BJf $ f INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION.
CHAPTER VIII.
rass ] ARLY in the niorn-
r / ftpg l Ing after Miss
' $ & SHelherington's vis-
* s * pared to set out for
" M P the Castle. She
< flfes > would gladly have
jgTujifycS ? made some excuse
/2y to stay at home ,
mt Mr" Lorraine
wS "
CjgFj / v. * ould not hear of
it , and at his earn
est request she consented.
"She is your best friend , " said the
| minister , "and you must not offend
"Very well , I will so , " answered
Marjorie ; "but I shall come home early
fn Iho afternoon. Shell never ask mete
to stay all night ? If she does , I can't
"Why not , Marjorie ? "
"The Castle's eerie enough at day
time , but at night it's dreadful , and
.Miss Hetherlngton creeps about like
a ghost. I'd sooner sleep out in the
At a quarter before nine she startud ,
for she had throe miles to walk , and
she wished to linger on the road ,
which lay through pleasant country
pastures and among green lanes. The
morning was bright and clear , though
there were clouds to seaward which
spoke of coming rain. Passing up
throifeh 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 ? "
If
"Up to Miss Hetherington's at the
Castle , " she replied.
"Are you going to walk ? "
res.
"Then may I come with you a piece
"Not today , Johnnie , " she said ,
nervously. "I'm late , and must hurry
The young man sighed , but did not
press his request. Troubled and vexed
at the meeting , Marjorie walked quick-
She followed the townward highway
till she came to the cross-roads where
she had alighted from the wagonette.
Close to the cross-road there was a
stile , and she was about to step over ,
when she heard a voice behind her.
Turning quickly she saw to her as
tonishment the French teacher from
He was clad in a dark walking-suit ,
• with broad-brimmed , wide-awake hat ,
and was smoking a cigar. He looked
at her smilingly , and raised his hat.
She thought he had never looked so
handsome , as he stood there in. the
sunshine , with his pale face .smiling
and his bright black eyes fixed eagerly
"Monsieur Caussidiere ! " she cried in
astonishment.
"Yes , it is I ! " he replied in his sad ,
musical voice. "I have walked from
• the town , and was going down to see
"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
davs before me , I 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
suci 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 taking place , he had lightly
leaped the stile and -was handing her
over with great politeness. They
strolled along the foot-path side by
side. Suddenly Marjorie paused.
"I am going up to the Castle , " she
said , "and I shall not be back till the
! afternoon. Do not let me take you out
. -of your way. "
k The Frenchman smiled and shrugged
liis shoulders.
"Oh ! one way is to me as good as
another , " he exclaimed.
"But you said you wished to see Mr.
Lorraine ? "
"Precisely ; but I prefer your com
pany , my child. "
"Ho is at home now , and will be so
slad of some one to talk to. "
"I see you want to get rid of me ,
little one , " said Caussidiere , paternally.
"If I go will you promise to return
soon ? Remember , I shall not depart
until you do return. "
"Yes , I will promise , " answered Mar
jorie. "I I would rather you did not
come any further. "
-/M \ "And wherefore , my child ? Is my
fc company so disagreeable ? "
r
JT "No , monsieur ; but the folk in this
Kl A place are aye talking , and if they saw
#
tktf me walking with a strange gentleman
fwlil& it would be all over the parish before
PtL night , and then Miss Hetherington
3L& would hear of it , and I should get no
fjf * peace. "
> w\ ! An ( * as sne sP ° ke sne l ° ° ked round
& & N aiervously , as if dreading an eye-wit-
| ljL i ness.
HjiW "Miss Hetherington ! Pray , who in
W M -she ? "
I "Tfce lady I am going to see. She
fAjL 2ias eyes everywhere nothing happens
/ tint she kens. "
Rr "But surely there is nothing to con
ceal , " persisted the Frenchman. "It
is very natural that , having met you ,
I should offer to escort you. "
"In France , maybe , but not here in
Annandale. Down here , monsieur ,
when two folk are seen out walking in
the fields together , all the world ne-
lieves them to be courting. "
She had spoken without reflection ,
and her face now grow crimson as she
met her companion's eyes and realized
the significance of her own words.
"I see , " cried the Frechman , laugh
ing. "They would take mc for your
lover. "
Marjorie did not reply , but turned
her face away and began to walk on
rapidly. But the Frenchman kept by
her side.
"Ah , my child , " he continued , "I nm
more fit to be your father than your
lover. I am not so frivolous and vain
as to presume to think of one so young
and pretty. You must not mind me !
1 am your teacher , your friend that is
all ! "
She was touched by the tone in
which he spoke , but after a moment's
hesitation she paused again , and looked
him full in the face.
"What you say is quite true , mon
sieur , " she said ; "but , oh ! do not fol
low me any further. See , that is the
Castle , and who knows but Miss Heth
erington herself is watching us from
the tower ? "
She pointed across the fields toward
a dirk belt of woodland , over which
two old-fashioned towers were indeed
visible , about a mile and a half away.
"Well , I will do as you aesire , my
child , " answered Caussidiere , after a
moment's hesitation ; "I will go and
make the acquaintance of your guard
ian. Au revoir ! "
He took her hand , lifted it to his lips ,
and kissed it ; then , with an air of re
spectful gallantry , he swept off his hat
and bowed. She could not help smil
ing ; he looked so fantastic to her sim
ple sight , and yet so handsome !
She walked on thoughtfully. At the
next stile she turned and looked back.
He was still stationary in the pathway ,
gazing after her ; but the moment she
looked back 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.
She was " ressed in an old-fashioned
robe of stift black silk , and wore a cap ,
like that of a widow , over her snow-
white hair. She came in leaning on
her crutch , and nodded grimly to her
guest.
"Sit ye doon , " she said , pointing to a
seat , and herself dropping into an arm
chair before the fire. Then , drawing
out a man's gold hunting-watch and
opening it , she continued : "Twenty-
five minutes after ten. - You're late in
coming , Marjorie Annan. I doubt you
were lingering on the way. "
. CHAPTER IX.
i
fPT kf
S she spoke , and
closed her watch
sharply , Miss Heth-
ington fixed her
black eyes keenly
on Marjorie , who ,
remembering her
recent encounter
with Caussidiere ,
flushed and trem
bled. A curious
smilfi jrrfiw * nnnn
the stern woman's bloodless face as
she continued :
"Ay , ay , you were lingering , and may
be you had pleasant company. Who
was yon you parted with out there
among the green fields ? "
Marjorie started in consternation.
Her fears , then , were right , and it was
useless to conceal anything from Miss
Hetherington , who was like a witch ,
and had eyes and ears everywhere.
"Oh , Miss Hetherington , " she ex
claimed , "did you see us together ? "
"I was up on the tower with my spy-
ing-glass , and I saw far awa' a lassie ,
that looked like Marjorie Annan , and
a lad I took at first for Johnnie Suther
land , till he began booing and kissing
his hand , and then I saw it could na be
Johnnie. "
Marjorie now perceived that all con
cealment was useless , and at once told
her hostess of the meeting with her
French teacher. She did not think it
expedient , however , to describe with
exactness the Frenchman's conversa
tion ; but even as it was , Miss Hether-
ington's brow darkened , and her eyes
flashed with a light like that of anger.
"Braw doings ! " she muttcrpd. "Braw
doings for young growing lassie o' sev
enteen ! Your French teacher , : , ay you ?
What's his name , Marjorie ? "
"Monsieur Caussidiere. "
"And what's the man doing down
here instead of teaching his classes in
the town ? "
"Indeed , I can't tell , " returned Mar
jorie. "I met him quite by accident on
my way to see you. "
"Humph ! What like Is he ? Is he
young ? "
"Not very young. " *
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"Wcel favored ? "
"Yes , and -very clever. "
"Worse and worse/ ' said Miss Heth- '
crlngton. "Now , Marjorie , listen to.
me ! "
"Yes , Miss Hetherington. "
"Look mc in the face while you an
swer. Do you think this French scouni
drel he is a scoundrel , tak' It for
granted has come down here in pur
suit o' his pupil ? Dlnna be feared to
answer. Is he fond o' you , Marjorlo ? "
"I I think he likes me. "
"Has he said as muckle ? "
"Yes , Miss Hetherington , " answered
Marjorie , who was incapable of a false
hood.
"And you ? What think ye of him ? "
"I like him very much , Miss Hether
ington. He has 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 frank
blue eyes fixed on her questioner's face.
"I don't love anybody , Miss Hether-
ington not in the way you mean. "
"Are you sure o' that ? "
"Quite sure. "
"Then you're a wise lassie , " cried the
lady , rising to her feet "Men are kittle
cattle , and safer at a distance. Look
at that picture , " she continued , suddenly -
denly pointing to a portrait over the
mantelpiece. "You ken who is it ? "
"Yes ; your brother , Mr. Hugh. " .
"Hugh Hetherington , God rest his
soul ! and the best brother woman ever
had. Folk thought that he was bad ,
and he had my father's temper ; but he
guarded his sister like a watch-dog ;
and I wish you had a brother to guard
you half as weel. Look underneath my
een , on my right cheek ! You see that
mark ? I shall carry it to my grave.
Hugh gave it to me when I was a young
lass. He struck me in the face wi' his
fist , because he thought I was hiding
something from him , and coorting wi *
one I needna name. "
The lady's face grew full of a wild ,
fierce light as she spoke , and she
laughed strangely to herself. Marjorie
gazed at her in dread.
"It was a lie , but Hugh was right ,
he loved his sister. He kenned what
men were , he knew their black hearts.
They're a' bad , or mostly a' . Tak'
warning , Marjorie Annan , and hearken
to me ! Let nae man come to you in
secret wi' words o' love ; hide naething
from them that care for you from Mr.
Lorraine or from me. Trust the auld
heads , Marjorie ; they ken what is right.
God has made you bonny ; may He keep
you pure and happy till the end ! "
Her tone was changed to one of deep
earnestness , even of pathos. She
walked up and down the room in agl-
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.
"Look at me ! I'm no that old in years ,
but I'm gray , gray wi' loneliness and
trouble. I might hae had one to care ,
for me ; I might hae had bairns ; but
it was na to be. I'm a rich woman , but
I hae neither kith nor kin. Lord forbid -
bid you should ever be the same ! But ,
when you marry and marry you will
some day you must choose a true j
man ay , true and honest , whether he
be rich or poor ; and if you canna i ,
choose , let the auld folk that care for i
'
you , and that ken the world choose for
you. Trust their een , no your ain ! ,
Never deceive them ; keep nae secrets
from them. Mind that , Marjorie An
nan ! "
( to be continued. )
'
The Most .Beantlfnl Foot.
The most beautiful foot is the slender '
one. The stylish girl recognizes this
fact Her shoes axe always laree -
enough to avoid cramping the foot , and
yet they are snug and wonderfully neat
and delicate. That is the reason why I I
some girls can dance all night without
rest , while others have to retire early j
from a brilliant ball , leaving their j
hearts behind in case they do not j
dance and suffer so much with their j
feet as to preclude the possibility of
real enjoyment If a girl wears a
proper shoe , when the foot is bare , and
she stands upon it in the privacy of
her bedroom , it will be as pretty and
delicate as a baby's. The instep would
be high , the heel delicately formed , the
skin as white as alabaster , with pos
sibly blue veins showing through. The
general form of the foot will be slen
der , the toes tapering parallel , and
separated by about the thickness of .a
sheet of paper , and adorned with pink-
tinted nails. A girl who has such feet
as these and there are many who
have them well may take pride and
pleasure in contemplating them.
Propeller Replaced at Sea.
While in the mid-Atlantic on a re
cent trip the steamship Victoria of Sun
derland lost the tail of her shaft and
with it the propeller. Her engines
were thus , of course , rendered useless.
But those on board were equal to the
emergency. They depressed the bow
and elevated the stern by shifting
weights so as to enable a spare shaft
and screw to be fitted at sea , and aft
er the delay necessary for so heavy a
job to be accomplished under such difficult - -
ficult conditions , she resumed her voyage -
age and made her port in safety.
Whisky or Snake.
A man who was bitten by a rattle
snake drank a quart of whisky as a
remedy. He died soon afterwards , and
the coroner's jury brought in this ver-
diet : "The deceased came to his death
either from the snake or the whisky ,
the jury being uncertain which , and
the local physician being absent at the
funeral of one of his patients. "
When tea was first introduced ia
England , in the seventeenth century ,
it cost 66 shillings a pound.
I
TALBIAGE'S | SEBMOK.
' , '
'THE THREE TAVERNS" LAST
SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
From i the Test ; Act * , Chupttr XXVIU. ,
Verve 15. an Follow : "Tlioy Citutn
to Meet U as far u Appll" Forum
and the Three Tavern * . .
miles
SEVENTEEN
south of Rome , Ita-
ly , there was a vil
lage of unfortunate
name. A tavern is a
place of entertain
ment In our time
part of the enter
tainment is a provi
sion of intoxicants.
One such place you
would think would
have ; been enough for that Italian vil
\ lage. No , there were three of them ,
with doors open for entertainment and
obfuscation. ( The world has never
lacked ] stimulating drinks. You remember
,
member the condition of Noah on one
occasion \ , and of Abigail's husband , Na-
bal , and the story of Belshazzar's feast ,
.
and Benhadad , and the new wine in old
bottles ; , and whole paragraphs on pro
hibition enactment thousands of years
before Neal Dow was born ; and no
doubt i there were whole shelves of in
flammatory i liquid in those hotels which
gave ; the name to the village where
Paul's : friends came to meet him , name
ly , the Three Taverns. In vain I search
ancient ; geography for some satisfying
account ; of that village. Two roads
came ' from the sea coast to that place ;
the one from Actium , and the other
jfrom | Puteoli , the last road being the
/ one which Paul traveled. There were „
'
'no doubt , in that village houses of mer
chandise ' and mechanics' shops , and
professional offices , but nothing is
known of them. All that we know of
that village is that it had a profusion of
inns the Three Taverns. Paul did not
choose any one of these taverns as the |
place to meet his friends. He certain ,
ly was very abstemious , 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's sake. "
I One of the worst things about these ,
Three Taverns was that they had es- [
jpecial J temptation for those who had
'just ' come ashore. People who had just
J .landed at Actium or Puteoli were soon
. tempted by these three hotels which
[
were only a little way up from the
beach. Those who are disordered of
the sea ( for it is a physical disorganiz- \
j '
'er ) , instead of waiting for the gradual
ireturn ' of physical equipose , are apt to \
.
take artificial means to brace up. Of
ithe } one million sailors now on the sea , '
j how few of them coming ashore will
\
escape the Three Taverns ! After sur
viving hurricanes , cyclones , icebergs ,
collisions , many of them are wrecked [
ini harbor. I warrant that if a calcu \
j lation were made of the comparative
.
number of sailors lost at sea , and lost
> ashore , those drowned by the crimson i
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 1
should have twice to pass the Three !
iTaverns , namely , before they go out ,
and after they come in. That fact was
what aroused Father Taylor , the great
sailor's preacher , at the Sailors' Bethel ,
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 running
order , from the low grog holes on the
.docks kept open to ruin my poor sailor
boys , to the great establishments in
-Still House square , and when we ask
- men what is to be done about.it , they
say , 'you can't help it , ' and yet there
is Bunker Hill 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 not that we can't stop it , but
that we won't stop it" We must have
more generations slain before the world
will fully wake up to the evil. That
which tempted the travelers of old who
came up from the seaports of Actium
and Puteoli , is now the ruin of sea
faring men as they come up from the
coasts of all the continents , namely , the
Three Taverns. In the autumn , about
this time , in the year 1S37 , the steam
ship Home went out from New York for
Charleston. There were about one hun
dred passengers , some of them widely
known. Some of them had been sum
mering at the northern watering places
and : they were on their way south , all
expectant of hearty greeting by their
friends on the wharves of Charleston.
But a little more than two days out the
ship struck the rocks. A life boat was
launched , but sank with all its passen
gers. A mother was seen standing on
the deck of the steamer with her child
in her arms. A wave wrenched the
child < from the mother's arms and
rolled it into the sea , and the mother
leaped after it. The sailors rushed to
the bar of the boat and drank them
selves drunk. Ninety-five human be
ings went down never to rise , or to be
floated upon the beach amid the frag
ments of the wreck. What was the
cause of the disaster ? A drunken sea
captain. ' But not until the judgment
day , when the sea shall give up its dead
[
and the story of earthly disasters shall
be fully told , will it be known how
many yachts , steamers , brigatines.men-
of-war i and ocean greyhounds have
been lost through captain and crew
made incompetent by alcoholic de
thronement Admiral Farragut had
proper ; appreciation of what the fiery
stimulus was to a man in the navy. Ah
officer of the warship said to him ,
"Admiral , won't you consent to give
"
Jack a glass of grog in the morning ?
Not enough to make him drunk , • but
enough to make him fight cheerfully. "
The admiral answered , "I have been
to sea considerably , and have seen a
jbattle cr two. but I never found that I
needed rum to enable mo to do- ray
duty. 1 will order two cups of. coffee
• to each man al two o'clock , in the morn
ing , and at eight o'clock Jwlll _ pipdall
hands to breakfast In MoDile Bay. "
The' Three Taverns of my text wore
too near the Mediterranean shipping ;
But notice the multiplicity. What
could that Italian village , so small that
history makes but one mention of it ,
want with more than one tavern ? There
were not enough travelers coming
through that insignificant town to sup
port more 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 be
taken to slack the thirst created by ttite
preceding draughts. Strong drink kin
dles the fires of thirst faster than it
puts them out. There were three tav
erns. That which cursed that Italian
village curses all 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 Arabic 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 numerals will not
express the statistics of American rum-
merles. Even if it were a good , healthy
business , supplying necessity , an arti
cle superbly nutritious , It is a business
mightily overdone , and there are Three
Taverns where there ought to be only-
one.
one.The
The fact is , there are in another
sense Three Taverns now ; the gorgeous
Tavern for the affluent , the medium Ta
vern for the working classes , and the
Tavern" of the slums , and they s . tand in
line , and many people beginning with
the first come down through the second
and come out at the third. At the first
of the Three Taverns , the wines are of
celebrated vintage , and the whiskies
are said to be pure , and they are
quaffed from cut glass , at marble side
tables , under pictuies approaching
masterpieces. The patrons pull off
their kind gloves , and hand their silk
hats to the waiter , and push back their
hair with a hand on one finger of
which is a cameo. But those patrons
*
are apt to stop visiting that place. It
is not the money that a man pays for
drinks , for what 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 with disas
ter. • In longer or shorter time they
change Taverns , and they come down
to Tavern the second , where the pictures -
tures are not quite so scrupulous of suggestion -
gestion , and the small table is rougher ,
and the castor standing on it is of Get-
man silver , and the air has been kept
over from the night before , and that
which they sip from the pewter mug
has a larger percentage of benzine , ambergris -
bergris , creosote , henbane , strychnine ,
prussic acid , coculus indicus , plaster of
paris , copperas , and nightshade. The
patron may be seen almost every day ,
and perhaps many times the same day
at this Tavern the second , but he is
preparing to graduate. Brain , 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 , and he
enters Tavern the third ; a red light
outside ; a hiccoughing and besotted
group inside. He will be dragged 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 his diploma written on his swollen ,
bruised and blotched physiognomy. He
is a regular graduate of the Three
Taverns. As the police take him in
and put him in the ambulance , the
wheels seem to rumble with two rolls
of thunder , one of which says , "Look
not upon the wine when it is red , when
it moveth itself aright in the cup , for
at last it biteth like a serpent , and
stingeth like an adder. " The other
thunder roll says , "All drunkards shall
have their place in the lake that burn
etii with fire and brimstone. * * *
With these thoughts I cheer Christian
reformers in their work , and what re
joicing on earth and heaven there will
ba over the consummation. Within a
few days one of the greatest of the
leaders in this cause went up to en
thronement. The world never had but
one Neal Dow , and may never have
another. He has been an illumination
to the ceatury. The stand he took has
directly and indirectly saved hundreds
of thousands from drunkards' graves.
Seeing the wharves of Portland , Maine ,
covered with casks of West Indian
rum ( nearly an acre of it at one time ) ,
and the city smoking with seven dis
tilleries , he began the warfare against
drunkenness more than half a century
ago. The good he has done , the homes
he has kept inviolate , the high moral
sense with which he has infused ten
generations , is a story that neither
earth nor heaven can afford to let die.
Derided , belittled , caricatured , malign
ed , for a quarter of a century as few
men have been he has lived on until
at his decease universal newspaperdom
speaks his praise and the eulogiums of
his career on this side of the sea have
been caught up by the cathedral organ
sounding his requiem on the other. His
whole life having been for God and the
world's betterment , when at half-past
three o'clock in the afternoon of Oc
tober second he left his home on earth
surrounded by loving ministers , and
entered the gates of his eternal resi
dence , I think there was a most unu
sual welcome and salutation given
him. Multitudes enter heaven only be
cause of what Christ has done for
thtn , the welcome not at all Inten
sified because of anything they had
dene for him. But all heaven knew
the story of that good man's life , and
the beauty of his death-bed , where he
said , "I long to be free. " I think all
the reformers of heaven came out to
bail him in , the departed legislators
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who made laws to restrain intemper- * ?
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tors who thrilled the generations that _ , J
are gone , with "righteousness , temper * * * I
sancc , and judgment to como" Albert * } ' 4 a
Bnfhes. and John B. Gcugh were there V * . f-
to greet -hjm , and goldcn-tongucd. pa- ' * . di
triarch Stephen H. Tyng was there. % rwl
and John W. "Hawkins , the founder of
the much derided and gloriously useful - \
ful "Washlngtanlan Mpvcment" was j
there , and John Sterns "M nd Commo- |
dorc Foote , and Dr. Marsh and Governor - I
ernor Brlggs and EHphalet Nott , and J
my lovely friend Alfred Colquitt , the , m.
Christian Senator , and hundreds of- - 1
those who labored for the overthrow \ ip
of the drunkenness that yet curses the S <
earth , were there to meet him and escort - m
cert him to his throne und shout at m
his' coronation. j §
God let him live on for near a een- m
tury , to show what good habits and M
cheerfulness , and faith in the final trl- M
umph of all that Is good , can do for a If
man in this world , and to add to the jf >
number of those who would be on the f § i
other , side to attend his entrance. But jf
he will come back again ! "Yes , " say 9-
some , of you , with Martha , about Lazafl
ru3 to Jesus , "I know ho will rlBO at II
the Resurrection of- the last day. " Ah ! If fl
I do not mean that. Ministering splr- 1 H
its are all the time coming and goingJl'fl
between earth and heaven the Bible It H
teaches it and do you suppose the old I H
hero just ascended will not come down § H
and help us In the battle that still |
goes onr ? He will. Into the hearts of | H
discouraged reformers he will come to1 f M
speak good cheer. When legislators | M
are deciding how they can best Btop | H
the rum traffic -of America by legal | H
enactment , he will help them vote for | H
the right and rise up undismayed from I H
temporary defeat In this battle will f H
Neal Dow be until the last victory is 1 H
gained and the smoke of the last dls- I j H
tillery has curled on the air , and the I H
last tear of despoiled homesteads shall I j H
be wiped away. O departed nonage- I M
narian ! After you have taken a good I H
rest from your struggle of seventy act- I | M
ive years , come down again into the I V H
fight , and bring with yoif a host of the f H
old Christian warriors who once J ; H
mingled in the fray. J i H
In this battle the visible troops are I M
not so mighty as the Invisible. The r H
gospel campaign began with the su- H
pcrnatural the midnight chant that j l
woke the shepherds , the hushed sea. , lH
the eyesight given where the patient | H
had been without the optic nerve , the , H
sun obliterated from the noonday j H
heavens , the law of gravitation loosing j H
its grip as Christ ascended ; and as , ' H
the gospel campaign began with the J
supernatural , it will close with the su- fl
pernatural ; and the winds and the H
waves and the lightnings and the |
earthquakes will come in on the right [
side and against the wrong side ; and H
our ascended champions will return. 9 H
whether the world sees them or docs |
not see them. I do not think that those H
great souls departed are going to do [ ' H
nothing hereafter but sing psalms and f fl l
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the discipline gotten here may only be f H
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some other world , and perhaps some
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country people who live 'near to Na- H |
ture's heart , ' " writes Mrs. Lyman Ab- j J
bott in the October Ladies' Home JourBBBBBBBj
na ] , the first of a series of "Peaceful H
Valley" papers which picture life in an B B B H
ideal rural community. ' "But how
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oughness , her free-bandedness does not B BaB Ba
inspire them to generosity they become - H
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work or play , toil or rest , and they feel H
a contempt for those who play and rest. B
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work and play , toil and rest in due J
proportion , and they cease to find any H
pleasure in life unless they abandon H
work altogether. Like the tired worn- H
an who wrote her own epieaph , they H
fancy heaven a place where they can |
'do nothing forever and ever. ' This H
view of life makes loafers in the vil- PhbbbbbbI
lage as it makes them in the cities. |
When a different spirit has found room j H
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slow grinding of the mill , more than H
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viduals combine , not for their own advantage - |
vantage , but to multiply benefactions , B
and as strength increases , by its right H H
use. the attainment of one worthy and |
ambitious advantage is only the suggestion - B
gestion and achievement of another. " H
Ebhcn's Philosophy. H
"Nine times outer ten , " said Uncle H
Eben , "a gemman advises young men H
ter choose some yuthuh business dan j H
whut he got into. He takes it foh , _ H
granted dat it took a heap mo' dan , j H
common smahtness ter succeed like h * . H
did. " Washington Star. |
