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CHAPTER X.
TUB CONFEIIENCR.
It was two weeks after the fire and
the accident to Smart. Krlc wns sit
tlnp by the teil. for Stuurt was still
in Eric's cottage. Ills accident bad
been so serious that there had been
no thought of his removal. Duriii"
the anxious days and nights Krlc hail
hardly left Stuart's side. Andrew had
bPRged to be allowed to watch, but
Krlc had Insisted upon his prior right
and had refused to give way to any
one else.
There was another watcher who
more than Andrew regarded Eric Jeal
ously. and that was a woman who stole
Into the cottage often with the doctor'
coming and remained, dry eyed and
pale, with the heart's hunger of lovi 1
staring out of gn at eyes that burned ,
over Stuart as If by very force of com
polling affection they would rouse blm
into Knowledge and life again. Khena
did not try to hide the feeling she now
had. The doctor came in quietly that
day while Krlc was sitting asleep at
the side of Stuart, exhausted by his
great vieil, and found Khcna on her
knees praying. The intensity of her
desire for Stuart's life broke out Into
an audible petition.
"O Lord, my Goal, save him! What
has he done to file? Oh. how can 1
say, 'Thy will be done?' I never loved
him before. Spare him, (Joal of all
goodness! lie is so needed in thy
world! Surely there are others who
would be less Ood, what am I say
Ing? Hut he Is my lover! And he does
not know that I love him!"
"Beg pardon," Interrupted the doctor,
"but you're mistaken about that He
knows It perfectly wclL Just tell him
fonr or five times more If you think It
is necessary."
Rhena turned her bead toward Stu
art, ne lay there with his eyes open
for the first time In days, really con
scious and with a smile on his fare
which was heaven to her. She simply
turned en her knees and bowed her
head over Stuart's hand and put her
lips to It, aud then, to the doctor's sur
prise, she fell over and fainted.
"It beats all creation what these wo
men can spring in the way of sur
prises on a man!" said the doctor as he
picked Ithena up and carried her over
to a couch at the other end of the
room.
Eric had started out of his doze, and
Stuart had shut his eyes again, lapsing
into his former stupor, but still with a
smile on bis lips. "But If any lasa has
a right to faint this one has. Are you
going to tumble off again, ma'am?" he
asked as Ithena began to come to.
"Vou can If you want to. Do you want
to cry? Come, that's a good girl! Cry
a little. It'll do us all good. Want a
handkerchief? Here's mine."
Khena sat up suddenly and seized
Saxon's hand. "Oh. doctor, he will get
well, won't he? He Is better? There
Is hope? lie knew me for a moment.
You do believe my prayer will be an
swered ?"
Rhena was crying softly. She was
broken and nervous with the great
strain of the last two weeks.
"I've heard worse prayers get at
tended to," replied the doctor shortly.
"But do you think oh, doctor, It Is
death to me to think of tell me, what
do you fear? Is he will he live?"
The doctor shut his lips tight. Bhena
watched him, with her hands clinched
hard over his. She did not know it,
but her slim fingers hurt even the doc
tor's rugged, knotty fists. Finally he
answered her. "I think, yes, I am
quite sure, now that he knows that
you care for blm a little, there Is s
Oghtlng chance."
"Care for him a littler replied Rbe
UCFNSE NOTICES
Toe follow ng named persons hsveni(l wlih
'li Clerk 01 Quarter Sessions Of the county
)( Snyder their application for Tavern, Rot Hers
nd Distillers' Licenses, which will ho presf nted
for approval, S it unlay, April S7, 1901.
Tavern Limine.
1. D, I" Hli'gaman,
1. II. II. Kaust,
S. Robinson MldiUi'Swarth,
4. Peter Hartmao,
! J, K. Spanglar,
C FrunclH J. Kerstetter,
7. W. H KerslPltcr,
S. M. J, rTlshcr,
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ii Jacob a. Lelttel,
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18. Daniel 11 ilemliir.
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10. Kllnworth Aurand,
17. Harry M. llurlman,
is. Harvey c Haas,
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tl 7..T. lleUrlck,
U it, R. Arliocasi,
43. George a. Boyer,
24, w. ::. Htuhlnecker,
H, Philip II. Daubert,
M. Kmmu J. Swlneford,
27. OeorgS W. Heaver,
2. I'wls Klsber,
29. Simon Lonif,
80. J. R. Vanhorn,
PfrtWsi 'a Hss.
.11, Joseph I. Marks, Franklin tnwnshlp
32 E. B. Ilartman, Centre township
83. Isaac Shawver, Adams township
Wholeaale Lleena.
34. Joseph L. Marks, Prankl'n township
3 W. II. (irinirn, Washington township
M. A. U. winner. Seltniirrove
O.M.8H1HDEL, Clerk.
M Iddleburg, Pk April I, ltn.
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Melservllle
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aa, with a smile that melted the doc
tor completely. "Doctor, were yon
ever in level"
"No." replied the doctor, "but If 1
was I'd have to put up still another
band stand in the square. One apiece
wouldn't be too much for three such
fools as you and Stuart and me."
"What's tbst nonsense he' talking?"
asked Eric, coming over to the end of
the room where they were.
"It was not nonsense," said Rhena.
with more color in her face than ii
had seen since the day Stuart bad Brat
spoken to her. She went over to Wie
side of Stuart aud sat down ther.
wntchlng him. She hsd a great hope
now. The doctor also told the truth.
And indeed, he afterward said, nothing
but love brought Stuart out alive.
"I've heard that people who were In
love could live on nothing." the doctor
said, "but I do believe if Stuart hadn't
come to himself long enough that day
to bear that little prayer I'd have hu.l
tWO funerals on :ny hands pretty quick.
Well, 1 never understood these wo
men. There she was one minute as
limp as a dead fish, and the next she
was as lively as a Salvation Army
tambourine. If I could get this article
they call love fixed up In a prescription
and deal It out In severe cases, I be
lieve It would do more good than all
the microbe killers on earth."
Those were wonderful days when
Stn.irt was declared out of danger.
Andrew celebrated by bringing over
his choicest blossoms. He ranged two
pots of roses on a table where Stuart
could see them and laid a beautiful
white carnation on the bed within
reach of Stunrt's fingers.
"It's the only one I've been able to
get this winter, Stuart. Isn't It a beau
ty? It's a new variety. Do you know
what I've called It? I took the liberty
to call It the 'Rhena Dwlght' "
When Rhena came In a few minutes
after, Andrew and Krlc pretended to be
busy talking at the other eud of the
room
Stuart picked up the carnation and
spoke feebly, but the light of life was
In his eyes. "This blossom Is called
the Rhena Dwlght, so Andrew says.
Will you take it because of the love I
bear you?"
Rheua took the flower and kissed It.
Then she shyly placed the blossom
against Smart's Hps. Then she laid It
down again In bli band.
"No," she said; "you keep the Rhena
Dwlght for the love I have for you."
If it any wonder Stuart grew well
with great rapidity after that? j
In a week he was almost well. He ,
was able to take part In the discussions j
which forced thsmselves Into that little
room In spite of all Krlc could do.
There had been three weeks almost a
blank to Stuart, bat full of horror and
misery for the miners on all the ranges.
The fire that dreadful night had made
860 or 400 people homeless. The deaths
from fever had lessened some la Cham
pion, but at De Mett the dally mortality
had increased. Bat moat of the suffer
trig came from lack of clothing and
fuel and feed. The winter had contin
ued with terrible severity. And still
the union held out with remarkable
stubbornness, although the week of
Stuart's convalescence there was a ru
mor that a break would come very
soon. The anion bad reached its limit
of ability to help In a financial way
long liefere this.
Stuart came back to strength and
new vitality with all the force of the
old problem Intensified as he realized
what the three weeks had added to It.
He was glorified with the love of Rhe
na, now wholly his, but be knew that
for nothing did she love him more than
for his desire to try to solve the hu
man problem, as It touched both their
lives in Champion. With all the added
varmth and entbusinsm of her great
hearted wisdom he now set himself
to the dnty before him. It wns not
alone his desire that Rhena should be
one of the company when Eric and
Andrew eame In to talk over matters.
The other men bad learned that wo
man's wit very often supplies the nec
essary factor In a solution of practical
relief, and Rhena took her place with
them as indispensable to their councils
henceforth.
"Something has got to be done soon
for the peoplo who lost everything
in the Are," said Andrew. The little
group of four were in Eric's room,
Stuart on the couch, Rbena sitting
near the end of it, Eric pacing the
room, his dark eyes restless and burn
ing. "I understand they have all been
comfortably cared for, but I don't see
myself whst Chsmplon people have
been able to do for them In the way
of housing them," said Stuart, looking
at Andrew, upon whom a large share
of the work of relief had fallen during
Stuart's unconscious condition.
"Heaven knows how all of them
have been cared for. The Salvation
Army hall has been turned Into bar
racks, and Miss Rheua here knows
how much the army has done."
"It has done very little In comparison
with what it would like to do," said
Rhena sadly.
"Do you know what It would like to
do?" asked Stuart who was only Just
beginning to comprehend bow great
end pressing was the need since the
fire and three weeks more of the
strike.
"I'm afraid It's not much use for me
to say," answered Rhena, with added
sadness.
"You forget," answered Stuart
"What Is all my money for? Why have
you not been spending It all this time?"
he asked almost fiercely, turning to
Eric, who still paced the room and
who bad not yet spoken.
"I've spent plenty of other people's
money In my mind," answered Eric
as bitterly as he ever spoke, "but I
never spent It In reality, and when It
comes to the suffering we face now I
wouldn't know where to stop. What
right have people to go on wasting
God's property so wickedly while there
Is so much suffering?"
Be looked at Andrew as he spoke.'
and Andrew, who seldom made a re
tort of uny kind, replied:
"Ask the devil. He knows more
about It than I do."
"And then there Is the church." con
tinued Eric, who was irritable and
nervous on this occasion, for bis long
watching with Stuart had been a great
strain on him. "What is it doing iu
comparison with what it ought to do?
Stuait, you asked me quite awhile ago
why I joined the Salvation Army. I'll
tell you why. There was nowhere
else I could go for the religious expres
sion of my life. St. John's church is a
eurious mixture of workingmen aud
tradesmen, and I'm not saylug any
thing of its aristocracy, for it hasn't
any, but if I do say It, and I am sorry
to have to say it, the whole object of
the church before Andrew came here
to It seemed to be to meet together
for meetings which gave occasion for
a good deal of feeling and emotion,
but never realized anything of a prac
tical nature lu helping to relieve the
pressure of the physical needs of men.
The whole thing evaporated In feeling
and psalm singing and prayers that
never renlly got much outside the walls
of the vestry.
"I'm not crying down the Christian
lives of the church members. There
are hundreds of them better tlmu I
am, but the expression of their Chris
tianity through the structure of the
church seemed to me almost nothing,
One may be Just as strong as another,
but if one of them is using a dull ax
and the other one a sharp ax to cut i
down a tree the strength of the two
men is not being equally s,iciit so far
as getting results goes, and the man
with the sharp tool will do the best
work, not because he has more muscle,
but a better ax. It came upon me
with the force of a conversion that 1
never could do much through the
church as an Instrument. That's the
reason I went Into the Salvation Ar
my. It represented the sacrificial spirit
of Christianity to me a hundred times
where the church did not represent it
at all. Take the Church of St. Peter
here In Champion. It is always spoken
of In the papers as the most fashiona
ble church In town. Think of that!
So The News Crier ststed In giving
the account of its annual meeting.
What do those people know of sacri
fice or of the spirit of Christ, who
gave up all his riches to become poor
for the sake of dying humanity? I'm
sitting In Judgment on them, and 1
shall some time be called to account
for doing it but If I was a Catholic
I'd be willing to sit on the hottest fire
In purgatory to say what I think abou'
an 'aristocratic church.' And this one
here in Champion is only one out of
thousands all over the country. What
Is the church, as an institution, doing
to obey the command of Christ to
deny Itself, take up Its cross, forsake
Its ease and pleasure and follow him?"
Again Eric turned In his walk snd
confronted Andrew. Stuart and Rhena
watched him almost sorrowfully sfter
listening to Eric's Outburst Over An
drew's Jolly, good naturrd face crept
a gray shadow of seriousness that
showed hew deeply Eric's sharp cou
demnstion hsd pierced.
"Your question Is larger than any an
swer 1 can make without taking up
hours of discussion," he said at Inst,
speaking calmly, but with evident self
control over a possible fury of feeling
"The church today contains some of the
noblest and some of the mranest men
and women. There is in the church tin
highest, purest, most saintly devotion
to Christ snd his teaching, and at the
same time there are alougside of it the
most awful selfishness and love of
ceremony, show and hypocrisy. The
scribes snd Pharisees nre Just as much
In evidence now as when they cried
to Pilate: 'Crucify him! Crucify him!'
Long ago I came to the conclusion that
the same people would nail Jesus to
the cross again If he appeared in this
generation and denouueed their hypoc
risy and selfishness as he did before.
At the same time he would have a
great army of disciples, who would
suffer martyrdom for his sake. 1 re
gard the church of today as occupying
a peculiar position In the world of
Struggle between different groups of
men. There Is a growing feeling on
the part of many churches that a great i
revolution In the methods and purpose
Is at hand and that nothing will be 1
so radically changed In spirit nnd pur-'
pose as the church of Christ The!
amount of relief for suffering that
flows out of the organization we now
have Is no doubt enormous. Propose '
to any civilized community in this
country that it wipe out Its churches
altogether, and the proposition would ,
meet with Instant objection, even ou
the part of those who are most ready
to denounce the cburch for Its useless
ness. I am not attempting to answer
your question In full, Eric. Of course
if I did not believe In the church 1
mean In Its possibilities of sacrifice
I would not work from it as a center.
I would get out and work from some
other basis. But this Is my best rea
son for believing In the church as a
power for the world's redemptive up
lift after all else has been said."
Andrew paused, and the rest listened
thoughtfully. "The cburch Is the only
organization Jesus ever mentioned. He
especially loved It It was not any
particular form or name that be loved,
but the disclplesblp organized in love
to one another and a common Master,
going forward to conquer the world
for God. And after the trials and
false representations of Christ In tbe
church have had their day, after tbe
aristocratic churches have died and
the memory of their pomps and fash
Ion is no more, after tbe coldness and
carelessness and superficial worldllness
of the cburch have had their time
lived out, the true church will survive
the wreck of all this agonizing death
In life and be a universal representa
tion of the crucified I.amb of God, giv
ing Its life for tbe needs of a suffering
elr nurtua- a:;
. She wal th. ..
and dytng race. 'I believe in the heij
catholic church' meaning tbe cburch
universal 'in the sense that 1 be
lieve it contains tbe leaven that is
necessary to leaven tbe wboie lamp
Why, even the Salvation Army never
would have bad an existence if it bad
not been for the church."
"Do you mean that the church ha
grown so mean and useless that the
army had to be organized to do what
the church ought to have done?" asked
Erie, with a smile.
"No. I mean of course that the
Christian men and women who organ
lzed the army had their nurtu
training in the church
mother. They went out from her
home to do a work they never couh!
have done If they had not been trained
aud taught at her feet."
"Is not the Salvation Army as much
the church as any other form of or
ganisation where Christian disciples
get together lu Christ's name?" asked
Rhena.
"Yes, I think so," replied Andrew.
"I mean to prove It by Joining both."
said Stuart, looking at Rhena.
"You can't Join the army without
giving up your own wishes and obey
ing the orders of your superior officer,"
said Rhena slyly.
"It's one of the rules of tbe army
also, I understand," added Andrew.
With a twinkle, "that a private cannot
even marry without asking the consent
of tbe commanding otHcer. Isn't that
so. Miss Rhena?"
"I've asked It and obtained It," said
Stuart. "Tbe commanding officer says,
'Get married ns soon as you recover
from your present illness.' "
"She doesn't either," said Rbena
hastily. Then, as Andrew and Eric
began to laugh, she blushed and said,
to bide the confusion: "We are getting
away from our original question.
Stuart wants to know how to spend
his money. It seems too bad If we
can't any of us tell him how."
"I can tell him how to use several
thousand," said Eric, who, after ex
pressing his own mind on the church
quest ion, was once more the calm,
thoughtful, even attractive, man he
renlly was. Eric had great powers,
but they were not developed.
"Well, go on!" cried Stuart.
"The miners need new houses in
Cornlshtown. What could be a better
way to Invest $10,000 or $20,000 than
to put up a hundred substantial houses
that would really be homes?"
"What do you think of that?" asked
Stuart, turning naturally to Rhena.
"It ought to be done," she answered
softly, "and a good deal more. I am
not thinking of the bouses alone, but of
tbe men, women and children who live
In them. There is no doubt they have
had all these years the most miserable
quarters. What can be expected of a
family living In a cabin of only three
rooms at most? How much refinement
and civilization can come out of such
surroundings? Stuart, you must drain
tbe settlement and"
"I'll drain the whole neighborhood!"
cried Stuart. "And tbe bouses shall be
built at once. Why have you let me
lie here all this time like a useless
thing when so much is needed to be
done?"
Just then Dr. Ssxon came in. He
entered ns usual tbe minute he had
rapped a peculiar knock known by
every one in Champion, stopping out
side only long enough to say, "It's tbe
doctor."
The minute he appeared Stuart be
gan to abuse him for not getting him
well quicker.
"I'll never pay you. Doc, unless you
give me something that will let me out
of this in a day or two, or else I'll sue
you for malpractice!"
"If you do, I'll sue the company for
half a million dollars' worth of prac
tice done on the miners since the strike
snd the fire. I'm going to retire after
this winter If I can law the company
out of what they owe me. But you
can get out again In a day or two. The
only tiling that ails you now Is heart
trouble, nnd 1 can't cure that. Vou
are In a very dangerous condition."
The doctor looked at Rhena, and so
did Stuart, and then, after a moment
of sober thoughtfulness, the doctor
smiled. It was a rare smile and made
his rugged, storm beaten face almost
handsome. He was already moving
toward the door to go out. He was In
a great hurry that morning for a won-
o mm
"I mean to prove it by joining both."
der, he said, and simply stepped In on
his way up the hill to see how Stuart
was.
"Stop him!" cried Stuart to Eric.
"Say, doctor, don't go yet. We need
your advice. We want your help in
making plans for the relief
"Ob, get out for plans for relief! I
have no sympathy with them I The
more you give those ungrateful, obsti
nate old I tell you, Stuart you'd
better keep your money. Yon'll need
It when you begin housekeeping. Every
time when you go down town your
wife will want you to bring home a
mouse trap and a lemon squeeser or
a barrel of pepper or something. Eric,
t you try to stop me I'll throw j9i
through the window." ,
The doctor rushed out of the door
snd slammed it shut. The next minute
be opened it, and. looking In, he my
gravely, "If you mean to do anything
worth while about the draluiu ur
building new houses, I'll give you s
hint or two when 1 get time."
The next minute he was gone, anj
Stuart could see from the little window
a vision of AJax and the cutter as ujej.
tore up the bill.
"1 wonder If the doctor will ever
get time?" said Andrew. "I wonder
what be will do when he gets to the
other country, where there is to he no
more pain nor crying nor death?"
"I declare it puzzles me to gu,.ss
what he'll do. I can't Imagine hltn
sitting on the edge of a rose colored
cloud taking it easy," replied Stuart
"I have no doubt there will be some
arrangements made for his signal
benefit."
"Do you think we shall all be a
busy there as we are here?" n'ni
Rhena.
"Of course," Andrew answered,
"Only we shall have plenty of time
to do things as we want. I love to In--lleve
that I can raise roses of all son.
and have, say, a thousand years t ,.v
pertinent on new varieties without
feeling all the time that I ought to be
making that parish call or writing tbtt
sermon or getting ready for that mi...
mittee meeting."
"Vou don't believe there will 1m
roses In the other world, do you?" In
quired Eric quizzically.
"1 don't?" exclaimed Andrew,
"What would heaven be without rosei
and little children?"
"I'm not quarreling with your Idea.
I like it," replied Kric. "I hope there
will be roses there without the thorns.
Meanwhile we nre living in the town of
Champion, where tbe thorns outnum
ber the roses two to one. It' we make
this little spot on enrth more likt
heaven, perhaps we'll be In n condition
to enjoy the other place better wlieu
our turn conies to go to it."
"There's no doubt of It!" Stuart
spoke, with an emphasis that meant
a world of action. "As certain an the
Lord raises me up from tills weaknen
In body 1 will render him nu account
of my stewardship. Erie, you and
Andrew can arrange the details of tbla
work. Our duty is imperative. It I
ns clear as light to me. Those houses
shall be built as fast as money can do
it, and the other cabins shall be turn
down and new ones put up In their
plnces."
"How about that hall dedicated to
the Interests of labor?" asked Brie,
smiling.
"Up it goes as soon as we can gel
at it I don't like tbe idea of catling
it a hall for labor interests. I tell you.
Eric, the rich need preaching to mure
than tbe poor. They need to be taiiKlit
their duties and privileges. The lull
will be built but it shall be called the
Hall of Humanity. It shall be ta
cated to tbe entire community, ami
whatever Is said or preached or siiDg
In It shall be for the union of nun.
for their good as members of the hu
man family. Every unselfish, Christ
like word nnd deed we can think of
shall be given a place within Its walk
Oh, I've done some thinking since I
begnn to get well! But first to tbt
house building. Rhena, you can he!)
us in the details of this ImportaDl
work."
Stuart never spoke a truer word.
Rhena entered Into the plans for tbe
building with all ber enthusiasm. Slit
outlined the most satisfactory ami sen
siblc arrangement for tbe structure of
the new houses, and during the next
few weeks she was the life of the
project, her great common sense ami
practical knowledge of the needs of tb
occasion assisting Eric and Andre
wonderfully ns tbe entire work grew
under their bands.
Two days after this conference in
Eric's cottage Stuart was able to go
home. The evening of the day he re
turned was the scene of a conversation
between him and Aunt Royal and
Louise that Is necessary to relate.
Both his aunt and Louise bad W
several times to see him While he wu
at Eric's. It was clear to Stuart that
no course he could take ou the line'
now laid out by his new definition of
life could possibly meet with the ap
proval of these women.
The conversation started with
statement Stuart made concerning bll
coming marriage.
"We shall be married as soon as Ml"
Dwlght can get ready." Stuart bli
reference to ber Salvation Army un
ties and the work necessary to tM
building of the bouses.
"I suppose she is ordering her trous
seau from Paris? I should love to w
a Salvation Army gown made after
the latest European style," said U0lKi
with a sneer.
"Do you expect to be married in the
army hall?" asked Aunt Royal, with
a frigid look at her nephew.
"My wife," said Stuart, with a d
tinctness that Ignored all this, hot
made one point very plain, "Win "
the undisputed mistress of this boo
She Is the peer of any woman livlnl
In education, accomplishment sM
grace, and she Is the superior of ni
of them In ber spiritual refinement anil
self sacrifice." ,
"Are you going to bring her here.'
asked Louise, With a curious look.
"Where else should I bring the wo
man I marry?" asked Stuart, turning
to Louise.
"I didn't know but that Miss VW
would prefer to live In a humbler W
ton nftor nil hop tnltra unit lira) ,r"
about giving up this and that and the
other. But of course If sis,- decides R
enjoy the sinful luxuries of life afffr
her roughing It In army halls Tu
know what I shall do?" ,
Stuart did not answer. Aunt Boj"1
watched blm elosely. ...
"I shall simply leave, that is
continued Louise. "I don't life wm