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The Brussels Post, 1890-3-28, Page 6ST. MARY OF THE ANGELS ; Qtli2, HIS FIRST AND LAST LOVE 13Y ;iILUMAS A. JANVI1 R. t'HAPTEY TIL--(Co/'rPNrtsD. ) • They wouel go Paten to the Statrs, of course ; nut to 1'ertlsyleuuia, but to some live place in the West, where he eoull earn n good living right away, and hu eight or ten years could i ntkc a connfut•t£thlo fortune. He had not eared until now to make niotay, but in the course of his wandering, aimless life he had found out where and haw itt the West money could be made quickly by en sear' otic mat, Now Inc world soil in an snake it. When he got hie pih' they would go to Europe. Mary always had wanted to go to Europe—ami it say ut the :omens they met were better dressed than site was, hell know the ra teou why1 In a contemptuous recalled his old-time plan for keeping way Inc rets P tier shut up all her life in the Wyoming Talley. rifted off into the then his thoughts drifted 1 Ana g time when this plan was formed, and one picture after another of Mary as he remem- bered her in these days formed itself in his mind. How he did love her then, he thought—but how much more he loved her t10w 1 As Inc sat there in the cool darkness, think- ing theseleasant thoughts, the time slipped awe rapidly. Toward ten o'clock a soft, silvery haze began to lame up in the east and a little later the full moon rose above the mountains, and flooded with a brilliant light :-tlte great, desolate plain. The shadow of the buildup fell over him—a shadow so sletp laud strop that at a distance of fiity feet his darkly } g clad forst would have been invisible; and to kis eyes, looking out from this covert, I the effect was that of an atmosphere of liquid radienee. He was not ordinarily an man, imagin- ative , but in his present excited d ex - 1 anor . pelted frame of mind this outburst of splendor seemed to him emblematic of the way in which front his own life a melancholy desk - mess had been banished by the great light of love. He accepted the good oaten gladly, nod his thoughts became still more sanguine and more bold. A sound of footsteps an@ low voices start- led him from his reverie. Ttvo men were walking up the track toward the station, coming from the direction of the tank. Their wide-brinnned bats cast deep shadows ° over their faces, but the voice of one of the anen he recognized as that of Harwood. They wore speaking in Spanish, and, before • Inc could distinguish their words, he inferred from the tones of their voices that they were engaged in some sort of argument. • As they drew near to the station he saw Tarwood place his hand restrainingly on his companion's arm. The man turned im- uatiently, 'v,:' 'aa,,.; •!'±'. _ e • It is better to kill him now," ho said, " and so be rid of him. A dead dog can not , .bark." "Patience, Senor Alcalde. If we hill .him this first night we shall cause much talk ; and until our great project is ae- comptisled we do not want to be talked about. And I tell you again that if we can '. persuade him to join us he will be most useful. There is no need for haste. Let us wait a little and see what will come. He is I in our hands ; should he not do what we require of loin—" Harwood drew his hand quickly across his throat, " it will not take long 1' Hardy sat rigid in the shadow, his finger on the trigger of his self-acting revolver. :One single step leeward on the part of the two men would have been certain death to both of them. They were not sixty feet rlin 'tant ; their forms stood out sharply in the brilliant moonlight ; a prettier shot could mot reasonably have been desired. For n '•..moment the Mexican stood irresolute. Then, wielding to Harwood's practical reasoning, Ste turned slowly, and the two walked away toward the town. As he . turned a shiver went over him: perhaps, income curious -way, Isis body knew how near it had been to returning to the dust out of which it cause. Hardy's tense muscles relaxed slowly, and the hand that • held the pistol hung down straight by hie side. His first strong feeling was that of disappointment. Had the men advanced, he world have been b amply justified in shooting them, and there was no doubt that he would have made • a clean job of it. So good a chance was not likely to carne again. His luck had gone c' -back on him, he thought, However, this match good. had come out of the encounter; ; lee knew now certainly what to look Inc from the other aide. He had not, it is true, t seriously doubted Barwood's amiable inten- tions toward hint, but it was comforting to have heard them so clearly stated from his own lips. New they were on evert terms, to far as intentions went ; and he had a little '`- the best of the situation, in that he knew something of Barwood's plans. The dry, cool night wind played over him soothingly. After so much excite. anent came the languor of reaction. Pre- sently he dropped off into an easy, refresh- ing sleep, that lasted nail he was aroused .he the khad nstle ef attended the too the When shipping of ,the ore, and the .,train had gone on rtuu�ain, he brought his cot out on rho platform and edeptthere comfortably tint til morning, Ha heel expected Inc, spend the night in time station, with the doors locked and the windows barred ; but from what he had heard he knew that for the prevent he was not in danger, and so could safely in - :1 dulge in the luxury of fresh air. He a\voks t' thoroughly refreshed, .and as he came up to it breakfast from, a bath in the river ho enjoy- ed the pleasant sensation of feeling fully able to ]told his own against anybody. ' Garwood, already seated at the hroak finished Itis breakfast, atol then said, sulk- ily, "Well, we'd better be muvin', I e pexa. Hardy accepted the situation trod left tato house at once. But a nuiek glance as he event out assured awry that in some way he woull enmpaes the meeting that they desired. At the station there was no work to ic- cupy ]rim. 'Trite down passenger train was not due fin' two hours ; the down freight ma- im. t for• tut hour or two later, and the up freight Wets out due until afte pieeo, Barely natur- all,)-teatswn energetic man, and this dill, enforced talenuss oppreasec hint. He brou ,1ct the chair out on the phttfutnt, in the shade of the building—for the heat already was potent ---and sought coneolatinn in his pipe. In the course of half an hoot Ire sow s110110 rising front the valley, beyond the tank, and a few minutes later heard the regular strokes of the pump. lie paid 110 attention to this sound at first ---save that he found its rhythmic monotony soothing—but after a while the thought that as enty five engines hail watered et the tank stove the prevents morning, when it certainly had been full, there wets rte need for wasting wood by starting the lump so soots again ; and then he became thoroughly aroused, for this waste of wood was the kernel of the natter which the superintendent had :sent hint to Santa `!aria to investigate. p9""—h' inc got on his feet briskly, plumped "the chair inside the station, shut and locked the doors, and walked quickly up the track to the truck. 'i'lte gauge showed fourteen feet of water—just about what le had expected to find. Olviotusly there was no need for ptmtping for at least two days. On the ether land, Barwood's confessed disposition to let mexral get the better of ]rim now and then pave a valid reason—though not 'meet- ly ar'esaou that the company would recognize— for not permitting his water to get low. Its keeping his tank full he was only making a prudent allowance for the factor of error; that is to say, providing 'three days of lee- way in which he might get drunk with im- punity. While Hardy was thinking the matter over, irresolute as to whether he should or should not go down and order- the ptunping stopped, he perceived that there was no sound of water running into the tank anil then, looking closely, he saw that the gunge was not moving. As the pumping still went on, it was evident that there must be a break in the pipe. This, of course, was a matter to be attended to at once. From the tank the pipe was carried on tall posts to a rocky hillock, and thence, raised a little above the ground, through a tangle of mesquite scrub down the steep bank to tine pump. Half way down the bank, emerging from the mesquite bushes, was the «cegum t that fed the plantation below the town. Through this acegaia the water was running merrily ; he could see the glint of it in the sun. Hardy followed tha line of pipe into alto bushes with some difficulty, for the way which hail been cleared when the pipe was laid was now so obstructed by mesquite branches and long spines of cactus and other thorny growths as to make walking both difficult and painful. He wondered a good deal over this eomlition of affairs, for com- mon sense dictated the necessity of keeping a clear way along rho pipe—and these ob- structions obviously hadbeen put in place purposely, But his wonder ceased when Inc sucreaded, at the sacrifice of the integrity of both his clothes and his skin in forcing his way to the point where the line of the arcgata was crossed—and here also the mystery of the pumping was effectually dispelled. The pipe was not broken, but carefully unscrewed at one of its joints, and from the opening thus made the water was discharging at the full power of the pump into the acegttia. A monkey -wrench screw- ed feast on the sleeve of the joint made the repair of the break possible in a moment. A well -beaten path went along the bank of the aregrlia for a hundreds yards, and then dipped downward through the bushes in the direction of the engine -house. As Hardy made these interesting discov- eries he whistled to himself softly. The case perfectly clear. Harwood was using the company's firewood to supply his Mexi- can friends with water for irrigation ; and he was doing it so cleverly that tie chances of his beiug discovered were only about one in a thousand, However, that odd one-ten- th of one per cent. had gone against him at Hard last, and hislfLtleganewts spoiled. y Imd lived long enough in hot, dry lands to appreciate fully the benefit that Harwood was confcnriugon the community—at the company's expense—and how strong itt con- sequence oust be bis hold on the popular good -will. And he further perceived that about the surest and quickest way to get a knife or to bullet in himself would be to report his dis covery to the setperintendent, and so cause the shutting down of these eminently irregular water -works. That he must make such a report was inevitable, but, as he re- flected, it need not necessarily he made at once. "Tito company's interests would not suffer eerietsly by remelt of his withholding his action for a few days, and in the mean time his knowledge gave him a power ever Garwood that in venous ways he night use to excellent advantage. broken pipe, As he.stood beside rho nke n p p , revoly- ing these thoughts in his mind, a sudden curious, creeping thrill went through )tie, chilling him m the midst of the hot stutohino, and causing bit heart for a moment to stand still. Almost in panic ire turned hastily away. It was over in a moment, and Ito laughed at himself as Inc forced his way back THE BRUSSELS POST. than he imutgttu•d ; tor, trllilr+ ll,u•woud was washing his Mee and hauls, out. nide the dune before dinner, timely had se- cured Mot'y's promise to meet him an hurts later in the valley of the stream, beneath the hlttlf. Hardy had thought the that ter ever Vare- fully, 111111111111 deesded that this int tints hr the early afterment was the period in the whole range of the twenty •four hours when they would he must seeut•e, Every human Lein at that time almost corn tinty'would be asleep --a general scuuudenee that by no nueue: could he counted upon at night to en irregular a community—and even should menu o areidentall kperson see aviary, t y awake T water -jar in hand, going door: or ascending the path that led to the river, a leph:ion would not be aroused. At the most, her aetian would attract 00 maty attention than would be embodied in a terse comment urea the American•liko folly displayed ingoing for wane. during the hours wltidt all rigltt- tbinking Mexicans hotel sacred to the sleep slumber that is begot of heat, While Hardy waited at the station iter patiently for the hour to pass, Ito was sur- prised by hearing again the sound of the putup, lie had counted upon Barweod'e se• guired Mexican habits to place him among the sleeper's, and fur a moment he found this evidence that Harwood was awake de- cidedly discotertiug. Alter all, though, he reflected, whether 13arwood taus asleep or at work in the engine -]louse, the practical result was the sone ; and, on the whole small though the chane would be of his waking up front his siesta, the chance of itis leaving his engine wtLs even smaller. Raul having arrived at this conviction he dismiss- ed the matter front his mind, anal gave his thoughts free rein coucenating the strange meeting that he was about to have with the woman who once hal filled his whole life,and whom he now lad foiled again in so des• perste a case that his reawakened love had added to it the tenderness of a great pity and the fierceness of a concentrated rage. (TO 11R CoNTINCED, ) •1 ".41111) TTIIE WOMEN. Eria(tteanl shmet,ll'r' er'rwo alunclrea l etntale stavee. A'letter from Zanzibar says that over a year ago a caravan of 30(1 Arabs left the east- coast to go into the interior to trade, 'They have now returned and one of the chiefs relates their adven- tures. Arriving at Kari:en:do, on the northeast shotes of Victoria Nyanza, the Arabs saw that tato 1114tivea had a good deal of ivory and that they had no guns. They attacked the Who, and before the shooting had gone on long the natives were wilding to do anything to make peace. After a long palaver with the chiefs tlto Arabs agreed to leave the country upon the payment to them of 200 tusks of ivory and 20U young women. Tate natives were glad to get t'id of the enemy oven on thee heard eonditious. As seen as they received the ivory and the women the Arabs slatted for the coast. They had a terrible lime in the Masai country. There WtrB a drought told they alutoet perished of thirst, Ther provisions became saaneer and scarcer and the whole party was its danger of starvation, Finally the Arab chicle decided that in order to save themselves and their ivory it would be necessary to sacrifice their female slaves, Who wore very weak front their deprivations and could mar= noftnther, That night all of these 200young W0111011 were shot to death, and their bodice wore loft in the camp for beasts of prey. The victims happily had not a moment's warn- ing of their unpeuding fate. Each murder- er selected his victim, and the trine was aecougtdisled so speedily, that few of the women made an outcry. 'With their force thus summarily reduced the Arabs were able to pull through the desert region, ob- taining little more food titan barely enough to suetatin life.. The chief wlto related these facts in Zanzibar showed no compunctions whatever for the terrible crime in which Ito had assis- ted, but mentioned the utaseaet'e only to give an idea of the great loss they had sustained by the necessary sacrifice of their 200 slaves, It is a ou'lous fact that same of the murder- ers were troubled its mind because their necessities had compelled them to oat rat and other unclean fond, which is prohibited to Iliohammod;ms on tlto march. An Extraordinary Instance of Bleep Walking, A housemaid at the Parsonage, Hadding- ton, named Agnes Samuel, lost her mother to whom she was greatly attached, in the month of May last year. The impression which this deprivation matte upon tho girl's mind gave rise to frequent dreams that she was either with her poor mother, of was going to meet her- After dreaming of her mother repeatedly, one night she rose, put on nn "ulster" over her night•dress, a pair of Stockings, a pair of gloves, and a hat. Thus attired she opened and shut seven doors, three of which were either locked or bolted, between her bedroom and the street. Then she started to walk to llitforcl, a distance of four miles, over arough, ani in many places, a newly macadamised road. The morning was very dark and tempestuous, a high wind was blowing, and frequent and heavy shovers of rain were fall- ing. On reaching the ohurchyarcl, the )Fate of which nue locked, she climbed over the wall and the iron railing on the top of it and once within the enclosure she made her way to her mother's grave and lay clown upon it. How long she remained there is unknown, but in this position she awoke at three o'clock in the morning. Her first impres- sions onawakoning were not those of fear and consternation, as might bo expected, at the queer situation in which she found herself, but rather of wonder and surprise as to how she got there. Hexing regained conscious- ness she started to walk to her father's house, a mile beyond the village of Gilford, and arrived there much to the surprise of her friends, at a quarter past three in the morn- ing. She seems to have been perfectly un- conscious of anything during her rough walk, except that an idea which she could not defue as -a dream, was floating through her mind about travelling over "smooth roads." Agues Samuel, it may bo added, is of res- pecablo parents and bears an excellent character. fast table, obviously was the worse for along time line of the pipe through the loss of sleep. His oyes were red and heavy, and the nonacal that he had taken to brace him up had done little more than dispose ]nim to snap and snarl on small provocation. He had been venting his ill -humor on Mary, apparently, for she had It nervous, frightened look, and 'seemed to have been crying. His saluta- tion to Hardy was an inarticulate grunt: Mary tried to say good -morning cheer. • fully, but there was a quiver in her voice • that went to Hardy's heart. His eyes most have shown her bow much he felt for her, for her eyes filled with tears ; and then a delicate calor carne over her pale Ace. She poured out his coffee from the ' tin pot standing on the stove ; and as she stood beside him for a moment while she placed the cup on tine table, her land, . vary lightly, pressed against his arm, where was something appealing in this t.aioh : it was an avowal of her need for protection and of her trust in his shielding strength. Hardy ate his breakfast to silence, He could not trust his voice in talking common- place talk with Mary ; and he could not trust his temper in talking with her husband at all, Fortunately, Boxwood kept silence too, Even in his present mood of sullenness thorns. Hardy was in a state of high satisfaction, He had accomplished already the purpose for which he had boon sent to Santa Maria, and lee' felt that now, he had ; a powerfu leverwith which to work in accomplishing the Still Arongor purpose that had formed in his heart sites his arrival there. Iia returned to the station, and when he lad washed- the blood from his scratched hand, Inc settled himself to smoking, in a very comfortable state of mind. Both for the company and for himself he had done an excellent morning's work, At dinner Barwoocl was in a lees cantank- orous mooed. Either be had worked off the effects of his early morning /wen; or else, which Was more probable, he had die• tilled within him more of the milk of human kindness flora additional libations, He even was jocose in a heavy way, chaffing Hardy clumsily about his -failure in love- making, and bringing a flame of starlet to Mary's faot by telling her that now she knew that sweethearts ware like chickens home to roost. Hardy and curses, and cams m r y found those pleasantries so galling that, as t . oidia a collision he the only way pf avoiding , (Teetered that it wits Loo hot to eat, and so left the house. His lost looked at him Judas' Paltry Prim. Every man who as a general. reader bas, doubtless, notiocd ]row often, when he has been reading of a certain subject, ho will rum across the same subject in anuuexpeeted place, and an incident of this kind brought to my attention a very curious foot, which was 0 revelation to me. 1 had just finished \W. W. SLury's poets, " The Letter of a Boman Lawyer in 2aruselent," in which Story presorts the legal aspect of the ease of Judas Iscariot, and suggested that in be- traying the Savior he was only attempting to give Jesus Christ an opportunity to declare and prove himself God, and that he Duly accepted the 30 pieces of silver to give his act the appearance of a betrayal for a bribe. I laid Liable the pamphlet coutainitg the poem and picked up abook, in which I fond an article on the ancient coins at the East, and one of the first things Iread was that tite " piece" of silver of 2,000 years ago was the uante of a coin and that its value was 13 cents. It dill wet require much calculation then for me to see that the price which was paid. Judas by the Saahedrint for betraying Gloat was only tri 00. Do you know this unexpected information made Story's poem haven strange offset upon me. Stony points to the fact that Judas car- ried the public purse, and could not have been avaricious, or else he would not have been trusted with this fund for the poor, for which lee rendered no account to any ono, yet he betrayed his master for $3.00. I had always thought that " 30 pieces of silver" meant some large amount, and the statement astonished me when Tread it, but referring to a work on numismatics I saw that the " piece of silver" of Jersusalenm was about the same value as the " ore piece" of Den- mark, which is just 13 cents, so I suppose the statement is true. Food for Thought. Anger is like unto a cloud that maketh everything seem bigger than it is. Inviolable fidelity, good humor and eann- piacenoy of temper, outlive all the charms of a fine face, end make the decay of t invis- ible. A firm faith is the bust divinity ; a good he bephilosophy clear on life is t best p sopry ; a c oat c sur ence is the best law ; honesty is the best policy, and temperance tho best physic, It pays to plod I Don't snake quantity more important that quality. The best work is work that takes time, and nowa- days the bust work is the work that is want- ed. Tho foolish and wicked practice of pro- fane cursing and swearing, is a voice so meat and low, that every person of sense and character detests and despises it,— [\Vashington. Otte of the best prayers ever offered is that which Christ himself hallowed—"God be merciful to me, a sinner I" There is no title, no "forever and over, amen," to it, It is only the heart broken out of the man. —Moocher, No Rieke Run. Tito Whole Duty of Mau, (ti}' Zhu Iter. i'hilit imams.) MARCH 28, 1800, ALEamerse•c ectasos 4eeseenelctsent I 'Late Cable News. l would that tee could come Luck to the Woo that religion is tut absulut h simple - - tltittg. 1 have tried to matte tt £tppt•ar a, Emperor William in Labors ¥ono Ahundaut �•uu hitt lute urs rl, ru'r .n,d elr aver to too -Tis Anstrlltn Emperor Out of Tem- the longer 1 live, that 1 ltt isl fenny is not a, DS`' -'SD is the (12:11', strange tilting. Lt is a fashion le sou: to p, idetnt'e the Iltltnalt small ht ,t short' of perpet• Kaiei'1' \Wiiht'dlll hila creat a wc'c'ld of Itttrd nal tuttaxement at the love of ih,d for Zhu work Maiming garrisons, reviewhtg troops, human race, to :mate (halve )telt for nu+li amd drilling cadets, Early next numtlt, by some stavauge and woaderhtl candescensiotn. lata' of vtu•lot • he hnt0mc s m But is God's love strange? Ix it. slrau ", fon a y } , 1 L spc nil a weelc +• us•eh'xvhiitlre+n? 1'oid�bnnb among he sl.rauge if 1 tel did nut love and help the eatisfaebiunof wltteseing Ilio oitcetnhling humenity W11011Ire looks rl Mil and 8008 i.t of the Labor C'm :ferenee, upon which he had liere 1 Gotl ununoi. help lovhlg nail hrlpi" an strotgly sot hie heart. 'Tris nloui paten. the bttnutu roue. He would not he God 1t I I Be did not love. and help those whom Inc tholes make a brave sbow,nantla•ing nearly )las meat oil. "God feeds us truth tts a father' feeds hie child. Feed produces action, not lees God's fandiu truth than uuuis food to his child, 'I'hte reeler the food, the Keller the titelily the more food, the more action, God does not exlteteb human melons to extend farther than Lite measure of truth reeeit'ed. \\but he asks ix that we live tip to the truth we know. Belief event in event., be it intense and true, ln•it,gs some gootl into ,a life, 'lite sett pours down its lltu,d of light upon the eneming flower, which takes in all it can, is thereby opened more and :nude able to take in more light. No God's truth onto entering into the soul, opens it still more and makes it ready for still more truth, until it blos- soms into the perfect flower. Use every bit of truth you have, and prepare yourself for the more truth thin will certainly come, "I talk to you on theassnntption that you aro earnest slot, If you are not in earnest, my balk is wasted, have nothing to do with a than who seeks for difficulty for difficulty's state. God's truth can find uo lnclgmottt in a soul unless there is an earnest with to receive it thera. Assuming, then, that you are in earnest, you task me what you shall do to bring Gad into your lives, My friends, I would tell you if I could. But what can I say ? Ileac is no secret to be told. I have na panacea that will throw open the windows of your soul that the Spirit that surrounds you on every side may enter. All that I can do is Inc tell you certain things that you must certainly tlo before you can expect that God will conte to you. In the first place, then, put away your sin. You all have one, no man but has smite trick of tttiud, body or soul that is foreign to a father t„ I t ng ltie stilot'e fat $ea now, lie hos hal Pretty Girl --"I called in reference to your advertisement for a type -write'." Cautious Bachelor—" I advertised for a young man," Yes, 1 know, but I was in hopes I might don" "Hein1 Can you cook?" "Cook? Why, yes." (rood housekeeper?" "Oh, yes.,' "lromlof society?" "I o, I soldntn go out unless obliged to," "'fake that desk there, please." Looking Ahead, Female ivleudieattt---I'nt a poor widdy wo- man with eight small children. Can't you give us some clothes. Lady. --'lite only clotting I lava to give away is a pair of my Itnsband'a pants. Female Mendicant --Give 'em to ane, good a groat numy mon down, lady ;1 might marry again. Thera aroaivertel 'flee utast who is able to travel extensively. 11 can generally learn enough in a year to make a bore of himself all the rest of his life. Taken for Granted, iour•yeat'•oltl May, on seeing the now moon ono evening, exclaimed with delight,' Clara Van Streek—And what did papa say? " Oh look mannan look I The moor's crit Alfred Sellers tanggling) Yon 1 Why. I'll moot godliness. Until that is put away 310 itritlt can )tope God to come to him. (Quit stealing, if you steal ; quit lying, if you lie ; quit lust- ing, if you lust ; quit domineering and over- bearing, if you are reenstontecl to domineer over your fellow nae. ; quit being creel and oppressive if it is pea• habit to oppress those who may Inc fu pen. power ; quit being the hard, sinful, Lascivious ereatnre that yon lane been. Thrust out your sin as completely as you can and so matte room for God in your soul, then God and you com- bined can drive out the last remnants of evil that remain. "In the second place, do your special duty, Von can easily lind it, if you look. If there is a poor rum whom you may help to be happier ; if there is a wieked man whom you rttay aid to become better ; if there is what, in our cruel phrase, we call at 'abandoned woman,' whop you may help back to a life of purity; if there is any great social wrong that yon may help to abolish, that way lies your duty. And what next ? Prey. Men say that. prayer is a strange and illogical thing. ' If there is no God, then prayer is strange : but if there is a God, then prayer is the one nat- ural and reasonable thing in the world. Pray on your knees, in distinct recognition of your humble position before Cod. "And then roach your Bible. Not to final in it answers to every question ; not as a stere history or record, but that oft of the richness of that book may Dome fulness for your hninan development. " Something more. Seek the Church of Christ. The gravitation of every soul that desires God mustbe toward the Chut'cln of Christ. It is easy to stand outside and eriti- else the church ; it is easier yet to go into the church and from there tell how poor and imperfect a thing it is, but still it remains the only organized body amen seeking to' bring God and humanity nearer together. You will ask me how about this doctrine and that doctrine. My friend , tltatwill all conte its good time, These dootrinary, contro- versial questions remind me of the lifeboats I see when Igo aboard a great ship to erose the ocean. They may be of use some time, but it is not in thorn that I put my trust. I feel tho stout planks :,der my feet and down below I hear the great strong engines at work, and upon them I depend for a safe voyage, Sometimes, I know, it seems as thought the timid erew' had taken the life- boats and abandoned the ship, but after all they all Dome back in the end to the great, strong ship of the clntrelt of God, or else they perish miserably. ' Do these five things : east out sin, clo your duty, pray, teal your Bible and joie the Church, and I think you can leave the rest to God. Mon say that modern life, busi- nese and social, is inconsistent with Christ- ianity. 'they, say that it is impossible for a mean to 1 e a consistent Christian and do bust: t 4 noes in one of our cities I do ret,, know whether this is true or not, but will say that a Christian placed jn' the midst of such business amt social life has a great opportunity and a great responsibility. He should either show that Christianity isinm- possiblc in his surroundings, or separate himself from them. What right has a man to sacrifice his soul to bush -toss or society ? 73ntyottutestprove your case ; it tvot't do for you merely to say it. Mot willcantinue to say consistent Chris' ani ;y is impossible until yott prove it is p' • sibl 1. Why don't yon put it to the test ? "Get out of your )earls the idea that Christianity is a dreadful thing, Prepare to moot your God, any friends, but not in some distant land, in some far-off time, Prepare to moot Ilitn here and now, always and everywhere. Prepare to meet flim 111 your office when you go back there, in your busi- ness and in all your communiot with your follow men. Let every day be our judgment day, Live so that at last shall come to you as a festal invitation tlto warning to prepare yourself to meet your God. "Let ma tell you again that your human nature le divine, Realize it, I petty you, by living up toward that perfect Leman ideal Christ. Be such a man, live such a life that 1f every mat were each as ,you and every life a life, like yours, this earth tvottld be (:clod's paradise. A Proof of Devotion, A dentist received a call the other morn- ing from a couple whom he soot had reason to believe were lovers. The gielhad at ach- ing tooth and as they entered the office the young man said : "Now, darting the worst is over. Just take a sat and at will be out in a minute." "Ola, 1 dttstt't,"site gasped. "Bet it really don't hurt you any, you know." "glut I'm afraid it will." ' `it can't, I'd have ono pulledin a minute if it acted." "I don't believe it," "01, yes, I would." "Has she got to bad tootle ?" raked the dentist, "Yes, sir, It has ached for a week, and I've just succeeded in getting her down here. Cone darling have it out," "Oh,Icant1' "But you meet," oI can't staid the hurt.,' "Hort? Now, then, I 11 have one pulled. just to show you that it doesn't herb." Ho took a seat, leaned back mal =one his mouth and the dentist seemed to be select- ing a tooth to seize with his forceps when the girl protested : "Hold an I The test is suilicent, He has proved his devotiot. Get out, Harry, and I'll have it pulled," She took the ahair, had the tootle dr'aw'n witltant a groan and as she wort out she was saying to tho young nam : "Now I cant believe you when you de- clare that you would dio for me," And yet every tooth in his head was false. Still dolebreting. 1?oliceutam—You are drunk, Come along with 1110. Inebriate—You are misthalcon, my Friend. I've not got tlu•ottglt (hie) sholebrating glori- ous triumph of wild Wesht over effete. Shoe? Too much "sot emupagain" iswhat brines jiutleuten that have t tole eye on nee. Haat". "Moll just film t a look, of musk melon 1" you Yoy down stairs be.( There is a holy love and a holy rage, and fora I'll let you marry my daughter 1" our best virtues never glow so brightly as Clara Van Streak (practical) f And u af when our passions aro cxotted in, the cause, course, you let bun—and now I a n yu rs, Sloth, if it has provetiLoc1 many crimes, bas Alfy I also smothered many virtuesand the best of us are bettor when aroused'. The Duke of I''ifc is to preside at Stanley's I Paris public schools are overcrowded, and first lecture in London. All tin seats have the authorities propose to help to remedy been sold, although tine lotvast price was $5 I the diflieulty by forbidding tho attenclanao Stanley is to receive $000 for the lecture and at thein of chi fret. of foreigners, There ate p the Polytechnic Instituto, at which it is to 00,000 foreign children in the city, and at be still desire to table until maintain ehnad and ilnotthadahotteragrou).tl for suspicion "f4t000 from be delivered,.expects to make from $3,606 toj east etittcationn free a000 of t the public scharo ools, ,ls, 1'renoh fifty, mord the delegates, or technical assis- ttutte, are almost as numerous, Baron 13er- lepsch, who succeeded Priueo Bismarck as Minister of Commerce and has all the pro- verbial energy of a new btnatu, made a nice speech, and the Conference, having appointed six committees to do the chief work, forth- with adjourned, It scents to be intaudea that the Conference, iu plenary session, shall register decisions of canon' theca, lett those best qualified to judge believe it will not be possible to prevent discussiotsofeoatenttons and even burning questions, which may cause serious misunderstandings and possible pro- tests and withdrawals, Thomas hurt, the able and honest work- ingman who represents \i.oapeth in the Brit- ish Parliament, and has been selected as one of the English delegates, informs your cor- respondent that he does not expect that any practical results will follow from the confer- ence, although indirectly it will be of great advantage to the iudustriai masses through- out the world. Monsieur Jules Guesde, one of the leader's of the French Socialists, tluoaares: "Notitiug good can result from the Conference. Yam hopes will be raised, but everything will prove deception." The Australian Emperor tuts been much upset by the resignation of the Hungarian Premier, Tisza, who has at length been hounded nut of office by the united and per- sistent efforts of feudal, clerical and revolu- tionary parties. His :Majesty has taken the usual course of reprimanding certain party leaders, and all together has betrayed irritation and nervotetitese in this matter calculated to iuorrase the anxiety which has liruvane:1 for some time past respecting his mental and hadily Lraltlt. He has man. aged also to give fresh offence to then Czar by expressing his pleasure at the defeat of the last Pan-Slavist plot in Bulgaria, and his words may have the dangerous effect of encoutvtging Prime Fredivantl to still furth- er and more open defiance of the Russian bear, The Czar himself is in bad humor with more reason that his Austrian brother. inc sees in the Labor Conference a tritmtph Inc socialism, and complaints that it has encour- aged his rovnlutioeury subjects to greater audacity. The Nihilists are undeniably and ttnpleastuttly active. Demonstrations in the united States and in Europe against the cruelties in Siberia have greatly comforted dent andimrved them to fresh efforts. What that ntetsos is shown by the fact that the Czar was iutplored not to attend the service celebrated on 'l'lnn'sday at the cathedral within the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, in memory of Itis murdered farther, and that when his .Majesty insisted upon going, the entire route from t:atehitta to St. Petersburg sburg watt searched and )told by an all enormous force of police and military. The cathedral itself was examined from vaults to roof, and only the most trusted civil and military officers were admitted to the ceremony, Prepapetions for Business, Li fo Insurance Agent (out West)--" (VItat did Mr, Newcomer say ?' Assistant--" He wouldn't talk with me at all ; eaiel he was too busy to talk about life insurance," " Well, I'll hang about his house to -night and shoot holes through his wilt:Ion , and when he comae clown in the morning yon be behind tho fence in mato vacant field and put a few halls through the top of his hat, Tlten when he reaches his office, I'll drops in and talk life irs'trance again," " Trust In Him." When adow'tt the gloomy ether, Timid dewdrops fall in fear, And the pearls of twilight glimmer Faintly on the ocean decor, Where the surges of its sadness, Blending with the night -wind's sigh, Chant a moaningi, dirge whose madness, Murmurs at the starless sky. Often like these dark'ning billows 'Moans any weary heart with care, Till tho surges of its sorrows Boom, like breakers, with dispair. Bnt above the winds mol stators, Stealing through the shadowe dim, Soars a Pelee which sweetly whispers: " Day is coming, trust lin. Him." Then a hope within oto glowing. Lilco the waves at sunrise roll, Sleds a golden glory throwing Sprays of comfort on my soul. EaNEBT E. LEIGH. Cobou'g, Ont. Don't Fret. When worries and troubles surround you. Doa't fret, (lo to world You will always have trouble around you, Iron bot, If you shirk. The man who is busy his worry forgets. His mhdtdebts, isn't harassed by thoughts of Itis And the harder he woks, the more happy be gets, ' Till he's gay as a Turk. II, .If fortune won't smile, let her frown, if She will ; Never ntittd. Don't sunt, and look wholly oast down, if She still Scents unkind, If you smile at her, soon she will smile back at you, Yon aro ceratin to win her, if you will pur- 500 Hoe with cheerful persistence, and (tope ever now, And thou solace you'll find. III, The world doesn't oars for your woes, Oh,Ito1 Nota bit 1 I The mantwho is wise never shows tis ait, Every one of ymhourthno'oeighbIborsfoo has griefs of his own ; IIsreatly prefers to lot your griefs alone, Arta he doesn't at all enjoy hearing you groan, So take warming, and quit 1 "And what's all this I hear,I3arba'a,abott your wanting to final some ocanpation ?" 0 \Nell, you see it is eo dull athottte, uncle. I've no brothers or sisters—and papa's par- alyzed—and mamma's going blind—so I want to be ft. hospital nurse."