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ffif‘w S N E! Gc '_-, i3| Y vtk ;ifig'%‘k i i ::‘Pm W :: ¥ _.'r« o Mi e e m’ e planichied spades are plied and plied e LoV e; e ! " The pi:.-_é,ontemgtuom crow’s a meckly . pvest, i L : ‘Tugubricus in the willow ‘gainst the wall. But'one\”t‘amg hurts; I'd hopel (as 1 re cati) At ‘]‘])u;t to dust” my pretty perfamed ove Might net think shame to goil her tiny gioove; Bat, es for that, I do not care at all, Not murh, that is; and now I must be sure To try and gleep, and not to thini of her \\'holllm'e:.’ me in the wastral nights cf oid, 1 have it now, my hard-won sinecure, Lut semehow Ls_fc. I deem, is cheerluller, And UI(::I&I! I'm happy heve, the ground 18 ¢oid. ~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, i e R 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. m William T, Stead's latest hobby is the bacteriological regeneration ot “barren land in England, _ \&l{f ~ a»f/)fg 9\ - “‘flnt AN\ X U :-"55 "r\ New York City.—The plain tail ored waist never goes out of style. It may be varied from one geason to another, but essentially it remains much the same and is always a favor ',/;V,/; "By : A [ ) “ ( "}l’ U A~ ) ; K 7 Wy I < A\ e LW ;; I‘o" 7/ ‘.i B p ) AW ‘/, 2 i AR ¥ A L/ ‘m\ : ¥ i‘: ¥ by ,7\\ \ Vil 1k \\ ([l g /'/ Nl ‘,'.i! /J ft. & < ‘\ f.// Al \ A\ Yo N W 77 |4 W ' : (/ (3 0. / o 2 ite. This one includes the very latest features with the. pleats at the ghoul ers, which conceal the armhole geams and is altogether to be desired for every seasonable waisting. In the v 'i'é-( ' , ;@‘\‘g« X% | ,;‘, ;;\;q, 4 : | i W 7 73 @ Sty @ :,%m’/ 7 L 8 00/ PR Rl "%”:'%{:"i;{"&‘ \‘J;),ZJ’/% '/\ %/ \ 54" . AR 7w U .;}.j ;:’v ";&b’_ N ’s’;"’")"‘;‘s‘& : \\‘\i // 7 b Lan \a; '1 .‘;( %v‘ »,i,;-k,. \\&.‘_‘a‘;«,vé\;,‘")fi;: ? > A iR 4 AV !?:f e e (| N | o Ul e R 7 8 " \"-'é-:{'n /Il //// R vfi'/‘\-'ni\ % 7 ',"l'/. f}{ AR )//a:t\ z |BT Al A I i'.!"’v‘ ' \’f\‘\\ " \‘\\' F’fig"“ > Gt osL [ ‘ \‘\ i ] il Al g‘if»:s“”i; f! il ‘u‘\l\\ \\\\ ? 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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 tunie, i 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, “ Tight-Fitting Coats, ) The tight-fitting coats are ».urT the swartest, and the striped, rather than the plain materials, more m.-1 W‘ 9 ~iki Q‘ 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. | The quantity of material required is, for the scarf and muff, two and seven-eighth yards twenty-one, one : ’ L“u\']/fi\ : ‘I : 7 ;:‘N R . s ~“w.’i‘ 2 \ + 'M' lv" [ .(‘\: a ¥ At 8 <. SREe, X AW LS S [ i T . & 71 & y&k Q‘:f%*:;i:v ; TR |AN ST TN R ~ and one-eighth yards forty-four or 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, T o 4 7 g s A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY l - DR. T. H. WIHITE. Subject: Preparing to Receive Bless | 3 ing. J 1% g 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 | er. e . | %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 Him, G i 2t o q o S . S 1 t & 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. .