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NEW SERIES-VOL. XVI
IMAGE'S
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Noted Washington Divine's
bunday Discourse.
A JMe For CheerfulnessThree Prescrip
tion. Knr the Cure of Business Ie
preton: C lu rl ul otuer:tloi and
HnhaOnr, 1'roper ( hrUtian Invent.
inenf .and a f;r.-t Spiritual Awakening.
Text; 'h r-! r doth a' living man
Complain?"' Larr. ntatb.ns HI., 3'J.
A '-h.-crful interrogatory in the most mel-arj-h,ly
book of th' l',,- Jeremiah rote
ho many t-ji thini that we have a wori
fiHinM after him. an! when anvthir g is
mm'hdrge.i with .yief and complaint ' we
all it a jeremiad. Uut in my text Jere
miah, as by a sudd' n jolt, wakens us to a
thankful spirit. Our Messing are so nmoli
uor' .i'Mr.'jrui:; onr deertvhat he in
'surprised that anybody should ever find
fault. Having life and with It a thou
sand blessings it ought to hush into perpet
ual ftl-ii'-e everything like criticism of the
denliiigs ( Hod. "Wherefore doth a living
to an eomj.iaiiiV"
While everything in our national finances
Is brightening, for the iat few years the
land has I n set to the tune of "Naomi."
There has been fJ(.re and thre a che;rful
ao'l'dst. hut the grand chorus has beet, one
of larn-ntation. a'-eornj.anied by dirges over
'j-rostrate.i com mere,., silent manurae t Ties
jiUMiij.loyed in hanism, and all those dis
orders deneribed by the two short words
'hanUimey.-1 The f,wt tliat we have
.been uriiix for the bloody luxury of war
'more than thirty years ago. There were
great national difference, and we had not
eaougli Chri-tian character to settle them
by arbitration and tn-atv, and so we went
into battle, e.xj.ediiig life"anl treasure and
well nigh swamping the national finances
arid north an. 1 south, east and west, have
ever '-inc.. 1,,-,-n paying for those four years'
indulgence j bnrbari-un.
Hut t!ie time has come when this depres
sion ought to end ya, wh-n. it will end if
the people are willing to do two or Jhree
things .y way of linamdal medicament for
t ie people ;t, u-.-ll Jls Congress must join in
the w,,rk of r- -u j.eratu.n. Ttie best politi
cal economists tell u
reason for eontimie.i
i money uwar.in
: i i . ' . t . i . i
hi 'Hill iie.l ,111 V 1 1 ! ne
or so de.ir a irnin. V
gro.-.ning, groaning
a
hat tin-re is no good
prost ration. Plenty
Mi vestment. I lie na-
er so strontf an arm
w gi on groaning,
though (Jod had
put this nation upon Jruel ami allowed us
but one decent breaiJfasf I ri i r miH,u
r T - . 1110.1111,),
I he fact i tlie habit of com i bii nl n if imu
, 0 ......
i.ecome ciironic mthis country, and after
all t h-'-,.. years of whimper and wailing and
bjurgati'.u we arc under such a momentum
snivel that we cannot stop.
There arc are three prescriptions by w hieh
1 lelie c i hat ii r individual and National
Hnan - nay ! cured of their rsent de-
pre.s-lou. Trr. nr.-t Ls cheerful con yersa
tlon ami behavior. I have noticed that the
people win arc most vociferous ugainst the
day in which we live are those who are in
comfortable circumstances. I hnvj nade
inquiry of those persons who are violent in
their jeremiads against these times, and I
have asked them, "Now, after all, are you
ixd making a living?" After some hesita
tion and coughing and clearing their throat
three, or fnir times they say stammeringly,
"Y-e-s." Sothat with a great multitude of
people it is not a question of getting a
livelihood, but they are dissatislled because
they can"t make us much money as they
would like to make. Thev have only
L'(MMJ in t he bank, wiiere they would like
to ha ve - lotto. They can dear in a year
only :,0!iO, when tin y would like to clear
:rlO,(iOO. or things c.ime out just even. Or
in their trade they get in a dny when they
wisli tiny could make t or c5. "Oh,"
say some oie. ' are vmi not aware of the
fact that there is a great population out of
employment, and there are hundreds of
t he go d families of t his country who are
at their wits' 'end. t;t knowing which way
tetiirn? ' Yes. I know it better than any
man in priat life can know that sad fact,
for it come constantly to my eye and ear,
but who is responsible for this state of
tilings'
Much of that responsibility I put upon
men in comtoi iable circumstances wh by
an everlasting growling keep public eonh
denee depressed and new enterprises from
starting out and new- houses from being
built. You know very well that one de
spondent man can talk llfty men Into de
spond -ncy, wtiil one cheerful physician
can wake up into exhilaration a whole asy
lum ( hypochondriacs. It is no kindness
to the poorer the unemployed for yu to
Join in tins deploration. If you have not
the wit an 1 th common .sense to think of
something cheerful to say. then keepHdcnt.
Now I will make a contract. If the peo
ple of the 1' luted States for one week will
talk chccrfuiW. I will open all the manu
factories. 1 will iMe employment to all the
unoccupied men and women, I will make a
lively market for yyiir real estate thU is
eating you up with taxes. I will stop th"
long process;: ns on the way to the poor
house ami the penitentiary and I will 5j read
a plentiful table from Maine to Cnlift rnia
and from Oregon to Sandy Hook, and the
whole land sf'.all carol and thunder with
national jubilee, but says sme on, "I
will take that contract, but we can't affect
the whole nation.'- My hearers and read
ers, represent ing.as you do alt professions,
all trades arid all occupations, if
you should resolve never again to utter
n dolorous word about the money
"inrkets. but by manner and by voice
and I y wit and caricature and. above
nil. by' faith in Hod t try to scatter this
national gloom, do you not believe the in
fluence would be instantaneous and wide
fir read? The effect would N felt around
the world. For (rod'sake and for the pake
of the poor and for the"Vgake of the em
ployed ipiif growling. Depend upon It, if
you men in comfortable eiroumstaneefi do
not sloj complaining, (iod will blast your
harvests an 1 see how you will get along
without a corn crop, and" He will hweepyou
with floods, an-1 He will devour you with
gra-sshoppi rs. and Ib will burn your city.
If you men in comfortable circumstance-,
keep on complaining. Hod will give you
something to complain about. Mark that!
Tne second prescription for the allevia
tion of financial distress is proper Chris
tian investment. Hod demands of every
individual state and nation a certain pro
portion of their income. We are pan imo
nious. We keep back from (iod that which
I hav nothing to pay aamttnonAv. Tb
more money you get the better, if p c: .
honet!y and goes usefully. for th
lak of it ?i"knes dies without medi
cine, and hunger finds its coffin in
an empty tral tray, and nakedness shivers
for clothes and f.r." All this canting tirade
against money, as though it had no practi
cal use, when I har a man indulge in it,
makes me think the best heaven for him
would be an everlasting poorhoase. No;
there is a practical use in money, but while
we admit that we must also admit that it
cannot satisfy the soul, that it cafnnot pav
for our ferriage across the Jordan, of death,
that it cannot unlock the gate of heaven
for our immortal soul.
Y'et there are men who act as though
p"ks of houda and mortgages could bo
; traded off for a mansion in heaven, and as
! though gold were a legal tender in that
! land where it is.o common that they make
! pavements out of it. Sanation by Christ
i is the only salvation. Treasures in heaven
j are the only tneorruiitlb!A-eas. Htv
minister iih-rallv and you ?hall have more
to adminh-ter. I am in full -ympathr with
the man who was to be baptized 'by immer- !
eion, nnd some one said, "You had better
leave your pocket book out; it will get wet."
"No," said he, "I want to go down under
the wave with everything. I want to con
secrate my property'and ail to Hod." And
bo he was baptized. What we want irr this
country Is more baptize i pocketbooka.
The only safe investment tuat a man !
can make in this world is in the cause of
Chriat. If a man give from a superabun
dance, God may or he m.ny not respond
with a blessing, but if a man give until he :
feels it, if a man give until it fetches the
blood, if a man give until ' his Selfishness I
ringes and twists and cowers under it, ho
will get not only splritial profit, but h ;
will get paid ba-'k in hard cash or In con- '
vertible securities. We often see men who !
are tight-fisted who sem to get along with
their investments very profitably, notwith
standing all their parsimony. But wait.
Suddenly in ,thet man's hlstorr every
thing goes wrong. His health fails, j-you ever ciphered out that sum in loss and
or his reason is dethroned, or a j gain, "What shall it profit a man if he
domestic curse smites him, or a mid- 1 ain the whole world and lose his soul?"
night shadow of pome kind drops upon j You may wear ilne apparel now, but the
his soul and upon his business. What is winds of death will flutter it like rags,
the matter? Hod, is punishing him for his 1 Homespun arid a threadbare coat have
small heartedness. lie tried to cheat God, j sometimes been the shadow of robes
and Hod worsted him. So that one of the re- ! white in the blood of the Lamb,
el pes for the cure of individual and national j All the mines of Australia and Brazil,
finances Is more generosity. Where you j strung in one carcanet, are not worth to
bestowed 1 on the cause of Christ give 2. vou as much as the pearl of great price.
Hod loves to be trusted, and he is verv apt ! fou remember, 1 suppose, some years ago,
to trust ba-k again. He says: "That "man i the shipwreck of the Central America? A
knows how to handle money. He shall have j storm came on that vessel. Th surges
more money to handle. " And very soon tramped the deck and swept down through
the property that was on the market for -a I te hatches, and there went up a
great while'gets a i u r -ha-er, and the bond hundred voiced death shriek. The foam
that was not worth more than fifty cents! on the jaw of the wave. The pitching of
on a dollar troes to nar and the or-enin- of ! the steamer, as though it would lean a
a new street doubles the value of his house,
or In any way of a million Hod blesses him.
Once the man finds out that secret and
he goes on to fortune. There are men
whom I have known who for ten years have
been trying to pay Hod rlOOO. They have
never been aide to get it paid, for just as
they were taking out from one fold. of their
poeketbook a bill mysteriously somehow in
some other fold of their poeketbook there
came a larger bill. You tell me that Chris
tian generosity pays in the" world to come.
I tell you it pays now, pays in hard cash,
pays in Government securities. You do
not believe it? 'Ah, that is what keeps you
back. I knew you did not believe it. The
whole world and Christendom is to be re
constructed on this subject, and as you are
a part of Christendom let the work begin
in your own soul. "Hut," says some one,
"I don't believe that theory, because I
have been generous and I have been losing
money for ten years." Then God prepaid
you, that is all.
What because of the money that you
made in other days? You say to your son,
"Now I will give you 5(M) every year as
long as you live." After awhile you say,
"Well, my son, you prove yourself so
worthy of my confidence I will just give
you ir20,0(M in a single lump." And you
give it to him, and he starts off. . In two or
three years he does not complain against,
you: "Father is not taking care of me. I
ought to have &)0 a year." Y'ou prepaid
your son, ami he does not complain. There
are thousands of us now who can this year
get just enough to supply our wants. But
did not God supply for-us in the past and
has he not again and again and again jatl
us in advance? In other words, trusted you
nil along trusted you more than you had
a right to ask? Strike, then, a balance for
God. Economize in anything rather than
in your Christian charities. There is not
morethan one out of '500 of you who ever
give enough to do you any good, and when
some cause of Christianity, some mis-
: ; . , TURNING AND CRINDINC
kve our little fIUng-out and argu- "And therV Terv fewo ft arid that tbey
ments and such, rUiy couldn't mnrn
Ad then we make it up again; they dont Themselves an honest Living if rtw-y'd lust
amount to much. agree to turn. ,
Eton one subject, anyhow, we're all of the By ail mean try tor grinding, but own ft If
same mind: vrvn f.nA
vi all of us don't want to turn, and all do That you can do th turninjp, bot ain'l j
want to grind.
smart enough to grind.-?
He Uk9to
I p heard about a grindstone of a labor- When father talks, he says it
saving kind think thine out.
fcnly takes one . person to turn it and to I see him smiling, sometimes, at the things
I gnuu- ne mints afout.
Sli work a treadle wit h'your foot, the same When he comes in from the plow-field be
1 as mother sews, don't tell you how he aehes,
Al a fellow don't mind turning when he's He tells you something queer he's seen of
I grinding, I suppose. birds, or beasts, or snakes.
Basurs is not that kind of one; it ain't that It s only In th winters we have time to go
Bt,' money's scarce and hard to get, and el-
r.v-grease is cheap
V"iro lucre's a half a dozen elbows th.4
are half the time in sight, -Thousxmother
puts on patches, I reckon,
e4ry night.
"Boys.' Vather said, the other day, "one
th&g you've got to learn.
We can'tklfdo.the grinding, forsomebody
mujturn.
Of cours.tf'd like vou all to be as smart as
folii are made.
But it isn very likelv that vou will be, I'm
afraUl
to school.
Bui we dig at it, I tell you, and! hope I'm
not a fool.
And th thins talk the mott AUrnt ih
thing we hofN to do.
In a race that's free to every one, is what
I'm coming to. .
cose and burned d
Instant thfci the m
stayed away for
but when Sunday
among them as u
grave, as preocctxpi
tiny Eloise came to BliafI
w w
dia not accomur
church, but as he watcb
tide, dainty in the j
gowns &he wore so t
away with a mighty
eyes. From that ins:
that Eloise, should Iwf
man. 1m didn't knot
instead of th gay -he)
privilege it now wax
his own. J
i - v . f ? it m. 3 -s
lauguing wnune i&miij on av mpmumv J
lawn, a telegram was brought biar ao-
; nonucing the sudden death of ner
keep our eyes wide open; if we're I father, and no Elitabeth and Tom
Menly away from Bliosfleld
Well
only tit to turn.
We'll look for the best way thr is, and
that's the on we'll learn.
But think how mother and father "d feel. If
they sbotihrone day find
That every single son they hrd was smatt
enougn to grind:
mountain. The. glareof the signal rockets.
Tiie long eough of the steam pipes. The
hiss of extinguished furnaces. The walk
ing of God on the wave. Oh, it was a
stupendous spectacle. But that ship did
not go down without a struggle. The pas
sengers stood in long lines trying to bail if
out, and men unused to toil tugged until
theirhands were blistered and their muscles
were strained. After awhile a sail came in
sight. A few passengers got off, but the
most went down. The ship gave one lurch
and was lost.
So there are men who go on in life a
fine voyage they are making out of it. All
is well" till some euroclydon of business
disaster comes upon them, and they go
down. The bottom of this commercial sea
Is strewn with the shattered hulks. But
because your property goes shall your soul
go? Oh, no. There is coming a more
stupendous shipwreck after awhile. This
world God launched it f,000 years ago, and
it is sailing on, but one day it will stagger
at the cry of "Fire!" and the timbers of
the rocks will burn, and the mountains
(lame like masts, and the clouds like sails
In the judgment hurricane. Go 1 will take a
good many off the deck, and others out of
the berths, where they are now sleeping in
Jesus. How many shall go down? No one
will know until it is announced in heaven
one day: "Shipwreck of a world! Romany
millions saved! Ho many millions drowned!''
;sinos moA' a.t?s 'utjuqaoo SnnsupiaAa
oqj jo pooiq oq qSnoaqi 'Xiq8pmiv pjoq
oqj Xwk inos anoX &i ou op.'oJ suojs
-Kossod Apqjjrao jnoi v esnvaeq 'saoS eenoq
jnoi ObiiiiOdq 'o3 saunioj juoA" eravoog
I
Margaret Vandegrift, in Youth's Compnaion.
-Jk-J- m.-.. A -. V 'J '
i-vKe,ev(
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In Love and War.
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DOROTHY DREW.
Had
sionary society' or Hible society or
church organization, comes along and gets
anything from vou what do you say? You
say: "I have been bled." And there never
was a more significant figure of speech
than that used in common parlance. Yes,
you have been bbd. and you are spiritually
emaciated, when if you had been cour
ageous enough to go through your prop
erty and say: "That belongs to God, and
this belongs to God. and the other thing
belongs to God," and no more dared to np
priate it to your own use than something
that belonged to your neighbor, instead of
being bled io death by charities you would
have been reinvigorated and recuperated
and built up for time and for eternity, (rod
will keep many of you cramped in money
matters until the ,iay of your death unless
you swing out into larger generosities.
People quote as a joke what is a divine
promise. "Ca-t thy bread upon the waters,
and it will return t thee after mauydavs."
What did God mean by that? There is an ,
allusion there. In Kgypt when they sow
the corn it is at a time when the Nile is
overflowing its banks, and they sow the
peed corn on the waters, andasthe Nile be
gins to recede tliis seed corn strikes in the
earth and comes uji a harvest, and that is
the allusion. It seems as if they are throw
ing the corn away on the waters, but after
awhile they gather it up in a harvest. Now
says God in His word, "Cast thv bread
upon the waters, and it shall come
back to thee after many days." It may
seem to you that you are throwing it away
ou charities, but it will yield a harvest of
green and gold a harvest on earth and a
harvest in heaven. If men could appre
ciate that and act on that, we would have
no more trouble about individual or na
tional finances.
Prescription the third, for the "cur1 of all
our individual and -national financial dis
tresses, a great spiritual awakening. It is
no mere theory. The merchants of this
country were positively demented with the
monetary excitement" in ls"7. There never
before nor since has been such a state of
financial de; res-don as there was at that
time. A revival came, and 000,000 people
were born into the kingdom of God. What
came after the revival? The grandest
t1nani il prosperity we have ever had in
this country. Th" iln-'.-t fortunes, the
largest fortunes in the I'nited States, have
j been ma I" since IVm. "Weil, you say,
j "what ha- spiritual improvement and re
j vival t- do with monetary improvement
I and revival?"' Much to do. The religion
'of Jesus Chri-r ha- a direct tendency to
; make m--n honest and sober and tn:th tell
j ing. and are not honesty and sobriety and
iruth telling auxiliaries of material pros
! perity.'
! Ifwect-xiM have an awakening In this
' ?oyntrv as ra the days of Jonathan Ed
i wards of Northampton, as in the days of
I r. l iniev of Iia-king Bidge, a- in the
lavs of lr. Gnfhn or H ton, the whole
Fopnlar Little L,ady Who Has
Lunch with the Queen.
Dorothy Drew lias had lunch with
the Queen, and she Is therefore a more
popular little lady than ever in Eng
land. Dorothy is now 7 years old. and
is the pride and joy of the (Jladstone
household. She is the granddaughter
of the "grand old man" and the daugh
ter of Rev. Harry Drew and Mary
Gladstone Drew. Mr. Drew is the
warden of St. Deiniol's, at I la warden,
and his daughter is recognized by the
populace ns the re-al mistress of I Inw
ard en Castle. Dorothy has leen allow
ed to grow up like a wild rose. She has
POROTHT DREW.
belongs to him and when we keep buck ; 1;1qs1 wouU rouf. t a higher moral tone".
anything from God he takes what we keep
back, and he takes more. He takes it by
storm, by sicknej-.s, by bankruptcy, by any
one of the IO.iXX) ways which he can em
ploy. The reason many of you are cramped
In "business i localise you have never
learned t he lesson of Christian generosity.
You employ tin agent. You give him a
reasonable "salary, and. lo. you find out
that he is appropriating your funds, be
sides the salary. What do you do? Dis
charge him. Well, we are God s agents.
He puts in our hands certain
evs. Part is to te ours, part is
uu Sm.nose we take all. what then
He will discharge us. He vrtil turn us over
to .financial disasters and take the tru?:
awav from us. The reason that great multi
tude are nut prospered in business is sim
ply l;eause they have been withholding
from God that which belongs to Him.
Tfcsxule la, give and you will reoeivs. ad-
Christ is no foe to
It is its l-e.-t friend.
I and with that nvral tone th honest busi
i n.wts enterprise ol th country would come
, up. You sav a crat awakening has an
j intiueae upon the future world. I tell you
it has a direct influence upon the Jinan'tal
walfare of this worl 1. Th religion of
succes-1 ul business ,
And if there should
come a grt-at awakening m this coun
try, and all th banks and insuranee
companies and stores and offices and
th.,Ti should .dose up for two weeks and
tin'n" ! do nothing but attend to the public wor
Ik ship of Aimighty" God, after such a spiritual
vacation the land woull wake up to such
iinauclal j ros enty v have nev r
ireamevl of. Godliness i prcfltabl for the
fife that now is as well as for that which is
to come. But. my friends, do net put too
a black Fmneranlan dog. to which she
has given the name Petz, fcer childish
variation of "pet." Petz accompanies
her in nil her rambles and a thorough
understanding exists between 'him and
his mistress. Hej just three years old
er than Dorothy and ha lived at Haw
afden since 1888. Mis Drew was born
!r the houe at 10 St. Jarne? square'.
London. The Queen was anxious to
goo the child who has played ?o promi
nent a part In the damestic life of the
Tit Ptatman. and the ex-I'rcm'er
and his wife were delighted when they
received Victoria's command that Dor
othv should visit Windsor Castle as a
special guest. Princess Iu'.s ax-om
pjniel from London to Windsor.
Tomcat That S'ay Lamba,
An Avrshire tomcat has beta slay-
ing- voung lambs. The farmt-r. miss
ing manv of his Iambs, kept watcn.
and saw the cat sneak along on top of
-,-!l t the bottom 'of wljioh- the
HEN Charles was
thirty he decided !
that he had gone
to school long
enough. His
father had arrived
at that conclusion
vears before, but
the son's indomit
able determina
tion to conquer at
least the rudi
ments of hi profession before he
should enter upon active practice made
him leaf to all paternal entreaties to
return home until one morning he
waked up to find that his thick bronze
beard had developed several actually
gray threads.
Consequently, one fine spring morn
ing all Blisslield was electrified to see,
as it passed the quaint old Dayton
homestead, a modest, little gilt sign
bearing the simple words, "Dr. Charles
Dayton."
-Vc-dida't "take' pjliiwL.ilae
shott coats In direct opposition to ull
ornier ideas of the professional man s
dress, and he didn't seem to remem
ber anybody whom he had known in
his vouth
It wasn't because he was proud, he
knew, but he had been occupied with
graer things during his absence than
remembering who was the sister to his
Sunday-school teacher and who mar
ried the youngest of the Barker girls.
But after a year or so of doubt they
began to understand him, especially
when his superior skill had saved the
darling of nearlv every household in
town when the scarlet fever threatened
to till the tiny graveyard on the edge
of the hill.
Dr. Charles, as they learned to call
him. had an additional trait in his
favor; he knew how to neglect each and
every' woman in Blissneld with equal
severity. Not that women enjoy being
neglected, but they always develop a
sort of respect for a man who dpesn t
stoop to them, providing he is consis
tent in his frigidity to all the women
in the place.
At the end of live years two things
had taken place in Blisstield. Dr.
Charles was the idol of the town, and
young Tom, the baby of the Dayton
family, was going to celebrate reach
ing his majority by taking unto himself
a wife.
It was an awful mistake, thought the
whole household when the downy
cheeked Tom stood up in blushing
bravado on his return from his junior
year at college, and persisted in his
statement that he was never going to
school again. For that fall he was to
become the husband of the dearest lit
tle girl in all the world.
But reason settled upon them, and
the only stipulation was that a little
: maiden should come for a visit to the
family of her future husband some
time that summer.
One morning late in July Miss Day
hall below, and the more he tried to
throw off the memory the closer it
clung to him.
When he reached the lower hall he
found himself again by the little table
with the little hat and gloves, and he
put out his hand with a touch almost
caressing. Just as his fingers met the
pretty feminine trifles he heard a fresh
young voice just behind him saying:
"I'll tike these, if they are in your
way. I forgot them last night."
Dr. Ch.i les wheeled about guiltily.
There, on the lower step, was a young
girl, looking straight at him from the
most baby-like blue eyes ever lighting
the face of woman.
Dr. Charles, later on, in analyzing
his feelings, realized that he had ex
perienced three distinct sensations at
the first sight of her.
First, that of the critic, in which he
was amazed to see here in the actual
flesh the girl whom he had always lie
fore thought existed onlr.Jn senti
iUV nr. vol.
Secbnaiy, as the physician, who
frowned at the extreme slightness of
the - figure, the frail wrist, the tiny
neck..
And lastly, as the man, who wanted
to take her close in his arms, to kiss
her, to love her and to call her his
own.
"I really must beg . you to forgive
me, but a young lady is so rare a
pleasure in this house that I was over
whelmed at my good fortune."
Finally, gathering himself together,
he walked over to her, and, taking one
of her hands in each of his, he said,
gravely:
"You are to be my sister, I suppose.
I am brother Charles."
Eloise was herself again and smiled
charmingly as she said:
"I knew you immediately. ...I've
known you for a long time, I think,
for Tom talks of you all ihe time."
She was most delightful, Dr. Charles
confessed, but some way it rankled
that she should accept him so much as
a matter of course. He -would have
preferred her to. look upon' him more
as a man to be studied rather than a
problem already solved.
What a fool he had been to call her
his little sister. He didn't want to
think of her as a sister; he didn't want
started sud
with their terror-stricken little charge.
Tom decided to return to college,
but he stoutly refused to go bank to
his former school, which waa near
Eloise's home, but chose instead
seat of learning farther east. i
Finally one February morning there
arrived a short, unhappy notei in
which poor Eloise Wgged to conle to
visit the Dayton family. "Mamma ii
at sister's, whose baby has the scarlet
fever, so they won't let me etay with
them, and it is so lonesome here in
this big house with no one but the
servant. 'Besides I want to talk to
you alxnit Mr. Thomas Dayton."
Dr. Charles's heart leaped for joy.
This formal "Mr. Thomas Dayton'
spoke volumes.
And so the little girl came to Blisa
field the second time, and reached the
Davton home on another stormy night.
this time to be welcomed by the beard
ed doctor standing by the glowing Art
and holding out both his hands. 8itn
pie Elizabeth the next day told him all
Eloise's confessions of Tom's neglect,
and added:
"She puzzles me, Dr. Charles. She
doesn't seem to be half so broken
hearted as I expected. I really think
that her pride is hurt worse than her
affections. And I thought she lored
him so."
The climax came when a whole weei
passed without a letter from Tom, and
Eloise, setting her white lips and
blinking back her tears of mortifica
tion, wrote to offer to release him from
his engagement. The speed and eager
ness with which) he accepted alooit
Dr. Charle was' lltfng in IL
in the twilight, the 1
where he had welcomed her the stcL
night a few weeks ago.
As his eyes fell on Eloise, 1
broken, half radiant, there sprang il
them such a light as mode her dr
her ow n. She realized that Elizabc.
l... i .. i i . i...!., .,;t;r.ii .v.m
unt ioii uiui in? wiiwir frstftiua, ct&mhmv
ful little story, even to sending
ring back in its tiny white satin
atid yet,, somehow, she neveriwai
happy before.
"You are free again, Eloise?
He had taken the little left han
and turned it till the firelight showf
the bare third finger. Ana pool
Eloise could only say a little half-
sobbing "Yes." -
"Then," said Dr. Charles, nolemnly,
"I may ak you to give up that free
dom again and to teach me to kiss yon
as Tom did." Chicago Tribune.
Cipher-Writing.
The are of secret writing, or writing
in cipher, was, according to Polybitt,
invented by JEneas, author of a treatiajj
on tactics and other works, nepr'
dnced twenty methods of writing A
cipher, which no person conld nnfot
but we doubt much whether they wonL
i iireaerre (bin .itmlitx- at tb nrfMtllV
i ' i i
her ever again to speak to Tom in that ; ,y. it is no less strange than tra
as
laminar way,
was settled.
Then he deliberately drew her
though everything
close
rose with a etrange new pride to pre
sent his lady love to his fine big
brother. Then the physician said, in
ton and her younger brother set out a grave, calm tone: "I met Eloi-e in
for the East, and returned a week lat- j the hall this morning.. I kissed her."'
er with the tiny lady, who was in a j If consternation had leen in her
rrettv state iCf nervnnsness at the midst before, it HOW rose to ft terrible
that this art, so important in diplo
macy, as long as couriers are liable to
! be intercepted, was held in abhorrence
to him and kissed her fairly on her j by the Elector Frederic the Second,
smooth, whije forehead. She strng- j considered it as a diabolical in-
i i . -.1 i : i " v i . i i . . . . ...
gieu away wmi a mue cry. wuue. ner f rention. Tnthemius, Abbot of Hpn
face grew deadly pale. Then she said, j kvim, had come-ed several work to
with a nervous, hurt little laugh which j revive this branch of knowledge; and
sounded pitifnlly like a sob: ! It,vil!e.' an icnorant mathematician,
"Of course, since von are Tom's ! l..., nn.l.l. av. m
brother." ; traordinary terms be made qJe-vVt j!
When he came down to' breakfast he j explain his method, pubUsheXthatthT"
found the family at the table, but Tom j Wrrk wa full of -diabolical niTiteriea.
roiftsevin repeated the oesertion ; end
Frederic, in a holy zeal, ordered thf
original work of Trithemins, which hf
hod in his library, to be burned, aath
invention of the devil,- Harpri
Bound Table.
strangeness of the situation.
Dr. Charles was out in the country
at the bedside of a patient, and when,
after midnight, he stumbled in, drip
ping, splashed with mud after his long
ride in the sorni and sick at heart (his
patient had died in spite of his effort),
pitch. Tom's fingers clutched the
edge of the table, and he drew his
breath sharply, when little Eloise, with
that tact which heaven sometimes
sends women in their times of pen!,
answered:
"Yes, and be called me hi little
.1 111 b S w
ere sunning themseve, and
prixg dow n upon one and kill it-
In Iwell. Ark., the other day a wom
an who wa-s presiding over s "avir.-
meeting" sfct far n-n who svre in
terrupting the perfonnaiice. That wom
an evidently believes thai the ocJy way
. . .... . - . .-- tn'rrtHjJrf' a liiaAi uvwaicao -
let your eternal an airs go at loose en5. ; ,
a few holes ta him.
:u
i ernj'h'i!" worldly .uc?es as to
.. .... . . ci A I U I J . it li'Vl.
he had forgotten all about the expect- j nster. He isn t mucn usea u KJing
ed visitor till he caught ight of a lit- a girl, though, I know, for he did it so
tie sailor hat and a pair of crumpled j qneerly, and he kise l me on the
gloves on the table in the hall. I forehead, Tom. while you always
It seemed so very ' odd to find any- ! choose my hp. "
thing so voung, so .l&intily feminine j It was an owfally lcld thing to do,
inthissta'id old house that he stood j but then it is the lightning fiash whieh
long in the dimly-lighted hall, absent- j clear the sky. The lover wavered,
W .mrtKinff Tit the tinv cloves. I tried to speak one or twice, and
Tte ( ockoo'i ytotm.
A curious criticism has been mad
by correondent of the London
Chronicle of H. E. Krebbiel'e book,
"How u Listen to Music." The or
retondent sata- tliat Mr. Krehbie!
I
t -erns to )e under the irnprestion that
all euckc sing the same interval.
1 "Either Mr. Krehbie! haj not heard
the cuckoo very much -or he & not
! heard many cuckoos. I have tt
the cuckfx sing a rather sharp
sometimes a minor and om
major third. Last Handay at
Wick ham he tang a fourth. W
the same cuckoo varies hit note or dif-
fest
Iber
..,u ir, r. nrl not. finally ended bv trending ovr and ferent cuckoos sine different Interratf
ing with on indulgent -mile that a j saluting the little girl squarely on the j I do not know." To thie it may be re
button was missing from the left wrist, i lipa. - plied that probably Mr. Krehbielre-
Ti. t.-i.- t. ' "T'fta. sweetheart, well hv Kin ferred to the American CQCkoo. whlc.
1JT. V-nOJiS ?ifl)l iut; ui. - ... - , j-A
and awoke with the sun in fptte of th how it is aose. .aa ice oznazeu 3ii ; wnue cww; retaa w mo J Zi
late hour of the nurht Ufore. Some Kizaleth ejaculated. "Mercy me!" j cuckoo, ho native peculiarity of
. - - - u:. ? .... i..n.-ti t !h hri mrtv ' t s wn ifiai rr.T io a oiueiru -
mind as he opened hi evrs iu the i off into a nervous bnt steadying laugh, cl method from hi Englwb
rumpled, tiny, buttonlets glove in the j Dr. Chaxlea took np hia mediciae j Xew York Adrcrtiaer.