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^»i*M«*m«<M*******^ I My Fellow Laborer.s J MJttK Jj $ By H. RIDER HAGGARD. * CHAPTER IV. il HEN onre we had made up our minds to get married, we both of us came to the conclusion that the sooner we did so the better; more especially as the Introduction of a new factor Into our relationship was to m y u naccustoraed mind In a certain sense improper and Irksome, although by no means un pleasant. Also It wasted time and tended to direct our attention from the vast undertaking to which we were pledged. Accordingly, within a very few days of the occurrence already de scribed, I visited a register, and hav ing, as It seemed to me. paid several unnecessary fees, provided myself with a license. On my way back I walked down Fleet street, thinking amiably of getting married and Hr. Johnson, and Intending to take the omnibus at Charing Cross. As I went 1 happened to look up, and my eye fell upon a no tice to the effect that a certain well known life assurance company had Its offices within the building opposite. Then It was that the Idea first oc curred to me that I ought to Insure my life, so that, should anything hap pen to me, Fanny might have some thing to keep her from poverty. As it was, she would have absolutely nothing. All that I had, and that my wife had brought with her, was strictly nettled upon the boy .John In such a way that I could not even give my subsequent wife a life Interest In It, or a part of It. I slopped there In the street, and having given the matter a few moments' consideration, came to the conclusion that it was my duty to provide for Fanny to small extent say two thousand pounds, Upon this decision. I crossed the road-way, and, entering the office, some inquiries from a clerk. As it happened, the doctor attached to the company was at that moment in at tendance and disengaged, so thinking that I could not do better than get a disagreeable business over at once, I sent up my card and asked to see him. The messenger returned presently, with a request that I would "step up," which I accordingly did, to find myself, to my astonishment, In the presence of an old fellow-student of my own, with whom I had In former days beeu tolerably Intimate, but whom 1 hail not seen for years. We greeted each other cordially enough, and after a few minutes' talk I told him the business I bad in bund, and be began ills medical examination with the series of stock questions which doctors always put upon these occasions. The only point upon which he dwelt at all was insanity, anil he was so persistent, upon this matter that I per ceived he bad heard some of the rumors about me being mentally de ranged, which my friends and relations had so materially assisted to spread. However, 1 got through that part of the business, and then I undid my shirt, and he proceeded with the phy sical examination. First he applied the stethoscope to my heart, and quickly removed it, evidently satisfied. Then he placed It over my right lung and listened. While he did so, I saw his face change, and a thrill of feat bhnt thrnmrh rm* :ih it Kiirl(U>nlv' f,inm tr my mind that I bad experienced some trouble there of late, of which I hai taken no notice, and which had, in deed, quite passed out of my mind Next he tried the other lung, anc placed the stethoscope on the table. "What is the matter?” I asked, keep ing as calm a face as I could, for 1 could tell from his look that there wai something very wrong. "Come. Gosden, you are a medlca man yourself, and u clever one. am there is no need for me to tell yot about it.” "Upon my word.” I answered, ” know nothing of what you mean, have not bothered about my owt health for years; but. now l think of It 1 have had some local trouble on tlx chest, last winter especially. W'hat h It? It Is better to know the worst.” ”Our rule here,” he answered dryly ”!• not to make any communication t< the person examined, hut, ns we an brother practitioners, 1 suppose I ntuj dispense with It, and tell you at onci that l cannot recommend your life t< the board to he Insured upon an: terms. That Is what Is the matter win you. old fellow," and he went on. Ii terms too technical tor me to writ down here, to desy |h«- the symptoms o one of the muafAjmitilteet. and ye most uncertain. Wu of long disease in short to pass of death up on mo. I do not think I atn a coward and hope I took U well. The bitter Iron of the whole thing lay In the fart tha while I was la active prattle*. I ha> made title form of disease a spvcla study, and used to flatter myself tha I could slop It, or at any rate stave I u| ittdeflnitely, If only I could net at I la lime- I might have gtupp*il m own, If I had hnown a boot it At who shall heal the phy ah taa* "Well, lk*r* you are. Unwlfi." »«n on my frond "you fcn»« as rum about It as I do, you may live tbr# years, and you may live thirty bo tha odd* ate against you lusting to You hut»» uhai an uncertain thing t la. There la only **#• thing tervah abater It, and that is, that It util hit you flouaer or latsr I ape«h plaint bgsmuss WS are both *» vostomad tu la t'»psp sort of facts. Perhaps you had 1 better take another opinion." I shook ray head. Now that my at tention had been called to it, no | opinions could help me. He was per fectly right, I might go very shortly, or I might live till well on Into mid dle life. As the event has proved, I have lived, but I am not far from the end of my tether now. "Are you of opinion," I asked, "that my form of disease is likely to prove hereditary?" 1 knew what his answer would be, but I put the question as a forlorn hope. "Of course. I should consider that it would certainly be hereditary; and, what Is more, It Is extremely probable that your wife would contract It also. But why do you ask? Vou are not go ing to get married again, are you?” "I am engaged to be married." "Well,” he replied, “of course It Is ^an awkward thing to talk to a man about, but If you take my advice, you will be a little more honorable than most people are under the circum stances, and break the match off.” “I am quite of your opinion," I said, "and now I will hid you good-day," "Well, good-bye, Oosden, I don’t think It will be of any use my making a report to the board unless you wish It. Don't worry yourself, old fellow, and keep your chest warm, and you may see fifty yet!" In another minute I was in Fleet street again, and felt vaguely astonish ed that it should look just the same as It did a quarter of an hour before. Most of us have experienced (his sensa tion when some radical change of cir cumstance has suddenly fallen upon us. It seems curious that the great hurrying world should he so dead to our individuality and heedless of our most vital hopes. A quarter of an hour before, 1 was a man with a pros peci or a long ana useim, pernaps a most eminent career. Also J was Just going to be married to a congenial wife. Now 1 was, as 1 then thought, doomed to an early grave, and as for the wife, the Idea had to Ire abandoned. 1 was in honor bound to abandon it for her sake, and for the sake of pos sible children. Well, I walked to Charing Cross, and took the omnibus as I had Intend ed. I remember that there was a fat woman In It, who Insisted upon carry ing a still fatter pug dog, and quar reled with the conductor seriously in consequence. All this took place in the month of December, and by the time I got home It was beginning to grow dark. I went straight Into the study: Fanny wus there, and the lamp war lighted. When I entered she flung down her pen, and jumping up, came forwa.d and kissed me; and, as she did so, I thought what a splendid look ing woman she had grown into,with her intellectual face and shapely form, ami somehow the reflection sent a sharp pang through me. Now that 1 knew that 1 must lose her, it seemed to me that I loved her almost as I had loved my dead wife, and indeed I have often noticed that we never know how much we value a thing till we are call/** up on to resign it. Certainly I noticed It now. "Well, dear,” she said, “have you got It? Why, what is the matter with you?” “Sit down, Fanny," I answered, "and I will tell you, only you must try to hear it as well as you can,” She seated herself In her calm, de termine/! way, although I could see that she was anxious, and 1 began at the beginning, and went straight through my story without skipping a word. As soon as she understood its drift her face set like a stone, and she heard me to the end without interruntlon or movement. "Well, Geoffrey,” she said, In a low voice, when at laat I had done, "and what is to be the end of It all?” "This; that our marriage cannot come off—and death!” “Why cannot our marriage come off?" "I have told you why. dear. A man afflicted as I am has no right to send his affliction down to future genera tions. People are fond of calling the inevitable result of such conduct the decree of Providence, but It is the cause of most of the misery of the world, und us medical men know well enough, a wicked and selfish thing to do." “The world does not seem to think so. One sees such marriages every day." "Yes, because the world Is blind, and mud. und bad." "1 don't agree with you, Geoffrey.” she answered, with passion. "Our lives are our own. posterity must look after Itself. We have a right to umke the lies! of our lives, such a* they are, without cousulUug the Interests of those who may never exist. If they do exist, then they moat lake thetr chauce. and l>ear their burdens as we • beer ours. All this talk alMiut the fu I lure and posterity Is nonsense. What I will posterity care for us that we should care for II? We cauuot alert i It one way or the uther, It Is hopeless 1 In expert to turu Nat me out of Iter I j path We are nothing but feathers blown ybout by (he wind and all wc I I CM do is to go down where the wind I blows tts anil when we tall we (nit t as softly m we utay." | huikcd up In astonishment | Its I t no Idea that Penny held views 1 I meet Hess. and. opposed u> all pure > } altruism as they were, la a sense un *! answerable I it deed | It at beard h* rvprees notions directly ctiniiary, and i at the moment was tensity .. « lo, i i in we* mint for i he * hung«- ttf wiitrie , j bowvvrt. Ibe explanation wa, eacy i | * nongh t h«et i bad ***me into etta ! fhi with laisrwst and. as Is often the i [ rasa, even la the meat highly develops I , (iswtpie. If was so much tbe wotsn fvo I {the theory, i | "I am sorry in hear yon spsah an i dear," I said I h | ' I ' I Ihovtgat that you would have supported me In a very painful resolution. The blow ia hard enough to bear,, even with your help; without. It la almost un endurable.” She rose from her chair, and then for the first time I realized the depth of her emotion. Her beautiful eyes flashed, her bosom heaved, and she slowly crushed the paper she held In her hand to shield her face from the fire, Into a shapeless mass, and then threw It down. “You have no heart,” she said. “Do you suppose It Is nothing to me, who wag going to marry you within a week, to lose my husband and to he obliged to fall back again Into this half life, this very twilight of a life? Oh! Geof frey, think again,” and she stretched out her arms toward me, and looked at me, and spoke In accents of Im passioned tenderness, "Think,” she went on, "can you not give up your scruples for me? Am I not wort It straining a point In your conscience? There Is nothing In the world, Geof frey, that a man can profit by In ex change for his love, Hoon this dis ease will take a hold of you. anti then you will grow weak, and miserable, and Incapable of enjoyment. Live now while you can, and leave the conse quences to Providence, or rather to the workings of those unchanging rules which we call Providence, lxtok at me: 1 am beautiful, and I love you. and my Intellect Is almost as great as your own. Don't throw me uway fot a theory, Geoffrey." All the time that she was speaking she drew slowly nearer to me, her arms outstretched and her great, eyet glowing and (hanging In the shaded light. And now the arms closed rfkiiml me unit she lav noon mv heart anil gazed Into my face, till 1 thought that 1 should he overcome. Hut, thank Heaven! somehow for conscience' sake I found the resolution to hold to what I knew to he right. I think It was the recollection of my dear wife that came over me at that moment, and Induced a sudden feeling of revulsion to the beautiful woman who lay In my arms, and who did not scruple to resort to such means to turn me from my duty. Hi*l It not been for the thought, I am sure that being but a man, and there fore weak, I should have yielded and then there would have been no possi bility of further retreat. As It were. 1 with a desperate effort, wrenched my self free from her. "It Is of no use, Fanny," 1 cried, in despair. "1 will not do It? I think that It would he wicked for a man In my condition to get married. This dis tresses me beyond measure; but If I yielded to you 1 should he doing a shameful thing, Forgive me, Fanny, It. is not my fault, i did not know. It Is hard enough," I added, with a na tural burst of Indignation, "to he sud denly doomed to a terrible death with out having to go through this agony." and with a sudden motion 1 Hung the wedding license Into the lire. Hhe watched It hum, and then sunk back In the chair, covered her face In her hands and said no more, lrt this position she remained for nearly half an hour. Then she rose, and with a stern, cold face that It almost frighten ed me to look upon, returned to her work, which was now once more the chief bond between us; nor was the subject of our engagement alluded to again for many months. Nobody had known of It, and nobody knew that It had come to an end. And so it died and went the way of dead things Into what seems to he forgetfulness, hut Is | In truth the gate-way Into those new and endless halls of perpetuated life on whose walls evil and unhappy rec ords of the past, blazoned In letters of fire, are the lamps to light us down from misery to misery. (TO IIK COXTINl'KD.) — C 1C I LI A N LOVE CHARMS. Home of the Moat Curious unit Popular Ones. The love charms of Sicily are many and curious. One, very popular and considered very powerful. Is to put In to an eggshell a few drops of the blood of the longing lover, says Macmillan. The shell Is exposed to the sun for three days and to the dew for three nights. It is then placed on hot ashes until calcined, when the whole is reduced to a line powder and administered se cretly In a cup of coffee or a glass of wine to the object of affection. Anoth er charm Is for the witch to undress at midnight and tie her clothes up In a bundle, which she places on her ' head; then, kneeling in the center of her room, she pronounces au incnnta j lion, at the end of which she shakes her bead. If the bundle falls In front ; of her It Is a good sign, should It fall behind her the charm will not avail. Vet another la worked In the follow ing manner: 1‘lecea of green, red nud while ribbon are port bawd in three different shop*, the name of the per son to lie charmed being related, men tally, ea< h time. The shop keeper must ' be paid with the left hand, the rlblarn living received In the light. Wneu nil the pieces are bought they are taken to a witch, who »et* out to hid the person to he charmed tin flndtug Mm or her the witch mutters to herself. With these ribbons I bind you to such a one,'* Then she returns the tlbteiUS to the purchaser, who ties them tie naaih hta or her left knee *ud wears item st iburch | OM I’MUlbUi W* l)«4 it* t!i*t *nr • * ♦ ht »«! i • * * tUeScr ,• „ .. ... Tt* ttttoM iu«*tuU • i nt ik» U in* r#» If • •* kOt«»fc«t **t 4*1 iftUfctA TALMAGE’S SERMON. MAGNETISM OF CHRIST LAST SUNDAY’S SUBJECT. from the Following Test: "HU Nam* Shall Ha Called Wonderful’*—Isaiah. Chaplar IX, Varsa I—Aa I'nusaal View of the Narlar. HR prophet lived In a dark time. For some three thou sand yeara the world had been get ting worse. King doms had aris en and perished. As I he captain of » vessel In distress sees relief coming across the water, so the prophet, amid the stormy times In which he lived, put the telescope of prophecy to Ills eye, and saw, seven hundred and fifty years ahead, one Jesus advancing to the rescue, I want lo show that when Isaiah called Christ the Wonderful, he spoke wisely. In most houses there Is a picture of Christ. Hornet I lues It represents him with face effeminate; sometime* with a face despotic. I have seen West's grand sketch of the rejection of Christ; I havo seen the face of Christ a* cut on an emerald, said to be by command of Tiberius Caesar and yet I am con- ; vlnced that I shall never know how Jesus looked until, on that sweet Hab bath morning, I shall wash the last ileep from my eye* In the cool river of heaven. I take up this hook of divine nkot I lrw.tr at •ketch, at Mark'* sketch, at John's •ketch, and at Paul'* sketch, and I say, with Isaiah, "Wonderful!" I think that you are all Interested In the story of Christ. You feel that he I* the only one who can help you. You have unbounded admiration for the '■omrnander who helped his passengers ashore while he himself perished, but have you no admiration for him who rescued our souls, himself falling back Into the water* from which he bad saved us? Christ was wonderful In the mag netism of hi* person. After the battle of Antietam. when i general rode along the lines,although the soldier* were lying down exhausted, they rose with great enthusiasm and huzzaed. As Napoleon returned from hi* captivity, his first step on the wharf shook all the kingdoms, and two hun dred and fifty thousand men Joined bis standard. It took three thousand troops to watch him In his exile. Ho there have been men of wonderful mag netism of person. Hut hear trie while I tell you of a poor young man who •ame up from Nazareth to produce a thrill such a* has never been excited by any other, Napoleon had around him the memories of Austerlitz and Je na, and Hadajos; but here was a man who had fought no battles; who wore no epaulettes; who brandished no •word. He Is no titled man of the •chools, for he never went to school. He had probably never seen a prlnee, or shaken handH with a nobleman. The only extraordinary person we know of as being In his company was hi* own mother, and she was so poor that in the most delicate and solemn hour that ever comes to a woman's soul she was obliged to lie down amid camel drivers grooming the beasts of burden. I Imagine Christ one day standing In the streets of Jerusalem, A man de scended from high lineage Is standing beside him, and says, "My father was a merchant nrinee: he had a castle on the beach at Galilee. Who wan your lather?” Christ answers. “Joseph, the carpenter.” A man from Athens Is standing there unrolling his parchment of graduation, and says to Chriat, "Where did you go to school?” Christ answers, ”1 never graduated.” Aba! the idea of such an unheralded young man attempting to command the at tention of the world! As well some little fishing village on Long Island shore attempt to arraign New York. Yet no sooner does he set his foot In the towns or cities of Judea than every thing Is in commotion. The people go out on a picnic, taking only food enough for the day. yet are so fascinat ed with Christ that, at the risk of starv ing, they follow him out Into the wil derness. A nobleman falls down flat before him, and says, “My daughter Is dead." A beggar tries to rub the dim ness from his eyes and says, "Lord, that my eyes may be opeued.” A poor, sick, panting woman pressing through the rruwd. says. “I must touch the hem of hls garment." Children, who love their mother better than uny one else, struggle to get Into hls arms, und to kiss hls cheek, and to run their Augers through hls hair, and for all lime put ting Jesus St) III love with the little ones that there Is hardly a nursery In Chris tendom from which he does not take one. anylng. "I muat have them, I will All heaven with these, for every cedar that I plant In heaven I will have Afty white lilies In the hour when I was a poor man In Judea they were not ashamed of me. and now that I have ■ owe lu a throne I do not despise thew. Hold It not back, oh. weeping mother, lay It on my warm bean Of ■itch la the kingdom of h< avan " What la this touting down the road* \ triumphal pr> • **tun lit is » rated I not In a chariot, but on au ase, and >el the people lake •« their coal* and I throw them In the way Oh, what a | ‘sme leetta made among the children, I among the beggar*, among the A*a*r< [meg among the philo* ipto t»‘ You may boast at self control but If ym [ H«<t •fd'ti Hit* *»»*4 Htti put tmtt I Aft*# Hi* »u ■ H *•*■! »*M F*»»* I U al. - 14. . u .. A## VollilfMl *H* j 4*4 WHllltf ***** *»»***« It| HI* AAtttf* [ You want things logical and consistent, and you say. "How could Christ be Qod and man at the same time?" John says Christ was the Creator: "All things were made by him. and without him was not anything made." Matthew saya that he was omnipresent: ' Where two or three are met together In ray name, there am I In the mldat of them. Christ derlares his own eternity: I am Alpha and Omega." How can he be a lion, under his foot crushing king doms, and yet a lamb licking the hand that slays him? At what point do the throne and the manger touch? If Christ was Ood, why flee Into Kgypt? Why not stand his ground? Why, In stead of bearing a cross, not lift up his right hand and crush his assassins? Why stand and be spat upon? Why sleep on the mountain, when he owned the palaces of eternity? Why catch fish for his breakfast on the beach In the chill morning, when all the pome granates are bis, and all the vineyards his, and all the cattle his, and all the partridges Ills? Why walk when weary, and his feet atone bruited, when he might have taken the splendor* of the sunset for his equipage, and moved with horses and chariots of Are? Why beg a drink from the waysld", when out of the crystal chalices of eternity he poured the Kuphrates, the Mississippi, and the Amazon, and dipping his hand In the fountains of heaven, and shak ing that hand over the world, from the tips of his fingers dripping the great lakes ami the oceans? Why let the Homan regiment put him to death, when he might have ridden down the sky followed by ull the cavalry of heaven, mounted on white horse* of efernul victory? You can not understand. Who can? j ou iry to conrouoa me. i am cou foundeij before you apeak. I'aul aabl It was unsearchable. He went climb ing up from argument to argument, anil from antithesis to antithesis, and from glory to glory, and then aank down In exhaustion as he saw far above him other heights of divinity unsealed, and exclaimed, "that In all things he might have the pre-eminence." Again: Christ was wonderful In his teaching. The people had been used to formalities and technicalities; Christ upset all their notions as to how preuchlng ought to he done. There was this peculiarity about his preaching, the people knew what he meant. His Il lustrations were taken from the hen calling her chickens together; from salt, from candles, from fishing tackle, from the hard creditor collaring a debt or. How few pulpits of this day would have allowed him entrance? He would have been called undignified and fami liar In his style of preaching. And yet the people went to hear him. Those old Jewish rabbis might have preached on the sides of Olivet fifty years and never got an audience. The philoso phers sneered at his ministrations and said, "This will never do!" The law yers caricatured, hut the common peo ple heard him gladly. Huppose you that there were any sleepy people iu his audiences? Huppose you that any woman who ever mixed bread was Ig norant of what he meant when he com pared the kingdom of heaven with leav en or yeast? Huppose you that the sunburned fishermen, with the Ash scales upon their hands, were listless when he spoke of the kingdom of heav en as a net? We spend three years In college studying ancient mythology, and three years In the theological sem inary learning how to make a sermon, and then we go out to save the world; and If we can not do it according to Claude’s "Sermonizing." or Hlalr’s "Rhetoric," or Karnes’ "Criticism," we will let the world go to perdition. If we save nothing else, we will save Claude and Blair. We see a wreck In sight. We must go out and save the crew and passengers. We wait until we get on our fine cap and coat, and find our shin ing oars, and then we push out meth odically and scientifically, while >om« plain shoresman, In rough fishing smack, and with broken oar lock, goes out and gets the crew aud passengers, and brings them ashore In safety. We throw down our delicate oars and say, "What a ridiculous thing fo save men In that way! You ought to have done It scientifically and beautifully.” "Ah!" says the shoresman. "If these suffer ers had waited until you got out your fine boat, they would have gone to the bottom." The work of a religious teacher Is to save men; and though every law of grammar should he snapped In the un | dertaklng. and there he nothing but I awkwardness and blundering In the mode, all hall to the man who saves a soul. Christ, In his preaching, was plain, earnest snd wonderfully sympsthetlr We cannot dragoon men Into heaven. I We cannot drive them In with the hull end of a cateehtam. We waste our lime in trying to catch Hies with adds In stead of the sweet honeycomb of the <i<wpel We try to make crab apple* do i the work of pomegi«oate* Again: Je*u* wa* wonderful In hi* sorrows The sun smote him. sod th* \ (•old chilled hint the rain palled him. ! thlret parched him. and hunger eg UaiMted him Khali I lompar* hi* sor row to the sen' No, for that t* *om> - , times hushed Into a calm Khali I corn par It with the night* No. for that w«*ftt*Un*v« tfl»4dt§ •llli Orion uf felt* ill*** *i(N -%ur«*r* If ihi* thi»r* •ItouM UirtiuiH |l»nr fim •uiiM f*int itui fc»(« I* | »iiuli*f«tti 1mm ill* Hh4»»<»*« uf niiin* < *Ml*tt »*»*tl. »fe*rp Mtfcging ilmiti III* Mu1! •«!»• * rfuat |Mr fat >!*«•• IM l«*»i iwtM **4 *»• II tM* (»• on • M*t* 0**4 Ht** |**i I Iiim* M*«4* lfc*4 toiitf Mu iluiftf |||4 ****** **4 •I|»4fc4| itif t»*»« |mmh tM ManM»«r 4»oin* ito# tplfe*# iM'Hngti •to** I It**## frtl Hit ||«f Mu 1 •*%**! m* moi itf*I)m*« fif batten.I against tbr crosn. Then they lift It up. Look! look' look! Who will help him now? Cette, men of Jerus alem—ye whose dead he brought to life; ye whose sick he healed; who will help him? Who will seize the weapons of the soldiers? None to help! Having carried such a cross for us, shall we re fuse to take our cross for him? Khali Jesus bear the cross alone, And all the world go free? No; there's a cross for everyone, And there's a cross for me. You know the process of Ingrafting You bore a hole in a tree, and put In (he branch of another tree. This tree of the cross was hard and rough, but Into the holes where the nails went there have been grafted branches of the Tree of Life that now bear fruit for all nations. The original tree was bit ter, but the branches Ingrafted were sweet, and now all the nations pluck the fruit and live for ever Again: Christ was wonderful In his victories. First over the forces of nature. The sea Is a crystal sepulchre, It swallowed the Central America, the President, and the Hpunlsh Armada as easily us any fly that ever floated on It. The In land lakes are fully us t. rrlble In their wrath, tlalllee, when aroused In a storm Is overwhelming, and yet that sea crouched In his presence and licked his feet. He kneiv all the waves and winds. When ha beckoned they.came. When he frowned, they fled. Th.?^Sel of his foot made no Indentation on the solidified water. Medical science has wrought great changes In rheumatic limbs and diseased blood, but when the muscles are entirely withered no hu man power can restore them, and when a limb Is once dead, it Is dead. Hut here Is a paralytic- his hand lifeless.; ■ nrisi says in mm, mreun joiia '/a hand!" and he stretches It forth. In the Hye Infirmary, how many dis eases of that delicate organ have been cured! But Jesus say* to one born i blind, "Be open!" and the light of” heaven rushes through gates that have never before been opened. The frost or sn axe may kill n tree, hut Jesus smites one dead with a word. Chemistry ran do many wonderful things, hut what chemist, at a wedding, when the refreshments gave out, could change a pall of water Into a cask of wine? What human voice could command a school of fish? Yet here Is a voice that marshals the scaly tribes, until In the place where they bad let down the net and pulled It up with no fish In It, they let It down again, and the disciples lay hold and begin to pull, when, by reason of the multitude of fish, the net brake. Nature Is his servant. The flowers he twisted them Into bis sermons; the winds • they were his lullaby when he slept In the boat; the rain It hung glittering on the thick foliage of the parables; Hie star of Bethlehem It sang a Christmas carol over his birth; the rocks-- they beat a dirge at his death. Behold his victory over the grave! The hinge* of the family vault become very rusty because they are never opened except to take another In. There Is a knob on the outside of the sepul chre, but none on the Inside. Hen comes the Conqueror of Death. He ent ers that realm and says, "Daughter of Jalrus, sit up;" and she sat up. To lauarus, "Come forth;" arid he came forth. To the widow’s son he said, "Get up from that bier,” and he goe* home with his mother. Then Jesus snatched up the keys of death, and hung them to his girdle, and cried until all the grave-yards of the earth heard him, “O Death! I will be thy plague! <i Grave! 1 will he thy deiitruetion!” * * * It Is a beautiful moment when two persons who have pledged each other, heart and hand, stand In church, and have the banns of marriage pro claimed. Kather and mother, brothers and sisters stand around the altar. The minister of Jesus gives the counsel; the ring Is set, earth and heaven witness it; the organ sounds, and amid many congratulations they start out on the path of life together. Oh that this might be your marriage day! Stand up. Immortal soul. The Beloved comes to get his betrothed. Jesus stretches forth his hand and says, "I will love thee with an everlasting love," and you respond, "My Beloved Is mine, and 1 am his." 1 put your hand In his. hence forth lie one. No trouble shall part you no time cool your love. Hide by side on earth side by side In heaven! Now let the blossoms of heavenly gardens nil the house with their redolence, and ^ all the organs of God peal forth the wedding march of eternity. Hark! "The voice of my beloved! Behold, h« couicth leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills," j% imm Ii» 4lhU», The Igiest advertising "fake" to strike this city, says (he Ashtabula, Ohio, News, Is the chewing gum game. The maker# of this gum put a coupon bearing one letter of the alphabet In each h tent package of the gum. and advertise that aa aoon aa any one gd» the letters that make certain worda the> will give him a present of a watch, bicycle or something of ihn hind |„ II Mmtth. the lea mater for Mr asm. Mb hards Itroa, wholesale grocers, Is the drat In* by purchaser of this hind of gum so far. for he has su-teede-l in ac onitine the letters that In the th* words that caitile,| h*m to art. fltur bicycle In the mac bet He has more than enough of the letter • to win the hi* t ysle end if he hsd mu fc would ha a entitled to l«*'U worth ol i(.*n, ode ho intense ur the Interest manifested by some of the gum eh*wera that age «f the tr«,i*» tar vuwdrn t,,,» w t,,nes« .-hired I.'-i fur the Setter ' a whbsh he need* to cample l* the w«H*|e aesew tdkff It* Vi| a t^ii* i|| t • h| • tn4 l’| MfW It# It t|f ||a*.M