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PETEN I1ORf CE'S SPECULATION,
Ib had bowl for months it mooted quaidien
in the little village of t;louilnle who would
fall heir to Aunt Martha Alarvelo'e Ir1411Q
when Sino died
Thole were her two ttieeea, the neerooL of
kin, in the tirat placo, One, Miss Bertha
11(101(10, tat mutable young lady, who was
immensely proper toil respectable, and hail
been very dutiful in her attemllulec upon
her invalid aunt. The other, 0 {vee hit of a
maiden, with sunny eye', and short (lancing
v and her
) „forU 05 I 1
curls, who hutghtsehc r iher u
mother's support., and did not seen, to mind
it at all, ahs was always so bright and will•
some. She hail done nothing in perLioular•
for her Sent uxeept to matte OUI1dI i00 10 the
prim old 10011143 11)' n0eltalellel visits, and in
a saucy, inveigling Oil'b of way to get her-
self very nucll liked by the eccentric old
la(ly; It watt very hard to see upon what
grounds Miss Dot May Mune Lased her ex-
peetaLion, so the neighbours Raid,
Then there was the church 111 which she
had been a Info lolly member, with its many
charities, tnis8ion0, and relief wot•Ics, The
trustees fully expected to be remembered
by Miss Marvale ; but many of the neigh-
bours know too llinali of her "closeness"
and pride of flintily, and 0w1.0 euro she
wnnld SOL give her money to ellariLablo iu-
stituti0110. Still, 1.110 weight of opinion
went in favour 0l either Alias bertha Mar.
vale or the ohurcit.
And now the good, queer Miss Mlartha
Marvel° was dead, and buried with deo
solemnity and proper gloom, Hoon it would
be known who was the fortunate p080380ot'
of her fabulous wealth -for "fabulous" it
had become, under the busy tongues of in.
tereatod friends mud aogttaintanees. 1,> be
sure, she had never made a display of riches
and no one in Glendale 111111 ever Been her
money except in quite meagre slims, But
she was known to hawo been quite miserly
in her habits, aid no doubt had large
amou"la atown(1 away in odd COMM.
Tho lawyer sat ab the head of the ronin
rattling the impoetanbdocument ominously.
Aims Dlarvale ant in a high hacked chair,
looking pale, melancholy, and severe in her
now and fashionable nu:timing dress, Mr.
Peter Horace, a gentleman who never in hie
life had evinced a liking for anything but
moody until he ,net Miss Alarvale, sat
attentively near.
1)ot \Iayburne in doleful black, reclined
in the uncompromising recesses of the Lig
8t111'011100111, with at sadmeoe ill her pretty face
that appealed to every tendo' heart ill her
presence. Willard 1iayes, a young and
penniless physie'm, and her most :1evoLed
admirer, snpperted her, figuratively spook-
ing, of course, on her left. 'Phe dcacens of
tine (Lurch eat in deeoretle :filmier, and one
or two "oldest inhabitants" occupied the
spare corners of the room, The reading be.
gall.
After the 1190111 preliminaries it was found
that all of Martha y larvale'A real estate, I
mouey8, and personal properly were left
uuoouditonally to her b,lavel Mena Dora.;
thea IIaybnurm•, except !ng a fe.1v 1 Io0eifi-i
cant legacies to and friends. To
Bernet \lurval0, in consideration of effete!
Monate attention, sho willed lien favourite
foot -stool. Its many dear nem:Miations,
the fact that she had seen it for years•,
the support of her aunt's wearied 1
feet, would indear it to her, and, as sho
often expressed a pious contempt for eat mill
wealth, she would prize it above ell earthly
dross.
The whole fortune was nota munifleent
ono, after all, and even Dot was not 0 rich
woman. And she could only open for blue
eyes in wonder while Willard Hayes 0miled
brightly upon her and whispered his (3011.
granulations. Miss MIa'vale's face was buried
in her black -edged httndkerchhof and no ono
could toll how she was affected Mr.
Homo 's face was a picture of blank ,lienay,
Tho deacons looked glum, and said not a
word. Everybody seemed inclined to get
out of tho way with as little ceremony ns
possible, and soon the cou0iue were left
alone.
"I hope, Cousin Bertha, yon will always
Hake this house your home," Dot began
timidly, "You know this is as great a our -
prise to me as to you, and, while I an glad
of a home and comforts for mamma, I do
not want you to be poor or homeless. Can't
wo all live together?"
"No, we c1411 t all lite together, snap-
ped Bertha, oohing 0111 from behind her
pocket haudkerohief. " You are n little 011-
dcrhond cheat, and I wouldn't accept
charity from you if I were starving 1 And it
is not necessary, as I am engaged, and Mr.
Horace is amply able to see that 1 do not
come to want,'
Dot retired, overcome by the stupendous
intelligence, as Miss Marvalo intended she
should be,
r nite at variance with hie former moody
demeanor,
"1 will play the disinfer'eote(t lover'," he
Bald; "1 wilt swear to be true, come weal
or 001110 woo, and Glue gain bite approbe•
tion of the entire colmnunihy. "I'll marry
the pool', di0iuh0ritod 1350th,4 Marvalo, and
at the very lirot dawning of 1na1riuunllal
infelieity I'll Intik that beastly foot-
stool vielou1sly across rho floor, Then 5vo)1't
1 bo astonialied to see the papers and gold
roll out? W'on't I clasp my tearful 0010.
(atlu0n 111111y arms, magnauilnously forgive
titer, and calmly take pIossea0ion of her for.
Luno? Whet it 11101>)' ilon of urine that was P"
Aliso Anomie was deeply gratified of be-
i11g insured of hos lover's devotion and distr.
toren eib 4301( and her 'Its and dignity
C i 1'r I
P k Y
rase in proportion, Indeed, she carried
herself in the presence of her unpretending
cousin az though she were the 1181t'e014 and
Dot the insigniticantposseesor of footstool.
She chained the right to remain in the house
which had been her home ao long tilt she
shonlel be married from it, and, 0.0 far (e
uppearauces went, might its well have. boon
the mhotress of lvlarva[o Mansion.
Dir Horace routed a pretentious house,
and furnished it completely, referring with
beautiful deference to Lia botroLhod'e taste
in everything.
" Be Bare and bring your footstool," the
said playfully, " and WO will dedicate a
whole corner to it, I would not keen house
without it for the world," And Miss Mai,
vale thought this very delicate in him, as it
might naturally be supposed tho stool would
bo a disagreeable object.
They were married, and the wedding was
the " event of rho 00139011," Dot was not
invited, but she was busily engaged ((lae-
w1or0, and did not mind the neglect, and
when Bertha left the old house to enter her
brand new home, Dot and her happy 11n0 -
hand, Willard Hayes, moved in.
For it few weeks everything went on
0m001hly. Mrs. 13orace carried herself
with it great deal of dignity, as botanic the
newly -married wife of a well-to-do money
lender and the mistress of a handsome new
residence. Indeed, the fashionable people
of the place paid her more attention
than they did the real heiress, who n as so that little like a wealthy matron at tho fact
was ablest forgotten.
Mr. Horace bore his happiness quiet
ly, and contained himself with pa
,nonce. Perhaps he was n little irri-
table in the privacy of the domestic circle
but he was ouly preparing for the grand neo-
! ment when it would be appropriate to " kick
I that beastly sLoololoar iteres5 theroonl." To
be, 901'0, he night have suggested to his wife
that they examine the stool, and see if it
contained anything of value ; but she would
pm haps laugh at hos whim, and would not
allow it to be spoiled, and when the wealth
was found she might suspect him of knowing
o,nlething about it and of marrying her for
it 1 nod, uta be rather preferred peace to un-
neecssery 0gme11blin,e ho wished the discov-
ery to Como about accidentally.
At last, one evening, he found it standing
dircitly in his way. Bertha, looking ap-
prehensively at. lherhmsband'sstern °Otllltell-
anoe, hastened to remove it, bus he wag too
quick for her. A well•applied and forcible
kick sent it dancing naross the room, whore
it wusslutttered against the marble fireplace,
,111. Horace eagerly sprang to the spot,
where Bertha regretfully followed him.
He did look at it in amazement, as he had
often pictured himself doing, but tho amaze-
ment WIL0 very genuine, 1•Ie grasped eaoh
piece, and shook it fiercely ; he tole every-
thing apart that could bo torn apart with
furious haste. Alas, in vain ! At his feet
lay a heap of Walken mahogany, torn purple
velvet, and dusty horsehair -nothing more
--nothing less.
c What, do you mean? What did you ex.
poet to find?' asked Bertha with trenll.ling
lips.
' Your aunt's legacy. roe noon 10010d -
trapped -1 won't stand it. What have you
110110 among you with all her money? She
couldn't have carried it with her."
Peter Horace was ((11341'y enough, as he
strode up and down the room, to havedemol-
ishod forty ottwoans, end Bertha went into
hysterics on the sofa. It was a dreadful
blow to her vanity to think that she hod
not been "married for heroolf alone," atter
all ; they had a terrible scene, but finally a
sort of reconeilatiou was patched up. Both
were tno respectable to let the world know
of their disappointment, and they agreed to
keep the fate of her aunt's legocy a secret.
Bertha owned that the old lady had given
her :.11100 before she died, telling her she sons
not as rich as had boon supposed, and that
was probably all she would ever receive
from her. Still, sho had loped against hope
that more would fall to ]ler shore, and had
only been reconciled by 101r, liorace's seem-
ing disinterestedness.
With renewed devotion to business, and
a little extra fleecing of customers on Mr.
Horaoo'o part, they mltuagod to retain their
handsome residence end keep up appear-
ances, which was, after all, what Idlsy both
oared for most of anything in the world.
"I nm sure I congratulate you," she tour.
runnel. " And I hope, if ever you noed a
friend, yon will not hesitate-
" Bother your friendship I" exolaimed the
irate lady, rising: "I think we can dis-
pense with each other's company, and as I
cannot ask you to leave your own house, 1
will take the liberty of retiring myself."
That evening the will was discussed over
ahnndred toa•tttbles, and many queries,
wonderings, and "I told you so's" passed
to and fro. What the old lady hail seen to
admire in Dot so pinch, what had become
of all the wealth she was supposed to have
owned, why she had left a paltry old otto-
man to Bertha, who had been so faithful,
and 00 forth, were all dutifully dismissed,
and left as unsatisfactorily disposed of as
before.
111 a little meagre private office Clown
town Mr. Peter Horace sat, with his head
resting dejectedly in his hands, and a gen-
eral afr of forlorn despondency in his anti•
tulle, He had for forty years loved him.
self, his money, and his single -blessedness
more than anything else or earth ; if over a
woman had stirred the religion under his
shirt -front where his heart is supposed to
beat, it was pretty, annoy, gay little Dob
Mayburn°. And yet he had deliberately
engaged himself to marry a plain, prim,
elderly maiden who possessed nothing in
the world more valuable than et worn -cub
footstool
What a donkey he had boon ! And hos
)nail it coma aboral W hiy was not Bertha
Mamie the heiress, as he had c01an14(10,1I
upon? Tho old lady's money seemed not
entirely amounted for, Dither. Bertha had 1
lived in the house for years, and. ho hail 1
Work and Rest,
Wear an Whoo 011liv0311,1 be weary I Not 110 wli
Iso to whom aught is given must still have
ronobhing 1.,:'33 ,1 ;
And man is mad. 1 1 3 (c battle, and the sword
is girt 0111)3' 11, 4.111
And the purpose 0. (;.,.110 thwarted if we only
linger and .3343.
Ay',end woall I v,, neon wounded, some more
and outer- 1,•+
And talo sorrow.: „c1' hearts have suffered baso
taught us tenderness,
Stottor the semi in the morning, and at ovo
Any not the hand,
Morning and 110011 and 00011, Glove will stillbo
upon lanai
It may bo but a oup of water, but a gently
spoken word,
Above the girt to noted, t110 faintest accent
heard ;
And rho good wo do toanother comes bail: to
us over again,
As the moisture raised from the ocean returns
in tho gontlo rain.
.Ger blossing works in a climbs, and rho fastsor
that anode goes,
As it wheels around the bhrone of (god, over in
strength 11rows ;
Ault lire is the coinage of heaven to bo :pont in
the purolase of love,
Till all the realm of the earth bolos, is 1(0 p1110
as the LOA 1111A lth000.
Than weary not in 11m struggle ; Ciel ru106h
all for the best,
Ant at Ian, the wings in tho rilrala shall boar
tin 00111 to uta 1.006.
Asleep Pour Menthe.
Tho longest cataleptic sloop known to
mental science line boos attracting attention
u Germany, Tho latest report states that
the mam-a miner of Silesia -lad been 1111-
conseion0 for four and a half months, with
to unnatural appearance except absolute
rigidity of the limbs, During this time the
ettien01( hair las grown, but his board lino I
method stationary: Food is given by
tube.
deemed her a person of good Rouse ; yet site
mint have bungled in her lnaagemelt
somehow,
"Nen ho burrowod deeper hi his out•
strotohod'arms, and thought it all over
again. 8uddody a brit;)tt inlet 51rtia t hint, r
Did not people invariably, in stories and
romances, who had (moor old legacies loft
then Itnoolt them to pieee0, 5oo110r 01' 111101,
by 1(cofdent, or in a lit of ill.tompor, and
find tont stulfel full of gold pieoos?
This Ives oorta1 fly the snitttfnn of the ec-
centric centric gift, and it aloe areom to, for the
mlivsing wealth wliie11 everybody seemed so,1
tiro oXbstod s0uleWhere. Tie sprang up
y manner
You oh111'b learn too much but you can
lalf learn too much.
At Poland, Man;, on Tuesday, the thl•oe-
year•olil son of Mr, John Jordan bad 11tH 1
lead bintvn all.' by his brother, who used a,
gun which ho was quite confident was tiob�
loaded,
m
An Answer to Doubters.
" The blind 1'0001130 their Hight, and the
Jame walls, the lopel'9 141'e cleatlmed, and the,
loaf hear, the dead ere raised up, and the
poor /MVO the go0pel proaollell to them."
104316, when Illi said that, stood face to
face with two of the trona miseries of hu-
m amity -misery of nand and misery of
body. On the ono hand woe a group of men
who had asked a gno0tiona ovoidal quos.
tion, " Art Thou He Gait 0h0nid conte ?"
they wanted to )snow,'( or do wo loop for
auoGtor1"
Voll sae how that question ton0he0 the
Ifoundatio of (Ili
n et el n(ty, Tho supremo
fact t;141 dlfbrela0a 010 Christian religion
6
flan al the Otho • 'all'[ 1 f 1 s
I I t o ns e l l for i0 b1,
0
lfact of the life and charncte• of donna The
00sontal assertion of Christianity is rho
assertion that Jesus of Nazareth is indeed
!Ifo that should come, and that we need
look fon no 061101'. That gnestlon sot 0
!doubt upon the central article of the Chris-
tian creed. These men wore unbelievers.
Ono the other hand was a considerable
company of people, some of them blind,
901110 of them hone, 00)110 1pp04'fl, soma deaf,
some mourning rho 10431, all of ,nem prob-
ably, poor. These people represented pale
and poverty.
We have no greater problems in the world
,to -day than the problem of doubt and the
problem of poverty. These two great quos -
,tions, like the enigma of the aphynx, do-
; mind solution. And we must somehow an-
swer thein, or pay a fearful penalty. Doubt
threatens the Church, poverty threatens the
State. Jesus Christ stood face to face with
both of the problems, lindens (erect them in
the words that I have quoted,
The unbelief, in this instance, came from
John the Baptist. Those doubters sero
messengers of his, and thatroat question
was his question, Even the forerunner had
fallen from the faith. Much of this unbelief
of John's was due, no doubt, to physical
conditions. John Wa0 in prison. Ho was
shut up in a blank fortress of Herod's over
in Moab, on the borders of the Dead Sea.
That imppri5onni0n(3 itself, John felt natural.
ly enough, meant the rola end of all his
work. Those great walls wltioh shut out
the sun and the sky, stood straight across
the path of the prophet's future. Thus far
was he to go, and no farther. Jesus was to
increase, and he was to decrease -John had
already accepted that. But this meant fail-
tlr0.
Tt seamed, no (1011111, to John, as it seem-
ed in the old days to Plijah, that his life
had been in vain. And he wondered, per-
haps, if it hair not all been a tragic mistake
even from the beginning, Had he, after
all, boon the forerunner of tho Messiah ?
This man of Nazareth, was Ile really the
Holy One of Israel Was He the Christ,
or do we look for another?
And all tho t depression was deepened by
John's bodily weakness. No man resorted
to that frowning prison foe his health.
Whoever was shut 1(p in one of those clamp
"ells lost more than liberty ; he lost health
with it, The chamois are that John was
siolt. That was the beginning of it. His
holly was cut of order, and that set his
mind out of order. first disease, then de-
pression, and then doubt. Almost every.
body knolls how that is. A great d0a1 of
unbelief is not the real voice of the man.
We are greatly troubled, we are in a morbid
and weak condition of body, and we seem
to he gutting ovary day farther away from
(loll ; the sky gets black over our hoade,
prayer beaomos only n formality, and faith
seems to bo dying. But the real trouble is
that we aro not ourselves. We are like one
of those blind people who stood that day by
the side of Jesus and could not see His
face. He was there, and God's beautiful
Might world was there also, but chose men
wore blind, Pretty soon they got bettor,
and saw clearly.
\Vhat are need when we fall into this kind
of unbelief is not the parson hat the do otor.
It is not theology we need, but medicine.
The boot plan is to realize the conditions; to
recognize the feat that even the suirit in
this life doponds upon the body, a: d that
what is really the natter with us le not lack
of faith but lack of health, and so to use the
right remedies, if one can find then, and to
get on1 into the pure air and to regain our
atromgth, Wo will find that strength of
faith will return with it.
Somo of this unbelief of John's may have
boon due not so notch to depression as to
disappointment. John the Baptist was a
man whose life was devoted to one single
purpose, His business was to prepare the
way for the Ales0ia11. That great ideal hero
and deliverer, toward whose coming the
hopes of the Hebrew people had been turn.
od for oonbnries, hal at last conte. And it
was appointed to John to find him and make
him known. Naturally, during these years
that he had spent solitary in the desert, he
had meditated upon the character and work
of the Messiah day after day. He had ela-
borated his ideal of the Christ. He had
made up his mind what sorb of a being He
would be.
And then, when the real Christ was sot
beside this ideal Christ of John's, John may
have been disappointed. Somehow Jesus
of Nazareth disappointed almost every-
body's proconoeived idea. The whole Jew-
ish nation was anticipating quite another
character of Christ. They were grievously
disappointed so euoh so that they rejected
Jesus aitogether, But it is quite possible
that nobody was more disappointed thou
John the Baptist,
But our ideals are little more than our.
salvos mirrored, and bettered, and magni•
Rod. Tho ideal Messiah, a0 John had ins
mined him, was a groat emphasized, bet-
tered and porfeoted John. John the Bap-
tist, to take only one illustration, was pre.
omhlontly the teacher of repentance, 'he
fact in human life in which he clwvelt was
the fearful foot of sin. Ho ruled all men
to instant decision for or against God. And
to quicken that decision he preached the
dreadful penalties of sin, taught the,wratih
of rho righteous God, and pictured the
agonies of hull. Ii he could have had his
way he would have turned the whole world
into a great universal revival meeting. And
whon Josue chine, speaking quiobly and
gently, not malting any great stir in society,
preaching the gospel of growth, teaching
the leve of God, and emphasizing the father•
hoots more than the judgeship of God, 301111
was disappointed.
Could it bo possible that 'Testa; of Nazar•
olh wits the Messiah for w11000 Deming he
had been sunt to prepare the way ? The
question turned itself rives and over in his
nnllnd thero 111 the solitude of his prison.
1'r Art thou Ito that t l 11111 conte or do we
it aIp
loop for another?"
Or perhaps John was like Judas, and was
in a hurry, wanted the kingdom of God to
come right ofl', 100100(1 every day for some
sudden opoetacular manifestation of the
Meoelahship of ,Tesus, mud looked vainly ;
and 00 11011 disappointment 1)3(13001 to
(101114.
Anyway, 5001(0 most of us able to sympa-
thize with J1,:1)1, A greet (1001 of iii 1111-
boliof that we meet in tho street°, and 1.hat•
we experience in our 00011 1,,' o 1,n to•da.y,
grows ;11101 au John's did, 0111, of disappoint-
ment. !1'1101.0 aro th0110)1 15 of people W110
aro disappointed, 1111.y wo not say, innOod.
Tiley havn au idea of (fed, (od fa the LATE
CABLE
t� 11' � 1i f [� Real tet
1„.i)00,11013,
Jl)1O1'1(1liVe of w)tlrlt they t.11r illdf'ey s 141'43 �� e„ g 111 p)v `� til- „-t� p
to 1i3001 1043, ' ff 1 wore (loll,' they au} c1' LLLIII JJJJJJ 111 ��� 111 (i 1 fJ W1( d W FFF
think, " 0 what 0 revolution I wuul,l set :s thr, ehttrneteriotic of Hued , sarsaparilla,
a golug down Lora in this misguided world Ind it is mnnife,t['rl every dip• W the temurh-
There would be 011 instant end to all op. Political Matters An Indian Piinoo to 11)le 01111 3s this medicine tornnlpik,lca. Urug-
pres0ion. Whoever raised his hated to Visit I ondon. rusts Any: this
is 0e110 hnllh' of
clear
lel unjust, blow,him.lightning out of the Sevor(tl menVisi of the Goverumpnt who
ole4(r sky should smite him. There would hoods Sarsaparilla
he a 0m.lden eaa0!ng of all sorrow No.more 111(00 1101(11 1101 11111 (tamp thio week 114(05 In a new ruO(oludl' we in., sore to se(• 111m
pain, 110 more death --4l] crying 1411(11111 he 1111410 ata(O11101,l9 NOWA, if taken literally, 1)1,1( ill til low weeks Otto more, --proving
done away. All the gond people should would warrant the belief that the enerltl
hare all 1110 good health and all the good g
"
money, while doubt should be made iln.election will not. take place until next your,
[3ossi1410 by the writing of the creed of (sod but the anaouneemunts as to the 130111.00 of
In groat totters of cloud and fire aeroso the 1 5 ntb110 bttoine00 made b' Mr. Balfour in the
1.e of the AlY'
P ' I
blank arc , r r ('
House 1f .0 1 u (
11 7)IaA n pretty l>Ooa000 and ,loos not do that, does I show pl sty veconclusive.
ihin
not 10an4(g0 tlhe affairs of the 111tiver00 quite ly that Parliament will 1,0 dissolved within
Mt we won111, (seeing, possibly, the mimesn couPle of menthe. It 10 kuwon that 81 the
for things somewhat deeper and bettor than last Cabinet council a general agreement
w1( do) pooplo coming into onotnet with 80)110 to di000lvo this year was arrived at, and the
of the more tragio phases of God's dealings actual date will probably be decided upon
with men aro most grievously disappointed.
Nobody, I thinic, will (10ny Lou, Y0ople at the next meeting of the Ministers.
'tea' 1! @a
are(hsappointolto (sod. And because they His Highness, the ruler of Barnda, one of
cannot understand Him, they fall into don In, the most enlightened of the Himloo !mimeo,
as John MA, And they wonder sometimes, will arrive here in the middle of June on a
if In such a mismanaged universe, ns they somewhat lengthy visit, nil the British
conceive of it -there is any God 1t all. court and aristo^racy will malts much of
Bub the trouble in the ease of John tato him, He is Onorul0usly rich, his jewels
]laptist woe altogether with John. 1f ,loam alone being worth a Fabulous sum • but
did not understand Jesus, and was disai)-
pointed in Min, that -we see rosy clearly
-was John's fault. And it may bo our
fault, also, or our ignorance, whou we aronI
the same way disappointed in 1lod, and fall
to questioning end doubting Cod.
Whether Lhe cause was ilepl0801on or dis-
appointment, John the Baptist had fallen
into doubt. And somehow getting comma•
Mention in his ptv..on with some of his (lis•
ciples, he sent Glom to Jesus asking this
question aboutHio Alessiahehip, And Jesus,
confronted with this group of questioners
and doubters, proosedcd at owe to answer
them, not by any argument, not by any RS-
ee•tior, but by the witness of His works.
He set these men from John at His right
hand ;tort hada them loot: and listen ; and
then He went on doing what be was always
doing, and saying what He ryas always say-
ing; and after a little while, turning to
this oompanv of uubolievors. Ho told them
simply to tell John what they had seen and
heard ; to go home and think about the
actual experience of that hour with Jesus
and to tell John. "The blind me:ofvetheir
sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are
cleansers, and the deaf hear, the dead are
raised up and the poor have the gospel
preaohod to thele." That was the answer
that Jeans gave to the representatives of
doubt.
Tho Chetah of Christ stands to -day ,jest
where Christ stood. On the ono hand is
unbelief, and on tho other is pain and
poverty. Men are coming uousLautly with
that old, crucial question : "Art tau Ho
that should come or do wo look for another?"
That question touches, 1(0 1 said, the very
heart of Christianity. Tho finality of Jesus
of Nazareth, the supremacy of 1,53,8 of
Nazareth, the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth
-this is what mon aro asking about to•dny.
They want to know if the Christian religion
is the final, the supreme, the divine religion
or shall we somewhere else look for another'1
What are the grounds for accepting and be-
lieving Christianity? What are the cre-
dentials of Christianity?
An the answer to this question, if we aro
to return an answer that shall be persuasive
and convincing, must be not an argument of the poor bare willows are touched with
not an assertion, but such a sight es Jesus
the first blind motions of the spring ; as of
showed. .Men must see our good works ;
then we may expect them to glorify our
Divine Master, and our rather which is in
heaven. Tho 010110,1 ials of Christianity are
not creeds but deeds. Wherever the Chris-
tian religion has ceased to bo helpful, men
have ceased to believe in it; and rightly,
because there it has ceased to be Christian.
lint wherever Cllistianity has been able to
bid 01011 look, as ,Tesus (111, and see the
sorrows of the world comforted, and the
wounds of tho world bound up, and the
good news of the gospel parried, with light
and hope in it, to the hearts of the poor,
there the church has won allegiance, and
will always win allegiance.
If we desire to minister to the misery of
doubt, and to do it in the Master's way, we
must begin by ministering to the miseries of
pain and 'poverty. Jesus Christ; standing
between these two great problems of our
age, solved the one by solving the other.
He addressed himself to the bettering and
uplifting of the poor. And the blessed
works that He did male all the avower
that He gave, or needed to give, to the
difficulties of the doubters.
drat the good results frons it 1(1111 bottle war.
rant onuthnlhlg Its use. Tins po,itivr, merit
Hood's Sarsaparilla
possesses by 0111111' of the Meddler dier ron 111110 -
lion, Proportion i oeess usedI in ln11'°
•
p;lullon,
and by 0'11)1.1,1111 the remedial vane
ut the Ingredients used is Ir tahutd.
Hood's Sarsapariiia
is tins Penner to Itself mrd absohnely nt1-
squalled as it blood purifier, and ns a louse for
building up the weekend giving nerve strength.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Rohl Lyall druggists, l41; six for ill, Prepared only
sy C. 1. IMOD) a (:U., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass,
100 Doses One Dollar
Two Men Shot By a Santry
A 1'ra'lin cnt•respnud0nt telegraphs: -A
111,11100 nu,st Indian princes, he is moi. vary 'r.reh case has oocunrred of a sentinel firing
fond of display, and his personal tastes aura with hall cartridge in the nliddloofthe town
habits aro simple and doceet, and Sir Wril- ! up011 two civilians, It 1111101. be admitted,
liam 11 on ter, who will r,ilot the Prime in iowever, that the soldier in this case acted
this coma. y, declares that he is a perfect
prodigy. "His home life," says 14ir Wil-
liam, is pure. Ho spends his money not
o1( costly 1,111es but in the construction of
railways, the supply of good water to his
eapitltl, and in nun0rous public works, He
is hospitable to strangers+, and appreciates
strai;;htforwardneso ami minder among
those by whom he is surrounded,"
It is reported in Londdu that the German
hark Thallic, Captain Meyer, which sailed
from Hamburg on February' 23 for Adelaide,
South Australia, has foundered at sea, and
that every oto of the officers and crew, with
only a single exception, went to the bottom
,Sly ander strong provocation. About mid-
light on friday a sentinel peeing to and fro
'm front of the barraelcs in the \Vrangel-
straose was approached by two men, who
nail to call Minn names, The soldier call-
ed upon them to desist, and .they would
havo done so but fora 100111011 in their 00111-
pany, who egged them on afresh. The sol-
li0r thereupon loaded, and d00101 s.1 tliem
1i0 pri0onere. The two men pulled out
their knifes, but when they saw that the
soldier was about to aro one of thein ran oft
After thrice challenging him to stand, the
sentinel tired, and struck him in the lower
part of the stomach, the force of the pro-
jectile being so groat that it passed through
Lord Randolph Churchill has issued a i tfe body and hit another man, who had
manifesto in winch ho oupports the clammy 1 stopped to see what wail 1(Oin1 on, He stood
of labor which, he says, is in a position to ; with his hands in his pockets, and the hub
legislate for itself and not to allot land and 1 et passed through his thumb and thigh, and.
commerce to legislate for it. Henceforth,' lodged itself in the wall of a house. The
the manifesto continues, labor will be hide- first loan )las since died,
pendent of 101 politi1ol partes, and the
latter must recognize this fact, - -
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A Spring Reverie.
All things are full of labor. -Eccles, i, S,
In th',1,111 and dreary winter we are so
often Mil:mimed by the surrouiliug gloom
that life soeos a burden hard to bear. The
fountains of ley scum to be sealed by the
eruol frost, and the wild winds sweeping
through leafless branches seem to bo moan-
ing& song of uheerlcs:a melancholy. But the
that day of spring; seta all these things in
another light. There is n promise of genial
warmth in the air, the birds are coming, a
feu- at a time, very timidly, but. they are
coming ; and a few of them, bolder than
the rest, have ventured to sing a sone; of
hope in the leafless branches, as if fnrsoeth
they had come to prophesy to tired souls
that the blossoming time is near at
(land, and that talose leafless trees would
soon be adorned in living green and would
become the home of thousands of the sweet•
throated choir. The very topmost boughs
A stout heart may be ruined in fortune
but notin spirit. -[Victor Hugo.
Nova Scotia's coal output, according to
the report of the provincial Superintendent
of Minos, sons larger last year by 40,000 tons
than during 1800, bringing the season's
record up to 2,044,784 tone. The bulk of
the output is consumed in Canada. Quebe'o
tastes 775,280 tons, Nova Scotia 639,737
tons, and Now Brunswick 229,315 tons.
Only some 25,000 tons were sold to the
United States, and Ontario is not credited
with having purchased any. .Although the
increase for the yens was mall, the figures
are significant, inasmuch as they indicate
that the home market is ,yearly becoming a
large• consumer of Nova Scotia coal
The value of pure air as an agent of health
in the animal system is pretty generally nn.
dorstood, but the knowledge is, for some
unaccountable reason, very inlperfeotly ap-
plied in practice. We declare in a neneh13•
lint sort of way that fresh air is a very good
sort of thing, and oven go so far as to admit
that to a certain extent itis a very neces-
sary thine., and yet 110 element so vital to
existence and so easily i1ac10 serviceable is
so cavalierly or stupidly disregarded. No
one factory or workshop in ten is construct.
ed with any humane 00 scientific respect of
the principles of thorough ventilation, and
not one nursery in one hundred is supplied
with the quantity of pure air essential to the
comfort and health of the infants confin-
ed to them. More concern would he given
to the lllnbter of pure ail' if its relation to
1100101 were more definitely known, of if wo
realizes what diseases are in large measure
chargeable to 031 insufficient supply of Oxy
gal to the fnnotione of the system. Tho
subject is convincingly treated in the
Oot1onlpora'r/ Review by writers who have
fortified their own ooiolosioos by tho judg.
meets of some of the most eminent patholo-
gists, the important deohu'atioa made being
that oxygen perform the double service of
neutralizing zing the deadly ciann s t11111 WO
manufacture 5vi6hin ourselves, and by 0X1•
(hzing or burning up the waele of dead tis-
suc0, aro., supplies us with tho heat and 0n•
etgy noce0say to nor siren gth and ac 1%11 y,
Deprived of the requisite oxygen 1 to combat
the acridly work going oil within 110 nil tho
time, the body gement,' the easy prey of
such diseaseo 1(0 searlot focnr, ty p)oirl, mall
pox, diphtheria, dyomitory, cholera, (t1(.
Sefentist0 tell 110 now that the special cen-
ters
tors of cholera existed as fever lexis before
the invasion of that dis,0,1,, and that elect.
era followo lino footsteps of other distemes,
not °illy in the sante streets and hon._;.,
oven rooms,
old, so now all nature seems to he awaken-
ing from the sleep of winter for her work in
the world. Everything seems to be saying,
the toiling time Inas come. Lot the plow-
man awake, lot tho sower be ready with his
seed, break up your fallow ground, it is
time 1 It is time, and in all these signs of
nature that slake a morning in spring so
unspeakably delightful, there are hints
of n deeper meaning than appears on
the surface. All things aro full of
labor. But what does labor mean ?
Labor is ever. a means to an end, There
may come a time in some happier world,
when labor will ho the end ireelf ; and the
toilers of earth will never again know what
W004111000 and drudgery mean, because they
will summer in the playtime of the ages.
But hero, because life is rich with solemn, ear-
nest purposes, We must labor that those pur-
poses may be fully and truly realized. Here we
plow tinct sow that we may romp. We delve
and toil that we may find out hidden trea-
sure. Theladness of this smiling April
Sabbath cels us to labor for the harvest
time ; bids us put ourselves in full harmony
with tablature, only with deeper and more
sacred meanings. The spring says these
bare fields shall glow with golden grain it
you will labor ; the genius of the hour asks
our fellowship with nature in her most
sacred ministerios, And we aro called by
the message of God's living word to bo oo•
workers with Him in the grand work of
turning this dreary wilderness world into
the garden of the Lord. Thorn are signs in
the air and in the fields that the farmer
knows and understands. Ho goes out 011
some fine spring lnoruiug and finds, not
with the poet's inspiration, but with the
farmer', good common sense, that the bell
has rung for word. All things are full of
labor ; it is time 11e too set to work. And
the signs in the spiritual world are such that
he wino has eyes to see and oars to hear,.
must see that the fields are white, and meet
hear that the time for labor has oomo.
God Inas always offered the high places to
tho workers. And he offers now to 111111
W110 toils joy and gladness while ho toils,
joy here and now, and joy untold whoa the
song of rho harvest home crowns life's glad
years of toil
flattery.
it is wor=e than mockery to list the flatterer's
lone;
I To loud a ready ear to thoughts the cheeks
,nine blush to Men,
To hear the red lip whispered of, and the flow-
1ng earl. and eye,
lhtdeconstant theme of eulogy, oxlravagant
and high:
The charm of person worshipped in a homage
oll'a'ed not
To the perfect charm of virtue, and the tn0000-
ty of thought.
-[1Vllittier:
'Tie an old maxim of the schools,
That flattery's the fool of fools.
-[Swift.
acts:.sraYw-Solnre .^maaw-�cmaa�.
We have selected two or
Croup. three lines from letters
freshly received from pa-
rents who have given German Syrup
to their children in the emergencies
of Croup. You will credit these,
because they come from good, sub-
stantial people, happy in finding
what so many families lack—a med-
icine containing no evil drug, which
mother can administer with con-
tidcnce to the little ones in their
most critical hours, safe and sure
that it will carry them through.
En, L. WILLITS, of Mrs. JAS. W.
Alma, Neb. T give it Daughters' College
to sly children when Harrodsburg, Hy. X
troubled with Croup have depended upon
and never saw tiny it in attacks of Croup
preparation act like with my little dough.
1t. It. is .simply mi- ter, and find it an ln-
raculous, valuable remedy.
Fully one-half of our customers
are mothers who use Boschee's Ger-
man Syrup among their children.
A medicine to be successful with the
little folks must be a treatment for
tire sudden and terrible foes of child-
hood,' whooping cough, croui,, diph-
theria and the dangerous inflamma-
tions of delicate throats and lungs.
What a Horse Can do.
A horse will travel 400 yards in tour and
a half minutes at a walk, 400 yards in two
minutes nt a trot, 400 yards in one minute
at a gallop. Tho usual work of n horse is
taken at 22,500 pounds raised one toot per
minute for eight hours per day. A horse
will carry 250 pounds twenty-five miles per
day of eight hours. An average draft horse
will draw 1,000 pounds twenty -throe miles
per day on it level road, weight of wagon
included. The average weight of a horse is
Heat and Cold. 1,010 pounds ; his strength 1s equivalent to
The use of the lands, as in washing ill that of five ;nen, In a horse mill moving at
hot water, then exposing them to extreme three feet per second, track twenty-five feet
oold is prolific of verycommon msier . dialnoter, lie exerts with the machine the
Mrs. Robert Simpson, 7Berkeley So, To- Power of four and a half horses. 'Phe groat.
tante, Ont., writes, 001.2, 1801, as follows; est amount a horse can pull fn a horizontal
-"St. Jacobs Oil cured me of rheumatic line is 900 pounds, but ho can only do
cramps of the hands after all other treat. this nhomeotarily • in continued exertion
111051 failed ane, My hands were euoh probably half of flus is the limit. He at -
swollen and painful, and fora thno I was Fins 1.118 growth in five yoare, will
nearly helpless; however, thanks to the live twenty-five, average sixteen years.
magic tonoh of St. A )torso will live twenty -hyo days on water
ung Jacobs Oil, shortly after without solid food but only five days on solid
its use I ed. relieved, and ultimately, alb tie food without drinking. -[Tho Human
of rlly cured. 1 now always have a battle World,
of St, Jacobs Oil in the house,"
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S'aJACOBS Oii,
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Jaeobs
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The Bride's Dress .
Married in white, you have chosen all right;
Married In gray, you will go far away;
Married In black, you will wish yourself bath;
Married in red, you will wish yourself dead;
Married in green, ashamed to be seen;
Married lo blue, be will always bo true;
Married in pend, you will live in a whirl;
Married In yellow, ashamed of your fellow;
Married fn brown, you will live out of town;
]Harried in pink, your spirits will sink;
Married or net, you may have to toil;
Mf P0)1 R/SOMA rISM OSE Sr. JACOBS OIL
CREAT
REMEDY FOR
PAIN
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