with noiseless
kisses
This must have served for when the
voice that was far away shouted again
Sigurd Sigurd the voice that was
near at hand answered Coming
And a moment later Jason heard the
sounds of hoofs going off from him
as before
Then Michael Sunlocks awoke to
full consciousness and realized his
state and what had befallen him and
where he was and who was with him
At first he was overwhelmed by a
tempest of agony at feeling that he
was a lost and forlorn man blind and
maimerd at it seemed at that time
for all the rest of his life to come
After that he cried for water saying
that his throat was baked and his
tongue cracked and Jason replied
that all the water they had found that
day they had been forced to leave be
hind them where they could never re
turn to it Then he poured out a tor
rent of hot reproaches calling on
Jason to say why he had been brought
out there to go mad of thirst and
Jason listened to all and made no
answer but stood with bent head and
quivering lips and great tear drops on
his rugged cheeks
The spasm of agony and anger soon
passed as Jason knew it must and
then full of remorse Sunlocks saw
everything in a new light
What time of day is it he asked
Evening said Jason
How many hours since we left Kri
suvik
Ten
How many miles from there
Twenty
Have you carried me all the way
Yes
There was a moments pause then an
audible sob and then Sunlocks felt for
Jasons hand and drew it down to his
lips That kiss was more than Jason
could bear though he bore the hot
words well enough so he made a brave
show of unconcern and rattled on with
hopeful talk saying where they were
to go and what he was to do for both
of them and how they would be free
men to morrow
And as he talked of the great task
that was before them his heart grew
strong again and Sunlocks caught the
contagion of his spfrit and cried Yes
yes let us set off I can walk alone
now Come let us go
At that Jason drew Sunlocks out of
the hummock and helped him to his
feet
You are weak still he said Let
me carry you again
No no I am strong Give me your
hand Thats enough said Sunlocks
To be continued
Economical Royal Gifts
Queen Vic favorite form of
gift was an Indian shawl Thousands
of these articles of attire were present j
ed by her in the course of her Ion
reign King Edward is exhibiting
partiality for distributing etchings an
engravings among his friends Hi
majesty who while Prince of Walesj
was an Industrious collector of black
and white drawings found himself
the possessor of thousands of
duplicate copies of published works of
art upon succeeding to his mothers
unique collection He has therefori
set apart a big store of drawings t6
be turned to whenever he desires to
make a personal gift When one con
siders that apart from frequent lib
eral purchases of works of art both
Queen Victoria and King Edward ac
cepted copies of the majority of no
table etchings and engravings pub
lished in the last quarter of a century
and more the magnitude of his maj
estys present collection can be imag
ined His friends are naturally grati
fied that he has decided to weed it out
for their benefit Leeds Mercury
Violets on Italian Rlverla
The crop of violets on the Italian
Riviera has been ruined owing to the
bad season The growers have all suf
fered heavy losses and the Russian
General Gorloff has sent 150000 francs
to the Russian consul at San Remo
to be distributed among the poorest of
the peasant growers in order that they
may not be discouraged by this sea
sons failure and to help them toward
a better crop next year
Kinship Among Plants
A cross between a headless cabbage
and the turnip produced the rape
plant Cabbages and turnips them
selves are relatives the lettuce plant
also claims near kin to them and far
back in plant life grew a parent plant
with some of the characteristics that
each now claims as its own from
which all three and many another
plant also descended
Never Rode on a Railway
Mrs S P Mitchell the oldest resi
dent of Fayette Mo now in her 100th
year has never ridden on a railway
When the first train passed through
Fayette she went down to look at it
She vowed that she would never ride
in one of them wagons for anything
in the world and she has kept her
word
Elements In Star Perseus
The observations concerning the new
star in Perseus show that the star con
tains such substances
as hydrogen so
dium helium calcium magnesium and
coronium The shifting of the spectral
lines shows that the
new star is mov
ing away from the earth at a low ve
locity
J
DAMAGES SERMON
THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN
THE SUBJECT
to These Are Farts of the Ways
Bat How Little a Portion Is Heard
of Him Job xxvi 14 Workings of
Divine Power
Copyright 1901 by Louis Klopsch N T
Washington June 16 In this dis
course Dr Talmage raises high expec
tations of the day when that which
is now only dimly seen will be fully re
vealed text Job xxvi 14 Lo these
are parts of his ways But how little
a portion is heard of him But the
thunder of his power who can under
stand
The least understood biing in the
iniverse is God Blasphemous would be
any attempt by painting or sculpture
to represent him Egyptian hiero
glyphs tried to suggest him by putting
the figure of an eye upon a sword im
plying that God sees and rules but
how imperfect the suggestion When
we speak of him it is almost always
in language figurative He is Light
or Dayspring From on High or he
is a High Tower or the Fountain of
Living Waters His splendor is so
great that no man can see him and
live When the group of great theo
logians assembled in Westminster ab
bey for the purpose of making a sys
tem of religious belief they first of
all wanted an answer to the question
Kho is God No one desired to un
dertake the answering of that over
mastering question They finally con
cluded to give the task to the youngest
man in the assembly who happened to
be Rev George Gillespie He con
sented to undertake it on the condi
tion that they would first unite with
him in prayer for divine direction He
began his prayer by saying O God
thou art a spirit infinite infinite eter
nal and unchangeable in thy being
wisdom power holiness justice good
ness and truth That first sentence
qf Gillespies prayer was unanimously
adopted by the assembly as the best
definition of God But after all it
vas only a partial success and after
everything that language can do when
put to the utmost strain and all we
can see of God in the natural world
and realize of God in the providential
world we are forced to cry out with
Jobin my text Lo these are parts
of tie ways But how little a portion
is hoard of him But the thunder of
his power who can understand
Gods Way of Doing
Wej try to satisfy ourselves with say
ing rlt is natural law that controls
things gravitation is at work centri
petal and centrifugal forces respond to
each other But what is natural law
It is only Gods way of doing things
At every point in the universe it is
Gods jdirect and continuous power that
contrqls and harmonizes and sustains
Thatpower withdrawn one instant
would make the planetary system and
ail the worlds which astronomy re
veals one universal wreck bereft hem
ispheres dismantled sunsets dead con
stellations debris of worlds What
power it must be that keeps the in
ternal fires of our world imprisoned
only here and there spurting from a
Cotopaxi or a Stromboli or from a
Vesuvius putting Pompeii and Hercu
laneum into sepulcher but for the
most part the internal fires chained in
their cages of rock and century after
century unable to break the chain or
burst open the door What power to
keep the component parts of the air in
right proportion so that all around the
world the nations may breathe in
health the frosts and the heats hin
dered from working universal demoli
tion Power as Isaiah says to take
up the isles as a very little thing
Ceylon and Borneo and Hawaii as
though they were pebbles power to
weigh the mountains in scales and
the -hills in balances Tenerife and
the Cordilleras To move a rock we
must have lever and screw and great1
machinery but God moves the world
with nothing but a word power to
create worlds and power to destroy
them as from observation again and
again they have been seen red with
flame then pale villi ashes and then
scattered
Workings the Divine Power
We get some little idea of the divine
power when we see how it buries the
proudest cities and nations Ancient
Memphis it has ground up tntil many
of its ruins are no larger than your
thumb nail and you can hardly find
a souvenir large enough to remind you
of your visit The city of Tyre is
under the sea which washes the shore
on which are only a few crumbling
miliars left Sodom and Gormorrah are
covered by waters so deathful that not
a fish can live in them Babylon and
Ninevah are so blotted out of exist
ence that not one uninjured shaft of
their ancient splendor remains Noth
ing but omnipotence could have put
them down and put them under The
antediluvian world was able to send
to the postdiluvian world only one ship
with a very small passenger list Om
nipotence first rolled the seas over
the land and then told them to go
back to their usual channels as rivers
and lakes and oceans At omnipotent
command the waters pouncing upon
their prey and at omnipotent com
mand slinking back into their appro
priate places By such rehearsal we try
to arouse our appreciation of what om
nipotence is and our reverence is ex
cited and our adoration is intensified
but after all we find ourselves at the
foot of a mountain we cannot climb
hovering over a depth we cannot fa
thom at the rim of a circumference
we cannot compass and we feel like
first going down on our knees and then
like falling flat upon our faces as we
exclaim Lo these are parts of his
ways But how little a portion is
heard of him But the thunder of his
power who can understand
V
The God of Abraham
A tradition says that Abraham of
the Old Testament was when an Infant
hidden in a cave because of the perse
cutions of Nimrod The first time the
child came out of the cavern it was
night and he looked up at the star
and cried This is my God but the
star disappeared and Abraham said
No that cannot be my God After
awhile the moon rose and Abraham
said That is my God but it set and
Abraham was again disappointed Af
ter awhile the sun rose and he said
Why truly here is my God but the
sun went down and Abraham was sad
dened Not until the God of the Bible
appeared to Abraham was he satisfied
and his faith was so great that he was
called the Father of the Faithful
All that the theologians know of Gods
wisdom is insignificant compared with
the wisdom beyond human comprehen
sion The human race never has had
and never will have enough brain or
heart to measure the wisdom of God
I can think of only two authors who
have expressed the exact facts The
one was Paul who says Oh the depth
of the riches both of the wisdom and
knowledge of God how unsearchable
are his judgments and his ways past
finding out The other author was
the scientist who composed my text
I think he wrote it during a thunder
storm for the chapter says much about
the clouds and describes the tremor
of the earth under the reverberations
Witty writers sometimes depreciate the
thunder and say it i3 the lightning
that strikes but I am sure God thinks
well of the thunder or he would not
make so much of it and all up and
down the Bible he uses the thunder
to give emphasis It was the thunder
that shook Sinai when the law was
given It was Ith thunder that the
Lord discomfited the Philistines at
Eben ezer Job pictures the warhorse
as having a neck clothed with thunder
St John in an apocalyptic vision
again and again heard the thunder
The thjunder which is now quite well
explained by the electricians was the
overpowering mystery of the ancients
and standing among those mysteries
Job exclaimed Lo these are parts
of his ways But how little a portion
is heard of him But the thunder of
his power who can understand
The Omnlpresonce of God
We have all been painfully reminded
in our own experiences that we can
not be in two places at the same time
Madler the astronomer went on with
his explorations until he concluded
that the star Alcyone one of the
Pleiades was the center of the uni
verse and it was a fixed world and
all the other worlds revolved around
that world and some think that that
world is heaven and Gods throne is
there and there reside the nations of
the blest But he is no more there
than he is here Indeed Alcyone has
been found to be in motion and it also
is revolving around some great center
But no place has yet been found where
God is not present by sustaining
power Omnipresence Who fully
appreciates it Not I Not you
Sometimes we hear him in a whisper
Sometimes we hear him in the voice
of the storm that jars the Adriondacks
But we cannot swim across this ocean
The finite cannot measure the infinite
We feel as Job did after finding God
in the gold mines and the silver mines
of Asia saying There is a vein for
the silver and a place for the gold
where they fine it And after ex
ploring the heavens as an astromoner
and finding God in distant worlds and
becoming acquainted with Orion and
Mazzaroth and Arcturus and noticing
the tides of the sea the inspired poet
expresses his incapacity to understand
such evidences of wisdom and power
and says Lo these are parts of his
ways But how little a portion is
heard of him But the thunder of his
power who can understand
So every system of theology has at
tempted to describe and define the di
vine attribute of love Easy enough
is it to define fatherly love motherly
love conjugal love fraternal love sis
terly love and love of country but the
love of God defies all vocabulary For
many hundreds of years poets have
tried to sing it and painters have tried
to sketch it and ministers of the gospel
to preach it and martyrs in the fire and
Christians on their deathbeds have ex
tolled it and we can tell what it is
like but no one has yet fully told what
it is Men speak of the love of God
as though it were first felt between
the pointing of Bethlehem star and the
pounding of the crucifixion hammer
But no Long before that existed the
love of God
Seeing God Face to Pace
Only glimpses of God have we in
this world but what an hour it will
be when we first see him and we will
have no more fright than I feel when
I now see you It will not be with
mortal eye that we will behold him
but with the vision of a cleansed for
given and perfected spirit Of all the
quintillion ages of eternity to us the
most thrilling hour will be the first
hour when we meet him as he is
This may account for something you
have all seen and may not have under
stood Have you not noticed how that
after death of the old Christian looks
young again or the features resume the
look of 20 or 30 years before The
weariness is gone out of the face there
is something strikingly restful and
placid there is a pleased look where
before there was a disturbed look
What has wrought the change I
think the dying Christian saw God
At the moment the soul left the body
what the soul saw left its impression
on the countenance I think that is
What gave that old Christian face after
death the radiant and triumphant look
The bestormed spirit has reached the
harbor the hard battle of life is ended
in victory The body took that look
the moment heaven began and the
curtain was completely lifted and the
glories of Jehovahs presence rushed
upon the soul The departing spirit
left on the old mans face a glad good-
ISse
by and that first look gave the pleased
curve to the dying Up and smootned
out the wrinkles and touched all the
lineaments with an indescribable radi
ance As no one else explains that im
proved and gladdened post mortem
look I try to explain it saying Ho
saw God She saw God
Keeping Plowers Fresh
Cut flowers though universally em
ployed are seldom treated a3 they
ought to be so here are a few hints
for those who like to keep their blos
soms fresh as long as possible
First of all they should be put into
some large receptacle and sprinkled
freely with water all over Only after
thi3 preliminary operation it Is wise to
transfer them to the several pots they
are to occupy They ought to be taken
out every morning sprinkled as on
the first day the tip of the stem then
f being cut off and fresh water flow
ing from a tap should be allowed to
run over the stalk3 holding the flow
ers head downward says the Philadel
phia Press
Finally and herein lies the principal
secret of success the water in the
vases may be doctored in this man
ner Mix thoroughly together a table
spoonful of finely shredded yellow
soap enough chloride of sodium to
cover a florin and half a pint of water
Put in a portion of this mixture into
every receptacle and fill in the usual
way
A pinch of borax in each one will
preserve all the coloring of the most
brilliant flowers and by renewing the
supply of the above solution every two
or three days the flowers will last for
a couple of weeks or more Palms and
all foliage plants must be carefully
but moderately watered washed put
outside daily for a bath of air and sun
shine and must not be stood in
draughty places
Electricity at ions Range
The street cars in Oakland Cal are
now operated with electricity from the
Yuba river 140 miles distant The wa
ter power having been converted into
electricity is carried on wires six
tenths of an inch in diameter made
of an alloy of copper and aluminum
The electrical pressure is 40000 volts
and the loss in transmission is said
to 5 per cent This Is by far the long
est electrical transmission system for
power purposes in existence and if the
loss is as small as it is stated to be
it is the most promising indication of
the possibilities of long distance trans
mission yet furnished Something
like six years ago says the Railway
Engineering Review a test of elec
tric transmission over a line between
Frankfort and Lauffen in Germany
a distance of 110 miles was made for
experimental purposes but not until
the test of the plant above referred to
has transmission for commercial pur
poses over a line of such great length
been a fact
Catting Down the Army
The initial step has been taken by
the War department toward the reduc
tion of the force of regulars in the
Philippines to 40000 Orders were ca
bled General MacArthur to send to the
United States the Fourteenth Eigh
teenth and Twenty third regiments of
infantry Fourth cavalry Twenty
ninth Thirtieth Thirty second and
Thirty third companies of coa3t artil
lery and the First Eighth Tenth
Twelfth and Thirteenth batteries of
field artillery The homeward move
ment of these troops can not be begun
until after the volunteers have been re
turned At present it is believed that
40000 men will be enough for the Phil
ippines The manner in which the
troops shall be distributed among the
different arms of the service is as fol
lows Cavalry 15840 men artillery
coast and field 18802 and 38529 in
fantrymen The total enlisted strength
will be 74504 men The army includ
ing officers will aggregate about 80000
FIto Talents
The last man to go for a helping
hand for any new undertaking is the
man who has plenty of time on his
hands It is the man and woman who
are doing most who are always willing
to do a little more
The people who are tired of life are
not those who work but those who
are too proud or too lazy to do so
Many of the rich are morbidly rest
less while those who have to earn
their daily bread are comparatively
contented and happy The Bible says
that the sleep of a laboring man is
sweet whether he eat little or much
Eccl v 12 and the busy worker ha3
health and blessing which the listless
idler never knows Selected
Topers Children Are Weak
Not infrequently the children of
topers die of hereditary weakness not
only showing a pronounced tendency
toward diseases of the brain epilepsy
and idiocy but they are also frequent
ly subject to vicious inclinations and
criminal tendencies They lack per
ception for that which is moral and
which contributes to a steady well
ordered career Weighted with the
burden of hereditary mental weakness
they not unfrequently take to tramp
ing fall into crime or become the vic
tims of drunkenness or Insanity The
tendency to drink degenerates not only
the existing race but also the coming
generation
Individual Responsibility
Francis E Clark says Many re
vivals can be traced so far as human
agency goes directly to the prayer of
some individual Christian sometimes
to the prayer of a helpless invalid who
could never attend a prayer meeting
What God has done God will do if we
are ready for Him to work through
us
The first American theater was op
ened in 1750 in the city of New York
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