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r Bamboozled Dy ERNEST BRIMS. iv "When Dick Waller, penniless venturer, found himself stranded Hong Kong, he was in that frame mind which will lead a man to take any desperate enterprise for financial re-establishment of He was not unknown to the port, he knew that it would be useless apply for employment of any from merchants of solid A white man without good tials is In about as hopeless a case there as he is in London city. So Waller interviewed Mr. Simpkin, the well-known Jew cier, whose name was Schmidt he became a British subject. up on the Peak, in a lordly overlooking the harbor, lived kin, but he transacted his business in a dirty little office In native quarter. There Waller found him one ing, and Simpkin knew nt once luck had sent him the very man required to act as the agent In vance of a gun-running expedition Formosa. By supplying warlike tives in lands as far north as halin, and as far south as Sumatra, he had built up an immense fortune. In those ventures, however, the were comparatively few. It was a difficult matter in the case of the Formosan enterprise he had in mind. The war between Japan and China w-as at an end, and the island had been ceded to the Japanese. Now the Chinese living in Formosa were favorable to the cession, but the abor¬ iginal tribes Inhabiting the eastern high lands viewed it with hostility, and set up a republican form of gov¬ ernment. And in this complicated situation Simpkin foresaw a splendid oppor¬ tunity of increasing liis wealth by shipping cheap firearms to the insur¬ gents. He did not tell Waller 30 much, but offered him the post of agent to the Peppohoan chiefs at a salary of $1000 Mexican dollars a month. The pay was good and the pros¬ pects of excitement excellent, and Waller closed with the offe- at once. Two hours after leaving the office of Peter Simpkin he was on board a cargo tramp, bound for the port of Kelung, and thirteen hours later ho set foot on Formosan soil. He lost no time in engaging a na¬ tive guide, and purchasing a couple of ponies and a few provisions for the journey to Tawkan, the tow'n sixty miles from Kelung, where the in¬ surgents were massing. The journey to Takwan took him through a succession of deep gorges running up from the sea, covered with a gorgeous variety of tree and plant life. Occasionally he encountered parties of Chinese traveling to Kelung, and his appearance never failed to excite a buzz of excited comment. And if Waller had known that among (hose travelers were Jap¬ anese spies disguised as Chinamen, he would, perhaps, have paid them a closer attention than he did. The conference with the Peppon lioan chiefs at Takwan resulted in Waller securing an order for the im¬ mediate delivery of 30,000 rifles and ns many cases of cartridges, the money to be paid to Peter Simpkin at Hong Kong before the cargo left port. There were no safe means of com¬ munication direct from Takwan, so Waller resolved to return to Kelung at once, and dispatch his message from there by the captain of the ves sel which had brought him to the island. He and his servant set off an hour before sunset. Nightfall foupd them traversing one of the biggest of the gorges, their ponies cantering along in single file in a narrow avenue, ■winding through a bamboo forest. Pulling up his pony to light a cigar, Waller instinctively became aware that he was being watched. He glanced sharply back over his shoul¬ der, and in his surprise dropped the lighted match from his fingers. His w-as nowhere in sight. There was no one behind him in the grassv, starlit aisle of the forest. "Pe Chan!” shouted Waller. “Pe Chan, where are you?” There was no answer, but as Wal¬ ler looked down the aisle he saw the head and shoulders of a man appear from behind a bamboo, not fifteen away. The form vanished at but not before Waller had re his revolver from the leather strapped round his waist. Seeing no more of the apparition, thinking that it might have beeii more than a creation of his he rode onward, wondering had happened to Pe Chan. Sud his pony reared and jumped to side, dashing his right leg against hard, rough stem of a bamboo. at the reins to save him¬ from being thrown forward, he his eyes and saw two faces, one the other, peering from the cover of the bamboos growing on th« left side of the path. The pony, snorting with fright, leaped forward, squealed in agony, gave a convulsive spriug into the air and rolled sideways with a loud crash against the bamboos, half a dozen revolver shots In Its vitals. Shadowy figures rushed on Waller as he shook his feet clear of the stir¬ rups and reeled to the ground. He fell on his knees, and a Chinaman aimed a vicious blow at his head with a short stabbing sword. Waller fired up over his left shoulder and the man dropped dead in his tracks. A deafening din of wild yells, cries and firing broke out, and the patch of opening where the pony had fallen became the scene of a whirling strug¬ gle. It was the very anxiety of each of his assailants to be the first to seize him that enabled Waller to elude them and gain the shelter of the forest. At the first leap he almost brained himself, his head coming into violent contact with the enormously thick stem of a bamboo. The bamboos grew so close together that a way between them was only made possi¬ ble by walking sideways through the narrow' lanes. Bullets crashed after him, rebound¬ ing from the hard and polished sur¬ face of the shining stems like peas from plate glass. The Chinese were spreading out to encircle him, and Waller could actually see the gleam¬ ing barrels of their revolvers pointed at him. Once one giant of a man loomed up in front of him, and Waller could hear the quick Intake of his breath as he threw up his hand clutching the knife. He never breathed again, for Waller shot him through the heart. Still on follow'ed the Chinese, their numbers seeming to increase, the cir¬ cle they had formed to grow smaller, and more complete. How was that circle to be broken? That was the question that Waller asked himself. He set hi 3 teeth tight, lifted his re¬ volver, and pulled the trigger. It snapped dowm, but there was no an¬ swering report. Every barrel was discharged, and he had no fresh cartridges with him. They were in a bag of the saddle on the dead pony. Nearer and nearer the flitting fig¬ ures approached, taking no precau¬ tionary cover now that they knew the man w r as practically defenseless. Waller watched the advance with a curious fascination. He began to count the rapidly lessening number of bamboos intervening between him and the nearest foe. Twelve—eleven —ten—nine—eight— seven — six — five-—four—three. A hand snot out and caught Waller by the throat. The touch aroused him to a pas¬ sion of action. He gripped the wrist with his left hand, gave it a sharp twist, and brought down the butt of the revolver on the tense muscles be¬ low the elbow' joint. The Chinaman reeled back with a shriek of agony, and Waller, a red mist swimming before his eyes, hit out at the next man. But a club, swung from behind, fell with fearful force on his shoul¬ der, and the straight lines of tower¬ ing bamboos, the savage faces, the blazing stars, disappeared in a black darkness. Jesus died to save the world, but could not save the world alone. thousand people were probably con by Paul’s preaching to one by Christ’s. Paul’s soul was full of hap piness, no matter what the condition of his body, as he realized how essen tial he was to the Son of God. It was for him to do what Jesus had not done. If he could not do it in one way, he would do it in another. Noth ing was hard with such a stimulus. Paul far from filled up to the brim what was lacking, with all his triumphs. He made a beginning and every real Christian since has been adding to Paul’s contribution. Just so much self-denying effort must be actively put forth, just so much pain must be passively borne for others before every phase of the redemption plan is filled out and the great day of atonement is ushered in, when every knee shall bow and every tongue con fess Jesus as the Christ to the glory of God the Father. in proportion then, as you do your part will this kingdom of God be es tablished upon earth. Yours is the responsibility for its delay! Chris tianity is not a means for you to es cape suffering hereafter, a plan for you to attain future bliss. It is a method for you to hasten on the act ualization of the angel’s song on Bethlehem’s plains. Like the greatest of Christians, you are called to the ministry. A colle giate education is not required, a the ological course unnecessary, ordina tion, a pastorate may be or may not be conferred upon you. You have a calling, whatever your means of live lihood, and that calling is to fill up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ. Fill up the purse of this church so far as in you lies. Fill up the pews of this church by your presence and persuasion. Fill up the prayers of saints, those vials of golden incense which should ever be kept burning before God. Fill up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the children by participation in the Sunday-school or some branch of young people’s work. With you, the work here reaches nearer the perfect. Lacking you, it lags. Even Christ is insufficient, mi nus the weakest Christian. The Captain of our salvation must have soldiers of salvation or His or tiers are useless. The private behind j gun is as imperative as the beside the gun. Like Paul, you are called to suffer- It wms early morning when Waller opened his eyes, conscious of a ter¬ rific pain in his shoulder, and found a Japanese soldier watching over him. “What’s this?” said Waller, rising to his feet and staggering drunkenly. "Why, there’s the sea—but what are all those ships?” “The Japanese have come to take Formosa,” said a Mttle, wizen-faced soldier. “The ships came during the night.” “But how did I get here?” asked the bewildered Waller. “Last night I wms attacked, and—and left for dead, I should think.” "You were in great danger last night," continued the Japanese, “and if some of our troops had not been in the bamboo forest you would have been killed by the Chinese.” He stopped and looked closely at Waller for a moment. Then he spoke again. “A ship leaves for Hong Kong at mid-day. I, have orders to see that you go by that ship. And to tell you that the Peppohoan chiefs will not re¬ quire the 30,000 rifles. Steps are being taken to secure their peaceful submission.” Waller stared at the maslc-like face as one would do in a trance. "Bamboozled!” he murmured. “Bamboozled! ”—Pittsburg Press. Girl Seized by Shark. Milena Sgambelli, a Dalmatian fishergirl, was bathing near Zara with other •girls when two sharks rushed into the midst of them. Milena ran to the beach, on which she found an iron rod. Seizing this, she rushed boldly into the water again, striking at the sharks with the rod in order to save her compan¬ ions. She overbalanced herself and fell at full length in the water, when one of the sharks seized her leg in its mouth and bit it off above the knee. Her companions dragged Milena out, but she died from loss of blood.— London Express. 'y THE PULPIT. KN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. EDWARD NILES. Theme: Rejoicing In Suffering. Brooklyn, xt N. v Y.—At the Bushwick Avenue A iron a xvetoimed DofAtmin/1 pi, Oimrcli» __ 1 . ♦ trie Vi irtev* D otr ri Ldward j_ ,1 Mies, pastor, preached j i_ to a „ large audience on the subject: “Re joicing in Suffering.” The text was from Colossians 1:24: “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lack ing in the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His body’s sake, which Is the church.” Mr. Niles said: When Paul was converted, Chris tianity was a Jewish sect unknown outside of Palestine. When Paul had finished his missionary tours, he could say with pardonable exaggera .ion, “The gospel is preached in all creation under heaven, whereof I, Paul, was made a minister.” And how he loved to preach! How he yearned to bring every one into knowledge of the truth! Then, while in his prime, he be e a i To e h^ f fo t 8 etc t fnn 0ldi ouv any h hour nnr liable to execution. n t He He ZiSa^r U i n nRer^e U ad “Now’ b thisve.se without astonishment: I re joice in in nw my sufferings cnfforino-c f lor n r vrilir your sake. -> He is not submissive. No passivity lurk 3 in that word “rejoice.” Now alter after the tne flie-ht night nf or vear« yeais, retraeiue- ^tracing his life, he comes to realize that the thintrs things for tor the the present present grievous irrievmm never- never theless worked out the peaceable fruits X,. of 0 ! rie-htenusness J^teousness. Now Now, while while ££,5 No ha^ok dJpf sicht h^reKrev hut nrosont £ feeiinp- t nt \Vny does he rejoice. Not because he is glad to have a rest from work, Mot fi^Jlmoothv hootmeo 116 ho i a a fa noaor- P e tut ar n .,1 aoui tiahoa h sy ^, y, Tt 1S foY [ P r }. e ^h e P of oan t . nLfoii; , / o/ T llpf , h/fi 1 ,’,PPh hanrUor PJ. ' nr mnnntl'foofrri i u t hi or Ho lfim oh is a soul for him garrison to^ave nror until the whole nalace presence talks about Sj Christ gives His bofdness to in the the brethren cardtal He has leisure for writing letters to wii^r Enheseus ood°fo Golossae S a e e„4Safter Philippi which 8 r c WS nreached P sermons are forgotten ferer’ So whether L as whTt a minister lackin' nr a suf fills up was in the afflictions of Christ, is a supple ment to the otherwise incomplete ° gospel Our text means iust that commentators although many timid Protestant endeavor to explain it away. Wtiiout Paul iacWng^Hia Christ’s sufferings would have been coming to t0 lffement earth a partial meaS failure atine-tnent be tween man and God. Our Saviour’s ministry and death brought it about from God’s side, not from man’s. The debt sinning humanity owed was paid by Him, but the debtor didn’t know it. Jesus lived, preached and suffered in a little corner of the He never went outside of that Roman district on the east shore the Mediterranean. Caesar never much as heard of him. Purposely made His work intensive, training few men and women, who did not comprehend Him until fifty days His death, that they and those inspired might fill up what was in His sufferings for the Ing when it comes to you, Chri|tian, or if it has already come, don’t bear it, I beseech you. Rejoice in it. Tra vail is a part of the new heavens and new earth birth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. So much groaning and travailing in pain must be before the great day of the restoration of all things. Whatever you carry means less pain for others. You are thus a vicarious sufferer. That made Jesus perfect. It will you. heartache’ Holiest, of all joys ; • ls the mother’s when I10F CII .... 1 1 (1 , lS SICK, . . IS . ttlclL til© 1 ialhei leels when r,• his ui hoy is sbout i j to • J ^ . t f f yJ w .f lcn ch the ine pafat rafctm 01 knows KP0WS as 89 h- ye? ’/ -s , lfter a windering . sheep. By bear ng ; ? u *; m f aal body Chris is cleansed of spots, loses its wrinkles, prepa.es for the presentation ceremony. Each member of that body should supplement its neaa. As an exam ple. Jesus walks no lonser upon earrn. .rum tunes oever read from /is biography. All tbey know about Christ Is what they a Pattern lour noaness inca"4?e incarnate must so attract them that they will ^ aru themselves to read oi and know Hi™ who is he ille responsibility would bo . were not tne pnviIege so ' 2 You supplement Mis love. Jesu . , t because H ' p “went showed no favoritism. He amon ~ Publicans, sinners, lepers and beggars without slighting the ricri , T ,rmuinent no/the He despaired of neither ne the the drone drone noi the drudge a uage. He H 3 really ,, meant it when He said. “Every nn one „ i<3 is M. brother mother and aod sister, sister My Mv fath- rati. er and mother.’ He isn t here now ; LU them j He will 1 bear d 4 their griefs sUU and carry their , sorrows. You . are. g you supplement His sa i vat i 0 n. You are the ambassador of good news, the missing link between the sinner an anu d tpp m Saviour saviour, The ine divine uwi e message messag must be interpreted by the human voice. You have that voice. It needs no training in elocution to repeat to a dy ing soul Christ’s promises. If we identify ourselves with 1 Christ’s sympathy for others by our livins and dyins for theiu ’ His expec * tations of us wil1 never seem despotic dei «ands, but ever the longing of one Part of the body to help another in its p - p Bullt ... upon the ., f . °a nda . tions of the !» »>* .«*. «««». Himself being the chief cornerstone, you and 1 are livin S stones. Just so many other living ston2S as we can brin ? hastens so “ uch fillia S U P tbe required quota of repeated acts fo sell-denial by successive generations and individuals. +h tbe top s * on .® with shoutings of B race, S race unto it. It will certainly sup pl T ^ h 5 ^ 0 ou can do o mu ch by active effort, LtiSSK h aste th fi 1 gl y $SA* f the te | ple , 0 f u a . | ' ; “ ' Influence. i Influence is to be measured, not by .the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind. A man may spread his mind, his feelings, his opinions, through a great extent; but if his mind be a low one, lie manifests no j greatness. A wretched artist may fill a city with daubs, and by a false, showy style achieve a reputation; but tbe man of genius, who leaves behind him one great picture, in j which immortal beauty is embodied, and which is silently to spread a true taste in art, exerts an incomparably ; higher influence. \ Now the noblest influence on earth j is that exerted on character, and he who puts forth this does a great work. The father and mother of an unnoticed family who in their seclu slon the idea awaken and love the mind perfect of one child to | of goodness, who awaken in him a strength of will to repel all temptation, and who' send him out prepared to profit by the conflicts of life, surpass in influ ence a Napoleon breaking the world to his sway.—Channing. ---———-— unat Led Hmi to Jesus. Dr - H- A. Torrey tells a beautiful . story of a man in Chicago who had a sweet little daughter. He loved dearly, but God took that little child away from him. The house was so ionelj", and he was so angry against . God that he went and up aow ? hl s room far. into the night cursing God for hating robbed him of his child At last thoroughly w °rn out, and in great bitterness of spirit, he threw himse. on his bed. He dreamed he stood beside a river, A ’ cro ? s 4he riv< r r in /he distance he l ie Y d tb f sin , ,f ipg °j suph V01C ^ as !? be e b sa ? .''’ a d , n in .® v , ?r tb ? lls distance , t , eaed . to beautiful . f b U lit- f, n He gills coming toward h™, n ^ are J £ api Jh =nv hf afw i hL E ‘ J |! e gi b 8 h P “:°?- d on the f e ; d . h ’ father ” That overcame fa . s blttei . n ess “eo he accepted voSde? Jesus and d t hn/tn/o over d where b " ns svee^enua nad ^om.._ Vanity Spoils Everything. ■ ' Hezekiah “showed them the houfee his precious things, the silver, and gold, and the spices, and the ointment, and all the house his armour, and all that Was found bis treasures; there was nothing his house, nor in all his dominion, Hezekiah shewed them not.” Let the spirit of display once get you, even as a church, and you write Ichabob upon the temple The things to be shown in the are the Bible, the altar, the forbid that I should save in the cross of our Lord Christ.” If men come to our . and see the precious things, silver, and the gold, and the and tbe ointment, and see no they will curse us in tbs day account.—Joseph ’ Parker. Many a ir-n who is sure he is lacks the energy to ahead. ] ! 5Tx 1 j I eumbau-i&cfbof INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM. MENTS FOR OCTOBER 11. Subject: God's Promises to David, 1 Chron. 17—Golden Text, 1 Kings S:5fi—Commit Verses 13. 1 j , Read 2 Sam. 7 and Ps. 89. Tr\fE._l042 B. C. PLACE.—Jer neaiem. exporittov._t. “T have been with thee wbith^soever thou went 0 S f« vs . t-io. Nathan toot- it f 0 r eranterl without ronsultinp: God. that j) av j d ’ s pronositinn to build a house , ff)r q 0d would be aecentabla unto 'S »»« 0«4 »« N.th.o right nffirTit." In the first instance an had spoken nut of hj s own i„^ s . rr ,p n t. but now “the word of the cme unto him. Gofl will j His will fenown to those who sincere. jt , lv d „ 8lrft to know it , Am . 3;7 > I bovab vavt , "»«*« but refused of David to permit as “My him S er ! to tor Ww God accents e p 1 another kiTo7jrvi?e -n ul vi> w from .mm man an nn ntT, , er man. The prune reason whv would rot ^rmi t David to build ^ temnle LK,r ” 1,e was was because I'CMll?: h« n had nan hean neen 9 man of war and blood Ob. 22:7, 8 : 2R-2) Jenovan Tehovah is is the tne “God nod of of oeac^. Israel bad been nilgrims, dwelling owenins- in nr tents rents and ana wandorino- wau^T-me from from to place; and Jehovah had dwelt, in a tent with them. He had wa1ke d with all the children of Is rafi l , fcf. 2 Cor. 6:16: Rev. 2:1). (rr,(1 naa never onmnininod comnlained at ot sharing His people’s experience no’- suggested to anv of the judges that thov should build an bouse of cedar for Him. God appreciated the love that Prompted David to offer to build an bnpse for Kl ’ m ’ thouBrh He wap ° hll ’"' pd to de¬ oline n<fpr ' He had dope great things for David, exalting him from the lowliest position to the most ex- 1, e ' e ’-j 3 ° the lowlv . +ri to a position .- among the »'«**«•'**• >>«■ 8 : T1:52). Manv of those who are to-daw among the obscurest of the earth will some dav sit Princes, God took Havid from being a ruler o* sh^ep to be a ruler of His neople. Fidelity in tbe bumbler position had fitted him for the higher position. Rut not only bad G ° d axa1ted Dav1d to uosi tion. He had also “been with thee whithersoever thou went«et” fcf. 1 ^ And He 18:14; promises 2 Sa +o ™’ be with 34:3S) u« also ' fWatt 2f?:20K ^ bad -’t off his enemies and mad° for him a great, uame. and that He will do for us (Isa. 55:") ; What God did for David is only a, faint suggestion of what God ra n and will dn for all who are in Christ fEnh. 1:18-22). God declared to David His purpose not nnlv regard ing himself but also regarding all Israel. This purnose of grave as an nounced in v. 1 0 had a martial ful Ailment in the davs of Sniomom but its vomnlete fulfillment, lies sh'll in tbe future. Tt will be fulfill~d tn tbe very letter Mer. 24:6: b> 27-26-27; Am. 9:14.15; Isa. 60:18; Ez. 28:24). Israel’s history bas be-m o”a n f per secution and suffering, but it will not always be so. Its temporary triumph under David and Polnp-in^ ,mns but a faint, type of tbe tnumnh that is to be theirs (Zech. 8:2.81. Prepare for the da^ wb<m the Lord coip p th again. TT. T Will Raise Up Tpy Seed After Thee. 12-10. Jehovah's good"»ss to David would not. end with bis de parture from this world. F° should sleep with bis fathers, not die ( of. 1 4:14), but his s*ed that nro from himself should follow boon tbe throne. Two precious wills” are to be notpfl: “1 will pp,” “T W jn establish.” The jm and partial fulfillment of this was in Solomon 11 K. 8:20; n;5; 1 Chron. 22:9. 10; 28:6-10). u f final and complete fulfilUnent s j n j esus Christ (Ps. 69:29: Isa. ; e ( 7 . jq. ]yr P tt, 22:42-44; C t s 2:301. “He shall build Me an refers, of course, primarily to be building of tbe temple by Solo but that temple was only a type the true temple or hsbitation of . Thfi seed of David w bo is build . that is Jesus Christ (Zech. C: 12, ]vj a tt. 16:18: Lu. 1:21-33: 1 Pet. Eph. 2 - 22) “i Of Christ’s king God says, will establish His forever” (cf.Isa. 9:7; Lu.l:32, Gen. 49- 0: Ps. 45:6: 72: . g 9 : 33 ( 3 -1 ; Dan. 2:44; 7:14; Rev. 11:15). In a sei: £ it ' ould be tra e of Solomon's kingdom -Tehovah would establish it for (1 Chron. 28:7). “I will be His * and He sha11 be My Son ” is in the tulIest senPe onIy of Jes ” S ’ 1:5; Matt - 3:17 >- Yet even was true in a sense of Solomon G hron. 28:G). “If he commit in¬ etc.,” aplies primarily to Solo but Jesus entered into the place the sinner (2 Cor. 5:21). and this the consequences of tbe sin of seed is applicable to Him (cf. 13:34-37). “With the stripes the children of men.” with paternal would Jehovah chasten if he went astrav. Solomon go far astrav, and God chastened and brought him back, Every of God at some time needs such Blessed is he who re it (Deut. 8:5; Job 5:17- Fs. 13; Prov. 3:11, 12; Jer 3 :lll 12:5-11; Rev. 3:10). God’s se chastisements of His His" people judg- are different from 11:30 upon the world (1 Cor. Was Solomon ever restor: I 0 favor 9 Verse 13 answer- tlie Jehovah's lov p to I id the perpetuity of ids b ‘ isd* city (1 k. 11:13, 31-31;