Pittston Gazette

              9MjH| BP "oxtmm *» f Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Va ley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY. JANU DHY 29. 1897. A w66k y Local and Family Journal. IdvInc* then, starting with a cry of surprise, be exclaimed: might bo to cut i After a pause, during which emotion worked briskly in the honest follow, he said: "All right, my lads. Help the others. I'll hear your yarn presently." And while the men went to work with the boat he entered the cuddy. would lead to failure. The mighty robbery, tbe trouble, the anxieties, the perils, the murder, would end in nothing. The gold would go to the bottom, or it would be retaken, or it would be left to lie worthless as tbe soil it rested on in the island yonder. Why didn't tbe men come Into hisaoheme? It would be their only ohanoe after giving the brigantine all time in reason. The commander, bolstering the young lady in tho hatch, peeped around nt her to observe the effect tho bark produced. Again be admired the brilliancy of her lioc aseu to ooucing snip wneu vne wind's fair. I think I can see a fair wiuu in your eyes, Margaret, or I give you my word of honor as a gentleman that I should not be troubling you with this speech. I am in love with you." THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. "I beg your pardon, sir, but I caught sight of the hull of that ship just then, and if she's not the Queen then I'm Prince Albert, sir." LESSON V, FIRST QUARTER, INTER NATIONAL SERIES, JAN. 31. Topic For Mi* Week Beginning Jan. 31. Comment by Rev. S. H. Doyle. Topic.—Endeavorers loyal to Christ. What will they dot—John xlil, 81-88; vlii, 81. (Christlaa Endeavor day.) "Let me look again," said the oommander hoarsely. Everything was as it bad been when be was turned adrift He opened a locker, with a trembling heart, and beheld hiB desk, and, lifting the lid, he drew out a leather bag of money. He counted the contents. While he counted the men above sang joyously at the boat's falls. He counted ten bank notes and a number of English pounds. "They have not touched a farthing," he said to himself. He put away the purse, and his face was warm with delight. Hard earned, friend Matthews, as you know, is the money that iB got by going to sea. His sextant was untouched. Every rag and every stick of his little property had been spared. "I can't say after this they weren't gentlemen at root, after all," he thought as he stepped forth. Yet he could not believe that be waa awake when be recollected how this beautiful bark had been seized one midnight by ten men, but not by any means unexpectedly. No, be was bound to think that, which consideration carried him to old Benson's cabin. "Oh, Captain Boldook!" "I am in love with yon," repeated Boldock, rising and sliding along the locker to her side. "You are tbe first woman who has ever engaged my affeotions. I am not a rich man, bnt I oan support a wife ashore by going afloat, and 1 ask you to be my wife when, God being willing, the two ships after this extraordinary traverse, shall have brought up in Sydney bay, where the bark's bound to return for repairs and Te*t of the Lemon, Acta It, 1*14—Memory Yeraea, 10-IS—Golden Text, Acta 1», 13—Commentary by the Rev. D. M. Long and thirstily did he stare. His table of red faoe, with one eye screwed np, bung immovable at the telescope. Tbe Bun continued to throw his morning brightness on tbe ocean, and the oolor of the blue between the clouds was growing purer. After a little the commander looked round at Mr. Hardy, with an expression of passing suffocation in the cast and oolor of his features. They stared at each other. Another year has rolled round. Another anniversary ia upon us. The hosts are still increasing. The stakes are being strengthened and the lines advancing. It is, however, no time to pause or to falter. The higher the position reached the greater the responsibility and the greater the need of  loyalty to Chriat. Loyalty tTJ" Christ ia to be emphasized this Endeavor day, uot loyalty to Christian Endeavor. Happy thought! After all, loyalty to Christ la the main thing, and the Endeavorer who is loyal to Chriat will not be disloyal to Christian Endeavor. What will the Bndeavorera who are loyal to Chriat lo? The references suggest that: He eyed tbe fellows as tbey swung on the foo tropes with a murderer's malice. 1. "And as they spake unto the people the priest* and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them." They spake of Jesus, His life, death, resurrection and return to restore all things of which the prophets had spoken; that He and all things concerning Him had been foretold by the prophets, and that now, being raised from the dead, He was ready to bleas Israel first. In all the prophets the Spirit had said that through Israel all nations of the earth should be blesaed, and He spoke through them of a great Deliverer who would do this and It was 8 o'clock in tbe afternoon before tbe ship was snugged and the longboat got over. Every man armed himself. The boat was equipped with a large logsail and six long, powerful oars. While they ate in the cuddy before going ashore Burn said: CHAPTER XXIV. anchored. tbe ship's safety will permit. We most sound for an anchorage. We must stow every sail in the ship after letting go tbe anchor and then go ashore." men." "Upon my word," exclaimed Boldock in that sort of voice which he would use in church, "I believe you are right I caught the length of the bull distinctly when it was hove high—a bark painted green, answering unquestionably to the burden of the Queen. Why should it not be she?" be roared out, overmastered by excitement "She should be somewhere hereabouts. We're inside of a day's sail of Halloran island. Step below, Mr. Hardy, and give my compliments to Mr. Matthews and ask him to come on deck." The young lady did not answer. She slightly trembled when Boldock put his full arm round her waist. Yet this proposal was not unexpected. For some time she had known that he admired her, and she was perfectly sensible of tbe abundant attentions he had paid her. He was a hearty, rough seaman 1 but an officer in tbe queen's navy, and .a gentleman, and tbe spirit of kindnesa and good nature dwelt in his wide, red 1 face. The some in this hour of the memorable morning when tbe bark Queen 11 hi mill Hallorau island in search of tbe brituilM Rival was this: The vessel was moving slowly octore tne wind, with her yards almost square. The eastern sky was splendid, with tbe morning fight over her bows, and tbe glory in tbe water colored the foam bells at her ■tan. Abreast, on tbe port beam, was fiaUflfCM island within two mifces, all points of it quite visible, a beautiful green spot, but clearly lifeless. Still on the bowsprit end sat William gasing ahead for rooks and disoolored water, and en the poop on the port side tbe gentlemen were grouped, an eager, excited band et men, half mad with tbe aenaaftlcm at the hour. Never before had their faces shown to mnch life. Even Caldwell's glances were darting. "I say," said Davenire, breaking into the opening of Trollqpe's remarks, "that island's fast slipping astern, and we ahull lose it behind the sea while we aland here arguing, if we don't mind our aye. I vote that we heave the ship ta" "Suppose something should come along while we're away and hail this ship, what's the answer to be?" "Tbe whole of us?" said OaldwelL "Tbewhole of us," echoed Davenire. Then, ereoting himself afresh and speaking strongly, he cried, "If it's to be as I say, hold up your bands." "If idiotic thoughts will enter your head, pity yon can't keep 'em corked np there,'' answered Davenire. ' 'Think, you owll Here is a sea of glass, and there is nothing in sight, and we are going ashore far a few hours only. What, unless a oomet, could come along snd hail this ship?" chief of all nation*. make Israel the L. Loyal Endea' another a* Christ hey taught the commandment I b Jesus the res- i— " They wonkl be - eyes unlearned (^j^kvvT to teach the people lorod all of them While resurrection Christians, not t , Old Testament ahnroh or den' 10; Ezek. xxxvll, lore Christ—ir "lucees believed a. Christ lorea ivorera will love one loved them. "A new onto 70a, that ye have loved 70a wether." How iiscinles? 1. Ha mt should love all tboae of our own bat all who 8. '' Rein# grieved that people and preached through urrecttoB from the dead " Every arm except Trollope's was lifted."You'll come with us, although you nt assent?" said CaldwelL grieved that men, In their •ntf Ignorant (verse 18 teach. The priest* wear (MaL U, 7; Lev. x, 11) ■ * « » • A. ■ _ "I'll go with you because you won't leave me behind you," was the answer. "And these are your tbankst" He walked to tbe rail as though burdened with emotion and looked at the sea. "You see, Margaret," said "that when you go on board the ship we shall be separated. I must keep to this command. Bad weather may blow us asunder. Nothing impossible at sea. Therefore, before I take you (Hi board I want you to say that you will be my wife on our return to Sydney. Will you, my dear Margaret? It wants but very little consideration—will your' His natural and characteristic lamenting voice sounded with fine effect in this passage. "Even if William and the other should intend treachery," said Johnson, "tbey oould do nothing with the vessel in this weather." He found tbe cot gone, and some of the tools for navigating the vessel were missing. Otherwise tbe interior looked mnch as of old. He peered into the cabins which had been cacupied by the , Storrs and the other passengers. Here he found traces of industry. Portmanteaus had been opened. The contents of a trunk belonging to Mr. Storr were scattered upon the deck. The ten gentlemen seemed to have wanted clothes, he thought and probably a little ready jaaoney. Tbey were kind to leave him his savings. wai plainly taught in the While Hardy was gone Boldook kept his telescope upon tho distant bark, which sometimes sprang her spars into the lenses, and once or twioe a strip of greenish hull. Tbe sunshine brightened her flag. It was red, but Boldock could not make out whether it was a distress signal. Now arrived Mr. Matthews, who bad kept watoh from 4 till 8, and, having breakfasted, bad turned in for a snooze. (Jobxix, 06-27;"p*. xvl, ... 12, 18; Hoa. vl, 2), the Sada love. His disciples when they were aliens and strangers to Him and sinners against Him. In doing this Christ loved His enemies. He loved all men. Following Christ's example, we shoald love all men. 8. Christ manifested His love for His disoiples by dying to save them. We should manifest our love for all men by doing what we can to save them. We cannot die for men, bat we can direct them to Him who did or send Him to them' if they dwell in heathen lands. Practical love seeks to save. Christ loved men practically. So should we. not in any (chapter xxlll, 8), so that anything on resurrection would grieve them. That Jesus of Nazareth, whom they crucified as a malefactor, should be risen from the dead would prove that they were guilty and that Ha was what He said He was. "Let's swing tbe yards, boys, and praise tbe pigs in our songs for this rag of agreement anyhow," cried Cavendish."I shall have a word to say to them," said Davenire. They stood together. "Do you mean to let the vessel lie at anchor here all night?" said Trollope, speaking in his usual plaoe at the head of the table, where be bad sat a listener. silent and aavaire. eyes. Tho exertion had colored her cheeks. She saw the white light of tbe sail in a moment and cried, "1s that the Queen?" Tbey got w*y upon tbe ship, and the helm was shifted for the island. & "And they laid hands upon them and put them In hold unto the next day, for It wan now eventide." They had been taught to expect this, and therefore may not have been surprised at It, though the first time that even a predicted event happens Is often a surprise (John xv, 18; xvl, 1, 8; Math, x, 16-80). The enmity against God and His word, even on the part of those who, like the priests, are professedly His people, is still very marked and shall continue to be throughout this age. It was about 11 o'clock in the morning. very ftot, the westerly wind scanting and the sea of that deep, pony thrilling, melting bine which the Pacific there takes when over it bends snch a heaven as then spanned the sparkling recesses. Trollope took no part in the maneuvers. He picked a telescope off a skylight lid and turned it slowly ronnd and ronnd the horizon. This be did again and again, clapping flb glass under his arm between whiles and walking the weather end of the poop with a lord paramount air. William steered. It was a leading wind for the island. The bark leaned a little and drove the water from her bows in ripples. Now that there was some sort of passing unanimity among them a different sort of spirit "None other. Miss Maneel," said Mr. Matthews. "Whatwould you fear?" asked CaldwelL"Most of you know more about ships than I," answered Trollope. "What would you fear?" "Keep in the companionway," said the commander, standing outside, "and take this telescope and look »t yonder vessel and tell me what yon think of her." She stared, astounded; then, looking round into the commander's face, said, "What are you going to do?" "I have often said that if ever I chose a husband it should be a sailor," murmured Miss Manse 1, keeping her head hung. This inspection occnpied bnt a few minutes. Going on deck, he found the boat at the davits and ordered the well to be sounded. There was water enough in the hold to demand a short spell at the pumps. When he had satisfied himself on the ship's condition, he mounted the poop and hailed the brig, which lay within easy earshot. "Not yet," said Trollope, with a look at the land "Fifty things," exclaiqpd Shannon lightly. "It may oome on to blow a gale from thesouth'ard. A large ground swell in a dead calm might set us ashore in the night We might all get drunk." "I can do nothing till some wind comes and this horrible swell goes down," answered Boldock. "Will you have to fight to recapture "But I am a sailor," said theoon* Mr. Matthews was scarcely wide awake. He had turn bled out of his bunk with a seaman'8 hurry. After a great deal of maneuvering with the unwieldy telescope he ca iglit tbe object. A grin of amazement that worked the flesh about bis lips into a hunchback's wrinkles widened his mouth. He looked again, and then in tones firm with conviction he said to the commander, "That bark down there, sir, is the Queen." 8. Loyal Endeavorers will live for Chtist. Christ told His disciples that He was going where they could not go, tat where in time they could follow film. Peter thought he ooold go, no matter wtere it was, even if going cost - him his Hfa Bnt Peter made a poor stagger at dying for Christ He failed to lire for Him for 84 hours. We hear a gnat deal of sanctimonious gush about dying for Christ Christ is not asking us to die for Him, bnt to live for Sim. Are we doing that? Do we show t)T our lives that we stand for Christ, and are we willing to testify that we ■re His even in the presence of those who are not His? Christ wants our lives just now. Has He got them? We cannot be to Him unless He has. "It seems to me," said Davenire gruffly, "that nothing a man can say aboard ben will find assent Why not now? The wind's west and the island bears north." "I know you are," she answered, beginning to laugh. terV' 4. "Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed, and the number of the men was about five thousand." If these are wholly in addition to those of chapter II, 41, then here are already over eight thousand followers of the Lord Jesus Christ in a few days, and apparently through two sermons and a miracle. What a contrast to the hundred and twenty of chapter 1, 15, and what an Illustration and proof of His words, "Greater works than these shall he do because I go unto My Father (John xiv, 12). "What do you fear, Trollope?" here broke in Da venire. "I hope bo. But I don't fancy from the figure she makes that her people are in a fighting state of mind." "I wish," thought the commander, who kept a hold of her waist, "that she would shift her helm and head on a straight course. It's a fair wind. Everything's all clear, the road buoyed, the very pilot aboard." He drew himself a little away so as to obtain a good view of ber eyes, and, putting his hand under her chin, he raised ber laughing face. "I've brought you to this island, and I'm captain still, I believe?" exclaimed Trollope, reddening and speaking With dssperato effort to keep his temper. . "The first of the risks Shannon pamed." She asked a few more questions. The commander then assisted her below and saw her in safety to hrr cabin. "The ship seems all right, sir." "It's going to be a fine night" said the huge man a littlp contemptuously. "Tomorrow we'll carry the gold ashore and end all peril there so far as this ship is concerned while we wait, if you choose, for Saunders and discuss the safest measures to take." "Have they taken the gold?" shouted Commander Boldock, getting into his main rigging to talk, while the rolling of tbe vessels kept the two gentlemen bowing to each other. "It must either be one man to decide for all, which I don't think will be found tolerable among some of us, or things will have to be put to the vote," said Weston. Now followed a brain distracting spell of suspense and expectation. When the afternoon came, tbe swelling folds of sea had sensibly sunk, and at about 4 o'clock a small breeze blew from the east Boldock instantly made all sail, and, with an amidship helm and square yards and his one piece of artillery loaded with grape, steered on a straight nrmran for 1 u "Blow my sweet wind!" murmured the commander, with a look of stupefaction. "It is always the wrong weather at sea. Why doesn't some air come along?" "The two men report so, sir." was manifested generally.' They talked without passion, they ceased to argue, they stood leaning over the ship's side smoking and watching the island or the water sliding past in a tender tremble of prismatic bubbles. The ccmmander tossed one hand and looked round at Miss Mansel. "Where is It?" "Now, tell me, my dear, that yon will be my wife," said he, "and then I will give you a kiss." 6. 6. "And It came to pass on the morrow that their rulers and elders and scribes, • f • were gathered together at Jerusalem."**This was a council of the highest religious body, or as we would say of the church authorities, and, therefore, one to be feared by ordinary men. 7. "And when they had set them in the midst they asked, By what power or by what name have ye done this?" The phrase "in the midst" makes us think of the Invisible Christ who was truly in the midst unseen by the religious dignitaries. Peter and John were there in His name, on His business, and He was surely with them in the midst (Math, xvl 11, 80). 8. "Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost aaid unto them, Ye rulers of the people and elders of Israel." The Holy Spltit is the key to the whole business and the one great secret of every victory In the Christian life. He spake and wrought every word and act through Christ and He Is given to every believer to do the same in each one—that Is, to speak and act through "I'm for heaving the ship to here," ■aid Darenire in his heavy voice and strong manner, "while the island's in sight and while we talk over what's to be dona." "Put it to the vote then," said Trol- He gaaed about him with a lofty air of triumph, and hums of approval broke from the men. "Can I speak to you a moment, sir?" sung down the voice of Mr. Hardy in the hatch. "Most undoubtedly the Queen," repeated Mr. Matthews, who continued to seesaw with the long brass tubes as they rested on the edge of the oover, himself standing inside. "Then we must lose no time, Mr. Matthews. I will send four of my men aboard of yon. Make all plain sail upon your ship, but not more than will enable me to keep company." "Ashore, sir." Trollope's leadership seemed on a sudden to have oome to an end. What shape was this adventure going to take under Da venire? Suddenly Davenire, starting up from as laxy a loafing posture as ever a south country longshoreman oould fall into, called out: It might now be seen that the vessel'a main royal yard was down, but the long topgallant mast was standing. She continued to lie exactly as she bad lain all day, under ber ill hoisted wing of staysail, but already tbe color at the gaff end had shaken its folds out to tbe wind. By aid of the glass Mr. Hardy perceived that the onion Jack was reversed. It wis tbe mute sea cry for help, in short, and it was easily gaessed then would be no fighting. "What's the matter!" roared the commander, entirely letting go of Miss Mansel when he caught sight of Hardy's shoes and a second later of Hardy's leering eyes on the ladder. 8. Loyal Kndeavorers will continue in Christ's ward. They will be steadfast In believing what He has told them to believe and in doing what He has told them to da Steadfastness in thought word and deed is certain proof of loyalty. Bible Readings.—Math, v, 18-16, 48-48; xxviii, 19, 80; Rom. xii, 1-81; zt, 1-8; I Cor. x, 81; xv, 58; GaL ▼i, 1-9; Eph. ▼, 1, 8; Phil, ii, 1-11; iv, 1; Col. ii, 1-17; 11 These, iii, 12, 18; H Tim. iv, 7, 8; Heb. xii, 1, 8; 1 Pet iv, 7-11; Rev. ii, 10. lope coldly. Three went with Davenire, the rest with TroUope. Davenire, with a face savage with discontent, leaned his huge bulk upon the rail and stared at the island that was sliding on to the quarter. "Had not we better get some breakfast before we begin to talk?" said Pe- CHAPTER XXV. BOLDOCK'S PROPOSAL. "Forward, there I" bawled tbe oommander.Mr. Matthews roared out, "Aye, aye, sir." "Trollope, by the way, didn't you Bay we ought to sound as we go in?" About three weeks after the American captain had visited the Wellesley that lubberly oolonial brig, with her squab boats hunched at her motherly davits, was rolling most uncomfortably upon a large, pea green swell, whose lofty folds as they swung in stately prooenuon seemed to be wrinkled by a breese of their own making. The sky was hung with soft dark masses of storm cloud, broken and departing. The heavens between were a faded green, and here and there upon the horizon they were painted gray in slanting patches by falling rain. "Sir," answered a voice. "Send the Queen's men aft." "Aye, aye, sir." Tbe commander was addressed by Miss Mansel. He presently cried, "Have you been iuto the cabins?" "The mate of the bark's hailed to know whether you would like one of the two men to be sent aboard with the full yarn of the gold, and how the bark dragged and was blown off?" "You've taken charge, haven't you?" answered Trollope, slightly turning his bead without looking at the man, then lifting the glass to his eye. The five of them presently arrived, staggering and lurching like drunken seamen on the slope of the deck as they walked. "Yes, sir." "'Any," yelled Johnson, "spring for a lump of fat, my son. You'll find plenty in the galley." "I should say, by the looks of it, exactly as she left it," answered Mr. Matthews."How is Miss Mansel's?" The memorable exclamation of old Mr. Shandy rose into the commander's head. He was in a passion at the interruption and said: "No, sir. Inform that ox faced mate that I can wait Tell him to keep a bright outlook aboard his bark for tbe lougboat as it's not impossible that the fellows will pat off in her from the island." Then softening his voice he exclaimed, "How's ber head, Hardy?" and then added, "Well, keep everything piled upon her and see that the chap astern don't run the old bucket dowjn." "Aye," —nlaimed Burn. "This is a hungry place, and a whole ham shan't •11 me this morning." When they had breakfasted and had lighted their pipes, tbey went on to the poop. Tbey had argued incessantly, and tbey argued as they went up the steps and gained the deck. Mark Davenire sat down upon a skylight, and after looking at the island called to Trollope: "Here," said Boldock to the first of them, who happened to be Tom, "get you inside that hatch, my man, and look through that telesoope and tell me what ship that is." Curiosity burned in tbe bosoms at all bands. She was the bark Queen that bad sailed from Sydney. Her five people forward on the brig's forecastle knew her, swore to ber, and SO good dramatic reasons, each one a powerful imaginative yarn well calculated to make a literary reputation, had been invented by tbe Bailors to account for her lying wallowing there with the loss of ber fare topgallant mast and flying jib boom. In a few minutes the little Dane handed a piece of fat down to Mr. Shannon, who primed the hole in the bottom of the lead. This stroke of news appeared to make Commander Boldock entirely happy. Miss Mansel waved gratefully to the ■hip. Even as it was with Mr. Matthews so was it with ber. Every farthing's worth of her property in this world was in ber cabin. Sbe viewed tbe bark with the pensive gaze which Mr. Masters had so often admired. Memory arose in her, and her countenance changed again aDd again as she sought to give mold and substance to that black time when they had throttled ber and set ber afloat. Great God! Did any woman ever undergo such an experience? She trembled while she remembered and looked at tbe bark, and then ber eyes met Captain Boldock's. The Chnnh the Working Power. While the personality of Christ and the life He lived oontain the real working power of Christian truth, yet the ohnrch is the instrument through which this truth is to be held up for the guidance of men. The church may be wrong la ita interpretation of tbeologioal dogmas, bnt there is no earthly organization so likely to be right in teaohing the essential truths of life. The church is the working harness of true religion, and while it asks loyalty to the organisation for the purpose of advancing the fundamentals of religion it should permit a wide margin for individual growth and interpretation, fie strong in the advocacy of the fundamentals, bnt liberal in the matter of individual opinions an matters of dogma.—Universal is t. "For Inck's sake?" he sung out The long metal cone flew to the bow, and the line slackened without weight right up and down under him. The instant Tom caught her he howled out with his eyes'ill at the glass, "Blowed if sbe ain't tbe Queen." All allowanoe was to be made for great excitement If that ship was the Queen, the men's clothes were on board of ber, their certificates of discharge, seven pounds of tobacco belonging to tbem were in their chests and a few pounds in money. 9. "If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the Impotent man, by what means he Is made whole." The man was certainly utterly helpless, a truly Impotent man, and It is on and In such that the gracious Lord loves to work. If we knew how helpless we are to save ourselves or to do any good thing when we are saved, we would stop trying and trust our mighty Saviour to work In us both to will and to do of His good pleasure All our doing tends to exalt ourselves, and this Is wrong; but His doing exalts Him, and that is right Ik was about 0 o'clock in the morning. The brig wh under single reefed topsail* and foresail, and the thunder this canvas knocked out of its heart against the masts seemed to fetch a faint, echoing growl from the dark canopies afar. Nothing, not even a lightship, built of wood and sheathed with metal ever rolled more abominably than this satne brig Wellesley, becalmed in a heavy swell. She dipped her fat sides to the raiL The rush of polished brine was within hand's reach. You looked for the whole ocean to roll aboard; then groaning shockingly in every timber, with yells in the wrenched rigging, and a furious beating of helpless canvas aloft, over she'd tumble deep down to the other rail, leaping half way back, as if in affright, springing her round bows out of the heave, while the brine roared white from her headboards, then tumbling bodily over again amid volleys of snaps and Jerking and straining noises. "Shall we reach in and get the boat over that some of us may go ashore and sea what sort of a place it is?" "Why not?" answered Trollope. "I like the idea." "Land ho!" be roared. "I can't give you the leadsman's cry. Here's the red. What is it—what is it? Ah, 17 fathoms."At this boor it was no longer dangerous to move about the brig's deck, and Miss Mansel was seated in a chair secured to the quarter deck capstan, and Commander Boldock stood beside ber, with his long brass telescope nnder bis arm. The bark rolled slowly, with a stately awing of ber lofty spars. She flung wet flashes from ber gleaming sides and submitted the model of a beautiful clipper hull to the charmed eyes of the seamen as she buoyantly climbed aslant tbe now fast lessening heave of tea. Tbe shoes, with their bows, disappeared, and the commander readdressed himself to his pleasing task with, it must be admitted, a slight glance at a decanter of ram on a swing tray, as though a little refreshment just at this time would be ra*tber helpful. He slided on the locker once more to the young lady's side and again put bis arm round her waist Her face was bright red, almost as red as his, bat she looked pleased and buppy. All the while Trollope, coldly and obstinately, paced old Benson's pieoe of quarter deck. Again and again the men glanced at him, but he made no sign, seemed not to hear, exhibited no visible interest in anything but the horizon. "Stop a minute," said Shannon, who s*t «pop the deck sucking a short pipe. "Who's to be left in the ship while the boat's ashore?" "feet's discuss that point while we're Reaching in for the island," exclaimed Pa venire. "Ay*, but you're not going to answer the Question by swinging the topsail yasd, paid Shannon in a voice irri* fating with insistence and opinion. "I for soe shan't leave this ship unless all hands of you go along with me." "Then let all hands go ashore," exclaimed Da venire, following witb a frown the flight of a cloud of smoke from his lips. "Who'll tend tbe ship?" said Shan- "Out you come," said the oommander. "Next man." One after another tbe five stepped Into tbe batch, and after dodging and docking and mowing and sweeping with the immense telescope declared that the bark yonder was tbe Queen. They then went forward and looked at her in a little crowd upon tbe forecastle.10. "By the name of Jem Christ of Nazareth doth this man stand here before 70a whole." The- crucified and risen Christ, the despised Nasarene, still lives and has all power, and He manifests It through His followers to His glory that His name may be known. The devil and the world and a worldly church hates to have His name made known (verses 17, 18), but a true believer will say with Peter and John, "Wecannot butspeak the things which we have seen and heard" (verse 90). The apostles took no credit to themselves, but gave all glory to Christ, saying, "He did It." "What says tbe arming?" exclaimed OaldwelL "It scarcely seems rational," said sbe, smiling with sudden sweetness, "that I should rejoioe so over the recovery of my poor few effects—a hat, a dress or two, a parasol. Oh, dear, Captain Boldock, in tbe face of the mighty robbery of gold tool And yet I dare say," said she, with ber pensive look coming on ber again, drooping ber lids so that tbe commander was able once more to admire tbe length of her eyelashes, "tbe loss of my luggage would be a greater blow to me than the loss of the gold to the owners of it" Shannon was looking at it when that black, soowling fellow spoke. "Tbe sweetest lot of little shells you ever saw in all your born days," answered Shannon, squinting at tbe fat in tbe lead. "Shells and gray sand. Hand's down a knife, some one." ▲ Silhouette Social. "You'll give me your answer now, Margaret?" said he. Much amusement may be excited at a social by silhouettes, suggests The Golden Bole. Hang up a sheet, divide the company into two parts, let light be on one aide of the sheet only, and let the part of the company who are in the dark guess from the "shadow picture" who is casting it Let each side take turns in guessing, winning the person m the result of each successful guess. Tbe heavens were clearing, tbe horizon opening, tbe atmosphere brightening, tbe colors and lines of the bark stealing ont clearer and sharper. Two figures stood upon ber poop right aft. Boldock viewed tbem through his glass. "You know nothing about me, Captain Boldock," she answered. "You sailors are so reckless! How do you know that I shall make a good wife? How do you know that I have not relations who might be a disgraoe to you?" He carefully scraped off tbe shells and sand, and tbe knife was handed up, and tbe mess of fat, shells and sand on the blade passed from one to another and viewed with deep interest Such children does the sea make of men, such trifles will the monotony at the ooean render fascinating. "Seamen apparently," said be. "Two "If she's not tbe Qneen," said Mr. Matthews, "this brig'B not the Wellesley."only." "Her longboat's gone," said Mr. Matthews. "She's without a boat of any kind." 11. "This is the stone which was set at naught of you builders, which 1s become the head of the oorner." This would or should have carried their thoughts to Ps. cxvlll, 88; Isa. Till, 14; xxvlll, 10; Gen. xllx, 94, and other texts when Israel's Messiah Is compared to a stone. Some of these very men may have remembered his own words to this effect also. See Math, xxi, 98, 43-44. Some day, when the nation ■hall see Him oomlng In His glory, they will think of these things, and with true penitence they shall make the words of Isa. 1111 their own. See Zech. xll, 10. This had been going on for some hours. It was impossible to walk the deck. The seamen staggered and rushed if they let go. Presently the commander, tightly gripping the hand rail, rose with a wary eye to his neck and limbs through the little companion hatch and stood in it while he looked about him. Mr. Hardy was banging by the main royal backstay, almost abreast of the red faced officer. The wheel leaped like something living and vioious in the strong grasp of the helmsman, but even as tbe oammander rose the brasswork ornamentation upon tbe binnacle box was smitten into several stars of glory by a watery beam of the sun. Com - mander Boldock looked up to see what made that light, as though surprised; then, watching his chanoe, came out of the hatch and drove over to the side of Mr. Hardy, clutching at the stay with fingers like fishhooks. ' 'Are tbe scoondrels who stole her aboard of ber?" exolaimed the commander."The two seamen," answered Dave■to* - . After a little tbe stern of tbe bark slanted into sight. Tbe swell bore it, and there, under tbe counter, in long plain white letters, were tbe words Boldock courteously and cordially assented."Nonsense, my darling," lamented the commander. "I know as mncb of you as you know of me, and (50 the yards are square between us in that way anyhow. Now, my dear, I'm waiting, I'm longing." "She looks to me to have broken adrift from her moorings," said Mr. Hardy. Better aad Happier. "With all that sail set?" shouted Shannon jeeringly, and be fell back upon the deck flourishing bis inch of sooty day at the oanvas with a great noise of forced ironical laughter. "Trollope kept the two men expressly to watch tbe ship while we were tshocQ," said Oaldwell, cutting a pipeful of plug tobacco on the raiL "Yes, but with furled canvas and royal yards on deck and topgallant masts boused or struck," answered Trollope, dropping biswords slowly between puffs at his pipe. Thus did the villains approach the island, the bark floating with erect spars, so light bad the wind fallen. Mr. Shannon continued to heave the lead. When they came into 14 fathoms, the land was a mile off, but they durst venture no closer, and the whole of them, saving Trollope, turned to and clewed up the canvas. Tbe bark lost way with ber head at west. "Wben do you think I shall be able to go on board?" Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he lives better and happier. Bach one of ns is bound to see that oat of that small circle the widest good may flow. Each one of us may have fixed in his mind the thought that out of a single household may flow the influences that shall stimulate the whole oommoa wealth and the whole civilized world.—Dean Stanley. "Queen—London." "Tomorrow, I hope." "Moorings! Where would you moor ber?" said Boldock. "It's 'Arryl" roared Tom on tbe brig's forecastle. "Not before?" she exclaimed, with a start and a blush, looking round at the sun that was now banging low nor'- west, the swell rolling in blood under him, and tbe sky filled with a thousand scarlet clouds of effulgence. He projected his lips into that sort of shape which the mouth usually takes when it salutes the brow or cheek of another. Half laughing and half crying and rosy red, the girl laid her head against as honest and warm a heart r» ever beat in man's breast. "Off Halloran island." "And why not?" cried tbe commander, instantly seeing the point "There baa been a lot of dirty weather of late." "It's William!" shouted a seoond seaman of tbe Queen. Tbe brig passed slowly under tbe stern of tbe bark and rounded to leeward, and while this maneuver was being carried out by Mr. Hardy tbe following conversation passed; "That fore topmast staysail looks as if they'd been tending ber at anchor," said Mr. Matthews. "I hope you are uot in a very great bnrry to leave tbe brig. Miss Mansel?" said the commander. 19. "Neither Is there salvation In any other, for there Is none other name under heaven given among men- whereby we must be saved." Whether it be for a nation or for an Individual (Job xxxiv, 99), there is no salvation apart from Jesus Christ In Him is life, and be that hath the Son hath life, but he that hath not the Son of God hath notllfe(John i, 4; I John ▼. 11. 18). "Let go tbe anchor," roared Davenire to William. "I will be your wife," she said, an; Baldock instantly kissed her. "Bat if there are people aboard," exclaimed tbe commander, "why do they let ber lie without a rag save that staysail?"Not Open to Other Eyes. "Stand clear of tbe oablel" bawled William, who had undertaken this part, and a moment later, after a chipping noise of hammering, tbe anchor dropped from tbe cathead and the heavy jhain cable roared smoking after It through tbe hawse pipe. "Hp, the bark ahoy!" roared tbe commander. • "I should be shockingly ungrateful if I was," she answered. Faith sees worlds that are not open to any other eye. It has been welJ said, "The Holy Spirit can put an eye of faith into the soul and thus make the things of God manifest to it, as He did to the Old Testament saints, who saw things •far off. "—English Churchman. "Hello, hello, sir!" answered Harry, with a quick, eager flourish of his hajtd, springing on to tbe taffrail to talk, then catching sight of Miss Mansel and staring and staring with hands on his knees as though he had been slain in that posture by lightning. The commander said no more and seemed intent upon what was doing in the bark. Six men had gone across to tbe Queen in one of the brig's motherly quarter boats. Two had returned, and the boat was hoisted, and Mr. Matthews was now with a good working crew—11 men, in a word—of whom one was the brig's boatswain, toaMrva hie* as a mute. They made sail quickly, but the ship wanted symmetry. She could no longer glow in beauty to tbe evening sun. A star was trembling in the east, albeit the west was still red with light when tbe two vessels began to move. [to be continued.] "This is going to be a deadlock, isn't it?" said Hankey. A11 Arctic Chriatmaa. Their helplessness, begotten by utter absence of faith in one another, had so absurd a side that some of tbe men saw it and a loud laugh followed on Hankey's words. In fact, their posture of fniad was exactly expressed by tbe attitude of tbe ship as she lay upon tbe Wide sea witb ho other motion than soeh as she got from the long undulations of tbe swell; the yards of the ma|n were aback, tbe vessel's besd was abanf north, and her drift was something easterly. The loss of ber fore topgallant mast, too, with tbe mutilated Mpt it gave ber, was like putting tbe moral of the missing brigantine into the yiotare of the idle bark. Pilanoa fell upon the men. Tbeysucktheir pipes, they looked at one an- Othsf, at the island; then Trollope, folding |iii arms, said in bis cool, contemptuous w«y: "Well, gentlemen, What is your pleasure? We can't lie rotting here like Coleridge's painted ship " "Ho," ooned Burn. "I've been turnlag tbe thing over, and there's nothing feiMtta my opinion, but Trollope's "They may be waiting for wind?" said Mr, Hardy. The crew of an arctio explorer bad great pleasure, one Christmas amid the ice and snow, in teaching the little Eskimo children how to observe an American Christmas The queer little tots bad never heard of a Christmas  and Santa Clans was an unknown personage. The sailors were desperately homesick, until one of them, with little nnes of bis own, happened to think of a Christmas tree for the little, cbubby Eskimos, with their round heads and soft, dark eyes. "Will they show fight, I wonder, when we bear down?" asked the commander, and his nostrils enlarged while be glanced at bis one gun. "I rather hope so. They're all armed with revolvers, you tell me, Mr. Matthews? I'll lead the boarders, Hardy." 18. "They took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus." An unlikely Instrument, humanely speaking, when oon trolled by God brings glory to God. The utterance and the fearlessness of these men before this great council convinced them that some great mind at power was eontrolling them. They probably remembered There remained, however, a great leal of work to be done before they sould venture to hoist the boat out. They furled every sail, a light task for ten men in a small bark on that fair morning. "I hope those fellows will have managed to keep their ship alive during the late weather," said tbe oommander. "It will be very vexatious should we ultimately discover she has gone to tbe bottom, gold and all—not that the all will so much matter, perhaps, as the gold." "Are any of the gentry who stole your ship aboard of you still?" shouted Commander Boldock. What Education Means. Education does not mean teaching the people to know what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave w they do not behave.—Christian Leader. "You'll not find me far off, sir," said Mr. Matthews. "Nearly all that I own in the world," he exclaimed, with a pathetic gesture at tbe bark, "is in yonder vessel. I blush to own it I blush to think I should have been such a fool as to lead for years tbe life of a dog for no more than what von may pack in a sea chest" "No, sir, thank God!" And some man on the brig's forecastle laughed. "Are you two men alone?" "All alone, sir," shrieked Harry. "How long have you been in tbis condition?" the boldness of Jesus and saw In these men His Spirit. He had told them while yet Kith them that when brought before councils for His sake they were not to be anxious as to what they should say, for the Spirit of God would speak through them (Math, x, 18-90). Trollope would not put bis hand to a rope. While tbe men were aloft he went into Benson's cabin to look at tbe barometer and found a steady glass. Then he returned and for the fiftieth time ohased tbe line of tbe sea with the best telescope in tbe ship Ha never could tell at what instant a sail migbt rise. Had that gentlemanly sooundre) thought proper to put up a prayer, it would have been for tbe brigantine and Saunders. He looked at the ship grow- A Timely Suggestion. "Mr. Matthews gives a good aoooant at the men's smartness as sailors, considering who and what the; are," answered Mr. Hardy. "Some of them ooald fori a sail aa nimbly as a bluejacket There were ten of them, and, pins one, that's the number the ship aailed with out of Sydney." The saddest boar in the life of a youth is when he thinks he oan get a dollar in some other way than by squarely earning it—Greeley. "I'll hang a lantern at my gaff end," •boated the commander to Matthews, "and yon will follow in my wake and be careful not to run me down. Let a bright lookout be kept and hang a riding light somewhere forward where we may easily see it" A real, live, green tree was, at oonrm, nut of the question in thut icy region, ro the men gathered np the bones of slaughtered walruses, bears, whales and other creatures aud tied them together so that they branched out in every direction."We was rolled off Halloran island fonr days ago," cried William in his slow but powerful voioe, "and we've been a-washing about ever since looking out for ships." 14. "And beholding the manwhtoh was healed standing with them they could say nothing against It" An lnourable sick person made whole, a wicked person made righteous, a profane or violent person mads meek and gentle, a worldly person made to be devoted to the Lord Jesus Christ— these evidences of the work of Christ cannot be spoken against If while we profess to be the Lord's the old life Is still oontlnnally manifest there Is no oonvlnclng testimony, and the name of the Lord Is dishonored; but filled with the Spirit, there cannot but be oonvlnclng testimony for Christ. Oar Christ. Holding His hand, my steadied feet "Are you talking of the Queen?" cried Miss Mansel's voioe at the foot of the companion ladder. Mr. Hardy lightly groaned. May walk the air, the soaa. On life and death His smile falls swuot "Mr. Matthew*," said the commander, "you had better get your boat over and take your five men and resume possession. Mnke sail and report ber condition and keep within hailing distance of ma " This being said, the commander, offering Miss Mansel his hand, conducted her into the cabin to tea The tea things bad been set by a sailor, who was gone. The naval officer and the young lady were alone. Miss Mansel removed ber canvas cap and sat down upon a locker in front of a seagoing, battered teapot, that bad once been a very pretty, shining thing, and poured out two cups of black tea, one of which she handed to the commander, who, as they had no milk in the brig, used a little brandy instead. The dark table, agleam with wear, was furnished with marmalade, biscuits and potted shrimps, of which Miss Mansel and the commander partook.Lights up all mysteries. Stranger nor exile can I be In new worlds where He leadeth me. The commander observed that Mr. Hardy stooped to dodge and peer and bob at the horison, where, following the direction of the mate's stare, Boldock saw a white gleam of sail coming and going at the edge of a small squall of gray rain passing slowly. When it came to candy, they could not get tbat, either; but instead they made balls of whal« blubber, or fat, of which the little for wrapped Eskimo is extremely fond, and these queer substitutes for caramels were tied on the "tree" with colored cord. Bright beads, shining buttons, some brass beaded tacks ana a few other such remarkable "presents" were also tyjd on. and then bits of lighted candies were stuck all about, giving quite a festive air to the queerest Christmas tree that was probably ever seen. But the Eskimo ohildren enjoyed it lo a wonderful degree, and the homesick sailors grew bright and cheerful in giving them such a novel pleasure.—New York Tribune. ~ \ wvy J A x/ "Aye, that is right," answered the oommander, putting his great red face into the companion. "We've fallen in with your ship. We're waiting for nothing but a little wind. For gracious sake, mind, Miss Mansel. We are rolling frightfully. Hold on like grim death till I get at you." Hot my Christ only—He is oars. Humanity's olose bond. Key to its vast, unopened powers. Dream of oar dreams beyond. What yet ws shall be none can tell. Nur are we His, and all is well. —Lucy Laroook It touched the spirit and memory of old times in this jolly, red faced gen tleman to talk thus. It was like conveying. It was like taking possession of a prise. His wide, crimson face beamed with cordial enjoyment asMr.Matthews, soberly touching his cap, answered, "Aye, aye, sir." "You'll have to come to it," said TroUope, grim with cooviction and tornpat barely kept under. "If there's to Jm no oonfldenoa whatever, the sooner yn tun this ship ashore yonder the better, ftor then every man can take his whack and go into » corner of the island, with his loaded revolver upon his pile, and starve while be waits for oomething to turn up and be found years banco fey whalemen, skeletons of men bugging mound* of earth." -'See here," exclaimed Daren ire, holding himself erect, expanding bis vast ebeat and starting with a declamatory Mff "it's quite certain that we ddaljnoseaa the confidence in one anptbe* which TroUope would excite. We ptiftbf tP 1° whore upon that island. It $a WOPderfnlly fine weather, but this is the sea, gentlemen. If we are to keep tba sat in this ship, cruising for a fortnight, aoording to TroUope V, programme, I should like to know that my share is safe ashore, preserved from all peril, easily accessible and visitable. But I want to see the island, and the «kole at you, I have no doubt, wish also to see it How is that to be contrived ooaaMeatly with flattering opinion we entertain of one another? Well," ■aid be, with a glanoe at the green spot "Yes, I see her, sir," exclaimed the commander, not waiting to be addressed. He made a bolt for the oompanion and cleverly grasped it He was safe in the embrace of that cover and took the long brass telescope oft the brackets to view the distant sail. The Reason Why. Brougham and Bu. i*m. He sunk down the steps, and, clasping the young lady firmly around the waist, half carried her to the top of the ladder, where they stood together, be bolstering and shoring her up most affectionately while she looked at the bark, but not with the glass, for that was beyond ber. The sea admits of situations which the laud provides no apologies for. Her robe still consisted of her dressing gown, ber hat of the white cap of sailcloth. ▲ lady happened to remark to an athletic friend that it was very strange that most of the bad bicycling accidents seemed to happen to women—and could be acoonnt for it—were they more "foolhardyf" "Not at all." he replied. "The real reason is, I think, that woman cannot judge distances. Now, from hia earliest youth np a boy ia trained through bis games to aooarately measure yards and feet Too will see a woman rash in between two carts where a man ooold tell you to a certainty that it would be impossible to avoid an accident It is Jost the want of a trained eye that does the mischief."—Philadelphia Ledger. John Brougham in the old dnys published In New York a oomic paper which beoalled The Lantern. William E. Burton was no friend to Brougham at that time, and there is reason to believe that no love was wasted on either side. Brougham, on entering a restaurant one day, found Barton with one of his chums seated at a table. Burton, as usual, was "fatigued." Observing Brougham's presence, Burton roughly replied to bis companion's question, '"Have yon read The Lantern this weekf" by saying, "No, I never read the thing unless I'm drunk—unless I'm drank—unless I'm drunk!" Brougham immediately arose from his table, advanced, hat in hand, to the end of Burton's table, and making a bow In bis most polite manner observed, "Then, Mr. Burton, I'm sure of one constant reader!"—New York Mall and Express. No seaman was ever more expert in the art of the glass than fioldock, but *0 wild was the rolling of the brig, so treacherously swift the antics of the distant sail, that many minutes passed before the commarder pinned her. He then correctly judged that she was a vessel in distress, first by the circumstance of bet having lost her fore topgallant mast, rext by her showing not a rag of cloth save a fore topmast staysail, which looked to be very ill set She was a bark, and Boldock thought he saw a spot of oolor at ber gaff end. But she was then four or five miles off, and her figure was lost in the shadow oast by the clouds which hnng over her. The Queen's boat was lowered without difficulty over the brig's side. The five seamen entered ber. Mr. Matthews, bareheaded, Bhook hands with Commander Boldock, looking as he did so at Miss Mansel. The young lady said, "May I go on board with Mr. Matthews?""Our meeting with the bark is the most extraordinary encounter in the history of the world," said Boldock. "But, though she bad ten times the value of the stolen gold safely stowed away in her now, I should still regret our having fallen in with her." POLITICAL QUIPS. "I will, with your permission, when this swell slackens, put you on board myself," answered the oommander in his lamenting way. The first duty of u politician is to roaka himself solid with the incoming administration York Press. The truth is the dressmaker forward had proved a failure. "His fits would give any woman fits," Boldock said, bursting into a loud laugh when Mis* Mansel, attired like a windsaii, arms crooked out with tightness aud without a waist, stepped from her eabin. "He shall be sent to Paris. The French lore originality in cut. The dressmaker of the Wellesley will charm them." So the young lady was to stiok to her dressing gown, thongh she contrived some underclothing for herself out of the seaman's misfits. The man was greatly mortified by his failure and was much laughed at iorward. He was unusually profane for two days and was heard to say, with several imprecations in tbe old style, that "if ever he was mnuht enttiiur out lor another woman. Before March 4: Wonted—A cabinet position. After March 4: Wanted—Any kind of position.—Washington Capital. Bhe bowed and slightly colored. Probably the trifling flush was excited by the expression on Mr. Matthews' face as he turned and walked to the gangway. He got into the boat without difficulty, and, gaining the ship's side, sprang into Ibe m&in chains and gained the bark's deck He ordered tbe men to hook the boat on and hoist her at once. She was now their only boat and incalculably valuable, therefore. "But why?" inquired Miss Mansel archly, and her eyes, catching the hectic of sunset lingering upon tbe skylight and dyeing the flashes of tbe swinging lamp, looked unusually bright and vivacious.It is projiosed to increase the salaries of congressmen. What the most of oongress niun noed is an Increase of work.—Baltimore Herald. The common oocklebar of the country is simply the seed case of a plant Its thorny hooks give it a bold apon far or wool bearing animals or npon the clothes of men, and thai cause it to be transported to considerable distances. Wben a roan's collar gets unbuttoned In ohnrokand begins to climb the back of his neok, he might as well get up and go out —the sermon will not do him muoh good. "Is she not going to remove you from this brig?" said tbe commander tenderly, but with the tenderness that breathes in the lowing of a calf. Tho house at Washington should not have abolished the saloon at Its end of tba capitol unless it is prepared to justify the public expectation of improved statesmanship which that act has awakened.—Kansus City ritnr. "See what you can make of her, Mr. Hardy," wid the commander. Every arm except TroUope't was lifted. The quaint sea dandy, with his leer and his shoes and bows, made a plunge ing naked aloft Denuded of the beauty of her wings, her fore topmast showing like a stump, she looked strangely as ■be lay at the bight of her cable, rolling monotonously on the swell of the sea. Trollope watched the men furling the mainsail and desperately feared them, knw thai a multitude of nnuaasla The young lady did not seem to hear. LoaSss Bridge. Louis V was the Idle on aocoant of bis laslness.  for the companion cover and swung into it as the commander swung out. He peered and peered. While he looked the sun shone a little brightly and lighted 'up the ooean in the direction of the bark. Mr. Hardy wootinned to Ease; "Miss Mansel—but rather let mo call you Margaret," said Boldock, taking hold of his ooat with both hands as from some half conscious desire to gird himself tightly for a business that was growing heroic, "I'm a jplain sailor. London bridge is constructed at granite and ia considered among the finest specimens at bridge architecture. The present structure was oommenoed in 1834 and completed in seven years, at a oost at over £860,000. "Have they taken the gold?" he said to William, who with Harry stood by *n rnnnivn him. It is not generally known that tM magician who diod rjoontly was not the original "Herriuunn the Great" That title was Isppliod to tiie man who brought him to this country about 35 years ago. Dobson—Do you believe in second sight? Hobson—No, but my wife does. When I go shopping with her, she always says to the salesman, "I'll oome in and look a* these again."—Pearson's Weekly. Second Sight. "Every ounce of it, sir." "What have they done with itf* "Took it MhoKt sir."