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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1900-04-26, Page 30 OF THE STO 9 , • Rev. Dr. Talmage Discusses the Time of the Deluge. Millions May Go Into tiod's Ark—It Is a Wide Door-. It Swings Out Toward All Our Woes -.1 -las No Fastenings.Once In All Earthly Troubles Cease. • A despatch from Wasbington, pays: Dr. Talmage preached from the folloiving' text :-"Come thou, and all thy house into the ark.". -Gen, vit. Is We do not need tbe Bible to prove the Deluge, The geologist's. hammer entiounces it. Sea shells and marine forMatione, oni the tog oa florae of the bighest mountains of the earth, brave tbot at some time the watera dashed over tbe top of the Alps and the Andes. 'In wbat .way the mtastropne 'came we know not; wbetber by the etrolte of a comet, er flasher) of lightning changing the air, into water, or by a stroke of the hand. of God, like the stroke of the axe between the barns. of the az, the earth is to be otaggered. To meet. the cetastroiphe God ordered a goeat ship built. It Was to be without helm, for no human band shOuld guide it. It was a vast Structure, probably as largees two or three Cunard steamers,. The ship is . 4one. The door is open. The lizards . crawl in- The cattle walk in. The grasshopper hops in. The birds fly in, The invitation goes forth to Noah - "Come thou and all thy house, into the ark." Just one human family embark ' on the strange Voyage, and I hear the 'door slam shut. A great storm sweeps' along the bile, and bends the cedare until all the branchee snap in the gale.. There is a moan in the wind - like unto the moan of a dying world, The blackness of the heavens ie shattered by the flare of the lightna ings that look down into. the • -watere and throw a gtouatliness on the face of the mountain. How • strange tt looks! How! suffocatirig the air seems, The big drops of rain begin to splash upon the upturned faoes of. thoee who. are watching the tempest. Crash go the rocks in convulsions I Boom go the. bursting heavens l The inhabitants ef the earth 'instead of flytng to house- top and mountain -top, as men have fancied, sit down in dumbewhite liar- ror to die. For when God gninds. mountain.s to pieces, - and lets .the oeean slip its cable, there is no,place. for men to fly to. See the ark patch and tunable in the surf ; while •trom its windows the passengers loolol.out upon the shillavreck of a tam,- and. the s carcasses crf a cisme world. Woe to the mountains 1 Woe to the sea 1 I aro no alarmist. When on the 20th a September, after the wind bas for three days been blowing from • the north-east, you prophesy thet • the Equinoctial storm is coining, ypu ;supply state, a tact not td be• disput- (simply state a ,fact not to be disput- ed. Neither am I an .alarmiet when , I say that • • et' STORM IS COMING, compared with which Noah's deluge wois but an A.pril shower; and that it is -svisest and safest for you and for' 11111101°L.o • o into the ark? Did they elimbin me to get safely housed' for eternity. • The invitation that went forth to Noah sounds in our ears -"Come thou • d all thy houae into the ark." Well, how did Noah and his family •at the window Or come down; the roof? No, they went tbrough the, door. And just so, if we get into the ark of God's• mercy, it will be through Christ the -door. The entrance to the ark of old • . must have been a very large entrance. We know that it was from the fact that there were =meter animate in the earlier ages; and in order to get •them into the ark two and two an. oording to the Bible stateMent, the -door must bave been very owide and ery ig the 'door into the mercy of God is a large door. We go in. not two and two, but by. hundreds, a and by thousands, and by millions. Yea, all the notions ot the earth may go in ten millions abreast. The door of the ancient ark Wae in .the side. So now It is in the side of Christ -the pierced side, the wide open -side, the heart side, that we enter. Aha I the Reman soldier, thrustinghis sneer into the Saviour's side, expect- ed. only to let the blood out, but he opened the way to let all the• world in. Oh, what a broad Gospel to , preach I It a man is about to give an entertainment, he issues one or two hundred invitations carefullyput up and direeted to the particular persons whom he wishes to entertain. But God, our Father, makes a ban- •quet, and goes out to t,he front door of Heaven, and stretches out his hands over land and sea, and with a votes that penetrates the Hindoojun. gle, and the Greenland ice castle, and Brazilian grove, the English. faet•ory and American home, cries out, ',Come for all things are now ready." It le a wide door! The old moss has been taken apart, and ita two pieces are set up for the door -posts, solar apart that all the world can come in. Kings scatter treasures on days of great re- joicing. So Owlet, our Kibg, comes and scatters the jewels ef heaven. Rowland Hill said 'that he hoped to get into heaven through the erevices of the door. But he was not obliged thee to go in. After having preach- ed the Goimel, In Surrey Chapel,. Ito - hag up toward heaven, the gate -keeper cried, "Lift up your heads, ye ever- lasting gates, and let this man come in." ( THE DYING THIEF WENT IN. Riehard Baxter and Robert Newton went in. Europe, Asia •aud Afriea, North and South America may oet go through this wide door without crowding. Ho! every one, all condi- tions, all. ranks, all people. Luther said that this truth was worth carry- ing on one's knees from Rome to jer- usalern; but I think it wowth carry- ing all arourad the globe and ell around the heavene-that " God so loved the -world that He gave His only begot- ten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shoed not perieh, but have ever- laeting life." Whosoever will -let him come through the large doro. Archi- medes wanted a fultrum, on which to place his lever, and ehen he said that ha could melee the world. Covalry is the fulcrum, and the Cross of Christ lathe lever ; and by that power all ott- tiotte shall yet be lifted. Further, It it; a 40or that swings 130th won r do nOt know whether tbe door of the ancient Ark was lift- ed, or rolled on hinges; but this door olf Christ opens both ways. It swings out toward all our W000i it SvtingS in toward the rapturee of heaven. rt svvingo in to let us in t it awings out to let our ministering* ones come out. Alt are ono- hi Christ..-Ohristians on 'earth, and eaints in heaven. "One army of the living am, At hia eornmand we bow; Part of the host have eroaeed the flood, And part are crossing now." Swing in, 0 bleimed door, until all the out, saarth shall go in and live, Swing until ,all the benVens COMO forth to ieelebrate the victory. But futther, it is, a door with fag- tenirtge. The Bible says of Noah, IThe Lord Shut Intl in." A veseel without bulwarks or doors would not be a itafe vessel to go ht. When Nosh and hie fluidly heard the fastetk- Inge of the door of the ark they were' ery /led. Withotit thoet door* were • . s fastened the first heavy surge of the sea would bave whelnted tketn; and they Might as well have perished out- side the ark as inside the ark. " The Lord shut him in 1" Oh, the perfect aafety of ttie nolo The• surf of the sea and the lightninge of the sky may be twisted into a garland of snow and fire -deep to deep, storm to storra, darkness to darkness; but once in the ark all is well. " God shut him in," Titers comes upon the goodsman a deluge of financial trooble. He had his thousands to lend; now he CANNOT Boartovi, A DOLLAR. He once owned a stot.'e to New York, and bad branch houses In Boston, Phil- adelphia, and New Orleans. lie own- ed four horses and employed a man to keep the dust off his coacb, phae- ton, carriaoe and cebriole; now • he has hard walk to get shoea in whieh to want. The great. deep a commer- dal disaster waa broken up, and fore, end aft, and across the hurricane deck, the waves strack him. But he was safe- ly sheltered from the storm. "The Lord phut him in 1" A. flood of domestic troubles fell on itim. Sickness and bereavement came. The ram pelted; the winds blew; the heaventa are aflame; all the gardens of earthly de- light are washed away.• The nloun- table, of joy are buried fifteen seubits deep, Bat atandnig by the empty crib, and in the desolated nursery, and in the doleful hall once a -ring watt merry voices, no* silent for ever he cried,. "T.h.a. Lord gave, the Lord bath taken away; blessed, be the name of ther Lord." "The Lord shut him in! All the sins a a life -time clamoured for bis overtbrow. The broken vows, the dishonoured Sabbaths, the ott- rageous profanities, the misdemean- ors of twenty years reaohed up their hands to the door, of 'the' ark to pufl him out. The boundless ocean of his ton surrounded his soot hcrwling like fa sunocan, raving like an Eutroclodon. Bat looking out of the window he . . . depths of tbe sea. The dove of heaven bectught an. oliveabraneb to the ark. The wratb of the billow only pushed Inm toward heaven. "The Lord shut hint zol" The panic door-fastemngs that kept Noah in. keep the( world out. • I am grad to know that when a man reach- es heinen all earthly troables are done with him. Here he may have had it hard to get bread for his family; there he will never hunger any more. Here he may have wept bitterly; there "the Lamb that is In the midst of the throne will lead him; to Haring foun- tains of, water; and God will wipe away ell. tears trom his eyes." Here he may have hard work to get a house; but in "nay Eather'sl, heruse are many =emus," and. rent -day never ooraes. Here there are death -beds, and • cot - fins, and grenes: .• • • THERE IS NO SICKNESS, no weary watching, no 'choking cough, no consioning • lever. no chattering chill, no, tolling,' bell, no grave. The sorrows of life shall como up and knoeloat the door, but no admittance. The perplexities' of life shall come up and knock on the door, but no admit- tance. Safe for, ever! All the( agony of earth; in one wave, dashing against the bulwarks of celestial, light shall not break/ them "down, Howl On, ye winds, and gage, ye seas. "The Lord shuit Aim/ in?" • Oh, what a grand old door! So wide, eo easily, swung both: ways, and with such sure fastenings. No burglar's key can pick that- lock. No swarthy arm oh hell can ehove back that bolt. I rejoice that I do noti ask 'you to come aboard, a crazy craft with leak- ing hulk, and broken helm, and. un. fastened door; but an ark'fifty cubits wide and three hundred cutaits long, and a door go large that the round earth without grazing the posts might lae bowled in! Nowt if the ark a Christ is so grand a place, im which to live, and die, and tnumph, come Into the ark. Know welt that! the door that shut Noah in shut the world out; and thoggh when the pitiless stcirm oame pelting on their heeds, they beat upon the door saying, "Let Me inl Leg me in!" the door did not open. For one hundred and twenty years they were invited; they expected to come in; but the ante- diluvians said,. "we must culttvate these fields; we must be worth more flooks of, sheep and berch3 of cattle; we will • wait until' we get a little longer.". But meanwhileA the storm was breWing. . The fountains of heaven were filling up, The pry was being placed, beneath the foundations thei great deep. The last year had come, the last month,. the „last week, the Oast day, the! last houtt, the Iast moment, In an awful dash an ocean dropped from/ the sky, and another rolled upi from beneath; and God roll- ed the eartle and eky into one wave of universal destruction. So men now put off going into the ark. They say they will WAIT TWENTY YEARS FIRST. They wig have little tithe with tbetr vedridly assooiates, They will wait until they get older. They say, "you cannot expect. a man of my attain- ments and of my position to surrend- er myself. just new. But before the stolen comes I will go in-yes,1 I know what 1 am about. Trust met' After a while, one night, about tyvelve o'clook, going home he passes a scoffolding, as; a guat of wind strikes it, and a plank falls. Dead! and ouleide the ark. Or, rtding in Prospect -park, a reckless vehicle crashes into) him', and his horse be - Comes tmmunageable, and he shouts "Whoet" "Wheal" and then takes and twists in the reins, and plants his feet against' Abe dasbboard, and falls bock, Hot no use, • It is not oo much down Platbush Avenue that he /lies, as on the way to eternity. Out of the wreck of the mush, his Oody is drawn, but his soul is not picked op. Xt fled behind a swifter courser into the greet future. Dead!! and outside the ark I Or, some night he wakes Op with a dis- tress that momentarily increases Mail he ahrieks out with rein. They doctora come In, and they give him twenty droll" but no relief -forty dring, fifty drops, sixty drope, but no relief. No time for prayer. No time to read one of the premises. No time to get a single airi pardoned. The children acreara. The wife faints. The pulses tfail. The heart stops. The awn flies. 0, my God I Dead and outside the ark! naVe no doubt that derision kept many people out of the ark. The world laughed to ton a man go in, and said, "Here is a man starting for • the ark. 'Why,. there will be no de- luge. If there is one, that miserable ship will not weather it, Alm! go- ing into the ark!' Welt, that is tad' good to keep Mire. fellows, 'have • yoit 'heard the news! "This man is going into thigark I" Under this ar- minty atr scorn .the man's good row - 'Winn potished. And so there are Intirdredso kept out by the fear tit derision, The young man Asks himself, "What would they say at the store to-mortow morning, if t ahould become a Chriettan , When gni down to the club.bouste ihnr 'Here comee that new, tliristian Suppose you won't Moe anything to do with us now, GO'r DOWN ON YOUR KNEES, and let us hear you prey. Come,now, give WI tOtteh I -Vnbri't 40 it, efth I Pretty Christian y are I" re it not the feet of bri bulked at that .• keeps troll Out of the kingdore Of Ctod When you lie down on a dying pillow, which of them will be there? In the day of eternity will they bail you out? Ab, they eau keo you out of heaven, but Can they loop you out of tell I Illy friend's and neighbor's, come in right away, Come in through Christ, the wide d000 -the door that awings out toward you. Caine in and be eaved, Come and be lataPPY. "The Spirit and the Wide pay, Come." Item in the ark , But do not corno %lone. The text Invites you to bring your' famity. "Came, then, and all tby bowie." That means your wife else yew' children. You canna drive them in. If Noob bad tried to drive the pigeops and the doves into the ark, he would only have scattered them. Soria° Parents ore not wiae about these things. 'obey make loon rules about Sabbathe, and they Ogee the catechiam dowo the throat, ae they would bold the child's n ose and force down a. dose of rhu boob and .0410=1. You cannot drive pour children into the ark,. You can draw your ohildren to Christ, but you cannot coerce them, The Cross was lifted not to cleave but draw, "If I be lifted up, I will doaw all men unto me." As the sun draws up the drive a morning 4,ew, ao the Sun of Righ. teouaness bxhales tbe tears of re. gintance. t , Come thou ahd all thy house into the ark. Be eure that you bring your lausband and wife with you. How would Noah have felt if, when he beard the rain Pattering on the roof of the ark, he knew that his voile was outside in the storm? ; she went with' him. -gaol yet some of you are on the ship routwaed bound" for beaven, but your companion is unshels. tered. You remember the day when the marriagesring was sat. Nothing has yet been able to break it, Sion. nese came, and the finger ahrank, but the ring stayed on. The twain stood alone above a Weld's grave and the dark mouth of the tomb swe'llowed a thousand hopes; but the ring deop- pad not into the open grave. DAYS OF POVERTY CAME, . and tJae hand did many a hard day's work; but the rubbing of the work ageinst the ring only made it shine bri ht Sn 11 t t • • lost Will the iron clang of sepulchre gate crush it for ever I pray God that you who have been married on earth, may be gathered in heaven. 0, by the quiet bliss of your earthly korne ; by the beby's cradle; by all the vowe of that doy when you start- ed life together, I beg you to see to it that you both get into the ark. Come in, and brin,gnour wife or your husband with you -not by fretting about religion, or ohng-donging them about religion, but by a consistent lite, and by •a compelling prayer that shall bring the throne of God down into your bedroom Better live in the smallest house in Brooklyn arid get into heaven, than live fifty nears in the finest house on Madison Square, and Wake up at last and find that one of you for ail .eternity is outside the ark. Go home to -night ; lock the sloor of your room; tatke op the Bible and read it together, and then kneel down and commend ;your souls to Him who has watched you all these years; and before you rise there will be a flut- teringe of wings over your head, angel crying to angel, "Behold, they pray lo But this does not include all your family, Bring the ohildrer too. God blees the dear caildren I W.hat would our homes be without them I We way have done much for them. They have' done mom for tia. What a -salve for a waunded heart there ia in the soft palm of a child's hand. Did harp or flute ever have such music as there is in a child's "good night." Freon (Mr coarae, rough life, the angels of God are often driven back ; but: who comes into the nursery without feel- ing that angels are hovering around. They who die in infancy go into glory; but you are wopeeting ypur children to grow up in this world. Is it not a quostion, then, that rings through all the corridors and windings, and heighths and depths of your soul, what is to became af your sons and daugtters for time and eternity? "Oh," you say, "I mean to see that they have good. oattnnet•s I" Very wen. "1 enema to dress them well if I have myseif to go shabby." Very good. "I shall give them an educa- tion, and I Ethan leave them a for- tune." Very well. But is that all? Don't you mean to take there into the ark" Don't you know that THE STORM IS COMING ; and that out of Chriet there is no safety, noopardoin, no hope, no hea- ven' Haw te et them in Go In your- self 1 If oah had stayed out, do you not stappose that his sons, Ohena, Ham, and Japhet, would Oave stayed out Your sena and daugliters will be apt to do just as you do. Reject C/arist yourself, and the probability la that your children will reject Him, An account. was taken of the relig- ious condition of the families in a cer- tain district. In the families of pioue pa -rents, two-thirds of the children were Christians. In,the families where the parents were ungodly, only one - twelfth of the chlkiren were Chris- tiana. Responsible tor you are tor their temporal existence, you are al- so responsible for their eternity. "Whitch way will you take then? Out into the deluge, or into the ark? Have you evee made one earnest prayer for their immortal souls? What will you say in the Judgment, when God asks, " Whe.re is George, or Henry, or Prank or Mary, or Anna ? Where are those precious souls, whose interests /have committed into your hands?" A dying son said to his father, "Fa- ther, you gave me an education, and good manners, and everything that the world could d.o for me; but, father, you never told me how to die; and now my soul is going out in•the dark- ness." Ob, ye tone nave taught your children hew, to live, have you also taught the,m how to die? Life here is not so important as the great here - otter. It is not so ailareli the few tfurlongs this side the grave, as it is the unending leagues beyond. 0 eternity! eternity! Thy locks white with the ages! Thy voice announc- ing stopendous destiny! Thy erten reaching' across all the past arid all the future. Thy heart beating with raptures that never die, and agOnies that never cease! 0 eternity! eter- nity! IN ST, PAUL'S, LONDON, there is a whispering -gallery. A voice uttered most freely at one side of the gallery, is heard distinctly at the opposite sOle, a great distance off. So every 'word, of earnest prayer goee cal expand the earth, and makes hea- ven a Whispering -Relent. Go into the ark, not to sit down, but to stand in the door and cola until all the fam- ily come in. Aged Noah I where is Japbet Dovid I where is A.bsaloya Hannah! wbere is Samuel' Bring' them in throUgh Christ -the deer. Won't it be pleasant to spend eternity with our familie,s I Gladder tnan Christmas or Tlhankegiving festival will be the reunion, if we getoall our family into the ark. Which of them can we apore out of beaven I On One of the Lake steamers there was a tether and two daughters journeying. They seemed extremely poor. A benevolent gentleman stepped up to the poor man, to proffer Seine form of relief, and said, "You seem to be very poor, sir." "Poor, strl" replied the Irian, "If there's a poorer man than me a troubliin the world, God pity both of usl" "I will take ono of your children, and adopt it, if yott say so. I think it would be a great relief to you." •"Al what," said the poor man. "A. relief," "Would it be relief to have the hands chopped off froM the body, or the heart' tom from the breast if A. relief, indeed! God be good to us! What do you mean sir," Go home to.night and 'erect a fami. ly altar. Ye6, may break down in your prayer; but neVer mind, God will take w.hat you.. mean, whether you CX. press it intelligibly or not. Bring all your house into the ea; Is there one Non whom you, have given up, Isk he so dissipated that you have stopped coun- dare you give im utt How dare you selling and pro/ling? Give laint up, How The Duel in 14 I WI il articulation of speeth left, cease Mat to pray for the return of that prodigal. lie may now be standing on the, beach at HongKong, or Madras, meditating return to •i(s father's Itouse.--Give hint up I Iles Goa promined to hear thy prayer only to ;nook thee? It le rug too late. g ve m up t ou, mat a single ONTARIO BEE -KEEPERS. ;Overt Or Bee Keepers Assecial inn - jitney Promotion and the Export Tr deorn. west/rig rapers rout Oneuesteno The Ontario Department of Agri - Culture has issued the report of the Bee -keepers' Aesoolation for 1809, Which will be read with Interest and protit by all honey -producers, as it conveys much practleal information with regard to the menagement of swarms and the Placing of honey upon the market, me Association met in Toronto in December, and the report includes the ,papers read ann Moms- sions held on that occasion, embody- ing muoii valuable experience. Among ose w o con r uted papers or ad- dresses, were Prof, ,I. W. Robertson, Ottawa ; G. Sibbald, Cookeville; D. W. kale°, Betheeda ; W. Z. Hutchison, Flint, Mien, Mrs, J. B. Hall, Wood- stock; B. Holm,es, Athens ; and John Newton, TharneSford. EXPORT TRADE IN HONEY. • Among the more important topics disoussed by the Association was the beat means of extending our export trade ,in noney, respecting which Profeasor Robertson, wilco has devot- ed much attentlon to the introduction of Canadian farm produce into Eng- land, presented some 'helpful sugges- tions. He pointed out that in order to obtain a remunerative market in the Old Country, it was necessary to wiit English tastes and to see that all statements were not only •firstelass in qualite but done up in neat and at- tractive packages, and stated that if due care were taken in theee respects England furnished a continuous and extensive market for honey. The Associatien have used every exertion to have a full and creditable display of Ontarioloney at the•Paris Exposition, as a means of promoting the export trade!, and despite, the fact. that 1899 was a poor ;honey year, there will be an elaborate and attractive showing. SPRAYING FRUIT IN 111450M. Ai geed deal of attention is also de- voted to the question of spraying fruit whin in bloom, a practice which has caused great distroction among bees. irno law distinctly prohibits it, not- withstending whieh many owners of fruit treea persist in employing the spraying- process at this season, in place of waiting until a later period. Several of the speakers urged that the law on the subject should be given widespread publicity, and that if the practice were continued, proceedings under the Atatute should be taken. The report of the Inspector of Api- aries dealt with tbe measures which have been talten fon some years to suppress•foul brood, which was form- erly very prevalent throughout the Proviece, but has latterly, owing to these efforts, been eradicated in many localities. The Inspector last year visited 128 apiaries, and dilicovered foul brood in 47 places, giving direc- tions to the owners as to how to pro - teed in order to stamp out the disease. A, report ay R. Is, Holterman 9f ex- periments in wintering swarms, reads at the Ontario Agricultural College, will prove of practical utiltiy to bee- keepers who have experiencea. aiffi- culties ha this respect. •• • AN OPTDO011, COSTUbral, Outing skirts are. more in favor than ever and have proved -a blessing to womankind, as they are invaluable for rainy days or long walking expedi- tions. Those most in favor reach' nearly to the ankles, and are made of firm, double-faaed material. The plain,'" tight -fitting skirt backs are no longer eonsidered good form and all the new models have two small box pleats instead. Shirt waists still follow the same lines as those worn for the Oast few seasons, with a few exceptions. Yokes are no long- er in. favor for the back and are re- garded as quite out of date. The baek should be laid in pleats from shoulder seams to belt line. The sleeves, of course, continue to grow smaller each season, and there is very little fullness seen in the new sbirt waist sleeve. The accompanying design was drawn expressly for our readers; pottern cannot be furnished, A, Visitor to Gioote Schuur, Mr. Rhodes' Cape Town residence, says; -.Pin a cage t'here were a lion and a lioness, and in another a' leopard. The forraer, it will be remembered. were sent as a present to Mr. Kruger, but were returnee. Then it was stet. ed that they had been shipped to Eng- land to be sent to the Zoo, but they did not arrive, and the reason aseigned was that every one in Cape Town was too busy in cooneetion with the war to make proper provision for their ship - Merit. Now that Mr. Rhodes is able to return to Cn.pe Town, it may be that th t d of X ill d COUrtio become the accepted Of the Zoo." How far men can do hard work With- out stimulants was animated one way by the Solicitor -General, who presided recently over tbe annual social meet. Ing of the Boyd Courts of Justice Temperanen Society. Sir Itrabert Pin. lay said they could reflect with a feel. ing of gratitude and wide that BM - tisk soldiere were commanded by one of the greatest leaders of the day, and one who had done so much for the moral well-being.of the Britieh army. /1 had been found, Sir Hebert assert- ed, that the soldiers did their work much bitter under a eyetein of total abatinence than under any other. The firet storm to reach Kimberley after its relief were um oases Mat by the, Red erase cominissioner at Cape Town. These were a priCelfiSK boon. The Deeper Pit It came upon me like the shock of a bullet -wound. The thing was im- possible to refute; it was real. The nickel -plated revolver was In the Mils drienwdealt.locker where be satd shoUld Valpy was mad; 'his mania was homicide. The net which his maniac manning had spun around my life seental of such maliguant strength and grip that no human effort could win me clear of its toils. For a while I was so stunned by ita discovery that Valpy's letter fluttered from my fingers td the coaly mud of Abe floor, and the fluttering tallow - candle with its etepping of clay threatened to fallow it. Peril of life is no great novelty to me., It was not so meeli tbe physical danger which caused tny .head to whirl then, as tlae shock of the other aiscovery. ValPV had been my friend for raore than twenty years; we had known one an- other in salon and eteamer-room, by tent and camp -fire; our camaraderie had run its course with never a hitch -and now he demanded my life for an offense which could never' in possibis lily have existed. lie said in the bit- ter letter whioh he left me to read, that had alienated from him the an fectione of his wife. Why, the man had no wife. This challenge of his. wars no sudden spasm ; I saw that he ha,d bean con- triving for weeks to pin me so that I must fight him. He had laid his plans with consummate skill; laid them, too, in the full sight of myself, and' yet never allowed me a gleam or a glimmer of Ms real object will the lisle was full and ripe for doing so. He had found the advertisement in the "Doily Courier," as it were by an-. cident, nefore my very eyes, and after we had talked chaffingiy about it dur. ing a lazy afternoon, it was actually this that suggested his taking up this pit which was offered for lease. • "D'you know, Calvert," he bad said, "I've the deuce of a good mind to fol- low neer advice. I'm getting rather bored with wandering over the globe doing nothing. It sounds fascinating to have an occupation in life, aod -the idea of being ft aolliery proprietor id, to a man of me antecedents, distInotly bizarre -that is, attenetive. HonestlY, if this place turns 'out to be anything like the advertiseraent states I believe go in for it. Will'you come with me when I go to prospect I" I had laughed and assented, and for the succeeding days he was full of the. mane as a child with its first school- boy bobby. Our rooms were littered with plans, tables,. reperts and sped, mens. The smuggled Tauchnitz novels had disappeared, the bookcase was reinforced by -technical literature of a new genus. Everything about the • mine was dinned. into .nty •ears about twenty times a day. It was in the neighborhood of a shallow seam of coal •recently worked out. The shaft penetrated lower thee this, and was known usually as the Deeper Pit. For years it had been unworked, tlooded. Now the water had „drained away of its own accord -as mine wet- ter does once in a thousand times - and the woekings were again ready for the collier's pick. The royalties surrouoding the original workings could be obtained readily and cheaply. Altogether it wee a most desirable property to secure. • • So the rusted engine on the pit -bank was cleaned, a wire rope rove over the sheave in the derrick, and the heavy iron cage bent to its end. On a day appointed Valpy and I same to Bromlope to make the descent. There -is a slight feeling of eeultit- lion when one drape down the shaft through which living man has diet penetrated the entrails of this planet for over sixteen years; and this feel- ing exhilarates. The cage descended slowly, screaming. 'and grating along the rusted guide -iron, aed in a mat. ter of many minutes 'landed us on a platform of ebony bog left by the re- ceding waters. With our candles thrust out at ahouldersheignta , we stepped off the floor of the cage, plodding heavily thooligh the mud. The gallery was low• enough to make us crouch our heads; the air was chill and moist. Presently we come to a small- ob- long c'avern watch formerly had been the colliers' drawing -room and eat- ing -chamber. Velpy. went in first, asking me to remain in the gallery, Presently he called that I should come to 'him, •OLook here, old man," he said, thrusting a roll pf foolscap into my fingers, 'have another turn at geo- graphy ; -make sure hew you stand, and then we can move more comfort- ably, I'll just go out and see if the narrow galleey which runs round tfia back Of this is still sound, or wheth- er it has fallen in." He went through the doorway and, after the yelloW beatn of his candle had been swamped' in the darkness, I could stilt hear the faint splashing of his feet in the semi-liquid mud, Then. I stuck my candle by its clay socket against the wall, and care- lessly. unrolled the cris.p paper and flattened it out. • So confident bad I been that it was merely a map of the mine which had been harided to me, that it caused me a preliminary shook to find it was In- ste,ad a note scribbled in blue pencil. As I conned througb, the hair tickled on my scalp.; Valpy accused me of tampering with the love of thie imaginary Wife of his, setting forth this indictment with detail and circumstance. He called to my memory the fact that our engine -man on the pit -bank had re- turned Whitt home, and had been or- dered not to rewind us to the sur. face for eight more hours. Then he challenged ;no to fight hirn to the 'death. Previous to my entrance into the room he had placed a revolver and cartridges In the looker opposite the door • he himself possemed (Irma- mene similar in all respects. Purthermore, he had observed that our watches coincided. So I should be able to know when he made it ex- actly 10.80; up to that time there was a truce between Us. The secood It passed, he gave me his most sacred word of boner, he should set about endeaVoring to slay me. Some people reading so strange a screed under :oath Strange circum- stances might have scented the prat - tical joke and endeavored to treat the matter as such, I knew Valpy too well; he was always an earneet sort of man; and the Ilatter was mous to a degree. By some cerebral lesion he had lag his mind, and as with oth- er mad creatures, his first wrath rose against his stanchest friend. If athheootehmar deowonanarketo! bheimasth. it would Now, as have said, the first aback etunned me; but the habits of a life spent for the greater part in wild places soon made themselves felt. My to rob, gehetIfe-prboeuste.rvation clamored to be I glanced at my watch. There Were left to Me folio kninutes' grace. Then the truce would come to An end, and Imommig4nhtt. expect war to open at any Next blew out the eandIe.flame. Everything SCOW(' tO point to thin as a necessity. Then when tbe cold dark. ness had eloeed down, / nipped the Awaiting wick and slipped the candle into a poeket, It might be wanted again. I tuost sincerely honed it would be wanted, because at that atage the affair had but one idea in my mind; I mug &Mc upon Valpy enddenly and disarm him; the rest would be Mamie, I was by far hie su. palm' in point of bodily strength. Fire, however, be must be found; and that, moreover, without letting him know be wee being souglat for until we came to laand-gripe. In other sweoernidesd,_ vitiaeinraeuusatuobbe. atelked. Thle But as I went out of the door into the gallery, a sena° of the difficulties of My position began to grow upon me at once.; There were two ways to turn -up and down. Porta the far- ther aide, other galleries led oft at right angles; on my own side, there were atilt others; In fact, as I knew frees the maps and plans, the coal seam rouud the foot of the shaft wee burrowed till the retioulatious, if measured end oil end, would melte a line of tunnel inany miles in length. Of course, there would be stoppages at all places. where the roof had caved, but these points were to Me unknown. Veiny' and a descended the pit mainly to find how frectuently they existed. Thinking of .these things, I listen - sure as God can see us even through hardly recommend you to do your best elidtei.Tently. In that blaole silence the sshtaarlltozewd mpoe.01 below. Then a voice bave put out your candle, 80 we be- gin on entirely even terms. I need all this great roof of rook, so surely only sound whieh fell upon the ear to kill me. Because if you fail, as was the • distant rivulet of water tickling' from a roof -track* into a will I eatisfy ray honor with your "Half -past ten, Calvert. I see you The voice seemed to come from close to my elbow. On the first tone I be- gan moving toward it, using infinite care to stalk noiselesslo. Yet the voice reeeded before me like an ignts fatuus, If one may use suoh a word in reference to sound, and I saw that Valpy bad anticipated the manoeuver, and was in equal-paeed retreat. His original distance I could not gum, because the tunnels acted like a speak- ing -tube, and carried sounds with lit- tle diminution of volume. I traveled on thus for quite two hundred yards, with every musole ready to spring, every nerve at high- est tension. Then I stopped to listen At first it appeared that the silence around was abeelute, but as my ear strained to even further refinements, it seemed to me that I caught ever and anon the faint hush of breathing. Then, not very far away, a splinter of stone, dislodged from roof or wall, fell with a falsetto splash to the slime of the roadway, and what had before been a suspicion now became a cer- tainty. Valpy had rounded my flank and was now stalking me! Let it be confessed that my first tbought was for flight. My next, however, pointed out that he was intYiNTellYdagett:Ato PcouheldeasTiezeug: before he was able tO use his weapon; with him owe in my grip, I should be content. • The gallery there was a good SiX feet in height, and I leaned against the cold, slime -covered wall with hands half raised. You can guess how keenly I listened for any small sound sp.eaking of his advance, but not the faintest whisper came to me. In our many wanderings Valpy and I often stalked big game togeth:- en and I remembered vvith grir smile how well he had earned the tit e of "Cat" which - had opt* been ad- mirably. bestowed upon lum by ,e Ben- gal sinker'. Here he was stalking me now througb slush which to another' man's movements would Immo been noisy with equelehings and sphothes, and yet, though 'I felt that he was advancing, yes, and following my spoor with his finger-tips in each foot- step, the deep eartigsilence was nev- er intruded upon. Suspense in many of its lurid shapes had been shown to me before, but the agony of that' wait for the madman is one of the deepest scars mAmiwyaynisemfaorrYeb. arper tha'n mY own, a:nd now more tartly stung, by in- sanity, his animal senses showed hini my tvhereabouts first, and he raised the .muzzle of the revolver anti pulled thlehterigner. *what me: dazed eyes saW was valves smudged white face, and the pistol, in a dazzling halo of 'flame. The ballet struck the wall b,eneath my lett • armpit, bringing down, a s,mall avalanche of shale. had 120 thought of returning his fire. Indeed, my revolver was in my pocket, still untoaded, bet I leaped forward, endeavoring to grapple with him be.tore he could get in another shot. Voubling like an eel in the utter darkness, he left a side -pocket ot his coat in my hand and fled, giv- ing partIng shots behmd Inm till he had emptied his revolver. • The lead brought down great elittets of atone from the roof and sides till I thought that the whole stratum m,ust have collapsed • about our ears; still no shot touched me, and I crashed on at his heels. But Valpy ran like a deer and distanced ,me; and at length I slowed down, with hands and arms bleeding from contact with the rocky walls; and I heard Valpy slack his pace at the same time, and heard also the tinkle a the empty shells as be ejected them and reloaded his revol- ver. My original feeling toward my Isom - panted had been one of compassion. This was beginning to give wao now, and wild anger was ooming in its place. What bad I door) that my life should be so savagely attacked" The breech of his revolver closed with a 'vicious snap, and I heard him ecok the hammer. Then he halted, waiting for me, I batted too; to ad- vance 'upon Wm so would be a demand for instant death. As a general thing he was but an indifferent shot, but now I knew inetinetively that he would not fire until the muzzle of hie weapon rested against my breast. He advanced again; I retreated, keeping pace with him; we were both too excited by this tinie to pay heed about treading delicately. Under. math! were L -rails, and on these, our boots slid and clanked. The dark- ness wan profound; and as I ran I steered by trailing raw finger -tins along- the, jagged walls. The plan of ihe Mine was fixed pretty securely in my head, and twice I turned corners at right angles, hoping that the doe. ble would cause him to miss me. Ho did nothing of the kied, hanging like a dog on the tick, and the third time I tried it he laughed toed In derision. I was hot enough with exertion, heeven knows, but that laugh chilled We to the bone. The particular hor- ror of it was something I could not describe, a something I would wish poonrlytenmeey. most hateful enemy to ex - So Valpy hunted me on through the network of the colliery, till a thing happened wbich brought me to bay whether I wished it or no, The ground rose beneath my feet, and for a while the roof rose too. Then the roof dropped again and the floor slanted up to meet it. There had. been a fall of rook. The gallery was' barred effectually. The Madman Watt nOt a ecreen yards from my 'heels. I turned then like a cornered ant - mai to fight desperately for life. At my feet :were jogged masses of newly fallen shale. As if by instinct they found their way into my °hitch and bwat rt hd mtehne ant al dorenneade. a furious bow - The roof of the gallery was rot- ten and crumbling, and where my missilea, vaguely aimed in the dark - nese, crosbed against it, great mass- es detached themselvea and fell int° the slime of the roadway. W.hy Mer- ciful Providence prevented Mb from building rayself into a living grave there, I eannot think, but / had the °home in my mind with every splinter of rook that X hurled, and in my sav- age fury earea not, so that 'Stalin' might be smothered by the avalanche Which walled in myself. Par above all that infernal turmoil of crashing stone hid pistot-ehots rang out shrill and clear, fill the thick air grew bit- ing with powder-emoke, and onee more rthe chambers of hitt weapon were 'empty. Thai, with a final (Recharge , of missiles to 'herald my Coining. / charged furiously et him and ha in turn fled away clown the gallery. f No longer did I remember that once he had been my friend, that his mind was untinged, that hie state demand. ed all forebearanee. He was my mor. enemy, the object of my mod blind and deadly Iiette; and had / Ilaid hande uPon him then I should . have riled the warm life front within A SACRIFICE. 1 him wit willing fingers. Taking the revolver tram My pocket, I slipped cartridges into the chambers cm Iran, His last bullet 'had scored ray bide like the sear of a red -bot iron. 'With gnash- ing teeth I lusted te smash MY fist into the centre of bis face. Valpy might have been mad all along, but at that moraent I was 114 loss a maniac than be. Then of a sudden the scene changed. The noise of tottering feet in front of me abruptly ceased. %Imre was a heavy eplaah, a bubbling cry, and - silence. I halted and listened. No sound came to me througb the black .gloom ACI,V0 only for the muffled loptng of tiny waves. Theo the noiae of a heavy surge echoed down the gallery, and with it ettme a strangled voice erbieh oried, ' Help!. for Godaa. Sake, aetp, Calvert I" The voure was drowned in gurghogs and splashinge, and again an eartb. silence snapped &own, amid which I maid hear my own breathing and those faint slapptugs of water. A great revultnon of feeling spread over me like a cold Amelia Valpy, mad or sane, was drowning. In some dreadful unseen tank, whiob drained the water of the mine. He could not .swina a (stroke. If I did not rush then to save him, be would die horriblo. My fierce enmity withered and vamobed within me; I remembered mine the friendship of twenty years. . I strode forware again, stepped over some invisible brink, and sank deeply into water era cold • that I emerged frote3 it breathless and gasping. At the same. moment Valpy rose again to the surface, almost noiselessly, well- nigb lifeless. My fingers slid out and ' twitted themselves in bis hair. Slipping beneath hino I swam for the pelt. of us, and in that awful darkness may have swum in anything but a straight line. .I was tired, faint; bruised; and the deadly chill of the water was par- alyzing. I must haie gone light. headed then, for a borror seized me that I was on soma vast under- take with shores leagues apart. I swam on for What seemed hours - months -years - consciousnetts dim- ming with every stroke; and when at length I did touch a skelving beach, the last glimmer of sentient life with- in Me died away. Half in, .half. out, of thirt fouttank's broth. we lay together, the pair of us, for •how many hours I cannot. tell; and when the mait on the pit -bank above, growing alarmed at our non- appearance,. formed a rescue party, OW found Os still devoid of consols oueness. • When we were. brought to blessed 'daylight once more, bruised, bleeding, •fithy ..beyond recognition, a doctor took us both in hand, and t•hrougn his skill was little worse for the adven- ture. But Valpy's case was differept. He • Woke into a 1 -aging braiosfever, and the doctor said that the disease must have emoldered in his system for weeks lei permit. of its arriving at ouch a sudden nod violent head. • Eventually my poor chum recovered; though Only after a long and tedious convaleseence; but he knew nothing of that awful duel he forced upon me in the lilack abysses of the Deeper PIO. 'and to this day •nhave•eever told hirio . - . . Jet iS Coming in Again. • Oa the eld principle that it is an ill wind whtch blows no one any wiled, this seeson, we are told, is likelyoto benefit the -jet industry: The ma;ter- ial had never mate gone out of wear, though for sonie time it has been out of fash,ion. Brightly tinted dreseen are little in demand at peesent,• so that the corresponding ge.tes have been relegated to the jewel box, In- deed, a mourning. garb will admit. of hardly any ornament but jet.' At one time, jet, or smile imitation, had so far declined in popularity as to be n symbol ,of the faded re,spectability whieh has "known better 'days." Now it is to have its turn again. Though it takes a bright polish, it cannet be called beantiaul; but that is not the eke oa mourninn-few thin& were ug- lier taan the old-fashioned widow's eap, which among Australian natives is represented by a maps of plasten of paris molded, en tahonead add left there till it nrops off throighlanee of time. Jet ie no modern material. ° • • • , The Romans were acqatanted with. it, as Pliny tells us that its name, ga- . gates, wits derived from the River Ga- ges, in Ssria, where the material *as found. That was Mortened to gagat, es tire Germans still call it, and fin- ally to jet. But it was knowo in this country before ever the Ronians land- ed in Keet; jet beads, rings, buttons, and other personal ornaments have been found in barrows of the Bronze Age, as may be seen in Yorkshire mu- seums. In these instances the mater- ial probably was obtained from the coast near AVhitby, this and the adja- cent district tieing still the principal source for jet in Britain. It is oc- casionally washed up on the seashore like amber ott the Crombee coast, but. is only got in any quantity by mining. Some of the best, as Drayton wrote long ago, has been found 011 the Mut-- grave •estate. It ocoors at two hori- zons, one in the Estuarine beds' of the Lower Oolite, which, however, is gener- ally too soft ta he ofl any commercial vela% and the other in the lias, ratb- er above the middle division. Here the best or "hard jet" is obtained, but the softer kind is also associated with it. • The excavations are opened some- timee io the cliffs, sometimes inland; and the material -which conunonty oc- ean in ban.* of a more or less tendon - lar form -after being dug out, is cut or ground into shape, and polished on list -covered wheels. What may be. the origin of jet is not so certain; prob. ably it has more than one; but if so, all varieties are likely to have much in common. . It is a bituminous sub- stance. for it burns with a denser atrong-emelling smoke; while an in- flammable gas and small drops of quid bitumen ocoasionally show them- selves in the mines. Thus it may sometimee be closely related to such srmstances as amber or Emir' gum; indeed, it tometimes passes by the name of black amber. The shale it- self, when highly bituminous, may furnish some varieties of jet, because it is occasionally found to contain males of fish and. other fossils. That would, no doubt, be the case with many of the inferior varieties, and then it would have some relationship to eaonel coal, Which is the most in- flammable of fuel, getting Its name cannel or eatulle Coal, from its easy ignition and bright flame. Thls may be deseribed as petrified Oegetable pulp. and very likely some jet lisas had a rather similar origin. But a good cleat, at ank rate, of what has been centained under the micro- scope shows (Retina traces of a struc- ture characteristio of wood. Jet would therefore, take its place among the lignites, or "brown coals," which re- preaent intermediate stage in the conversion of vegetable matter into coal, retaining much more of the'orig- inat oxygen than the iatter. Lignite is common In more than one geologi- cal deposit, and often, in those later than the Rae, in Gertnany, and other eountries, is worked for fuel, as, for example, at Hovey Tracey, in Devon- shire. But the Yorkshire ovsnere, if jet conies Into Whims will hardly be Me to make a "corner" in it, for a very good Wit be I front the PrOVIriCet of Asturias, and from Prance in the Department ef the Aude, not to mention other pieces, Eh. orate has soinetimes served ea a sub- stitute for jet, Art having gapped in OW Mote '03 supply the deficiencies of Nature. MOH ANGLE pm High angle fire is that from guns it ell etevettons beyond 15 degrees. Ilia little elms) was only a tow doors from my home, but int the narrow side streeteeour hottee was on the corner -- and often when I took baby out for am airing myself, I stopped I o talk to him as be sat bending over his work Moaher nature had given him an In- telligent rather handsome face, in cum- pensation for the cruel bunap elle had placed between his shouidere, and an be told me stories ot bla loved Fatherland in his quaint Swede ac- cent, I remembered the lady who woo • impreseed by the eloquence of the French President, M. Tillers, that she deeeribed him as being very tall and hanciaome. But Andrew (Alison was only the hunchbook ebeemaker, and • his little shop was located -in a big, shabby terrace, which iieerned always to be so full of oceupants that they ' overflowed Into the street, for a goo ticulating, chattering crowd was al- waya lounging around the doors. His trade was fairly lucrative ; those North - country people like to deal with one • of Unix own race, so he mended and otten made, ahoes for all the Swedes, Germans and Icelanders in tbe aVest end. Though alwaya busy, he was yet al- ways ready to tell the most wonder- . eavditiarynonloeveodf Athn one deo he told me of a contemplated foublanfxaeir.o stories to the children, and I had known him two yeara when ea r ar e -w f o or el. eigagnmand Can- " J liave towed 80112 120011eY1 ISPuisis," he said, with a sparkle in his blue eyes and his pale face Hustled. " At last I have got enough. I hate this • place," with a wave of his hand, whieh rook in tbe close, sultry workshop, - rend the etuffy little living roum back a it, and for a background the dirty yard where the numerous olive branollee of the families in the terrace aternatively played amiably together, or fell into dispute and pelted each other with mutt and decoying cabbage leaves. " This is not like wbat I left -the dear old home -but the rent was low so I staid. But now, I can soon leave it. There is a little cottage down this street one long way, so pretty, with three rooms and a garden, wbere the vegetables may grow, so like the old home, and I buy It Aleesis. I have waited some long while to get the money, but now soon pay them two hu,ncired dollars. Then I pay thew someeaoh month and soon all is paid and it is mine." There was such pride and happiness • shining in his face that I felt deeply intere-sted in the proposed investment. • "I am very glad," I said cordially,. _ "it will be so much better for you than theSe small rooms, and the gar- den will be a great pleasure to you." His delight at the anticiputed change was almost pathetic. "Don't speak of it," he said at Last, "as the deal is,not completed yeL and • someone else may get it." • . I could eee how the possibility of this catastrophe troubled him, .and I de - trout)), hoped that the cottage would not tempt any other aspiring house- bc)Solamere time before this 1 had learned another secret of Andrew's, thougb he had not told it .10 n3e. He loved . Inga Jobanneson; my faie haireti Swede servant- girl. Well, he was defermed bot what. of • tit(. not a t cl n ooe i t I Iller LI ree klindiVlaeo et ! V did. any one ever .hear hiui utter torough or • unkind work'? Surely he would. make pretty. Inge. a • good husband. I3ut fate and August Pjeturrsson, had • . de,creed otherwise. Inga, with that •• feminine instinct wbielr never errs in • suoh matters, wan 'perfectly well aware of Andrew's devotiOn, but she wily tossed her 'head, was not August Pjeturrsson the best looking Swede in the west end, mad did not all the girls envy her . • .. . • T.here came a day when Anare* •spoke; played his last card -and Jost. Inge. told me the next morning, "The tcl.e.ya oouf mmaigairlytidnog mhiumerworse,'; I said, "Andrew would make you a good hue. ba,n,Bduat' he is such an ugly looking fel- low," she pouted. , "Oh, fitga His back le deformed It true, but he 'has a• Very pletiSant face, and you know -how good natured he is, Then, he has eave money wou have a comfortable home for you," But visions • of August's stalwart form obscored all of poor Andrew's Perlelettih°11:38..had happeUed during the and now for' some time, Inge bed', gone about her work with a pre- occupied air and a ,downeast •fact: "'What is , the molter oyith Ingo, ma'am 1" asked Andrew one' hvennigs when I had employed him to make -up some flower beds, 'has she qbarreled wit h August 1" "No, I think not;" J answered, absently, intent on my task of ar- ranging, the geraniums which An. drew was setting out, "that is, -Yes I do know what is the mattet, and I suppose it would not be a breach of . trust to tell you as she would not like- ly object to your knowing. August has had letters froixi his father, the eldest brother is dead and the old people are left tdone. They urge him to come home to live with them, and assure hini that he Will be able to secure a situation, as workmen are not so num- erous there now• since so many have eraigrated. He is anxious to go, but he bas never been able, to save an.y money. I think he sent money to his father occasionally; anyway, he has very little now. He might work his way home but he cannot take Inge." "And she would go?" "Yes; you see her mother is them 'She bad thought that in time sbe might eau money enough to pay her mother's passage out, but of course she would like to go with August." Abdrew leaned thoughtfully on his spade. "1 don't think August P Jeturr- seen is much of a worker; it would take him a long tirae to save enough to take "Inge home." "Yes, I am afraid so. Of course August should gq onee; his parents • need him, and as he will have to sup- port Chem there will likely be years of waiting before Inge ean go to him," "Do you really, think she cares so much for him., ma'am?" "I ara afraid so, Andrew," I said reluctantly, for thought It kinder not to deceive him; "you know how I wiali she would care for someone else." His face flushed and the hand that held the spade trembled. "Sbe bas a right to make her choice; I hope she will always be happy." " • • • Matters had reached a crisis and Inge was in despair. August had had another letter from borne; he must come at once or he would Tose a good situation. Inga's blue eyes were often dim with tears., It is so hard for the young to wait for their happiness. inl3gurleaotneoltemitoetmoieinngt. elle came to me "On ma'am, what do you thInk has happened? Some good friehd has elven August the money to take us home. ne don't know wbo it was but the meney was left with our minister, end tho letter said it waa for to buy irwigoacaltweatys,.tio Sweden end we go now, Before Ingo, had ainished I wan sure of on.o thing, and wished that I WM sure cif thnotber-taat Angust Pjeturs reson was worthy of the aacrifiee that . bad been made for him. Well, they were married ond wont av.:fdcoA. ndrew wi.shed Ingo happmese and bade her good bye in a steady "When are you going to move, An- drew," / asked one day an he Pans' ed down the side &rut, near where I sat on the lawn, Ile looked away be- fore he answered golgletivoesetharteetemy mind, am "Ur. Meson," I said leaning fose ward to pia a pansy from the flower bed, "it would eost just about two hundred &llama to buy two tiekets for Swede% would it note" .1'3 think SO, yes," he was lookingait something clown the atreet. "'Greeter love hath no mon than this," said softly, A, 1.„ D. G.