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.