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~James E. Richardson, in TheTieader,
A BARGAIN
OF LOVE.
“I am supposed to meet him t.o-‘
« night,” she said.
“And what will happen then?” he
asked, with amusement in his eyes.
She shrugged her shoniders. 2
“Father will keep an eye on me
and sée that he takes me in to sup
per. He will point us out to every
oné and make me feel horribly un
comfortahle.,” She threw her head
back in annoyance, ‘‘The sense of
duty about it all is so odious,” she
added,
“I can quite understand it,”’ he
said sympathetically, and then amusge- '
ment crept into his eyes again as he
remarked: “And what will you do?”
She clasped her hands about her
knees and looked out between the
curtains that protected the alcove in
which they were sitting from the hall.
Through them she could see into the
bailroom, where a gay waltz was in
riotous progress. Ilverybody geemed
careless and happy thers, There was
no one condemned as she had been,
If there had been no bhinding in the
arrangement, it might all have he::n‘
80 different, she might have felt even |
her curiosity awakened to such a
piteh that it wounld certainly have
been interesting. But to be com
pelled Dby circumetances—sine who,
until the calamify had come to her !
father’'s financial affairs, had been
accustomed to every wish being grati
fled—to be: compelled to marry a
man, whom she had only heard of
from very vague and indefinite
gources, meirely because it was a fam
ily understanding—it was quite a;
different matter. Its advantages were
those which, at her ag:. she could not
realize at their full lueo«#at she
would be left penniless, if shé did not
comply with the agreement, was al
:mst incomprehensible to her, Theg
“duty of sy mfltu.hsrgwag. never
fallen ”fiw‘gflr lot, and now wiod P
eame to self-interest — almost self
preservation—she felt the irksome
ness of its being thrust upon her
shoulders.
And lastly-—to make it all harder
Btill—Cyril Foster had been staying
with them for the Kaster holidays,
and for the ball, which, for the last
few days, ghe had learned to look
upon as a fatality. She had never
heard of him before as a friend of her
father's. It would have made very
little difference if she had, for he had
already won a higher place in her es
timation than any man had ever occu
pled before.
. In a moment of regret, as she
looked at his face, she had told him
all about the doom that was hanging
over her, and, unlike other men,
whose sympathies would have jarred
upon her, he had tried to laugh it
into forgetfulness.
. "It hasn’t come to the point yet,”
he said, “and people are given mo
ments like these to enjoy themselves
‘n."
As she sat with her hands clasped
over her knees, she thought over his
question. What would she do? She
.lelrcely knew. It was really unkind
of him to ask her,
“Oh, I should be a fool if 1 didn't
marry him,” she said. She may have
boped to make him jealous, and he
may have seen the effort, for he
leaned forward and looked into her
face,
- “You will marry him if he comesg?" |
he said. |
“1 suppose so,” she said, as indif
ferently as she could.
' Ho took out his watch,
“Is he the only man who could
make—" he hesitated, fearing to
hurt her feelings, “who could make
you happy and comfortable?"
“Happy?” She laughed a little
in disgust, at the word being applied
to such a case. “It's the old, old
. story of his land being next to ours,
and the combination would keep
father well off for the rest of his
life,” she said. “Horribly sordid,
isn't it?"” she added.
He looked at his watch critically,
but sald nothing.
“You don't help me in the least,™
she sald. ““Why don't you suggest
something?”
- "I thought that you'd made up
your mind?" ke said, smiling.
She sighed petulantly, thinking he
might have known that she did not
~ mean it,
“What time is he supposed to
come?” he asked after a pause,
*'Oh, no special time,” she replied.
“Most men turn up late—ani I don't
suppose his anxiety is so very graat.”
“Are you fond of making bar
_ Bains?” he asked—it seemed a little
_ Arrelevantly, “Most women are.”
“How do you mean?" she asked,
- Jooking at him in surprise.
{ e took up her program, where it
‘was hanging from her fan. and ioyed
with the pencil attached to it. “Well,”
‘he said, “I've got a proposition to
make to you.” -
She felt almost an exaggerated cu
riosity about what he was going to
say.
“What is it?"” she asked.
He held his watch out in front of
i him, so that both of them could see it,
“It’s now a quarter to 11,” he said.
She nodded.
““Theé possibilities are that he will
come any time between this and 12;
i there’'s not a train after that, is
i there?”
{ “‘No,"” she replied. s
' “Now, I make this suggestion,” he
i sald, still holding the watch in front
of him, “‘in all earnestness, not think
ing that I am helping you out of a
difiiculty, and probably only throw
ing you into another one, but be
cauze’’-~he teok her hand—‘‘because
I love you, Connie—and it is a bar
gain. Now, the man who proposes a
bargain is always the one who is go
ing to gain by it, and I shall gain
‘everything.”
She was leaning back in the wick
er chair, and her breath was coming
faster with each word that he said.
“What do you propose?” she
asked, almost in a whisper.
“When the hand gets round to
there,”” he said, pointing with his
finger to the face of the watch, “what
hour will it be?”
YA quarter to 12,” she replied,
wondering.
“Just an hour from now?”’
She nodded and smiled sadly.
“Well, if when that hour is over,
and he has not come then, will you
marry me instead?”
“I gald that he might come at any
time till 12,” she said, smiling in
spite of herself, ‘
“I know you did, and that quarter |
of an hour is my interest on the bar- |
gain. 1 am quite fair with you, I
offer you all the happiness of my
love—against the comfort that you
will gain with his money—not that
you will be a pauper with me. And
the advantage that I have over him
lles in that quarter of an hour. Will
you consent?”
She looked at him questioningly.
“Whaat do you think you will gain
if he does not come?” ghe asked.
“All the happiness in life,” he an
swered,
“Are youn sure that you are think
ing only of me?”
“No-~nearly all for myself. You
will think of yours2lf when you give
me the answer.”
“Then I will consent,” she said,
“and"-~she placed her hand in his—
“l hope that he will not come!”’
It was twenty minutes to 12, and
\she felt her heart beating with each
stroke of the clock that stood in the
hall. He had not come yet, and all
her newly found love was yearning
that he might not come at all, or be
late in coming, A
She was sitting in the same alcove,
but with ancther pariner, whose, con
versation she could barely pay atten
tion to, wflwm
life seemed suspended in her body-——a
cold chill penetrated her very bones.
The bell at the front door had pealed
‘across the music that was throbbing
in the ballroom. It could be no one
but he at such an hour, She watched
the door narrowly, in the fear of anx
iety, as the butler went to open it.
There was a rush of cold air, and she
shivered-—partly it seemed with an
ticipation.
Then she turned away as a figure
that she dared not look at came into
the warmth of the hall,
“Aren’t you well?” her partner
asked, and almost before she could
answer him she heard her father's
voice speaking and she turned her
face away,
“I'll go and get you some tea,”
her partner said anciously, and be
fore she could tell him not to mind
about it he had left her. Still she
did not look round until she heard
her father say as he reached the al
cove and stood outside the curtain,
“God bless you, my boy.” And then
the shadow of a familiar figure fell on
her eyes.
It was Cyril Foster,
~ ““Then it wasn't he?" she cried, a
new happiness in her voice.
““Yes, it was,” he said, “but he
knew that under another name only
}could he hope to make you love him.
Let's call the bargain settled.""—New
York Weekly,
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Relies of Maric Antoinette.
A most interesting presentation
has heen made to the town of Paris
by a certain Mme. Blavet, It con
sists of the furniture which was used
by the royal family during its impris
onment in the Temple. Among the
items are included the bed of the
Princess RElizabeth, the quilt which
was used by Marie Antoinette and a
bog of toys of the little Dauphin.
Chairs, tables and books are also in
cluded, and finally the locksmith's in
struments with which the unhanpy
King passed his time while awaiting
execution, The entire collection will
bo lodged in the Musee Carnavalet,—
' Dundee Advertiser,
D‘n—m »
Second Choice,
There is a Washington lad who, it
would appear, assents to the old prop
osition that it {s well to have more
than one string to one's bow.
| The boy was being catechised one
;day by a well meaning visitor to the
!houu.
i} “Well, Harry,” said the lady,
"'don't you think you have a chance
{lo be Presidentof theUnited States?"
‘ “Oh, I don't know,” answered
Inurry. carelessly. ‘“‘Maybe I'l try
for it after 1 get too old to be a
pitcher."—Philadelphia Ledger.
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the bacteriological regeneration ot
“barren land in England, _
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dras, but it is just as desirable for
flannel and for silk as it is for cotton
and linen materials. It can be made
with the long regulation sleeves il
lustrated or with three-quarter ones
that are finished with bands as liked.
The lines given by the pleats at the
back are peculiarly desirable, while
there is just enough fulness at the
front to be becoming and to conform
with the latest demands of fashion,
The waist is made with fronts and
back. It is finished with ty regula
tion box pleat and with tucks at each
side thereof, and the pleats at the
shoulders are laid after the seams are
closed. There is a patch pocket that
is convenient at the same time that
it gives a smart touch,®'and the
sleeves are gathered at their lower
edges, whether they are long and
finished with the wide cuffs or short
er and finished with narrow bands.
The neckband finishes the neck.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is three and
three-quarter yards twenty-one, three
and five-eighth yards twenty-seven or
two and ope-eighth yards forty-four
inches wide.
The Tunic Coming,
It is more than probable that what
will succeed the present type of toil
ette will in some form or other be the
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Wedding Gown Materials, |
Nine out of ten fashionable wed
ding gowns this season have been of
satin or of a glossy surfaced silk of
one kind or another. The rich satin
princess, which falls in the loveliest
folds, has been preferred, “
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The tight-fitting coats are ».urT
the swartest, and the striped, rather
than the plain materials, more m.-1
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Decorative Hat Pins.
Fashionable women are at present
giving their spare moments to forms
ing and decorating hatpins. ,
Pillow Muff, Scarf and Tie.
There are so many materials from
which scarfs and muffs can be made
this year that such a suggestion as
this one has peculiarly practical value
at this time. Not alone is it easy to
remodel the furs of last season, there
are also a great many fur cloths be
ing used for accessories of the sort,
while again they are very charming
and attractive made from velvet and
lace and chiffon trimmed. These de
signs are among the simplest as well
as the best, and involve no difficulties
whatsoever in the making yet are ex
ceedingly smart in effect. The muff
is of the big, roomy, pillow sort that
is so thoroughly comfortable and that
can be drawn up by means of the
ribbons or left plain, as liked. The
scarf is long and comfortable, while
the little tie fits about the throat in
an exceedingly chic manner. In this
instance the muff and the scarf are
made of black lynx fur, while the tie
and the second muff are made of
broadtail plush.
The scarf and the tie are each
made in two pieceg, joined at the
back, and are designed to be lined
with silk and interlined with soft
wadding. The muff is made in one
'blg piece with a lining that is a little
smaller, so allowing its edges to turn
‘under at the ends. It also is designed
to be interlined with wool wadding,
‘and is supplied with strips of ribbon
‘attached to the lining, which act as
casings, under which the loops are
slipped.
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lnfty inches wide; for the tie and
muff one and three-juarter yards
twenty-one, three-quarter yards foriy
four or fifty inches wide.
Velvet For Trimming,
~ The vogue of velvet as an access
ory trimming is emphasized not only
in the girdles, collars and cuffs, but
also in the bias neckties which are
‘worn over the lace chemisettes,
l Velvet Costumes Elegant,
Velvet costumes are perhaps more
severe than anything else, and yet
with all the trimming and fancy fin
ishes, the dignified, elegant effect is
removed.
THE PULPIT,
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A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
l - DR. T. H. WIHITE.
Subject: Preparing to Receive Bless
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London.—A very practical address
was given at the opening of Keswick |
| Convention., The sermun preached
by Dr. T. H. White befitted so pre
paratory a gathering. Attention was
directed to Luke 22:11: ‘“The Mas
ter saith, Where is the guest cham
ber, that I may eat the passover with
My disciples?” and with this passage
'was coupled Rev. 3:20: ‘“Behold, I
stand at the door and knock. If any
man hear My voice and open the
door, I will come in and sup with
him, and he with Me.”
Our Lord was looking for the
guest chamber, and is seeking for it.
- 'Will He find it in each of our hearts?
- The word translated ‘‘guest cham
“ber” also occurs in the story of
the nativity, Luke 2:7: “And she
brought forth her first born son, and
wrapped Him in swaddling clothes,
and laid Him in a manger, for there
was no room for Him in the inn.” If
your heart is only as an inn, Christ
is seeking to make it a guest cham
ber, where He will he the Guest. He
will only make your heart and mind
the guest chamber on one condition
—He must be the only Guest, and
must have the preparation of the
chamber in His own hands.
A remarkable word appears in
Prov. 4:23: ‘“Keep thy heart with
all diligence, for out of it are the is
' sues of life.”” The heart of man is
mentioned nearly nine hundred times
in God’s Book, and chiefly in three
connections.
First we have Gen. 6:5: “God
saw that the wickedness of man was
*great in the earth, and ihat every
imagination of the thouglht of his
heart was only evil continually.” In
the New Testament the same thought
occéurs: ‘“Mary kept all these things
and pondered them in her heart.”
(Luke 2:19.) In both these passagesl
we have one fact emphasized—the
heart in connection with the intellect
of man.
. Turn to Deut. 6:5: ‘‘Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thine
heart, with all thy soul, and with all
thy might;” and to 1 Pet. 1:22:
‘““Love one another with a pure heart
fervently’’—the heart in connection;
with the affections. Look at Dan. 1:
8: “But Daniel purposed in his}
heart that he would not defile him
self with the king’s meat;” also Acts
11:23: ‘‘That with purpose of heart |
they would cleave unto the Lord”’—
the heart in connection with the will,
It is plain, therefore, that by ‘‘the
heart of man” we mean the place
where his intellect, affections and
will are focused; the centre of the
intellectual, loving, purposeful self
in every one. If we want a picture
of what we are naturally, we have
it here: “The heart is deceitful
above all things, and desperately
wicked;” and ‘“‘out of the heart pro
ceed evil thoughts,” ete. Yet what
ever the condition of every heart,
Chrls‘t) is seeking th ake it His guest
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| %rx{'%we wflli‘@"fi) allow Him to do
‘this? Have we responded to the in
vitation: ‘“My scn, give Me thine
heart”’—the heart looked at from
the three standpoints we have no
ticed? Have we surrendered our
thinking, loving and purposing pow
ers to Him?
It may be that some one has come
to Keswick with the desirq to know
what is taugit here, because you
have an idea that it does not fit in
with your theological position. God
wants your intellect. Are you willing
to give Him your speculations, your
criticisms of His word and His mes
sengers? Are you willing to make
the confession of the Psalmist your
own: “Lord, my heart is not lifted
up, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I
exercise myself in great matters or
in things too high for me?”
Shall we not begin this convention
right with God by yielding our hearts
that Fe may cleanse the chamber
and make it fit for Him to dwell in?
Qur intellects, affections and wills
given to Him, the lower we get be
fore Him the deeper will be our
union and communion with Him.
Are we willing to do His will? If
not are we willing to be made will
ing?
Running through the life of every
child of God are two great forces—
Divine will and human will. So long
as they are side by side, all is well;
but ofttimes your will and the will of
the Master cross, and then there is a
stop, and this is where you find it
necessary to die to self. The Chris
tian life means the intellect, effec
tions and will made over absolutely
to the Master, that He may do what
seemeth Him good.
And what will He do? He will
take full possession of the guest
chamber, turning the searchlight,of
His Holy Spirit into every corner.
-But He does this, not all at once, but
gradually, as we are able to bear the
light revealing the sinful thing, need
ing the Blood that it may beremoved.
Then He takes His own wondrous
Word and enlightens it by His Spirit;
and we come to know what is His
will for us, and that the enlightened
Word will fashion our iives., There
is no pattern in the Word of God for
the child of God but the Son of God.
What times we are living in! In
our morning papers the first thing
one notices seems some indication of
the coming of the Lord. And if He
fs coming soon, what does He want
from you and me? You recall His
last recorded words: ‘“Ye shall re
ceive power after that the Holy Ghost
has come upon you, and ye shall be
My witnesses.”” Never since that day
has there been more need of wit
nesses to Him than at the present
time. He may have called you to
Keswick to teach you how to be a
witness to Him. We shall be wit
nesses unto Him exactly in propor
tion as our hearts are the Master's
guest chamberg, for only as He lives
fn us can He work through us His
wondrous, gracious, loving purpose.
And what is that purpese? “Whom
He did foreknow, He also did pre
destinate to be conformed to the
image of His Son, that He might be
the first born among many breth
ren.” As He dwells in you He will
shine forth, and be through you a
witness to Himself. 80, being
cleaased, sanctifled, and indwelt by
the Master, we shall be what He de.
sires we should be, witnesses unto
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God's Love Tllustrated. ' :
By the Rev. Adam Reochl.
It is astonishing how long it takes
us to grasp and believe in some of the
ofi-repeated statements in God's
word. We may pride ourselves on
the power of our intellect and the
thoroughness of our training, angd
with it all we may, for a Bcore of
years, blunder past the most comfort
ing truth,
Take, for example, the text, “If ye,
then being evil, know how to give
good gifts unto your children, how
much more shall your heavenly Fath
er give the Holy Spirit to them that
ask Him?” The truth and blessed
ness of that text came home to me in
a most forcible way quite lately. Dur
ing weeks of trouble and darkness
faith had stumbled along, scoing not
a ray of light. The awful worys of
Christ, “My God, My God, why hast
Thou forsaken Me?” seemed the only
words in Scripturé that suited my
case. It was not the experience of o
moment, but of weeks, and long con
tinued, growing out of the severest
loss.one can be called upon to un
dergo.
The light came in this way: My
little boy had become much inter
ested in the prevailing fad, the use
of roller skates. He had come to me
repeatedly, just for money for a new
pair, and then for more to repair and
improve, until it seemed that I could
give him no more. One afternoon he
showed me the skates and pointed
out that the rear wheels were well
worn down. He did not ask me for
any money; perhaps he did not ex
pect any, but he said in a soliloquiz
ing way, “I can get a new pair of
wheels for fifteen cents.” I saw the
heart laid bare, the longing, the tim
idity—my heart said, “Go ahead and
get them.” I could not possibly keep
from finishing out his happiness, and
it seemed a privilege to do it. Then
it seemed as if a voice of reproof
came through my heart, as if the
very words of the text were uttered
—*“lf ye then bring evil, know how
to give good gifts unto your chils
dren,” ete.
Ob, how it humbled me! I had actu
ally thought God to be less concerned
for me and my happiness than I was
for that of my own boy. In the light
of the warmth in my own heart for
my own boy, I saw the faint refiec
tion of that mighty love of God for
me, His child, and I realized as never
before that He will not withhold any
gift that is good, that He will not do
aught save what is for our very best,
But how long it takes us to see it!
May He forgive us for our conceit,
our distrusts and our repining.—
From Sabbath Reading.
Dr. Frank Crane’s Epigrams.
-The end of true eculture is peace
with one’s self; to have established
a modus vivendi; not to be blown
about between good and bad, but to
have a practicable path through the
mystery of things. >
- 'We begin life as little animals;
we should end as great souls.
All inward wunhappiness can he
definitely traced to selfishness; no
unselfish person can be thoroughly
unhappy.
The selfish man is pitted against
a selfish world, infinitely stronger
than he, and against which he has
no hope of success.
When a selfish man succeeds in
becoming bappy, it is only at the
price of the unhappiness of others.
Life is too short and the prizes of
selfishness too close and too alluring;
you cannot hope to attain nobility
without belief in heaven aod Ged.
~ There is no happiness so long as
we are impatient. s
There is an element of vulgarity
in any jewelry.
The savage Indian in his tent of
skins, and the multi-millionaire in
his mess of bric-a-brac, are equally
removed from true culture. Nobility
lies ir the difficult middle way.
To read books that require no
mental effort is time lost.
The careful and thorough reading
of newspapers is the surest way to
vulgarize the mind.
Any sort of self-assertion by voice,
dress, manner or any other way, is
vulgar. :
Nothing is so vulgar as idleness.
The idle rich in every age of the
world have become cold-hearted and
cruel. And to envy or to rail at the
idle rich shows a vulgar mind.
The man who works Sundays does
nothing of amy consequence other
days.
Qur attitude to money is a sure
test of culture; we should neither
love it nor hate It, horde it nor
waste it, worship it nor despise it;
we should appreciate it for what it
can do and realize what it cannot do.
We speak of elevating the lower
classes; my experience is that it is
the upper classes that need elevating.
There is no culture possible with
out conversion, because culture is es
sentially unselfishness, and that is
born in none, or few.—From sermon
preached by Dr. Frank Crane, Uniop
Church, ‘Worcester, Mass.
The Unpardonable Sin. '
Mark 3:28-30.
Ghost? A reference to the text
will show that the words were elicited
by the fact that our Lord’'s enemies
had charged Him with working mira
cles by means of the Devil—that is,
with doing good works by means of
an evil power. This, of course, was
shutting their eyes to what they knew
to be true, and attributing works of
holiness to the Devil. It was this
wilful and persistent moral blindness
to known truth that our Lord char
acterizes as sin against the Holy
Ghost, 8o that it is no one particular
sin, but a state of mind which may
take various forms, the root of it be
ing a deliberate closing of the eyes
to what in our heart of hearts we
know to be true.—W. H. Grifith
Thomas, D. D., in London Christian.
Excuses Easy to Find.
A man who seeks an excuse for
neglect or delay concerning religion
can find such excuse. The man who
seeks religion with his whole heart
will find it. Don’t stumble over your
halting brother; don’t get in the way
for him to stumble over you.—Bighoy
Fitzgerald. .
