VOL.- xxxvii Clean-up Sale Continued! 0 0 Balance of January Devoted to Bargain Selling. ® Our stock is still too large for invoicing and must be further reduced. CLOCKS ALMOST GIVEN AWAY~ Special Clean-up Prices on Silks, Dress Goods, Table Linens, Crashes, Underwear and Hosiery. ALL WINTER GOODS SACRIFICED. -^<§l REMNANT SALE- Hundreds of Remnants of all kinds of Dry (jonds and all odd lots at bargain prices. L. STEIIN SO IN, 108 N. MAIN STREET, BUTLER, PA- Mrs. J. E. Zimmerman. Sacrifice Sale to Saturday, Jan. 20th. Owing to the fact of there being no issue of the county papers between Xmas and New Year, consequently our out-of town friends and patrons were not aware of this MONEY-SAVING Opportunity! | 50 for their benefit and also for those in the city who did not attend or were not waited 011, we will continue to seil all goods as advertised in our circular of last week Except the price on Jackets and Capes, we have reduced the price lower than those quoted in our circular of last week. With the longest, coldest part of winter yet 16 come, if you need a warm winter garment, such as a Jacket, Cape, Collarette or Scarf— a stylish Hat to go with them—you can now purchase both for less money than formerly you would pay for one. SACRIFICE PRICES ON Dress Goods, Calicos, Towels and Crashes, Underwear, Muslins, Blankets, Table Linens, Sheetings, Flannels and Yarns, Napki/ie, Ginghams, Mrs. J. E. ZIMMERMAN. STRIVING pOR gFFECT! . j r f T {jj i I Men don't buy clothin;/ for the pur-vfv jj I 4 J I ,W.pose or spend'.ig money. They -1 k get the best possible results for the?C yVI' JL vfC"money expended. Not cheap goodsvfc /<I "I t'llWifßT ,>ipbut goods as cheap as they can ,/*%<,/ L-A • | 2£sold for and made up properly. If?jY "jfcyou want the correct thing at the cor T ' I rect price, call and examine \ \ |* large stock of Heavy Weights, Fall \Of ftljKSr TI; ! > anu Winter Suitings and Overcoats of"3§C \ j 1/ Sw .-1 I ! the latest Styles, Shades and Colors .W. \j f- lfi tj j i f Fits and WorkmanshiD l | iJ I ,/y Guaranteed . "S G F. K6CK, 142 NorthlMain Street, Butler, Pa |j PAPES, JEWELERS. II f * zr. 51 5 * £ £ J DIAMONDS, * 0/3 „ J WATCHES, J o uj j CLOCKS, i" 71 ■ o J JEWELRY, i •£ < SILVERWARE, 5 r_ SILVER NOVELTIES, ETC. t 2 u_ # We repair all kinds of 4 £ 0 ? 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So that iis the wav with Kid-ne-O'.ds. The state* ! ments of people living right here in Pennsylvania are published so that you may ask these people and find out the great good Morrow's Kid ne-oids are doing. Mr O. J. Zimmerman, ii Ohio street Allegheny, l'a. says:—"l had a severe pain in my back just over the ki.lneys and at times it would !>e a sharp piercing pain. I was so nervous I could not s!e'.-p. I tried different kinds of kidney remedies for my trouble, but noue of them g;ive me relief, until I took Morrow's Kid lip oids. In a few days I was greatly er lieyed of all mv troubles. I will con tinue to take Kid-ne-olds." Morrow's Kid-ne-oic's are not pills but Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty cents a box at ail druj; stons aLU at R'-'dick & Groliman's drug store. Mailed on receipt of price. Manufac tured by John Morrow & Co., Chemists. Springiield, Ohio. This I» TOOT Opportunity. On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamp*, I a generous cample will bo mailed of the ! most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure | (Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demon strate the great merits of the remedy. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren St , New York City. Rev. John Reid, Jr., of flrcr.t Falls, Mont., j recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. I can emphasize his statement, "It is a posi tive cure for catarrh if usad as directed." — Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres. Church, Helena, Mont. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for catarrh and contains no mercury aor any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents. Butler Savings Bank Hutler, Capi Sal - - - s6o,tx>o.oo Surplus and Profits - - $185,000.00 JOS. I. PPRVIS President J. lIENEY TBOUTMAN Vice-President WM. CAMPBELL, Jr Ca.-l.ifr LOPIS B. STEIN Teller DIRECTORS -Joseph 1,. Purvis, .). Henry Tro'-.tman. W. !>. Hrrindon. W. A. .X S. Campbell. The Hutler Savings Hank ts tho Oldest Hanking Institution! 11 Hutler County. 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Stable Room For 65 Horses. □A *?ood class of horses, both drivers an<' draft horses always on hand and for sale under a full guarantee; and horses bought pon proper notitication by PEARSON B. NACE. Telephone. N"o. 21' J. U.ASTKI) SF.VKRAL HIUGIIT AND « bone«t persons to represent us as Ifan apt-rs In tills and close l>y counties. Salary f«»> a year and expenses. Straight. Ixiua lide.nomore.no less salary. Position per manent. Our references, any bank in any town. It is mainly office work coudric ted at home. Reference. Enclose -.elf-addressed stamped envelope. The Dominion Oompa jty, Dept. 3, Chicago. BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1900 Im; : ; + ; IN HIS STEPS. : % ~ : "What V&onlb I f 1 : : 3esas 33c?" | 1 I : 1 ;> % By Cliarks M. Sheldon. ;j " • j-.;.. ; : | . Tnr~ ... , - r~ jt .~zt _t" zr* l r it muz zz z:i: I: ~ CHAPTER VII. Ho that followcth mo shall not walk in dark ness. The body of Lorcen lay in state at the Page mansion on the avenue. ft was Sunday morning, and the clear, Bweet air, just beginning to breathe over the city the perfume of opening blossoms in the woods and fields, swept over tho casket from one of the open windows at the end of tho grand hall. The church bells were ringing, and the people on the avenne going by to serv ice turned curious, inquiring looks up at the great house and went on, talking of the recent events which had so strangely entered into and made history in tho city. At the First church Henry Maxwell, bearing i n hia face marks of the scene he had been through the night before, confronted an immense congregation and spoko of it with a passion and a power that came so naturally out of the profound experiences of tho day be fore that his people felt for him some thing of tho old feeling of pride they once had in his dramatic delivery. Only this vrr-.s a different attitude, and all through 1 is impassioned appeal this morning there v;. 3 a note of s:idne;s and n tiL' and stern condemnation that in;.us many of the members pale with self accusation or with inward an-jt r For Ray:::ond had awakened that niornin •; t > the f u t that the city h,:d gono f :•' );< aftt r all. The rumor at the He: . . 1j that tho second and third v.. 1 !. ..1 j .one i. ) license prov« d to be iui ••. ii- was true that thr- vict. -ry way '.."On i.y a very meager majority, but the vi -v.lt was tl ■ tame as if it had been overwhelm!; Raymond had voted to ; other year the sa loon. The t•}!"."-stums i f Raymond sloo;l condeir... d 1 y the r. sr.lt. More than a hundred Chi Lstians. professingdisciples, had failed to >,o 1 > the j. lis, and many more than that number had voted with the whisky men. If all the church mombersof Eayu.ond had voted again, t the saloon, it would today be outlaw d instead i f crowned king of the munici pal' '• ;t had bc-en tho fact in Ray U;. ..r.i. The saloon ruled. No ini: .that. What would Jr sua do? . An.l tae woman who had been brutal ly Btrnek do v. u by the very hand that had a . i-.t ! > eagerly to work her earthly ruin - what of her? Was it;:;; thing more than the logical sequence i f tho whole h< rrible system of licei; that for another year the saloon tli r received l;uCs<> often and compassed 1:. r degradation, from whose very spot the weapon had been hurled that struck lier dead, would by the law which the Christian people of Raymond voted to support open its doors, perhaps tomor row, and damn with earthly and eternal destruction a hundred Lori eiis befor? the year h:: 1 ilrnwn to its Moody cicsi'f All this, v. ith a voice that rang and trembled ar;:l broke in sobs of anguish for the result, did Ileury Maxwell pour out upon his people ti.it Sunday morn ing, and men and women wept as ha spoke. Donald Mar h sat there, his nsnal erect, handsome, firm, bright, self confident bearing all gone, his head bowed upon his breast, tho great tears rolling down his cheeks, unmind ful of the fact that never before had he shown outward emotion in a public service. Edward Norman near by sat, with his cleur cat, kern face erect, but his lip trembled and he clutched the end of tho pew with a feeling of emotion thr struck deep into his knowledge of tl< truth as Ma swell spoke of it. No man had riven or suffered moro to in fluence public opinion that last week than Norman. The thought that the Christian conscience had been aroused too late or too feebly lay with a weight of accusation upon tho heart of tho editor. What if ho had begun to do as Jesus would long ago? Who could tell what might hav2 been accomplished by this time? And up in the choir Rachel Winslow, with her face bowed on tho railing of the oak screen, gave way to a feeling sho had not yet al lowed to master her, but it so unfitted her for her part that when Henry Max well finished and she tried to sing the closing solo after the prayer her voice broke, and for tho first time in her life she was obliged to ait down sobbing and nnable to go on. Over the church in tho silence that followed this strange scene, sobs and the noise of weeping arose. When had tho First church yielded to such a bap tism of tears? What had become of its regular, precise, cold, conventional or der of service, undisturbed by any vul gar emotion and unmoved by any fool ish excitement? But the people had lately had their deepest convictions touched. They had been living so long on their surface feelings that they had almost forgotten the deeper wells of life. Now that they had broken to tho surface tho people wero convinced </ the meaning of their discipleship. Henry Maxwell did not ask this morning for volunteers to join those who had already pledged to do as Jesus would, but when the congregation had finally gone and he had entered the lec ture room it needed but a glance to show him that the original company of followers had been largely increased. The meeting was tender. It glowed with the Spirit's presence; it was alive with strong and lasting resolve to begin a war on tho whisky power of Ray mond that would break its reign. Since tho first Sunday when the first company of volunteers had pledged themsrtlves to do as Jesus would do the different meet ings had been characterized by distinct impulses or impressions. Today tho en tire force of the gathering seeuuid to be directed to this one large purpose. It was a meeting full of broken prayers, of contrition, confession, of strong yearning for a new and better city life, and all through it ran tho ono general cry for deliverance from tho saloon and its awful curse. But if tho First church was deeply stirred by tho events of the week gone tho Rectangle also felt moved strongly in its own way. The death of Loreen j was not in itself bo remarkable a fact. It was her recent acquaintance with the people from tho city that lifted her into special prominence and surrounded her death with more than ordinary im- ' portance. Every ono in the Rectangle knew that Loreen was at this moment lying in the Page mansion up on the avenue. Exaggerated reports of the magnificence of the casket had already furnished material for eager gossip. Tho Rectangle was excited to know the details of tho funeral. Would it bo public? What did Miss Pago intend to • do? Tho 11 ei. a tie had never before.' mingk .i ev. n in this distantly personal manner with tho aristocracy on tho boulevard. The opportunities f> r doin;' so were not frequent Gray and hi* . wife were besieged by inquiries as to . what Loreen's friends end acquaint ; ances were expected to do in paying their last respects to her, for her ac i qnaintance was largo, and many of the . recent converts were among h. r friends. |i So that is bow it happened Monday , ; aft moon at the tent that the funeral service of I.orccn was held bef< >re an , iminens) an !: aco that choked the tent and overfln • I beyond all previous , bounds. (irny had gone to Virginia, and after tail ing it over with her and i Henry Maxwell tho arrangements had been made. *•1 am and always have l>een opposed to largo public funerals," said Gray, whoso complete, wholesome simplicity of character was one of its great sources of strength, "bnt tho cry of the poor creatures who knewLoreen is so earnest that I do not know how to refuse their desire to see her and pay her poor l>ody some last little honor. What do you think, Mr. Maxwellt I will be guided by yonr jud nut in tho matter. lam sure that whatever you and Miss Page think is b< ;-t will bo right." "1 feel as yon do," replied Mr. Max well "Under most circumstances I have a gri ,;t distaste for what seems like display at such timed, bnt this seems different. The peoplo at the Rec tangle will not come here to a service. I think tho most Christian thing will be to lei them have the service at the tent. Do you think so, Virginia 1" "Yes,"said Virginia sadly. "Poor sonl! Ido not know but that some time I shall know she gave her life for mine. W < certainly cannot and will not use tin; occasion for vulgar display. Let her friends bo allowed tho gratification of their wishes. I see no harm in it." So the arrangements were made with some difficulty for the service at the tent, and Virginia, with her undo and Rollin, accompanied by Henry Max well, Rachel, President Marsh and the quartet from the First church, went down and witnessed one of the strange scenes of their lives. It happened that that afternoon a noted newspaper cor respondent was passing through Ray uiond on his way to an editorial con vention in a neighboring city. He heard of the contemplated service at the tent nnd was present that afternoon. His description of it was written in a graph ic style that caught tho attention of very many readers tho next day. A fragment of Lis account belongs to this part of tho history of Raymond: "There was a very unique and un usual funeral service held here this aft ernoon at tho tent of an evangelist, Rev. John Gray, down in tho slum dis trict known as the Rectangle. Tho oc casion was caused by tho killing of a woman during an election riot last Sat tirar.y r-..;nt. rt SPenis FT' - i : t been re cently converted during the evangelist's meetings and was killed while return ing from one of tho meetings in com pany with other converts i;nd some of her friends. She was a common street drunkard, and yet the services at the tent wero as impressive as any I ever witnessed in a metropolitan church over tho most distinguished citizen. "In the first place, a most exquisite anthem was sung by a trained choir. It struck mo, of course, being a stranger to tho place, with considerable astonish ment to hear voices like those ono nat urally expects to hear only in great churches or concerts at such a meeting a» this, but tho most remarkable part of the mu:-ic was a solo sung by a strik ingly beautiful young woman, a Miss Winslow, who, if I remember rightly, is the young singer who was sought for by Crandal, the manager of National Opera, and'who for some reason refused to accept his offer to go cn the stage. She had a most wonderful manner in singing, and everybody was weeping before she had sung a dozen words. That, of course, is not so strange an effect to be produced at a fnne-al serv ice, but the voice itself was one of ten thousand. I understand Miss Winslow sings in tho First church and could probably command almost any salary as a public singer. She will probably bo heard from soon. Such a voice could win its way anywhere. "Tho service, aside from tho singing, was peculiar. The evangelist, a man of apparently very simple, unassuming style, spoke a fow words, and he was followed by a fine looking man, the Rev. Henry Maxwell, pastor of the First church of Raymond. Mr. Maxwell spoke of the fact that tho dead woman had been fully prepared to go, but he spoko in a peculiarly sensitive manner of tho effect of tho liquor business on the lives of men and women like this one. Raymond, of course, being a rail road town and tho center of the great packing interests fortliis region, is full of saloons. I caught from tho minister's remarks that ho had only recently changed his views in regard to license. He certain".y made a very striking and yet it was in no sense an inappropriate address for a funeral. "Then followed what was perhaps the queer part of this strange service. The women in the tent, at least a large part of them up near the coffin, began to sing in a soft, tearful way, 'I was a wandering sheep.' "Then, while tho singing was going on, one row of women stood up and walked slowly past the casket, and as they went by each one placed a flower of some kind on it. Then they sat down, and another row filed past, leaving their flowers. All the time the singing continued softly, like rain on a tent cover when the wind is gentle. It was one of tho simplest and at the same time one of tho most impressive sights I ever witnessed. The sides of the tent were up, and hundreds of people who could not get in stood outside, all as still as death, with wonderful sadness and solemnity for Bucli rough looking people. There must have been a hun dred of these women, and I was told many of them had been converted at the meetings just recently. I cannot de scribe the effect of that singing. Not a man sang a note, all women's voices, and so soft and yet so distinct that the effect was startling. "The service closed with another solo by Miss Winslow, who sang "Tliero wero ninety and nine,' and then the evangelist asked them all to bow then heads while ho prayed. I was obliged, in order to catch my train, to leave during the prayer, and the last view I caught of the scene as tin- train went by the shops was a sight of tho great crowd pouring out of the tent and forming in open ranks while the coffin was borne out by six of the women. It is a long time since I have seen such a picture in this unpoetical republic." If L an'e fmeral knpnu da i inj f like this, it is rn.t dilin i t to imagine the profound fe<din:,-- f th'who h.nl so intimately c- :: n ctod with her life and d< ath. K "til ing h.-d ever entered the Rectangle t: .t had moved it so deeply as Loreen's 1 '.y in that c-'tTm, nnd tho Holy Spirit soeTu. 1 to Mess with special power ()w nsc < t this • n. clrss clay, for that night at tli..' i... • ting he swept more than a scoro of lost st>uls women, into the fold i if the Good Shepherd. It fihonld he said here that Henry Maxwell's statement concerning the opening of the saloon from whose win dow Loreen had been killed proved nearly exactly true. It waa formally closed Monday and Tuesday while the authorities arrested the proprietor, charged with the murder, but nothing could IK* proved against any one, and l« f: re Saturday of that week the saloon was running aa regularly as ever. No i,ii" on the earth was ever punished by earthly courts for the murder of Loreen. No one in all Raymond, including th Rectangle, felt Loreen's death more keenly than Virginia. It came like a distinct pers< nal loss toiler. That short week while Loreen had been in her huine had opened Virginia's heart to a u w life. She was talking it over with Rachel the day after the funeral. They were sitting in the hall of thg Pago mansion. '•I am going to do something with my money to help these women to a better life. '* Virginia looked over to th« end of the hall where the day beforo Loreen's body had lain. "I have decid ed on a good plan, as it seems to me. I have talked it over with Rollin He will devote a large part his money to tho same plan." "How lunch nion'-y havo you, Vir ginia. to give in this wayt" asked Rachel. Once siio world never have nsk.-d sn<-'i a p rsonal (jr. ti< n. Now it d ;>• natural to l.ioc l'rankly about money as about anything else that be longed to God. "I have available for use at least f}no.ooo. Roliin has as much more. It is one of hi- bitt-.r rigre'.s nuw that his extravagant habits of life before his conversion practically threw away half that father left him. We are both eager to make all tlr reparation in our pow er. 'What would Jesus do with this money'?' We want t.> answer that ques tion honestly and wis. ly. Tho money I shall put into The News is. I am con fident, in line with Jesus' probable ac tion. It is as necessary that we have a daily Christian paj>"r in Raymond, especially now that we have the saloon influence to meet, as it is to have a church f>r a college. So I am satisfied that the $.>00,000 that Mr. Norman will know how to use so well will be a powerful factor in Raymond to do as Jesus would do. "Al)out my other plan, Rachel, I want you to work with me. Rollin and I are going to buy up a large part of the property in the Rectangle. The field where the tent now is has been in liti gation for years. We mean to secure the entire tract as soon as the courts have settled the title. For some time I have been making a specal study of the various forms of college settlements and resident methods of Christian work and institutional church work in the heart of great city slums. I do not know that I havo yet been ablo to tell just what is tho wisest and most effective kind of work that can be done in Raymond, but I do know this much —my money (I mean God's, which ho wants me to use) can build wholesome lodging houses, refuges for poor women, asy lums for shopgirls, safety for many and many a lost girl like Loreen. And Ido not want to be simply a dispenser of this money. God help me 1 Ido want to put myself into the problem. But do you know, Rachel, I have a feeling all the time that all that limitless money and limitless personal sacrifice can possibly do will not really lessen very much the awful conditions at the Rectangle as long as the saloon is legally established there. I think that is true of any Christian work now be ing carried on in any great city. The saloon furnishes material to be saved faster than the settlement or residence or rescue mission work can save it. " Virginia suddenly rose and paced the hall. Rachel answered sadly and yet with a note of hope in her voice: "It is true; but, oh, Virginia, what a wonderful amount of happiness and power can come out of this money! And the saloon cannot always remain here. The time must come when the Christian force in the city will triumph. " Virginia paused near Rachel, and her pale, earnest face lighted up. "I believe that too. The number of those who have promised to do as Jesus would is increasing. If wo once have, say, 500 such disciples in Raymond, the saloon is doomed. But now, dear. I want you to look at your part in this plan for capturing and saving the Rec tangle. Your voice is a power. I havo had many ideas lately. Here is one of them. You could organize among the girls a musical institute. Give them the benefit of your training. There are some splendid voices in the rough there. Did any one ever hear such singing as that yesterday by those women V Rachel, what a beautiful opportunity! You shall have the best of opportunity in the way of organs and orchestras that money can provide, and what cannot be done with music to win souls there into higher and better and purer liv ing?" Before Virginia had ceased speaking Rachel's face was perfectly transfigured with the thought of her life work. It flowed into her heart and mind like a flood, and the torrent of her feeling overflowed in tears that could not be restrained. It was what she had dreamed of doing herself. It represented to her something that she felt was in keeping with a right use of her own talent. "Yes, " she said as she rose and put her arms about Virginia, while both girls in the excitement of their enthusiasm paced the hall—"yes, I will gladly put my life into that kind of service. Ido believe that Jesus Would have mo use my life in this way. Virginia, what miracles can we not accomplish with humanity if we havo such a lever as consecrated money to move things with!" "Add to it consecrated personal en thusiasm like yours, and it cortainly can accomplish great things," said Vir ginia, smiling, and then before Rachel could reply Rollin came in. He hesitat ed a moment and was passing out of the hall into tho library when Virginia called him and asked some questions about his work. Rollin came back and sat down, and together the three discussed their future plans. Rollin was apparently entirely free from embarrassment in Rachel's presence while Virginia was with them; only his manner with her was almost precise, if not cold. The past seemed to be entirely absorbed in his wonderful conversion. He had not forgotten it, hut he se< med to be Completely caught up fi ♦ this present time in tho purpose of this new life. After awhile Rollin was called out, and Katie I end Virginia began to talk of other tbin^- "By the w::v, what has become of Jasper Ch: - Virginia aeked the quertioa inno cently enough, but H.'s hel blushed, and Virginia added, with a smile: "I sup pose he is writing another l>ook. is he goin« to put you into this one. Rachel? You know I always suspected J.u-i» r Chase of doing that very thing in hia first story." "Virginia"—Raeliel sjKike with the franlrji .-.s that had always existe<l be tween the two friends—"Jasper ("base to'd iae the.thc-r nipht that —he prop<»ed tome—or he would if"— Rachel stopped and sat with her hands clasped on her lap, and there were tears in her eyes. "Virginia, I thought a little while age that I loved him, as he said he loved me, but when he spoke my heart felt repelled, and I said what I ought to have said. I told him no. I have not seem him since. That was the night of the first conversions at the Rectangle." "I am glad for you." said Virginia qnietly. "Whyt" asked Rachel, a little star tled "Because 1 have never really liked Jasper Chase. He is too cold and—l do not like to judge him, but I have al ways distrusted his sincerity in taking the pledge at the church with the rest." Rachel looked at Virginia thought fully. "I have never given my heart to him, lam sure. He touched my emotions, and 1 admired his skill as a writer. I have thought at times that I cared a good deal for him. I think perhaps if he had spoken to me at any other time than the one he chose I could easily have persuaded myself that I loved him. but not now. " Rachel paused suddenly, and when she looked up at Virginia "again there were tears on her face Vir ginia came to her and put her arm about her tenderly. When Rachel had left the house, Vir ginia sat in the hall thinking over the confidence her friend had just shown her. There was something still to be told. Virginia felt sure from Rachel's manner, but she did not feel hurt that Rachel had kept back something She was simply conscious of more on Ra chel's mind than she had revealed Very soon Rollin came back, and he and Virginia, arm in arm, as they had lately been in the habit of doing, walked up and down the long hall. It was easy for their talk to settle finally upon Rachel because of the place she was to occupy in the plans which were being made for the purchase of the property at the Rectangle. "Did yon ever know a girl of such really gifted powers in vocal music who was willing to give her whole life to the peoxile, as Rachel is going to do ? She is going to give music lessons in the city, have private pupils to make her living and then give the people in the Rectangle the benefit of her culture and her voice." "It is certainly a very good example of self sacrifice. " replied Rollin, a little stiffly Virginia looked at him a little sharply "But don't you think it is a very unusual example ? Can you imagine" —here Virginia named half a dozen fa mous opera singers—"doing anything of this sort?" "No: I can't," Rollin answered briefly. "Neither can I imagine Miss" —ho spoke the name of the girl with tho red parasol who had begged Vir ginia to take the girls to the Rectangle —"doing what you are doing. Vir ginia. " "Any moro than I can imagine Mr. " Virginia siiuiir nit; xiaum m n juung society leader—"going about to the clubs doing your work, Rollin. " The two walked on in silence for the length of the hall. "Coming back to Rachel," began Virginia, "Rollin, why do you treat her with such a distant, precise man ner? I think, Rollin—pardon me if I hurt you—that she is annoyed by it. You used.to be on easy terms. I don't think Rachel likes this change." Rollin suddenly stopped. Ho seemed deeply agitated. He took his arm from Virginia's and walked down to the end of the hall Then he returned, with his arms behind him, and, stopping near his sister, he said: "Virginia, have you not learned my secret?" Virginia looked bewildered. Then over her face the unusual color crept showing that she understood. —' "I havo never loved »® a ~ chel Winslow. " Rollin spoke calmly enough no"" "That day she was here, yon talked about her refusal to join the concert company, I asked her to be my wife, out there on the avenue. She refused me, as I knew she would, and she gave as her reason the fact that I had no purpose in life, which was true enough. Now that I have a pur pose. now that I am a new man, don't you see. Virginia, how impossible it is for me to say anything ? I owe my very Conversion to Rachel's singing, and yet that night while she sang I can honest ly say that for the time being I never thought of her voice except as God's message I believe all my personal love for her was for the time merged into a personal love to God and my Saviour.' Rollin was silent. Then he went on with more emotion, "I am still in love with her. Virginia, but I do not think she could ever love ma " He stopped and looked his sister in the face with a sad smile. "I don't know about that," said Vir ginia to herself. She was noting Rol lin's handsome face, its marks of dissi pation nearly all gone now, the firm lips showing manhood and courage, the clear eyes looking into hers frankly, the form strong and graceful Rollin was a man now. Why should not Rachel come to love him in time ? Surely the two were well fitted for each other, especially now that their purpose in life was moved by the same Christian source. Sho said something of all this to Rol lin, but he did not find much comfort. When they closed the interview, Vir ginia carried away the impression that Rollin meant to go his way with his chosen work, trying to reach the fash ionable men at the clubs and, while not avoiding Rachel, seeking no occasion for meeting her He was distrustful of his power to control his feelings, and Virginia could see that he dreaded even the thought that his love was still the tame The ri.-xt day she went down to The News office to see Edward Norman and arrange the det: - f her part in fhe establishment . : tho papir on its new foundation. Henry Maxwell was pres ent at this conference, and tho three agreed that, whatever Jesus would do in detail as editor of a daily paper, he would be guided by the same general principles that directed his conduct as the Saviour of the world. "I have tried to put down here in concrete form some of the things which it has seemed to mo Jesus would do," said Edward Norman. He read from a paper lying on his d«-sk, and Henry Maxwell was reminded again of his effort to put into written form his own conception of Jesus' probablo action and also of Milton Wright's attempt in his business. "I have headed this, 'What Would Jesus Do as Edward Norman, Editor of a Daily Newspaper In Raymond.' "1. Ho won M never allow a sentence or n picture in his paper that could bo called bad or coarso or impure in any way. "3. He would probably conduct the political part of the paper from the standpoint of !. niuirtisan patriotism. always looking uj.on .ill political ques tions in the light of their relations to the welfare of the jKople. always on the basis of 'What is right?' never from th-' basis of 'What is for the I- < inter ests of this or that party T In other words, he v. OP I I treat every political subject from the standpoint of the ad vancement of the kingdom of God on the earth. " Edward Norman looked up from the reading for a moment "Yon under stand that is my interpretation of Jesns' probable action on political matters on other new-paper inen who may have a different conception of Jesns' probable action from mine. lam simply trying to answer honestly. "What would Jesns do as Edward Norman ?' and the answer I find is what I have put down." "3. The end and aim of a daily pa per conducted by Jesus would be to do the will of God. That is, his main pur pose in carrying on a newsjwiper wonld not be to make money or gain political influence, but his first and ruling pur pose : nould l*» BO to conduct his paper that it would be evident to all his sub scribers that he was trying to seek first the kingdom of God by mfans of his paper. This purpose would be as dis tinct and unquestioned as the purpose of a minister or a missionary or any other unselfish martyr in Christian work anvwhere. "4 All questionable advertisements would be impossible. "5. The relation of Jesns to the em ployees on the paj>er won Id be of the most loving character." "So far as I have gone," said Nor man, again looking np, "I am of the opinion that Jesus would employ prac tically some form of 00-operation that would represent the idea of mutual in terest in a business where all were to move together for the same great end. 1 am working out such a plan, and I am confident it will be successful. At any rate, once introduce the element of per sonal love into a business like this, take out the selfish principle of doing it for the sake of personal profits to a man or company, and I do not see any way ex cept the most loving personal interest between editor, reporters, pressmen and all who contributed anything to the life of the paper, and that interest would be expressed not only in the per sonal love and sympathy, but in a shar ing with the profits of the business. "6. As editor of a daily paper today Jesus would give large spaco to the work of the Christian world. He would devote a page possibly to the facts of reform, of sociological problems, of in stitutional chnrch work and similar movements. "?. He would do rll in his power in his paper to fight the saloon as an enemy of the human race and an unnecessary part of our present civilization. He would do this regardless of public sen timent in the matter and, of course, al ways regardless of it* effect on his sub scription list." Again Edward Norman looked np. "I state my honest conviction on this point Of conrse Ido not pass judgment on the Christian men who are editing other kinds of papers today, but as I interpret Jesus I believe he would use the influence of his paper to remove the saloon entirely from tho political and social life of the nation. "8. Jesus would not issue a Sunday edition. world that people ought to know Among the things that they do not need to know and which would not he pub lished wonld be brutal prizefights, long accounts of crimes, scandals in private families or any other human events which in any way would conflict with the first point mentioned in this out line. "10. If Jesus had the amount of money to use on a paper which we have, he would probably secure the best and strongest Christian men and women to co-operate with him in the matter of contributors. That will be my pur pose, as 1 shall be able to show you in a few days. "11. Whatever the details »** • ,n '' P a * per might demand rne P a P** r veloped «tr definite plan, the main pri-cfple that guided it would always be the establishment of the kingdom of God in the world. This largo general principle wonld necessarily shape all the details." Edward Norman finished reading his plan. He was very thoughtful. "I have merely sketched a very faint outline. I have a hundred ideas for making the paper powerful that I havo not yet thought out fully. This is sim ply suggestive I have talked it over with other newspaper men. Some of them say I will have a weak, namby painby Sunday school sheet If I get out something as good as a Sunday school, it will be pretty good. Why do men when they want to characterize something as particularly feeble always use a Sunday school as a comparison when they ought to know that the Sun day school is one or the strongest, most powerful influences in our civilization in this country today. But the paper will not necessarily be weak because it is good. Good things are more pow erful than bad. The question with me Is largely one of support from the Chris tian i>eople of Raymond. There are over 20.000 church members here in the city. If half of them will stand by The News, its life is assured. What do you think. Maxwell, is the probability of such support?" "I don't know enough about it to give an intelligent answer. I lielieve in the paper with all my heart. If it lives a year, as Miss Virginia said, there is no telling what it can do. The great thing will be to issue such a paper, as near as we can judge, as Jesus probably would and put into it all the elements of Christian brains, strength, intelli gence and sense and command respect by the absence of bigotry, of fanati cism, narrowness and anything else that is contrary to the spirit of Jesus. Such a paper will call for the best that hu man thought and action are capable <•( giving. The greatest minds in the world would have their powers taxed t<> the utmost to issue a Christian daily. " "Yes," Edward Norman spoke hum bly. "I shall make great mistakes, no donbt. 1 need a great deal of wisdom But I want to do as Jesus would 'What would he do?' I have askeil it daily and shall continue to do so and abide by results." "I think we are beginning to under stand," aaid Virginia, "the meaning of that command, 'Grow in the grace and knowledge of onr Lor 4 ami Savionr Jesus Christ.' lam sure Ido not know all that he would do in detail until I know him better." "That is very trne." said Henry- Maxwell. "I am beginning to under stand tlint I cannot interpret the prob able action of Jesus until I know better what his spirit is. To my mind the greatest question in all of human life is summed up when we ask, 'What would Jesus do?' if as we ask it we also try to answer it from a growing knowledge of Jesus himself. We must know Jesus before we can imitate him." When the arrangements had been made between Virginia and Edward Norman, he found himself in possession of the sum of $."it)«,0«0. exclusively his to nse for the establishment uf a Chris- tian daily j • r Wli. n Virginia an£ Henry Ma:. :1 had gone, Norman closed his r and. alone with th« Divine pr -ence. asked like a child for help from h: all p werful Fath. r. All throngh his prayer as he kneeled b*f re his <1 -L' ran the promise, "If any |.n ■•i -' i It: im a»k of God, who giveth t. • ,;!1 in ii liberally and op la-aideth not. and it shall he given him Surely hi* prayer would be an swer- <] and the kingdom be advanced through this instrument of God's pow «*• this mighty prws which had become •O larly <i> graded to the base nses of man s avarice and ambition. Two n:. r.ths went by. They were fnll of action and re-suits in the city of Rav uiond aad especially in the First church. In spite <.f the approaching heat of the coxumt r season, the aft«T meeting of th • discipb .•» who had made the pledge to do a- J» - would do continued with and power. Gray had fin ished In.- w - rk at the Rectangle. and an outward oWrvcr going thronirh the pbee could not have sen any iliffcrence in the old conditions, although there was an actual change in hnndreds of lives, but the (siloons, den*. hovels, gambling houses. still ran, ovtrdowing their vile »«* into the lives of fresh victims to take th»> place of those rescued by the evangelist, and the devil recruited his ranks very fast. Henry Maxwell did not go abroad. Instead of that he took the money he had been saving for the trip and quiet ly arranged a summer vacation for a whole family living down in the Rec tangle who had never gone outside of the foul district of the tenement The pastor of the First chnrch will never forget the w.-ek h>> -[>» nt with this fam ily making the arrangements. He went down into the Rectangle one hot day when something of the terrible heat of the tenements was beginning to be felt and helped the family to the station and then went with them to a beantiful spot on the coast, where, in the house of a Christian woman, these bewildered city tenants breathed for the first time in years the cool salt air and felt blow about them the pine scented fragrant of a new lease of life. There was a sickly baby with the mother—three other children, one a cripple The father, who had been out of work until he had been, as he after ward confessed to Maxwell several times on the verge of suicide, sat with the bahy in h:s arms during the jour ney. and whin Maxwell started back to Raymond after seeing the family s» t tl.il the man lu ld his hand at parting and choked with his utterance and finally broke down, to Maxwell's great confuM.n The mother, a wearied, wornont woman, who had lost three children the year Ivfore from a fever scourge in the Rectangle, *at by the car w i dow all the way and drank in th ' i f sea and sky and field. It : rack* to her. and Henry Mai . uiing back into Raymond at th ad of that week, feeling the so u hing. sickening heat all the more bc-ca.l eof his little taste of the ocean >r r.. s. th .nked God for the joy he had wi«t: -od i'l'.d entered upon his disci fi with a humble heart, knowing for al: t tiie first time in his life this tpeeial kiu.i of sacrifice, for never be fore had he «1. nied himself his regular summer trip away from the heat of Raymond, whether ha felt in any great need of rest or not. "It is a fact." he said in reply to sev eral inquiries on the part of his church. yk'v' F-fef 'i-l#' sVaV here. " It was with a feeling of relief that he succeeded in concealing from every ene but his wife what he had done with this other family. He felt the need .if doing anything of that sort Without display or approval from others. So the summer came on. and Henry Maxwell grew into larger knowledge of his Lord. The First church was still swayed by the power of the Spirit Maxwell marveled at the continuance of his stay. He knew very well that from the beginning nothing but thfi Spirit's presence had kect > - 1 " 1 from l*ing —«mder by this re mark- 1 -* n "" ln S 11 had received of its alseipleship Even now there were many of the memlwrs among those who had not taken the pledge who regarded the whole movement as Mrs. Winslow did. in the nature of a fanatical inter pretation of Christian duty, and looked for a return of the old normal condi tion. Meanwhile the whole body of dis ciples was under the influence of the Spirit, and Henry Maxwell went his way that summer doing his parish work in jjreat joy, keeping up his meetings witli the railroad men, as he had prom ised Alexander Powers.'and daily grow ing into a better knowledge of the Master. Early one evening in August, after a day of refreshing coolness, following a long period of heat, Jasper Chase walk ed to the window of his room in the apartment house on the avenue and looked out. On his desk lay a pile of manuscript Since that evening when be had spoken to Rachel Winslow he had not met her. His singularly sensitive nature, sensi tive to the point of irritability when he was thwarted, seemed to thrust him into an isolation that was intensified by his habits as an author. All through the heat of the summer he had been writing. His book was nearly done now. He had thrown him self into its construction with a feverish strength that threatened at any moment to desert him and leave him helpless. He had not forgotten his pledge with the other chnrch members at the First church. It had forced itself upon his notice all through his writing and ever since Rachel had said no to him. He had asked a thousand time®, "Would Jesus do this?" "Would he write this story ?" It was a society novel, written in a style that had proved popular. It had no purpose except to amuse. Its moral teaching was not bad, but nei ther was it Christian in any positive way Jasper Chase knew that such a story would sell. He was conscious of powers in his way that the social world petted and admired. What would J ecus dot The question obtruded on him at the most inopportune times. He be came irascible over it. The standard of Jesus as an author was too ideal. Of course Jesus would use his powers to produce something useful or helpful or with a purpose. What was he, Jasper Chase, writing this novel fort Why, what nearly every writer wrote for— namely, money and fame as a writer. There was no secret with him that he was writing this new story with that object. He was not poor and so had no temptation to write for money, but he was urged on by his desire for fame as much its anything. He must write this kind of matter. But what would Jesus dot The question plagued him even more than Rachel's refusal Was he going to break his promise t As he stood at the window Rollin Page came out of the clubhouse just op posite. Jasper noted his handsome face and noble fi»rnre as he started down the street. He went back to his desk and turned over some papers there. Then he returned to the window. Rollin was walking down i»ast the block, and Ra chel Winslow was walking beside him. Rollin must have overtaken her as she was coming from Virginia's that after noon. (Continued on 4th pajre.) Mo -1
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