The Brussels Post, 1901-11-28, Page 3ER OF EVIL
ABITS
Once Formed it is a Very Difficult
Matter to Give Them Up.
Igntoree ogooallog tO Aot. or tho Parliament. of
0101444 141 WO year Onc'Pltonaand 1,11no ;fon-
dant and Ono, by William Bally, of Toronto, at
tbo Derrartmont et Aviculture, Ottawal
oesPateli from Washington. eays:
--lien Dr, tnalmago preached from
L1� l'ellowIng texta-ProverbsXXW
aro "Wilco obeli I awake? I will seek
ft yet again."
With an insight into humeri tater?
Slleh as no other man ever had, Sol-
omon in these words is sketching the,
mentin procesoes of a Man Who has
stepped aside from the path of recti-
tude and would like to return. Wish-
ing fop something better he say*:
"When shell I etvalco? When shall I
get over this horrible nightmare o
iniquity?" But •seizetr upon by un
radmatea appetite and pushed down
hill by his passions he cries out:
"I will seeO it yet again,. I will try.
it yet on more."
Abou t a mile from Princeton, N.
J„ there is a skating pond. One
winter day, when the ice was very
thin, a farmer living uear by warned
the young men of tbe danger of skat-
ing at that time. They all took the
warning except. ono young man. He
in the spirit of bravado said "Boys
one round Mere." He struck out oi
his skates, the ice broke, and hi
lifeless body was brought up. • An
in all matters oftemptation and al
lurement it in not a prolongatioi
that is proposed, but only just on
mom indulgence, just ono niore sin
Then comes the fatality. Ales for the
• one rootlet more! "I will seek it yot
again."
OUR LE1311ARIES
Are adorned with elegant Moretow.
• addressed to young inen, Pointing ou
to them all the dangers and perils o
life. Complete map of the voyage o
life --the shoals, the rocks, the quick
sands. But suppose a young man is
already shipwrecked, suppose he Is I
ready off the track, suppose he has
already gone astray -how can he be
got back? That is a question that
remains unansvseredand amid all
the books of the libraries I find not
ono word on thet subject. To that
dims of persons I this day address
myself.
You compare what you are now
with what you were three or four
years ago and you me greatly dis-
heartened, You are ready with ev-
ery passion of your soul to listen to
a WM1801011 like this. Be of good
cheer! Your best days are yet to
come. I on'er you the hand of wel-
come and rescue. 1 put the silver
trumpet of the gospel to my lips
and blow one long, loud blast, say-
ing, "Inhosoever will. let him come.
and let him eolne now." . The church
of Cod is ready to spread a banquet
upon your return, and all the hier-
archs of heaven fell into line of bell-
owed proceSsion over your redemp-
tion.
Suppose a man of five or ten or
twenty years of evIl doing resolves
to do right. Why, all the forces of
darlouss ore allied agaillSt liim. Ire
gets down on his knees at midnight
and cries, • `God help mei" Ho
bites his lip. He grinds his teeth.
He clinches his ilst in a determina-
tion to keep to his purpose, no
dare not look at the bottles in the
aindoW of a wine store. 11. is ono
Jong, bitter, exhaustive, hand to
band nglit with inflamed, tantalizing
merciless habit. When he thinks Im
is entively free the old inclination
pounces upon him like a pack oi
hounds, all their muzzles tearing
away at tho thinks of
ONE POOR REINDEER.
I have also to say if a num wtmts
to Intern from evil practices society
repulses him. The prodigal, wish -
log to return, tries ti take some
professor of religion by the hand.
The professor of religion looks at
bina looks at the faded apparel,
and the marks of dissipation, and
insteed of giving hiin a Arm grip of
e tend offers him the tip end of
the longer fingers of the left hand,
which is equal to Striking 41 man in
to face, • Oh, how few Christian
people understand how 2000h gospel
there is in a good, honest handshake
ingl Sometimes when you have
felt the teed ol encouragement and
sonm Christian man has taken you
heartily by the hand have you not
felt thrilling through every fibre of
your, body, mind and soul at en•
couragement that was just what you
needed?
The prodigal, wishing to get loth
good society, enters a prayer meet-
ing. Some good man without much
cense greets him by saying: . "Why
are you here?You aro about the
last person I.expetted to see in ot
prayer meeting. Well, the dying
thief was saved, and there is love
for you." You do not know any-
thing about this, unless that you
have learned that whth a num tries
to return from evil eoUrSeS 0 000 -
duet he rune against repulsions in-
numerable,
How thetm dainty, fastidious
Christians in all our churches are
going to get into heaven I do tot
know unless they have an especial
train of care thshioned and upholst-
end, each ono a car to himself, Thay
cannot go with the great beret of
publicans and sinnere. 0 yo who
curl youe lip of scorn on the fallen,
tell you plainly that, if yoti had
been surrounded by the same Influ-
ences instead of sitting to -day amid
o the Matured and rented and tho
Christian you •might bay° bent
A CIIOTICHING WRETCH,'
jg stable or ditch coveind teith filth
nod abomination! It 10 not becaOse
we two naturally ally bettor, bet bo•
those the mercy of Clod has Oreteeted
es. Those that are brought ujlio
Christ:len civeles and watched by.
Chriothin parentage should tot; be
50 hood toi tho
I think also that men aro often
bindered front rola:roll% by tho fact
that chmehes aro noxiolut about
theis niensheNdliP, toe anolotm abelit
their denontioatiOot, Mul they yeah
WOO up sla and reloon to Gen and
ask biro how he is going to be bap
tieed,whother by sprinkling or
=mien and what kind of a church
15 going to loin. It IS' 0poor
time to talk about Presbyterian ea-
teehism andjilpiscomt3 liturgies and
Methodist love Inlets and Baptist,
immersions stheu 11 111011 IS abOnt 1.0
eome out of the darkness of Sin in-
to the glorious light of the gospel.
Now, 1 heve shown you -Owe oh•
staelee bemuse 1 svairto you to un-
derstand 1 know all the difficulties
in the way, But 1 am 11017 going
to ten you how Hannibal may twat:
o the Alps and Ixow the shackles may
e_ bo onriveted ancl how the paths of
virtue forsaken may, be regained
First of all, throw yourself on Glen
Go to him fraoltly and earnestly and
tell Him theme 'titbits yeu bave and
ask him if there is any help in all
the resources ol omnipotent love to
give it to you. Do not go on with
O long rigmarole, whieh some people
call nrayer, made up of ohs and
ahs and forever told forever amens:
Co to God and cry for help.
The, also, I couseel you, if You
I want to get back, quit oll your bad
s associates. Ono unholy intimacy svol
d fill your soul with moral distemper.
_ In all tbe ages o/ the clunich there
has not been aminstance where it
a num kept one evil associate and Was
re1er/nee-0,moms the sixteeu lour -
dyed nollion of the race
1407 ONE INSTANCE.
aloe up your bad companions or
give up heaven. It is not ten bad
O companions that destroy 0 mall, nor
t live bad companions, nor three, but
; "01171.1at chance is there for that
- young man 1 saw along the ett cot,
four or live young men with him, 111
.. front of It grogShon, urging nun te
go in, he resisting -violently re-
sisting - until after awhile they
forced him to go in ? It was a, sum-
raer night, and the door was mit
open, and I saw the process. Theo
held him fast, and they put the cm)
to his Bps, and they forced down
the stroog drink. What Chance is
• there for such a young man ?
Some of you, like myself, were
.born in the country. .A.ncl what
'glorious news might thee° young men
send hone to their parents that this
afternoon they had surrendered them-
selvee to God and started a new
life 1 I know how it Is in the C01/21-
1.17. Tim night comes on. The cat-
tle stand under the rack, through
which .burst the trusses of hay., The
horses' have just frisked up from the
moo do w brook at the nightfall and
stand knee sleep in the bright straw
that invites them to lie down and
rest. The perch of the hovel is fult
of fowl, their feet warm under their
feathers. 'When the nights get cold,
the flames clap their lutuds above the
great backlog and shako tho shadow
of the group up nnd down the wall.
Father and mother sit there for half
an hour, ;saying nothing. I wonder
what they co.° thinking of. ASter
awhile the father breaks the sUenee
end says, "Well, I V7031der, where
'our boy is in town to -nights". And
'the mothee answers : "in no bad
place, I 'warrant you. We ttle Lys
could trust • him when he was at
1101110, and itince he has been away
there have 1.100/1 so many prayerit of-
fored for him we tan trust him still."
Then at 8 or 9 o'clock, just before
they retire, for they go early to bed,
they kneel clown and commend you
to that 'Cod who watches M country
and in town,
UNTIED LAND AND ON 71111 1111/1,
011, despise not paternal anxiety I
The time will come when yon will
aye neither father nor mother, and
you will go around the place where
they mad tc> watch you and lInd
them gone froru tha house and gone
from the field, 0011 gone from the
neighborhood. Ory as loud for. for-
giteness as you may over the mound
In tho churchyexcl, they =mot an-
swer. Dead I Dead ! And then you
witl take out the white lock of hair
that wus cut from mother's brow
just, before they buried luo•, and you
will take the nun with which yom•
lather used to walk, and you will
think and think and 'wish that you
had done just, as they wanted You
and would give the world If you hacj
oever thrust a. pang through thele
dear old hearts.
God pity the young man who has
brought disgrace on his "Tether's
name/ God Pity the youog man who
has broken his another's learit Bet-
tor that he had never been born.
Better 11 111 the first, hour of his life,
histead of being laid against Um
warm bonito of maternal tenderness,
Ile had been coftined and eepulchered.
There 111 no balin powertul thought°
heal the hoton of ono who has
brought parents to a sorrowful grave
and who wanclues aboet tbrough the
dienial cemetery rending the air end
wringing the lumcla and crying,
"Mother 1 Motbe.r1" Oh, that to -clay
by nil the memories of tile past anti
by all the hopes of tbeluture, son
would yfold your heart to Clod! May
your 'father's God and your mother's
God be your God forever
This hour the door of mercy
swings wide open, lleeitate not a
moment. Iii many a hositatioa is
the toss of ell. At the corner of
O street 1 saw a tragedy. 44. young
man oviclently dolibted as to which
direotion ho bed better take, His
hat was lifted high enoegh so you
could ace be hen nn intelligetit fore-
head,' Ho had a stout Chest and 0.
robuot clettelOpment.
SPLENDID YOUNG MAN 1
Cultured. yotitig• Man Why did ne
stop there while so, 42110043/10070going
up nod' C1011711 7 The feet, is that
avery young Man hag a good angel
and bad angel contending foe the
meetery oi his spirit, and theist Waa
good angel and a bed angel Moog,
ling With that yotnignoart'e $001 at
10 00111er of the street, "Come
loog with me," said the geed ahgel
a
tl
out when thy sec a Man obout to a
"I will tahe you home. I will Wooed
My wings covet' your pillow. I will
lovingly eseort yoli All through lite
under eupernatural proteetiOra
will blese every oup You drink ,tut Of,
everY 000011 you reet on, every iloore
waY YOlt ellter, I Will cotieeerate
Your teara When you weep, your
sWeat wlion you Wit and et tile Met
Wil/ bawl Oyer your graVo Into the
Iland of the bright angel ot alliwies
lion resurrection. 1 have been sleet
of tile Lord to be your guardian
epirit. Chime with 100," sand the
good angel M nolo of unearthin
sympliony. 11. waa muaie that
whleh drops front a 300 ()I beitven
When a seraph breothes on it.
011, young men, will tne good arts
gel mot forth by ()Mist, or tile bad
Angel sent forth by sin get tho vie -
tory over your eoul ? noir 2021135
are interlocited thin moment obove
You cohtending for youe soul, as
ebove the Apenoines eagle and Con-
dor light midslcv. '131115 hour de-
eides eternal destinies.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
XNTERN.ATIONAL LESSON,
DEC. 1.
Text of the Lesson, Ex. ilia 1-12.
' Golden Text, Ex, iii., 12,
1. "Ito hal the flock to the bads
side of the desert and came to the
mountain of Clod, to Horeb." Ae
cording to Acts vli, 28, 30, Moses
woo now 80 years of env, having
spent 40 years 111 Egypt and 40
years with jethro as thepherci. His
oliepherd life reminds: us of Abel and
Jecob, David and Other skepterds of
the, Bible, each of Wh011a hi some way
suggests to us the Good, Great
Chief Sitepherd (John x, 11, 14;
Beta kiii, 20; 1 Pet. v, 4), who saves
us, weeks in 110 HIS Will and Will re -
Ward 1111 at Ills appearing. The
shepherd life is of necessity a lonely
life, a life apart from the world and
its ways and gives great opportunity
for fellowship with God. Horeb is.
again called the mountale of God in
1 itings xix, 8, ila commotion with
Elijah's visit to it. It is mentioned
in Mal. iv, 4, as the place where Clod
gave Moses the law, the statutes and
judgments and ia Ex, xix is called
Sinai. In verso 12 of our lesson
Clod told Moses that after he had
brought the people out of Egypt
they would serve Clod opon that
nmentain. In Ex. 3:011, 6, wo read
that there Jehovoh gave them water
front the rock that they might arink
The events associated with Horeb
and Sinai give us a most Profitable
Bible study, aS do all the mountaio
stories of the Bible, such as Carmel,
2, "And the angel of the Lord ap-
peared unto him with flame of fli•e
out of tho Midst of a bush " The
Lord our God is a consuming fire
(Dern, iv, 24.), Ho desires His peo-
ple wholly for llimeelf that Ile may
bless them to the full. Ile constmaes
111 Ine People only that which hin-
ders their trae hannineSS. They, like
the bush aro not consumed any more
than Daniel's friends tvere cortsumeti
in the furnace, which burned only
their bonds and set them free to
walk with the Son of God. The
phrase in the blessing. upon Joseph,
"the good will of Him that clwelleth
in the bush" (Doutsxxxiii, 16), may
suggest that Joscpb, like others who
hate come through great tribulation,
aro burning bosh Sainte, never con-
sumed because God is in them (Ise.
1.1, 1, 2).
3, 6. "When the Lord 5040 that he
turned aside to see, God called unto
him out. of the midst of the bush and
said, "Moses, Moses." Observe the
double call in Gen. =in 11, and
Sam. iii, 10, to Alwaham and Sam-
uel. Joseph told Pharaoh that
doubled meant established by or pre-
pared of Gad (Gen, xli, 82 and Mar, -
gin), We tbink of the Lord's :4
double amens of John's gospel and'
01 the special attention wo should
give them. 1.1 Moses had 110/ turned
aside to see, think what he might
have missocl.
6. "Put off thy shoes from off thy
feet, for theplace tvhereon theu
foamiest is holy ground." Compare
le thine Instruction in Joshua v,
lot which, I think is found only In
these two places -to Moses as he was
about to load Israel out of Egypt
and to Joshua as he was about to
/can them into the promised land.
To tread upon a place Meant that
the plasx was given thnt person
(Joshua 1( 8). So when a, person
sold a piece of land lie took MI nis
shoe and gave it to the mirchaser
(Ruth iv, 7). It econas to me that
God says to Moses and Joshua in
these words soinethinto to this effeet:
This whole matter is Mine, not
yours, 1 will see it through. You
come with Me and rely upoo Me.
6. "Moses hid his face, for ho was
afraid to tools upon God." A deep
anSe .01 1inWart11111000 IS an accent-
Paniment of a revelation of God
(Jgb x1il 6,6; Ise. vi( 6; Dan. x, 8;
Luke v. 8; Rev. 1, 37). ' God revettled
Himself to Moses as the God of
Abraham, leatio and ,lacob, the God
not of the tleod, bet of the
(Math. ;exit 32). Ile told Moses to
say to Israel. "I am bath sent Inc
unto you" (verse 14); 1 tun that
am, He is Jehovah who amigos
not; Jesus Oboist the same yester-
day, to -day and forever (Mat 112, (3;
treb, xiii, 8). Men pas e away from
earth and groat clau.tgeS come, but
He continuos, Mid every purpose ot
His shalt bo performed at Els ap-
pointed time.
7, 8. "1 have sandy seen and have
beard, for 1 know their sorrow, and
O am come dotvn to deliver them mid
to bring them unto tbe good land."
Note carefully the whole ofthese
two verse% that whieh He sees and
beers and knows nod that which Ile
will' do fer ITiS ntune's ealte. Every
child of Clod any take comfort trent
those assuritnees : Whatevee be your
SOrrOWS 01' your eircumenciames 010
tees aed hears and lounitt, ainl if
Ire permits hard things 1,o continue
it is bemuse the best, time for Itis
'deliverance has not yet Omit "As
fot Cod Ilia Way 15 periods, and He
maketh our Way perfect" (Ps. xviii,
30, 132). and He will Dever be too
late 10 a»ythilm that He does, but
.)0 need Patience arid moot be Con- 1
tent With jot= to learn the 510r:ifs!
ounce of the ldngdom and patience 0
JeSUS 0410 (Hen, n, 001 Rev, 4,
0).
9, 10, "Dow 42010, therefOre, and
Will 10114 thee tiotO Plitoritelb thet
then mayeet, briog fOrth 140p Peonies'.
Cind bad just, said that lie Weuln 110
in and 11010 Ile says Roses will do
it, tor Re will do it In and through
Moses, and this Is the town wo aro
so slow to leorm-Lhat "it Is God
Who wornoth in 00, both to will and
tO do of His good pleasure"(Piti), 11,
18; N(1b. x111, 21). He tvoiketh all
things According to the couxisel of
His own will 1, 31), n110011.11
just ellows God to worn eocl quietly
abides with Him for Els pleasure.
What en honor is eooferred upo11 no
when lin selects anY ono of us to
tvorh thOough.
3, 12. "Certainly I win be with
thee, I have eent' thee," Moses did
not under•stand. He has his slutee 011
at once nod aolts, "Wbo am I that I
should go 14041.0 Pharaoh and that
should bring tenth the children of
Israel 2" *e him also in Num, yl,
22, xx, 10, and yeti tne at a glanee
thet ids shoes are on. Ho ifi think -
lug' of himself, not of God. The
three signs given hint as recorded in
the beginning of .the next chapter,
should have anoint _him his impovt-
anee and tbe power of God, yet we
hear blin objecting and refusing, al-
though God said, "1 will be with
thy mouth and teach thee collet thou
as boadl g 61 ey" siv
h11 ) rOot /21'0111,a At' a ilta It! Yo
bo his spoltesinan or PiloPhet 14-
16; vii, 3, 2). 11011020 nothing great-
er in the Lord's service than the as -
serene° of the Lord's presence and
that He sent us. .As to the iirst tee
joshon. i, 6; Judg, vi, 14, 10:, Ise
xli, 10, 13; Jer. i, 8, 19; Nag. 1. 1:1:
ii, Inath. XXViii, 20, and others
as you may find them.
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A THANKSGIVING STORY.
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Thank.vgiving Day was one that the
villagers of W- always marked
With a white stone. All the time-
honored customs were kept up and
family parties were invariably given
by all who had families to collect
around them.
On the particular anniversary
whose doings gave rise to the inci-
dente of my story, there was to be
O large gathering of the villagers at
Mrs. Wilson's, who, having no reins -
Uwe: to entertain, had inviten
friends far and near to dine with
her on the anniversary. To make
my story clear to my readers, it will
be oecessary to introduce some of
my characters, before they appear in
gala dress.
Mrs. 'Wilson was the leader la the
little village of W-, occupying
the largesi house, which had been
built by her husband for his bride,
and spenditig freely an income that
warranted luxurious appointments.
Her sister, Retty Payne, and Effie,
tho only child of the house, consti-
tuted her family. Ten years before
the day when she issued her invite-
ttons for the Thanksgiving party,
Mrs. Wilson returned front Italy,
where she had accompanied her hus-
band in it vain search for health,
bearing with her the body of James
Wilson, who died in Florence, and
the babe, whose childish loveliness
now made the eunehine of her home.
Platy was housekeeper during her
sister's absence, and now to loved in -
Meta of that sister's home.
It was the day before the one aln
Pointed tor the party, and Mrs. Wil-
son tvas seated with Malty in the
motto, sitting room, both busy upon
the dainty fashioning . of some blue
knots for Effie's witite merino dress.
As they worked, the door opened
softly, and the object of their
thoughts and busy fingers came- in.
She was a child of wonderful beau-
ty. Features delicate and pure as
some piece of statuary, wero lighted
by large eyes of the deepest blue,
while long curls of the true golden
tinge, fell in profusion over her
shoulders. A child, too, of that ma-
tured, winning loveliness of charac-
ter that seems 01113/ fitted ior a high-
er sphere, yet which God leaves
sametimeo 012 earth to draw souls to
Hint The only darliog of true
Christian women, whose gentle piety
and remarkable sweetneas made them
universally beloved, it was not won-
derful that the young heart and
mind wore develophig beauties as
pure and poled 11.0 the lovely ince
and lorm
Now, as she stood in the doorway,
it was evident there was some
weighty request trembling on her
lips, Iter eyes were eager, her
cheeks nuthed, mid the rosebud
mouth wile quivering with oodles
mcnt,
"Mamma," she said, lifting IxOr
face to meet her mother's kiss, "May
I have one company myself tonnor-
row ?"
"Ono compaoy, nem. eo
"One person to dinuer, just ones
to invite all myself."
"But, darling, everybody you
know, is already invited."
"Not everybody, mamma. I want
to invite old Plunchy 1"
"And who Is old litmeby /"
"Why, you know. The humpback
man that has taken tho houee on
Will's Lime,"
"Aod ie it my little Effie I hear
cahhiOg anyene by an odious nick-
oarne that Is to inockery of misfor-
tune ?"
"Oh, otamme," and the blue eyes
Ailed witti tears, "0 did not mean it.
Everybociy calls him so, and he
shuts himself up eo, nobody knotVe
his real tonna"
"But why do you want to invite
him here 7"
'Ile is so poor, mionnut, and there
Is nobody eIse to nth him."
"Well, We can send hint a dinoer,"
"No, no 4 he 150 gentleman."
"How do you loom him so well ?"
stops ' 1410 whomever 1 13050.
Ole gave me flowers twice, and 011411
ilto tomebenly he 1110911 Ho told
me mien to go hello) and PraY Gad
to make me hideous, and said : "No,
no, it is true, good beauty,' "
ypro,167,13t to mils here?"
"Well, Yen maY ; I do not think
hewine'lliWiecilolches1001c1) 41311,4:3110nri'clettlhoolls,igli.telirdo, dTe1.0.1.Pe
WNW'S YOiee fit* brae It.
""lisrle‘tnt0Y.1N:: Locy. 1 ani afraid, 14/4,"
''il'Ji1.11411.204411o 15 7"
"All Oinn loll you is that be took
the house that bits stood 50 long
vacant on the lane nearly a month
ago. He i$ terribly deformed, dirty
and ragged, and so morose and sure
ly that no 0110 Or the children dares
approach him. The villagers give
lihri 00 awful name."
''Yet Eine says he is 0 gentleman,
and you know we have oftea been
amused at her intuitive knowledge
of true refinement." ,
"Yes -it is best for us to see him;
if IVO can. Perhaphon'
' "Yes -yes; don't talk of it now 1"
said Mrs. 'Wilson, nervously.
In the meantime Ellie was speeding
down the wide avenue to the gate,
out upon the rood, and dovsn to
the cottage, where her deformed
friend lived. She was so much the
pet of the whole village that no res-
traint was ever placed upon her
wanderings, and every inch of the
way was familiar to her. The ob-
ject of her visit was seated upon a
low bench before the cottage door,
looking out upon Vacancies; tat
with such an expression of bitter
revengeful passion upon his face
that the child shrank back involun-
tarily. Ife was en object to inepire
O gentle girl with fear as he thus
sat. Over his forebead the hair boll
in a heavy neglected mass, and the
great black oyes glowed ince living
coals. Upon the deformed shoulders
the clothes hung in loose Icicle, fad-
ed, soiled, and worm and the hands
supporting his head were soiled and
clenched. Suddenly looking up, he
saw tho child. In an instant his
fern lighted up with a look of love
tobich at first it seemed incapable of
expressing,
"Eloiso !" he whisPoscd.
"I tun Effie 'Wilson," she said,
coming forward.
"True, true, 1 won dreaming," and
he drew her to his side. "It is my
little friend who is not afraid of
me,"
"Wily should I be afraid? God
would not let you hurt me."
"No, no; I could not hurt you if
would," and he stroked her hair
sof fly.
".1 came to incite you to our
Thanksgiving party," she said pre-
sently.
T -I-" and he laughed a bitter
mocking 1011311, that made the child
tremble. "I am a pretty figure for a
party."
"But it is ThanIssgiving DeY,"
"And 012000 nothing, to be thank-
ful for !" aud he pushed her away.
"Oh, please," she pleaded, "do not
say that. God Oyes everybodo
something."
"Poor, deformed, hated, mocked
at, without ono to love me 1" he
said, half in soliloquy.
There was a moment of silence.
Then the crept up to his mons.
"I love you !" she evhispered tim-
idly.
Ile clasped her in an craboace so
Passionate that she almost screamed
with terror.
"Once," he said Itonosely. "a face
as beautiful as yours lay here, a
voice as sweet said 'I lova you.'
NVFIS, yonng, • rieh and handsome then;
now --child, do you love me now 7"
and be held her where she could see
his deformity.
"Yes," she answered, simply.
"Then I will cot= to your party,
and thank God for year love."
"May I go home now ?" she said,
for his violence had terrified hen
"Yes, go 1 I will come to -morrow.
Gan.--cEm you kiss ma 2"
She threw ber /MILS around. him,
and pressed the fresh, dewy lips upon
bin and then went slowly home-
ward. Ile watched her out of sight,
then turning ho went into bis home,
bolted his door, and, throwing him-
self upon the floor, sobbed tvith the
fearful throes of a man in mortal
agony. Often, too, broken words
escaped him --"Eloise, Eloise -loved,
trusted, heartless;" and then, Unger-
ingly, the name el the child-"Fofflei
DEe Wilson-tho child says she loves
me,"
There was already a huge number er
ol Mrs. Wilson's guests assembled, -
when Eille's Maid came into the no
handsorae parlors. The redi-
antly boautifol in her pure dress
with its pretty fluttering blue rib-
bons, came forward at once to meet
him. There was a little blush of
pride oo her face ELS she noticed his
appearance. The fair hands Wern
11017 white as a. lady's ; his hair,
carefully arranged, 114/10 glossy and
clustered heavy natural curls
above a broad, white forehead, while
the fate, calm and compooed, wee
very liandsome. 'Upon the twisted,
deformed figure was a, suit of hand-
some broadoloth, cut to conceal as
far as possible the clefecto of form ;
and the easy grace of his bearing
proclaimed Effie's Interring instinct.
It was evident this was a gentles
man.
"Mamma," said Eine, loading him
fortvard, "this is my friend, Mr.-"
nod she hesitated,
"3ohn Mansfield, madam," he
said, courteously. Then, unheeding
the deathly pallor -that came over
her face, thid : "Your little
daughter's Otnclness induced mo to -
to break through a retirement
tontintrante.''
from am
theocivecotyy oeflandea:01: 310210o011 1(0,"
she anstocred, controllinn herself by
0131 offort that it meths Petty's hoot,
ache to see, and thee with grace-
ful courtesy elle introdecod him to
her guesto.
lt woe succeashil party. BOery-
body Went home well pleased with
the hostese. end entertainment. Yet.
after the last guest bad ,gone, Elne
sent fn bed cool setvants out of the
sent to bed end servents out ot the
way, Mrs. Wilson paced her parlor
in an agony that it was dreadful to
the ie Mae usoally calro.
:After $0 malty years," sho said,
11) AttISAVer tO Iletten teartal SYnina.
thy, "1 thought be 20016(1344111 I 1005
Osufeenitheilva,s“ dea(I. Oh, liettY, must
ItZWatleollIt1l0tIotannilop.p00Vmoluse, 1c9.1'2e0swt
lelovonnt,ed111:171tet," th
aded, In a lower tore,
xuoolhow10ns,x,0,:2e
Tim tone 20040 AS MOM/1W 110 that
of a criminal pleading for 14 delay of
his sentence,
"Suppose tvo sey a year."
"And WO must, invite Inin here
often, Hetty. It io on/y nistiee,"
Rut 11. NVes not lcmg before the act
of justice became to lietty a plea. -
Hove the would seareely talent how
great 04021 to herself. The invita-
tion molt throutsb. Ellie WaS eagerly
accepted, and the hunebback 104111
00011 n 0000141111 1101101' 101 111014, 13'1l -
son's and before many weeks it 10 -
cd and Motored one.
I wish 1 could melte you see hero
something of the gentle loveliness et
lletty l'esuo's character. She had
nover been beautiful, and now in her
Lhirtieth year Vino Was mailing to
redeem her lace frbm positivo plain-
ness but its winning sweetness of
expression. Accustomed In her girl-
hood to find herself slighted for her
more brilliantly attractive sister,
she hed grown timid and reserved in
society, but at home she was tho
gentle, tender, domeotic woman
WheSe q11101 graces are more valu-
able than any showy aecomplish-
ments. It was a new sensation
this gentle woman to find herself
object of the respect, attentiou
courtesy of it gentleman wOose han
some face was ample componsati
for the defects of his figure, a
whose noble heart and cultivat
mind were opener] gradually, as 1.1
00$17EZ 07 aAx.a
A re'W Hints on How' to PreeeOwe
YoUr Meath.
To be heelthy is tne nattlral state,
and disease is, in nine peeve out. of
ten, our punishment for some iinlias
cretion or excess, eve a Writer,
Every time WO are ill it is a, Part
of our remaining youth which we
squander. Every recovery, W1100201'
from henclathe or pneumonia, is ries
oomplislied by a sthenuom ellort of
vitality, and Is, therefore, a waste of
your capital of lifo,
livne'll je.eabeusitnily.la,nsitluovalyv,olldvitilhIneesismitev,t1o.
ity that stupid persons al000 win
deem painful or eccentric. Sleet,
eight boors in. every twenty -lour.
Ventilate the rooms yoo woric and
sleep in. Very few people, even
Among thoee who think they are
well up in modern Olean have any
Conception o f toilet ventil a ti on
means, Even when my voice was the
only thing I had left in the world 4
slept with my window wide oltoll,
4313231/11Cr aud winter, and never caught
cold in that Ivey.
Examine seriously into your list of
social obligations, have the good
sense that there is neither pleasure
nor profit in most of what you re-
gard as essential in that Ilue, and
simplify yolu• social life-shimillY it
all you oan
, Complicated living bringe worry,
to , and worry is the main enemy of
an i health dnd happiness -the one fiend -
;tic:: minassuhae.anonymi:n.cdr.tobthbeenalitchaanlatIth, doacitidserhm:toprpoluteoss d (e)-0
I
Make your home IL pleasant place,
od- cheerful, but well Within' your
home atmosphere wore away the ice
of reserve. John Minefield was
close student, and had been a. tra
eller; one who could drop egotism
yet give varied persona experienc
could cloak pedantry, yet displa
learning. Ilis love tor Rine was a
most idolatry; yet, as the moat
woie away,Imey marked with pie
sure that Hetty's voice and sI
ceJled up to his face an expression
deeper emotion than even Me ha
power to waken.
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1-
NAThLetrZeroZ 'troll -Zorn KbynTlninas'Sg CEd1WwWEL
at his Coronation will be enlarged,
but its weight will be kept down to .
Its the lowest possible degree. Now
tat it has become an object of great
ep interest after a long seclusion many
of questions are rife concerning it. The
cl man in the street, who is most i -
pressed by the cash value of an ob-
ject rather than by its historic or
setitiroental associations, is pasticu-
lar3Y £1111Xi005 1.0 know how much the
crown is worth. The question is
snore easily asked than answered.
Sixty years ago the crown was val- •
uod at something like a hundred and
thirteen thousand pounds., but it is
considered that the gems have a
higher value now apart frorn that
which bistoric importance confers.
4 --
QUEENS AND THEIR. P.110705.
November came, and again there
were prepaxations on foot for0.
Thanksgiving party. It wao the
night before the eventful day, and
Hetty was in the library when John
Mansfield entered unannounced.
"I have come to bid you a long
farewell," lie said, abruptly. "I am
going to Europe."
She rose from her seat, white as
death. " Going 1.0 Europe ?" she
echoed.
"Yes I" the voice was harsh arid
changed. Laugh at me, Mock 2110 if
you will, Rester Payne. I -deformed
--Poor--bound hand and foot by
chains I cannot break -I love you."
She stood very still, a great light
coining gradually into her stveet
face, but after a moment she said:
"I shall not mock you, my be-
loved !"
"bin, no, Hester, do not say it I
Oh, 0 never dreamed of this. Love
me, 3110 1 Oh, do not curse rae 1 I
am not free to love you, and I 11e0-
0 thought anybody could love me !
I am married !"
Still the smile did not fade from
her face. Sit down here," she said,
gently, "and tell me your story."
Something in her voice and look
gave him a strange feeling of hope.
"Why shoula I tell you," he said,
yet obeying her command; "it is but
the story of a wasted existence,
blighted by Li, cruel accident, made
bitter by a faloo a-mnan's brolsou
faith. I loved her madly, nester ;
not as I love you, with the mature
love of manhood, with a respect that
Is almost worship, hut with the
blind idolatry of a youth. She was
wonderfully beautiful ; sp like 11431e,
that sometimes It bewilders me. I
was young then, straight as en ar-
row, and I had large wealth, inhdt-
ited front e father, who died, key-
ing me heir to an immense factory,
where he had coined Money. We were
married. One year after a fire broke
out in the factoty. .In the endue -
nor to save my property, I went in-
to the burning edifice too late. A.
crashing fall from above stunned me,
and from long insensibility and ill-
ness I awoke, the thing I ton. , We
were beggared, too, and 3 became
revolting to her. Sbo never loved
me, and when I rose from tho bed
of agony to tind myself bankrupt,
she fled away from me to her lath -
'5 house. 1 never sought nem but
she is my wife. I 11131 rich again,
w, by a legacy, but my wealth lies
idle. I halt no heart to spend, no
right to love I"
Anti having finithed his story, told
with tbe abrupt brevity that hides
bleeding agony, he let his head fall
forward uPon the table before him.
He was still seated so, une.ware that
Hefty had glided from the room,
when a, hand fell caressiogly upon
his shoulder.
"John Mansfield," said Mrs, Wil-
son's voice, "look up. The woman
you loved, lobo eo cruelly deserted
you, was my husband'a cousin. Six
months after she fled from you, she
sank into a consumption, first be-
coming tho mother of it lovely
child. She died in Italy ti. month be-
fore my husband, and 412 the same
house \there we were, and 1 adopted
the child,
"Effie 1" Ho looked up now.
Hetty :stood before him with Effie
by tho hand. One long embrace en-
circled ptornioed wife arid child,
"Pather I" It was the uext day,
and the word fell with tonchirm
power upon the heart so long lonely.
"To-dey tont will have something to
be thankful for."
The answer was a. long, 51 10111 em-
brace.
"Just one year tonlay," said Mrs.
"Ante you lirot thane here.
I was, Woo over by Vito to send the
invitatioo, though I doubted your
acceptanee."
"I had to come," he eaid gently.
"Me had already won my heart.
Liko linoise, yet differents 3 scarcely
know whether to love or lutte her."
"Anti tioW 7" natty's, vein) asked
the questioa.
"brow, my lo-ve, my &thug," he
said, tendevly, "we will leave her
with elle mother the levee. to re-
place the sistoi• who will come to my
far aWay bome."
Queen Alexandra, who is an en-
thusiastic photographer, always tra-
vels with her kodak, and has many
interesting records of her journeys.
Her Majesty always carries with her
an enormous number of photographs
of' her many friends and relatives
for the adorning of her priVate rooms
wherever she may be. Tile lato
Queen, who also had numbers of
photographs, was fond of having lit-
tle statuettes made of her favorite
relatives, friends, end even her pet
dogs, and these costly souvenirs -
many of which were executed in gold
or silver -now form • a, considerable
item of the "plate" at Windsor.
RESIDENCE FOR THE KAISER
Great strides have been made with
the alterations at Buckingham Pal-
ace, which has been completely re --
stored in the interior and -very large-
ly refurnished. The suite of rooms
which belonged to the late Enipress
Frederick as Princess Royal of
Great Britain, has now iocreased the
accononodation, but the Ring has
placed them at the disposal of nis
nephew, tbe Emperor 'William thus
affording the Gerinan Monarch a
Permanent residence in Louden. As
at present arranged, the court vt111
spend Clo•istanas at Buckingham Pal-
ace for the first time for &many
yeurs.
WAITING FOP. .ANDREE.
That Andree, the daring explorer,
is lost is the general conviction of
his countrymen, but his aged mother
tbinks otherwise. Sbe lives vor,y un-
ostentatiously in Grenna, a mall
town, on a pension which ine Swed-
ish Government allows her, The lit-
tle room in which he used to Steep
is carefully set in order by /Mr own
hands every day, and she never fiitS
down to a meet without praying tod
to bring her boy safe twine to het.
Andree's sister lives with her, nod
she is almost as hopeful a5 iter
mother,
TIOW TO MARE PASTE.
Dissolve a teaspoonful of altun in a
quart of \veto.. When cold, stir to
as much flour as will bring the paste
to the consistency of thick einem.
Carefully press mit all lumps. Stir
in hall a teaspoonful of powdetner
sin and pour on to the paste et tops
ful of boillog water, stirring it thor-
oughly. 'When it becomes very think,
pour into a jar, add a 00020 41001:140 04
Oil Of cloves, and keep in a cool
place, lthen required fot uso One
little and soften with warm water. '
ONLY WOMAN SEA CAPTAIN
Marie Joanna Korean°, who died
recently 001 tho Islatul of Croix, Th
Franco, at the age of seventy-tavo,
had the distinction of being tiro olthe
200II1011 sea captain i11 the woold.
She went to son with her fittliee When
She WaS tWelVe years old, and einter
his cleath she captained throe Mono
vessels, and obtained several mettle
and money reward$ 101` 11e1'/3101a 'On
the water,
ANI) PRIED POTAIOSS..•
Deka() potatoes supply move nour-
ishment than 11108e conked in 40st•
other way, aml fried once are 1110
Meat diffletIlt 1.0 digeat,
46 out or every 100 posteards.noni
In Germany last year tvere toe/et/ins
pi etor) a 1 (1or)1s,
/rolanfl hos 265 poultry for ,osontor
1 00 inhubit outs. Ppgistuu Itue.roay
04 pot.' 100 ,vooPie,