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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1901-4-25, Page 2ee)e.tihq3:eet4Oeeett4Hfe)eeeeeeeate'eee8.e'etteeeteeeeooeieeeeeetsaeo :aineron Hall. BY LAURA JEAN LIBBEY .A.1411,4,1(4 "Miss 1/1.14dIcton's Lowrr "%A Forbitidca • ager" 'Daisy Brooks," Etc. % Etc- 14C00)*(11):#0.):044:8:RKS:43:8:(4,411q:KSKIA.333:Wart4RECW:€11..AXIA. 1 ee little sewiag-girl—reseued by the umoredlee good"stro,nee freak of fate :trona poverty ereemeea - and seurity—was to- have wealth -seem-vetee 1113'un. • steeh as is mine, and the love of such lending;yourself gm well cared for, my, , anon .as Frederick Caetletent" . ho said. relightiug a fresa And the _voice of coaecience Kern - yore,: teed .pulling away vigorous. tel to whisper to her guilty heext, **what tempted you to shalte off , eyee are an impater—you have mortal coil, and land—the ;Lord, gained it all through fraud!" (tad keeciers where?" he asked, curiously. the false 011ie Cameron threw her - I wanted to cee because life Is not self down upon ber white lace eed, torth the living," groaned Marie praying amid her tears and $obe, leeriest er. that Heaven wpuld forgive ber—yet you married? have YOU a wife she "could not repent al what he ;end little children?" aseett Frederick, had done," she told herself despeire remembering the portrait in Ids oleos—for f she bad not come to tereastpocleet. Cameron Nall she would never have • "A wife! No!" cried Forrester. met the man -whom she loved with Meth a moan of pain. "I detest all ell the paesivnate love of her heart., 'remelt fen the esiee of one echo was And she prayed as she had never .41.1se. to me; they ere all false tire- prayed before. tat Frederick anight lerands Inring inee. i.e. their beauty to never filed out her terrible alto opin etad death, and trampling the She had made what reparative dis leive of tree hearts uneer -their ilailthe could—es far tot elopey went — con - *MI" cerning Gilbert Calueron'e wealth Pretterid; Cestleton flushed hotlyfor bad elle not heroically burned. the "Do. not Sedge. ell so tarealy or will that had left every dollar of hie 104.0 sake of weat holt have steffered at money 1;0 heel—burne4 it that his • ete banes of one." e saes. gravelY evoilth might go to the rightful seed with dienite. beim, Vivian and las nephew! Still, The white we 'eine; against the the sin remained — no etenement pillow grew a ebade paler. and the • e(ndd wash that cue. (levet], ayes etudied his face intently. sea ewes tea she eesstee heee seta "Heaven grant that you elay never for Vivian And Frederiele pleced tee lee (lolled he e fele. fickle girl." he gashing elaitemdis and gleaming Murmurs liteasely. **Your faith bas peerls eguire Cameron hail lavished mover been shaken—I loge it never •upon her, in their &tends. knelt at *rill be." their feet, crying oirt: **There is no danger!" exelaimed •"Pity rile. even though you spur* rkederzek. a jo;,,r..rs ;:mile brooking xr.e mai send me from you an out - Over his bonny ease- "A young gw; cast eat.° the bitter world; ;vet X kap eieele me the ieiredeet ruan the ramie eonfees eey ain—I n noli earth holds be gevIng me the Pro- " Squire Cameron's •child—I eta only 34 *dee this ver e evening tat ste would he 111y toridt`. Heaven bleas Xvt leer!" Forrwer wisefully at .11ha. smileng faa., and hie lips quiver - ea with ett.,..ticei. •"Tlitteit v. Let a blow it would be to you to lose or love," te eaid, he were Pelee to you, said lied from your love --then. eb. .13ien you would know what 1 as seffering now—you would realize my pain; and if you had the courage to end your suffering tee 1 tried to end =Sine,' you would (*woe the man who 'truck the fatal bullet irom your Wart!" eIow sorry Frederick Sett ler mot he watcbed the 'veleta restless cc, with the lines (of dieeipation tat should never have been there! OW etrange It was *bat one shout& ve tasted the sweets of love's en - tit* cup Of joywhile the other So(d. drained to %he dregs its bitter - 5. "Are you an tuaiat? You have the *road brow of a, genius," (said Fred - (tick, hoplug to divert the other' thoughts from his great we. "I was an tirtiet once," erns the letter reply. "I am nothing now. I leave no desire for fame. I bay,: 'minted out my ideal -dreams that. poor, det.exeleut eetving-girl 'who found by chance the Secret of 011ie Caraeronhi fete. Gold. glitteriug tow- els tetuptee me. I took the poor deed 011ie's place and destroyed the proofs. X will go baek. to the old life again. for the great fear tbat X ahould /meet zoialcone from the dark past, who might kuow me and de- nounce me, has been a ewer greater than X eau bear. The 'torture has driven ane mad!, 1 ere you back your love, Frederick, end the ring you gave me 43 a tokee of tt. Von, who are so tar above me, eould never toe% *he poor aewing-girl who has beat guilty of such a wicked deceptive." Helena pictured to herself, as alte lay there, hoer lae would turn (rose her in horror end discnae—ee wke was the very soul ot honor. "I •could never do it!" .abst arias, starting tip In reokless despair cued putting her dark, curly Mir beck from ber flushed, tear -stained keg 'I will marry my love and be happy. He will never know. I •will plead with Frederick night and day to take me far away—so far that the great • fear of meeting some one who will know me will (lie fee of my heart. Yet, who -would reetetitee in me Hel- ena lreathcliff, tee poor little sew- ing -girl, whose fece. was pinched with privation, 'want, and all the ties once ealeely put upon -canvas.. thiste- poverty is heir to?" lag ler the world's praise. \exult is Again those glorious dark eyes late cold eraise .of the empty world 'scanned the lovely face the mirror re- tie a heart thirsting for a. love that fleeted with breathless anxiety. Then is denied it? I destroyed my pita- she breathed fretr. gs and burned rote brushes, I lived "No one would ever know me," Seem day to clay 'with but one hope, she murmured; "I am, greatly chang- e/ad that was to find any false love ede, To alid take Vengeance upon ter or The next afternoon, while on his way to Cameron ia1l. Miss leirk- -wood's answering telegram was placed tn Frederick's hands: "Iiindly detain Mr. Forrester un- til his sister and 1arrive." neelong zn,y lie." if 1 could but get my beautiful litelena to talk to this poor unfort- te, she might in him from this et- of vengeance ctgainet his false love,- mused his host. In the days that followed, Helena A. brillitent idea occurred fo lerede seemed so completely eharod Freder- eeeck. He would engage him to go felt looked upon her in the greatest tet Ca.raeron Hall wad paint Helene.* wonder and pleased surprese. p2rtrait, and he -would pay him hie . The strange, brooding- shastoves up4 o n price for the work if It was delay faithful copy of his darling's fied from her dark eyes; she was gay Ickely dimpled face. • —recklessly gay, as a buoyant, With such a beautitul -aubject, a : romping school -girl. jekbe artist must: needs lanter heart Frederick stniled delightedly at the sglid soul into kis work, and it would t change love had made. If she was rely, ive his flagging here for the art charming and lovable before, in her hie. once adored. •timid, girlish bashfulaese, she was ellfow little we ithitak when we plait bewitchingly charming and Irresisti- fer theefuture, that eftimes the reale ble now. zeftion of those very plans •eill pierI91 How little he dreamed that it waa • hearts keener than a swordall due to one cause— she had hat, and cause us the raost polo- /Agitthrown off the dread fear that haunt - grief a human heart ean knowed her—she had dared to be happy d while Frederiek sat there, and risk all consequences. c placently planning a meeting btee Once Frederick had attempted to t sen Mark Forrester the artist and induce her to sit to a young artist lovely Helena, in her owe. blue for her portrait. teed gold boudoir at Cameron Hall, Helena was peeing up and do -ore "He is a stranger in Baltimore, 333setrmuring faintly: dear," he said; ”but he has excellent 'I am to be Frederick's bride, recommendations from New York one shadow darkens the rose parties as an artist of extraordinary f ability. You will (surely sit to him dparn the future, and that shad - o . is the haunting fear that scone* ae. later I ratty come face to face eleth Mark Forrester!" r Pt CHAPTER =V - `•el am to be Frederick's bridet" Helena raurtnured, pressing her hands 'tightly over her heart; and some- thing very like a guilty thrill of ter - roe crept over her as she re.menabered how near she had ones been to being ▪ eride. "I was never suited to poor eferke. she sighed, glancing at the e --gloriously beautiful face the mirror rettected. "I never was intended for a life such as I would have had to teed as his wife. It was not love which prompted me to accept Mark,' see rau.sed, “for X repeated of it getite as Won as the words were ut- tered. I did not know what lo -re meant then. ley heart was never &wakened until 1 snet Frederick Owe bleton. And now his love is mine— • ail mine!" she cried with a throb- biug heart, as elm turned the sparkl- e* diamond eagagententering around leee white enger. -What young girl has ever had such e strange roraa.3a- e life," she soliloquized, her dark es agate seeking the inirror; **wee d dream that I ----once a peer for your portrait, for ray sake, dear?" He never forgot, nor could es un- derstand, the sharp cry of horror that rose to Helena's lips. "My portrait!" she cried, in a. voice so changed by terror that It sounded scarcely human, “e—X -.- should die if you brought an erten here. I—I—would not live through the ordeal! A hearty laugh broke from Fred- erick, the idea, was so very ludicrous. "I can not understand you, dar- ling," he deelared, laughingly. "I have heard and read of young. having • aversioe to crimson, -blood roses, to red -plumaged birds, to el- fembaate dandies and so on; but I have never heard of a young and be - •witchingly lovely girl refusing, in such terror, to allow her lovely fea- tures to be transferred to anneae. You surprise ma I-Ielena." 'Don't folk about it any more, Frederick," she murmured, elaspieg two ice-cold hands me his arm. 1. had !loped to Interest you, ewe by telling you this poor fellowes hiss eliorne" lee went; of, tatoughtlessity. "elle quite a Woman -hater. h 33a1.17oziiy 3202 .of eemplimeet te Ie lee lets oolotezhed te teedertalial le at eel. 1 betricsoled Wee. 011.041,, alld '"""ltnierv 4110 re ta, sralona,?" ke cried. le4110111 10 the Ve0110/16 41019f has faded from yOur eaoe, and yout. eye.s have in them the look of a hint- ed fawn; even your -elands are bum - leg. 'You must be ill," he cried, anxiously. "Don't worry yourself about the portratt; of couree Tour will is to be ray Lew, 1 eon no complain, you know, <leer, for am 1 not to beve the sweet original ier nay own very soon now? Look op Into my eyes and smile agein. will tell you the artist's story some other time." By a great effort ITelene threw -04 all the deadly fear that for one mo- ment had swept like a deluge ever her fluttering heart. 1 -1 -ow silly she was, she told hex - self, to give way to sudden terror like that! Mark was not the only artist in the world. Still, she would never sit for a portrait --never -*bile the sun shone! She had a, deadly terror of it, nothing eauld change that—just such a. brooding horror as a deserted wife feels lest the same fate may reach her own daughters when they grow up and marry, and a constant dread, if she remarries, her elegzed. brain to, deny her identity, •-aeo.. 'eery eut surprisetily: "You taldet be mad; we are strangers who ba -re never met before. I ane not Helena Ileathelift. '1 am 011ie Cam- eront“ She must do it to save here self. But the words refueed to leave her ehe could, only steed there in the .suielight, hei laxge, dark eyes Axed upon his face, a world of un- utterable borror and dread in them. Before Mark Forrester had team to utter one word of tbe torrent of wrath that was raging in his heart, the door of the hall. opened sudden- ly. and Viyiett, stepping out upon the porch, tailed sharply: --Helena1 liteenal where are Toe? I want you at once!" Vivian'a -voice had netrae-cd ber. It was eseless to deny her identity now—quite tiseless—and a deathly despair etept over her. "One moment," cried Mark Forres- ter, grasping her white arm rudely, "and with a grim, set purpose in his gUttering eyes. "'I must have an interview with you my fair, false bride that was to be. Why did you By from me, tra,niple say love down, break my heart and leave me?" he cried, sternly, his eyes fairly blezing dawn into her guilty soul. "Helena! Helena! .Are you com- ing. or shall I come 4own into the garden after you?" called Viviaies impatient, shrill voice. tell you all, Mark; but not here—not now," breathed Ilel- era. Wale'. "I shall. gelt .you to invite me into the Halle" replied Merit. grimly, -un- conseiously tightening hie beld of the beautiful white ertn—his Newt, throbbing metily with grief and bit- ter Pain. "Olt, no. no! Not there!" cried Helena, faintly, "I will come to 'sou In the rose -arbor to -night at eight." and in an instant she had wrenched herself free front his grasp and sped like a swift -winged bird over the greensward, across the rose -bordered terrace, and eisappeared through the door -way. Like one dazed. Helena groped her way elong the corridor. She seemed like one stricken suddenly blind. Ttvian stood gayly thatting with a lady. She presented the lady to Helena, bue the girl's brain 'MI5 too benumbed to quite comprehend the name, 41341 she added. earelteesIy; "Look In at the parlors and revel). tion room beyond, and see how you like the decorations; it is a, perfect bower of roses. Fsager to escape elvicires aurious, keen gaze, Helena passed into the parlor; only the roes will bear wit- ness what happened there. How she Id diazily back against the banlc of blooms, crushing them as she fell. Mut their perfume stifled her. Wild, mobbing cries fell front her lips as she rocked herself to and fro an her bended knees, wailing out that her sin had overtaken her, and fate had showered a deathly vengeance upon Ler. Oh! U the hand of fate had lieett :stayed but another day—only a few more hours—and she would have been Frederick Costleton's bride. And now her doom had overtaken her—cut tier off from all joy or hope, just as the cup of happiness WAS held 'to her Welshed lips. And in that one boue of bitter repentance she suffered tenfold for that ono thoughtless ace of folly committed —ay, a hundred -fold. Tbat one act of girlish lolly—of wearing Miss • littawood's pini -silk dress to the skating carnival, and all the tragic sorrene that had accrued in conse- quence. Pate had brought her face to *ice with Mark at last, and his revenge 'would re complete when he dragged the skeleton from the closet of the dark past and disclosed to the world lest the next one may follow suit ex the least provocation—that was tlee haunting skeleton in ber closet whien the world knew not of; but in Frere - crick's presence she would forget is all, and be happy; she would enjoy bis tender love, as the shrinitieg flower enjoys the sweet, invigerall- ing sue:thine, "I have eiot been idle, daeling," exclaimed Frederick., fondly, as, arm in arm, they paced the elowerearne, dered terrace a peement before Ile took, his leave, "I beve bought a beautiful horee for ray beautittli bride," he exclaimed, entlaisiastical- ly, "and have bad it furnished witk every leeury taste could suggest and. money procure It is upon one of the xaost fashionable ageweee Washington, wbere my Helena V111, shine as the most beautiful of beau- tiful brides; and have purebasee. tlint home and its a.dornings as my bridal gift to you. dear," he eaide bending over her tenderly. "You are 30 good to nee, h-edere ick" cried Helena, lifting two tear - gemmed eyes to his handsome face, "and the „one prayer of my life trill be"—and her voice fluttered trentea lously---"I hope you will never love nee less tban you do now; and tbet no shadow will ever come betweee He laughed lightly at her words then; but the time tallle 'when thee* words sounded like a. prophecy. The cheys flew by on golden 'wing*, as the days of lovers' wooing genere oily do. It was tbte day before Bee ena"a wedding, and the sun :atones and the bade sung in tbe trees *tete side of her window as though lee tragedy were to be enacted ere gm day waned—M5 though no girliek heart were to be broken and a yoratig life cruelly blasted. "Ah, tne, how happy 1 eaul To- morrow Is to be ray wedding clay:" she enurmurtel, standing before the mirror, and knotting a (trims= eaelk about her 'slender waist, and twine ing a spray of geramitme—leretler- ick's favorite flower—in her dark brown, glossy curia: • She walked ;slowly down the carte. dor and out into the rose garden. Helena liked to gather the roses • best when they were spangled with diaanonds of dew, glistening in the . sunlight. she was an early riser. No one was yet astir at Cie Hall, and she walked briskly along with her sun hat over her white arm. The mdrning air and golden sunshine kissed her cheeks into twin -blown roses as she walked about amid the lads of bril- liant blooms. "My happiness will be like this flower," she marraured, plucking a fragrant white rose—"pure and sweet; but I -trust it will 'be more • lasting than this flower, so fragile and lovely!" A slight noise directly behind her startled her, and, glancing hastily ' around, she saw a gentleman beside the fence, with both of his hands 1 leaning lightly upon the railing. "I beg your pardon, madame," he (mid, raising his hat respectfully; "but will you kindly tell. me the name of that flowering plant at your feet?" A faint, choking cry broke 'Teem Helena's ethite stiffening lips. She tried to turn and fly, but Heaven it- , self seemed against her; she had not ; even power to turn her face away, or to fall on her knees and bury it anong the pitying crimson blooms at her feet. Like one fascinated, her strained, terrified gaze never left the stranger's face. His eyes were fixed curiously upon the plant he had been admiring. One moment more he would raise his eyes to her face—and then! ale dear Heaven, . she dared not think what would happen then! She knew him at the first glance While the sun shone, the birds sung and the roses had v. :geed their per- fuxne about her on enteiner car, her doom had ovC. `. her! It was Meek Forresi... t eckless, passionate, artist ice. . 'se last words had been to her, eee-ser prove false to me, mydarling; for, if you were, I should kill myself—perhaps both of us." Slowly he rased his eyes to the girl's white, ghastly face. - "Nly God!" he cried out hoarsely,' in a voice that was scarcely human. "Helena U.callicliff, 1 have found you at lastI" And in another ;instant, with one bound he had cleared tbe .low iron railings, and_ had gained .her side. CHAPTER XV. - "Helena Heathclift, I have tound you it last!" repeated Mark .Forres- ter, hoarsely. . Then for an awful moment, while the birds were singing, and the sun- shine deifted down upon her terrified face, there were profound silence be-. .ween them. As a frightened dove stands terri- / lied, mesmerized, before h deadly ser- pent, Delete, stood before Mark. elis angeredlstorted face, livid -with aroused paesiem, was terrible to see. Helena's -was pitiful to behold in its pale, pathetic loveliness a•nd un.utter. able lea,. A Vila, iketene idiect neehed through . eareoseeees.a. ,.......a.seeeeeeesee that the girl whom they had known as Squire Cameron's daughter wet; an imposter, Helena, Ileathcliff, She who bad dared claim a dead girl's heritage was but a poor NOW York sewing -girl, es ambitious as she was bea.utiful, and had made this daring strike for glittering gold and posi- tion. Men would turn from her In won- der, and young girls in horror, •while Frederick, her heart's love, *would curse the day his fair, hon070...- ble name had been coupled with hers upon the lips of men. Tier prayers and her entreaties \voted be useless. The voice that had always had for her noth- ing but words of tenderest love would cry out against her as ha spurned her from him ana tore him- self from her frenzied, clinging clasp, and left her an outcast at the world's mercy, praying for death. An hour later, when Vivian enter- ed the parlor, she found great clus- ters of roses torn. from their fasten- ings and scattered abent the room, theirpetals ground deep into the white velvetcarpet and Helena ly- ing as white as a sno•wedrop among the debris of rose leaves. "Their stilling odor • must have overcome me, and I must have fallen against thexa," Helena -explained, trying to speak calmly when she re- gained consciousness. But Vivian knew it was something besides the oder of the roses that caused it, and that made her ..face so ghastly and her eyes so black with terror . elect caused her to cry out in nervous fright at every peal of the door -bell; TUE SUNDAY &Tool,. LESSON IV, CONE) QUARTER, INTER- NATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 28, Text or the L.L.NK.:111, .14140. u. 19-29. Memory Verses. 19.20-G014es% Te•xt, John xx, 1:9--000410e48tstry Prepooee 1.43' 12eN. 0. 111.-SteArrie, (Copyrigbt, 1901, by Aancriearx exess Atteeiation.1 19, "Jesus steed iu the midst and saitit unto them, Peace be unto you." Tills was a the evening of the resuriectiou dos. while the disciples were gathered ii- gether, with the deers shut for rear of the JeWS, listening to the testimony et e the two with whom He bad walked m Inu1lamIS. wliea suddenlJesus Itinteelf stood in the midst, with those bieseed words. "'Peace be ado you." wleelt lie al- so repeated a little later Ayers,: 21). Com - Pare His "Be of g•otel eheere- eBe set afraid,""Go in peace" (Math, ix,2, 22; Nis,. 27; laulte vie .50; viii.48), and remember teat He is the Prince or Puce, He hes 010.ie peace for' us by the blood of His eroes, aIl Ilis tbouttlas to us are thoughts of neace, He is our melee, Ile will eeep ip perfect peace all'whoseentinds are stafkl ('i Him, and it is our privilege to 'let the peace of God rule in our hearts thee ; ix, 0; Col. i, 20; Jer. xxix, 11; EA. H. 11; tea, 1NVi, 3 Col. id. 10). This seems te me to have been His fifth am:tomes. ; counting as follows: To Mary, to the oth- : et' woman. to Peter. to the two who walked to Emmaus, and aow to the 4nst.. ! eipleS gethereil together. Md as the tire; tifth In SeriPtUTO is associated with tibiae denee (Gen. 1, 20-23L as also in Joseph's ; kindness to Ilenjamin, acid the live loaves which so abundauttly fed the 5.000, eta ' 20. 'ashen were the diseiples glad weal tileY Sow the Lord," At first they were terrified and affrighted, but Ile showed g them His hands end His feet and lethal them to bundle Him and ea. that He was not a epirit, es they bad supposed. I ex- ; peek He says to us many a time, "Wily i are ye troubled? And why do thoughte arise in your hearts?" (Luke xxiv, 3740) and if we would only see Him and itte liere His lore toward us we would lose our troubled thoughts a John iv. 10;, John xiv,1„ 27). We learn from the pas.; sage in Luke just quoted that our resin-. ! rection bodies will be tangible and mato- rial, for ours shall be lie° His (Pbil. 21), and His was flesh and bones anti eould be handled and could eat (Luke sxiv, 41, 42). Those who die have gain, but they still wait for the resurrection. body. 21. "Then. ;said Jesus to them again: Peace be unto you. As My Father bath sent Me, even ea send I you." In Bis prayer to Ills Father He said, "As Thou east scut Me into the world mon so beta I also seta them Into theworle" (Jobnxvii, 18). Moro than 30 times in this gospel He speaks of Llimself, or Is spoken of, as sent by the Father. He said to Moses, "Came now, therefore, and I will emit thee unto Pharaele" and to Gideon, "Go In this thy nieght; hare not I sent tbee?" and to Jeremiah, "Thou shalt go to all that r shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak" Mx. iil. 10; Judges ye 14; Jee 1, 7). 22, 23. "Ho breathed on them and eaitk 411120 them, Reeds() ye the Holy Ghost," Some are perplexed about the discipl4s being commissioned to remit er retain sins, but notice that the power given to Peter in Math. xvi, 10, is here gieen to all who were gntbered together. All be- lievers are eoMmissioned to go In Hie name proclaiming the remission of sine to all who will accept HMI (Rev. eel!, 17; Acts iii, 38, 39). As to receiving the Holy Ghost, one has said, "It does not appear that the Holy Gbost did now come upon them. This seems to bare been a epithelia net representing that wheel actually took place on the day of Pente- cost." All believers are temples of the Holy Ghost, and Ile Is in every believer, but to be filled with the Spirit, while it is the privilege of all, it is to be feared is the experience of but few (1 Coe vi, 19, 20; John xiv, 17; DIAL v, 18). 24, 25. "We lave seen the Lord." Thus said the others to Thomas, who was not with them when Jesus appeared on that first ereniug, but his reply was, "Except I shall see, I will not believe." There was no simplicity of Oen hero, Not only did he doebt the word of his fel- lowdisciples, but, like them,he did stet belieee the word of our Lord .Hinaself that He would rise from the dead. We all need, and need often, the word of our Lord, "0 ye of little faith!" How much Thomas missed by not being with the others that resurrection evening! A whole week of doubt and darkness was one of the results. 26, 27. "Be not faithless, but believ- ing." The next first day of -the week, the disciples being again gathered, and Thomas with them, Jesus again appears with His great greeting, "Peace be unto you." No one had told Him *hat Thom- as had said, yet see how He exactly meets Thomas' difficulty (compare veree 25). He knows the things that come in our mind, every one of them, and there not a word in our tongue but He knot it altogether (Ezek. xi, 5; Ps. cxxxix, How careful this should make us co corning even our thoughts, for t thought of foolishness is sin (Prov. set 9). 28. "My Lord and my God." The lo of Christ and the word of Christ wet enough. We do not read that Thorn' put his finger into the print of the nal in order to be convinced, as he thougt he would need to do. A word from Chri Himself did it all, but it was sight th; did it. He saw end believed, and h heart then cried, "My Lord and in God." Does your heart thus cry out n you see Him by faith Wonteled for you transgressions and bruised for your ise uities, or has He still oceasion to mane; you for your unbelief mei heart because you will a message ndr His metes:. • 14.) - 29. "Jesus see' • cause thou has! !ea - Hever]. Blessed • . 'seen and yet hay:, thing He asks us • what He says cot .t. present or the futn • • unlikely as that Noeli, fiviee 1)!'mll'aPsfi from any water, would ever -need n re sel to save bis houseliold, but it is alma for faith that God says or 'command's. I is ours to believe and obey. Do I accep the Son of Clod as my Saviour, puttin all my taist in His precious blood. she for me, then it is my privilege to believ all that ,He has said concerning ; suc and when'T read John v, 24; vl, 37: e'.1 lc, 27-29; Eph. 1, 6, 7; Bora. 7, l; P exxxvfii, 8; Ise- ali 13, milli, 25; col. h 4; 1 John iii, 1, g, or eireilar passages ehotad say 'with glad heart; "I bellev God," tad rerna•Mbi4', 7,19,118Aiir "Is it a stranger calling for me?" The dusk crept on, the stars fixed themselves in the sky, and the broad, • full moon was riding like a lumin- ous chiricet high in the heavens, shedding a golden radiance over the ear h, as Frederick Castleton wend- ed his way, blithe and happy of heal'', toward -Cameron 'Teall. on the steps of his • club he met hir eld friend, , Herbert.Ren.wick. *7 can so happy with the whole • world," .he told himself, impalsives 13r, "that I ought to make overtures of friendship to my old chum who' hes lost what I have won." • All the world seemed joyous, for . etas not to -morrow his wedding -day and by that time on the morrow, please, 13mtvee, he would have won beautiful, peerless Helena for Ms bride. CONTINUED sr'r • SUMMER FORCING. Istant7 vceenawases Vtilized With rcne4a1s1os What vine xieat. Greenhopeies, more particularly tem ing houses, are vapidly increasing in number throughent the northern state's. This allay be coverdone in time, but at present It is a valuable source et in- come. During the summer mouths It is the prevailing enstem to clean out the forcing houses, allowing there to 1/3 Id).. -time to Inepare for the fall eaxnpaign. Some time ago it occurred to Frank W. Bane of New Hampshire that there should be some tropical or other plants of eeonomic importance that would adapt themselves to the utilization of the empty bou.ses„ Eggplants, peppere, sweet potatoes and tomatoes were se- lecte51 for 1rria1. .The house is an even span, 2fi by 100 feet, and the beds, with 21 SrEC04Y.143 TOMATOKS. 12, rady Avee 14. liatuty. 48. Doxide Early lemma, ge leteteue lendbook 11‘ New'Liberty Dell. one exception, on the ground. AU of the plants used were started early. Ise that they were of good size when trans- planted into permanent positions. By so doing earlier maturity and cense- !pent greater profit were gained. Mr. Rene says: From tomato plants the seed of which was sown on March 10 and the plants set into the ground beds he - 'tweet; )ettuce on April 0 'WO began pick- ing fruit on July 10. The plants were set 18 inches apart each way and train- ed to one stem. The varieties used wore Early Aeme, Beauty, New Liber- ty Bell, Ignotum, Fordbook First and liopti's Early Minnesota. These rede- fine from past aperience had proved 'ray valuable for forelug• On examination of data, at hand it Pas found that log.10 could safely be counted upon as about the ripening period of the outdoor crop in New rfampshire. Figuring the yield per average plant for each variety to Ang. 10 and then taking the average iinf the /whole 'the yield flgured 2 pounds 0% ounces per squall.* foot. The average price which tomatoes have brought be- tween July.10 and Aug. 10 bas been at least 7 cents per pound. Two pounds 014* ounces at 7 cents a pound equal nearly 16.8 cents, the income from one square foot Multiplying this NAPOLEON'S WISDOM. Great Geonree 1.ie:sl a271,341eYap,. og InteulesloINL-1)oet rer Abotkin Mau eXerri$93 „ttis 14MSCIfle fee prove them. Ile econpetsis ,eeeese ly with his eellewe, ziyalFy tot muscle ends in nrssenlaridapeeree- raieve.htatallexreorund. eise4.03 tor tioi joxoros discussion does for the braia. The importance el aiocossieo Alto. pornodn wpiae.prozleheieatliod. vosetilOrd0,11%11.7d.44404: ea like a big man, selecting fix*i. tions to exhaust the maineta 414, far away into 11443 of cenjec4AnaS and widest ispeeelatima, • }Its was no dreageer'a ing to speaulattee tee ten* et for doing. First come the teal lff of the day or hour -the plaetaisggegf fineshiug 9f details, from the d- ing of army corps te the eanie htl fatal arraegements. Then, fres leen actual work, «a' ing relief from cOecesatrated app1te^te.- tion, his brae* nought rest ell (AN worth whi/.. On kis 'voyage te eegypt, 0.00; Wined to waste no time, he ergents. ed serious diacussion as Beithodicalig as he eYer organized e.egkting glps pointed e dillgeuairszons . iewere rogalarl1r ttl** Needless to 'say, Napoleozt arrejsge ad everything awl eon -trolled .try. thing. Re seleeted the sitbjeet Par 4k4c41.4* sleet, he he tbe three or four each side to eupport teed opal,* given propomiticea. These were leis feererite toPleeti ka'ritrst0,1 gtohyeoraLatoojt;wiaruir; rcreianisd,terr From his point 1.4 lisr, his 001/1 MaUbblr etgosefour. disnetytoorio.parLfeernewadillliter only two things he eared for 2).0• 1_1)7 Lie fate liereafter. liol:w:Itt.exednt.dhetbzeo:e:f1 the scope Ills embiticoa, was tnt- -to°11dceecidbee elret*Je4lerhif3tal7luttnedts4liaViast: inhabited. Again, be direassed thin earlra prdhable ending, by Are or Teat*. Ile disclosed also the moaning Ot dreams and Om value et dpreweattie *Itt4e..r"actecal life be discarded every. Ching, sale realitine, but in discus* arkiii. =Alt: yabistittrailoaclattl::toustito:skinoret7::: in general be honied poalielfehlr the eeletenett et bell-perheas that w;19 vaution on his part -and vortintathod that no man should alie withent On-% • RZW YORK IIIPROVRD geoeLANT. by the number of square feet available . for tomatoes, or 1,440 square feet, the - area of our center bed, we have a re- turn of $241.92. Eggplants arid peppers find ideal I Conditions in the summer greenhouse. I Possibly this may not apply with equal force to states farther south, but it Is n-; I, • ,,.• IV VI be ,•-• teasing lits cans. "Only a fool trayis thee ete 'KM ea^ 4114 without+ 41, contour. There lgr 30 much W44 do not know slkd that we cannot explain." Xt is deeply characteristie of Italto- leon's thought that he should tri4„Va declared for ISoharamedanisne. in preference to Christianity. ILI admired Ow religion of llo- hammed "because. it sosquernd onc. hall the yrorld ill UR years, "'trials it took 300 years ter Christianiby-Th- . establish itself." The old Frenck king became tWrt-• verted because h• 'thought the Chrigt4 an God heat his pagan god in MY.- tle. Napoleon had not traveled la"r. beyond that old king. The man who stele for all corts'Of wisdom in Napoleon will be doesAy, 'disappointed when he comes to nno,- 1y2e the great !letter's raligtbus thought. But for the here worshiper theee is eons/art in this: Napoleon trifled with nrerytbl,ng except the first great cause. On the deck of his ship on a IMP night there was much irreveratt,' flippant, materialistic chatter. Vele revolution had made stupid nekeeelii fashionable. But Napoleon was impressed by ete - eam night. the blue, dark weak(' and the silent beautiful stars ahlee ing down in cosmic rebuke ei tiny blasphemers below. ire stopped very abruptly tlie prattle of atheism. Toward the stars he pointed ,the short, thick arm so soon to rule Otis little planet. "You nta,y talk me 'long as you please, gentlemen, but who made 'al that?" There was no aneiver, and theare was 110 more atheism that night. , The man who was to build up the code Napoleon could appreciate the force and necessity of law. , mind realized the feeblehess of Mtela coping even with little problems 131 earth. He felt that great lave and Great Lawgiver must swing and di- rect those millions of akin, worths above. tee When Napoleon was stili a Corsi- can patriot, the great Paoli said to him: "Napoleon, you are not a modern. You talk like the heroes of Piet - arch." Earnestness of the old kind was ;Lee ed Napoleon's characteristie-•as .seperor, planning to rule Asia from • back of an ornexuented ole - t, or as a poor, half starve • taking oft his nntddy 'shoes to the presence of the matronly; ..e. Permon and listening to her stories of descent from the emperors of Constantinople. • Napoleon in his hours of work eras aedoer, and in las hours of leisure he was a discusser. He exercised constantly the two side: of his brain, the practical and epainlative. ASONV the Budget Got Its Warne. Probably rot 1 per cent. of the British taxpayers who are lust -n-tele-toes anxiously discussing the possibility af Sir Michael Hicks -Beach's coming budget are aware of the 0 gin of the term. Almost time immemorial it was the eule In England to put %lee estime, receipts and expeedeturcs pr to Parliament inatteetner word budget being ati holler us from the plc' Nos*** wen,* gette, which eigniteit Curiously enctugh, ed back again Oleo se -.1.P.US1014. 1:14rellst