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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-2-9, Page 21 1LN 1 h T el0 the poatibility that auyadug mead go B Ert wE1OYES. 1 wroug, \r L it was a straiage, coincidence, he thought, that in returning he ehould reattb, bendon on the very evening of Lady Swandown's famous party. lie (Continued.) said to beinetelf that hie darling would ' rot be rhere—his !goad, Mar. itupwiel aL rattly read euch a story, May. But love. she would not be there, a.nd he new let ua suppose --only suimose—that would drive first of all to see her. owe waa such anothee ease, that we Some et the interest had died away came to e similar isenenetleet we were when it became ?mown that Sir Clin- t° part if you intested Itt outraging nty ton bud mane to Paris. Some taughed, wishes—if you knew that our gal' re and :gild openty that the dying friena ne Chat play would port ue, should yen was omy aD eeense—tiaat he had mem go, Ludy elay?" to avoid the iguominy of a defeat. "Yes," she repeal, proutam "I wouid Lady Mtn- said netting. Whether ge tf I knew that iny going wouild pre. her levetes abeente was a relief or not, vent you from ever speniteag to nee no nue knew. She kept ter own oran- Mean." 1,-06 0110 their; was. bowever, certain 'Then eon do not !eve mo. sweet." im 11:14 Q'h,sen the moeM te eacions "Tibet dees net foamy. I will eat be i ' ' e if makhia b" thlabi °limit Illoli UT leleItTliet. ett CLAM. "Clinton wee guile riieat," thouela Lady May to herseilf—"this amateur eve -making is very bad for any one." 'ef shall keep tbe mammy of your voice itt ray ears," he tiontinued. 'Meats atter you have forgotten the words. you tittered. Lady May, I have been very happy; I wish life were one long play:* "it is one long fErree, I believe." she sale, laughing. But he grew more serious, "You shall not laugh my geratiment away,. Lady Maya' "I roust uot remain here, your green, listening to this we:tense any longer said Lady May. Defore the knew what he was doing, the youug duke had seizeil her hand. and lassed it with pa nate fervor. She drew back. Washed. Dread, elegy, and, raising her eyes, saw the palm anery Pace of ter lover. threatened. The Trevians are rot tee-- hail beell oll the allot. Pleat -nig In one moment, with a woneania testa haat., hail awash Thattatett rae why. hie 'MU imete. with an the eloquence r Met, she hail graeped the situation --for 1 would 27.1 new, (1 L")1 it X teiew that 'Ile `.°1114 use' etn" "Ent Inlye tounit ue Immune, too, her heart utiegave tiny argument tio persuasive as the rein e 1 eatotid tit e Muted" r,s tele eaw the scorn iu those proua, Ste looked ea tievally beantifui in her eirete z‘ftii ra,1,:t; e0Uft,l only levet her. •14,0 you. in ail good faith, neerat that armee etenttein' she asiteti. Eat letaMitett. e sad, hearsety; reined it I eouiel. 1 camice tklt:e yOa, ley. May, tem teed my Me ad seta in ever 'Panes; I minuet iose you, y4.1 w.LZIOt. e".). YOU ate matte :saying 'thee. zirtiegs te teasit tee; eel do Rot tre:ila teem elle if I awed eite. Iles. - vete / eou "Ito ain net. ine inimh?" slat :tree ;y. eYis, theta:tea tireee teewltO aereele for rim -mete, nay hemline -4, tat, eite item!M lave is my teeemeet it is :e 18teat tunas tree a fevar that vet, melee a pain eever ear, my dariem, 1 wenia atMi eirimet a. It time dem. we mad,it len nee lett 1 Wlint tt,t bc. Wet. .1, Nt '114 h i..vehteeeriee et' hie itereie. torallid by teem. "Ware to Met meet. a seem over male:mg, then, teentatie" "My emeinge t- r. ilet whet pia etel enetilerate it it ".',`N+ the ineve yi -ham, of my Will re pews.1 weeld ;kited it Meter, as 1 tweet my NM,. It ie realle nre areelmmiwihat at staire. I have emil SO 'itch alritieet seta teem.. I anee esoreseedcnyepinion of them ett 're*'ly7hat I:1,1r my promised wife to tahe ratere in them win at onee tem- . -aunt to all the world either that sae th3e; no remmet for my 4)plur,tt. that I emelt eo isitinenee over her, or that she teas :got Icere me." "Aind if I eety away, it wit procia.int to tete whole world either that I have no will of um own, or *at I ain fright- ened of you." "It %voted telly be a graceful act ot deference to my judgment. itlay." "tette," said the pried young beauty, "that I do not intend to Pay. -hors of &fere-nee are nor my forte. Miss amek. woad eitys I sttiil be terribly punielitel for my pride toneday. I tell her that it am willing to take the pun/diluent." Oh, terrehte, fatal words! In the dark after emu's, in the time of her shame and hum:Haden, when the bright hem] was bowed to tlui duet, they rose in teseible mantes turainst her. "You say yen love me, May—you have promised to be my wife—yet you would rather wart from me than give Certainly,' she replied. The words sounded harsh, cold, mita; but there wits a love light in her eye..., a 'smile on her lit. a something in her lace that seemed to. say she cared for WM. He was uneertain, ix-rest:lute; he knew not what to say, what to ridek. Then he seized her hands in a pus - *Ideate ciesp, the memory of whir+ lingered with her long. will not believe it, May. You leve me; I am sure of it. No women axed be eo fair and yet fahat You will net go. I have all taith in you, my love -- ell faith. I could lose my life so.tner there loge ray fait.11." Then he lett her. He could tiay no more; his heart wus full. And she, •when the door elesed behind him, had a swift, sweet impulse, It was to eall hien back, to throw herself in his arms, to tell him that .he valued his wish enca-e than all tit.. world; that she weuld obey it, and give up all idea of mang— e sweet, en -Mt impulse; but she did not yield, to it. Pride came to the rescue, "Not even for him should the world say she emanated --she who was ;O- mitted to be prouder than most. No ouestionld soy that she had yielcial to hes loveres wish; no one should laugh at her for want of spirit or want of pride." And before she saw him again, Sir Cline/it was suddenly semi:no-nett te Parree where one 4if his oldest and dear- est erietide lay dean. Ile had not ever time to say good -by to Lady May. • CatAl'TER VIII. hat he had gone away, trusting in her aith and loyalty. Yet she oeuld not give in. Mies Lock,- wed'who !mew the weeie ;story, ze- alitt.,4 freut speaking,beeause ehelznew thet any oppoeition, would increase the eatigete hto the beillient, bitaetifia, eo tried „youirg heiress went on her svaea d ntifriendy halal was rased to show r that it eel her to ruin. Lady Sweedown tguored the fact at Sr Clinton's oppesitien, The Duke at mint was Lady ai's most auto- • :leveted servent—iudeed, hie eeVi. lity ted viith the grewd inflate -14t aof her itivem eetetthuge to eate lintreit .he was reimiling against hire neeiteare to achieve:ledge that she OW• ° I atm any obeallenee—she gloried, fa LADY SWANDOWN'S FETE. But Sir Cheat= wrote, and his letter was a prayer that she would do as he wallet. He did not know when he should retail'. but he hoped that les abeence would not exteud over many days; and at the meautitne. he told her, he should rest secure in her faith and loyalty. She might like to tease and frighten him, but he feet sure she would not Show heivelf to the world with the Duke of Rosecaria as ber lover, even though it were only in the mimic love- making of the stage. He said that he believed it—he teed to make bemsolf believe it—he would admit no doubt, no fear, no suspiciou. it xnust be so: to tittialt (anything else would simply madden hem. He would tally be absetut two or three days, he thought, and on his retern he 'mould win the promise from her. He went, trying he.rd to believe in that which he moat wished; but he could not return eo soon as he had hoped to do—his dying friend required, Ito Arendt attention, he bad so many af- lepers to attend to for him, that it was utteztly impossible to get away. Ile bad two letters from Lady Mac. In them tee made no mention of the the:aerie:els. Whey were itheily written—tender, wo- manly letters—and his heart grew Sirtaral as he read them. She did care for him! she would not write such sweet words if she were coid wad indifferent. It would be all right; sae would yield to his wishes; she would not go; and, perhaas, on his res, he should be able to persuade her to marry him. He buoyed himself Fmk sweet hopes; he would not admit • es -mime it, agertelietery is the and roast a:Luning sex, that she vr• .10111',,i him had he beee the late of liositeern. 14"lwrelt SWOiltiOWO end ate i• ' ,the was me:reseed—there wee re &tee limes and jeweiry Co • m See mead utt bop feeling lettered uilen she was tele by the tominies teat elle had been teem alai to re; um MOP.' 1118.11 a hundred epee:m- ime. for ieviticetert. -And X nn i grate sure," said the tante -einem hit: jetelee to my ewe. at. 1Pa. em'..:kat the great desire at to see emu. um beautifia Pauline." A few dnys afterward, the eounteiti showed the beautiful young Ite4Pazi note trout one of the royal primes, stay - hr.; hiev xnuebeheatould lite to see Lade Nia,y Trevien as Pauline. Lady Swan. tiewn ;aid it before the young heiress with the air of oue who hall nothing higher to offer. Surrounded by ilattery, homage, eom- pliment, laden mita honor, the whole %mold of faehien intent upon her, it wan no vt•tonder that sbe forgot the consequ- ences that might ensue. She did own to hereelf once or twice that it was a good thing Sir Cleitois wati away—it prevented maples:taut scenes; and she did own Also that ahe hoped, numb as stir wanted to see hire, he waled not return until it was over. "If lie does not see the performance," she said to herself, "he will care leas about it;" and then she decided that, as be felt strongly on the matter, the would never have anything to do with private theatrieele again. She eould not draw back now, she argued. Matters had gone too far, when even a royal prince had expressed a desire to see her; she must go on with it. Yet she knew in her own mind that it was not ec, miwh the gratification, ot her vaeity as the proud, rebellious spirit within her, that refused to submit, that seemed rill control. So the night came, and its brilliant splendor still lingere in the minds of the guests, Ludy Swandowne's mag- nificent suite of entertaining rooms were ert wded with the elite o•f London. Mare than one royal duke honored her with his presence. .4. more Milliant, select, or impirsing throng had not been gather ed during the whole of the seasoe. A a matter of course, the star of the night was the Penline; the charades were goal, the tableaux perfect in their way, but the star of the fete was Pau- line. it is not often that one sees a, perfectly beautiful woman. Lady May nee perfect. and when her beauty Was entuniced by the pieturesque dress, and erstume of the "Leidy of Lyons." be eat, something emetic -reel to behold. Aeitnetomed es she was to boulag.% she had rover been so courted or so fettered. se on that night. People rav- ed about her; on all sides she met with nothing but compliments, homage, ad- miration. It was a night to be remem- bered, -a dream of lights, flowers, jew- els, smilee, that the earth hos of the brightest and fairest—a night to be dreamed of fbr years afte.rward. The Duke of Itoseearn was beside him- self with enthusiasm and delight; every scene in which he appeared With the beautifttl Pauline was rapturously ap- plauded. 'The only regret he felt V748 that the play was not a reality. The splendid pageant was ended at last. Lady May, tired with the unusual exertious, but beautiful us a houri, was standing in the brilliant tittle room they hed called the green -room. She was satiated with compliments; the royal dukes bad praised her as eveu they seldom praise. IIis Grace of Rosecarn could not leave her. "I have but one regret." he said, in low, passionate tones—"only one regret. and it is that the play is not a reality. Oh. Lady May, Lady May! I would work as Claude Meinotte worked—I would be peasant, soldier, anything for your sake!" "You must not talk nonsense to me." said Lady May, with e keen distaste for the situation. No matter what was said on the stage, off the stage it seem- ed like an act of disloyalty to listen to his grace's love making. "Nonsense?" li repeated; "it seems to me the finest sense in ail the world. Lady May. I ,shall never forget tomight; and if yon never say enother•kind Word to me. either •in iest or earnest, I shall at least have been happy once. • I ehan never lose the memory of this narbe. I have been in pare dise, and it is settee - Ming SO have been there, even if the gates ace berred forevermore." "Nonsense :mein." said Lady Mem "It is not very Cheistian-hye t� call the stem- pa VII die—incleed, 1 mil it deeid- eclat heathenish." eJt wits your words and !melee that made my panalese," iae :mid. "You may bp mid and cruel to me for the re- mainder of my life, if you will, but you haVa been hied." Altat. twee. She ads:weed, with out. er &mho,' beads: eamitmee she mime -when did you :melee" But he did not mutat the proffered quickened flottetry 1 if... heed. She tialeite recognized his trocce Notwithstanding the ubiquity of the as he ehoke. bloycla And the tardy develop:meet of the "X are sleet to disturb a very interest- automobile, there is no eaideuee tbat the t ttee a -tete." ke told: "I owe emir hos Is losing ground in our social and tie an amettgy, Can I say a few domestic, eCIMOMT, Says The Boston tads to :tem Lady May? I will not Transcript. On the contrary, tnere bas min you.," been an inereese of about 4) per COIL 41 Ile had jest FA,T1f.,e enough to read bormaesh glace 4815, end of eimin le per :0e=e4. not iu the pale faire cent-- he the nenther of Multri, while they eetteee eine tie turned ta quit Uto dear, tituaint and feithful eerie:Me ur luau, e.tte. and tee meere were melee late petiole; ox, hes barely held hi g ONVII 1.1.13.41. I.:14 May; "wItat Is lo zbe lest to Yeera This is elerheits One at gee .„, mamma, teem read of the inevitehle reeulte of the quitinened hae woututed me, as false women do wooed, to the eery death. You wattle have been kinder •to me, Lady May. had you taken u dagger in your little wane hand and stubbed me through the heora" "That would have been raurder." he said. slowIle. "And you have murdered me. You have slain my love, and my love WOO my life, When I go out from soar pre- sence, I go into the very darkneas tatd coldness of death; I leave me life be. Mud. You bare done your wore well. Lady Mw," "Lady May! Lady May!" eried sort erm voiees, "Wbere are Ton?" She roused herself like oue in a deep dream. She seemed tawny to mama. tam/ what wee going on. "1 Mast go," she said, Slowly. "I will not detain you, Lady May. His graee is, doubtless, impatient. I have detained men too teem Farewell teo nnc�errED.1 PASSING QF Tile On. of the Sa4 not Istextteble Etesults lite of the oonutry. iiis star 14 In the te iame etaugai—what is it?" lattt of cleseelf4"t' While elle eetebtrY laulY be the the lamp teel intim he: heantiful. upetieed cellgreteleted "eh the lhere"ea Pelh white; demaude greater speed and power fele am; izeigier'em, jewels. :,,UP nem a u Itt our modern rotivities, a nigh of regree her teed to himrigein. , will eieverehelees follow the vaniehing ex -Mee lap rselOolt10 h•kme." she swig ust it eat tha taa twit, mama whoa 1irvIro.lte dee,. away iu trighten- 'the locomottse forced ie off the road. Th 11,tlnipe gradual pastime' awly of the ox use beeit "I well uot tessiee your baud," he sat& ot burden has the pethes that ettaohes to le, mealy. "Is that the hard the duke the eatinotion at one of the early Mina j -et eiteed? I Pante hone, this evitraeg, Ilea. Tbey came into the eountry to- azel nee teal me tem were bore. I did gather, and tee:ether they took a pioueer vet beaeve it-- fiat. meenian that I wuel Part 10 ItFi ilevelopment. They felled and I did not imiieve it: hut I came—I, drew off the treat, they tore up the th(' man nate loves you—ob, great Hee- stumps, they seamed and mellowed the mini—who levee yell better titan life. 11 bate 2400d there while that Man claele Id yeu in his agate ranted and raved mer ytet, dratar in 'the heaven of your eataie the frainenee it your lips, while he spoke suelt words to you as I have *ever dared te utter. Tell btu; tell Ithit from me, to take wbat he bas touelted, for I will not Tell the front me that you below, to him, and not to me!" 'Clinton," she said, "listen to me," She tried to take his hand in bers, hut he grew heel; from her mitt melt haughty pride in his face sae dared not tomtit bine even CHAPTER IX, "VW HAVE SLAIN UT LOVE." "You are uninet to me," ehe said. turd there was soniething a unusual. humility la her voice quite foreign to her; "you are Unjust, Clinton." "I am not. I go away from you— titititintr, less than deetb would leave mused me to gm I left you, trustbag in your faith and loyalty. True, you have said nothing, w-ritten teething—you gave me no promise, but I trusted in you, I hastea tome—want is the first tiling I see? Nat the woman who should bave sharer' my sorrow; no lov- ing fact waiting for me, no voece to teid me weleame. 1 find my promised eife before the odrairing eees of a crowd, I see her clasped in my rival's arms. 1 hear passionate words ex- changed between them, I see glances that melte me heart burn and set my blood on lire. 'All play,' of course— stage love -making. I come away from the stage and find the game thing go- ing on. My promised wife, ter hesee tiful face all alight, her eyes bright SA her diamonds, and my rival, no longer on the stage, making love to her still— telling her he would be peasant or sol- dier Per tee sake, kiesing the white hand that has crushed my haat as a el ild metes a flower." "I amid not help it -1 could not, In- deed, Canton. I told him he was taik- ing end I was just going. I am not to blame." "I say that you are; but I am not here to quarrel—words are quite =e- kes now. You told me if you had to choose between parting from me and giving up these plays, you preferred the parting,. I did not bdieve it then. Hea- ven help me! now I see that it was true. I am only here to say good -by." "Good -by!" she repeated. "Nay, you cannot mean that. You would not meet- ly make it serious quarrel about such a trifle." "It is no trine to me. You have shown every one Unit you do not care for me; you tave gloried in ehowing how little you cared for or valued my opinion We will part before wot-se happene." "Listen to me, Clinton." "I will not. You may try to bewilder me with the soplestry of your words; you migh.t dazzle my sense, you will not eeneince my reason." The pride of her haughty nature, dor- mant dulling, those few minutes at team, began to assert itself. "Yoe are at full liberty to do as you please," atie said. "indeed, the rave sensible comae we could pursue Is to part. You are a tyrant—I like freedom. We are misuited to each other. You are narrow-minded; you wo•uld reduce everything to certain given rules—you amulet do it. I am glad to part. My engagement with you has been a mils - trace, a burden, from which 1 hasten to flee myself!" She uttered ouch word with quiet, pasitmete scorn. He drew back amaz- ed. If he bed thoeght she would hum- ble herself to Min he Was mistaken', She became but the prouder for that white' -awed have softeeed a less proud en- tree. Without anoteer word, she slow- ly • drew the engagement ring from her finger and gove it to hien. "You will end some otbm head foe that to fit," she stad, with slow, cruel scorn; "it was always ,rather small for rooty zeta matting it matey responsive to the needs ot man They Miami otte the ereat stones that fretted the tares of nature and made garden spots of the rugged hilleide and plain. The ox was A teeter of oyez? automate. He was OA the fame, at the erbart and the milt, and when in those tarty demi of expedite and adventurous ideas the old places seemed too contracted for the settler be buedied hl v family lino a prairie schoon- er, while hie faithful oxen dragged the ponderoue wain a six months' it:turner toward the renting sun, accomplishing a distance which we may now be wbiried between the twIlight and dawn, brows- ing cheerily as they wended their toil. Rome way along, and boarding thernselyee Whim the thue for nightly camping Indeed. But the old fellow hes bad his day, except wimp the conditions are still primitive. Once be was the steady reli- ance, of every termer, but now one hardly sees a yoke in the baryon field or the plow lot, His pace cannot be readiusted to the quicte step of modern ideas and inventions, and uteliterianleta ha* no pee for the poetic or the picturesque. More and more his destination is coming to be the shambles. This makes life shorter and we might say merrier, but merriment in an ox is inconceivable. Then they stood for a moment looking at each other in eilence. Sir Canton said, slowly: "Good -by, ben utiml dream of my life --farewell to all iny hopes and. wisbes! I aave loved one false as she isr fait; she ENLeFIGING A BARN. New II 01w:ice for the Itetter te Size sad Arrangement Oen Rai ItIrdeted. Owing to the scarcity ot lumber for buntline purposes, no one but a rich man oan afford always to tear down fairly good structures mid replace them with up-to.date ones. There Is many a owe barn which fails to give anything like satisfaction to its owner, in that it is old- fashioned. The main driving Zoom tier - MAN'S BT shimgems. The Wise Sister is She Who Igrineert interest An tier itrother's ruxeuits- Being thee uefortunate creature, an only ohild, we bave fatten wondered wbat it must be like to bave a merry fanlike of brothers and sisters about Yon in whose aims you Mee an tuterest, whom orrows yon feel as yew own and whose seula you personally resent. Talking of the girl with brothers a few daes ago it seems fxont our tertierised standpoint that interest Is the best stimulue a man van heve, Whettingbe be ' great or small in his character, and the wise sister is sbe who °veleta this Intereet iu her• Lauber ideas, persults, ambitions and trientie. This is the sister who will end bereelf omopytug teat newt enviable positiou, ehure iina confidate, to her brother. :ma chie is she deter wen will find that leer gentleinhluerieo is a giriding star in his eneoneeieuele riretne„ bis theughte and ambitious in a right direction, ana wredmg out inuoh that may be bad and inelined to injure the ripe barvese of Ms life. Oynies may sneer. politicians may preath and novelists of the modern sellout may go on ilisroverime their new temente in nature. but -he eta remain that a W0111:111°S Witten ..1 ie the g,re:Vo,4 rower in the world for good or emit. I is like the ever -widening ripple; in a rarer whore a stone hes been drepted. They streteh and incrame and go on etretrhing until tboy are lost to view, and no one even knows how where they end. Thom ripples nearest the ou- lter are the deepest. eine as team near. est the women retteve the greateit and tett of her imuctite, and of these surely leather 2130110 ni the neareir. A tee: - smile may be iuM as sweat and y as any other girl's to it miring an, if -Me wills it se. end with the right hertinnine• Whn'h must tie nettle ty the girl. there ie vete' 'Male doubt that t I:0 ding sviU he ell thet it should be, mei that either mut &elm • - teiemie si,.. lave. A eimetin board etieiai tweeter ie ro- epotaible tor the follewine lttuinrelay, , villeh is not without !".1 pattior:e e wee. Ontte:tvorIng to implittn tho etn "boeiting." as applied to onr rierwee system. "Nowt" he was eiying. "can any rif ran rell me the mune of the mike tie astavey nekete coo settee' ' "the temeing Maim." replied ono of lade. Right," reepontled the teacher. At ibis moment les eye fon on a man boy at tho end of tie °leis who was evi- dently paying very little attention tit syliat WaS 21.011. "DM you hear thee Dowser?" he de- manded, "Won sir?" gaited the eoutb, inno. mealy. "As I thought, you were not tenoning. We will suppose three your father docaded to here a diva holiday and yteit the tiottolde. Whet would he tram to do be. fore he eauld take his seat to the train?" Without a moment's thought the youngster eleetritted his reader by reply- ing: "Pewit his toole!"—alt-litts. THE ENLARGED SAM. haps, runs from side to Ode instead of from end to end, for wbich reason the etook have to be kept In one end (in narrow quarters, too), while the other end is used for a hay bay. Nowt in cage such a barn is not too badly racked and decayed, it oan easily be remodelled, new -sided, shingled, and provided with new sills if necessary, and an addition its -whole length attuned at the baok, ae suggested by the paremeotive INURIOR AirRANGE11.F.M. view in the illustration. In tbis way a long "tle-up" is furnished for the stock, as well as a place for calves, thus leaiving that place where the cows stood under the main roof to be utilized for a silo, feeding bins send inch like, as can be seen in the plan, while the hay bay re• mains as before. This gives an arrange- ment that is highly convenient for feed- ing and oaring for stook, and, best of all; the entire thange cart be effected at very small expense.—N. Y. Tribune, fillets tor r..1,oekumen. rurninh the swine plenty of good dry bedding. Feeding ground grain is more twonoml. oat than feeding whole grain. Remember that if hogs bunch together they should be routed out. Don't let the horses stand in hot man- ure, unless, you expect scratches. Ice cold water taken into the stomach of any animal retards its digestion, vr When a oolt is well broken it is orth twice as Much as one that is not well broken. Wben the hog is fat, sell it. Don't went: good grain In waiting for a better merket. Don't 'permit tee horse to stuff itself with bay all day. It Minnie the horse and Wastes the bay. wee the molt viola out. In front of the birth altar in the cattle. dral at Salzburg there la a great lamp that is supposed to burn "forever and a day." Ono morning, years ago, worship. pets were surprised to see it go out, and that was ropeatou morning after room lug, alv;ays ubout the same thne, It was thought the atteuciant had neglected to give it sufficient oil, and though he de. dared his inumenne he was told that be would co disobarged if the oversight woo repeated, Unwillitig to deal unjustly with the man, the dean of the cathedel hid bleaself oiae night to sea it he muld mem the mystery. He had not long to wait, About 10 o'olook a big rat MUMMA descending the rope by which the Mum was suspended. Hoeing seethed the all, it tat freely and then wont away by the way it oame. Needless is it to say that ehe attendant hold hie pates. A sheer metope It was after the publioation ot tho "Lives of the Poets" that Dr, Farr, be- ing engaged to dine with Sir Joshua Beynolde, mentioned that on his way there be had seen a clever carioature of Dr. Johnson being flogged around Par. nassue by the nine muses. The admirers of Gray and others, who thought their favorites hugely treated in the "Lives," were la.ughleg itarr's account, when Dr. Johnson was announced. Sir Joshua Introdnced Dr. Farr, and to his infinite embarrassinent repeated the atory. John- son turned to Farr and said: "Sim tun very glad to bear this. I hope the day will never arrive 'when I shall neither be the object of Mdioule nor calumny, for then I shell be neglected and forgotten," TRE SUNDAY SC.1100.14. At 'Minister With the Queen. At the beginning of Queen Viotoria's reige it was the rule that either Lord Melbouroe or one of the Seoretaries of State should be in attenianee upon Her Majesty, except when the Coma was at Buckingham Palace, or at Claremont. This custom prevailed during the first 16 years ot the reign. Then it was conceded that Windsor Castle was within such close E011013 Of London that the personal attendance of a Minister might be dis- pensed with. ' As railways advanced in speed and the telegraph wire spread cob- web -like over tbe land, Osborne was placed in the same category. But the QUOOD bas always had a Minister in at- tendance at Bahnoral. itESSON Vil, FIRST QUARTER, INTaR- NATIONAL, SERIES, FEB. 12. Tet of the Lesson. John se la -27. memory Vereee, atetre—ataden meet, Joon 19, 4A,•COMMImealtary Prepared by the Ror. D. M. Stearns. tnepyrighte 1858. by D. M. Stearns.) 17. "But Jesus auswered them, Me rattier worketle hitherto and I work." Bemuse ale aad healed the impotent man at Bethesda on the Sabbath day they per- secuted Him and sought to kill flint. Dr. Ilerstou says that their Sabbath day waa to *boa their natiottal bawler, era it riaS nem well for any one Who would dare brealr their laws concerning it. God's Sabbaths anti teases which fie instituted had be- come the Jews' Sabbaths and feasts, and lustead of observIug His laws conoerniug them they had multiplied traditions of their own, thus nialiing the command- • nt of tiod of none /effect by titter eradi- on (Math. xv, 3, Oe 18. "Therefore tat, Jews sought the ore to kill Him, bemuse lienotoniet bed, brotion the Satilteth, but said aim that Goa was Hie Father, making Himself equal with (Md." On another emesion they were goitee- to stone Him because, aa rbey id, He, eeing a man, made Himself God (John z, 33i. Valet spectacle is this, the tereetor bated by the creature, etic- itlers for tba Sabbath day welting to hill the Lord of rho retie Mill Yee gUiSh, is re- °41"till're,i:ingt"I i‘cteiC-tTttlfestis anti Feld un- lit, Verily, verily. 1 seet unto you, he Son can itit uotbing of Ilitraielf Due Met eateeeth the Father de, for whae tbiege etiever lie ducat these also (tooth tl rem i.e." Their eneelief and opmeetion tkJ DOI Allti r011111, uot eider Mae mete in tie, cam, rill wheelie ;Argument 115 quietly went en with lib teaching. Wben ono la Ogle, the may :ham to de ista keep ratite on az) ing and doing righti etittiatt1;:er w Ito war ea:time 145 6114,11 1-40 ai ll ati 413 a teing et naught tIsr: zn.12) Mk "For the Father !teeth rho Son and showeth /Hui all thinge time Himself tineth, and lie will deny Him greater worke than theee that yO Illay11.41"4"01 " cluipter 1U, ale eTbe banter limeth tlect Son and hash girtin all nevem Mee Hie besot," In einthter x, tie, "I and ary New f'osi Market. Consul Skinner at Marseilles has in- formed the State Department that if American coal companies 0(111 supply the right kind of coal at the right price, namely at about $7.72 cents per ton de- livered into the mei bunkerat Marseil- les, they have before them the opportun- ity for a new and inmortant market. The consul says that what is desired is it ma resembling the best Welsh, not more than one to seven per cent. ash, develop ing 8,)00 to 8,500 calorific power, tied containing the least volatile matter. 'rhe _high prioe at Marseilles is asoribed to the shortage in the British output owing to the strikes. That ‘Vas A11. "What's ibis I bear about the Govern anent buyitig a lot of bicycle brakes?" "I haven't heard of any such thing.' "Well, I surely read that it was speud Ing a good deal of money on coast de feuees."—New York Journal, 1 re1tmle:i/y Measures. "What mattes yon think the count I going to propose'?" "He has been around trying to find out what Pin wortia."—Detroit Yrs. Press. lather are one,' In tempter eiv. 9. 10, "Ile that bath been Ale bath wen the Fa- ther; 1 am in the heater end the Father itt Mo." In claim er xv, ti, we read, "As a Father bath loved Me to Mee I loved you," and in evil, 23, elute the Fettles loves us As Ile loves the non, We wonder at the tuanifeetation of flod in Christ, but wain tibial vie say when we read that it is His pleasure that Christ should be tuella Mee in use (Get. II, tila II Von, lv, 21. "For as the rather =both up the dead 411t.t quid:mat them, even 80 the Soa quiekenoth whom Ho will." In the following verses this is eXpleined as re - ferries not only to those who aro dead lia sin, tiling in pleasure unto therresolves (Fah, 11, it I Time tr, 6), but else to those whose bodies aro ileed in the grave, In einem ea, 20, we reed that all that are in the graves shall beim Hie voice end sball mune forth either unto life or dartmetiore 22, "For the Father judgeth no man, but bath oeturaiteed all judgment unto the Sem" He bath appointed a day in the which He will judge the world la righteousness by that man wbom Ho bath ordained, whereof Reheat glven assurance unto All men in dun JIo bath raised Him from the dead (Mite :evil, 21). One day Is with the Lord as a thousand years, and it thousand years as one deer (II Pet. ill, 8). At the beginning of the day dual be the judgmmege the righteous, anti also of the living natians,and at the end of the day that of the unrigitteues. 29. "Tbat all men should honor the Son, even its they honor the Fatima Ho that honoreth not tbe Son bonoreth not the rather Wheel bath vent Hine" Ile will be honored by all kings and all nations, and to Him every knee shall bow (Pe. larxii, 11; Phil. it, 0, 10). A day Is COm. Ing in 'watch every high thiug shall be brought down, arid the Lord alone exalt- ed (Isa. II, 11, 17). He is the only Saviour of sinners (Acts iv, 12), the only Judge as we saw in the last 'verso, and Ho will be the only Ruler, for Ile must reign till Be bath put all tilings under His feet (I Cor. me 25). 24. "'Verily, verily, I say -unto you, Ho that beareth My word and bellevoth on Ilira that sent Me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condempation, but Is passed front death unto life." Hem Is the way of life, described in chapter I, 12, as receiving Him, 1» cbapter ill, 16, as believing on Him, and here as bearing His word and believing on Him. This verse was blessed to nay soul in the sum- mer of 1873 with a blessing that has last- ed over since and will to all eternity. It was somewbat like this: Do you hear tho word of God and believe that Jesus died for you and rose again, and do you receive Him as your Saviour? I do. Than you have everlasting life. No, I cannot feel that I bave. What does God say? Be says that I have. Is His word sufficient? I would like to feel it. Will you take Him at His word or make Him it Dart (John v, 10.) I will believe God. 25. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that bear shall live." This beer has already lasted over 1,800 years and is still on. The dead in trespasses and sins aro bearing the word of God, and receiv- ing it and life in it, or rather in Him who is the Word and the Life. Faith cometh by hearing the word of God. I had been hearing it from my claildhood,and before 1865 I had been received into church membership and was regular in my at- tendance upon ordinances and outwardly consistent, but nine the time and the ex- perience mentiolied in the last verse I did not know that I had passed from death toi life. 26. "For as the Father bath life in Him- self so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself," Ile is the Life. He that hath the SOD of God hath life, and he that hath not- the Son of God bath not life (John xiv, 6; 1 John v,12), We can neither earn nor in any way deserve this ure, for it is the gift of God, (Rom. vi, 23). But whosoever will may receive the Bread of Lite, the Water of Line the Life itself, and even Christ Himself, and in HIM find a lite begun here, consummated at the resurrection and enjoyed through all eter- nity. We must come as empty and helpless as the impotent man at Bethseda ; then all Is ours. 27. "And hath given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man." In the final day of judg- ment all men shall come forth from the grave and be judged, And all those who have done good shall see the resurrection of life and those who have done evil the eweurreolilea of damnation.