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THE OLD FAITH.
"Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye in Hie
ways and see, and look for the old paths,
where is the good way, and walk therein,
and ye shall iind rest for your souls."—
Jeremiah 6:16.
As oman who Is travel weary, as a man
who is travel worn,
Who carries anew I lie Balling loads he over
the road has borne,
Who carries anew each burden when count
ing them o'er alone,
While trudging his way through hog and
fen and stumbling on bruising stone,
As a man who is travel weary remembers
the first fair way
So a man goes back to the simple faith that
was all his own one day.
The simple faith he cherished; the faith in
the grass and sky,
The faith that he held in Innocence with
never a doubling "Why?"—
When valley and hill and forest and every
thing that is
Was wondrously rich with a breathing
truth, and all of that truth was his;
Wheu twilight and dawn were peaceful,
and his were the dreaming stars—
The faith that he held unconsciously ere
ever his soul had scars.
.As a man who Is travel weary, he stands
on a lonely height,
Arid longingly looks at the stretching way
that ends in the fading light,
And yearns for the pleasant pathways as
once he sought out their end—
The faith that he held in ah honest hold as
one does a faithful friend.
He turns to the unforgotten, the years
when he wrought no wrong,
And seeks for the faith that once was
his —all simple and sweet and strong.
—W. D. N„ In Chicago Daily Tribune.
THE
INITIATION
i By BELLE MANIATES |
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HELEN WHITE, most becomingly
gowned, came into the music room
alter dinner, shadea the lights, turned
on the gas logs and arranged the music
on the piano.
"Nell, I see you are making elaborate
preparations to receive callers," said her
brother Fred, banteringl.v. "I am sorry
to convey to you the disappointing intel
ligence that there is no prospect of your
receiving a call to-niglit—that is, from
«. man. All the men you know are other
•wise engaged."
Helen's face fell perceptibly.
"Oh, Fred, what is going on?"
"Can't tell you."
i "Stag?"
"Nell," he laughed, putting on his
outer coat and taking a cap from his
pocket, "you always ask too many ques
tions. Would it give you a ray of com
fort if I told you it was purely stag?"
But Helen swept from the room with
out condescending to speak further on
the subject. Fred was surely the most
provoking of brothers. He was so mean
about introducing her to the "new man, '
Wendell Lane, who was a friend of
TYed's. He was not a society man, so
she had no prospect of meeting him at
dances. He was extremely good looking
and BO desirable in every way, but Fr?d
liad stubbornly refused all her entreat
ies to bring him to the house.
"He doesn't care for girls—sensible
fellow—and besides you've turned down
■fcard two or three of my friends whom I
have introduced to you."
"I wonder what's on to-night!" she
thought, going to the library window and
flattening her face against the pane.
Through the dusky gloom she discerned
Fred's vanishing figure faintly outlined.
He wasn't going toward the street, but
Across the lawn.
"To the stable!" she thought. "And the
■cap! He only wears thatw hen he drives
or goes on 'expeditions.' Perhaps he Is
only going for a drive with some other
man and said that about no one's calling
to tease me."
She hoped devoutly that some one
■would call. The time was so propitious.
Tier father and mother were away on a
journey and now Fred out for the eve
ning. She did everything she could think
of to pass away the time of that awful
Interval from seven to eight—the hour
of suspense. She read the evening paper,
played the piano abstractedly with her
foot on the soft pedal that she might
hear the doorbell. Finally she went up
stairs to see what her little brother Tom
was doing. She found him putting on
his coat and hat.
"Why. Tom. where the you going?"
"Out with some fellows. Mother said
I might have one night out. you know."
"Yes. Everyone is having a 'night
out' but me," said his sister, with a
mirthless laugh.
"Well, I guess Fred'll be back soon,"
*aid Tom, consolingly.
~"What makes - you - think - so?" 'she
asked, curiously.
"You just look in the den and you'll
«ee." he replied, with a chuckle.
Helen quickly sought Fred's den and in
in consternation at the prepara
tions and supplies for a spread that she
encountered.
"The plot thickens!" she thought, fol
lowing Tom down stairs. He went out
the front door and from the window she
saw him. too, cross the lawn and go in
the direction of the barn.
"Well," she exclaimed to herself, "the
•whole White family seem to be drawn
barnward. I think 1 had best follow
«uit."
She sat down for a few minutes to plot
and ponder. Fred had evidently planned
a sub rosa feast, else he'd have asked her
to help in the preparations. He prob
ably counted on returning after her re
tiring hour, which was early when there
•were no callers. If occurred to her that
lie was going to drive first. Well, she
fould prove or disprove that suspicion
right away.
She stole out across the lawn, down the
•graveled walk, around the curve and out
to the stable which was at considerable
distance from the house. It was entirely
•ieserted. She had a key with her aud
easily found a lantern ill the carriage
room. Investigation showed her that
the team of dapple grays were quietly
resting, as was Fred's own hcrse.
She locked the door and extinguished
the lantern. When she came out she was
startled to see three or lour men come
out of the old root cellar. She drew back
into the shadows with palpitating heart
and felt quite faint from fear until, as
the men passed, she recognized Fred's
voice. Then her fear was superseded by j
curiosity and excitement. She felt that ■
she was on the track of the mystery. j
As soon as the figures had disappeared |
from sight she relighted the lantern and j
sought the cellar. The door was par- j
tially open and a faint streak of light !
shone out. She looked in. Lying on a j
pile of lumber was a bound hand |
and foot, gagged and blindfolded.
Again terror seized her and she was
about to flee when she recognized the
form as that of Wendell Lane. In an
instant she had removed the gag from
his mouth and the bandage from his
eyes.
"Isn't this Miss White?" he asked.
"You'll pardon my not rising. I am —"
"Mr. Lane," she replied. "But how
can I cut these cords. I cannot untie
them."
"There's a knife in my pocket."
Helen soon severed the stout cords J
that bound him and he was on his feet.
"Quick!" he exclaimed. "Let's get
away before they come back!"
Leaving the lantern they sped away in
the darkness, not pausing until out ot
range of the cellar.
"Do tell me why you were in there and
bound so cruelly."
He laughed.
"I have recently joined the club of
which your brother is a member, and
they were initiating me to-night. They
took me in that place, telling me it was
the vault of the cemetery, and I almost
believed them. This was only the pre
liminary to several pleasant things they
had in store for me."
"Oh, what a good one on them!" cried
Helen, ecstatically, "Fred thinks he is
so 'foxy.' He has a banquet spread out
in his den for you all. Won't you come
up to the house. We'll make way with
the 'eats.' "
"Indeed I will!" was his hearty re
joinder. When they reached the house
and enjoyed a friendly chat, he sudden
ly exclaimed:
"When they come back and find me
missing they'll get out a search warrant.
Won't they come here?"
"Oh, no! Fred will never look for you
here!" declared Helen, confidently.
"Why not?"
She blushed a little but frankly told
him how she had tried in vain to prevail
upou her brother to bring him to the
house. Presently they adjourned to the
den and Wendell made caviar sand
wiches and opened olives while Helen
made the coffee.
As they were enjoying a cozy little
meal they heard the outer door open.
"Fred!" cried Wendell, in consterna
tion.
"No," said Helen, listening, "its Tom!"
"Come up here, dear!" she called.
"This is Mr. Lane, Tom. You can sit
down and have luncheon with us, if you
like."
"Oh, Helen!" cried the lad in a tone of
wild excitement. "I've got more to tell
you. You see I belong to a secret so
ciety and we were going to meet at the
root cellar. I got there first and I saw
some men carrying another man in there
and he was tied and gagged. The men
went away and left him and Iran and !
got our fellows all together, and we
thought it was a murder, so we went and
told the men in the grocery and they got
a policeman and all went to the rootcel
ler, but the man wasn't there. They
found the rope and the gags, though.
They are going to find out all about it."
Wendell and Helen listened to this re
cital with delighted interest and at its
close gave vent to laughter.
"Well, 'taint no laughing matter," said
Tom. indignantly.
"You'll think it is when we tell you,"
assured Helen. "Tom never tells any
thing," she explained to Wendell.
"I'd never tell anything Helen told me
not to; she's a brick," declared Tom.
"I think so, too," agreed Wendell, and
he proceeded to relate the circumstances
of the initiation to Tom, who highly
appreciated the situation.
"I really think you had better go,
now," advised Helen to Wendell. "Fred
may be coming any minute now."
"And may I come soon—to-morrow
night?" he asked, earnestly, as he was
taking leave.
Later, Helen, locked in her room,
laughed softly to hear her brother and
his companions go into the den and give
exclamation of regret and consterna
tion.
"Fred," she said, languidly, at break
fast the next morning, "Tom and I got
hungry last night and we found such lots
of delicacies in your den!"
But Fred was cross and irresponsive.
That evening when he came home lie
was dumbfounded to find Wendell there
chatting away and on friendly terms
with Helen.
"Where did you two meet?" he asked,
bluntly.
"Oh, Mr. Lane Introduced himself to
me one time when we were thrown Into
each others society," she said, demurely,
and Tom didn't even smile.
Drought Costs Big Sum.
Weather can often be reduced to fig
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calculated to have cost sheep-farmers
the enormous sum of twenty-five mil
lions, and the rain which followed it to
have been worth half a mililon an inch.
A day's rain in midsummer has cost the
Midlands nearly £IOO,OOO. At the same
time compensating advantages will be
derived by other industries.—London
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TWO FORTS CAPTURED
BY THE .JAPANESE.
St. Petersburg, Dec. I.—Official <lis- I
patches received here indicate that,
the Japanese are falling back below
Sintsintin, where for several days
they had apparently been attempting
a turning movement. After four days
of tolerably severe but unsuccessful
fighting, they are now retiring, with
the Russians in pursuit.
The Russian consul at Che Foo tele
graphs that the Japanese captured !
two forts in the storming operations j
against Port Arthur on November 29, j
but the news is not confirmed from ]
any other quarter. Tho consul says j
the Japanese losses were enormous.
The authorities of St. Petersburg j
have decided to grant $50,000 to the !
defenders of Port Arthur and their
families.
Tokio, Dec. 1. —Imperial headquar
ters made the following announce
ment last night:
"Our force operating against 203 !
Meter Hill advanced at 10 o'clock to- !
day from trenches already captured
near the summit of the hill and are
now struggling for the southeastern 1
portion of the fort on the summit. A !
fierce battle was stil 1 in progress at 7 i
o'clock."
The Japanese have captured and \
now hold 203 Metre Hill.
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TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER
AT PORT ARTHUR. !
London, Dec. 2. —The correspondent j
at Che Foo of the Daily Telegraph I
says that the attack on 203 Metre Hill j
resulted in heavy losses to the Japa- |
nese stormers. Simultaneously with i
this assault men of the Ninth and j
Eleventh divisions advanced and |
menaced the Rihlung and Kekwan !
forts. It is stated that within the !
last 24 hours the Japanese casualties
have totaled 15,000, and it is asserted j
that the attacks have been planned
to continue until December 10, when, i
it is hoped, the capture of Port Arthur
will be completed.
RUSSIANS CONCEDE THAT
PORT ARTHUR MUST FALL
St. Petersburg, Dec. 3. —With the j
confirmation of the news that the Jap- I
anese have occupied 203 Metre llill
and the report that the Russians un- ■
successfully attempted its recaptpre, i
officials at the war office are beginning ;
to prepare themselves for the inevi- \
table. Golden Hill and Liaoti Hill are
higher anil dominate 203 Metre Hill,
but the officials say that if the Japa
nese succeed in mounting heavy guns
upon the latter it probably will be
only a question of days or weeks be
fore the fortress falls. Still, there is
not the slightest idea among Gen.
Stoessel's friends that he will sur
render.
The ships in the harbor, it can be
stated 011 high authority, are in no
condition to attempt to break through
the investing squadron. The guns of
the warships were long ago landed,
and the marines and sailors have been
participating in the land defence.
Some of the ships also have been in
jured by shells.
Mukden, Dec. 3. —From 2:30 o'clock
Friday afternoon until late last night
sounds of a rapid cannonade were
heard on the Russian southwest front,
such as has not been experienced here
for a long time, but no excitement has
been caused by the incident. Gen.
Rennenkampff, with his cavalry, is fol
lowing the retreating Japanese, giving
them no time to occupy a position. It
seems that the Japanese in attempting
to seize Russian positions recently, so
extended themselves as to deplete
their reserves.
London, Dec. 3. —The possibility of
Russia trying to send her Black Sea
fleet to the far east strongly engages
the attention of England in view of
the complications which would result
if such an attempt were made. At the
beginning of the war Baron Hayashi,
the Japanese minister here, question
ed Foreign Minister Lansdowne on the
subject and received the most formal
assurances that Great Britain would
oppose any attempt of the Black Sea
fleet to pass into the Mediterranean.
ON A CHARGE OF FRAUD.
Detroit's Sheriff-elect Is Indicted by a
Federal Grand Jury.
Detroit, Mich., Dec. 1. —County Cor
oner John D. Hoffman, sheriff-elect
of Wayne county, was arrested Wed
nesday by a United States deputy
marshal on an indictment charging
him with using the United States
mails to further a scheme to defraud
the state, just as he was leaving the
police court, where he had been bound
over for trial on the charge of obtain
ing money under false pretenses by
means of charging the investigation in
the death of Mrs. Josephine Summers
to the state when she was a resident
of this city. The federal grand jury
returned the indictment against him.
The grand jury found that Mrs. Jose
phine Summers, on the investigation
of whose death tho police court case
is also based, was a resident of this
city and that therefore the coroner
was not entitled to collect fees from
the state for conducting the inquest
into her death.
A Great Drouth In Kentucky.
Lexington. Ky., Dec. 1. —Drouth in
central Kentucky is the worst in the
history of the state. Pasture lands
that have been in grass 20 years will
have to be resown, even the roots be
ins parched. Creeks, ponds and wells
are drying up and stock is cut down
to one drink of water in 24 hours in
many sections. Railroads and farm
ers are buying water at city water
works and hauling it miles. The Lex
ington reservoir is practically inex
haustible and affords the only hope
j about Lexington. The big blue grass
stock farms are in dire straits.
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