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ABOVE OAR COMPREHENSION
The Eyes of God Are Ever On the
" Builders of Time."
the eyes of god aro ever on tho
"1 uildeis of time."
Whit house will you build me7—
Acts iii. 20.
In the olden days of art
I)uildcrs wrought with•g;reatest caro
Each minute and unseen port
Fur the gods see everywhere.
This stanza from "The Builders,"
by Longfellow. is strikingly sugges-
tive. In the conception of tho poet
the heeling that the oyea of their
rods were ever resting upon them
iod ancient "builders" working upon
the "walls of time" to do their
work with greatest care.
The bought may be applied to
modem "builders"; modern theology
teaches and ieedern faith accepts
the doctrine of the omnipresent
God, not many gods. As beautiful-
ly expressed by a young Christian
girl in ewer to the question by
an infidel: "How largo is your
God?" "So large," she replied,
"that the heaven of heavens cannot
contain aim, and yet so condescend-
ingly kind as to dwell in my little
heart."
The divine presence :ilia immensity.
not only reaching beyond the limits
of the material universe, but in in-
finite condescension dwelling in hu-
man hearts. In a Marvelous presen-
tation of the aninlalculne kingdom,
using the most powerful glasses, Dr.
liliphalet Nott of Union College
said: "7here is no place too small
for God to work in." With equal
correctness it may be said there is
no place too small all tar God to dwell
In.
'Phe laws governing spiritual ex-
istence ere above human comprehen-
sion. 'Time are fundamentally differ-
ent from those governing.
THF MATERIAL KINGDOM,
where the presence of ono substance
excludes the presence of all others.
The omnipresence of God admits of
the presence of the material heav-
ens and also of unnumbered spiritu-
al existences. Without the God-
tugvers faculty of faith, how wonder-
ily circumscribed would be the
realm of human knowledge!
Could all modern "builders"
working upon the "walls of time"
have an abiding consciousness that
it was utterly impossible to escapo
the divine presence. would not this
have a powerful Influemco in de-
termining the character of their
a._
"building"? Many heavy bolted
doors niay conceal the gambler from
the oyes of men. but they cannot
conceal hint front tho oyes of God.
Should all human building that is
done under the cover of darkness bo
uncovered to the observation of men
the worlel would stand aghast. Yet,
as the royal psalmist truthfully tells
us: •`I vuu the darkness hideth not
from 'Thee."
What a scone it must have beset
upon which the oye of God was
looking when IIe "so loved the
world that lig gave His only begot-
ten Son, that whosoever belleveth
in Him should not perish, but have
eternal life." What emphasis this
thought gives to the words of the
loving disciple. "Wo love Hun be-
cause Iio first loved us."
It seems purely impossible that
such love should fall powerless upon
human hearts. "Thou God seest
me" is a truth that cannot he too
strongly emphasized, especially in
all religious teaching. It could
appropriately bo written in the ves-
tibule of every church. It wero well
if it had a prominent place over tho
entrance to
EVERY PLACE OF IIUSINESS,
Could it be emblazoned along all
the thoroughfares of human exist-
ence it would prove an effective
guide to better "building" and a
itchier destiny. No better risotto
could bo hung upon (ho walls of
the living -room of every home. It
would be impossible to iutprers it
too deeply upon tho mind and heart
of every child.
Birth. not death, Is the entrance of
every soul to the Divine presence.
God dwells in heaven no moro than
Ho dwells on earth. here, av well
as there, the hand of faith can lay
hold upon His blessings. Ho sends
His angel to caro for the helpless
infants: Ho looks to the parents to
guide the unfolding child; when the
years of accountability are reached
lig holds each individual respon-
sible for his own "building" and all
relatively responsible for each.
When Ho comes and calls each
oust bo in readiness to answer the
question: "Where is thy brother?"
The eyo of an omnipresent ilod is
re -ting upon every "builder." Aro
we likei the ancient builders. build-
ing "with greatest, care each min-
ute an unseen part" ? Will our final
reward bo "well done"?
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
NOV. 5.
Lesson VL Esther Pleading for
Eer People. Golden Text,
Psa. 145. 20.
LESSON WOItD S'1'UDiE.S.
Note.—Tbeee Word Studies are
bnserd on the text of tho Itovised
Version.
Quem Esther.—The name "Esther"
is derived from "Istar." the nanho
of the great Babylonian goddess,
and was given to the heroine of our
lesson /tory probubly on her becom-
ing the wife of the Persian king. Iler
proper Vebrew name was liadassah
(comp. Teeth. 2. 7). Sho was the
daughter of Abihail, a Benjiunit.',
ant! cousin to Mordecai (Foth. J.
15! Her anceevtor, Real, had been
among the captives led away from
Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. left
an orphan. Esther was brought up
by h •r cousin, Mordecai, who held
an oilier at Shushan in the palace of
the king (Earth. 2. 5-7). Xing Ah-
asuerus, the well-known Xerxes of
profane history, having divorced his
wife because of her failing to comply
with him com►nandq, cnused search to
be made for the most beautiful
maiden of the realm to become her
successor. The choice fell upon La-
ther. "ter the king loved Ether
shove all the women. end sho ob-
tained genre and favor in bis sight
snore than all the virgins; so that
ho set the royal crown upon her
herd, and made her queen instead of
\'arhti." At the counsel of ,1orde-
cai. Esther did not mnk.• known het
parentage and race to the king nt
first tI s(h. 2. 10). but Mfnrrlecni
himself at heart was a loyal Hebrew
and worshipper of Jehovah. As
81101, he refused to do reverence to
Haman. the Agegite, who was sec-
ond to the king in authority and to
whops all subordinates; did ol,eis-
nir.•. 'Ibis independence of Muole-
cni, the Jew. so enraged Haman
that he planned. not only the death:
of hie enemy. but the destruction of
the entire Jewish people to whom
Mordecai belonged. 'Phot his tnur-
derous purpose w -os not surcessfully
rattled nut was due to the inter-
vention of Queen Esther. who. at the
risk of her awn life, appenr'wl in the
royal Judgment chamber of the king.
interceded for her people. Mrd
home -et about the downfall of ila-
mnn met tho dclieeranee of the .lows.
The details of the beautiful story of
Queen Esther's intereession for her
people form the topic of to -day's
lesson.
e'er*. In. Then—After i'sther had
learned from me.sengrr• of Morde-
cai that the king had simnel ie de-
cr" authorteing the retternlinatie'n
of the .news in all parts of his do-
minion.
Hathaeh---"r:w of the slim'• thnm-
1'•e .,ens whom les hail slope,) see: to
ate, n 1 ntsmn Father, the ct•►h'n
',tor.Mrp,i—'flaw eosin for lsnsaihl1.
ns st. --• ?Ave thought, the uncle)
and former guardian of Queen
Esther.
11. 'l'he king --Ahasuerus, the Xer-
xes of profane history, kiug of
Persia from 485 to 465 R. 0.
The inner court—Tho royal throng
chamber and principal audience hall
of the king.
There is one law for him, that he
he put to death—Literally. ono is his
law, to put to death. That is, th3
king's law or custotu in this matter
is ono and unchangeable. Every in-
truder into the royal presence. who-
ever Ito be. regardless of rank or
station, was put. to death.
Tho golden scepter—A long taper-
ing stall, the emblem of royalty.
I have not been called—thea thirty
days—Thera seemed, therefore, little
probability of Father having an
early opportunity to present her plea
to the king ttlthout risking her life
by coming unbidden into his pres-
ence. Wo have hero a glimpse of
female life in the harem of tho Per-
sian king.
12. They—That is. Halbach and
others.
13. 'Think not with thyself that
thou shalt escape—Nether had not
at first nnado known her nationality
to the king, but this being known
to others, if not also to the king by
this time, would woke her escape en
possible since even a member of tho
king's harem wnitld Lo subject to a
decree such as had boon issued.
1•i. 'Then will relief sad deliverance
arise to the .Jews from another place
—Il has been pointer) out that the
name of God sloes not occur in the
book of Esther; still this and other
passages in the book indicate the
faith of Mordecai and others in Je-
hovah
o-hovuh (comp. 8, 2-1). e
113. Shushan—Ono of the three cap-
itals of Persia, situated in the south-
western part of the empire. Its
(J reek hang War Musa. it.s
modern name is Sus or Shush (come.
1. 2-7).
Fast ye for me—This fact ing was
certainly n religious rbeervnntee and
the purpose of the fast in this rase
may be nsrn niel to have kern prayer
and supplication to Jehovah for de-
liverance of the .Jews.
Three clays. night or flay- d'omparo
note on verse 1, below.
Not eceerdingg to the law—Tho law
referred to in verso 11, Above.
1. The third day—Counting from
tho day of the agreement between
Mordecai and the queen fit. 1.11. the
first day bring that on which the
agreement. to fast wits ntnete. The
Net, therefore. lasted profitably
about forty-five hours.
Put on her royal apparel—In
chapter 2. verse 17, we are told of
Eether's bet -online quern and receiv-
ing the royal crown.
3. it. shall ise given thee even to
the half of the kingrhnn—An example
of rtrirvftnl hyperbole. the simple
mantling of which wag, "'Then shalt
have anything thou wilt ask."
—+
Ti101'1u I. ALL 11u11N1).
".lnhnny• what's baby crying for?"
"11r sweltered n dime."
"Mri-ev, tut what aro your crying
for?"
"It was my dime, 1
******* ** (uniil experience makes perfect. here.
HOME
fur instance, is a "titbit)" that
should be memorized or else written
t out and hung up in the kitchen for
easy reference:
• Three even tablespoonfuls dry ma-
terinl makes ono oven tablespoonful.
3 �C�C ;��;.*fL ,f 14 Sixteen tablespoonfuls liquid make
'I` "• ^' r7°'►` -'i� ^`'we we ono cupful. 1 1
Twelve tablespoonfuls dry material
muko ono cupful.
Two cupfuls make ono pint.
Four cupfuls make one quart.
Ono dozen eggs should weigh
and one-half pounds.
Dos otto teaspoonful
C1114111 molasses.
Ono teaspoonful soda
sour milk.
Three teaspoonfuls baking powder
to ono quart of milk.
Ono -half cupful of yeast or one-
quarter cake compressed yeast to
ono pint liquid.
Ono teaspoonful extract to ono
loaf plain cake.
Ono teaspoonful salt in two uuart.it
of flour.
Ono teaspoonful salt to one quart
of soup.
One scant cupful of liquid to two
full cupfuls of flour for bread.
Ono scant cupful of liquid to two
full cupfuls of flour for muffins.
One scant cupful of liquid to two
full cupfuls of flour for bettors.
Ono quart of water to each pound
of meat and hors+ for soup stock.
Your peppercorns. four cloves, ono
teaspucnful mixed herbs to each
quart of water for soup stock.
One quarter pound clear salt pork
to it pint of beans, for "Boston
baked beans."
'1'o raise thesnap on cloth soak
it in cold water for half an Lour,
then put it on a board and rub the
threadbare parts with teasel or
with emery.
'I-ES'Tl•:le It l•:C I PIs,
Pickled Bert Salad.—Ono quart
boiled beets. 1 pint celery, 1 pint
raw cabbage:. 3 cups sugar, 1. table-
spoon salt, 1 teaspoon black pepper,
} teaspoon red pepper, 1 cup grated
horses radish. Cover with cola vine-
gar.
ino-gar. and keep from the air.
Baked Broiled Chicken.—Really
young fowls aro necessary fur this
dish. Split down tho back when
you itavo cleaned and Washed them.
Lay thews flat on the grating of
your roaster. skin sido down. and
put into a very hot oven, covered.
Pave ready half a cupful of melted
butter. and after live minutes baste
the chickens well with this. Turn
them ax soon as the inside has col-
ored slightly; baste again with but-
ter, when nearly done dredge thickly
with flour, and wash again with
butter. When they are brown and
the flesh is tender in the joints they
are done. Thirty minutes should be
sutfscloat.
Olive Oil pickles.—Cover four
quarts of sliced cucumbers with boil-
ing hot water, and when cold drain.
Cover with a weak brine and let
stand ever night. In tho morning
drain. Add one-half teaspoonful
each cloves. allspice, and celery salt,
two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, ono -
half cup of olive oil, ono -half cup
each of sugar and mustard seat, and
ono doze'. onions. Cover thorough-
ly with cold vinegar. Mix well and
can.
Western Corn Cob Syrup.—Get half
a dozen clean cobs from which tho
cora has been shelled, from any mil-
ler or farmer. White ones are best.
as the syrup is lighter in oolor than
when made Irvin the rod. Boil them
in about three pints of water for
lateen or twenty minutes, and use
these to make a syrup, with granu-
lated or coil. -,e sugar.
Boiled Icing.—A very fine icing,
and one successfully made by the in-
experienced is made with one cupful
of sugar, one-half cupful of water,
whites of two eggs!, and one tea-
spoonful of lemon juice. Put sugar
and water in a saucepan and stir,
to prevent the sugar front adhering
to the bottom of the pan; heat to
the boiling point, and boil until
syrup will thread when dropped
from a spoon. Have eggs ready and
break only with fork; gradually add
syrup, then lemon juice and beat un-
til of right constituency to spread.
A Rich Ico Cream.—Peach ice
cream is one of the most delicious
of fruit creams, and is not at all
hard .t• make. The peaches must be
quite ripe. and of some rather soft
variety. feel and mash the fruit,
and sweeten it well. Whip a quart
•f cream and partially freeze it be-
fore
o-fore adding the peaches. When the
creast is frozen to a soft mush, stir
in tho fruit. mix thoroughly. and
finish the freezing. This makes a
very rich cream.
Timbales of Pumpkin.—The big
yellow pumpkin makes a good vari-
ant. to the other autunite vegetables.
Here is one way of serving it Stew
and put through a tino colander one
pint of pumpkin. Add one table-
spoonful of butter. four beaten eggs,
half a cupful of sugar, one-fourth
teaspoonful of butter. four beaten
ngge. hall a cupful of sugar, one -
(mirth teaspoonful of ginger. half a
teaspoonful of cinnamon. and half n
pint of milk. four into buttered
moulds, and art. these in a pan of
water is a moderate oven until fires.
Tho timbales can be served hot, or
cold wish whipped Bream.
'1'o bake pumpkin, cut in half and
remove the se de from ono side,
leaving the other for some future
use Lay it in a pan the rind sido
down. and bake for throe -quarters
of an hour. ('aro should be taken
that the ()fen is not. but enough to
discolor the skin. Out in small
pieces and servo with butter. salt
and pepper.
Mushroom Sauce. — Mushroom
brown sauce is ono of the most dell -
slime sauces known, and Is made as
follows: For a pint and a halt of
sauce use a quart of rich consomme.
pound of troth mushrooms, a
baked sour apple, 8 tablespoonfuls of
butter. 5 of flour, a slight grating
of nutmeg, 2 level teaspoonfuls of
salt and } teaspoonful of 1►epper.
Put the butter into a stewpan and
place it on the fire; and when it
begins to brown add the flour and
stir until the mixture is dark brown.
Draw the stowpnn back to a cool
place, stir until the contents are
slightly could, and then gradually
add the stock; stir until it boils,
put in the seaoning, the baked ap-
ple. and I cupful of choprol mush-
rooms. and set back where the
sauce will just bubble at one side
of the stewpan for two hours. At
the end of that time skins ort the
butter, nod strain the since into
another strwpnn. Add the rnnseind-
er of rho ntumhroome nfvl 3 table-
spoonfuls of consonunr. The anush-
roon►q should be nicer pared and cut
into small pines, and they should
simmer for tell minutes In the hot
sauce.
Uyl':F'U1, INFORMATION.
While the "natural cook." like the
poet, is . 'burn, not made," Anvone
with common sense and an inclina-
tion to use it can achieve success.
Not in a single bound, however.
There is an e, b, c, d in cooking, as
in every other art. but, the rudi-
ments mastered, the "frills" will
follow.
The horn conk seems tem tell by in-
tuition when to put in and when to
withhold. She knows the proper
combination of flavors. and tho
goMen monetit. which !narks juvt the
difference between underdone. porton
or overdone. The "mads cook,"
and that deacribew the majority of
es, must go by "rule 011 Ibumb,"
soda to
Otte
0510
to otos pint
WASTIiNG FLANNELS.
A rather stiff brush about, four
and a half inches long, without
counting the length of the handle.
and two or throe inches wide, is a
convenient article in the laundry
outfit.. Corsets and flannels are much
morn easily scrulfoed clean with a
brush than rubbed clean on a board.
Flannel or pure wool, which aro not
rubbed but scrubbed with a brush,
tieing water softened with ammonia
or borax, and a white non-roe►inous
soap, will not shrink and grow hard
if they aro dried on a firm wooden
frame. Rubbing all -wool flannel on
a board causer the ultimate spinal
fibres of the wool to become en-
tangled and shrink.
This can not happen when a flan-
nel is scrubbed with a brush. 71te
dirt is also more easily removed
from the interstices of the cloth by
using the brush. Bard water and
rosinous brown soaps cause flannel
to be hard. Stockinet garments of
wool should always be dried on
wooden frames of their exact shape
and size when new. '!'hose wooden
frames are used at stockinet fac-
tories, where the goody aro washed,
and can he obtained at a compara-
tively low prim.
TWENTY YEARS IN PRISON,
When Couple Meet Atter Separa-
tion Both Are Aged.
A romantic incident and its tragic
sequel aro told in connection with
the capture of Sakhalin by the Jap-
anese. The first thing they did was
to liberate Russian political prison-
ers who were on the island. A Rus-
sian, now n London, interviewed by
The 1•:Tening News, said that as far
as was known there wero about a
dozen such p: teener, together with a
number of Poles.
"Tho saddest case," he soya, "wits
perhupe. Madame Walckenstein, the
young wife of a doctor who was con-
cerned in the political movement of
187D -HO, called the 'People's Will."
Seized ono night by the police, she
disappeared into the gloomy jnws 01
the Schlusselburg, that dread for-
tress of tho Neva. Once inside all
trace was lost by the fries a of the
prisoner. No inquiries of tho heart-
broken relatives were answered. 'l ho,
young husband's frantic appeals fur
news of his wife were scorned.
"Stifling his patience as hest he
might, the young doctor waited for
a year, for once a year the rules of
the Schluss•elburg permitted the
prisoner to write one open letter.
The letter never came. The privilege
had been withdrawn by the, governor
for some trivial offence. 'ley ay. they
might to kelp the rulee there was al-
ways something that allowed the
f i
r
Thn Thanksgiving
Tramps,. g ;;����
Tramps,.
11a11ie 1Yoodburn &toted on the
broad, !melee ate;'s of elerriwnld
taking a sweeping inventory of the
darkening October sky.
•'And to -morrow is 'Thanksgiving
again!" sho said, in a troubled Way.
looking acro:.s et 'Thud, the chut•.s
matt, who wets busy tying down Ur•
rose -vines for their winter's rest.
"Yes," be answered, glancing up,
"time !lion as if it had angels'
w lags."
"Rut tirne goes dreadfully slow,
sometimes. for some people," she re -
piled, with a shiver, tuning away.
"It's too mortal mean that thaw•
friends of hers couldn't have come
t• eat 'I'ha'tksgivin' with her, when
they promised," Thad concluded to
himself ue he covered the last refrac-
tory cane. 'Hien he %cut around to
tho kitchen to speak- to Genie.
'elite mistress is dreadfully put out
about those visitors," said he confi-
dentially, "or else—she has some-
thing on her mind; it can't be she's
getting kind o' '!raid like now, since
the father and mother are laid
away?"
"0. I distinct!" she answered, mys-
teriously: "If I was Pidgin' I'd
say she was grievin' over sendin' her
lover off without much of a reason.
as near as I can find out."
"Her—lover?" and 'Thad stared itt
the peophstic Genie with wido-open
eyes.
"Why yes; Ned Vickers. You know
I told you, ' she answered, reproach-
fully.
"0, but that was a good while
ago," put in 'Thud.
"Yea, I know," went on Genie,
wisely, "but sho had her home ones
all along •anti) lately. and now it's
different. And Thad." turning to-
ward hint sudd y, "it's about this
time o' year th t she shut the doors
of Merriwo:d against hint and—it
hasn't been Merriwold since! And
'Thad—cross your heart now, this id
a rk'ad socret--"
"Cross my heart." repeated Thad,
solemnly.
'Then Genie leaned nearer her atten-
tive auditor and whispered: "I saw
her cryin' as if her heart would break
only yesterday ever a picture of Ned
Vickers. So I think she is grloviu'
over him."
Thad .Irew his breath da sharply.
"T—didn't—know," he said, softly.
Then ho stumbled along into the
milk -room for the pails. leaving the
perplexed maid wondering "what it
waw to 'Thad—this bit of gossip."
But when the chore man sat down
by crumply horn in the dusky stables
he murmured. "1 said I didn't know;
but I do. i know more than anyone
at Merriwold knows about it."
With the deepening twilight came a
storm of snow, sweeping the country-
side. 'lige curtains wero drawn at
Merriwold and a ruddy blaze illumin-
ated the library hearth. The lamp
on a aide -table was turned low. for
bliss Woodburn was not reading; alto
was looking into the fire and listen-
ing to the "click" of the icy snow
against tho panes.
"Teri years ago to -night it stormed
just this way. 0, how 1 remember
itt"
Perhaps 411e breathed a prayer, for
tier lips moved inaudibly; thews she
went into tho adjoining room, where
Genie was braiding her long, heautl-
ful hair before the mirror and hum•
ming: "Douglas, 'fender and 'Prue."
"Don't sing that to -night, Genie,''
she said, almost sharply. Then sho
asked where Thad was.
"I dunno, tne'am, unless he is in
his room." answered the maiA, in a
•ynhpathetio tone; "hut 1 am sorry,
Miss Hattie, if I disturbed you with
my singing."
"No ,otter, now." replied Silly
Woodburn, hastily. "I gimes I am .s
little nervous. Would you go up to
lhud'r ronin anti see if he is there?"
Genie Clew upstairs and along the
corridor its the wrest ting, but Thad
wort int is his room.
"light" ejue sated she, ns the
storm bosh on the closed shutters.
"1 wonder a little myself where tho
tart is."
"llo isn't there," she said, return-
ing to whore her mistress was wait-
ing; "but that's nothing, he's some.
where around and will be in by and
bv. It is scercely dark yet "
As Genie said, by and by ad
A vision of Ned \'iekent, godet out
into that ether storm rose . y, And
ho had "gond to rho ball." ! tol•1 s
said. Mayto he, tut. Wats a tr.eut;,
by this tiara!
"Bring hits into the dining -room.
then," sho veld, kindly.
"A nice trump!" huffed Genie.
puking the kitclein gretto anti rattl-
ing rho cupa unit a aarag, s;,it• ful-
ness. "Whoever heard ut a nice
tramp."
She stood "afar off" with her
lianas folded in the white dimity
apron while 'Thad ushered in the
str.0:gger.
"I think I ant n little faint," he
said, sinking into the comfortable
seat near tho fire and letting his
heed rest on his hand, while a dilapi-
dated cap dropped to the fluor.
Hallie Woodlburn was on the otter
sido of the heavy portiere, but the
voice startle -el her and she 1'0: Fed
through. Whevh. 5110 saw the strangers
attitude, however. sho calms luno the
roost.
"Aro you ill?" sho asked. "or only
faint from hunger?"
"It is hunger, madam," he answcwa
ed. without looking up.
"Hurry, Gariel" said Miss Wood-
burn, solicitously, "tho stranger is
nearly famished." 'Then she went
fur a reviving draught. "Hero!" she
said, "drink this; you will feel bet-
ter."
But he did not take the pro,Tored
cup; he looked up instead. "I ata
hungry of heart," he said. with a
pitiful into:tation; "ten years of soul
famine, Nellie!"
W;th is glad cry of recognitio■
Miss Woodburn threw her arms
around the nice tramp's neck.
"0, Ned Vickers; it Is you!" she
said, joyously.
"It is what is left of ale," he an-
swered, brettenly. "I have conte back
to be forgiven."
"'There is nothing to forgive!" ex-
claimed Miss Woodburn, •and yea
must not go away again, Ned, dear.
kissing his forehead where the snow -
damp hair waved just as it used t•
do.
"But, Hattie. you don't want me
if I've gong to the bad. No; I only
carne back 'o bo forgiven, though 1
do love you as of old!"
Miss Woodburn hid her faire on the
shabby coat and 'Thad hurried away
to tho kitchen, closing rho door's
softly after him.
"What is it, now?" asked Genie,
ungraciously, not understanding the
look on his face.
"Why,. it's! Ned Vickers!" answered
Thad, triumphantly, "and I tante
away to let them get acquainted all
over again."
After awhile Thad slid quietly into
the dining -roost with tho tnollitied
Genie in his wake.
"'Thad," said Miss Woodhexw.
smiling ]sappily, "this is an old
friend of mine. He will be oar guest
to -morrow and wo will have 'Thanks.
giving after till. Show hien to the
south guest chamber and when he
is ready bring him down at once; Uts
codes will be waiting."
"Ile is toy dear old love," she ex-
plained to Genie later; "hut i pre-
sume you don't quite understand?"
"0, yes, ma'am!" answered the
maid, flitting about liko a butterfly.
and blushing like a peony.
"How. Genie? You have no lover,"
"0 yea, ma'am, I have." came the
answer, shyly.
"'Thad, ma'am," simpered the gill,
in confusions.
"Well, Genie." and Mist Woodhura
took the girl's face between het
palms. "don't ever send him away,
then."
"'That I won't ma'am!" exclaimed
she. "I won't bo such a—"
"An idiot, ' finished Miss Hattie.
"Well, heaven has been hotter to m•
than I deserve, Genie, and 1 will
begin my thanksgiving to-ni ;ht."
When the nice tramp came down far
his coffee Miss Wi,odburn exclaimed,
in surprise: "Why, Nod Vickers, yoe
ttltve deco i l ei etc! "
And hadn't he! As he stood there
laughing, dressed in tho latest style,
with a gleam of sold in his attire!
"Forgive .nes Millie," he said, and
he stooped to kiss her, as in the
olden days. "I wanted to surprise
you; then, too. I wondered if yon
could novo me in trampish apparel. t
"Well, you've found out," she aa-
swered, gayly. 'Then she looked lov-
ingly at nen terve the cofco-urn and
said, softly: "'1'o -morrow will, indeed
be a real Thanksgiving."•
SHOULD LIVE 100 YEARS.
"it Is a good working hypothesis
to regard the natural life of is man
as 1u0 year+," said Sir .fames
Crichton-Iiruwno at. ties last meet-
ing of the Public health Congo:is.
Jailers to report the prisoners or tis• Th 'Tito subject of hes address was "St•n-
subordinati.►n, and to preserve the came in, with tho snowflakes thickly 111(7," and he saidamong othersilence of death that enveloped titscame
his curly hair. things: "Every man is entitle! to a
fortress. But wo have means of get- '•Rhyl where have you been?" cried century of life, and every woman
Ling intelligence. and every few years Hiss Woodnern, in an excited, yet to a century and a little more. for
wo learn who have been executed or reliced, tone. women lives longer than Mal. Every
died. and who stilled dragged out tho ••'revi, the village. ma'am," ram the child should be brought up impre.eu.-
answer, reluctantly. and ed with the ',litigation of living to
"On such a night, as Cies?" 100, and taught to avoid the irreggir-
fearful eeistence in the cells of silence
of that ghastly prison. Twenty
years passed. sho held up her hands in astonish -
"in Itl(K) we heard That Madame „hent.
1Yalckenstei,h, 'l'r.goni, I'iroffski, .lair '.Y—es," he said. "The harness
aloft, and nbout eight others wero be- gave out. *Jul I had to get it tnend-
ing; sent to Sakhalin for the rest of lest.'.
their lives, if life it could bo cnllyd, Then he wea up to his room
each one ruffering from incurable ill- clhiickling to himself. "Myl I've Loll
ness caused by the miasma of tho wore lies tonight than for it long
Schlusselburg. lir. 1Valckenatein time " A comprehensive senile lighted
journeyed aero►, that weary waste. up his fare is h.• sat down to warm
thousands of miles on roads ill -made his soca.
—there wait no railway then—and saw An Lour pissed and the great
!arab s 'ef living which tend to pre-
vent tho attainment of this ambi-
tion."
NO MIDDLE (WOUND.
Tho proprietor of the dry goods
store had proposed to the milliner
who owned the ostabliehmeut across
the way.
'•But, Mr Wrappetrinp," she said,
his wife, rho wife he had loved all, wntrhelog rattled his ...own and "i'rn not sure i like you well enough
these years. I ►,,,rked furio,u ly. In w momtv,t t h l to marry you. lot us Lo merely
What it meeting;—yo+mg end beaulf-'bell in 'I'htd's room tinkled jerkily, fri"ends, as heretofore."
d--
fill when they partegrey, mietitc ••1 hone shod cell me," he Inughrt) We can't, MiesN'ribbena," he im-
aged, anti Wrecked with dieenso when ubryin; the summc►ns with Merrily. 1aweresl, thro'igh 11iv set teeth. "'There
they met —ft meeting e 1 1 ears. 'Phe .•,y,.e what elisturt►a Bijou so," awl 1 is no friendship In trade. You win)
husband. ixeleeing his wife to be free, Miss Woodburn, from over her hook. is
or
and that he could take her to »nm• I rho chore man went out quickly. illi arlrle a like me well enough to marry millinery departnhent t0
part of the world where 1tus.la's letting in a flurry of icy snow bo- my greet!"
tyranny .toes not reach, journeyedhind him.
again to Sakhalin. only to find that Presently he cense beck, bringing is
just before the investment of the, flurry in with hint.
island by the Japanese his wife was; "it's a than who has lost hes
removed to Valdivostuck. The pour' way," he timid, "and he'd like a map
woman was smuggled net of the i of coffee end a bit 01 warmth i►efor.
island by inoans of le Japanese Coast- he gone further. And it•s an awful
ing vessel, and is being 'kept in then night!" emphasised 'Thad
prison at Veldivestuck, where the'•.1 (ratan'" ate' peva W i ii trn's
milit,sry authorities will not allow i tae• wee A »surly. "it is hardly t, ie
any non-combatants, and her devoted for—ea—too"
hcuhand may nut oven gee he:. He "1f he's a tromp he's an awfully
strange mirfottune she war the only
prisoner gent away. all the others
beteg Ids on the island."
nice one," interrupted '1'i .e.1. forget
tine his Ineeeeiv. "het, whoever lig 11!1 the morn, the hare w'uld bine
is, he is almost frugal': been aWa't
A NEW iNTEItI'ItF'I'ATION.
Time -111e SnLLath hay
The Elder—'I'amnlar, d'yost Men trs
meenin' it' t work o' necessity?
'rammits —,1 v f nn that.
The Elder --Nis "'tootle' that hire
a work et' necessity?
Tammaa--it wig that.
The Elder—Hou d'yuu mak' that
Tenon —Nasi• ve s ,-, t' t'd ♦ ritet