I I A LESSON FROM BY AGNES LOUISE FROY03T. CANNOT understand what has changed Nellie io." Mrs. Howard spoke In trou bled tones, her eyes on her daughter's empty place at the table. Her husband shook his head. Ue woo getting a trifle Impatient wlfh Nel lie. Tom finished his second plate of grlddle-cakcs and Intimated that he could dispose of a third. Then he an nounced hi views on the subject: "Now, mother, there's nothing the matter with Nell but pure olrs. She has been awny to school these two years, and lnt mention the traveled with Aunt Nell and was waited on uu iil she was completely spoiled. Now ebe fetls a little too large for the house. This morning she's late for breakfast ngaln, and when she (loos come trailing In siiie'H have on tbHt dresslng-jacftet thing that looks like a bath robe cut In hulf. It gives mo the blues to look ut It. I hnte those floppy things! I suppose she doesn't think It's worth while to dress up and be entertaining at home." "Now, Tom denr!" admonished his mother gently. "You must not ba un charitable with Nellie. Remember that she has studied hnrd this year. We will give her a chance to rest and I think she will soon come back to her old self." Tom shook his head unconvinced. IIo wns a lively young gentleman Just re turned from his sophomore year at college, and his patience with his sis ter's new nttltude was limited. "It's a good thing to vary Ura In work with physical exercise," he sug gested wisely. "Sho crawls down lute mornings, and If there Is anything she might do around the house, she half does It and forgets the rest, or else she gets a headache and can't do any thing. But she can spend hours writ ing fat letters to those girl friends of hers. When the Ellis boys come you'll see her down stairs early, and not wearing that loose rr.g, cither." "Tom, be careful!" Mrs. Howard's word of warning came Just In time. The dining room door opened and Nellie entered, look ing a trifle sleepy about the eyes. Her hair combed somewhat less carefully than for more public occasions, and she wore the short, voluminous dressing-sack which was Tom's pet abom ination. "Good morning," she said, smiling, but stopping to cover a bit of a yawn with her band. "I'm sorry I'm so late." Nellie bad been sorry a good many mornings", since her return, but her regret had not carried her to the point of prompt attendance. She was a plump, pretty girl, with a face usually sparkling with animation; but Just now she looked rather listless, per haps a trifle bored. Formerly she had found It a pleasure to exert herself to entertain her own family. Mrs. How ard, with a mother's charity, had been attributing her lack of animation to delicate health, but had been slowly forced to admit that when strangers were with them, her young daughter was as bright and charming as ever. Doubtless Nellie herself had little Idea of how far she bad let herself drift into this indifference. There was a letter at Nellie's place, and as she opened and read It she gave an eiclninutlon of pleasure. "Oh, how lovely! It Is from Jean Fairfax, mamma, and she says she can come. Saturday afternoon that's to-morrow. Why, that is when your college friends come. Isn't It, Tom? Oh, .1 am so glad she can come! She Is such a dear!" Nellie sat up straigbter and evinced considerably more interest In life, but Tom, gravely finishing bis coffee, ap parently forgot to answer her question. His critical eye roved severely over the wide-spreading little dressing sack, which ended a few brief Inches below his sister's naturally trim waist, and Mr. Howard, watching him, smiled significantly across the table at his wire. After breakfast Tom hunted up his mother as sho,. was busy, about her household duties. "Now," he said, "If you have a lot to do, moke Nell work. I hear-her at the piano this minute. Oh, yes, I know she doesn't mean anything, but It's high time she did mean something. She's all right, really, only she's care less and spoiled, and you always did let us Impose on you." Mrs. Howard shook her head and smiled, but she loved the affectionately scolding tono which her big son occa sionally adopted toward her. Tom had not finished yet. "Now, mother, let's make a bargain, honor bright. If I undertake to cure Nell with heroic treatment, will you old, abet aud encourage my nefarious schoiues? You needn't do much; JuHt stand by me. For Instance, I didn't tell her, but I have received word that tho Ellis boys will get here late to night Instend of to-morrow afternoon. I want to smuggle them In so that Nell won't know they are here. Will you help me?" Mrs. Howard looked at him serious ly. "Tom. I do not wish to do any thing to humiliate NeJlle. at least un necessarily. Still. I thin you are r'ght. it hurts me to think of causing her pain, but I do think It will be the best thing for her. I have tried to Peak with her gently, but I know she uicruiy thought that I was carping and aklnd and that we do not quite un derstand her. She does not realise how careless she has grown. Now, be careful, Tom!" rlKht" uli Tom- cheerful, ad he ,wa off like a whidwuid. NeUla was not quite as late as usual to breakfast on Saturday nxwmng. nnTJr,U'M) 'b8 "luting T ftn1 awakened with a more lively interest la her everyday and Ji"' h"'r trill, reckless, wek V0,' the 8hort' Puk dresslug- came Into the dining-room. 7Z v"lnwt P'" wept over her eZrJrVnd t,UBled iu "-very ies of bnr hair. Two Strang young men sat at tho W. InujiUluK and chatting wit), her i "-.X a.K . . BROTHER TOM, I father and mother and . Tom. They were tall, Nellie particularly admired tall men, one of them slim, with glasses and shrewd, twinkling eyes behind them, and the other broad and heavy, with a bend of hair which pro claimed him to be none other than "Billy" Ellis, Tom's football hero. Tom looked up Innocently as Nell, of cruel necessity, came forward and took her place, giving an apprehensive twitch to her spreading draperies and wishing fervently that she were at the north pole, with that wretched Torn1 and his frierds at the south pole. Tom apporer.tly was utterly oblivious that anything wns wrong, and cheer fully Introduced his friends with an explanatory, "They came last night, you know." Nellie sat through her breakfast In a far from hnppy frame of mind. Tom was horrid not to tell her, and sho hnted that dressing-sack! The Ellis boys were nice, though, nnd she brightened and tried to talk, but In some way Tom kept the conversation going so rnpldly, only including his parents, that she found It difficult to say anything. Billy Ellis thought Tom's sister wns "Jolly pretty," ouly he didn't core for 'thnt loose thing sho wore, and lie wondered why she was so quiet. His brother Preston watched her reflectively from behind his glasses nnd concluded thnt there was some electricity In the domestic atmosphere, and that Tom was probably the cause of It. Brenkfast hnd never seemed so long to Nell, nnd ns soon afterward ns che could find her brother alone, sho cor nered him lndlgnnntly. "Tom Howard, I think It was per fectly horrid of you! Why uldu't you tell me, Instead of letting me come down to breakfast looking like this?" There were volumes of scorn In the tone In which she designated her gen eral nppenrnnee. Tom looked at her In Injured surprise. "That? Why. I thought rou llkpd It. although I must say I den't think much of It myself. Of course, I could have let you known, if I'd known vou felt that way. They Ju3t came lnte last night. Beside, If that rig Is good enough for us, I guess It's good enough for other people." Brothers can sometimes be brutally frank. Nell colored, fcelinz that the conversation was taking an unfortun ate turn, Dut sne bad another, and to her a very real, grievance. "And you were actually rude, too! You never gave me a chance to sny a word, and I had to sit them Ilka a wooden doll. I know they thought me queer and stupid. You never used 10 act tuat way." "Well, I can't seem to suit von " said Tom, resignedly, and his sigh was eloquent of Injured virtue. "I thnneht you were so worn out and everything rrom school, and you vo been so monv all along, that I Just exerted myself to take your share of the conversation off your snouiaers. You haven't talked much to us during breakfasts, vou know " "Oh, you needn't bother exnlnlnlnir'" Nell interposed, nd marched awny with all the dignity she could com mand under such trying circumstances. But there was a choklue feellni? in hoi- throat, and once out of her brother's sight she fled swiftly to he:- room and wept. "Oh, oh!" she wailed In the dentin. of a pillow. "Wasn't It Just too horrid of him? And I saw the f-football ouo looking at this d-dresdful thing! I know he thought It wasn't nlco, and I luuteu just like a balloon!" A flushed and tear suddenly from the pillow, the objec tionable garment was whisked off, rolled into an ignouilnous ball, and viclouoly stuffed behind the bureau. "Oh, I Just hate Toil, nnd I'll novor wear yen again outside this room, never, never, uever!" The recollection that Jean Fairfax would be with her that noon was a faint comfort Nell bathed her face nnd began to Dreuare fnr Iipi. tvir.A: coming. At lunch Tom ODliglngly lot tho con versation go where It would, and Nell's spirits rose until Billy Ellis con cluded that Tom's sister was a "Jolly little thlug," nnd turned his head in her direction so frequently that her brother's eyes gleamed with delight But the wound still lie could hardly wait to got Jean Fair- iu uouie rrom tne station before sho poured her morning's woe into that sympathetic ear. Jean looked a little blank and paused with hat-pins half out. "Oh, Co yo:i wear you:- d;;S;ng suek at breakfast, Nelli" "Why,, yes, Just at horce. Don't you?" "Well, no, not out of my room. You see. papa and the boys hate those loose things so-most men do, I guess. Be sides, there are a good many of us and only ono servant, to I am pretty busy helping mother mornings. If i didn't dress before breakfast, I shouldn't get time afterward. You don't have to do anything but amuse yourself, do you. you lucky old dear?" Nell did not have much to sny. She was looking doubtful. By Monday morulng the family had already fallen Into the habit of linger Ing at the breakfast table. There was much to linger for. Three times in succession Mr. Howard had put his coffee down untasted, to laugh heartily at a lively skirmish between Preston Ellis and Jean Fairfax. "Would you two mind suspending hostilities for a few moments?" queried Tom. "I should like to plan llttt gadding. How about a tally-ho party for Thursday? We don't own one of those swell tblugs ourselves, but I know of a lirs;-class oue we could hire, and pretend we owned It when once we were out of town." "Oh, good!" Nell's eyes shone with excitement, but Tom suddenly looked doubtful. "Oh, I'm so sorry, sis, I really for got you," be said, contritely. "Are you sure you could slnud It? It's a lo:; ride, you know, and you might Hud it tiring." "Why, of course I could stand It! What nonsense!" Nell turned to her brother In Incredulous nstonlshmont. "Well, If you really think It wouldn't exhaust you," he said dubiously. Theo. turning to the others he added, In grave explanation: "You see. Nell's health has been very dellrate slnre her return from school. I suppose she studied to.o bard, but she seems all worn out Just hangs around without any ambition at all, and we wont her to be In better shape before she goes book." He said It with such frank Innocence of mnnner, and turned toward her with such a touchingly solicitous air, that It was out of tho question to tnkn exception to this remarkable state ment. Nell's 'cheeks burned as sho remembered that she had never looked plumper and healthier In her life. She felt n hysterical desire to lnngh as Billy Ellis turned to her with a won dering, "Is that so? Why, now, that's too bad." But after all. It was no Inughlng matter. Billy was reflecting thnt It was extremely disappointing that Tom's pretty sister should be one of the eternally tired kind. "Well, then, the tally-ho goes for Thursday," continued Tom, equably. "And Billy and I were saying yester day that It would be Jolly to have an all-day, out-of-doors, do-as-you-please trip down the river, a sort of picnic with modern Improvements, nnd take a load of things for the Inner man. How about that, mother? Is Kathj too busy? Would It be much trouble to get us up some stuff for to-morrow ?" "If It Is going to make Mrs. Howard any trouble," announced Billy Ellis, decidedly, "It won't come off, and that settles It." "Why, I can do It!" quickly Inter posed Nellie. "Mother needn't do any thing." "Yes. and I'll help. Mrs. Howard mustn't do a single thing but sit in a big chnlr and give orders. Nell and I can do It all." Jean nodded her head conclusively as she made this statement, but Tom's anxious gaze was again bent on his sister. "Don't be reckless, sis. There will be a lot of extra cooking to do, you know, and It might give you one of your headaches. I know yon used to make cakes and thlugs, but you're not used to It now, and we don't want you to overdo yourself." "O, Tom, how utterly ridiculous! Why, I am just as well as as you are'." Nell tried to speak lightly, but sho could have cried then and there. It was too humiliating for a plump, rosy girl of nineteen to be held up before strangers as a dejected Invalid. Tom's medicine was by no 'means exhausted, in fact, he considered that his heroic treatment was Just begun, but Mrs. Howard had keener eyes than be for signals' of distress, and she felt that Nell had been punished enough. Her eyes conveyed a quiet warning to Tom, who responded gal lantly and led the conversation promptly to less personal topics. When Mrs. Howard went Into tha kitchen a few moments later, she found her daughter and Jean already there, attired In voluminous aprons. Katie, more than ever busy with this houseful of young people on her hands, had thankfully improved the oppor tunity to slip up-stalrs. Nell was busy collecting materials for her cakes, but there were signs of a storm In bet flushed face and unsteady lips. As Mrs. Howard opened the door, she recklessly dropped an egg and burled herself tempestuously into those ever ready arms, wulch closed warmly about her. "O, mamma, mamma, I think Tom Is Just too horrid! I know I've been a mean, selfish thing, nnd I Just hato myself, but I will help you all I can, and I won't wear that horrid Back, or come down late, or be luzy and care less, or or oh, dear!" Mrs. Howard bent tenderly over tho brown head laid in woe and repent ance on her shoulder. Tom camo swinging in at the back door, think ing remorsefully that perhnjw he had been a little hard, and wanting to make peace with Nell. He stopped Bhort as he saw them. Jean, ever tactful, motioned him to come in, end slipped quietly out of tho dot). Youth's Companion. Nona of His Business. While waiting for the train the bride and bridegroom walked slowly up and down the platform. "I don't know what this joking and guying may have boen to you," ho re marked, "but It's death to me. I nev er experienced such an ordeal." "It's perfectly dreadful," sue an swered, "I shall be so glad when we get away from everybody we know." "They're actually lmpertlueut," he went on. "Why, the very natives " At this unpropltlous moment the wheezy old station-master walked up to them. "Be you going tx take this train?" he asked. - "It's none of your business!" retort ed the bridegroom, indignantly, as be guided the brida up the platform, where tbey condoled with each other over the Impertinence of the natives. Onward came the traJu, Its vapot curling from afar. It was the last to their destination that day, an exprseM nearer, nearer, It came at full speed, then la a moment It whizzed past and was gone. "Why In thunder didn't that train stop!" yelled the bridegroom. '"Cos you sed 'twaru't'none of my blzuess. I has to signal If that train's to stop." And as the old station-master softly stroked his beard there was a wicked IwiukWi la bis eye. Loudon Spare Mo ments. All She taw. Detective "Did you see a maa and woman driving past here la a dog cart about an hour ago?" Mrs. Blunk-"Yes. V ' " " " ' " "Ah, we're getting on the track ol them! What kind of a horse was Itf "They were driving so faat I didn't notice that But the woman bad oo a Scotch mohulr and wool Jacket ot turquoise blue, last year's style, with stitched lines, a white pique skirt with deep circular flounce, a satin straw hut, tilted and ruther flat, trimmed with hydrangeas ami loops of pal blue surah, uud her hair wus done up pompadour. That's all I had time to e,." Tit-Bits. ... THE CONSCIENCE FUND HAS MANY INTERESTING TRADITIONS BUT NO DISTINCT HISTORY. To Gat at ths Total Amount of It ItcqnlrM .a Tlrnomt Hrscarctt Karllast Con- tribntlon In 1811 Named br Treas urer Spinner. The so-cnlled "conscience fund" of the United States Treasury has many interesting traditions, but no distinct blBtory. Even to get at tho total amount of It requires a tiresome re search, so this Is rarely attempted. No separate account of It being kept, each item has to be separately dug out from the pages of "miscellaneous receipts." Tho earliest contribution to It Is be lieved to have been received In 1811, when the Register of the Treasury re corded an item of Income as "money received from a person unknown, stated to be on account of Imports and tonnage." It remained for Treasurer Spinner, more than half a century lat er, to give a name to this Indefinite resource of the Government. As tho story goes, a draft for ?1500 came In tho mail one day from a person who snld that he bad been a quartermaster in the army, and bad misappropriated a large sum. The clerks into whose hands the draft passed were In some perplexity about disposing of It, and appealed to Spinner. "Let us call It a contribution to the conscience fund," be suggested, "and publish It In the newspapers, and perhaps we shall get some more." His Judgment proved correct. Tho era had been oue of pickings and stealings, and the publi cation had its influence, apparently, in stimulating the public conscience, for a number of pcrsous who hnd been guilty of frauds upon the Government, some deliberate, some impulsive, and some which might almost be described as accidental, begnn to make restitu tion when they found that the Govern ment wns ready to say "Thank you," and ask no questions. In 1873 tho largest aggregate amount of money flowed In from this source, Congress having voted to Increase Its own salaries, nnd many members con sidering the increase a violation of the spirit If not of the letter of the Constitution. As the appropriation bad been made under nil the forms of law, nothing remained to . :e unwilling or morally quickened members but to turn back the excess nnd let It be credited to the conscience fund. There wns another large contribution, If the word of the alleged contributor Is to be believed, which, hnd it been sent in bulk Instead of piecemeal, would have swelled one year's balance per haps beyond that of the "salary grab" year. In this case a person mailed simultaneously $1500 to the Secretary 4 of the Treasury, $(300 to the Treasurer of the United States, and $400 to the Assistant Treasurer at New York, as serting that the composite $2500 was tno last of a series of payments where by he hnd restored in driblets the sum of $20,000, of which he felt he hnd defrauded the Government There Is a tradition, also, coming down through a good many years, t)at a package of 7-30 notes, to the aggregato value of $15,000, came in one day with the serial numbers carefully cut out of their races, as if with a view of ob literating any possible trace to the source of the contribution. The nub llcutlon of this news Is said to hnvc brought down upon the Trensury a deluge of correspondence from Im postors, who resorted to various stories In tho hope of getting the money out again. One went so far as to claim thnt the notes bad been sent by bis father, who was of unsound mind, and whose confessed robbery was an Illusion, while his family hnd been plunged Into great distress by the loss of so much money. A large and well authenticated contribution oc curred as lately as 1800, when an English clergyman, in behalf of a repentant convert, forwarded from London 2300, or. In round numbers $11,050. No explanation accompanied tho surrender. The letters enclosing contributions are various in style. One, written in a distinctly feminine hand, puts the case In a nutshell, thus: 5 pair gloves, at 2 frs. 05 centimes, equal 14 frs. 73c. " 6) 14.75. . $2.55 " not declared and not taxed, though visible; 00 per cent, equal $1.20, duty enclosed. Another, written on a piece of blot-tlng-pnper, rends: This Is Unkle Sara's. Put it to bis Urcdlt, $200, dep'd on account "con science." A third, from Canada, and enclosing $2.50, says: Since the emancipation of negroes I have taken two pair of shoes off a ship that the gunboats captured. I took the shoes while she lay at Key West. A fourth, evidently from tlw hand of a person of refined antecedents, runs: ' . A lady who recently' swore to a statement which sho now finds to be ivrong, sends to you $27. A scrap of paper, enveloping $0, con tains tho words: The enclosed closes the account of an over-paid soldier. A contributor from the West explaos bis refreshed scruples la this wise: . All of us become honest as we near tho Great Hereafter. In tho some strain, though less con cise, is this, enclosing $30: From the awakened conscience of an old veteran, who has been laying aside a little at a time for soma time, and who has not been, able to figure Just what It Is, but who hopes to light on tho data yet and restore It before he Is called to meet his God. This long note finds a contrasting exhibit in a contribution of $17 by some one who addressed his envelope In the stylo of a maa of the world and a scholar, and folded tho money in a sheet of the most expensive linen note paper, entirely blank but for an ex quisitely engraved monogram la the upper left-band corner. L'suully every precuutlon la taken by the senders of conscience money to escapo identification, but once in a while they overdo this business. One, for iustanco. who went to great pains to disguise his handwriting nud in vent a misleading date-line and signa ture, so fnr forgot himself ns to Bend bis letter In ou envelope from which be hnd forgotten, to erase tho Imprint." "If not delivered In ten days, return to Box 138," etc. One woman who had done some petty smuggling sent a $10 note, saying that she had no Idea bow much duty she owed the Government, hut giving the date and the value of the goods, so thnt it could be readily computed, and requesting thnt If the amount enclosed were not right, she should be Informed at' a specified ad dress. The duty was figured out at $7.03, and the change, $2.37, returned to her. ' Many of the writers of letters con taining remittances are Illiterate per sons, and their struggles with tho word "conscience" have evolved such phonetic forms as "konaclence," "con shins," "conshlons," "conshunts," "consclouns," and "gonshens." Undo Sam never quarrels with the spelling, however. If the writer's heart Is evi dently in the right place. Francis E. Leupp, In Harper's Weekly. ECYPTIAN MEN AND WOMEN. What TV Learn of Them From Ancient Drawing. In face tho men and women were very much alike, but there Is a subtlo charm about the female faces that Is replaced by a placid dignity In tho male. In both the features are deli cate and of a somewhat aquiline type, and the figures are tall and slight. There Is very little Indication of mus cle, but the men uro broad shoul dered and thin flanked, while the women. In spite of their stiff attitudes, are graceful nnd refined. In both the forms are soft nnd rounded. The re semblance between the men nud the women Is, of course, Increased by the men being1 always clean-shaven. In the pnintlngs aud has reliefs there are certain conventions which do not opply to the statues, nnd for these due allowance hns to be made. In enrly times all drawing nnd pnlnting on the flat (nud has relief Is but a form of this) hnd to serve two purposes. One was to convey Infor mation, tho other to be ornamental. It Is doubtful which Is tho earlier of the two. The man of the Stone Age, when be scratched his realistic mam moth on a piece of reindeer bone, either wanted to convey to his brother man that he hnd seen a fine specimen of this Interesting animal, or else he did it because he thought it pretty, or ho may have had both motives. In any case, we have here tho common origin of art nnd writing. The Information picture dwindles down through hieroglyphics to mere symbols of sounds, the pictorial origin of which Is entirely lost. The decora tive picture gradually loses all wish to convey Information, nnd subsists entirely for its pleasure to the eye. But the Egyptians hnd not got so far ns that; when they drew a man, there had to be no mistake what It was. He had all to be displayed, as it were, to the best advantage. The legs were shown sideways, so as to clvn tlm whole length of the feet, and ono leg was put In front of the other, so that neither should bo concealed. Then there came a difficulty about the body; If that were sideways, too, one shoul der would bo lost; so the body must be seen frontways. The arms, again, are best seen sideways; fortunately, ns both shoulders are shown, they do not Interfere with ono another. Again, a profile Is more characteristic than a full face, but n profile eye Is a poor, foreshortened thing. So In this profile we Insert an eye seen to its full ex tent, nnd then we renlly hnve done the mnn Justice. This eye, seen full face while the bead Is profile, gives naturally a peculiar expression, which makes people talk of the long, narrow eyes of the ancient Egyptians. They very likely hnd nothlnir of th klmi. Then, ngaln, the twisting of the body "' i" Buuuiuera seem too broad. Tho Ideal Is certainly broad shoul dered, but not so much so as this would mako it appear. Nineteenth Century. A Blater of the World. It was on Fifth avenue. A sister of charity, with a long black veil nnd a seraphic expression, was gliding along the street with the swift, silent tread peculiar to the soft-shod sister hood. She looked neither to the right nor left, and her face was one of se rene peace, of almost celestial calm. A frowsy boy with a bundle of dirty newspapers under his arm appealed to her, first to buy a paper, then to give him money to "get something to eat." He was a well-fed-looking boy, with a sleepy face. The sister glanced at blm. shook her head nnd wnlltrwl nn Tho boy pattered beside her, whimper ing a tale or woo in a whiuning voice. As they ncarcd the corner tho sister turned her sernphlc face townrd hlra for an instant, and In the softest voice, with an expression of Wonderlne sor row, she said: . "And I suppose you lost all your money playing craps!" Then, as the startled boy fell back, she glided silently on her way. New York Commercial Advertiser. A Ioinetlo Epllode. There are women, so It is snld, who search their husbands' pockets when conditions are favorable for so doing. Some wives hope to find what they are looking for, nnd others are looking for what they sincerely hope they won't flud. But up to date the hint-named kind of finds has not lucluded a dyna mlto cartridge. That explosive will have to go ou the list of things not desired In tho future, however, with women who never neglect this "duty" of pocket rifling, as a woman thus en gaged somewhere in Connecticut the other day was greeted with one ao warmly that she lost several fingers by the contact. There seems to have per vaded this donmestlc circle a mutual knowledge of habits not uncommon perhaps, though tho mauner of cor rection employed by one member of It is rather too summary to promote the quiet and confidence sunuosed to characterize the home atmosphere. dubiou xranscript. InrettmenU or Royaltlea, American securities favorite medium of investment in royal fumllles of Europe. The Ger man emperor una about $750,000 lu railroad bonds, nnd the Czar nvir si . 000,000, besides large sums In British securities, xiie kings of Sweden nnd Belgium are lurgfrly Interested In brew eries.. Austrian royalties have Invest ments lu England and Germauy. whllo the Italian King's surplus wealth Is largely lu England. New York Frets. THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lesson Comments For June 2. Subject: Jessa. Our High Priest In Heaven, Meb. Ix ll-U: 24-28-Ooldea Text, Heb. vll., 25-Memary Verses, 24-26-Comoientsry on the Day i Lesson, 11. "Hut Christ having eome" CR. V.) Although Christ be but one. vet He is un derstood by us undfr a variety of forms. He is the tabernacle" on account of the human body in which He dwelt. He is the table," because He is our bread of life. He ia the "ark" which has the law of Ood inclosed within, because He is the Word of the Father. He is the "candlestick." because He is our spiritual light. He is the "altar of incense." becaue He is the sweet-smelling odor in aanctification. He vs the "altar of burnt offerini," because He is the victim by death on the cross for the ains of the whole world. The apostle does not in any way refer slightingly of the Jewish institution, for they were or dained of Rod, but he endeavors to show those to whom he was writing thnt inas much as the great Antitvne had appeared the types would of necessity he done awar. "An high priest." The work of the high priest was threefold. I. To offer sacri. fices. 2. To act as mediator. 3. To in struct the pconle. The firt great work Christ had to do was to offer an accepta ble sacri6ce. and this He dM bv offering Himself. As the God-man He is nhle to act as mediator, because through His di vine nature He c-n approach the conrt nf heaven, and in His human nature He is touched with the feeling of other infirmi ties, end having beci temnted in nil points like as we are, "He is ahle to succor them that are tempteri." jTen, 2: 18: 4: 15. As an instructor He stands forth as the greatest Teacher the world has even sen. Of good things to come." Christ our high ni-iest is a disnenser of all the spiritual blessings nrnmised in this world or the next. "More perfect tabernacle." Au thorities seem about divided as to the meaning of these words. Some think thev have reference to Christ Himself, and that His body is the tabernacle; others think the tabernacle not made with hands re fers to heaven, representing the sniritnal sphere. "Not of this creation" (R. V.) 'Not making any part of this lower crea tion. , 12. "Ey His own Mood." Here the re demption of man is attributed to the blood f j1,.ri"t an(i thi" hlood is stated to he shed in a sacrificial way. precisely as the blood of bulls, goats and calves was shed under the law. "Once for all" (R. V.J The high priest entered into the holiest once each year, but. Christ made an atone, inent that did not peed to be repeated. 'Into the h?ly place." Or sanctuary, sig nifying heaven. There were two apart ments to the tabernacle proper; the first, which was situated toward the east, was called the sanctuary or holy place: it was thirty feet, long and fifty feet wide and contained the altar of incense, the tnMe of shewhread and the candlestick. The second apartment was called the Holy of Holies; it was ten cubits (fifteen feet) each way, being a cube; its only article of fur niture was the nrk of the covenant. Into the holiest place the high prieBt entered once each year, on the great day of atone ment, which was the 10th of Tishri (Octo ber), carrying with him the golden censer and "not without blood." "Eternal re demntion. An endless redemption from sin: it is eternal in its merit and efficaov. 13. "Blood ashes." See T,ev. lfl: 14. 15; Num. lfl: 2-10. "Snrinkling." Blood was snrinkled everywhere. The priest anrinkled the tabernacle, and all the uten sils, the altars, the people, the veil, the tnercv seat, in fact, everywhere we see the blood. The ashes of the heifer were put in nure water and snrinkled on those who had contracted any legal defilement. Num. 1: 17-21. "The unclean." These were distinctly for purification from ceremonial offences. "The flesh." Purifving from un cleanness according to the Mosaic ritual. ka,:M . U n 1 I.. 1 . 1 1 ua.mg me uuuy particularly in View. 14. "How much more." This form of argument is characteristic of this epistle. j imi wiiii-Q me niooa 01 nuns could never do the blood of Jesus has forever done. Through the eternal Spirit." There are two viewa with regard to the meaning of t L li v y Hi" own divme nature. 2. Kv the heTn and through the power of the Holy Spirit. The latter appears to be the e"rrect explanation. "Without blemish" (K. V.) This is an allusion to the Jewish offerings which, to be acceptable to God. must be without blemish. "Dead works." All sinful works. 24. "Made with hands." He has not entered into the holy places in the taber nacle or temple as the Jewish high Driest did, but into heaven itself, which He has thus opened to all believers. "Like in pattern to the true" (R. V.) The sanc tuary of God on earth is a nattern of heaven, and communion with God m His sanctuary is to His people a heaven on earth. "To appear." As our Intercessor: for us. He sits in heaven as High Priest to present to the Father His own atone ment and sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. 23. "Offer Himself often." In this and the next verse the apostle shows that the atonement of Christ once made was suffi cient for all nations and all ages. See on Z; J?- ,V,f. f hf." That is, with the blood of bullocks and goats. 26. "Since the foundation." etc. Al though Christ offered Himself onlv once, that one offering is in itself ao meritorious that its influence reacheth backward to the beginning ef the world and forward to the end of time; on which account Christ is termed (Rev. 13: 8) "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." "End of the ages" (R. V.) This has reference to the end of the Jewiah dispensation. "To nut awav sin." To abolish sin-offerings. But in doing away with the sin-offerings He made an offering for sin. and ia now ahle to deliver from the guilt and power of sin. 27. "As it is anpointed." etc. Inas much aa God hath decreed that man shall die once, and only once, and after this shall come to the judgment, and be judged once; no Christ, who has been offered once, shall die no more. 28. "To bear the sins." There is an al lusion here to the scape goat (Lev. 16-8-10; 20-22) which, in a figure, carried away the ains of the people into the wil derness, but Christ literally bears sway the ains of all who come to Hrm. "That look for Him." All true believers are pa tiently waiting and earnestly looking for the appearing of Christ. Titus 2: 13- 2 Pet. .: 11-13. "Shall He appear?" C.. Act,"l:.H: 1 T1Je"- ,: 10i 4: ,fl; 2 T"''" I: 10. "Aoart from n" m V ,-i He appears the second time He will come not aa a sacrifice for sin, but in might and power. 'Unto salvation." The object of His coming will be to bestow complete happiness upon ua. He will deliver the bodies of the saints from the grave, and al,tru' believers with Him to eternal glory. "i.veu so, come Lord Jeaus!" Gormas Wan Baptd Transit. It was stated recently that the pres ent year would witness most import ant experiments over the German Mili tary line between Berlin and Zostoa with aa electric railway engine run ning at a speed of 800 kilometers (about 114 miles) aa hour, but Oar man electric railway enterprise doe not propose to stop at this. A project Is under discussion (or a service from Berlin to Hamburg, with connoctioM to various other groat towns, la ono hour and a quarter. Tho promoters want to run a train every tlx minutes with a time table as follows: Berlin to Cologne la two and a quarter -hours; to Breslau In one and a half; to Ham burg in one and a quarter; to Munich' In two and a half; to Vienna in four, and to Pari in five hocrs. London Kxnrene. ' The tonnage ot tlic mercantile rmvy of Cirent Britain is aimot equal to t,ie tonnage of tho combined nuvies of all iliu six other largest powcis. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. last 2- Now to Oct Rid of Sla, I Joaa L. HO. . Scripture Verses Isn. XI If. 4-12; John L 2I; 111. 14-17: Acts vili. 30-30; I Cor. r. 7. 8; Heb. II. It, 10; lv. 12-14; x. . 10. 14; xill. 20, 21; I Peter I. 18,19; IU 22-25; I John II. 1, 2; H.-v. v. II, 10. LKSSON THOUGHTS. Llftht drives out darkness. If Christ dwells In us In our nfarts. In our thoughts, lu our motives sinful de Jires ennnot continue to hold us. No defense csn bo mode nxnlnst an anemy until he Is recognized as an .iiemy. Our sins ennnot bo success fully opposed till wc hnve learned their hurtfulness and MnfeKsed their wickedness. - "Sin Is separation from God. If two poles of a battery are separated, whether It is six Inches or sixty, no current will flow. They must be to gether." SKLKCTIOXS. Shnll these feet of mine allaying, Mtlll In ways of sin be found. Braving snnres, nnd madly straylnjr On the world's bewitching ground? No, I wns not born to trifle ilfe away lu dreams or sin: No, I must not, dure not, stltle. Longings such as these within. The greatest of nil mlstnkes Is. to live for time, when any moment may launch us into eternity. "Tls not for mnn to trifle. Life la brief, And sin Is here. Our age is but the falling of a leaf, A dropping tenr. We hove no time to sport awny the hours; All must bo earnest In a world like ours. One sin Is enough to exclude ns from heaven, but one dnm of fhrlntv blood is sufficient to cover nil our sins. O Lamb of Ood, who tnkest The sins of the world nwny. Have mercy ou us! The wages that sin hn rim Inn for with the sinner are: lite, pleasure and lronr; out tlie wages It pays him are death, torment and dexf ruction i? that would understand the falsehood anu ciccelt of sin. must comnnre Its promises and Its payments together. EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS. June 2 -Now to Get Rid of Sla. I Joaa L. 5-10. This Is the burden of the whole Bible. The bcrlptures were given for the express purpose of showing man how to save bis soul. It Is also the question of the ages. When we get aown to the bottom question of all tne philosophies it amounts to about this: How shall mnn get rid of sin. What Is Sin? The Scriptures hnve many terms for sin, depending on the point of view of the individual writer, or the particular form of evil "upper most lu tne writer s mind. In one place sin is detlned as a transgression of the law, but it Is clear that this was not Intended to be a comprehensive definition. Sometimes It Is referred to as wickedness, iniquity, wrong doing, blasphemy, rebellion. It must be seen by the most ordi nary reader of the Bible, nnd the most casual observer of human nature, that the essence of sin Is not In any out ward act at all, but has to do rather with the Inner-life of the Indlvldiml. In n sense, all transgressions of the law of Ood Is sin. But It is clear that Ood does not hold anyone guilty of wrongdoing who either Is not respon sible for bis net or is Justifiably Ig norant of Ood's will. Our Lord. In bis Interpretation of the Ten Command ments, clearly showed thnt their vio lation lay In the thoughts and intents of the heart. Deliverance from Sin. It must be seen thnt to be delivered from sin It Is not enough to be helped to do what appears to be right things. Our Lord did sny that by their fruits ye shall know them. But not all that appenra to bo fruit has the right taste. There rany be the npppnrnnce without the renllty an attractive exterior, but wanting In nil the qualities for which fruit Is used. Deliverance from sId involves the absolute turning of the tide of life tho choice of Ood as the suprome object of trust and service. To bring this about requires the co operation of both man and Ood. Mao hns his pnrt: Ood hns his. "If we confess our sins, he is faith ful and Jnst to forgive ns our sins, nd to cleanse us from all unrighteous ness." True confession means some thing more than the mere acknowledg ment thnt we are sinners. It may be snld truthfully thnt there Is no trup renentnnce without the turning away from sin. Baak Stock la Iowa. A Des Moines correspondent of th Sioux City Journal quotes a banker aa saying that a majority ot the bank stock in Iowa Is owned by farmers. "We started a bank In a small town the other day," said this banker, "an4 took In about twenty stockholders. Fifteen of these were farmers ha the neighborhood. This Is no exception to the rule with country banks. Of course, It Is not the case In the ctttea. The farmers are taking up their loans, made a few years ago with options to pay any or all after two or three years, and reducing the size of the loans and the rate of Interest paid. It Is the ex ception now for farm loans to be made; above 5 per ceut, and some of them ara taken at 4 per cent It is freely pre dicted by bankers and Investors of large experience In handling this thus of loans that before the year Is out tha prevailing rate wtll b i pr oent A few years ago the country banker did a great business in farm loans. Ths rata of interest was 6 or 7 per cent, aad there was a commission of S to 4 per " cant added. Now the rate is S per cent, with a commission running all ths jray from nothing to 1 per cent Vital Orsaaa Oat r loaltKm. Tho authorities of Pnnn hospital, Pittsburg, are puiallng over Charles Shuppell, who has beea there under ex amination. His heart, liver, stomach, and spleen, ara just opposite to where they are located in nd,ially consti tuted human being. HhLppoll did not know he was unlike his follow mea until he wns taken sick soma year ago at his home in Hoidelberg, Ger many. The doctor who. was called ia to treat him made the discovery. Ka experiences no discomfort from t t curious malformation.