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I U M V.n.JV7l m 111 — IV/Ufl i iwwaw t •"Truly," replied the Doctor with a sbruf, "you have your finger on the fellah. Jle will be strikingly antipa thetic to my beautiful Anastasle. She Will asver understand him; he will •ever understand her. You married the Animal side of my nature, dear; and It Vl pu the spiritual side that 1 find tny affinity in Jean-Marie. So much ho, that, to he perfectly frank, I stand in some awe of him myself. You will easily perceive that I am announcing a calamity for you. Do not.” he broke eut in tones of real solicitude 'do not Itva way to tears after a meal. Anas- j tasle. You will certainly give yourself a false digestion." Anastasle controlled herself. "You know how willing 1 am to humor you,” she said, “In all reasonable matters. But on this point.—” "My dear love,” Interrupted the Doc tor, eager to prevent a refusal, "who wished to leave Paris? who made me 0ve up cards, and the opera, and the boulevard, and my social relations, and •II that was my life before I knew you? Have I been faithful? Have I been Obedient? Have I not borne my doom With cheerfulness? In all honesty, Anastasle, have 1 not. a right to a stipu lation on my side? I have, and you know it. 1 stipulate my son.” f Anastasle was aware of defeat! she •truck her colors Instantly. "You will break my heart," she sighed. "Not in the least,” said he. “You Will feel a trilling inconvenience for a Sooth Ju st as f did when I was first | band to keep a menagerie in the back garden, let alone adopting a stable boy, rather than permit the question ol return to bo discussed. ^ , CHAPTER IV. UOL'T four of the afternoon, the mountebank ren dered up his ghost; he had never been conscious since his seizure. Doctor Desprez wns pres ent ut his last pas sage, and declared the farce over. Then he took Jean Marie by the shoulder and led him out Into the inn garden where there was a convenient hem h beside the river. Here he sat him down and made the boy plaee himself on his left. •Mean-Marie," he said, very gravely, “this world Is exceedingly vast; and even France, which Is only a small corner of It, Is a great place for a little lad like you. Unfortunately It Is full of eager, shouldering people mov ing on; and there are very few bakers’ shops for so many eaters. Vour master Is dead; you are not fit to gain a living by yourself; you do not wish to steal? No. Tour situation then is undesir able; It Is, for the moment, critical. On the other hand, you behold In me a man not old, though elderly, still en joying the youth of the heart and the Intelligence; a man of instruction; easily situated In this world's affairs; beside Gretz. 1 should lie under a water-lily and listen to the bells, which must sound most delicately down be ldw. That would be a life—do you not think so, too?” "Yes," said Jean-Marie. "Thank God, you have imagination!'' cried the Doctor, embracing the boy with uts usual effusive warmth, though it was a proceeding that seemed to dia concert the sufferer almost as much as it he had been an English schoolboy of the same age. "And now,” he added, "I will lake you to my wife.” The Doctor went through a solemn form of Introduction, adding, for the benefit of both parties. “You must try to like each other for my sake.” "He l« very pretty,” said Anastasle. "Will j»»u kiss me, my pretty llttlo fellow?” The Doctor was furious, and dragged her Into the passage. "Are you a fool, Anastasle?” he said. "What Is all this I hear about the tact of women? Heaven knows, I have not met with It In toy experience. You address my little philosopher as If he were an in fant. He must be spoken to with more respect, l tell you; he must not be kissed and Georgy-porgy’d like an or dinary child.” "I only did it to please you, I am sure,” replied Anastasle; “but I will try to do better.” The Doctor apologized tor his warmth. "But I do wish him,” he con tinued, "to feel at home among us. And really your conduct was so Idiotic, my cherished one, and so utterly and distantly out. of place, that a saint might have been pardoned a little ve hemence In disapproval. Do, do try -If It is possible for u woman to under stand young people -but of course It Is not, and I waste my breath, Hold your tongue as much as possible at least, and observe my conduct nar rowly; It will serve you for a model." Anastasle did as she was bidden, and considered the Doctor's behavior. She observed' that he embraced the boy three times In the course of the even ing, and managed generally to con found and abash the little fellow out of speech and appetite. But she had the u' **4**. * ** TOOK HIM IN HER ARMS. , ‘ " I I brought to this rile hamlet; then your admirable ecuee and temper will pre vail, and 1 »ee you already a* content a* ever, and making your huebaud the kappleat of men." "You know 11aii refute you nothin*.’ ate aald, with a U»t Alcher of rcelat Mce. "I think not," replied the laictor. 'But d<> not t.ippone me ao unwary a. to adopt him out of hand I am. I Hatter myvelf, a llniahed man of tha world; I have had all paaamilltlea la view, mr plan la contrived to meet them all ! tag* the lad aa viable boy. If he pilfer, grumble. If he deeirv to ehaage I ■hail .ee I vu mtawken I ,y.i »«. oyiuic him lor a« ion of mlaa. and ie*d aim tramping ’ wilt nev«r famiben th«* ilm« HMHva" Mid hla n.fat "1 know your tend heart £h* lea. bed out her hand i* ’ m with a via a th* Ik- tor MUM aa h* tnsa it and carried it in hi» Itpa he \itl gained hi. poiht with g »ai.r « »»* Ik.ia he had H«e.' ‘u hope l-r per * ’•* tTtto’lelh lime he had proved ’ {fr.iioiev nf hla IMatf argument, ha M alibur the hint nf a Wurn te para fit in*mth» in the capital. fur a *Mb of the do NT aateiedeMa and psMtiona isipitad w» »ta. a esMftttH than total rum Aaaviaaae had eavad (ha rwmaladvr >1 Ma f» rl«aa hr a* *#*• HdMh ahh»ti# «h Um vunwk. Th* "*»y •game «f l*a»a put her th a blue fear, keeping a good table—« man. neither ag friend nor holt, to be degplned. 1 offer you your food and rMheg, and to teaih you le»kou« in the evening, which will be infinitely more to the purpose I for a lad of your ktaaup than thoe* of all the prlektk in Kurop< 1 propose no wage*, but if ever you take a thought to leave me. the d»or khall be open, and I all) give you a hundred true* to tiart the world upon. In return I hnve an old horee and thaiae, whlrb you would eery ipeedtly learn to clean and beep tn order Ik, not hurry yottmelf to autwer, and lahe It or leave It ae you Judge aright only remember thia. that I ana no »*uum. nuim Ur aber llahle p* rktan, but a mala who Uvea ri»«rouai> t»» and that if l gaahe ta. proposal. at i« fur nay own augfe- It la he<aua« 1 porewfve < l««rly an advantage to myeeit And now, re heat.'* t | aha.I ta very glad I do nut eea what rb* > • an da I thanh yvut, ear, l gaoet htndly, and I will try u> n* a». j tut ' enid the hay 'Thanh you, an Id the I*•>of warm Ur, naanm*1 the name tun* and wiping hie h«aw, for he had >oier*d i|g|i>a while the thing bung in the wind, a retueei. after the e»ene at h<m>w whiola I have tutee—f fun* tn a lid* ou»a light , before Anaataaie How hot and nggvy la the evening to he ealt' I h*<* el way* had a »»h« y te b* a hah In aoi« I atvi. Jean Marie, here a the ln»tb| true womanly heroism tn lltt!•- affairs Not only illtl she refrain from th< cheap revenge of exposing the Itrv.tor'i errors to himself, Iwit she did her bes to remove tbelr 111-effect on Jean-Mu r»e. When Itespres went out for hi lust breath of air before retiring fu the night she came over to the boy' side and took hts hand lie held up his fare, and <-he tool him In her arms and then twgan n cry. The woniau had spoken In com llatsaa<e; but she had warmed to h» ' own eorda, ami Itudeyntwe followed , Ike laietor, enlerlug, found them en laced; he concluded that hie wife »a in fault, end be wee Just beginning. Ii so awful voice, * An set sale whe she looked up at him arnlllng with a ) upraised Hager and he held lite (» m« a node i tag while she led tbe boy t I bta attic ISO MxtOlt.'IVI --—. t'otefidgv, the poet, was ea sahwsr hoiseMao. Ouse tiding slung 'he turn pthe toad in the coun<> uf i> ,<haM b I was a* coated by a man who ugd two • suiting the rider *1 say, yean Mali, did tea mv*i a tetter on th rot l“T*s." rvpac-d ia» ye 1, sk<« Middle name aaa Taylor, ‘I 414 an he laid m« tf I went « imte farther ■ shaald meet a feuee The tMtiURi *m* originally th rtesier Mstvhvrs er ibhahttaate ef Ik t Isastvtg Kmptre TALM AGE’S SERMON. A BAG WITH HOLES-LAST SUNDAY’S SUBJECT. From the Test llaggal 1:8 n* Follow*: He That Kurna-th Wage*. Kamel h Wage* to l’lit It Into a Hag With Hole*. N PERSIA, under the reign of Darius Hystaspes, the peo .ple did not prosper. They made money, but did not keep It. They were like people who have a sack in which to put money, not knowing thut the sack is torn or eaten of moths, or In some way mud< Incapable of holding valuables. As fast as the coin was put In one end of the sack It dropped out of the oth er. It made ro difference how much wages they got, for they lost them. "He thut earneth wages, earneth wages to put Into a bag with holes." What has become of the billions and billions of dollars In this country paid to the working classes? Some of these moneys have gone for house rent, or the purchase of homesteads, or wardrobe, or family expenses, or the necessities of life, or to provide com forts In old age. What has become of other billions? Wasted In foolish out lay. Wasted at the gaming table. Wasted In intoxicants. Put Into a bag with a hundred holes. Gather up the money that the work ing classes have spent for drink dur ing the last thirty years and 1 will build for every working man a house, . . . a Li ~ .... r.lun fill uiMi i ay uui iwi **»»»» » n. • clothe his sons In broadcloth and Ills daughters In silk, and place at bis front door a prancing span of sorrels or bays, and secure him a policy of Itfe insurance, so that the present borne may be well maintained after he Is dead. The most persistent, most over powering enemy of the working classes is Intoxicating liquor. It Is the anar chist of the centuries, and has boy cotted, and Is now boycotting, the body and mind and soul of American labor. It Is to It a worse foe than monopoly and worse than associated capital. It annually swindles Industry out of a large percentage of Its earnings. It holds out Its blasting solicitations to the mechanic or operative on his way to work, and at the noon spell, and on his way home at eventide; on Satur day, when the wages are paid, It snatches a large part of the money that might come Into the family, and sacrifices It among the saloonkeepers. Stand the saloons of this country side by side, and It Is carefully estimated that they would reach from New York to Chicago. "Forward, march," says the drink power, "and take possession of the American nation!" The drink business is pouring Its vitriolic aud damnable liquids down the threats of hundreds of thousands of laborers, ar.d while the ordinary strikes are ruinous both to employers and employes, I proclaim a strike uni versal against strong drink, which, If kept up. will be the relief of the work ing classes and the salvation of the nation. I will undertake to say that there is not a healthy laborer in the United States who, within the next ten years. It he will refuse all intox icating beverage aud be saving, may not become a capitalist on a small scale. Our country iu a year spends one billion five hundred million and fifty thousand dollars for drink. 01 course the woiklng classes do a great deal of this expenditure. Careful sta tistics show that the wage-earning classes of Oieat Hrltaln expend In t liquors one hundred million pounds, ot five hundred million dollars a year Sit down and calculate, O working man! how much you have expended in these directions. Add It all up Add up what your neighbors have ex pended, and realize that instead of an swering the beck of other people yoi might have been your own capitalist When you deplete a working man't physical energy you deplete his capi tal. The stimulated workman give: out before the unstimulated workman My father said: "1 became a temper ante man In early life, because I no Uced in the harvest field that, thougl I was physically weaker than othe workmen, I could bold out longer that they. They took stimulants. I tool none.” A brtekmaker in England give his experience in regard to this matte among men In his employ. He *ay« after Investigation; "The beer-drlnke 1 who made the fewest bricks made si; hundred and fifty-nine thousand, an the abstainer who made the fewre bricks seven hundred and forty-si 1 thousand. The difference In behalf u the abaUiuer ovsr the indulger. eighty seven thousand " 1 When an army goes out to the hat tie the soldier who has water or toff* tn his canteen marches easier and fight ' better than 'he soldier who baa wbts 1 ky in hta cantaen Drlak fcelpe g ma ' to fight when he has only on# run ' textual, sad 'hat at the street cornet |tut when h* go** forth to matatat " •« tt»* gff&t 1**111** fuf All#l ll ftuiulfi, A* imi itfiKl nAfttl Am I Mh Avn a%> in w*ir * etif I Ut hit* #H»#i M (mil ««| tun tl (Mf | A-«> » « ' A \ t g I,1 -f i. ■ % * *• f tfe* >• t«lM l it t* lil 4 WAV* Mv <4(kM •* S ) « *lf *1*4 u AlNUf l Aii ;i • -; :\ *1 :r, If] . | | • .c . I . . . . I , ! man put down his wages and then take j j his expenses and spread them out so I they will just equal, he is not wise. I know working men who are in a per fect fidget until they get rid of their last dollar. The following circumstances came under our observation: A young man worked hard to earn his six or seven hundred dollars yearly. Marriage day came. The bride had Inherited five hundred dollars from her grandfather. She spent every dollar of it on the wedding dress. Then they rented two rooms In the third story. Then the young man took extra evening em ployment. It almost extinguished his eyesight. Why did hp add evening em ployment to the day employment? To get money. Why did he want to get money? To lay up something for a I rainy day? No, To get bis life In i siired, so that In rase of his death his 1 wife would not be a beggar? No. He put the extra evening work to the day ! work that he might get a hundred and fifty dollars to get his wife a sealskin I coat. The sister of the bride heard of this achievement, and was not to be eclipsed. She was very poor, and she sat up working nearly all the night for a gnat while until she bought a sealskin coat. I have not heard of the result on that street. The street was full of those who are on small incomes, hut I suppose the contagion spread, .and that everybody had a sealskin coat, and that the people came out and cried, practically, not literally: "Though the heavens fall, we must have a sealskin <oat!” I was out west, and a minister of the Gospel told me, In Iowa, that, his church and neighborhood had been Im poverished by the fact, that they put mortgages on their farms In order to send their families to the Philadelphia Centennial. It was not respectable not 111/ iiir « ' iiirnutai. uomvvu n»«> •• evils and pauperism there Is a very short step. The vast, majority of chil dren in your alms houses are there be cause their parents are drunken, lazy, or recklessly Improvident. 1 have no sympathy for skinflint saving, but I plead for Christian pru dence. You say II Is Impossible now to lay up anything for a rainy day. I know It, but we are at the daybreak of national prosperity. Some people think It is mean to turn the gas low when they go out of the parlor. They feel embarrassed if the door bell rings before they have the hall lighted. They apologize for the plain meal, if you surprise them at the table. Well, It Is mean if It is only to pile up a miserly hoard. Hut if it be to edu cate your children, If it be to give more help to your wife when she does not fpel strong, if it be to keep your funer al day from being horrible beyond all endurance, because It Is to be the dis ruption and unhihllatlon of the do mestic circle--if it be for that, then it Is magnificent. * * * Cod only knows what the drunkard suffers. Fain files on every nerve, and travels every muscle, and gnaws ev ery bone, and burns with every dame, and stings with every poison, and pulls at him with every torture. What rep tiles crawl over his sleeping limbs! What fiends stand by his midnight pil low! What groans tear his ear! What honors shiver through his soul! Talk of the rack, talk of the Inquisition, talk of the funeral pyre, talk of the crushing Juggernaut he feels them all at once. Have you ever been in the ward of the hospital where these in ebriates are dying, the stench of their wounds driving hack the attendants, their voices sounding through the night? The keeper comes up and says, "Hush, now he still! Stop making all this noise!” Hut it is effectual only 1 for a moment, for as soon as the keep er is gone they begin again. *‘0 God! 0 God! Help! Help! Drink! Give me drink! Help! Take them off me! Take them off me! O God!” And then they shriek, and they rave, and they pluck out their hair by handfuls, and bite their nails Into the quick, and then they gioan, and they shriek, and they blaspheme, and they ask the keepers to kill them—"Stab me! Smother me! Strangle me! Take the devils off me!" Oh, it is no fancy sketch! That thing Is going on now all up and down the land, and 1 tell you further that this Is going to be the death that some of you will die. 1 know It. I see It com ing. Again, the inebriate suffers through i the loss of home. I do not care bow • much he loves his wife and children, i If this passion for strong drink has i i mastered him. be will do the most out , rageous things; and, If he could not get - j drink in any other way, he would sell his family into eternal bondage, llow r many homes have been broken up In ( that way no one but God knows. Oh. I Is there anything that will so destroy t a man for this life, and damn him for I the life that la to come! Hu not tell f me that a man ran he happy when he . ■ knows that he Is breaking hla wife's j heart and clothing hla rhlldrea with . | rage Why. there are ou the roads and , streets of thla land to day little chll , ' dr«n hare hailed unwashed, and un , loti.pt aunt on every pah h of their , faded tit ess and on every wrinkle of their prematurely old tuuntenamea. who would have been in churvhee to i day. and as well clad as you are, but , for the tart that rum destroyed (heir parents and drove them into the grave , (I rum th* l lie ul liud th iu despotic* i i i f tum.e »o a rvctuitlag ud>vr of the pit I hate thee’ Hut art subjs. I taken a deeper lone j |ad that ts that the unfortunate of wh m I »p«sh isftti from the toss 1 (;f the s u> The Hi hie intimates tha* ■ ( |a the future world tf we are unfor ■ £ % • a here * * tr had pa * sinus end s p *' |fr* It a '!> V* tltil-l tt) f|rii) Mf* Htuft*4 V Ift t i4 4(«| »*44« » r«i4#at *•« I 4|» .a "im' *in f#»? L a tt M 111'ftl '¥%.*&■•* I4IH • »-**% i an mi ths «mW • though k» i,a< have been poor, he could ^ could steal five cents w.th which t get that whkh would slake his thirs for a little while; but in eternity where is the rum to come from? • * • While I declared some time ago that there was a point beyond which a man could not stop, I want to tell you that, while a man cannot stop in his own strength, the Ixrrd God by His grace can help him to stop at any time. I was in a room In New York where there were many men who had been reclaimed from drunkenness. I heard their testimony, and for the first time in my life, there flashed out a truth I never understood. They said, "We were victims of strong drink, Wp tried to give it up, but always failed; but somehow since we gave our hearts to Christ, he has taken eare of us.’’ I believe that the time will soon come when the grace of God will show its power not only to save man’s soul, but his body, anil reconstruct, purify, elevate and redeem it. I verily believe that, although you feel grappling at the roots of your tongue an almost omnipotent thirst, If you will give your heart to Opd lie will help you by Ills grace to conquer. Try It. It is your last, chance. I have looked off upon the desolation. Sit ting next to you in our religious as semblages there are a good many peo ple in awful peril; and. Judging from ordinary circumstances, there Is not one chance In five thousand that they will get clear of It. There are men In every congregation from Sabbath to Sabbath of whom I must make the re mark, that If they do not change their course, within ten years they will, as to their bodies, lie down In drunkards’ graves; and as to their souls, lie down In a drunkard’s perdition. I know that Is an awful thing to say, but 1 cannot help saying It. Oh, beware! You have not yet been captured. Beware! Whether the bev*Jv erage be poured In golden chalice or pewter mug, in the foam at the top. In white letters, let there be spelled out to your soul, "Beware!” When the hooks of judgment are opened, and ten million drunkards come up to get their doom, I want you to bear witness that I, In the feaV of God and In the love fur vrtiir until tnl/f vnn with fill f Mon and with all kindness, to beware of that which ha* already exerted Its influence upon your family, blowing out some of its lights a premonition of the blackness of darkness for evpr. Oh, if you could only hear intemper ance with drfinkards' bones drumming on the head of the liquor cask the Dead March of Immortal soul*, me thinks the very glance of a wine cup would make you shudder, aud the col or of liquor would make you think of the blood of the soul, and the foam on the top of the cup would remind you of the froth on the maniac's lips; and you would kneel down and pray God that, rather than your children should become captives of this evil habit, you would like to carry them out some bright spring day to the cemetery, and put them away to the last sleep, until at the call of the south wind the flow ers would come up all over the grave sweet prephecles of the resurrection! God has a halm for such a wound: . but what flower of comfort ever grew ( on a drunkard’s sepulchre? Tel«>|»honjr In tlie rfitted Htiite*. The extraordinary growth of the tel ephone service In America is shown In some figures brought out in the course of a recent inquiry as to the desirabil ity of regulating the rates and super vising the service of telephone compan ies in Massachusetts. In the United States there are twelve conversations per year on the average to every one of the population, while in Europe there are only two. The United Statee with, a population, according to tHe census AOl/V, V/I 1 II Id ■ II l ti I 11.1 Ox'». MV telephone stations, or one to every 192 of the population. The combined pop ulation of Kurope, according to the cen sus of 1890, Is 354,957,776, and they maintain 336,037 telephone Htutiona, or one to every 907 of the population. The conversations over the telephone in the United States amount to 757, 000,000 per year; In Kurope they amount to 767,109,824. In other words, In the United States the number of telephones used is mure than five times as great, according to the population, as those used in the countries of Ku rope, and the uutnber of conversations per capita of the population of the United States la six times us great ua In Europe. France, with u population of 38.343.192, Is using 29.500 telephoto it, ur one to every 1,300 of the population; that is. Frame, with a population eight | times as greut as that of the six New England States. Is using fewer tele j phones than the people of New Kltg ! land Massachusetts, according to the ' census of 1*95, had a population of 500.1*3. and there are 26.3I& telephones l In use. ur one to every 95 of the popu lation Sweden where the telephone Is more generally used thsu In any other country In Kurope hss hut utta telephone lo every 138 of ij,,, p,,pU|4. turn taxation ha* a population of 5. <00 taxi with a.taxi e.rhange telephone met run,elite or one lo .-very 7uo „f (p„ population while Boston, with a popu . laias >d 1*8 920. ationiing to the ten .us of 1*94. has 9.U3T telephone. „r on. lu eyery Afiy-Mte of the pipulsuo*. • *.S«.IX.W. U, »***, Hi*,,,,. l ut.ug the past y,„ M( Ml Bum ha* teen ..«d in wim« [UN l«»r mahing «h« pulley-blue*• r>r the rig. glhg "I iatbi* ime o| ig* guf ,, p ’*“'•*** '* ,k* «•*"* th lighth***. x .*1? 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