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J * "Truly , " replied the Doctor with a
I & brug , "you have your finger onthe
JJL liitch. Ho will be strikingly antlpa-
I # -thetic to my beautiful Anastasie. She
I \ will never understand him ; he will
I w -never understand her. You married the
W Sp -animal side of my nature , dear ; and it
I 1 | is on the spiritual side that I find my
% T" affinity in Jean-Marie. So much so ,
I * I * * hat' lo bo Perfectly frank , I stand in
I \t .come awe of him myself. You will
I -easily perceive that I am announcing
I W a calamity for you. Do not , " he broke
I ? l -out in tones of real solicitude "do not
I . -J 3fc -give way to tears after a meal , Anas-
I " 5B- " ' ' "taste. You will certainly give yourself
I H * false digestion. "
I X. Anastasie controlled herself. "You
I " * % lenow how willing I am to humor you , "
I 5 ishe said , "In all reasonable matters.
I f 4 'But on * * * * * point "
I a \ "My dear love , " interrupted the Doc-
I J [ lor , eager to prevent a refusal , "who
I v j wished to leave Paris ? who made me
f J' -give up cards , and the opera , and the
[ V A boulevard , and my social relations , and
1 fLr * lbat was my 1Ife before * knew you ?
"
rE/ Have I been faithful ? Have I been
M obedient ? Have I not borne my doom
jL -with cheerfulness ? In all honesty ,
WAnastasie , have I not a right to a stipulation -
% lation on my Bide ? I have , and you
h iknow it I stipulate my son. "
% Anastasie was aware of defeat ! she
r\ -itruck her colors instantly. "You will
\ ' 'break my heart , " she sighed.
\ "Not in the least , " said he. "You
\ -will feel a trifling inconvenience for a
J | month just as I did when I was first
C •
and she would have allowed her hu3'
band to Tieep a menagerie in the back
garden , Jet Alone adopting a stable-
boy , rather than permit the question of
return to be discussed.
lH. . - [ / CHAPTER IV.
t = 7 BOUT four of the
] /ffc\T \ ( afternoon , the
jyjsk\\ \ \ mountebank ren-
/V gaCllll. dered up his ghost ;
( fe * j s2Ahe had never been
llS2 ullH conscious since his
,4B" , r'i' ' Beizure- Doctor
jffifo JW AS Desprez was pres-
* 'fcafip0 ent at his last pas- j
p&rfy BaSe and declared
frcP * * tne farce over.
Then he took Jean-
Marie by the shoulder and led him out
Into the inn garden where there was a
convenient bench beside the river. Here
he sat him down and made the boy
place himBelf on his left.
"Jean-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. Your master
is dead ; you are not fit to gain a living
by yourself ; you do not wish to steal ?
No. Your 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. I should lie under a
water-lily and listen to the bells , which
must sound most delicately down be
low. 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 his usual effusive warmth , though
It was a proceeding that seemed to dis
concert the sufferer almost as much as
if he had been an English schoolboy of
the same age. "And now , " he added ,
"I will take 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 Is very pretty , " said Anastasie.
" "Will you kiss me , my pretty little
fellow ? "
The Doctor was furious , and dragged
her into the passage. "Are you a fool ,
Anastasie ? " he said. "What is all this
I hear about the tact of women ?
Heaven knows , I have not met with it
in my experience. You address my
little philosopher as if he were an in
fant He must be spoken to with more
respect , I 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 Anastasie ; "but I will try
to do better. "
The Doctor apologized for 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 a 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. "
Anastasie 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
ft
TOOK HIM IN HER ARMS.
i
, Nj2n brought to this vile hamlet ; then your
admirable sense and temper will pre
vail , and I see you already as content
as ever , and making your husband the
happiest of men. " x
"You know I can refuse you nothing , "
she said , with a last flicker of resist
ance.
"I think not , " replied the Doctor.
"But do not suppose me so unwary as
to adopt him out of hand. I am , I
flatter myself , a finished man of the
• world ; I have had all possibilities in
view ; my plan is contrived to meet
them all. I take the lad as stable boy.
* If he pilfer , grumble , if. he desire to
change , I shall see T was mistaken ; I
• shall recognize him for no son of mine ,
and send him tramping. "
"You will never do so when the time
comes , " said his wife ; "I know your
good heart"
She reached out her hand to him ,
I with a sigh ; the Doctor smiled as he
took it and carried it to his lips ; he
Jiad gained bis point with greater ease
than he had dared to hope ; for per
haps the twentieth time he had proved
the efficacy of his trusty argument , his
Excalibur , the hint of a return to
Paris. Six months in the capital , for a
man of the doctor's antecedents and
relations , implied no less a calamity
than total ruin. Anastasie had saved
• the remainder of his fortune by keeping
him strictly in the country. The very
name of Paris put her in a hlue fear ;
keeping a good table a man , neither
as friend nor host , to be despised. I
offer you your food and clothes , and to
teach you lessons in the evening , which
will be infinitely more to the purpose
for a lad of. your stamp than those of
all the priests in Europe. I propose no
wages , but if ever you take a thought
to leave me , the door shall be open , and
I will give you a hundred francs to
start the world upon. In return , I have
an old horse and chaise , which you
would very speedily learn to clean and
keep in order. X > o not hurry yourself
to answer , and take it or leave it as
you judge aright. Only remember this ,
that I am no sentimentalist or char
itable person , but a man who lives
rigorously to himself , and that if 1
make the proposal , itis for my own
ends it is because I perceive clearly
an advantage to myself. And now , re
flect"
"I shall be very glad. I do not see
what else I can do. I thank you , sir ,
most "kindly , and I will try to be use
ful , " said the boy.
"Thank you , " said the Doctor warm
ly , rising at the same time and wiping
his brow , for he had suffered agonies
while the thing hung in the ivind. A
refusal , after the scene atnoon , would
have placed him in a ridiculous light
before Anastasie. "How hot and heavy
is the evening , to be sure ! I have al
ways had a fancy to be a fish in sum
mer , Jean-Marie , here in the Doing
true womanly heroism in little affairs.
Not only did . she refrain from the
cheap revenge of exposing the Doctor's
errors to himself , but she did her best
to remove their ill-effect on Jean-Ma
rie. When Desprez went out for his
last breath of air before retiring for
the night , she came over to the boy's
side and took his hand.
He held up his face , and she took
him in her arms and then began to
cry. The woman had spoken in com
plaisance ; but she had warmed to her
own words , and tenderness followed.
The Doctor , entering , found them en
laced ; he concluded that his wife was
in fault ; and he was just beginning , in
an awful voice , "Anastasie , " when
she looked up at him , smiling , with an
upraised finger ; and he held his peace ,
wondering , while she led the boy to
his attic.
( to nscojrrixcsD.l
Coleridge , the poet , was an awkwara
horseman. Once riding along the turn
pike road in the county of Durham he
was accosted by a man who had been
watching the rider. "I say , young
man , did you meet a tailor on the
road ? " "Yes , " replied the poet , whose
middle name was Taylor ; "I did ; and
he told me if I went a little farther 1
should meet a goose. "
The Austrians were originally the
Oester-Reichers or inhabitants of the
Eastern Empire. " "
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TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A BAG WITH HOLES-LAST
SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
From the Test Ilncgal 1:0 n Follows :
Ho Tliat Kurmtli Waso < , Kuntrtli
"Waco * lo l'ut It into a IJasr Willi
Holes.
c- - > N PERSIA , under
yf aiL the reign of Darius
% &iP&4Hk Hystaspcs , the peo-
• Ms r fSli 1 > le not ProsIer-
sf * jlV | They made money ,
3 $ ® * t 20Huut dItl uot keen lt
\tLSffiffl Q They wcre lilv0
nfiOoMtJ Peonle vfa0 liave n
gv Js R. * BaCC in which to
5/ put nione > ' . not
r / "
§ fY knowing that the
Eack is torn or
eaten of moths , or in some way made
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 no difference how much
wages they got , for they lost them.
"He that 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 I will
build for every working man a house ,
and lay out for him a garden , and
clothe his sons in broadcloth and his
daughters in silk , and place at his
front door a prancing span of sorrels
or bays , and secure him a policy of
life insurance , so that the present home
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 and damnable liquids down
the threats of hundreds of thousands
of laborers , and 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 , if be will refuse all intox
icating beverage and be saving , may
not become a capitalist on a small
scale. Our country in a year spends
one billion five hundred million and
fifty thousand dollars for drink. Of
course the working classes do a great
deal of this expenditure. Careful sta
tistics show that the wage-earning
classes cf Great Britain expend in
liquors one hundred million pounds , or
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 you
might have been your own capitalist
When you deplete a working man's
physical energy you deplete his capi
tal. The stimulated workman gives
out before the unstimulated workman.
My father said : "I became a temperance
in early life -because I
ance man , - no
ticed in the harvest field that , though
I was physically weaker than other
workmen , I could hold out longer than
they. They took stimulants , I took
none. " A brickmaker in England gives
his experience in regard to this matter
among men in his employ. He says ,
after investigation : "The beer-drinker
who made the fewest bricks made six
hundred and fifty-nine thousand ; and
the abstainer who made the fewest
bricks seven hundred and forty-six
thousand. The difference in behalf of
the abstainer over the indulger , eighty-
seven thousand. "
When an army goes out to the bat
tle the soldier who has water or coffee
in his canteen marches easier and fights
better than the soldier who has whis
ky in his canteen. Drink helps a man
to fight when he has only one con
testant , and that at the street corner.
But when he goes forth to .maintain
some great battle for God and his
country , he wants no drink about him.
When the Russians go to war a cor
poral passes along the line and smells
the breath of every soldier. If there
be in his breath a taint of intoxicating
liquor the man is sent back to the
barracks. Why ? He cannot endure
fatigue. All our young men know this.
When they are preparing for a regat
ta , or for a tall cub ! , cr for an ath
letic wrestling , they abstain. Our
working people will be wiser after
awhile , and the meney they iling away
on hurtful indulgences they - will -pu :
into co-operative acsociatior , and so .
beccme capitalists. If the working
man put down his wages and then take
his expenses and spread them out so
they will just equal , he is not wlao.
I know working men who ara 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 alx or seven
hundred dollars yearly. Marriage day
came. The bride had inherited five
hundred dollars from her grandfather.
She tpent every dollar of it on the
wedding dress. Then they rented two
rooms in the third Etory. Then the
young man took extra evening em
ployment. It almost extinguished his
eyesight. 'Why did he add evening em
ployment to the day employment ? To
get money. Why did he want to get
money ? To lay up something for a
rainy day ? No. To get his life In
sured , so that in case of his death his
wife wculd 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
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 great 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 ,
but 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 coat ! "
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
to go to the Centennial. Between such
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.
I have no sympathy for skinflint
saving , but I plead for Christian pru
dence. You say it is impossible now
to lay up anything for a rainy day.
I know it , but we arc 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. But if it be to edu
cate your children , if it be to give more
help to your wife when she does not
feel 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 annihilation of the do
mestic circles if it be for that , then it
is magnificent * * *
God only knows what the drunkard
suffers. Pain files on every nerve , and
travels every muscle , and gnaws ev
ery bone , and burns with every flame ,
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
horrors 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 Che hospital where these in
ebriates are dying , the stench of their
wounds driving back the attendants ,
their voices sounding through the
night ? The keeper comes up and says ,
"Hush , now be still ! Stop making all
this noise ! " But it is effectual only
for a moment , for as soon as the keep
er is gone they begin again , "O God !
O 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 I tell you further that this
is going to be the death that some of
you will die. I know it I see it com
ing.
Again , the inebriate suffers through
the loss of home. I do not care how
much he loves his wife and children ,
if this passion for strong drink has
mastered him , he will do the most out
rageous things ; and , if he could not get
drink in any other way , he would sell
his family into eternal bondage. How
many homes have been broken up in
that way no one but God knows. Oh ,
Is there anything that will so destroy
a man for this life , and damn him for
the life that is to come ! Do not tell
me that a man can be happy when he
knows that he is breaking his wife's
heart and clothing his children with
rags. Why , there are on the roads and
streets of this land to-day little chil
dren barefooted , unwashed , and un
kempt want on every patch of their
faded dress and on every wrinkle of
their prematurely old countenances ,
who would have been in churches to
day , and as well clad as you are , but
for the fact that rum destroyed their
parents and drove them into the grave.
O , rum , thou foe of God , thou despoiler
of homes , thou recruiting officer of the
pit , I hate thee !
But my subject takes a deeper tone ,
and that is , that the unfortunate of
whom I speak suffers from the loss
of the soul. The Bible intimates that
in the future world , if we are unfor-
given here , our bad passions and ap
petites unrestrained , will go along with
us and make our torment there. So
that , I suppose , when an inebriate
wakes up in that world , he will feel
-an infinite thirst consuming him. Now ,
down in this world , although he may
have been Jtoor , ho could beg or he J
could steal five cents with which to %
get that which would * lakc his thirst 4
for a little while ; but in eternity wbora -1
is the rum to come from ? }
. o . .j
While I doclarcd some time ago that
there was a point "beyond which a man
could not 3top , I want to tell you that ,
while a man cannot stop In his own
strength , the Lord God by Ills 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 tlraw
In my life there flashed out a truth
I never understood. They said , "We-
were victims of strong drink. We tried
to give it up , but always failed ; but
somehow since we gave our hearts to-
Christ , he has taken care of us. " I
believe that the time will soon como
when the grace of God will show Its
power not only to save man's soul ,
but his body , and 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 God He will .
help you by His grace to conquer. Try
it. It is your last chance. I have
looked off upon the desolation. Sitting - j
ting next to you in our religious as
semblages there are a good many peo- '
pie In awful peril ; and , judging from'
ordinary circumstances , there 13 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 drunkard-V
graves ; and as to their souls , lie down
in a drunkard's perdition. I know that >
(
is an awful thing to say , but I cannot
help saying it
Oh. beware ! You have not yet been
captured. Beware ! Whether the bev
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
books of Judgment are opened , and ten ,
million drunkards come up to get their <
doom , I want you to bear witness that '
I , in the fear of God and in the love
for 3-our soul , told you , with all affection - <
tion and with all kindness , to beware
of that which has already exerted Its
influence upon your family , blowing
out some of its lights a premonition
of the blackness of darkness for ever.
Oh , if you could only hear intemper
ance with drunkards' bone3 drumming
on the head of the liquor cask the
Dead March of immortal souls , methinks -
thinks the very glance of a wine cup
would make you shudder , and 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 prephecies of the resurrection !
God has a balm for such a wound :
but what flower of comfort ever grew
on a drunkard's sepulchre ? >
Telephony in Hie United StateK.
The extraordinary growth of the tel
ephone service in America is shown in
some figures brought out in the coursa
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 States with
a population , according to the census
"
of 1890 , of C2C22,250 , maintains 325,810
telephone stations , or one to every 192
of the population. The combined pop
ulation of Europe , according to the cen
sus of 1890 , is 35-1,957,770 , and they
maintain 330,037 telephone stations , 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 Europe they
amount to 767.109,824. In other words ,
in the United States the number of
telephones used is more than five times
as great , according to the population ,
as those used in the countries of Eu
rope , and the number of conversations
per capita of the population of the-
United States is six times as great as.
in Europe. France , with a population
of 38,343,192 , is using 29,500 telephones ,
or one to every 1,300 of the population i
that is , France , with a population eight
times as great as that of the six New-
England States , is using fewer tele
phones than the people of New Eng
land. Massachusetts , according to the-
census of 1895 , had a population of 2. -
500,183 , and there are 20,315 telephones.
in use. or one to every 95 of the popu
lation. Sweden , where the telephone-
is more generally used than in any-
other country in Europe , has but one-
telephone to every 136 of the popula
tion. London has a population of 5-
600,000 with 8,000 exchange telephone
instruments , or one to every 700 of the
population , while Boston , with a popu
lation of 496,920 , according to the cen
sus of 1895. has 9,037 telephones , or ona
to every fifty-five of the population.
• BAlnmlaum In Vacltt-Kigginc' .
During the past year or so alumi
num has been used in some cases for
making the pulley-blocks for the rigging - ,
ging of yachts. One of the chief ad
vantages is the gain in lightness. ?
-which is a very desirable thing in h
blocks that are used aloft The results
are reported as satisfactory , and the
aluminum blocks have proved to be }
very strong , one for instance , the
weight of which was only three
ounces , having stood a strain of sevea.
hundred pounds.
