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iJllfrk 27. 1906.
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IN | skirt, threw her white knitted shawl
I about hef 1 and went noiselessly down-
GONT^ED FROM StXTH PAGE.
O ’CLOCKS — A STORY
VERSE.
wind-blown fragrance from the ■ stairs ’ ea £erly making her way to the
lills of youth water -cooler. Alack! it was empty.
She felt she must have water. There
was the well just outside. She softly un
did the bolt that fastened the back door
and went out to the well. Another dis
appointment! They had begun cleaning
out the well that day, and the bucket
4 vellnw spendor of her sweet bou-- I t V il ot lnUli - What should she do?
quet Uer thirst was intense. Suddenly she
to tile dusty, stilling train she came,
'clainty wfcite-clad country maid, per
chance,
ler hands oerflowing with the scarlet
flame
her - way,
[ Ho foil to musing of the long ago.
iose by hie mother’s door quaint flowers
like those
Had flaunted In his-life’s fresh open
ing day.
tr.d of them wondrous fairy chains she
wove;
The little maid who sometimes joined
his play.
moment since, absorbed In bonds and
stocks,
The rise of grain—was wheat a market
prizq?—
Vhat time had he for maids and four-
o’ciocks?
Yet, ’twas provoking that his wayward
eyes
|Strayed ever from the page he should
have scanned,
’.> watch the figure Just one seat
ahead;
i* graceful ripple of her sunny hair
.So like—and yet he knew that she was
dead,—
owned—months ago. The maiden
turned her head.
Robert!” sne cried; “Alice! oh, Alice
dear!” The past,
I'l he pride, the anger flee; Time's cruel
space ... ,. . . „ ___ - 1 seeing a patient in the country, a
Jjy Rove s drawbridge divine Is spanned lng th!rstyi x dismounted and ti
at last.
road, from their house was a strip of
woods, in which there was a spring
noted for its cool water. Ruth had often
drank there, when, as a child, she hunt
ed chinkapins in the woods. It was
not more than fifty yards from the road;
a path lei to it, and a gourd hung near it
from the limb of a tree.
The moon was shining brightly, and
her thirst was greater than her fear, al
though it was the night lor ghosts to
walk. She made her way round the
house through tlie front yard and across
the road. She found the path and was
soon at the spring. The gourd was gone,
and she knelt down and leaned Over to
drink from her hand as she had done
when a child. Suddenly a tail man
stopped out of the tree shadows and held
■out to her a gourd filled with water. She
uttered a little frightened scream and
started to jump up and run. but her feet
caught in her skirt and she fell back
fainting.
Her unconsciousness lasted but a mo
ment. When she came to, the tall man
was kneeling by iter lifting her head. She
knew him at once; it was Dr. Ward. She
had seen him often, though she had
never spoken to hint. He had also recog
nized her, and he said, as he helped her
to her feet:
“Pray, forgive me. Hiss Elden, for
frightening you so. I -did not think about
it at the time. I was coming back from
nd, be-
fastened
LAUREL* BLOSSOM.
Mississippi.
my horse at the edge of the wood until
I could get a drink from tiie spring.
Just as I dipped up the water, I saw you.
j A lady all in white in a wood at mid-
HOW THE EGG CHARM WORKED. ! night, and on Hallowe’en, is such a sur-
Stella Wlilte was early dressed lor her | prising vision that I was startled, and
1 Ha* to we eu party. one was tin- omy ) stood back to see what it meant. When
I • laughter of a well-to-do merenant. and I I saw it was you, and that you wished
since Jut return from boarding school to -drink, I stepped out and offered you
the hud been the ,telle of me town. | the water. I ought to have known it
Itresseu in pale blue chufon, that set off
her exquisite fairness, she looked un
usually uandeome tonight, as she fiitted
about the rooms decorated in richly col
ored autumn leaves and looked into the
dining room, where baskets of ruddy ap
ples were ready for fortune-telling
games; while from the cot *.ers, banked
with bright foliage, peered grotesque
would frighten you. Will you pardon my
thoughtlessness?” v
-She assured him that he was forgiven,
and when she had drunk the gourd full
of water he dipped up for her she ex
plained how it happened that she had
come to the spring alone at midnight,
adding: “We hud tried the salted-egg
fortune telling charm, and you can’t
Buchanan's
Wife
Bv Justus Miles Forman
Suppose you were a woman
young, loving, alive—and your
family had broken your engage
ment to the man you loved in
order to marry you to a rich man
who was rather a brute; and sup
pose that your husband suddenly
disappeared and left no trace. If
something then happened that
convinced every one but your
self that he was dead, and your
lover wanted you to marry him
what would you do?
This is the climax that Justus
Miles Forman skilfully leads up
to in his new novel. Then a
startling turn takes place, and
incident after incident carries the
reader along in a rush of surprise
and wonderment to the very end.
The story of a woman’s fight for
love has never been better told.
Itis a masterpiece of story-telling.
HARPER & BROTHERS.
faces cut in Hallowe’en pumpkins with imagine how thirsty it makes one.”
colored lighted candles inside. The one “Indeed, I can,” he sail; “I know
riaw in -Stella's enjoyment was that her about the egg charm. The person who
parents had utsistea on her inviting Ruth hands you water to quench your thirst
Lidon. Mr. V* iiite could not forget that, j is the one you are destined to marry.”
though Ruth and her widowed motner
were now poor, and lived in a tiny cot
tage, yet in tneir better days her father
had befrienaed him and given him em
ployment when lie was a struggling ooy.
-jim Elden’s daughter shatl not be
alighted,” said Mr. White; "and if she
lias no escort, I will go myself and bring
Stella’s dislike to Ruth was grounded
on je.-lousy. Ruth s rich, dark beauty
and s.eiider, graceful figure were greatly
admired, notwithstanding her simple, in
expensive dress. Young tOr. Ward, whom
fcSielia hau marked out for tier especial
conquest, hud been heard to ‘praise
Ruth Klden’s beamy and her sweet con
tralto voice in tne choir.
Of course, the doctor was one of tiie
Invited guests, but iate in the afternoon
‘The one you dream hands you water,”
she corrected: but he shook his head.
“The real thing ought to be surer than
the dream,” lie said, laughing.
She laughed, too. She had recovered
her composure.' He thought as she stood
there in the moonlight, the fleecy white
shawl draping her head and flower white
face, tiiat she was quite tiie loveliest
creature he had ever seen. He accom
panied her to the house and said good
night to her at the back door. She
crept softly up to her room, without
disturbing any one.
In the morning at the breakfast table,
when the other girls told their dreams,
Ruth had no dream to relate. She kept
her little midnight adventure to herself;
but when, three months later, her en
gagement to Dr. Ward was announced,
telephone message came from lum tnat i and Mrs. White, with Stella, paid her a
he had received an urgent call to see a i congratulatory, visit, she told the good
sick patient several ntiies out of town,
nd he was afraid he coul i not get back
in time to attend the Hallowe’en party.
This was a disappointment, and Sieiia,
[who was accustomed to have ft or o.vn
was much vexed at having it
thwarted on this particular occasion.
The guests arrived early. Mr. White
was as good as his word; he went alter
Ruth Elden himself and told her mother
not to sit up, as Rutn would spend the
night at his house.
Ail the fortune-telling games that any
one could suggest were tried, amid a
great deal of fun and laughter. Supper
was enjoyed at a table that looked like
an autumn bower, and after more games
and a little music and dancing, the en
tertainment was over and the gjjests
departed. Two girl friends of Stella's
from the city and 1-tuth Elden remained
to spend the night. After the girls laid
gone up to their rooms, Stella brought
cut a bowl of hard-boiled eggs and pro
posed that they should try the potent *-gg
charm, which consisted In eating in per
fect silence an egg from which the yelk
lady of the romantic way in which she
hal become acquainted with her fiance.
“And it was my own doing,” thought
Stella, bitterly. ”If T had given her
water It* 'lie: room that night this en
gagement might never have been.”
Thus It sometimes happens that an un
kind or malicious :ict defeats itself.
M1ZPAH.
REUNITED IN THE STORM.
The train was making the usual time,
and among tiie passengers speeding to
their destination in a south Alabama
town was the Mystic World troupe. The
actors and actresses were amusing them
selves, and but one among them seemed
mindful of the approaching storm. Lois
Davenport sat apart. For the one year
of her engagement with this theatrical
company site had never been identified
wlfli the other members. After their first
overtures to friendliness they had left
her alone. Today she was grateful for
this isolation, since for the first time
: ad been removed and the cavity filled I in twelve months she was approaching
with salt. One who partook of such a
saline morsel late at night would be sure
t*> experience great thirst, and be apt to
■ iream of drinking water. If water was
mded to a girl by a man, tiie dreamer
would marry the man within a year. If
a lady gave the drink, the dreaming one
would be an old maid.
Stella, with her two friends, occupied
a large room in which there were two
be is:. Ruth was given a small adjoining
room at the end of the hall. When she
had said goodnight to the others, Stella
remembered that she had put no water
in the halt room, though her mother had
told her to do so. Her own room was
generously supplied with water, and she
thought at first of taking some of It to
Ruth, then a malicious spirit prompted
;• er to think: “No, let her do without;
doesn’t matter. If she gets very
lirsty, she can knock at this door and
i! give her a drink.”
An hour later Ruth awoke with a
i.rning thirst. She found no water in
■ room. She. went to the room occu
lt by the girls and knockei, calling
the poene of the short-lived happiness of
her brief wedded life. Every moment
grought fresh memories and regrets.
The clouds grew more threatening: the
wind lashed the trees into writhing
musses; the entire landscape from the car
window seemed in harmony with her re
flections. As she sat looking out, no
change In her pale face revealed the tu
mult in her heart. Are there not storms
tisement, she had accepted the theatrical
manager’s offer. Who can penetrate the
mystery of that interior alchemy where
our actions are elaborated? Her hus
band's presence had been her salvation;
his indifference, manifested by his con
tinued absence, left her no recourse but
to seek forgetfulness behind the foot
lights.
It seemed to her, looking back, that
some secret force had been at work to
change her destiny. Her husband, hop
ing to impose upon her his Ideas, and
to mold her after his ideals, had forgot
ten that she also must follow the essen
tial trails of nature; that while love
may incline the will, It cannot change the
character.
Why he had not come back? Had he
forgotten her? Had he not also known
tiie bliss of loving and the bitterness of
losing the beloved? Lois' keenest suffering
was the consciousness that her husband,
during that long year of silence, was no
less miserable than she. This telepathic
sympathy binds two hearts that are In
unison no matter how widely separated
by space.
Her musing was checked all at once by
the sudden stopping of tho train in a
dismal swnmpy-looking place. What—had
some damage wrought by the storm
brought them to a standstill? What' was
the danger? Were they not go on?
Excited questions were calie* upon all
sides, and front every winodw the pas
sengers were peering out into tile semi-
darkness. Just ahead of the locomotive 20
feet of the track had been washed out.
The train would surely have been wreck
ed, but for the timely intervention of two
men, who had reached that quint after
n. struggle in the -rising waters.
With incredible labor they had suc
ceeded in rescuing a family from their
island home—the little house being swept
away in the flood. Landing near the
Louisville and Nashville track, they had
flagged the now belated train, and thus
effected another rescue; at the same
j time finding succor for the scantily clad,
I half-frozen children in their care. The
j Mystic World troupe took the little ones
j in, wrapped them in their own warm
! blankets and put them into their own
; berths.
Lois Davenport joined in this thankful
1 task. Hastening forward to take an in-
| fant from the arms of one of the res
cuers, she looked up Into the man’s face
and felt herself half swooning as she
recognized her husband. She could but
gasp his name, as he gave up his burden
to another, and caught his wife in h'M
arms.
“Lois,” he cried, and in that one cr^
all was forgotten and forgiven between
these two—reunited in the storm.
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than a speckled puppy—just the kind of
Kiri as I'd always pictured, doing the
work about my place, sich as milkin’ and
churnin’, washin’ and ironin’, an’ keepln’
j the house spick and span. She looked
I like she’d be willing to hoe the garden
|^nd help with the wood-choppin’ and the
I feedin’ when I was leelln' tired. Yes,
| she suites me to a T, and I fell to
(picturing how she’d fan out the pickanin-
! nies and slop the shoats.
And she’s got a nice figger, too—plenty
of length to hang calico on, and she
wouldn’t look bad riding 'long ’side
of me under the umbrell to meeting.
And, Doc, she was good-natiured, in the
bargain, for when that chow-chow’ got
lo burning she just kept right on with
her “doleful sound" when the smell was
doleful a. plenty.
Directly a nigger girl came out and
I slipped Cousin Iteddy clear of his tog
] gery and told her to take him to Msss
Musa with the compliments o-f Elam
Tony, Esq.
I had done made sure that Musa didn’t
keep dogs, but I hadn’t figured on cats.
She must have had as many of them I
critters as Julia Tail. Cousin Reddy ’
saw’ a few of them before he got to the!
steps and he squirmed out Of that nig-;
ger’s hands and fell to lighting cats. I
Such spitting and screeching you never
heard—I’ll declare, it seemed like Musa
was keeping a cattery. The racket was __
awful, and Musa broke off'in the middle
of her tune and took to saying “Seat!
Scat!” and lammin’ about with the
broom. I hung aroun’ till evenin’ and
I see her come out dressed in white, an
get In the hammock, and bimeby there
came a dapper little feller an’ took to
swingin’ her, when I clum over the side
fence with my ’cordeon. I just felt like
whackin’ him over the head with my
umbrell. I naterly hated him when he
leaned over her and said something I
couldn’t hear; then he waved at her
from the gate and went off up the street.
“Elam,” sez I, “now’s your chance— j
play for your life.” Bracing myself j
agaihst some shrubbery stalks I opened ,
up with my 'cordeon, playin’ “old Dan j
Tucker” as fast as I could jerk her. I ;
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the same time. By and by Musa come
to the edge of the porch. I let up on
playin’ and begun to skin up the post,
like the feller tho parson told about,
and when I got upon the banister and
reached out my arms for her same as
he did. "Don’t he scared, sweetheart,’’
sez r, “It’s just Elam.” But I declar,
Doc, she cut short my love makin’,
for she pitched into me with her fist.
“Help! help!” she screamed, but It didn’t
seem to me she needed much help, for
she was clawin’ up my clothes with her
hands and skinnin’ my face with her
nails.
Cousin Reddy—he heared the rumpus—
and he tore out of house and lit into me,
too. The little cuss chawed my legs
and gnawed my ankles. The gate slam
med, and Musa cried out: “John, hus
band, come here quick ”
Fourth Quarter. Lesson V. Matt, xxxi, 17-30 November 4, 19C6.
THE LORD’S SUPPER.
All the singing pilgrim caravans had
come to a halt with the high grace-note
of the last “song of degrees,” “Our feet
shall stand within thy gates. O Jerusa
lem!” Green booths and snowy tents dotted
all the valleys and slopes around the city,
and three million worshipers made ready
fer the morrow. Over two hundred thou
sand lambs had been purchased and
marked for sacrifice, and all the details
of the joyous festival were being at
tended to.
Jesus tarried yet in the sweet and rest-
fu! seclusion of Bethany: but His disciples
knew very well that He who had said.
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But I tell you I was quicker. T cleared “Thus It becometh Me to fulfill all right-
the banister an’ made for the side fence. | ecusness,” would not Ignore the great
Cousin Reddy followed to see me safe ; Paschh. The question was not if He
over, and so did John. I finished my would eat it, but where He would do so
clothes by landing in one of them mud
holes that's ag sticky as a bread tray
in Texas.
But say, Doc. who would have thought
of tiie pns«ia'il ritual was the blessing
of praise with which it was always closed.
They were all expecting it. The inno
vation could not but be noticed by those
who had followed one programme annual
ly from the -time when they were tea
3'ears old. instead of lifting His hand in
benediction, Jesus reached over to the
dish of unleavened bread upon the table,
and, taking up a piece, He rose from
the mat, and blessed it, and, as He pass
ed from one to another, He (broke it,
giving each a morsel, saying, rr Take, eat;
this is My body.” Then he filled a cup,
and, again giving thanks, and passing it
front one to another, He said, “This Ts
My blood of the new covenant, which is
shed for many for the remission of sins.”
Then followed His words of institution,
“This do in remembrance of Me.”
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want to put something In It.”
Bert handed his friend the bottle and
looked on to see w hat he was going to
do.
Harry took a note book from itis pocket,
wrote a few lines on one of the leaves,
tore the leaf out, folded It nd put it in
to the botfle, whicti he Hen tightly
corked. Getting some gum from a near*
by tree he made the bottle airtight: then
’TIS BEST TO CARE.
“Try not to care,” one softly sa-id.
To comfort you in your deep grief;
"Your ‘days go on’ while thus you weep,
And life, at best, is all too brief.”
“Try not to care?” I say not so;
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It was but a year ago that her hus
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in the histrionic line, never to go upon ‘ HOW A BOTTLE BROUGHT ABOUT
the stage. The success of her year’s work j a WEDDING,
seemed to her now an empty mockery, I (A True Story.)
but bad he been less violently angry, j One warm summer afternoon two young
had ho not gone away In the midst of j n ) en we re loitering in the shade of tiie
tiiat heated discussion! Oh If he had but; trees on the bank of the Mississippi river,
come back! She had watched him disap- j no t j ar above the city of St. Louis. They
he threw it far out into the current of,
the river, saying: “Now float away to the ‘ P , tlie . nc<i< ^
sweet sunny south.”
They watched it as long as it could be
seen as it went on its unknown voyage.
Of rest beneath the Savior’s wing
‘Try not to care?” Oh, grieving one.
I too ’neath cypress trees have trod.
“Harry,” said Bert, “I am going down - And have learned this: ’t-is best to care,
south this winter to find work; maybej But, caring much, trust much in God.
I’ll hear from your river message, if the MARGARET A. RICHARD,
bottle is not stranded before it reaches
A FALLEN IDOL.
Two of the disciples are at the com
missioned to make the necessary prepara-
tlcns. They are sent with sealed orders,
no doubt, to keep the traitor off their
track. Not one of the remaining ten
could -possibly divine the pmee until they
arrived there In the evening. A man
doing a woman’s work ^carrying water)
would be novelty enough to serve them
as a sign. Jesus hade the messengers
to ask for o lowly place in some hallway.
He will fain make the circuit. As He
spent His first night on earth in “a lodg
ing” so He would fain spend His last
one. He knows beforehand, however,
that His nameless but w 11-to-do disciple,
John Mark's father, perhaps, will give
Him the best his stately manor affords.
The disciples are off a* once upon their
errand. They find it as Jesus had said.
The proprietor of the house gladly places
a; their disposal a spacious room, capable
of holding a hundrcf] or more. But they
will not be asked to share it with other J as host
ipaschal parties. They shall have it in
completest privacy. It is in the second
story, which will had to their seclusion.
It;, walls have been freshly whitened
ANALYSIS AND KEY.
I. Jesus’ fidelity to form of religion.
Question not “would He eat the Pass-
over?” -but only where He would eat
It. Example for present day. Face
and form of religion to be maintained.
II. Passover scene and ceremony de
scribed. Use and significance.
HI. Evolution of the sacrament of Hie
Lord’s Supper. Circumstance, use, and
significance.
The anachronism of Leonardo da Vinci's
lovely and justly famous fresco of t/Ie
last supper is obvious. lie represents
Jesus anu the twelve sitting, in occident
al style, at a modern extension table.
They aid not «-t at ah, but retained. It
was this reclining which made it ealy
arnt natural tor John to iay his head in
Jesus’ bosom, and tor Peter and John to
hold their sotto voce conversation with
out tne traitor s deserving them.
Perhaps we emphasize utsproportionate-
ly tiie sadness of tiie last supper. Jesus,
would not allow the occasion to
Dixie.”
They went their way and thought no j Becky Sharp, I sympathize with you ; and tile floor scoured for this very occa-
more about the note sent adrift in the deeply. When you have put wholly out sicn . The low. gayly-painted table is al-
' nnu-nrthv^TTO Un^eiing lot e for your j jeady in position, with the couches form-
On an afternoon In the following Oc- unworthy sweetheart, who left you in
tober a party of girls were strolling o%> unjust anger and married another, then,
the banks of the Mississippi below Mem- but not until then, ] would bid you mar-
phis, Term. They saw’ a bottle floating in r y your other suitor, whom you highly
an eddy near the shore and they watched esteem. One may be deceived, yet still
it awhile, wondering why it did not sink, keep faith in his kind, like the brave-
Then one of tiie girls, more venturous hearted deserted husband whose pathetic
than the others, determined to try to get story Mr. Orton told us recently. I have
it. She found a long stick and after a had one bitter experience of misplaced
number of trials succeeded In drawing trust. Several years ago, while visiting
the bottle within her reach. Seeing that relatives in a distant part of tiie state, j Pest of. reminder of the clay In the
there was a piece of paper in it, she * met a young man—a cousin of mine— j brickyards of Egypt; and. most impor-
proceeded to break the bottle and smooth bo was unusually well endowed with i tant of all. the year-old lamb. One of
out the crumpled note; then she read ln t e Uect and personal beauty. I was ! them carries the lamb on his shoulders,
aloud: u^kwaid country boy, but my soul | the sacrificial knife sticking in its fleece
Will the finder of tills note please h '”'5 ere, t f ? r . ,„ a knowledge, of books and , or tiefl t0 Us h0 rns. At 2 o’clock in the
wholly lose its festive character. It was
a goodly scene that the well-trimmed
lamps shone down upon. The fresh tur
bans of blue, crimson, and yellow’, tiie
animated faces, the table covered with
damask and well supplied, make a study
to uelight a painter. The feast extended
ir.g three sides of a hollow square about | over several hours, and only the somber
The hanging lamps, dishes, basins I
and water jars, all are in position. Thi I
dirciples view’ the place with gr ! ate‘’’il j
satisfaction, and then hurry out to matte |
the necessary purchases—the wine and
cakes of unleavened bread; the vinegar
salt, and bitter herbs: the nuts, raisins,
apples and almonds to make the com
pear down the street, little thinking it
was for the last time.
In those first endless days of desertion
ifUv io Stella. There was no response; inertia had settled upon her, blighting
girls were tired, and slept soundly,
-."haps. She did not wfisli to disturb
ie others in the house; she would go
■ avn stairs and get a drink from the
a ter cooler in the hall. She thrust her
'•■•et Into her slippers, put on her dress
her energies. But despair has Us crisis
and there came the need to act. In that
were talking over their plans for the fu
ture, and as they’ talked they idly threw
write to iHarry Randall, No. 120
Avenue, St. Louis.”
“Kate,” cried one of her companions,
“you are the finder and It is up to y’ou
to write to Mr. Harry.”
“This is the way fate has of bringing
together two affinities,” said another.
Kate joined in the fun. but she took the
note home with her and wrote to Harry
that his bottled message had fallen into
her hands. A correspondence ensued and
after a few months Bert, who had found.
music. I had never had
who was highly cultured, and
Randolph, who was 5 years my senior,
took especial notice of tne and seemed
companion j a f( ernoon a p sound- of trumpet blast,
,nr| wnGn i
■ with all others who had been similarly
commissioned, ahey w’ent into the inner
being was filled with joy and grateful
devotion.
After I returned home aftd Randolph
went back to college, we corresponded
regularly, I intended entering the fresh
man class the year he graduated, but
my father died and financial reverses
* ii * e, aim u» mey iiuiwu mey luiy Liiit-w * „ *„*. (Overtook us, shattering my hope of a
sticks into tiie water and watched them . P , ‘ . . - ri - h * <ip 0 no-ratii)nte finished education. Immediately after
i i * .. . ... t^r ii oin Ills iriena, ssyin?. m f -r o timn'c _ * n a
Mr*?ff flnwn trif It tViD onrrent PrdonntDr I ’ ° I 1T1V 1 fitilOE S flPfltn. Rfindolrih wrnfa mo
me, old man, the bottle found me my
to regard me with affection, my whole court °*’ t,le temple. At three blasts,
' ‘ ' they, with thousands of others, struck the
death blow to their victim while the
priest caught the blood in -a golden ves
sel. '.and passed it up to the high altar.
As the disciples held the lamb upon a
stick that resteq upon their shoulders, R
was quickly flayed. The parts devoted
drift down with the current. Presently
one of them picked up a bottle that was
empty, hut corked, and was about to
hour of deep discouragement her will did j toss ou t j„t 0 tiie stream, when his
not measure the extent to which sheI companion said:
would be carried. Answering an adver- 1 “Stop. Bert, don't throw It in yet. I
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my father’s death, Randolph wrote me
, .. . T . . . . . ., | a letter full of sympathy and love, say-
destiny and I am to be married to the inff tha( . jf ever j ne eded his assistance,
sweetest girl m. Dixie. I want you to be lt would be freely given. He graduated
best man. with honors and chose teaching as a
profession. I studied every spare mo
ment I could get front farm -work. Two
years ago I wrote to Randolph asking
, him to assist me in getting a small
_ Pierre Le Beau, I am going to visit school. No reply came to my letter. I
iA>ng Beacii this winter; wonder if 11 wrote to hint again, asking for a recom
mendation, and received no answer
A bottle has broken up many a mar
riage. but this is the first time I have
ever known a marriage to be made by a
bottle.
shall know you if I should see you. Love
to all the dear Household family.
Mississippi. DAISY BELL.
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THE STORM’S GRAY WOLF—A
TORNADO.
The storm—a h!”o.- leash was slipping.
And a gray wolf stood revealed,
That only went swiftly, snarling.
As its fane-s shook the stricken field.
While the winds were howling, howling.
Overhead -came sweeping, sweeping.
A hoarse tumultuous voice,
So like the deep, deep rumbling,
Hid in the thunder's voice.
When it answers back the howling.
Alt! the winds have turned to wailing,
For desolate lies the land,
That the pitying moon was seeing.—
While soft its moonbeams shone,
Of the gray wolf—dread Cyclone.
"(I was in one out west.)
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ELAM GOES TO SEE MUSA DUNN.
(Concluded from last week.)
I got out when the train stopped at
Waxhachie, and set right out to hunt
Musa Dunn. After a good deal of trou
ble I found her house, ■with its pretty
little flower yard in front. I thought I’d
sorter reconnoiter and see how the land
lay and whether Musa kept a pack of
yelpers like Miss Annice. I went round
to the back of the house. T’he kitchen
window was open and I could -see Musa
inside. She was making chow-chow, and
I swan. Doc, it smelt spicy for two blocks
around. As she frisked from the kitchen
to the piazza she was singing “Hark
from the tomb a doleful sound,” and it
made me think of home, and sounded
comfortin’ like. I peeped through the
mornin’glory vines apd I see her, with
her sleeves rolled up and her hair kinder
curly, and my heart got to j-umpln’ Iffte
a. toad'in a bucket. ’She looked prettier
whatever. I secured a good little school
and my teaching gave satisfaction. Last
fall. I once more wrote to Randolph (I
still clung to my faith in him), and
asked If lie could not help me obtain a
better paying position. This letter also
was treated with silent contempt. I
know that he received my letters. I
heard that he was much amused at my
"unusual request” and wondered at my
persistence when I had received no en
couragement. My faith in him had
died hard, but it was now dead—my idol
was seen to be but clay. i had told
him of nty hopes and ambitions, my joys
and sorrows—now I seem to see him
reading those poor little heart-felt let-
tes and getting worlds of amusement
out of them.
Yet, in spite of this most bitter ex
perience, I have not lost faith in human
fidelity. I have now another friend to
'whom I am deeply attached, and in
whose sincerity I have fullest confidence.
Because one proves false, let us not be
come soured and cynical. If I should
love and marry a woman and she for
sook me as the wife of Orton's friend
forsook her husband, this wrong from
one woman would not kill my confidence
in all womankind. True love is based on
Christian principles and remains firm
through all tests.
JOHN NORMAN.
incidents are recorded. There must hav<
been much joyous converse as well.
The presence of Judas was the one
ugly spot in the feast of love. Jesus,
without openly criminating him before
the company, plainly announced that one
of the twelve would betray Him. He
did this for their sakes, that they might
know He was perfectly aware of His
impending late, and not being at all sur
prised, voluntarily submitted to it. He
did it for Judas’ sake. It was His last
appeal to the traitor. He gave Judas
the chief place at the table, washed his
feet, gave him his portion with His own
hand, lovingly let him know he read his
wic-ked heart, and only when it was
clearly of no avail, He bade him do
quickly his wicked deed.
No question but that this upper room,
forever endeared to the hearts of the
apostles fand probably the property of
a disciple), witnessed the appearance of
to God were separated: then, wrapping | risen Christ in their midst, and of
Ae victim in its own skin, they started j the Pentecostal effusiorts of the Holy
for the house where they were to ceie- j gpi r jt. if so, it was the very cradle of
br'ate the feast. The carcass, trussed
upon skewers of pomegranate in shape of
a cross, was baked in the household oven.
At sundown Jesus, with the ten. ap-
the faint church.
» * • • •
The various names by which the Lord's
Supper is known are in themselves very
proached the city, knowing well where j significant. It is the eueharist, meaning
He would find the waiting disciples and j our --jrqod thanks” for tiie Lamb that
-the supper room. They enter, and the | was s i a tn; it is the sacrament (saera-
Master views the preparations with evi-1 nientum), our holy pledge of fealty to
dent satisfaction. The three first stars | our Divine Leader; it is the communion
are shining now, and the silver trumpets - (communis), sign of the intercourse and
signal the feast to -begin. Shame, shame! i agreement we have with God and each
The unseemly dispute as to precedence! ot i ler-
breaks out once more as the disciples • « * • *
scramble for the most eligible places.
Jesus rebukes them in an acted parable.
The believer should be always readv
to commune ,as be is supposed to be
performing for them the menial task of j always ready to pray. But this does
-a scullery drudge. Now the paschal no - t render special preparation undesira-
banquet begins. The ritual is used, the; (j| e - j or communicant finds in the
rubrics dipped in \ ifit-gar are eaten in j sacrament what he brings to it, no more
remembrance of Egypt. l'he unleavened j anc j no i ess _ Jesus is present in the
bread, with a bit of the roasted lamb . ort ji Jia nce only to tiie thought and feeling
upon it, is -taken by each. Another cup
is passed. There is the customary hand
washing. Jesus, as the symposiarch, dis
courses upon the significance of the feast.
They break ovit in the joyous singing of
the first part of the Hallel. Psalms exii-
cxiv.) The third and last cup goes from
hand to hand, and then they sing the
second part of the Hai-lel. Psalms cxv
cxvii.) I At the table of the Lord’s Supper man
At times through the feast, Jesus gives , an( j God meet—man with his highest
intimations, increasingly distinct, of His J aspirations, God with His richest gifts,
■betrayal and ‘iietrayer. He suffers not
of the communicant; present only as
His suffering and death are realized by
faith.
• • * • •
To ask and to take the solemn tokens
of redemption is to confess before the
world and before the church faith in the
great fact.
* • * * •
His manner toward Judas to change.
He probably let hint take the chief place
Incidentally the communion is a pledge
of the reunion of Jesus and all His dis-
at the -ta-We. He certainly washed his] ciples. He said Ho would eat no more of
feet and gave him his portion with His the bread nor drink of the cup until the
own hand. But the devil was in his kingdom should come. Then He will vis-
heart, and the thirty pieces in his scrip, j ibly banquet with us all in the king-
An incubus was lifted when the apos-; dom of His Father, according to His
tate left the table. All that remained promise.
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