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The Clinton News-Record, 1899-09-07, Page 3POWER OF KIND WORDS. REV- Of TALMAGE MOS OF THEIR GREAT INVI•elENCE. • iles IV .14 W e whirls they ...re ;tele. tel -A feelainotel lastly illermulee prelleard be A KIWI *et -Favaillta , tete lanteclee siienet Ti•y .01e Vaiite or lleadnese A desPeteie from WaShington slays: - 40V. Or. 'Xs/Image preached from, elle eollowing text:. " A Ooft tongue bretile, eth the bone." -Prov. aerie le. Mellen Selman Oaid, this ee drove a whole volume -Leto one pereae. You of . Melee, will eet les: 06 eilly as to take aehe worde a the text in a literal :lent*. They ,siroply mean to set forte the: feet that there le a tremendous power in a, lend word. Although it may 0000a tO be .yery insignifietiet, its 7 force la itulesoiebable and illimitable. Pengeet ;tett ateconquerieg utter- allea " A eoft ..tongue breakete the belie." . et tee evesither were not oo liot, I eadt time, leyeuld ehow you kindneirs tte a. means • of defenoe. eindeese act a . means a usefiiinese leletineelieekeeee means of doraestie hermany ; kincleess ae best employed by governnients for the taming and .ciiring , of oriminels ; -end kindneee as- best adapted 'foe the, .izettling end aejueting of internation- al queue's.; but ,thall ,eall your at - tendon -only -We two or thestethoughts, Anil first, f' etaelik" to 'you -of , kind- ness ate a Means of defence. Almost ov- erly math in tee .course of his life,. ie set apon aed, aesaelted. Your motivea are' misinterpreted ot year religious ) or pontioal prieeiplea are bombarded. What to do eader, ewe oircumetances .• in the queseipn, The first impulse of • ` the nateral heert' says, : "etrike back. Give ae.exuch tet he sent; Trip him in7 to the ditelr, weice he dug for your, feet. Gash beat -with tos severe a wound • cies thee which -he inflietedein your soul. , Shot ear, shot,.etireasm for sercasm., Ae eye, for An eye. A teeth for a tooth." But theebettet spirit in the man's soul zest* tip and says.: " You. ought„to re- consider that Metter," You look up ia- CO the face .Chriet :end, say: Me.stee, eoW ought 1 to apt under these difficialt circumstance's V And :ehrist instantly 'ensv.verei: " Bless them that ourse yeu, /and pray for them that de- aPitetully. use yoth" .Then the ole. na7 tees risesi up egain . Ane ' saes: " YOu hid better • not :forgive. him entil Oise • you, eeee eeeeeleed...ehe You, win ;neer get. elm' le eo tiget: a . oorner again. Yoe. will nevi& have 'suce oppertunity"' of'. inflicting . the right ..kied ,of punishnient upon .hine •• again.. elest chastise, him„. and then 'let ,go.". "Ne," saya • the eetter nature; "nese, -thee foul- heart. Try' . the soft tencee lareelreth the . leiveven acerbityeend; acrimonioue ais- • bone.' ..,ifeevie:eou'.ever in till yogrlife ewer to softie a quarrel? Did they, -hot alwaya make matters worse, • and worsee old woeee . About thirty-five yeard: ago there ..was 'e great quarrel in the Preseyeerian tete' ot. leheist: were thought orthodox pciayportien•. as they bed measured lances with oeher clergymen. of . tee - same denonenation. The m'ost out-• rage'ous, personalities. were thread. As, in the autumn, a hunter comes - herae . vvitb a string of game, perttidges and wild ducks siung.evev .his eleeildek, so ' there were mane ministers .who came . beck from 'the ecclesiastical .cotirto with loeg eteings of, doctors of divin-• ity ,whom they had shot with their . .owe rifle. Tee division beeame Wider, ee t anireotett greater, until 'efter ' a Weenie good:Met resolved .upon enother..teete, • :They began to .exe Plain away:tee diffictiltiete thee be- gan eo forgive ,easeli other's:fault ; and, lute:he. great .Church quarrel was set - tied, and the ne*.school Preebyteeian .. Church end.tee olitecheol Presbyterian Church 'became one, The different ' parts of. tee •Preebyterieriebrder, weld- ed by a hammer, a little .hamtner, ehristian hammer. that the .Seripteres dells -ea aka tonge.e." • You have a diseute with your. neigh- boue. You: etre., to him "1 despise yen."' lie •: "1 ean't heat the. sight .of you." You ,ae.yt to hit': "Never miter my house again." Me eesayse you eome On .my. door sill, •ilt *kg: yott off." Yeti 'sae to hira "I'll putiou (town." /Ele 'Hays to you: ."You ere mistaken: I'll put you down." Arid ilia the contest rages; and eeav , after year:per eet tee unchristian patt and he acts the unceristieri part, After a while the better spirit seizes yeel, and one day. you go over 't.se the. neighbor, and say: eGive• &trapper band.. We have fought long eiHileugh,. Tim& is so short, and eternity is so near that we canna afford any long. et tr; quirrel. feel eou have wrong - .:ed me very mach ; but let Us settle all now in one. great. handeshaking, and. be gOod.eriends ft& all the rest of ir lives." You have risen to a high- er platforti thanehet 'on welch before y.ou stood. You .win his admiration, and you get his apology. '4 But if you Wive not. congitered him in .thet way, at any rateee,ou have. woe the applause • ef Youe own conscience, the high esti- mation of good. /heat and the honor of your God ,who died for His armed enennes, "But,' you 'say, "what are. -we to .do when elanders assault me and there come acrimonious sayings all arOund. atietit us, and we, are tamed and epit. upon fe My 'reply is: Do hot go and attempt to chase clowe the slanders. • Lies are prolific, and white you are onet fifty are bone , All your demonetreticies of indignation only eeltaust yoerself; Yoe might as well, . 'on some eunatner night when the • swerms of it:elects ere coming up . frenz the meadows And disturbing you, and •disturbing your family, brieg ire some great. "swamp angel," like thet welch thutickeed over.CharlestOn, and. try to shoot:them down. The game is. too email for the gun. But *hat tea - are you to. do with the , abuses that come upon 'you in life? You are to live them down! I saw a fah:tier ' go .out to' get lei& a swarns, of bees that had i'wandered aft Prone the hive. 1,,e he Moved amid "theta they buezed around. hie heed, and blitzed around his bands, and buzzed around his feet, • If he bail • kilied one of them they would have atung him..to dedth. But lie moved in their 'midst in perfect placidity until he had captured.,tthe . sWarti of wandeting bees, . And so I 'heed. seen men moving amid, the an- tit:gamins, and .the vexations, and the amanita of life In, such calm, Christian deliberation, that all- the buzzing arouile about their abut amounted to nothing. They . conquered them, and AM% all,. they eonquered thernseivee, "0," Yoe sae; "that% a very good the - ere to vela& on -a hot night, but it won't work." It will work. It has worked. t believe it b3 the last Chrie- tian Peke wih.. You knote there. are frthea• welch we eather June, and °there. in Suly, and other In Aug -4 . wit, ana ethers in Septernber, undl e bell ethers hi Oetober; ana 1' Ikea to adieft thet tele grace of Ohrietian fotgieeneas is ashatt the last . flute of the dietitian soul. *We hear a, great deal about. the bitter toegue, and-it:he oareatdits tongete and the quick 'tongue, and tee einging tongue; but We ittioW very little about "the eat Vogue- that 'breaketh the bone." We mad ilittlibrea, and Sterne, and Dean Swift4 and the other aposties Of tore Mmayebut give little time to studying. the example of Him who was reviled, and yet reviled Mat again, 0 that the bard br gig Spirit, would, rindoW es a'.1 with( "the aoft tongue that break- eith the -beetle' pameole to the other thought that. I desire to present, and Hint is, kind- etedia as a .016itfl$ of usefuleate, In all eceltMunitiee you find eceptical Men. 'Urdu& early edueation, or through: the Maitteetinent of prefeased tiaio: people, or through pryin curios- Ity; about the future world, ttere are it great many people who beceme seep. 'this or in other lan Mike Lord bee own. is/ Coal, in religioue Hew" /Shall you eapeure them for God? Shari) argement and saroaatie retort never wee a eingle soul from scepticism to tied, and the new 404°01 Preebyteritin fel books on The Evidenees of Ohrla- tianity" &nye teeir mission in confirm- ing ehrietiall people the faith they blaYe already adoleted, I have matured that wbee sceptical. people are brought tete the kingdom Of Chriet ie through the charm of some genial mold encienot by argument at all. Alen are got, aaved through the bead ; they are saved. through the heart. A storm comes 'oat ef ite huling-pleoe. ft says: "Now well just rouse up all this Ileal" mild its maketi a great bluster, but it does not succeed, Part of the sea is roused up, -Perhaps one-half of it or ewe fourte of it. After a while the calm moon, placid and beadtiful, leeks down, and the ocean begina to rise, It comets up to 'high-water mark; it einibracea ,the great headlands. kt ton:merges the beach of all the con- tinents. et is the heart -three ef one world againet the heart-throb of en- tailer world. And 1 have to tell you that while all your storms of ridicule ette storms of sarcasm may rouse up the' passion of immortal nature, no - ailing less than the tittraetive power ot Christian kindness can ever raise the deethictati ePirle..toehappiness' and to God. I heve naore faith in the prayer 'of a child. five yeara old, en tee way of brioging an infidel Wick eo °limit! end to heeven, than I have en alltithe hissing thunderbolts of ecclesi- astical controversy, You cannot over- come men with religious. argument- ation. If •you come at a sceptipal man Argltinent on - behelf of the Cbristiain religion, you put the mae On his Metal. He says; "f see that man has a carbine. nee my carbine. answer his argument with my urge - 'neat." But if you. came to that man, perauading him that you desire his happine.es on earth, and this eternal welfare' in the we.neld to colne, he can - hope have fornad'Obrist. and aro eithe oonneeted with thIii Church Qr with eotue ether Obrietia100burob either been gracious unto us. But all this amine of harvest and of rejoicing has implied a great deal tat work, and I think we are, glad now at the thOlight of rest. have tried ale) te conduct the affetra of the Lay College. We have sent out between tbreee and four hundred men and women this year for 1-1,11."- --""7110114111111r15r r . ThA 11111/VArler ed, but mem ae itie heart was brole elle, TY I VMS It Aln11661* Ifie's out there In the barn now, nee answer It. " hatvet midis Mat se erue the reclamation of the openly vicious Did you ever know a drunkard to • be saved through the immature ot drunkerd? Your mtmeary of the stag- gering atep, and the thick tongue, and the disgusting hicootigh, only 'worse eastedene his Mahe But if you come to. 'him kindhelss and sympathy ; if Yelelehow him that You appreciate the aweel grip oe a depraved appetite; if Yeti peesuaee him of the • fact . thee thoeusende who had the 'grappling- hopka of evil. inclination ()leeched, in 'their acme es firmly as in his, (then a rey:.of light will flash acress his ent- ice:, and in will seem as if a au/levee- tural hand, vvere.steadeing bis stagger- ing gait. good many years ago there laid, in •the streets of Ricemand, Va., a nen dead drane, big face expere ,ed, to tee blistering noonday sun. A. Christie's( woman passed along, looked et him, and said: "Poor fellow." She emir her handkerchief and eapreae it ogee faise, andepassed on. The veto toetsed hiniself up from his debauch, and began' to Iclok tee eandketchuse and lot on.it was thentime of a highly. reepeptable Oheistiarn Woman et the City ef Richmond. He ivent to her, he 'thanked her foe her: kiedness ; and that ogie little deed saved him for !his :life, and saved hini for the life that is' tokeme. elle was afterward Attorney - %literal et' tire United States ;- but, higher. than all„ be beceseie tee cense- crated disciple of SeftlUS Christ. Kind words are. so cheap, it is wonder, we 'do eat use them oftener. .There are teal of th,oneands of people 111 tbesecit- kid who are dyrng for the. leek Of one kind word. There is A:business man who has .fciught • against' troable lie is perfectly exhaustee. He hail been thinking about forgery, about rObbeiy, abohe suicide. , Go to that business man. •• Tell hir&that bettee times are coining, arid tell him that, you .yeur- self were ittea tight b,usiness pass, and the Lord delivered. you. Tell him to put his Arm& in God,i Tell him • that Jesus Cdrist steeds beside every best- ness men in bis perplexities. Tell him of the sweet premiees of God's com- foeting grace. That Mat is dying far the lack oe just one.kine wore. Go te- moreow to Wallestreet or Broad -street; pass down Fulton .A.venue or through retlantie-stieet to -morrow and utter that one saving, omnipotent,. kind word. • Here is a soul that has been swamped in sin., He wants to find the light of the Gospel.' lee feels like a shipWreeked mariner looking out over the beace, watching- foe a sail against the sky. 0, bear down on him. Tell him that the Lord waits to be gracio.us to him, that though he. has been a great sinner, there is a great Saviour provided. Tell him that though his. sins aie as. scarlet, they shall he ' as snow; though they are red like crim- son, lhey shall be. as wool. That, man. is dying forever for,the lack on. ote-kind word. There used 10 be sung at a great many ef the Pianos all through the country :a song that has almost died oet. . I wish somebody would statt it again in our, social circlets. There may not have been very exquis-• ite ert in the musk, but 'there was a grand and glorious :sentiment: "Kind words novae d e, never die; Cheeished aed bles ed." • .0, that we .inIght in our families and in our chtirehes try the foree of kind- ness. You can never drive -men, wo- men, .or children into the kingdom of God. March north-eaater :will being out mere honeysuckles than fretfulness' and •scolding will bring out Christian grace. I with thee in all our religious work we might be saturatedcwith the spirit of kindness. Missing Abet, we miss a great deal of usefulness., There is no need of coming out before men and thundering to them the law unlese at the same time you preach to them the Gospel, • • Do you nOt know Met this simple story of e Saviour's kindness is to re- deem all nations? The lard heart ot this world's obduracy la tol be broken Wore that story. There is in Ant- werp, Belgium, One of the' most re- markable pictueee I ever saw, it is "The Descent of Christ from the Cross." It is one of Rubenal pictures, No man can atand and look at that "Deocent from the Cross." as Rubens pictured it, without having his eyes floode&• vvith tears, if he have any sensibility at all. Iris an overmastering picture, -one that stuns you, and staggera you, and haunts. your dreams. One afternoon a man Stood in that cathedral, looking at Itabens' "Descent frem the Crosse He was all absortied in that mete of a Saviour's suffer ngs when tee jani- tor came in and mid: ."It is time to clime up the cathedral kr the night. I wish you would depart." The pilgrim. looking at that "Deseent from the Cross,' turned around to the lanitor and said: "No, no; ndt yet. Wait until they get Him down." 0, it is the story of a Saviour's suffering kind- ness that ;a to capture the world, When the bones of that great Behe- moth of iniquite which has, trampled all nations shall be broken and that- tered. it will be found out that the work was not dote by the hammer of the, iconoclast, or by the sword of the conqueror, or by the thole Of Demme, tion, but by the' plain, simple, over- Whelmieg force of "the, soft tollgate thathreakete the bone." Now, t must bid you good-bye for a few weeke. Befit wilt be very grate- ful to us all. it. hate been a busy year in this Church.. If had time I would review ten or. three things we hat% been trying to do. It is no ease thing te stand in a place like tide week aftet week, and from year to year, with varietY and freahnese preading the Gospel of Ji01110 Chriet, It requires atudy. it requiree thought, It requiree prayer. Pot we .have -felt that at all titles we Mast poach nothing but the Gospel; end though the gory to some may ' mem to be old. We always try to make it new, It has Win A glad year In our Church. It -culminated in this morninga exerciser; in the great "Ilarveet Home " crowding them Melee with 'men and women eepottaing the mum of Chriet for the Bret time. During this year,. Alma Met Septem- ber, many' thoneand souls have hete publiely Ian:tired the way' of mindful. NO* in thee places ; all of whom I Christian work. Many of 'them have . already been ordained Mettle Gospel - ministry in the (different deeossainee tioes of- Cerietians, and °there have chosen other fieide of work, and the lase day Mile will show us the, result at their ministry. 1 baye also found much wore this year ie the ooliduct of a religious newspaper, lt has not been wite me a mere nominal matter, but a matter of hard work, since I really believe that it la chiefly through the Christian printing-preas teat tele whole worid is to be brought back to God. The Lord has enlarged our chances for useful- ness and multiplied our opportuelties in this land- and in other lands, so that now, through the Chriatian printing - press in London, Glaegow send Edin- burgh,. and Manchester and Wakefield, and Liverpool, week by week We are permitted to preaelt the glorioue Gose pet ofs the eon of God. I mention these things for tee encouragement of 'all thoserwholduring this year -have IWO: ed me with their prayers, and stood by me with their benedictions. And now we part. We Mall not all meet again in the autumn, Standing laet suinmer at this eour, in this very place, I made a remark kindred to the one I now make, and it was fully verified, and some whom we very meth loved, and who met aa at the foot of the pelpit. at the close of tbe service, and bade us good -by& for the summer, we shall not meet again until in the good day when Christ shall make up ilia jew- els. • I ask the blessing of God to come down upon you in matters of health in m.attere of, business ; that the Lord will deliver your from all your finan- cite perplexities ; that He will give yen a good livelihood, large salaries, health- ful wages, aufficiene income. I praY God that Hammy give you the, oppor- tunity of educating your children for this world, and through the riob grace, of out Lord Jeses Christ, of seeing them prepared for tbe world that is to come.. Above ell, I look for the mercy of God upen your iminottal souls ;; and lest I stand fot the last time beftee some who have not yet atteeded ta the things of their eternel ieterest, hi this, the °losing part of my discourse; I implore them here and now to seektofter God and be at peace with Him, 0, we want to be gathered. together at last in the brielit and bles- sed assemblage oe the skies, our vtork all dolie, our sorrows all ended. God bless you, and your children, and. your childrea.s children; And now I cont. mend you to God and to the word of' inheritance among all them that...era MILLIONS:FOR 1VIAHOMET. A 1111sitly Antl•tliirlAtian Power Growing ' ' .11p British India. • , . :0Iaerenetanisra making in Asia ten times as, mew .ceuverts all; the Christian nessicentries together. . In British endia alone it has 50,000,000 ad- . Wreaks, not mare then 5 per cent., of whom cite. ef eleslem descent.. Wielie•Chrestianity grasps occasional individuate Islemism gains regiments • et a time. :Against . occasional "rime Christian" le diens. or rieh jae- . anew agnostic .who takes en nominal Christianite With his European clothee, balance whiale villages woe from the Brahmin faith to Mahomet. A despatch frorm the Leaden Timee tells how it is done. The Shapers, a leve .ceste Tinnevelly, have eeen•getting pa'osperoue of late yeare, and desiee to get into ;higeet, • paste. Theoretically this cannot he done, The pariah' is, elk deepised ane degraded being he is'Nekeuseof sine coinamitted in seek former life upon this :earte, and:must submit: to hie. degradation. Poetkally a big bribe 'to the priests will Usually 'result in the "discovery') of datunients Proving the briber's eight te higher rane. But tee Shanare didiet go about it in:that -Way. In tee pride oe wealth they built nice heuses, wore jewels and. evenly assertee teeir right to enter the temples ef the Maravars. "We are not Shavers,. but lebsetreees, Ware rior mete, they said. This was more than the Marevars could stand. Meted their temples be polluted by vile Sha•- nar feet? Not• While sticks greW. So they beat ape plendered the•Shate TOILE DOWN* THAIR, ribrIERS. stole Metz jewelry, raided their fields; and inined Mein utterly. The Shig- eo appealed to the British authorities, *leo asked the native authorities about the row. The native. officials, high casts, sympathised with the Maiavars and gave wrong information, and re» dress was refused. 'Thereupon the Shanars iook 'a eery reasonable resolution. "Being Itincloo is all very well," 'they concluded, "if eau can be high mate, holy in this earth and sure pf heaven. 13ut to be doge, robbed and beaten with sticks is unattractive, We Mall become Ma- leoline taus." . One despatch says that 600 hi one village were converted in a day, Other villagen followed, and by the latest ac. counts the procees ,was still going on so rapidly teat the next Magistrate may find all Shanars, instead of lew- ?caste Hincloos, fitm believers in Islam, This, you will perceive, makes ference. All Makeenetans, the lowest end highest, are brothete in faith, and a fighting faith, at that. The very same mert Who, as 'Undoes, submit with teats to a clubbing, .as a doctrine of resignation bids, will fight for tb.eir rights' when they become MahoMetails; and all the test will fight for them, Nor le there in. all edam a temple So holy that the hurnblest belieeer may not enter. The Seatanz are ail right, neer. They eau rebuild their houses and wear as much Sewellry is they please. They find in their new faithplenty of other men who were owe despised low -caste Ilindoos and are now brothers In Is- lam. • IMAGINARY RONEY, Is trete tieurneemliilve4sniueiliieteriocar.ti__fiesilatioli Purely imagenare money la used. in both Spain and Portugal, where the complieatioes of the oitrreno .demand an independent bags in order that the fluctuating values of eaoh individual note or coin may be determined with a mInimum of complication. in Spain aeconnte,are reckoned in reale velloo, worth within Spain five cents of our . money keitiehei_buti having no existetice tut a eirettlatingcniedium, co Portugal ealeielitiona are by roes and MOO refs nein:Wally equals our penny, while 1,000 eels constitute 0116;01.11ritia, but teither appeara as coin. A bill for 10,1520 refs would be elated ha 10 milreis, 520 reds, and, if paid in Aetna' (mob, might be settled by handbag over 14 carom, 5 teethe's* and I 'intern; but imi onetime It wouid, probably be paid in paper beating the necessary number of reia. The Gibialtar real is a purely imaginary eoin Weed only fot aceount- hog aod. worth in theory about 01,12, whiled a querto, reekoned in bine AK one eitteenth of a Gibraltar reel, is also wIthout elreelation. Tieliess Tedly...Wake up, Retry; di hare s ofa fire. Handout, Harry.. • della darelent &mere. Dity re alleys letivItt a lot 0. bay around where • feller tO drop sparks from his pipe. )illarcellus COX dreW rein and sent hie big voice bounding toward the figure with scant, flying skirte at the clothes- line. Lobelia Hull was bard of hear- ing, and in btareellue Cox's opinion It was needful to boom. mourning." "Poor little feller!" John Meek said tenderly. His own weariness and bun ger were forgotten, and he strode away to the hant to comfoet the other little Bub. Tile feeling in the neighborhood, wa , widely diatributed. The little ripple of excitement touched every home 1 the little village ot Etta View. Bub Meek ead alWays furnishe lively material for "talk," but now te grout* of men around the stove end on tee wiedy Perth of the Forks stor Mentioned his name solenlneee hal under their breaths. The grizzled 0 blonde heads shook with grave disap- probation. • • • • FOr several days nothing Was seen of any of te'e Meeks, and it was sup, posed they were nursing their shame and sorrow behind drawn curtains and elosed doors. No one -ventured to ae- proach them eget some of the wo- teen desireee teat common humanity demanded it. Ifni plug, Shall ePut on my bom- ber ne, Lobelia Hull decided. "It seems as if I was gohe to a fun- eral, I declare. If I was Phoebe Meek Lei rather have laid little Buby otit, with lilies o' the valley in bis hand. than tO have him turn out a podigal son. Poor Pim be -I declare; ledread serest- how ,set an' white her We'll look I" That afternoon, for iaiddle fall, was "Mk' ,Hull -hullo I" "Ehl-why, Ilearoellue CoxT le that you.? beard Berne -thing right along, but I thought it was the 'Cochin roos- ter, a-orawing. dotes crow dreed- ful human. Haw's the folks? take it you're going to mill 19 She readjusted tier aun-bonnet with little tweaks and adveuced to the gide of. tee fence; Something mysterious in the lean, weatheree face of Marcel - les Cox whetted her appetite for news. Marcellus wee a good hand for news. lie leaned -out' :wk.-. an dtappeti tee wheel slowly with the butt of his whip. "1 calculate you've heard, Mite Hull?" be said solemnly. "No. No, I haven't heard a thing this morning, hut .that roestere an' that Warn't him. Is anybody 'dcat_ Marceline Cex The mail's, solemn face' lengthened still more, • "No; be ain't dead, but he's run away. I Always said he'd do Home - thing." ' • , "Rua away I. -who's run awayee --4"eheite itarum-soarum ' Bub 'Meek. In the night. Cah't find him bigh' nor low. Nary a ttace." " , • Mareellus CoX doled out the facts jerkily and then drew up his rani. His mission was accomplished.• • • "Little Bub Meek run awayl-why, his poor mother !" "Yes, I calculate It'll nigh kill her. She and his pa set the greatest store on tett:little o' misohief-I never sew anything• like it." • "Yea,' murmuied Mis. Hull, "Peoebe Meekes real sensitive-iell be an aw- ful blow. It won't be so bad ft& John. You can't kill a Meek. Why, for the mercy; little Bub Meek -run -away !" 'After. the wagon had make en, Lce, belie Hell titood in the wind, her preas- ant, plain fat* .midly excited. It was hard to go back to the tineful. of flap - pew clothes. ' "I'll hang out the rest, o' the white things -le won't hurt Abe' colored clothes to wait •till afEeinoon. I must go Vote and tell Elmira Bennett. Em- nairees a connection on the Meek side she'll feel' dreadfelly._Ieknow._To, think o' that little laughing, acting boy's up and running away! Well, it's just as welt my boys are all girls, but they vvouldn't run away if they hadn't beee-I guess I knew that!" , It was a short watle criss-cross; through' a pasture. Mrs. -Hull plaited ane Puffed over the hummocks of dry, dead.grate. Tee wind wes in her face and. impeded 'her. She found Elmira Pennettei clothes -fine hung full of white linen, in neat, graduated rows. Evert . the • colored clothes were dang- ling, limp end ungainly, from their al- lotted cross 1. jaw Eimira received. the news wile a shocked fece. • • ' .°You don't tell me he's • run avirayi -not run away?" she cried,. shrilly; "why', . that's the only thing in the whole creation •I didn't think he'd do! He always seemed real content-, ed at home, little Bub dig." "Well, I snould think he might, the. way his pa and ma humored. him-giv- isatogmahkime a .petetatout voaflu! abwle hyl,itmtlearecaelif lus Cox offered John Meek fifty dol- lars, out 'n.' out, for that calf I But, land, no; 13uti'd got intimate with it, and he'd got to have it for a pet." . Elmira Bennett uttered, *short, dry laugh. Her -ey•es 'sought out far reaches of .sowed land that had known the despoiling gameols of thee valu- able little calf: "1. guess 'Celli& can afford to be thankful," she murmured. "I guess his pieces of oats anebarley had ought to be, any way. That's a terrible lit- htliemcaBeelf-lIzodbasubite wonder Yt they named "They didn't t Of all hea then names!" ejaculated Mra. Mull. • , "Yea, it's kind of heathen, but they call bine Bub for short. . The Whole family's terrible' feed of the little cream tura an' Bub -dear me, to think' that little Bub Meek's run away!" The two women parted presently, and went their sepaeate ways to spread the Ilegvtriego.e better run down to the Holmes's, Elmira--Ien going home by the road and tell Desire Swett," Lo- belia Hull. said briskly. "Desired ought to know -she's his Sunday school teacher. Sheet labored dreadful hard with that boy, and sees fond of him, too. I do' know but 'twill bring on one of ber spells. Well, it's a calamity. It'll be all ever town by night. 'Telles Coe heard it deem to the Forks store, and he'll stop along and tell it on the Mill road. Everybody'll be dreadful eorry for little Pheebe Meek. - They won't be real surprised, because they- 've al.waytzt known Bub Meek'd out up some shine. guess there ain't, a soul but knows he's the mischievousest, earum-searunaest ' boy in the ',tiatirn. ship." • , - "Yes, I guess so," assented Elmira, with a sigh, • The slender tie of re- lationship-cni the Meek side -drew her gentle to little wild bib. She did not like to think she should not see him again. And the calf-wellt for Bub's sake she would even submit to the little wild milt. "He was a handsome little fellow." ehe inurenured tunbieuously. °It's a terrible dispensation." . The Sztary went ite way, gaining strength at. every repetition. To- watd the end of the day mysterious hints of theft were in it, clerkly. Bub had taken a dollar -two dollara-•three dollars -all his father's money. People lifted slow, astonished handsebut their factor said: "I told you so." Hadn't all East View prophesied that harul'a- scarum little Bub Meek would come to grief 1 'When hii =Med the churtsh bell -and dressed Mis" Peck's 041018 in little red flannel pantalettes-and pet the minister's new. linen duster ori father's searecroviawhat had East View said then? And the times upon times he had ' put buttons in the con- tribution plate-whiat then? And when hla little teat oaf, Beelzebub, had patteree up the church aisle after him -what had East ,View said then? Bub had. aaid It Was en accide.nt-the calf had. followed him of his own ac. - cord, bet Bub's merry brown eyes had • danced, and all his little brown freak - les, with delight, "Wanted to hear the sermon, didn't you, Buhr sonie one had heard him • • • • Toward evening. little Pheebe Meek berried down the lane to meet 3ohn, Ref sweet, round face Watt drawn down in dubtoue lines. "Oh, John didn't ou find him," she cried, Bending het anxieus velee ahead of her. in her halite: Sohn ?dole shook hitt bead. • "Oh, Sohn!" p t, 0, Ve pen till day 100kine r geese I feel as bad's yea do." - "Dear little Bub Is" mourned Phoebe. "How could he run away when we've been go good tn WO" "It's tits Way a' the world,t" Joint biteek said gravely. "There ain't a great eight o' gratitude 'yin' round loose. If the little feller warn't con- tented, With lelir panderite: an' hunter - In', let WM try what other folkell do for :him. guees it'll be a good expert - 01106 tOr Mill., NOW, / want my. sup - Per. Phoebe -Pio, tuekered ont." "It ileebie eutzet-ei aiwayo gave iiim strPoar firet," morn:oiled:. Phoebe badly, "end there 'tis waiting for him neW, HO did Weld to eatolt with such a rehab John!" QW611, what sty t" "The other little 'Rub Won't eat * crumb to -night, Pve coaxed and eteit. P. 1' COLUMBINE. s • Sprung in a cleft of the WaYsiee Wisp • And Namely nodding, flushing deep, d With her airy tropic bells aglow - e Bold and careless, yet formed light And swung into polo° on a atony 0 height, 1 Like a challenge flung to the world r betow I Skirting the rocka at the forest edge, With a running flame from ledge to ledge, Or swaying, deeper in shadowy gloom, , A smouldering fire In her dusky blooms; Bronzed and niolded by wind and sun, Maddening,. gladdening evere one With a gipsy beauty, full and fine - A health to the crimson eolumbine I warm anti still, A quiet glare of . golden foliage was over everyteittg. Mrs. Hull stepped along briskly, Pe* vested with due ireportanee. Her lips were set to appropriate lines of con- dolenceeand moved silently -as she re- hearsed her part. It was in. the na- ture of a violent interruption to her mood when .a rooster crowed suddenly in ber ear.' It was a Meek rooster and be di& not show good tastee-for all Mrs. Hull knew, it might be. poor little Bub's own. pee, He petted every- thing round the farm. . A. definite atmosphere of cheerful- ness pervaded the Meek front yard, and the trim, white-eainted houae shared it. • The curtains were not down, as Lobelia Mull had expected. They appeared to be up unwontedly high, and the windows were aflame vvith • potted red geraniums. • "I declare I" she rauttered. Round the corner,of the house float- ed a shriil, jubilant whistle, accom- panied by the rasp and whey af a saw. Mrs. Hull shuddered. Redeemed like the ghost of little Bub Meek's whistle. Phoebe Meek came to the &kit She Was smiling hospitaoly. • "Poor thing, she's doing her best to cover up her feelings!" the visitor thought. Then she cleared her throet and began her stilted little epeech. "I feel to sympathize with you and John in .your vecent • affliction," -ie ran like a formal testimonial -Lobelia Hull, the undersigned, etc, etc. • "I came over to say le. It's one o' tee dispensations o' Proeidence thee " - Light broke in • slowly on Phoebe Meek. • Her. fresh face dimpled. "Why, heti come .backl" she cried. • "He hasn't? You don't. say so, Ph"(x3Yebse, edeo-k cm glad' enchigh to sey so t He can* trotting honae-poorelit- tle, disguated, tired thingl-night be- fore last.' We haven't the least idea where hes been to -of donne we wouldn't ask him I" She laughed again, but the astohish- ed caller on the door -step did not join. She was thinking of the, other care- fully peppered condolences of the "undersigned," now valueless and void. Mri. Hull had thought. of a•- geed many comforting ehings to say. • "Well I' declare I" she grasped. "Well,' I guess you'll kill the latted calf, now." • • • • , "Merey, no I" Pebii Meek cried. "No, indeed! It *Ouldn't seem fair to kill him the • minute he's got back, would it? Besides -poor little th,ingl- he isn't 'fatted' now.' , • • . LONDON FEARS THE PLAGUE. . , • . ,reperi sios It Would Spread Like lire III She East End. Puhlk opinion in -Great Brtiain is becoming agitated. over the danger in regard to the bubonic plague, which, now thee it has broken out at Oporto, only three daes' journey distant - (rani England, site% a London deapatch, A leading authority on the subject, who was for many years a resident of Hongkong tine attereded thousands ef indents thare duiing the outbreak of 1894; and has made special researches as to the origin and progress of .the disease, says: "rho sanitary arraugementgof many town's in England, including ',Widen, are not calculated to 'defeat' tee dis- ease.- If we- get the plague in the east end of London the chances...are tbat it -veil spread like wildfire, just as' it did in Hongkong. The bacillus thrives amidst unsanitary surround- ings, while sunlight and plenty' of air kill it. The period of incubation is usually five and sometimea seven or eight days. . • PRESENT HOSPITAL 'USELESS. "If the plague breaks one in London the present hospital provision would not answer at all. Smola' Plague hospitals should be temporarily ereet- ed. The greatest danger lies, in the possibility of the disease coming over - lend through Persia, Turkey or Rue- sia. If the Beetle, Black Sea and Mediterranean ports became infected it would be a fearful menace to Eng- land." The Lancet commenting on the out- break of the plague, says it must frankly be aamitted that the subject is one of considerable concern to the pouplation and trade of Great Britain. It is not. so much at ports like London, Bristol, Liverpool, Southampton and Plymouth that the danger is to be feared, but at certain sinaller ports where the Medical inspection is inade- qilate, • SEA TELEPHONE WITHOUT WIRES. arentiOn That Will Obviate Col ilahttos and Other Wyllie Di.atlicrs, Prod. Rtlfhitt d'Asar, an Italian, has devised a telephone to indicate the IIPProach and direction of unkeen ves- sels at sea As far away is five miles: Ilk hear -Orients Rave been tried with. complete success, according to the Lege Navale, on the Warships itt Genoa. Ana Spelia. The general reeelver, Which: is linrnersed la the water Other' at the bow or at th,e sterd or a vessel, consists ot two greatly .flettened ceneer separated by a broed rtng. The outer edge of the rung has eighteen receivers connecting with microphones, afia• 6;10 Joined to Otte of eighteen &vie, lone of a dee on deck, nine for port and nine for starboard. Wet% the receiver eor tee point northeaat to vett, for instance, marks the pound from a paesing vesseL a white disk tibiae off the eorresPending oompartinent on the dial. The look- out then Mita hie ear to the telephone. if the bound becomes more, intense and the disk remains in piece, it is a sign that the vessel is atilt appreaching from that direCtion. If the sound grows fainter and the disk disappears and then *hub% odf the riorth.north. oast comipattesent, say, the direction taken by the other vessel eat% be deter- mined, if the apparatue can work at a dishinee of five miles, it ought' to make collialons itt logs or et night In- excusable, and aa the soend Waved breakbtg on the took& is transmitted Juet es onAlly, it ehould give warning at Imet of danger from land near at hand. HAMER A tiiNGIOST. Mee Meier& is "at home" to some 120 COMM friend* 01103 a week. He bele& Ott these Micaeimie te Melte refer. toss tn. nie progress in the atudy of the Terkieh language, which he begun emee his visit to COMitantin. oelee FOR YOUNG. MOTHERS Who can Undeestand the mope and variety of a mother% duties? She meat have a knowledge of the pheei- eal recititrements of the baby, attend 10 hie food and clothinegrand the train- ing •of his meral and ethical nature. Weether you have a good baby or a bad one depends very much upon the first few months of •!his life, for habits forieed then ere not easily broken: If youebegin by rocking him to sleep, he will -expect you to .oentinne te-do 80, and no matter how busy you may be, the chances are that he will make it so unpleasant for yoti that yea will - be glad to drop everything and take I him. If a lieby is given his own lit- tle bed from the first, and plaeed there whether sleeping or not, it is• sutprie- - ing how comfortably and quietly he will lie, without the aid of singing, reeking or other unnecessary care. The best mattress -for eels bed is made of - hair, ane the feather. pillow should be aud flat, The best eovering is a small woolen blankef, sof Which sev- . eral shoeld be 'provided, so that the bed can always be kept neat and clean. ' Arrange his clothing so there will be on9omwtorrintakb1;,or Jumps to make him un - The baby's bath is an important event in his existence, and should be him quickly. Tt will not be necessary igothveden,,one.e a day. ,Hozat the water. un- to use soap every day. Wipe him with soft linen, and have his clothing ready to put on as soen as his birth is fin - til it is as Warm as new milk, and bath „e9Tnae_tehe. miather's bomatilkssed_eas to" alrwiehya_ba baainv_ and grit es of gbod q.ualtiy and au - and it it is ef good quality end lief - devised. But there are teoueande of moteereall over the country; who; like myself, cannot, nerse their babies; arid Lactated Food le au excellent, elibste tete. speak from exp,erience, having raised three fat, healthy babies epee it. •Cowee mile is never safe, especially if . eau 'live in tee oty . end must . dee 'Pend upon the dairy, wagon for your supply, for pee oaneot• be - sure. that the oows arec healthy ' nor : thee the food they eat, and the Water they erink are what' they ought to be. always prepare the food myself, and 'prepare just what is eteeessary for a neat at one time. :After tee. babe is fed, the bottle is reseed out, the rub-. bee tueried wrong, side out and thor- olighly cleaned with a soft brush. There is then no danger cif acidity in the bottle. Do not use a battle any longer than necessary, • A • child •oae soon be taught to &ink from a cup, which is so -much easier to keep clean. At the age of six tnoathai a little beef btoth, weIl cooked vice, sago, and bareiy gruel are gieen in addition to Lactated etod, but very little of such food Meat be given at a time until he becomes accustomecl to it. Do not for. get that. he needs water as well as foee, 'foe the little. =ante gets visit, dey arid hot; aed.a drink of water,will often cpeet• a retalees child When nothingelse will. • Baby's olothea are not made so long inches hi length Fula -made of the and heavY as. they were a few years a 9 Durine the summeer a skirt' thir- fineet, softeet flannel is neceesary, for a belly less than three months old. Over .this se worn a slip mete Mother Hub- bard' or peaseet style, just long en- ough to reach the bottom .of the un- derearmente The material may be as plain or as handsome as. desired, China ink in white or delicate colore trim- med with lace makes a handsome robe, and as it requires. 110 stareh, is very comforteble for the little one. e • St. Louis, Mo: Elsie Grate • SOME GOOD BECIPETS. • Chicken Croquettea-Ilave 'etsady a cupful of cold chicken ; chop very fine, bike a small helm of butler tine heat very hot ; stir in a !spoonful of milk, thicken with flour. When cookeredd: a beatee egg, the chicken; eepper, salt and a little thyme: Spread out on it' platter to cool. When wanted fotni in croquettes, dip in gritted eread mum)* and fry. in hott lard. ! Grape Cateup.-Take fiee pounds Of grapes; boil, then sub ihrouge a whin - der first and *ye after ; Add two add este half pounds, of sugar, one pint of vinegar, one tablespoonful each of ground cloves, cinnamon, allspice and pepper, one half Matipoonful of atilt. Boit 20 min -ides. Bottle. . Toniato Catsep.-To one gallon of to- matoets, after being boiled and strain- ed through a colander, add three table- epoonfuts of tale one tablespoonful each of cloves, cinnamon, allspice 'and black pepper, one small teaspoonful cayenne pepper, one pint good vinegar. Bail to the proper consietency toed bot - tie while hot. Egyptian Cabbage. -Select a lar'ge, loose head). of Bawl cabbage, carefully, loosen the leaves down to the heckle, tense thoroughly in cold water, then place in a bowl: pour ovet it boiling water to cover and let stand for 20 minettes. leave ready one cupful each of cooked lentils an& boiled or steamed rice. Mir the two, season highly with etlt end PePPee e add one tablespoonful chopped onion and•one tablesponful of chopped parslee and two tableepoon- fuls.of melted butter. Drain the cab - *Wee pal a teaspoonful of the mixore in the vety centrm; diaw over two or three aptead over them more Of the' mirctUre and 00 on until the outer leaves are reached. Press gent- ly together, tie op in a piece of coarse cheesecloth, drop into boiling salted WifterenTbeil gently for 0110 hour and a half, Drain thoroughly. arrange in a heated diah and pour mer it a cream sauce. Apple Meringue Pia -Pare elite; stew, and sWeeten ripe, tart and Juicy apples; . mash end seasen With nut - Meg or keys!. letiOn peel with them for flavor; fill the orust and bake 'there luta done; opread over the applee thin* meringue made by whipping tO a froth• the whites of three eggs for eat% pie. sweeten with three table- - moontula of powdered sugar; flavor with vanilla; beat until it *ill stancL alone; cover pie three quarters of an - inch thick, set back into a quick; oven • well Pet, To be matte cold. Deviled Tomatoesee-Skin and slice thickly three mild Windom. Sprink- le lightlY with) teaSPOOd malt and try rile6 brown in two ta.blespoonfula butb3r. To what 14 left in pan add' one half teaspoon dry mustard, half teaspoon sett, half temspoon auger, Ana amth pepper. Beat iightly yelk of one OM add timely one tablespoon Woe.. cestershire awe, stir into the other bagredients, wok. and stir till thiek; ad.d two tablespoons lemon Juke and pour over tomatoes. Chet*. Calteseelieat OA* and a. halt oUlleen of better and one aild A half Muses of eallear eurfar together to orogen. Add One well -beaten; egg, on tablespoonful of rice potato flour an two Milicee of ileaeleated mooataut Roll pa puff paetry quarter of a inch thick. Hue ineee patty pane an Put a teaspoonful 01 the mixtre Int the centre, Bake 15 minutee. In gerealiente; One and a half ounces 9 butter, one and a half ounoes castor sugar, two ouuces of defecated cocoa eut, ohe tableepoonele ef rice or Pota to, flour. ye"-, ft. HINDU SOLDIER BANDITS, ROW lilltdIDOLI411,, OUPLARAR, GOT a EVEN WITH 001,All SINGH. 0 court tretree Predeiely sot omen:elf Me Fourteen eteric-A. Peewee itsyntent, 1/oeuvres' by a gepoy este oty liven:ate nersnee. - The story of an extraordinary deco- ity Was unfolded 'in eppeal before the eligli Court ma Tuesday. Four portions been sentenced at Mar- adabad to ten years' recorotie impre aonment for decoity at the -how* of one Golab Single a money -lender. The appellants were: Mejidullah, Lence- Duffadar, 'Eighth Bengal. OavL airy; Kamireicediri, described as a trader of Oareely, but known only as a deco; ; f.amin Mae, soldier in th'e Ilamper State Cavairy ; Mahomed Ha- fik, Ramp& , etate Artillery. The principai witnesses was Aziz elahona- ed Kean, Lance-Duffadar, and Order- ly tot the Colonel nf the Eighth Bengal Cavalry, who tobk 'part 10 the clacoty,... and gave hie evidence 11E3 an approver, after receiving a pardon,-" The residence of Golab einge is at Sarai Turin, two and one-half miles from Sambhal, Meraciabad Distriet, and it was; here the claeolty toold place. Go - lab Singh has a money -lending base neeis, and, had tebond against tee moth- . er and tester of elefajidullah. About ' s foarteen yeara ago he sued on tele bond, anti obtained a decree, and aeotit four; years ego he natinaged to getelie ptroperty of these ladiee sold up ; it bring purchased 'by eis, Golab Singles. ,wife. They never obtained posseesecie of tee propeity, becau.se whenever Go - lab Singh mentioned the wetter Mae,. chetah - ' SIMPLE FOOD FOR CHILDREN. To promote children's appetites there la no better Plan than to give .them plenty of outdoor exercise, fun and frolics; make them regtear in their habits and diet only upon plain, nour- ishing food, and they will seldoria, if ever, complain 'of a lack 9( appetite. • Et MERRY OLD ENOLAND, THE DOINGS OF THE 'ENGLISH RE- PORTED BY MAIL, WW1.. Ilerord or. Events Taking. Piave hi $41111111 or the hose -tit b bbbb Interesting Occurrences, • . Rudyard Kipling Ike beet assured of his immortality by reproduction in wax for the Madanie Tussatet exhibition in London. Lord Kitchener's favorite book, ale coreing to the Lendon Leader, la the Mohanunetian Koran. He has a'copy ilways with . Tee Baroness Bureett-Coutts is 'said to be worth about four millions, and ber income is set down tins beidg elose epon tive hundred pounds a day. The London 'County council has in- augurated a new ',service of omnibuses from St, Thomas' Hospital te Watesloo station, via Charing -cross and the Strand, the fare being a half -penny all the way. Edwerd Taylor, contractor for ware- houses at Hateham, was summoned te Greenwich Police court for using brkks of'an ,inferior quality. He was. ordered to comply with the County Council's or- der and pay 20 'guietses cost. A boy named Gamicin had a mar- vellous escape while. cleaning an at - tie -window on a three-atereyed house in Hastings. He rolled off the roof, and was caught by two lebourers who were peeping in the street. • A young woman of respectable ,ap- liearance gave birth to a child in a tramcar .Shoreham„ Sesser. She was the only occupant of the car at the time. Assistance watt promptly obtain- ed, and mother and child were convey- eti to the workeouse. olfteeiolves escaped from Sanger's circus at Absetillery, Menemuthshire, in the 'early mornirig recently. They gnawed a hole in the Corner of their den anct got clean away from the show, One was caught in the teem and two ou the Mountain side, their trainer being severely bitten in securing inthoeumn:taTihnse. fourth es , still reaming .04e. . Recently -a cotonet held an inquest on Thomas) Wordsivorth; aged 68 years:, found dead in the Leeds and Liverpool canal. Ile had some small 'private meanie but in. a letter heeleft he said he was in financial difficutties, This, be vv:.,a:Rtoheapptreuaelesdt otroy holis amgaiarmieted deughtera at Peterboreugh to lend him el ao aseto save his life once more. Suicide 'while iniate,". Was the ver- • let Smethwiele Birmiegham„. a fee, week,s ago, a little gee" six yeats otd was sent by her niother to a public house for beer, but•ewing to sweets be- ing glee& away at another house te induce children to frequent it, Are went there instead, and occueied the sweets, she fellebieke the bottle, wlyiiiinchitimoeenttaoinseede herth. e peer, cut hee her screams drawing 'her motheibare-, throat and died alraost iminediately, • • A PRINCE 114 MIDAIR. lienaltia, Stuck 011 a Ferris wheel. Said, "It Is Not Nice"' • .. 'Prince Lo Beeigeleer-of .fee Metabolize, the latest, royal 'African: Prince be conquered and taken to Loecten, . had an experience When ee was taken np oh the big Ferris Wheel at Earl'e &Art: ! . ' • Lo Ben was 'induced to. come again to the whitlow, eut he evidently di& not see anything at'all attractive. "1 am, afraid; wo Shalt all die to -day; oh, my father. Why won't. it go down?" he _said. He tried to light a cigarette, bit the niatch • Would 'not catch on the box, and the cigarette would not stop in his lips, and his etre* hat wabbled all over his woolly cranium, ate iswevil," exolaimed, "1 de not The wheel -stopped again. some one hundred feet from the •ground, and Lo Baguet cried, "Oh, we must get down. 1 lotie all my inoney; ikona uniehla I" It is not nice. • While Lo Beagel raged therehlimie ed tbe outer edge of the wheel a sailor in a •coil• of cordage, Then fol- lowed a chain. and pully and a steel cable,. and finally the rescuing battiest containing another He unlocked the.door of tb.e ear and invited: Lo Ben to step inside. '"I 110 gee. seed Lo Ben. "I• want not tci die t()-Anfigtehrtlftuch persuasion and the prom- isie of saute golden guineas the diffi- culty was overcame, Lo. Ben landed in the basket, .and vieth the cteabined weights a the three persons, it slip- ped down about sex inches. •Lo Ben- gula's try rang out like a blast from twenty trumpets, after Which he sank down almost parelyzece When terra firina Was reached he *gurgled out, sey father, my father, bona!" Good. t - ST. PAUL'S ADDRESS. gt••••••••• Turgid' Officials Wititted It So Vital They ' Night Protteenle Minn The Turks have sornee • queer im- portation hem They allow no arti- cle admission if• it bears the star and creseent a trademark, and a mane- faeturer who recently, consigned goods stamped with that, enblem foun& him- self in trouble, A consignment of soap from England having wrappers upon whith was printed in Turkish "soap - maker to leer Majesty the Queen was summarily Mopped, while e parcel of hymn books, met a like tate at the custom house because they includeil "Let us Gather at the River," and. the official consttued the verses iiito an invitation to Insurrection. Still worse happened to some printed matter which contained d quotation from the.,writ. Inge of St. Paul, The authoritiee de - mended St, Pa,u1 e' address In order that he might lee ptosenited for im. porting inflammatory literature, and when the unfertenate agent explained he .could hot give it he was arreAted for contumacy. ;Ultimately matters were explained, but nothing of St. Nut s is in 'future to be allowed entry into the Turkfel" Empire. . t AN IMPORTANT PERSONAGE. • Oonductor-See that insignificant lit. tie fellow over there at the PIO emitt- er t Passenger -Yea, whet of him Conciliator A-. Ile's mOre important than the president of the road, What h*partootortars I'Deors;-. raked] Who fe he/ Concittetor*Ile'i the train dispatch- . Since time is not „a person W6 'mai oterteke when be Is gone, let, tui hon. or him with mirth and eheerfutheise of Wirt Wbile be IS pessing.--Ooethe, • Golab Singh also obtained deoreee„, against two' mele'teletions of Majidul- lab. lb execu.tion of these .decrees be paused their property to .be pin ;infer ssie on September 20, 1898. . On that day, however', rupees, .1,175, was paid to hini oe eccount of the debtors, mid the sale wee kt off. The same day, Golab Singh beieg then at the place e" where the sale wee to heve been held- receivee a telegra,m saying hie house had peen robbed. • At this poine the story is taken up a by the approver, Aeiz Mahomed Khan , upon Whose eoefeesien the ease main- ly rested; He was first a,pproached, by ebeut,sie weeks- before-thee-a.— occuri•ence. Majidellah. told him that Goleb Singh bed ruined elm, and ask- - ed lei& to 'meat Golab After.'" • • some demur ee consented, and somee details having been arranged he• oiiee taieed several dais! leases and wene his eome. However, for .sonie. recieon :Mher the clacoity. did not come '01c. then, aed et the end of eis leave Azle : • returned to hie regiment. Then fresh . arrangements weie meths and Majidue lab .told Azle thet a few days before the dacoity tpok place he would ar- range to have a telegreM 'sent to Ariz.:1 purporting to' come • fora his brother, , • Ghttlit4 maluellect :Kean: a :thattidae, to the effect\ that les, Azies .liouie had beee :robbed; This he Could 'secs* tis the Volonel and, ep geteeame. , Tele ei- rengement wets (serried' out.. Azle got . a telegeam Arum Itampur to the effect that thteves hail broken into his Nee*, and,' asking him to ' - 'COME AT ONCE. '-. , It parported, te ee sent •by his imitith- - or, Geause Mahpmed Khan, He took it. to the Colonel, aedso, got three deye' :- heave. A band 'of eight men eveithally • reached Sembhali three of there have not 'yet' been caught. They . were All armed to the -teeth, and four were dresseci in uniform-Majidellah and Kaanruddin in the .eiliform of the Eighth:13.0. They went to Golab Singles TIIREATENBE' TO 1KILL HIM. • . + house, Mid te some extent ill-treated , the women,. though none of. them were, eeriously 'hurt. Finding *Golab Singh abeent, they looted tee peke and took away large 'quantities of cash. and vat-- eel:ace Golab Singh stated, his loss at neaele rupees 14,000. Crackers and mints were lett off to frighten people, bet the arms were not used against any one. I policeman:sent from the anunicipal otitpost abet& lop paces away to see what WW1 the matter was threatened and went away. He went oft to the thane at Sanibhal and laid informa- tion of what wets going on, are( an officer was sent "from the thane, but when he arrived the dacoits had de- camped. They went aprass country to • Cbandahei, wirete they put up et a room in the semi, and there divided the stoils, Curiously enough, in ' the next room to them. at the same were a thanadar, and a boy, but the police officer knew nothing of what was go- • ing en; neet door. After the men had left the serai the' send -keeper went and gave informa- tion to the police. The latter were' too late to meth the 'daeoits at °hand:teal; Majidullah wee tracked to Aligatla and there arrested with MONEY AND VALUABLES. subseceiently identified in his posses- sion. Kamruddin end Aziz parted, and the eatter heving, hidden bis share of the epoil returned •to his regiment and lay low: Than Kamruddiri was arrest- ed, and money and valttebles were found in his posseseion. Erma what these two men said the house of Zae rain Shah was searehed, end this seareh wao the undoing of Ape, Foe he had lent his haversack:to Zanzin Shah to oarry home, his share of the booty, and among the property found in Zamin's house was the haversack which con - Mined the telegram to Aziz on the strength of .which he had obtained Were. He had not hieherto been sus - petted, but, being arvested, he elect- ed to become approver, and took the police to the place where his share of the booty was hidden. All the men attempted to pros% ali- bis, one of the Hamper men by means of palpably forged evidence in the re- gimental calendar showing him on parade at a certain time, Majidullales. alibi was most elaborate and artistes, Ile had been in -quite another direetion to try and arrange for his transfer to another regiment, On his way hack he met .a roan who gave him 'rupees 125' to 'buy ,a caster from the regie ment-this to amount for the posses - /don of; money. The man, however, had only rupees 120, and borrowed rupees 6 from another man, and, the man who lent the 5 mete was brought as. a witness as to a bona -fide transactien having taken place. The Sessione Sedge, however, brushed all these alibis aside, conviceed all four mete and aontented them to ten years) rigorous imprison- ment, a, tlentertee now Confirmed by the High Court. HAND ORGANS AS CIVILIZERS. Congo Free State moms are being Christianised by a hand organ. Captain Decker, a Free State official, thotight. fully took one with him to his post, and, finding that the nativm enjoy - ea th6 musie, and being, also deeirous that they should marry in Christian fashion he annotineed that the organ would be played st, every Christian wedding. The reault was thet wed, &riga took plate almost daily, and It was diseovered that many winner: got married more than once in order to PrOettre the music, The Photogrtepher-Itere, zit are the tabiriets that your son ordered of lee. The Pother, regarding one, -The pie - tete IS tertaitily very like WM. Arta he has paid vont The Photographer No, sir. The Father -That is still more 'like hint.