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THE OLD DAYS.
0!d friends, Id comrades, here's a health
A cup of greeting to you all,
Where'er the evening nhailes of life
Around your faithful spirits fall.
A hand to you, and a health to you,
And golden memory's wealth to you.
For the old days.
For the old, care-free days.
I scarce can think those days are gone
And yet like dreams, tiny art no more.
And one by one your fans, friends,
Are turning toward the other shore.
Then hail to you, and farewell to you!
And tho cups shall clink a knell to you
For the old days.
For the old, care-free days.
How few of us will ever meet
Again this side the narrow streaaBl
And even if our hands could touch,
We'd seem like figures in a dream.
It's youth, tweet youth, fO0d-by to youl
And we are ghosts that cry to you
For the old days,
For the old, care-free days.
Sit QUlet, friends, and think It o'er,
Aye, think how sweet the old days were
Sei k not, wei p not; take memory;
Let's have a loving cup with her
A cup with her. and a song with her.
Ami a Kitting still and long with her.
For the old days,
For the old. care-free days.
Janus Buckham, in Munsey'i Maga'
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IfSWr-'tiVV;'.'
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THIRTY yearsi
and live it
stood the model
After Incredible
unci nights of
I close my eyea
till again. There
-complete at lust,
years of failure
agony, I bad
tumbled upon the secret of balancing
these levers; my windless motoiclock
would lick (in forever. At first 1 wii
crazy I wanted to rush out and call
the world to see; then came the crush
ing recollection that it had yet to be
placed on the market, A step on the
stairs, too, reminded me that 1 owed
nearly 50 to Lamont, the voting
Frenchman in the room over mine.
LsmOIlt no one in the house seemed
to understand him; even Netta her
self hail whispered to me once that she
shivered at the look in his eyes nt times.
And yet lie hail interested himself so
in my Scheme, and those Small loans
of his had really kept me from starva
tion. Yes; he was going past some
thing made me open my door.
M,Shl Here!" I whispered. "There it
stands. Lamont, I hope I shall he able
to pny you nil hack with "
MEh? Never!" Afterward it rame
back to me that he whitened curiously
u-s lie walked across and bent lneredu
lousjy over it. Jealous? or was it too
much for him to grasp that I might
soon be rich and talked about? When
he turned, it was with an expression
that took away half my thrill. "You're
quite certain'.'" he asked. "What are
you going to do?"
"Do?" I was still holding out my
hand. "Take out provisional rights at
once to-morrow. Certain? I gave it
ten days, and then, if it failed me
again, I meant to grind it to powder.
No one has touched It for IS you hear
It now!"
"And what else are you going to do?"
he persisted, Blaring put.
"Why, marry Netta if she'll have
me!" The whisper was out before I
knew it.
"Ah, 1 thought it." He smiled yet
lie looked ill. "I thought as much.
But you'll make sure; your motor-clock
is not in the shops yet; you 1 mean,
there are accounts to be settled before
you cmild even think of of that.
Well," he was at the door now
"you're to be admired is that the
word? Were I you I should say not
a syllable to anyone jet. You never
know; suppose your model was to dis
appear?" "Nonsense!" I gasped, a little coldly.
"It could profit nobody unless they had
my table of calculation! as well. This
double spring you see "
But he had gone. Kneeling beside my
precious model, I had forgotten the
(pieer Incident in a moment. The un
broken swing of that pendulum was
like new life to a dying man lleuven
nlnne knew what wild dreams 1 had
been rearing up in those past three
yenrs. To go forever! Why, everyone
knew that the great Prof. Sabraschky,
lifter a lifetime spent in grappling w ith
the theory, had finally committed sui
cide in despnir: and here Why, I
bad not whispered yet of my success
to Nettu. She, tinlike the rest, had
never seemed to think mo mad;
wouldn't her tired brown eyes shine
when she realized that my persistent
experiment! had really reached a great
finality! Just to Netta I must; no
need for diffidence now. Nine o'clock
sown she would be carrying up supper
for those whom she nnd her father
boarded. Those eternal stairs! Poor
N'etta It had often made lumps in my
throat. Very soon now, I was think
ing, as I listened at the door, 1 would
take her away from the hard life.
What was that? Her father's deep
voice and then something tpieerly like
a sob. Scarcely knowing why, I tip
toed down, holding my breath. Their
parior door was ajar partly an invalid.
Baldwin himself, I knew, spent most of
his time lolling by the fire there with a
eignr nnd just then Netta came out.
She had a hand to her forehead, nnd
looked dazed.
"Netta!" I called, involuntarily. She
started, waved me back, and pnssed on.
But Baldwin had heard.
"That you, Mr. Marcel? Quite a
stranger! Come in, do! Well, nnd how
goes the great scheme? Still elusive?
l'ooh! Give it and yourself a rest."
I hesitated. Generally his intensely
practical nature and good-humored
sneers kept me nt a distance, but my
head was in a whirl that night, and I
seemed to recollect for the first time
that he was really Netta's father.
"Go up there," I said, "and you will
find my scheme an assured fact. No,
I'm not mad. In three months from
now, Mr. Baldwin, you may be able to
purchase one of Marcel's motor-clocka.
It will cost you a guinea. That's all."
"Heavens!" he gasped. His cigar had
flropped also his jaw. "How however
much would you take for the patent?"
"Ten thousand pounds down, nnd a
florin royalty cm every clock sold." 1
leaned across, afraid to hesitate now.
"Itut mind, this is in strictest confi
dence, because it's very possible again,
that when I leave here I may ask you
to let nie take Netta as my wife.
There!"
It was out. And Baldwin ha could
not have even suspected; be sat staring
nnd incredulous for a time, and then
swayed up unsteadily.
"Well! How , queer Netta again t
Let her go? 1 couldn't; what on earth
should 1 do without. . . . You're rich,
and you want my gi'l? I I daren't
think now, Marcel; let it wait a bit. No,
no, don't, don't see her yet. Shake
hands yes, indeed! Heavens, I sha'n't
sleep this night !"
I went out, leaving hith standing so.
That kitchen door was closed; but I
fancied I was sure I heard n sup
pressed sob in there. Should I no,
presently she would be bringing up my
supper, nnd then ! Hack to my room
in a whirl I went, nnd sat down for the
thousandth time to compare those
precious calculations. Why, yes, the
simple idea was perfect; the uncoiling
of the one spring implied the tighten
ing of the second, and so the motor-bar
uns bound to revolve. My last valuable
must go to obtain the preliminary fees,
but that . . . The sofrest tap.
"Your supper, Mr. Marcel and good
night!"
I stumbled to the door. Netta she
had placed the tray on the lloor. I
caught just a glimpse of her dress
whisking round the staircase below.
Ah, then, she knexv there was some
thing In the air that night! She was
nervous fluttered; the very cocoa
seemed to have been spoiled in the mak
ingfor the first time. I Kipped it, nnd
then sat thinking wildly again. Tick,
tick, went my darling clock over there.
.Now was it wavering? No, no only
tny pour, tired brain. The reaction was
setting in, of course. To bed! To
morrow. A clear brain, at any price!
I must have fallen asleep before I
touched the pillow. Sunshine was
streaming in when, partly dressed, I
sat up sut up w ith a vngue but terrible
sensation as of something being wrong.
The time? The time I looked ncross
to that bench, gave a half scream nnd
then my heart seemed to become still.
My clock wns not there!
What did I do first? 1 hardly know;
something had soemed to snap in my
brain us 1 struggled to realize. Gone
stolen while 1 slept! My table of cal
culations gone too. I had left it be
side the model. . . . Lamont! The
Hash-thought sent me reeling. His
manner his jealousy his hint nt
theft! Dazed, I only knew there was
a nameless thing in my mind as I
stepped out on to the landing and lis
tened. The hands of the clock there
pointed to seven, and Lamont left for
his work at eight. He would swear to
his innocence; I would simply hold him
by the throut while I crashed open bis
box. . . . 1 opened his door quietly.
Lamont was not there. 1 started round
for his trunk. It was gone.
I felt my way down the stnlrs again
like a man suddenly blinded. At the
foot I met Baldwin, our landlord, nnd
clutched his arm. Just one tense whis
per: "Lamont that man?"
"Goodness, Mr. Marcel, what's the
matter? . . . Lamont? Why, he's
gone enme down here an hour ago,
woke me and gave me a week's money
instead of notice, and left the house
without another word."
A month hart passed a terrible
month that I lived through in alternate
lits of madness and spells of dumb
stupor. One day I would tramp the
streets with eyes strained for a sight
of the man who had ruined my life;
the next, I would sit huddled over that
empty bench, seeing no one, speaking
to no one. At timea there would come
that soft tap nt the, door, nnd Netta's
whisper that she bad something to tell
me; then her father would call me
from the stairs; but I never atlswered
either my interest in life was sus
pended. A month; and then, one never-to-be-forgotten
evening, a still stranger thing
happened. Sitting there so, 1 heard
heavy footsteps outside, nnd next a
peremptory knock. Itcfore I could stir,
two men had walked in. I know that
then 1 sprang up with a choke of in
credulous passion. One man was a
strnngcr to me; the other Lamont,
haggard but smiling. Lamont! He
had folded his arms; he could speak
coolly, neeringly.'
"So you think 1 made oft with your
precious invention, Mr. Marcel? Stand
still wait! 1 might have done I
should have been justified, considering
that it waa you who robbed me of the
one woman I'm ever likely to love or
want. No matter! Shall I tell you why
1 went from this house as I did? Can
you believe me?"
Speak I could not. The very world
seemed to have stopped turning.
"I wanted Netta and you were too
blind nnd busy to see it. Her father
had said: 'Netta's husband must have
500 of his own. She will never mar
ry without my consent.' Very well;
for long enough I sweated and starved
for that. I own that 1 lent you money
from time to time just to keep you
buried in what 1 considered a fool's
dream. 1 knew she cared for you most,
If any man; but that you would never
think of a wife while your problem re
mained a problem. That night, sir,
when you told me you hod solved it,
I knew the crisis had come for both.
I forestalled you. I went straight to
Haldwin. 1 got leave to speak to Netta
she refused me point-blank. There
were high words. I offered to buy the
house and make it over to her; but no.
Finally she locked herself in the kitch
en. I haven't your British phlegm; in
a fit of chagrin I told Baldwin I should
pack my box and go back to Franca
the next morning he might let her
think I had committed suicide any
thiig he liked. 1 kept to that; I left
the house as soon as daylight came.
But you have accused me; it shall be
thrashed out. This gentleman w ill aee
to that."
The other man cleared his throat.
Now I saw that he had kept his back
against the door.
"Mr. Marcel, I'm a detective. Father
curious information wns quiet ly
brought to us by Miss Baldwin the day
following the theft. Your invention
had been stolen by a man named Pierre
Lamont, and you were too prostrnted
yourself to take any sensible steps. We
were to get back the article intact with
out making an arrest, if possible, and
she would settle expenses and"
"Miss Baldwin!" l whispered, a
hand to my heaving brain. What were
they saying? Netta Netta had done
this for me, while I had sat atupidly
crushed and inactive!
" 'Shi Miss Baldwin the young lady
who let us In just now. I was told off.
I went to work, nnd ran across my man
here three weeks ago he had not gone
so far, after all, lie told me something
that put me on another scent altogeth
er. You'll be rather surprised, if noth
ing more. It stood to reason that the
thief, if he meant business, would never
attempt to patent the affair here, or in
his own name either. I made inquiries,
nnd yesterday, sure enough, word came
to hand that a shady agent, well known
to the police, was forming a syndicate
In Perlin to put your clock exclusively
on the market there, keeping himself
well in the background in London. I
shadowed him for jurt two hours, nnd
then 1 saw him in CI nf::b xwth the man
we wanted the man who, as it hap
pened, Lamont here saw creeping down
tills staircase at five a. m. on the day
of the theft with your invention un
der his arm, no doubt. Lamont thought
little of it. but there's no doubt the
thief had his notion as to where the
blame would be sure to lie next morn
ing. Now!" He lowered his voice a note,
"Kr Mr. Marcel, it is rather unfor
tunate that the man who stole your
bralnwork should lie the father of the
girl who thoughtfully put us up to tin
job 1"
"Baldwin!" 1 got out, with a husky
quiver. For me, the room was spin
ning round; one dear facn looked im
ploringly at me out of a mist. Hald
win! Netta's fatherl . . . The
cocoa that night- drugged by himself!
"Aye! 1 fancy it's not altogether his
first attempt at shady work, cither.
We shall sec. I've a warrant here for
both of them, and - but you'll have your
clock back, sir, with a grand advertise
ment. In a few days; nnd 1 hope you
won't forget me. . . . Baldwin's
out, the girl says, but he'll be back in
a few minutes. She knoxvs nothing, of
course, and you'll like to avoid a fuss, I
know. I shall have him as he steps in.
If the matter hadn't gone so far "
A faint, thrilling scream from behind
the door. He threw it back, and there
stood Netta. She had heard all saw
what she had done in her loving desire
to help me her face told it. White,
wide-eyed, her shaking hands put out,
she stood there a picture to go to a
man's heart and print itself there for
ever . . . and just at that moment,
to complete the unnerving tragedy of
the situation, we heard' the turn of n
key in the halldoor below. Merciful
heavens! I know I stood dumbed and
thrilled ns much by the nameless sus
pense us by the incredible thought that
my life's triumph was within reach
again. Baldwin? Yea, and he was go
ing down the passage.
What really happened? It seemed
afterwards like some dream. The de
tective took a step. Another pitiful
cry I could never forget it. Netta's
arms barred the way.
"Dad! Dad! Go go, for your life!
They know! . . . Sirs, you dare
notl Mr. Marcel, you couldn't oh. for
love of me, you'll never let them take
him!"
And I no! All flu: blood seemed to
take life in me again ns Netta's prayer
sank into me. For love of her! her
own father! It all happened in an in
describable minute; there wns a rush
in the passage below, and simultaneous
ly I must have thrown both arms about
the detective's waist, and held him fast.
In that wild moment of revulsion 1
thought of nothing but sparing Netta
of sparing the man because he was w hat
he was to her. And the door down there
banged; he was gone.
"You madman! You'll lose him
everything!" panted the detective. Hut
Netta had put me to the greatest test
of man's lovv I clung on as if for my
own life till suddenly the. reaction
came. For love of her I had lost what
had seemed dearer than life itself. I
slid down, nnd knew nothing more.
That, gentlemen, was 80 yenrs ago.
That model was lost destroyed, no
doubt, within 24 hours we never beard
of it or the man again. Hut here, to
night, stands its duplicate nnd a du
plicate of this we. can see in a thou
sand shop-windows. Need I say thnt
we owe it to Nettu the loving w ife who
has stood by me, built up my hopes
again, and spurred me on to the great
task, day by day, for those .10 years?
Need 1 say what I won when it seemed
I had lost everything? Left alone, I
could never have brought myself to go
over all that old ground again, but the
pitient inspiration of years has done
nt last what you see. And when I lost
her. . . . w hen death tool; hep from
me, a yenr ago, her last whisper wns
. . . There, no, I can't. Hut here it
is nnd Netta knows! Netta knows!
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READING OP THE SCRIPTURES
latcraatloaal Suaday Sehool l.eaaoa
for November 10, 1SOO Teat, Xehe
aalah 8il-I2 Memory V.. 1-3.
Specially Arranged from Pcloubet's Notes.
GOLDEN TEXT. The ears of all the
people were attentive unto the book of the
w. Neh. 8: S.
HEAD Nehemiah 8 and Luke 4: U-S.
525IE. The first day of the seventh
Mith, 1. ., the middle or Inst of Bl p'.em
Dcr, A. D. 444. about two months aflir the
arrival of Nehemiah In Jerusalem, and a
week after the completion uf the walls on
the 25th of Elul, the sixth month (August'
September). The first day of the seventh
month waa Beplemlii r Zi In IM'2, Septt tuber
11 In 1893. and October 1 In lS.'L
bxpLanatort.
L The Circumatances. The section
of Nehemiah embracing Chaps, 8-10
differs from the opening nnd from the
closing chapters in that lu te Nehemiah
is spoken of In the third person, while
in the rest of the book he himself
writes in the first person. Intheprayer
(Ch ip, ii) and the covenant (Chap, lu)
the first person plural is used. "It was
a series of events of the greatest impor
tance. Nehemiah's di sign was to renew
nnd enlarge the reforms which Ezra
hr.d begun 13 years before. Chaps, s-io
arc an account of transactions running
through 24 days cr mure, by which Ne
hemiah brought this and other reforms
Into active operation. Our lesson is tlir
first section of the account, and telli
what happened In one day i he first
day of the seventh month (V. 2).
II. The Grritt Meeting. V. 1. This
chapter should begin xilh the last
clause of the last verse of the previous
chapter: "And when the Beventh
month wns come." etc. The t!rst day
of this month was the feast uf trum
pets, which proclaimed a day of re
joicing, like our Christmas bells. This
was a week after the walls were fin
ished. V, l. "All the people gathered
themselves together:" From the cit;
and from the surrounding country, "As
one:" In one place, with one purpose,
"Into the street:" Rather, into tin
broad place, the public square. "Before
the water gate:" The open space south
of the temple, called Ophel, lying be
tween the temple wall and the city wall,
"They spake unto Ezra, the scribe:"
This is the first time Ezra's name oc
curs in the book of Nehemiah
III. The Text-Look. Vs. i-3. "Hook
of the law i Muses:" This "testifies to
a general know ledge of the existence of
a book ii. contents of which, s;i fur
as the ni known, agreed substantial
ly with our Pentateuch." Prof. H. E,
Kyle. "Which the Lord, 'Jehovah,' had
commanded to Israel:" This wns not
a merely human book, but one inspired
and revealed by God, V. 2. "The law :"
Hebrew, Torah. Instruction, "here used
in a sense which afterwards became uni
versal." Prof. Byle. "Loth of men nnd
women:" lloth have equal need of
studying God's Word. "And ull that
could hear with understanding!" The
children, all who were old enough."
V. 3. "He read therein . . . from
the morning until midday:" Or, from
dayliglit, for six hours or more. "The
ears of all the people were attentive:"
Though there is no word in the Hebrew
for "attentive," yet the meaning is
quite correctly given.
IV. Studying the Word of God. V.5.
Preceded by Worship. V. 5. "Opened
the book:" 1'nrollcd the scroll, or roll.
"All the people stood up:" Hose to
their feet us an act of respect nnd rev
erence for God uniT His Word. V. 0.
"Kzra blessed the Lord:" Praised God
in prayer, "All the people answered:"
Responsive worship is no new thing.
"Amen:" Lit., "That which is true."
"So let it be." "Lifting up their bands: "
An appeal to God that they accepted the
law thus read and would obey it.
"Bowed their heads and worshiped the
Lord with tcir faces to the ground:"
They sank down into the posture of
humble, eurnest prayer, first falling on
their knees, and then bending forward
and down till their faces came "be
tween their knees" (l Kings is : 42).
Two Ways of Studying the Bible,
First. V. 8. "So they read . . . dis
tinctly:' It required clear enunciation
to be heard by the many thousands as
sembled. The manner of reading made
a great difference as to the sense.
Second. "And gave the sense:" Ex
plaining the unusual words, expound
ing the meaning and the application of
the law, interpreting the allusions to
history and in every way possible caus
ing "them to understand the reading."
So Christ in the synagogue at Nazareth
caused the people to understand Isaiah.
(See Luke 4:10-22.)
V. The Fruits of Bible Study. Vs.
0-12. 0. "The Tirshatha:" Allied to our
word pasha. It was the Persian title for
a local or provincial governor. Kyle.
First Fruit Repentance. "For all
the people wept:" "in the new light of
the higher truth we suddenly discover
that the 'robe of righteousness' in
which we have been parading is but ns
filthy rngs.' " Prof. Adeney.
Second Fruit Joy in the Lord.
"Mourn not, nor weep:" You have
wept long enough; you have fastened
your eyes on your sins too exclusively.
V. 10. "Go your way, eat the fat and
drink the sweet:" These were expres
sions of joy and aids to joy. "And send
portions," etc.: Another way of ex
pressing and of increasing true joy.
"Neither be ye sorry:" Sorrow and
repentance are never required for their
own sake, but for the better things
which grow out of them. "For the joy
of the Lord is your strength:" Your
stronghold, K. V., margin.
PRACTICAL.
The study of the Bible has wrought
wondrous changes in men and in na
tions. A vast cloud of witnesses testi
fy to its renovating power. Ex'ery na
tion now existing is great, moral and
happy in proportion as the Bible is
studied nnd obeyed.
There Is much value in great assem
blies for Bible study (1), In reviving the
interest in such study; (2) in arousing
othuslasm; (3) in bringing light from
rrny sides; (4) in the Instruction of
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