CHAPTER VIII.
Alll.Y.ln the morn
ing after Mlaa
Hetherlngton'a vla
lt. Marjorie pre
pared to aet out for
the Caatle. She
would gladly have
made aomr excuae
to atay nt home,
but Mr. liorralue
would not hear of
It, and ut hla earn
er.t rerjueat ahe contented.
"She la your heat friend," anld the
mlnlater, "and you muat not offend
her."
"Very well, | will go," unawered
Marjorie; "but I ahull come home early
ill the afternoon. She'll never uak me
0^ to atay all night? If ahe doea, I can't
do It!"
"Why not. Murjorlc?"
"The Cattle'! eerie enough at day
time, hut at night It'a dreadful, and
Mlaa Hetherlngton creepa about like
a (boat, I'd aooner aleep out In the
kirk,vard."
At a uuaiter before nine ahe atarted,
for ahe hud three ml lea to walk, and
ahe wlalied to linger on the road,
which lay through pleaaunt country
paatlircH and among green lanea. The
Ill' /I II I II ►, n Un I/I I gl, III HUM ' I’
there were elouili to seaward which
spoke of coming rain. I'lixxlng np
through the village, the way she had
come the previous day, she saw young
Sutherland standing at the gate of the
weaver’s cottage.
"Good-morning, Marjorie. Where
are you going to so early?"
"Up to Mis* Hetberington's at the
Castle," she replied.
"Are you going to walk?”
"Yes."
"Th*n may I come with you a piece
of the road?”
ys "Not today, Johnnie.” *he raid,
nervously. "I'm late, and mux' hurry
on,"
B The young man sighed, hut did not
B press hlx request. Troubled and vexed
I at. the meeting, Marjorie walked qul< k
Bi ly away.
She followed the townward highway
| till xhe came to the cross-roads where
■I she had alighted from the wagonette,
* Close to the ero**-road there wax a
stile, and she wax about to ilep over,
when she heard a voice behind her,
MIL, Turning quickly she xaw to her ux
tonixhment the French teacher from
Dumfries.
He wax clad In a dark walking-suit,
with broad-brimmed, wide-awake hat,
aud was smoking a cigar. He looked
* at her smilingly, and raised hlx hut.
She thought he hud never looked so
handsome, ax he stood there in I lie
Kiinxhlne, with his pale face .uniting
and hlx bright, black eyes fix'd eagerly
upon her.
“Monsieur Caussldlere!" she cried In
astonishment.
“Yes, It Ik I!” he replied 111 Ills sad,
musical voice. “I have walked from
the town, and was going dowi. to sec
you.”
"To see me!” she echoed.
“Yes. mademoiselle, and the good
man your guardian. You have spoken
of him so often that I longed to make
his acquaintance, and. having two Idle
days before me, l came here, as you
behold.”
Marjorie did not know what to say
or do, the encounter was so unexpected.
She stood trembling and blushing in
such obvious embarrassment that the
Frenchman came to her relief.
“Do not let me detain you. If you
have an appointment. Or stay! per
haps you will permit me to walk a
little way in your company?"
And before she quite understood
what was tuklug place, he had lightly
leaped the stile aud was banding her
over with grout politeness. They
itrolled along the foot-path side by
side. Suddenly Marjorie paused.
“I am going up to the Castle," she
huId, “and I shall not lie hack till the
afternoon. Ilo not let row take you out
Ul J HHI "»/•
The Frenchman mulled and nliruuKed
IiIh alum blent,
•'Oh! one wity lit to in*' an good ,.n
another," he exclaimed
"Hut you nald you wlnlied to nee Mr.
luirrnln*?”
“FrwlHlyi Out I prefer your eom*
patty, my child.*’
"He In wl Inline now. and will be to
glad of no la e one lo talk la."
"I nee you waul to get rid of me
Utile one,' nald I'auanldlere. p.iurually
H | r*> W>H you promtae to return
n, ,n ! lit-member. I nhall not depart
urtll you d«» return.''
"Yen. I will piouilae," gnawered Mar
) irle, "I I would rather you did uot '
i im* any further
",\nd wherefore, uo child' la n
I oMpUUy no dloagreruUle?"
No munaleur. hut ike folk la tbla
plate are ay* talking, and If then taw
me gall ing **‘l* n alrance gagrkman
II would be nil Otar the pariah before
tgkt, and than Mia* llvikerlngion
^ would bear of If. and I *huwM gel no
pent*-"
\ ad aa »h# a poke ah* b»*4#d round
u*f«uu*ly. a* If draadmg an *y*wit
n^-mi
Mtaa flat bar tngtwn' Fray, who la
m ah#”'
Tkt lady I am going to •#* Mka
K ha* area a*a»»wh»r* nothing kappvnt
H k*t aka ban*"
b»l turalr tkaro ta uwtbthg io con
m .
real, perslated tlie e rencltman. u
Is very natural that, having net you,
I should offer to escort you."
“In France, mnyhe, hut not here In
Annnndale. Down here, monsieur,
when two folk a re seen out walking in
the fields together, all the world no
llcves them to lie courting."
tthe had spoken without reflection,
and her face now grew crimson as she
met her companion's eyes .md realized
the significance of her own words.
"I see,” cried the Frechman. laugh
ing. "They would take me for your
lover."
Marjorie did not reply, Im; turned
her face away and began to walk on
rapidly, Itut the Frenchman kept by
her aide.
"Ah, my child," he continued, "I am
more fit to he your father than your
lover. I am not ao frivolous and vain
as to presume to think of one so young
and pretty. You must not mind me!
I am your teacher, your friend that Is
all!"
She was touched by the tone III
which he spoke, hut after a moment's
hesitation she painted agulu, nod looked
him full In the face.
"What you say Is quite true, mon
sieur," she said; "hut, oh! do not fol
low me any further. See, that Is the
Castle, and who knows but Mlsi lloth
erlngton herself Is watching us from
the tower?"
She pointed across the fields toward
a dark belt of woodland, over which
IWf# WI'H' Ill'll *'i|
visible, about n mile and a half away.
"Well, I will do as you desire, my
child,” answered Cuussldlere, after a
moment's hesitation! "I will go and
make the acquaintance of your guard
ian, An revolr!"
lie took her hand, lifted It. to Ills lips,
and kissed It; then, with an nlr of re
spectful gallantry, he swept off Ills hat
and bowed, Hhe could not help smil
ing; he looked so fantastic to her sim
ple sight, and yet ho handsome!
Hhe walked on thoughtfully. At the
next stile she turned and looked hack,
lie was still stationary In the pathway,
ga/.lng after her; hut the moment she
looked buck he kissed his hand.
Marjorie turned again and walked
on, with no little fluttering of the
heart.
When she reached the Castle, an
elderly man-servant led her Into the
lobby, a dark and dreary passage hung
with oil paintings and antique maps
and prints; thence Into a large apart
ment, divided by an open folding-door
Into two portions.
Here he left her to announce her ar
rival to his mistress.
Presently the room door opened, and
the mistress of the house appeared.
Hhe war, reused In an old-fashioned
robe of stiff black silk, and wore a cap,
like that of a widow, over her snow
while hair. Hhe came In leaning on
her crutch, and nodded grimly to her
gueat.
"Hit ye doon," ahit aald, pointing to a
neat, and heraelf dropping Into -in arm
chair before the lire. Then, drawing
out a hian'a gold hunting-watch ind
opening It, ahe continued: "Twenty
live minute* after ten. You're late In
coming, Marjorie Annan, I doubt you
..•
CHAPTER IX.
H she spoke, and
closed her wall'll
sharply, Mias i let fa
ll! Kt on fixed her
black eyes keenly
on Marjorie, who,
remem tiering her
recent encounter
with fauMldlero,
(lushed and trem
bled. A curious
smile grew upon
the stern woman's bloodless fuco as
she continued:
•'Ay, ay. you were lingering, and nmy
lie you bud pleasant company. Who
was yon you parted with out there
among the green Held*?"
Murjorln started in consternation.
Her fears, then, were right, and it was
useless to conceal anything from Miss
Hethcrlngtoti. who was like a witch,
and had eyes and ears everywhere
"Oh, Miss Mctherlngton," site it
claimed, "did you see us together?"
"I was up on the tower with lay spy
lug-glass, alid I saw fat uwu t iasslo,
that lotiked Ilka Marjorie Annan, and
a lad I took at Ural for Johnnie Path i •
land, till he began Imolng aud kissing
ht» hand, and then I saw it cun' I nu lie
Johnnie '
Marjorie now perceived that alt eon
iidlnust was tise.vsa. and at own told
hr.* hueu»* id the meeting with het
Preurh teas-her Ph* did not think It
expedient, however, to tJeerrlba with
evwitne** the Jivtiliwsii'i touters*
It h«. but evvn a* It was. Mu* liether
tngtu* • brow dm gened, and h«t even
(fashed with a light like that of attget
Itrww ifolng*' she wutteied IIjaw
doing* for young growtgg U*su o' set*
sateen' Vonr Pregch leather. »i> y>«i*
What • hi* natne Margots*
"Houston* t'*w*atdle»e
"And what* the man doing down
harw instead of teething Am classes In
11ha tonn?"*
"Indeed Put 1*11 returns I M»>
Jurla "I met him nolle hr *>« idem lot
s»> ssi to sea ywn
lisnjkl V%k«i like to he* N ke
| young?"
"Nut vary sow a* *
"Weel favored?"
“Yes. and very clever.”
"Worse and worse," said Miss fTeth
erlngton. "Now, Marjorie, listen io
me!"
"Yes, Miss Hetherlngton."
"Look me In the fate while you an
swer. Do you think this French scoun
drel he I* a scoundrel, tak It for
granted hu* come down here In pur
suit o’ Ills pupil? Dinnu he feared to
answer. Is he fond o' you, Murjorlo?"
"I I think he likes me.”
"Has he said as murklc?"
"Yes, Miss Hetherlngton," answered
Marjorie, who was Incapable of a false
hood.
"Ami you? VVhat think yc of him?"
"I like him very much, Miss Hether
lngton, lie ha* been very kind and pa
tient with me."
"But do you love him? -tell me that;
or Is It. Johnnie Sutherland that has
won your silly heart? Out with It,
Marjorie Annan. Frank confession's
good for the soul, and I'm your friend,"
Marjorie blushed, but kept her »>-ank
blue eyes fixed on her questioner's face,
"I don’t love anybody, Miss Hether
lngton not In the way you mean."
"Are you sure o' that?”
"Quite sure,”
"Then you're a wise lassie,” cried the
iHtly, rising to her feet, "Men are kittle
came, min sarer m a uisiaucr.
at that picture,'’ ahe continued, sud
denly pointing to u portrait over the
mantelpiece. "You ken who la It?”
"Yea; your brother, Mr. Hugh.”
"Hugh Hetberington, Clod rcat. hla
eotil! and the heat brother woman ever
had, folk thought that he waa had,
and he had my father'a temper; hut he
guarded hla alater like a watch-dog;
and I wiah you had a brother to guard
you half aa weel. Look underneath *ny
een, on my right cheek! You aee that,
mark? I ahull carry It to my grave.
Hugh gave It to me when I waa a young
lass. He at ruck me In the face wl' III*
Hat. because he thought I waa hiding
something from him, and coortlng wl'
one I needna name.”
The ludy’a face grew full of a wild,
fleece light aa ahe apoke, and *h«
laughed atrangely to hereelf. Marjorie
gu/.ed at her Irt dread.
"It waa a lie, but Hugh waa right,
lie loved hla alater, lie kenned what
men were, be knew their black heart*.
They're a' had, or moatly a', Tak’
warning, Murjorle Annan, and heurkeu
to me! Let nae man come to you In
secret wl' words o’ love; hide nacthlng
from them that, care for you -from Mr.
Ijorralne or from me. Trust the auld
heads, Marjorie; they ken what la right,
(lod ha* made you bonny; may He liaep
you pure and happy tl!l the end!"
Her tone wae changed to one of deep
earnestness, even of pathoa. She
walked up and down the room In agi
tation. pausing now and again, and
leaning upon her crutch.
"No that I would hae you lead a lone
ly life!” she exclaimed after a pause,
"Igiok at me! I'm no that old In years,
but I'm gray, gruy wl' loneliness and
trouble. I might hae had one to care
for me; I might hae bad bairns; hut
It. was nu to he. I'm a rich woman, hut
I hue neither kith nor kin. Lord for
1)1(1 you should ever no mo sumo; uui
when you marry and marry you will
some day- you must choose a true
man ay, true and honest, whether he
he rich or poor; and If you t-anna
choose, let the auld folk that care for
you, and that ken the world choose for
you. Trust their ecu, no your ain!
Never deceive them; Keep nac »ecrete
from them. Mind that, Marjorie An
nan!"
(TO UK ( ONTINLEIM
TIi«* .'lout Befttltlful l oot.
The most beautiful foot Is the slender
one. The stylish girl recognizes this
fact. Her shires are always large
enough to avoid cramping the foot, and
yet they are snug and wonderfully neat
and delicate. That is the reason why
some girls can dance all night without
rest, while others have to retire early
from a brilliant ball, leaving their
hearts behind in case they do not
dunce and suffer so much with their
feet as to preclude the possibility of
real enjoyment. If a girl wears a
proper shoe, when the foot Is Imre, and
she stands upon it in the privacy of
her bedroom, it will he us pretty and
delicate us a baby's. The Instep would
he high, the heel delicately formed, the
skin as white as alabaster, with pos
sibly blue veins showlug through. The
general form of the foot will l»e tden
der, the toes tapering parallel, and
separated h.v about the thickness of a
sheet of paper, and adorned with pink
tinted null*, A Kiri who nhh emu feel
1|S them and there art* many who
have them well may take pride ami
pleubure In contemplating them.
l‘M|i»ll«r Replaced at Ma.
Willie in the mld-AUanltc mi n re
,put trip the eteamehtp Vie tori# of Hun*
derland halt the tetl of bet abaft and
with tt the propeller. Her engiuea
were thue, of enure* re ml*-red ueeleeu
Hut ihoe* on bttwrd were equal In the
emergent*. they drpreweed the bow
and elevated the eteru by ebllting
weight* no n* to enable a epare abaft
and arrew tti he (Hied at **w, and aft
er Ibe delaj wet turnery for en heavy a
1 job to be wttxrmpllebed under em h 4H*
mull eondMtone ah* reeunod her it*|»
age and made her port In aafety.
vv Moby »* •>«•*«
A at«a who »4« bitten by a rattle*
»neh* dianh a quart of whteky a* a
remedv lie died auun afterward* and
the tenant » Jury bto Ight la thU v.r
diet The de*ewaavl (ante to hi* death
tithe* from the aneh* or ih# whtehy.
the i«»v being oa»er<ntn which and
thw boat pbreietan MUWg ament at Ihw
funeral of on* mI hta patbHUa
When tew wwa diet latrodmed ig
king land IW the wvewteewth century.
I it fowl ** ehil.iwg* a powwd
TA IMAGE'S SERMON.!
"THE THREE TAVERNS" LAST |
SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
-i .
frnm (lie 'I'eil: Ail*. <.'hn|>l*r XWIII.,
V#r*e IA- »•* follow*: "They C*m*
lo llwt I * »< r«r n» Apjill" forum j
Mini til* Three Tureen*.
I« VENT KEN in lie*
south of Home, Ita
ly, there was u vil
lage of unfort unate
name. A tavern la a
plare of entertain
ment. In our time
part of the enter
tainment Ih a provi
sion of Intoxicant*.
One aucli place you
would think would
nave been enough for that Italian vil
lage. No, there were three of them,
with doom open for entertainment and
obfuscation. The world has never
lacked stimulating drinks. You re
member the condition of Noah on one
occasion, and of Abigail's husband. Na
bal, and the story of Uelshaxxar's feaat.
und llenhadad, and the new wine In old
bottles, and whole paragraphs on pro
hibition enactment thousand* of year*
before Neal Dow was horn; and no
doubt there were whole shelve* of In
flammatory liquid lu tho*e hotel* which
gave the name to the village where
Paul's friends came to meet him, name
ly, (he Three Taverns. In vain I search
ancient geography for some satisfying
account of thut village. Two roads
came from the sea coast to that place;
the ono from Actlum, and the other
from Puteoll, the last road being the
one which Paul traveled. There were,
no doubt. In that village houses of mer
chundlse and mechanic* shop*, ana
professional offices, but nothing I*
known of them. All that we know of
that village Is that It had a profusion of
Inns- the Three Tavern*. Paul did not
choose any one of these taverns as the
place to meet hts friend*. He certain
ly wa» very abstemlou*, but they made
the selection. He had enlarged about
keeping the body under, though once
he prescribed for a young theological
student a stimulating cordial for a
stomachic disorder; but he told him to
take only a small dose- “a little wine
for thy stomach'* sake."
One of the worst things about the*®
Three Taverns was that they hud es
pecial temptation for those who had
just come ashore. People who had Just
landed at Artlum or Puteoli were soon
tempted by these three hotel* which
were only a little way up from the
beach. Those who are disordered of
the sea (for It is a physical disorganiz
es, Instead of waiting for the gradual
return of physical equlpose, are opt to
lake artificial means to brace up. Of
the one million sailors now on the sea.
how few of them coming ashore will
escape the Three Taverns! After sur
viving hurricanes, cyclones, Icebergs,
collisions, many of them are wrecked
In harbor. I warrant that If a calcu
lation were made of the comparative
number of sailors lost, at sea, and lost
ashore, those drowned by the crimson
wave of dissipation would far outnum
ber those drowned by the salt water.
Alas! that the large majority of
those who go down to the sea in ships
should have twice to pass the Three
Taverns, namely, before they go out,
and after they come In. That fact was
what aroused Father Taylor, the great
sailor's preacher, ut. the Hallors’ Hethel,
Boston, and at a public meeting at
Charlestown, he said, ‘‘All the machin
ery of the drunkard making, soul de
stroying business Is In perfect runnlug
order, from the low grog holes on the
docks kept open to ruin my poor sailor
boys, to the great estahllshmcnts In
Still House square, and when we ask
men what Is to be done ubout It, th"y
say, ‘you can't help It,’ and yet thero
Is Bunker lllll and you say you can't
stop it, and up there are Lexington
and Concord.” We might answer
Father Taylor’s remark by saying, "the
trouble Is nut that we can't stop it, hut
that we won’t stop It.” We must have
more generations slain before the world
will fully wake up to the evil. That
which templed the travelers of old who
came up from the seaports of Aetlurn
and Puteoli, Is now the ruin of sea
faring men us they come up from the
t <>a« m ui uio, Moni'i.i , 1110
Three Tavern*. In the autumn, about
thl* time. In the year 1K37. the utaam
iktil 1> Homo went out from New York for
Charleston. There were about one hun
dred passenger*, aorne of them widely
known. Some of them hud been aunt
merliiK at the northern watering place*
and they were on their way nouth, nil
expectant of hearty greeting by their
friend* on the wharve* of Charleston.
Hut u little more than two day* out the
ship struck the rock*. A life boat mm*
launched, hut *«nk with all It* pusaen
aer*. A mother w*« *cen Handing ott
the deck uf the steamer with her child
In her arm* A wave wrenched the
child from the mother'* arm* and
rolled tt Into the »ea. and the mother
leaped after It. The sailor* rushed tu
the bar of the Imat and drank them
selves drunk. Ninety-Itv# human be
ing* went down never lo rise, or to he
Heated upon the beach amid the frag
ment* uf the wreck What w*» the
cause uf the disaster? A drunken tea
captain. Hut not until the ludgMHUi
day, when the turn shall give up II* dead
and Ike story uf earthly disaster* shall
t>* luHy told, will it 1st known how
many yacht*, Maawtet*. brlgaitnesmen
ut-wai and mean greyhound* hav*
bean lost through captain and craw
mad* Incompetent by oltukalk da
tbrunsmanl Admiral Yarragot had
propel appreciation nf what the gory
stimulus was tu a man In the navy An
•••cel of the warship said lo him.
"Admiral »o*'t you consent to gitra
Jack a alas* nf grog In Ik* morning*
Nut enough t» make him drunk nut
•weak In make ntm kghl chaarfutiy *
The admiral answered "I hav* k*wg
tu ana cutuMembty. and hav* seen a
bank or tw«. hut I waver found that I
needed rum to enable mp to do my
duty. I will order two cups of coffee
to each man at two o’clock In the morn
ing. and at eight o’clock I will pipe ell
hands to breakfast In Mobile flay.
The Three Taverns of my text were
too near the Mediterranean shipping.
Hut notice the multiplicity. What
could that Italian village, so small that
history make* lint one nietitlon of It,
want with more than one tavi ru? There
were not enough travelers coming
through that Insignificant town to sup
port mote than one house of lodg
ment. That would have furnished
enough pillows and enough breakfasts
No. the world's appetite Is diseased,
and the subsequent draughts must he
taken to slack the thirst created hy the
preceding draughts, Htrong drink kin
dles the lire* of thirst faster than it
puts them out. There were three tav
ern*. That which cursed that Italian
village curses ull Christendom today -
too many taverns. There are streets
in some of our cities where there are
three or four taverns In every block;
aye, where every other house is a tav
ern, You can take the Aruble numeral
of my text, the three, and put on the
right hand side of It one cipher, and
two ciphers, and four ciphers, and that
re-enforcement of numeral* will not
express the statistics of American rurn
raerles, Bven If It were a good, healthy
business, supplying necessity, an arti
cle superbly nutritious. It I* a business
mightily overdone, and there are Three
Taverns where there ought to he only
one.
The fact Is, there ure In another
sense Three Taverns now; the gorgeous
Tavern for the affluent, the medium Tu
vern for the working clusses, und the
Tavern of tho slums, and they stand In
line, and many people beginning wllh
the first come down through the second
arid coma out at the third. At the first
of the Three Taverns, the wines ore of
celebrated vintage, and the whiskies
are said to be pure, and they are
quaffed from cut glass, at marble side
tables, under pictures approaching
masterpieces. The patrons pull off
their kind gloves, und hand their silk
hats to the waiter, and push back their
hair with a hand on one finger of
which Is a cameo. Hut those patrons
are apt to stop visiting that place. It
Is not the money that a man pays fur
drinks, for whut are a few hundred or
a few thousand dollars to a man of
large Income but their brain gets
touched, and that unbalances their
Judgment, and they can see fortunes
In enterprises surcharged wllh disas
ter. In longer or shorter time they
change Taverns, and they come down
to Tavern the second, where the pic
ture* are not quite so scrupulous of sug
gestion, arid Ihe small laid'; Is rougher,
and the castor standing on it Is of tSec
rrinn utlver unit the air has been keot
over from the night before, und that
which they sip from the pewter mug
has a larger percentage of benzine, um
bei-grltc, creosote, henbane, strychnine,
prussic acid, coculus Indlcus, plaster of
parls, copperas, and nightshade. The
patron may be Keen almost every duy,
and perhaps many times the sarna day
at this 'Tavern the second, hut he Is
preparing to graduate. JJraln, liver,
heart, nerves, are rapidly giving way.
That Tavern the second has Its dismal
echo In his business destroyed and fam
ily scattered, and woes that choke one's
vocabulary. Time passes on, und he
enters Tavern the third; a red light
outside; a hiccoughing and besotted
group Inside*. He will be drugged out
of doors about two o'clock In the morn
ing and left on the sidewalk, because
the bartender wants to shut up. The
poor victim has taken the regular
course in the college of degradation. He
has Ills diploma written on his swollen
bruised und blotched physiognomy, lie
Is a regular graduate of the Three
Taverns. As the police take him Ir:
and put him In the ambulance, tic
wheels seem to rumble with two roll;
of thunder, one of which says, "Look
not upon the wine when It Is red, when
It moveth Itself aright in the cup, foi
at laHt It blieth like a serpent, unci
sllngeth like an adder.’’ The othei
thunder roll says, "All drunkards shaT
lm i,n ihnlr rtloon In ilin lulcu th'it Itttrn.
eth with lire and brimstone, • * '
With those thoughts I cheer Christlai
reformers In their work, and what re
JolcltiK on earth and heaven there wil
lu over the consummation. Within t
few days one of the greatest of tin
leaders In this cause went up to en
throuoment. The world never had bit
one Neal Dow. and may uever hav<
another. He has been an lllumlnatlot
to the century. The stand he took hat
directly and indirectly saved hundred!
of thousands ft out drunkards' graves
Seeing the wharves of Portland, Maine
covered with casks of West Indlai
rum (nearly au acre of It at one time)
and the city smoking with seven tils
(tileries, he begnu the warfare again*
drunkenne** more than half a centurj
ago. The good he ha* done, (he home
he ha* kept Inviolate, the high mora
cense with which he ha* Infmed tel
generations, t» a story that nelthe
earth nor heaven can afford to let die
mo lded, belittled, rat Iratured, malign
nl, for a quarter of a century as fee
men have been be has lived off unit
at hi* decease universal uewspaperdon
speak* hi* pr«Ue and (he eutoglums o
I.Is career on tbl* aide of the •** have
t wen caught up by (he cathedral or gat
sounding hi* requiem on the other IIP
whole life having been for Hod and ih<
world's betterment, whew at halt-pa*
threw o'clock in the afternoon of Ik
tv her (*<u«d he left hi* horn* on enrtl
surrounded hy luting nisWsig an<
entered the gate* of hi* eternal real
den*#. I thtnh there naa a mnet unu
■oat welcwme *nd satutalion give*
turn Multitude* enter heaven only u
vauaw of what t'hital hae dona to.
them, the wet< once ant at ail tnten
•thed iwcauee uf anything (hay hat
a» na for him Hot all heaven sneti
the ttory of that good man a life, ea
rn* beauty af but denth bad a here hi
•eld "I i«ug in ha free ' I thtnh at
the rwfwrmera *d heaven earn# rat u
halt him in the departed teguuiot.
111 1 ■" ■■ l
| who made laws to restrain intemper
| Hire, the coasec.rated platform ora
. tors who thrilled the generat'on* that
! are gone, with "righteousness, temper
i anee, and Judgment to tome''--Albert
j Barnes and John B. Gough were there
! lo gieet him. and golden-tongued pa
I rrlareh Stephen H. Tyng was there,
and John W. Hawkins, the founder of
the much derided and gloriously use
ful "Washingtonian Movement" was
there, aud John Sterns and Commo
dore Foote, and Hr. Marsh and Gov
ernor Briggs and ICIlphalet Null, and
my lovely friend Alfred Colquitt, the
Christian Senator, and hundreds of
those who labored for the overthrow
of the drunkenness thut yet curses the
earth, were there to meet him und es
rort him to hit throne and shout at
his coronation.
God let him live on for near a cen
tury, to show what good haldts and
cheerfulness and faith In the Altai tri
umph of all that Is good, cun do for a
man In this world, and to add to the
number of those who would he on the
other side lo attend his entrance. But
he will come hack again! “Yes,” say
some of you, with Martha, about I-nza
rua to Jesus, “I know he will rise at
the Resurrection of the last day.’’ Ah!
I do not mean that. Ministering spir
its are all the time coming und going
between earth and heaven the Bible
(inches It- and do you suppose the old
hero Just ascended will not come down
and help us In the battle that still
goes on? flo will. Into the hearts of
discouraged reformers he will come to
speak good cheer. When legislators
are deciding how they can best stop
the rum truffle of America by legal
enactment, he will help them vote for
the right, and rise up undismayed from
temporary defeat. In this battle will
Neal Dow he until the lust, victory Is
gained and the smoke of the last dis
tillery bus curled on the air, and the
lust tear of despoiled homesteads shall
bo wiped away. O departed nonage
narian! After you have taken a good
rest from your struggle of seventy act
ive years, come down again Into the
light, and bring with you a host of the
old Christian warriors who once
mingled in the fray.
In this battle the visible troops are
not so mighty as the Invisible. Thu
gospel campaign began with the su
pernatural the midnight chant that
woke the shepherds, the hushed sea,
the eyesight given where the patient
had been without the optic nerve, the
sun obliterated from the noonday
heavens, the law of gravitation loosing
Its grip as Christ ascended; and as
the gospel ettmpalgn began with the
supernatural, It will dose with the su
pernatural; and the winds and the
waves and the lightnings and the
earthquakes will come In on the right
side and against the wrung side; and
our ascended champions will return,
whether the world seen them or does
not see them. 1 do not think that those
great souls departed arc going to do
nothing hereafter hut sing psalms and
play harps, and breathe frankincense,
and wulk seas of glass mingled with
Are. 'I he mission they fulfilled while
In the body will be eclipsed by their
post-mortem mission, with faculties
quickened and velocities multiplied;
and It may havo been to that our dy
ing reformer referred when he said, "I
long to be free!” There may he bigger
words than this to he redeemed, and
more gigantic abominations to he over
thrown than this world over saw; and
the discipline go-ten here may only lie
preliminary drill for a campaign In
some other world, and perhaps some
other constellation, lint the crowned
heroes and heroines, because of their
grander achievements In g-cater
spheres, will not forget this old world
where they prayed and suffered and
triumphed. Church militant and
Church triumphant hut two divisions
of the same army- right wing and
left wing,
PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY.
leu of Tilt-in Mi'emei! to Have l.eariiril
Anything Noble from Nature.
“For the stability and righteousness
of our government we are accustomed
to think we must pin our faith on the
country people who live ‘near to Na
ture's heart,' ” writes Mrs. Lyman Ali
bott lit the October Ladles’ Home Jour
nal. the first of a series of ‘Tcucelul
Vulley" papers which picture life in an
Ideal rurul community. "But how
n> omi I.f Ilium " tilts* UUV1 "atinln (is
have learned anything noble front her?
Her beauty doea not refine them, her
honesty doea not Incite them to thor
oughness. her free-handedness does not
Inspire them to generosity they be
come narrow and sordid In the midst
of grandeur and liberality. They im
agine there can be nothing In life but
wurlt or play, toil ur rest, and they feel
a contempt for those who play and rest,
i They have never hallied to min.'le
I wurlt and play, loll and rest In due
, proportion, and they tease to Hud any
, pleasure lii life unless they shannon
work altogether. I.lhe the tired worn
an who wrote her own epteaph. they
fancy heaven a place where they can
I ‘du nothing forever amt ever.' This
; view ut life makes tuafera in the ell
, (age as U make* them lu the cities.
When a different spirit has fuimd room
In gi«w a new order of living prevails
Life becomes something more than a
•low grinding of the mill, more than
’ > a burden, to be endured unly because
n lutury aa well aa a necessity. Indi
vidual* combine nor foe thetr u-» ad
| vantage, but te multiply b*a«?*> thm*
ami aa strength Increase*, by Ha right
an*, the attainment of an# worthy awi
ambitious advantage is only the sug
gestion nnd achievement of another **
gstrew* rvnsMvSi
"Nine time# sot«« >•* *s'd t o. l*
yur 'a gsmmtn tfikw you** a. s
l 1 let «bouse some yutbuh boat*#*# daw
> j ehur be got Into Hr lake* H lug
I j granted dal H twub a heap mo dan
I | comma* counts**# ter #u> -*4 ilk* hg
II did ' Wksftiagtwg dtar
