Pittston Gazette

              I j5 V" EL-' W K Htnbliwhfil 1H50. i ± OL. XL.VIII No. 13 I Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEHBER 19, 1897. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. j #1.00 per Y« »r j in Adva: ce* Kordi of Wisdom. have been administered by the prisoner at the lDar?" room was so uiiprepare* 1! ' was tno remark with which he was greeted by. the young lady as she rose to receive him. in furs, who came all tho way from London?" swered 111 a happier voice. The oppression upon his soul seemed less heavy as she nestled close in his arms. i HE BIBLE ORCHARD lot or, better take tba rom ' roMTe(l 1,1 lhilt way 1 saui to myscii tunt cles speaks uhen it says: "As the apple tree amoDg the trees of the wood, so is ray beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." And there it may be found thnt today we learned the danger of hankering after one thing more, and that religion is a luxury, and that there is a divine antidote for all poisons, and that we had created in us an appetite for heaven, and that it was a wholesome and saving thing for us to have discoursed on the pomology of the Bible or God among the orchards "Pray, what do you mean by 'respectability? Iri it wiwlom or worth, sir, or rank or ireiitilityt"Yes, tho very same person. You will recollect that sho engaged a suit of rooms in the Buckingham and hired a victoria and pair during her stay in the led tiy the fruit •' 'hat no tree. somewhere. somehow, would be provided an antidote for 1 said Where is r.he other hey I "Why do yon think it is improbable?" "It is not" "Why need yon be sorry at all, May? I was quite as comfortable jus I always am, thauks to yon." IV DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON ON THE But I turn from Adam's orchard to r that one thing mure Is it rough sound sense or a manner refined ? Is it kiudi;Dws of hi'iirt or expansion of mind? Is it ltmrmnK or talent or honor or fame That you mean by that phrase, so expressive to name?" "Because the deceased lady exhibited distinct symptoms of poisoning, while the drug of which I speak gives rise to none." "Now, Ned, you are quite sure that Bruce will come to no harm from this experiment?" FRUITS OF PARADISE •chard VS ifh his own hand It) PUIMII he writes, '1 mado nic gardens and orchards." Sot depending on the natural tr-'c that will iir.iln the wnrk of that tree? Where is t ho other orchard that will repair "So I have told her," broke in the old gentleman without raising his eyes from the letter which he held in his hand, "but like every other dear little housewife she is never satisfied unless her department rolls on with the unswerving regularity of the solar system. The maids forgot to give yon a pillow, or something of that sort, and May has done little else but worry over the omission sinee she came to breakfast I fear she worries herself about other folks far more than sho does about her old father," he said, with a sly look at his daughter. city." The First Orchard IDe»cribeCl In All Its iiill of rain, ho !4DCrated those orchards. Pieces of Hie aqueduct 'hat watered those hC- damage received in the first orchard?'' Vnd J lead on until I found the orchard "No, no—them) are not, sir, the things now in vogue. "Is the court, then, to understand," asked the lord advocate in an incredulous tone, "that there exists a drug, known only to yourself, which is fatally poisouous, which sets up no physical symptom and which leaves no post mortem trace within the body?" "Of course I recollect her p"rfectly because she was your only {Datient when "Believe me, dear, when I tell yon that I am certain of it." Beauty and Perfection—The Lesson of A 'respectable man,' sir, may be a great rogue. A 'respectable person' may be a gri-at fool. Have lest even the little he picked up at school. Be a glutton, adulterer, deep drowned in debt, May forfeit his honor, his best friend forget. May be a base sycophant, tyrant or knave, Convinced by her husband1 s assurance, Mrs. Gardner flung open the library window and called in a low voice: "Bruce, come hero, Bruce. Ned, I'm afraid somebody must havo locked him iu the stable, and it's snch a cold, dark Its Creation Before the Kifih auCl Birds. gardens I have seen, and the reservoirs are as perfect as when thousands of years ago the mason s trowel smoothed tho mortar over their yruy surfaces No orchard of olden or modern time, probably, ever had its thirst so well slaked The largest of these reservoirs is 582 feet long, 207 feet wide and 60 feet deep These reservoirs Solomon refers to when he says, "1 made and Its ci titer tree tis mighty lor cure as this one hart Ijeen for ruin, and its the-one tree in Adam s orchard had its branches laden with the red fruit of carnage, and the pule fruit of suffering, and the spotted fruit of decay, nnd the bitter fruit of disappointment 1 found in Pilate s orchard a tree which, though stripped of all its leaves and struck through by an Iron bolt as ions ;i- your arm, nevertheless bore the richest fruit that was ever gathered. Like the trees of the first orchard, this was planted, blossomed and bore fruit all in one day Paul was impulsive and vehement of nature, and he laid hold of that tree with both arms and shook it till the ground all round looked like an orchard the morning after an autumnal equinox and careful lest he step on some of the fruit, gathered up a basketful of it for the Gaiat.ians. crying out, "The fruit of the spirit is love. joy. peace, long suffering gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.' The other two trees of Pilate s orchard were loaded, the one with the hard fruits of obduracy and the other with the tct«der fruit of repentance, but tho center tree—how will 1 ever forget the day 1 sat on the exact place where it was plantedD —the center tree of that orchard yields tho antidote for the poisoned nationsSolomon's Orchards and Gardens. [Copyright. 1897. by American Press Asso- ciation.] WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. —Dr. Talmage Amis the divine hand in all tho dominions of the natural world, and this sermon presents religion in its most radiant attractiveness. Tho test is Genesis 1, 11, "The fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind." But a livery servant, at least, he must havo. In vice he may vie with vilest of sinners. JOHNSON'S BOSWELL. But he must keep a cook and give capital din ners." —Burton's Cycloptpdia of Wit and Humor. "Yes, th$t is my meaning exactly," mswered the witness. " "Come in. Mar, and I will Rodown," said flu; doctor, rising from his chair at the fireplace and joining his wife at the window. "Oh, never mind, dear; it's only a few stops." With a wife's loving The Alleged Original Source of Our "And nmv Or what is the. uame of this mysterious drug?" =T„y. mo pools Cjt water, to water therewith tho wood that bringeth fgrth trees.' Solomon useCl to rido out to that orchard before breakfast. It gave him an api**tito anil something to think, about all the day Josephus, the historian, represents him us going out "early in the morning from Jerusalem to the famed nx ks of tetam.a fertile region, delightful with paradises and running fairings. Thither tho king, in robes of white, rode in his chariot escorted by a troop of mounted archers chosen for their youth and stature and clad in Tyrian purple, whoso long hair, powdered with gold dust., sparkled in the sun. " Knowledge of English Literature. ' A COMING POSSIBILITY. "Stoft in heaven's name!" exclaimed the judge, with a sudden emphasis which made every one start in his seat. When the full import of the question fell upon tho people, every face grow pale and every knee trembled at the awful solomnity of the moment It Is Wednesday morning In paradise. The birds did not sing their opening pieco nor the flsh take their first swim until the following Friday The solar and lunar lights did not break throu«h the thick chaotic fog of the world's manufacture until Thursday Before that there was light, but it was electric light or phosphorescent light, not the liprht of sun or moon. But the botanical and pomologleal productions came on Wednesday—first the flowers and then the fruits The veil of fog is lifted and there stand the orchards Watch the sudden maturity of the fruit In our time pear trees must huve two years before they bear fruit, and peach trees three years, and apple trees five years, but hero instantly a complete orchard springs into life, all tho branches bearing fruit The Inscctile forces, which have been doing their worst to destroy the fruits for t5.000 years, had not yet begun their invasion The curculio had not yet stueg the plum, nor the caterpillar hurt the apple,nor had the phylloxera plague, which lias devastated the vineyards of America and Franco, assailed tho grapes. nor the lDorcr jierforated the wood, nor tho aphides ruined the cherry, nor the grub punctured tho nectarine, nor tho blight struck the pear There stood tho first orchard, with a perfection of rind, and an exquisite ncm of color, and a lusclousness of tast«, and an affluence of production which It may take thousands of vears more of study of the science of fruits to reproduce To some of us—I suspect, indeed, to a good many—Boswell represents the original source not only of knowledge about Johnson, but of onr knowledge of English literature in general. He was our introducer to the great anonymous club formed by English men of letters from the days when Shakespeare met Ben Jonson to the days when Carlyle discoursed to Fronde. We became mem' bers of the craft in spirit tinder Boswell's guidance, whether we have or have not become actually identified with it in the flesh. It therefore becomes next to impossible to abstract from Boswell—all our later knowledge has been more or less ingrafted upon him, however far we may have traveled from the source. Boswell gave the nucleus, and more or less consciously we have used his world as a standard inevitably taken into account in all later judgments. To suppose Boswell nonexistent is for such readers to suppose a kind of organic change in our whole estimate of literary characteristics. "Well, I assure yon, May, that I did not notice the omission," said his assistant.i are her lingers were busily turning up his coat collar to protect him from the chill night air. "That will do, thank By GREG EDWARDS. [Copyright, 1S37. by the Author.] CHAPTER L "Of course you didn't Don't trou! ble about it just now," interrupted the 'old scientist impatiently. "Come and uio with this correspondence. Bah!" bo exclaimed, dropping a letter from his fingers as if it had burned them. "If you find in that bundle any more such atrocities as these, throw them into the fire." you "Oh, but \sait a moment, Ned, until I get a lamp to light you dowu. Tho -tairs are so steep. Now, please, dou't "My lord," said the counsel in » voice, raising his blanched face u "Deadt" One might truly say that never was witnessed snch a scene of tumult and confusion within the walls of the old parliament house in Edinburgh as upon the second day of the C ruikshankjxiieoningcaso. Of the passages oojivungtSl; to the high court of f 'rt* n hand's breadth of pavement was to be seen, nothing save the heads of an eager, panting, struggling multitude. Here and there in a common epidemic of bat! temper, fashionable bonnets fluttered and tossed and jostled each other; in the outskirts of the crush anxious young wigs hovered about in vain attempts to save the fashionable bonnets from ill treatment, while above all rose the clamor of mingled shouts, imprecations, train pi ings and pushiugs. yon made that lucky stroke in shares or something of that kind. Was she not?" l««ik«-C1 at tho judge, "had I but ror a moment realized the gravity of the question it would never have been uttered."move." His face slowly disappeared behind an eclipsing movement of the paper, and when he spoke his voice sounded hollow and faint. Dr. (Gardner stepped out upon the terrace and stamped his feet upon the flagged pavement until his wife returned, ■iad then, while she held up the light he carefully felt h*e \aay down the streaky path thrown along the precipitons staircase which led into the garden. In a few seconds there came a soft footed rash along tho gravel, aud a large staghound bounded up to the winlow and thrust his nose into the hand Df his mistress with a joyful caress. After Solomon had taken his morning ride in these luxuriant ore hards he would sit down and write those wonderful things in the Bible, drawing his illustrations from the fruits he had that very morning plucked or ridden under, and wishing to praise the coming Christ be says. "As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved ' And wishing to describe tho love of the church for her Lord, he "What a terrible world tWswould be if your secret had been divulged in open court, Dr. Campbell," said the seedy young man to his friend and benefactor, when they had left the courts of justice and were directing their steps homeward. Thus requested. Dr. Gardner drew the pile of letters near his plate and began his examination of them. "I see that you have not forgotten the lady, but you will bo surprised to hear that she is dead.'' "Dead?" "Oh, sir, what a princely offer,'' he said suddenly in a tone of astonishment. "Yes, not only dead, bnt murdere-l in tho most atrocious way," he said, with a solemn, awestruck expression. There U in old England the hollow of a tree where a king hid, and there is in New England a tree in which a document of national importance was kept inviolate, and there have been trees of great girth and immense shade and vast wealth of fruitage, but no other tree had such value of reminiscence or depth of root or spread oi branch or infinitude of fruitage as the center tree of Pilate's orchard. Before 1 pass this day from under it I would like to drop on both knees, and. with both hands outspread and uplifted toward the heavens, cry out with all tho nations of earth and heaven "1 believe in God, the Father Almighty. Maker of heaven and earth, and in .lesus Christ, his only Bon, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Alary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried. He descended into hell. The third day he rose from the dead He ascended into heaven, and sitti-th on the right hand of God the Father Almighty From thence he shall come to judge the quick and tJie dead.' "What is it? Another of the same sort?" asked Campbell,-with his face darkening, while his assistant devoured the contents of the letter. writes, Comfort mo with apples, for i am sick of love, and de-siring to make reference to the white hair of the octogenarian, and just before havinn notieeCl that the blossoms of the almond tree were white, he says of the aged man, "The almond tree shall flourish The walnuts and the pomegranates and the mandrakes and the llgs mako Solomon s writings a divinely arranged fruit basket. "That it would, Gardner. No one would bo safe. The crimes of the Borgias would sink into oblivion and become trivial in comparison with the deeds which might be if the world ouce had the drug in its power." "Mnr-der-ed? How awful!" exclaimed Mrs. Gardner in a horrified tone. "Now, May, will you please hold his bead and try to keep him as quiet as pot sible while I pour the medicine down lis throat?" said the doctor, approachiug with a small vial iu his hand. "Yes, I suppose it is. An anonymous correspondent, who will meet you by appointment, offers £1,000 for one dose of the drug mentioned by you in your evidence yesterday, and"— "Yes, Isn't it terrible? It happ"nodin Florence, and her husband, who is an elderly man, was arrested upon suspicion and afterward discharged. It appears that he doted upon her, and that, he is now prostrate and nearly heartbroken. Besides, it's stated that the lady had a lover; but., luckily for him, he was in Paris when the crime was committed. These continental newtnnongt rs are never satisfied unless they can attach a romance to every eritne. and most probably the assertion telegraphed by this Italian correspondent that an examination of her letters has revealed a long course of intrigue and unfaithfulness is simply fabricated to gratify the public. It's appalling to think that the poor creature was in the house so recently and now to be hacked and mutilated by a friend." When reading, especially about some of the other famous talkers, Coleridge's monologues or Sydney Smith's explosions of fun, 1 find myself thinking how they wonld have sounded at the Miter or the Turk's Head. Thanks to Boswell, 1 take the Johnsonian article to be a fixed datum like tlie official yard at the Tower, and to be asked to put that out of my head is to be invited to deprive myself of my only measuring rod. It ia exceedingly difficult, at any rate, to put oneself outside of Boswell and to construe a portrait of Johnson simply out of such other materials as are here put together "It's positively illegal—a shocking breach of rules—absolute contempt of court I" • gasped Mr. Salomon, dean of faculty, as he was shot into jail with his wig in one hand and a crashed bundle of brieis in the other. "Do something, usher. Don't stand gaping in that helpless way. Clear the corridors and stop that row!" he cried angrily, as ho proceeded to adjust tho disorder of his apparel. "But the poison would soon find its antidote if it ever became known to scientists?" hazarded Gardner. "Be careful, Ned. You've spilt some if it over ray fingi rs. There, that will lo. (rfvxl old Bruce. Was it awfully nasty? Ho doesn't seem to like it, and, ih. Ned, my fingers are burning. See how red they are. Is it a caustic medi■ine? Why. look how sulky Bruce looks. He knows as well as you do that wo have played a trick upon him." "Tear it up. Stamp on it!" cried tho old gentleman vehemently. "Whatwould be the use of searching for an antidote at all if the administration of tho poison is followed by no symptom? Its criminal employment would not bo suspected. People would -leave the world as silently and mysteriously as a breath of wind, and no one would lie any the wiser. No, no. Never mind the antidote. If the poison should ever become publicly known, search for its pathological signs, find out its effect upon the system, and then the drug will become too dangerous a weapon to be handled by criminals." Presently tho old doctor continued: "Yon must help mo to destroy it this very evening. I shall not feel safe until I have got rid of the small quantity which I have in the house and placed it out of everybody's reach. Come to the library after dinner, Ed\?&rd, and give me your assistance. '' "Evidently a woman's handwriting," proceeded Gardner meditatively. What mean Solomon sorchards and Solomon's gardens, for they seem to mingle, the two into one. flowers underfoot and pomegranates overhead? To me they suggest that religion Is a luxury All along the world has looked upon religion chiefly as a dire necessity—a lifeboat from the shipwreck, a ladder from the conflagration. a soft landing place after we have ta-cn shoved oft the precipice of this planet As a consequence so many have said, "Wo will await preparation for the future until the crash of the shipwreck, until the conflagration is iu full blaze, until we reach the brink of the precipice." No doubt religion is inexpressibly important for the last exigency Hut what do the apples and the figs and the melons and the pomegranates and the pitron and the olives of Solomon s orchard mean? Luxury They mean that our religion is the luscious, the aromatic, the pungent, the arborescent, the efflorescent, the foliaged, the umbrageous They mean what Edward I'ayson meant when he declared. "If my happiness continues to increase. 1 cannot support it much longer. " It means what Bapa Padmanji, a Hindoo convert, meant when he said, "I long for my bed, not that 1 may sleep—I lie awnbe often and long—but to hold communion with Religion a Lnxury. "Tear it up! Throw it into the fire, man! Don't handle it! It comes from perdition!" cried his friend, with increasing violent®, and the young man, slowly loosening his grasp, dropped tho letter upon the floor. The Fmlt Diet. Why was the orchard created two days before the fish and birds and three days before the cattlc? Among other tilings, to impress the \vorld with a lesson it is too stupid to learn—that fruit diet is healthier than meat diet, and that the former must precede the latter The reason there are in the world so many of the tmbmted and sensual Is that they have not improved by the murhty. unnoticed fact that the orchards of paradise preceded the herds and sviaries mid fish ponds Oh. those fruit beanuti trees on the banks of the Euphrates. and the Gihou. anu the Hiddekell I wonder not thut the am lent Komans. ignorant of our God. adored Pomona, the goddess of fruits and that all the sylvan deities were said to worship her, and that groves were set apart as her temples You hnve thanked God for bread a thousand times Have you thanked him for the fruits which he made the lirst courso of fooii In the mcr.u of the world's tablC— the aeids of those fruits to keep the worla s table from being insipid, and their sweets to keep It from being too sour? "He'll g"t. over it presently, dear Thus bidden, the functionary addressed mounted a bench and called for order and silence, with as much authority as a feeble presence and a feebler voice oould command and with as little resalt as might have been expected of one so endowed, whereupon another individual, of hybrid appearance suggestive of both beadle and waiter, sprang to a similar point of vantage and lustily lent his aid. Giv him a lump CDf t«unar, and then we'll tnrii him onfc He'll lie all right wirh his friend Tabby." After a sharp pause, during which Dr. Campbell dablied his forehead in an attempt to regain his composure, Edward observed in a quiet tone: "But I thought; lidward, that you wished to obs-erce the effect of the drug upon him," mildly remonstrated Mrs. St. John's Orchard. 1 have read Hawkins and Mrs. Piozzi and the rest, but always with the help of the preconceived notions. Where they could be fitted into Boswell 1 have accepted them as corroborations, but when they differed 1 have probably rejected the uncongenial elements with perhaps a careless assumption that they must be inaccurate, and yet it seems only justice to these respectable persons to consider whether we ought not to reopen the point. If Mme. D'Arblay saw something of Johnson which was not revealed to Boswell, may we not discover similar supplementary hints in the other attempts at portraiture?—Leslie "The whole bundle will no doubt consist of the luue kind of correspondence, bo I will just take them to the library and destroy them." Now in this discourse of the pomology of the Bible, or God aiuid the orchards, having shown you Adam's orchard and Solomon's orchard and Pilate's orchard, 1 now take you into tit. John's orchard, aud 1 will stop there, for. having seen that, you will want to seo nothing more. St John himself, having seen that orchard, discharge^a whole volley of Cornel Cornel Cornel and then pronounced the benediction "The grace of our Lord Jesus Chri6t be with you all. Amen. Then the ban ished evangelist closes the book, and the Bible is done The dear old book opened with Adam s orchard and closes with St John s orchard. St John went into this orchard through a stone gate, the black basalt of the isle of Patmos, to which he had been exiled. That orchard which he saw was and is in heaven. (iardner "Not till tomorrow, my dear." "Oh, Ned, please stop! The thing's quite dreadful enough without all that," implored Mrs. Gardner. Her appeal seemed to have fallen unnoticed, for his gaze remained alisently upon the page, and his lips moved slowly in unconscious soliloquy. "Well, you know best. I suppose," inswerod the lady in a tone of languid "Yes, do so, please. But, pray, finish your breakfast first of all," replied the old gentleman, rising from the table and walking out of the room. For some minutes they were both sitent aud thoughtful, she reclining upon a couch, her head pillowed upon her hands, and one unslipjiered foot carelessly tapping the fender; he in an attitude of studied repose which could uut hide the symptoms of suspense and Miguish, the drawn fade alarming in its whiteness, the unceasing twitching of its muscles, the uneased restlessness of" liis limbs, which no mental effort could control. interest. "Stan back, ma'am! Don't shove, ladies! Ye won't get in any sooner by shovin!" "Let me in, then!" screamed a thin lady, waving aloft a bag of sandwiches. "Where's yer ticket?" roared Hybrid. "I haven't got one—didn't know they were necessary." CHAPTER IH. "Very well; I shall do so," responded Dr. Gardner as they stopped at their own residence in 6 Catharine square. Seven your* have rolled by since tho eventful scene at court in which Dr. Angus Campbell figured so prominently. Many changes have taken place at 6 Catharine square within that time, not the least being the death, four years ago, of the distinguished old scientist, who left behind him the memory of a great name and a small fortune, bequeathed to his only daughter. That lady, promoted to the rank of wife, now occupies her post at the head of the ta- "The thought of it curdles one's blood. I never open the morning papers without receiving a shock from some story of crime. Hero's another hideous murder in London, published today, and heaven only knows when that series will end and when the criminal will be disoovered! Strange how all the London cases, as well as this one in Florence, resemble each other, as if they had been similarly planned, as if—as if they had all originated in a like mysterious impulse.'' "Well, get out and don't block tho door, woman!" CHAPTER II At this autumnal season how the orchards breatheatid glow. the leaves removed that the crimson or pink or saffron or the yellow or brown may the better appear. while tho aroiuatics fill the air with invitation and reminiscence A.1- you pass through the orchard on these autumnal days and look up through the arms of tho trees laden with fruit you lienr thumping on the ground that which is fully ripe, and throwing your arms around the trunk you give a shake thatsendsdown a shower of gold aud tire oil all sides of you Pile up in txislccts and Itarrels and bins and on shelves and tables the divine supply Hut these orchards have been under the ussault of at least So centuries—the storm, the droughts, the winters, the lnseetivora What must the first orchard have been? And yet it is the explorer s evidence that ou the site of that orchard there is.not an apricot, or an auple. or an olive—nothing but desert and desolation There is not enough to forage the explorer s horse, much less to teed his own hunger In other words, that first orchard is a lost orchard How did the proprietor and the proprietress of all that intereolumniation of fruitage let the rich splendor slip their possession? It was. as now. most of the orchards are lost —namely, by wanting more Access t-hey had to ail the Ug trees, apricots, walnuts, almotids-apples—bushels on bushels—and were forbidden the use of only one tree in the orchard Not satisfied with all but one, they reached for that and lost the whole orchard Uo right down through the business marts of the great cities and find among the weighers and clerks and subordinates men who once commanded the commercial world They tuul a whole orchard of successes, but they wanted just one more thing, one more house, or one more country seat, or one more 6tore, or one more railroad, or one more million. When Edward Gardner found himself in his own room upon that same night, ho was moved to great stealthiness and caution in his behavior, for he not only tiptoed about in his stockings, but also, before closing the door and scrutinizing its fastenings, stepped back into the corridor and listened in the stooping attitude of st ill attention, until tho throbbing of his temples was distinctly audible in his ears. Hi v tiod Stephen in National Review. "I'm no woman; I'm Dr. Simpson's wifa" It means what the old colored man said when he was accosted by the colporteur. Presently ho r.skcd, "May, why do you look at me so strangely?" "I didn't." she replied shortly withDut raising her eyes. One person will err in speaking of heaven as all material and another person describes heaven as all figurative and spiritual. and both are wron« Heaven is both material and spiritual, as we are both material and spiritual While much of the Bibic account of heaven is to be taken figuratively and spiritually, it is plain to me that heaven has also a material existence Christ said. "1 go to prepare a place for you Is not a place material? God, who has done all the world building, the statistics *Df stars so vast as to be a bewilicirncnt to telescopes, could have somewhere in his astronomy piled up a tremendous world to make tho Bible heaven true both as a material splendor and a spiritual domain. I do not believe God put all the flowers, and all the precious stones, and all the bright metals, and all the music, and all the fountains, and all the orchards in this little world of ours. How much was literal and how much was figurative I cannot say. But St. John saw two rows of trees on each side of a river, and It differed from other orchards in the fact that the trees bore 12 manner of fruits. The learned translators of our common Bible say it mtans 12 different kinds of fruits In one year Albert Barnes says it means 12 crops of the same ki«d of fruit In one year -Not able to decide which is the more accurate translation, I adopt both. If it mean 12 different kinds of fruit, it declares variety in heavenly joy. If it mean 12 crops of the same kind of fruit, it declares abundance tu heavenly joy, and they are both true Professor Crookes, in his recent remarkable lecture on diamonds, mentioned some interesting facts concerning that always popular subject. When in examining diamonds under polarized light the black cross of the polarizer revolves around a particular spot in the inside of the crystal and the point is examined with a high power, a slight flaw and more rarely a minute cavity are sometimes seen. This cavity is filled with gas at an enormous pressure, and the strain which is set up in the stone by the effort of the gas to escape is not infrequently removed only by the explosion of the gem It is not at all uncommon "Let her in and have done with it!" oame an impatient chorus from the mob. "Hang Dr. Simpson! Stan back." "T'ncle Jack, how are you!"' -I is very painful in my knee. but. thank my heavenly Master. 1 m cause to be thankful My good Master just gib mo nuf to make me humble "And do you enjoy religion as much now. Uncle .lack, as when you could go to church and class meetings?' "Confound ye! Come in, then." And, with the united efforts of Hybrid and usher, Mrs. Simpson was successfully extracted and smilingly landed in court. "Oh. but you did, my dear, and almost furtively." ble, while lier husband, Dr. Edward Gardner, sits opposite to her, dividing his attention between the morning papers and the meal set before him. * "Edward, please lay down that paper instantly," interposed his wife sharply. "Do you know, dear," she added more tenderly, "that your forehead is beaded with perspiration and your face um pale as if yon were going to faint?" "You are dreaming, sir," was tho "I say, usher," began a calm individual who had gained an easy admittance through a side door, "what's the meaning of all this commotion?" calm answer. "Yes, 1 joys him more. Den 1 truss to de people, to de meetings, to de sarment, and when 1 hear de hymn sing and de pray 1 feels glad Hut all dis ain't like dt good Lord in de heart, God s love here.' It means sunrise instead of sundown It means the Memnon statue made to sing at the stroke of the morning light It means Christ at the wedding in Cana It means the "timeof the singing of bints is come.' It means Jeremiah s "well watered garden It means David s "oilof gladness.' It means Isaiah's "bride and bridegroom " It means Luke's bad boy come home to his lather's house. Worldly joy killed IjCO X when he heard that Milan was captured Talva died of joy when the Roman senate honored him Diagora died of joy because his three sons were crowned at theOlympian games Sophocles died of joy over his literary successes. And religious joy has been too much for many a Christian and his *Cui has sped away on tbo wing of hosaunas Having secured himself against the possibility of sudden interruption, be took off his coat with a careful and deliberate movement, and then drew from its outer breast pocket a waterproof bath bag, whence he extracted a dripping sponge. This he squeezed over a glass tumbler, and having smelled and examined with absorbing interest the liquid therein contained he poured it into a pair of glass stoppered vials, which he labeled "Bimeconate of morphia," muttering as he wrote, "As well one name as another." "May, what do yon mean? I never heard you address me iu that way before," exclaimed her husband, with an istouished look of pain. Other changes may be observed in the apartment itself. Instead of the homely, cozy old chairs, the great mahogany chiffonier, always in a high state of polish, the antiquated corner cupboards, resplendent with brass knobs and keyholes, the faded mahogany screens, worked in beads by the late Mrs. Campbell, the portraits of old ladies in frills and huge brooches, of Dr. CamplDell himself, looking into the room with the oounty of Perth behind him, and of his reverend father, bedecked in coils of white tie, with his glasses in one hand and a concordance in the other—instead of all these are seen the modern and costly in art and fashion, luxurious couches and chairs, massive sideboards, heavy velvet curtains, thick carpets, huge canvases, dazzling in the freshness of new paint and framed in all tho gorgeousness that gilt can give for money. "What's that ye're sayin?" "I was asking the meaning of this oommotion." "Quite likely, my dear girl, for I am far from well this morning." feebly rejoined the doctor. With a tender compassion she bent over him, gently wiped his brow with her handkerchief and brushed back his hair with a delicate, smooth touch which only a wife's depth of love £ould inspire. Upon her sweet face dwelt a troubled look of affectionate concern and anxiety; upon his hung a cloud too black and heavy for sun to pierce. For some minutes, during which he seemed almost forgetful of her presence, they remained silent—a silence burdened with dreaded possibilities— and then her lips moved in yearning entreaty."Ned, my darling, what did I say to she asked, immediately passing tier haiid over her eyes and crossing the hearth to wind her arms ntiout him. "Why, why, you said, 'You are ireaming, sir.' Fancy sir to me." "Edward, don't be silly. I think I was dreaming myself." von? "Guid Hakes!" yelled Hybrid excitedly, turning a hot and astonished visage 4t his questioner. "Perhaps ye'd like me to sit down and tell ye a tale. Move out of the way, ye fool, and let them people pose." for a diamond to explode soon after it reaches the surface, and some have been known to burst in the pockets of the turners or when held in the warm hand. Large crystals are more liable to burst than smaller pieces. Valuable stones have been destroyed in this way, and it is whispered that cunning dealers have often done a handsome stroke of business by allowing responsible clients to handle or carry in their warm pockets large crystals fresh from the mine. By way of safeguard against explosion some dealers embed large diamonds in raw potatoes to insure safe transit ou the ocean voyage The maligned man, serenely heedless of this insult to his curiosity, sauntered awy peacefully and buttonholed a less animated person. "I can readily believo it," ho observed in u relieved tone, and then they be- He then seated himself upon the nearest chair, and with his chin resting upon his open palm, his eyes staring before him in vacant abstraction, he became plonged in deep, silent thought. What were Jiis reflections can never be known to mortal being, but of their result upon the physical man the knowledge is certain. came again silent, she resting upon tho side of his chair, and her gaze gradually concentrating uixin a small bracket mirror hanging from the wall. "Can you tell me, sir, the reason for all this excitement?" "The medical witnesses are to bo examined today, and Dr. Angus Campbell will be called to complete his evidence," shouted the gentleman above the uproar. Souk times she smiled at herself in it, at oiher times frowned, and once she tialf closed her eyelids and peered between them at her own reflected image. The Reply of Wellington. "But is that a sufficient reason why the impenetrable granitic Edinburgh should behave liko a volcano?" "Edward, my hnsband"— The caressing cadence in her voice, the uneasy intonation in the words which died upon her lips ere they were fnlly uttered, recalled him to his senses with a sudden start. "May, my darling, your love is becoming painfully intense. If you don't loosen your hold of my neck, I shall bo choked," said the doctor, fondly passing his arm round her waist. "What's :hat?" he exclaimed, suddenly starting to his feet "There's something wrong with Bruce." An old and poor musician played so well one night before his king that the nest morning when the* musician awoke he found his table covered with golden cups and plates and a princely robe lying across the buck of a chair and richly ca pariboned horses were pawing at the door way to take him through the street in imposing equipage It was only a touch ol what cornea to every man who makes the Ijord his portion for he has waiting for him. direct from his king robes. ban quets, chariots mansions triumphs, and it is only a question of time when he shall wear them, driuk them, ride in them. live in them and celebrate them A shudder passed over him, perspiration broke out upon his face, and as a long sigh escaped his lips he passed a wet hand over his brow as if to remove some mental picture which troubled and oppressed him. He had barely done so when a tremor seized upon his limbs itiri utart-.lnrl him artJvifv Vint. K»« aiovements were as uncertain as those of intoxication. He stepped unsteadily forward to possess himself of the vial which stood upon the table, but his hands clutched the air as he fell back in stupor and foraetfulness. '' In—the—nalfce—of — all—that's — reasonable—what—does—this—mean?'' gasped Dr. Gardner when he sat up in bed on the following morning and looked with astonishment round the apartment Upon the carpeted floor lay a portmanteau, ripped open and cut in fantastic curves, the leather hanging from it in strips. In a moment he had bounded from bed and was kneeling upon the floor, gazing in bewilderment at the wreck of his property. Then he hastily stepped across the room to examine the lock of his door. Both it and the window bar were intact Surely he was dreaming, he thought, as he sat upon the edge of the bed to collect his faculties. And then his eyes rested upon the pillow. In every part of the house—which, in fact, is less a house than an "establishment"—us in the room now occupied by the doctor and his wife, reigns the air of wealth and splendor such as would have astonished the lady's father had he lived to witness it But while these changes are of interest as significant of worldly progress we must needs turn aside and direct our attention rather to persons than things. Dr. Gardner himself is at the present moment a person in whose appearance there is something unusual to attract the eye. Professor Orookes showed that a diamond could actually be too hard. From a rich yield of beautifully white diamonds in New South Wales great things were expected. When a parcel of many hundred carats came to England, it was found they were so hard as to be practically unworkable as gems, and they were ultimately sold for rock boring purposes. The intense hardness of the diamond was illustrated by an experiment The diamond was placed on the flattened apex of a conical block of steel, and on it was brought down a second cone of steel. As these cones were forced together by hydraulic power the image of the diamond and the steel faces of the cones were projected on the screen with an electric lantern. The stone was seen to be squeezed right into the steel blocks without being injured in the slightest degree. "Maybe it isn't, but I suppose the real cause lies in that sensational statement of Dr. Campbell's yesterday before the adjournment" Variety? Oh, yes! Not an eternity with nothing but music; that-oratorio would be too protracted. Not an eternity of profession on white horses; that would be too long in the stirrups Not an eternity of watching the river; that would be too much of the picturesque Not an eternity of plucking fruits from the tree of life; that would lie too much of the heavenly orchard But all manner of varieties, and I will tell you of at least 1:2 of those varieties. .Joy of divine worship, joy over the victories of the Ijwnb who was slain, joy over the repentant sinners, joy of recounting our own rescue, joy of embracing old friends, joy at recognition of patriarchs, apostles, evangelists and martyrs; joy of ringing harmonies, joy of reknitting broken friendships, joy at the explanation of Providential mysteries, joy at walking the boulevards of gold, joy at looking at walls green with emerald, and blue with sapphire. and crimson with jaspar, and aflash with amethyst, entered through swinging gates, their posts, their hinges, and their panels of richest pearl; joy that there is to In; no subsidence, no reaction, no terminus to t.he felicity All that makes 12 different joys, 12 manner of fruits So much for variety. But if you take the other interpretation and say it means 12 crops a year, 1 am with you still, for that means abundance That will be the first place we ever got into where there is enough of everything, enough of health, enough of light enough of supernal association, enough of love, enough of knowledge, enough of joy The orchards of this lower world put out all their energies for a few days in autumn, and then, having yielded one crop, their banners of foliage are dropped out of the air and all their beauty is adjourned until the blossoming of the next May timo But 12 crops in the heavenly orchard during that which on earth we call a year mean abundance perpetually "May, my darling, you must not worry so much about me. I shall be quite well after an hour's rest. Leave me to recover myself." "And who, may I ask, is Dr. Campbell?" persisted the stranger tranquilly. For One More Tree, "You had better go down immediately, Edward," suggested Mrs. Gardner jnietly. "Perhaps you have poisoned aim, and then I'll never forgive you." They clutched for that and lost all they had gained tor one more tret; they lost a , whole orchard There are businessmen ! all around us worried nearly to death The doctor tells them they ought to stop | Insomnia or Indigestion or aching at the base ot the brain or ungovernable nerves tell them they ought to stop 'J hey really ; have enough for tin nisei ves and their tam! ilies Talk with them their over win k ami urge more prudence and longer : rest and they say "Yes, you are right After I have accomplished one more thing ; that I have on my mind 1 will hand over 'j my business to my sons and go to Europe 1 and quit the kind of exhausting life I have been living for the last 80 years.' "The greatest living toxicologist," vociferated the other. Slowly she straightened herself np and silently walked to the door. With her hand ujion the knob, she turned to bestow upon him a wafted kiss, but failing to obtain a look she moved away with a sigh and gently closed the door. "Ah, I see. gist?" But what's a toxicolo- Seeing a hesitating reluctance in his manner, she added, "Oh, very well, then, 1 most go myself.'' "A fellow who's well up in poisons and that sort of thing." '' I understand. Y es—and—what was the sensational"— You think A-ligion is a good thing for a funeral Oh, yt-s' But Solomon e orchard means more Religion is a good thing now when you are in health and prosperity and the appetite Is good for citrons ami apples and apricots and pomegran- Then Dr. Gardner was alone with a reproaching conscience and an Almighty Judge, to whom sin is hateful. "How absurdly you are speaking. May. What is the matter with you?" isked the doctor, stopping by tho winlow as if to gain time. That he is the victim of an unsettling mental emotion is evident from the manner in which be stares at the sheet in his hand. The absence of all color in his face, the quivering lip, the dilated nostril, the trembling limbs conveying a rustling sound to the jiaper held in his grasp, are in themselves sufficient testimony to its violence. "Excuse me. I can't shout any more. Bead that and And out for yourself," bellowed his informant as he thrust into his hand a copy of the morning paper and tore himself away, leaving the inquisitive stranger to seat himself next to a young man of professional though shabby and threadbare appearance, who, to judge by his gestures and readiness to volunteer information, might be inferred to be personally interested in tho events of the day. The door had barely been shut when he became immediately seized in the grip of an insupportable agony. The presence of his wife had effectually restrained the outward exhibition of his feelings, but now, in his temporary solitude, he could give them vent and by their omission lighten the load which weighed upon his heart. "I'm anxious about Bruce. Go before lie's killed, if you mean to do so. He'll listurb the neighborhood if he continues to make that noise." a tee vJonip in without. wasting any time in talking about therj anil take the. luxuries of religion Happy yourself, then you can' uiakiD others happy Mitke jtist one person happy every day nuu in 20 Mrs. Gardner undid the flistenings ind let ill a gust of night air laden with i chill mist. i-ome morning you open your paper, and looking at the death column, you lind he suddenly departed this lifo In trying to win just one more tree he lost the whole orchard- years you will have made T.iiOO people happy. I like what Wellington said after *fec buttle of Waterloo and when he was In pursuit of tho French with his advance guard and Colonel Harvey said to hiin, "What is the matter, Ned? Tell me, darling, are you ill?" cried his wife in a frightened voice as she ran to him and fell upon her knees by his cliair. I.ltnbleM Cotton. "Where's tho lamp, dear?" asked her husband when lie had Bteppttd upon the terrace and stcwxl nervously undecided whether to proceed farther or not. Sudleuly he turned to her as if he had in a moment become aware that he was the object of earnest observation upon her [•art and lookC*l in Iter face, which remained calm aud expressionless. Ad interesting sight at Opelika, Ala., is a patch of "limbless" cotton. The plants are from five to seven feet high and have no limbs or branches at all. The bolls form on little twigs two and three inches long, and when in bloom the stalk presents the appearance of a white column A crop of about four bales to the acre is what is expected under fair conditions This Alabama patch is the property of the Rev L N Fitzpatrick, a presiding elder of the negro Methodist church, and such is his care of his unique crop and his confidence in bis neighbors that he watches it at night with a dog and gun.—Exchange. The expression of his secret torment could only be given by tho stifled groan, the grinding teeth, tho clinching list and tho writhing body, for he was apprehensive of being overheard, but still that little relieved tho tension of his sufferings. Yonder is a mnn with many styles of innocent entertainment and amusement Huvtaiks he rides he plays tenpins In private alleys, he has books on his table I ictures on his wall and occasional outings concerts lectures. Imseball tickets iiid the innumerable delight* of friend -hip. hut he wants a key to the place of Uistolwe convocation He wants association with some member of a high family lis reckli-sfi as he Is abluent lie wants, instead 01V quiet Habbath, otieot carousal He wants the stimulus of strong drinks. He wants the permissions of a profligate life The one membership, the one bad habit, the one carousal robs hiiu of all the possibilities and innocent enjoyments and noble inspirations of a lifetime By one mouthful of forbidden fruit he loses a whole orchiird of fruit unforbidden "General, you had better not go any farther, for you "may be shot at by some straggler from the bushes." And Wellington replied- "Let them lire away. The battle is won and r.iy life is of no value now." My friends, we ought never to be reckless, but if. through the pardoning and rescuing grace of Christ, you have gained the victory over sin and death and hell, you need fear nothing on the earth or under the eart h Let all the sharpshooters of perdition blaze away You may rido on in joy triumphant Religion for the funeral. Oh, yest But religion for the wedding breakfast Religion for tho brightest spring morning and autumn's most gorgeous sunset Religion for the day when the stocks are up just as much as when stocks are down Religion when respiration is easy as well as for the last gasp; when the temperature is normal as well as when it reaches 104. It may be a bold thing to say. but 1 risk it, that if all people, without respect to belief or character, at death passed into everlasting happiness religion for this world is such a luxury that no man or woman could afford to do without it Why was It that in the parable of tho prodigal son the finger ring was ordered put upon the returned wanderer's hand before the shoes were ordered for his tired feet? Are not shoos more Important lor our comfort than finger rings? Oh, yest But it was to impress the world with the fact that religion is a luxury as well as a necessity "I'uta ring on his hand and shoes on his feet If in sermonic. or exhortatory. or social recommendations of religion we put the chief emphasis on the fact that for our safety we must have it when the door of the next world is opened, poor human nature will take the risk and Shortly afterward the courtroom became crowded to suffocation with a flushed and disheveled gathering, the tumult suddenly ceased as judge and jury took their places and the prisoners entered tho dock, and tho proceedings began. Her husband's breathing seemed to have stopped for a time, but presently be drew in a prolonged inspiration, as if he would have exhausted the very room, and then with a too apparent effort at composure he asked: "Mercy on me! What has happened to this?" he exclaimed. Within his breast labored a tumult of frightful thoughts, a terrible suspicion which his spirit dared scarce entertain, that cast upon his soul a darkness which felt eternal, a pain which was worse than physical agony, which paled his face and mado his tall figure tremble, which made the mnscles of his hiuids twitch spasmodically until ho would fain have grasped the ornaments upon the mantelshelf, costly as they were, and from slu-er despair crushed them. In his wretchedness all the emblems of his wealth rose up and mocked When the venerable, white haired witness in whom center**! the interest, of the day gravely stepped into the I:ox and rested his hands npon the ledge, the audience rustled in their seats and bent forward in breathless silence lest a word of the evidence should be lost, while the seedy young man, unable to control bis excitement, whispered hurriedly to his neighbor: Also slashed and cut as if by the knife of a frenzied maniac. The whole thing was inexplicable. "Did I startle you, my dear? Upon my word you look quite shaken." "You Purely don't need the lamp igain. Go, and be quick about it, or ilso J shall-consider you a coward." As he teuderly patted her cheek his lips distorted themselves iuto the semblance of a smile—the least fitting expression for his fact) to wear, for every vestige of color had left it. With evident unwillingness ho turned from her, saying: "May, you are laughing at me. My God, what are you doing?" he suddenly screamed. Yonder the door of a press cupboard showed lines of whitewood through the paint. It had lDeeu repeatedly stabbed. Even the soap had not escaped. There it lay upou the wash stand in a heap of thin shaviiiRs. What absurd fit could have induced any one to commit such senseless acts as these? Had the room been entered while he slept? To believe that and explain the locked door and barred window was impossible. Somebody must have experienced a gloating sort of pleasure in cutting the portmanteau. That was evident from the way in which it wsvs done. It was not a simple act of destruction. The curved incisions showed how carefully and deliberately it had been carved, as if the knife had dwelt with a lingering joy over each sweep of its blade. "Tell me, though, dear, what is the matter with you?" persisted his wife. Above the terrified ery of the doctor rose the fierce, snarling growl of tho Kllta. "Nothing but a stitch, May. It bit me terribly sharp right over the heart, but I am quite well now," ho answered, trying to speak cheerfully, though his looks wandered everywhere but to the pure light of his wife's countenance. stagliouml Between 150,000 and 200.000 kilts are made every year The kilted regiments of regulars, militia and volunteers number some 1? battalions. As the military kilt is only provided biennially this represents a supply of 7,000 a year Mrs. Gart-ner stepped back into the library with a short, subdued, tittering laugh and shut out the black night aiul its horror. You see what an expensive thing is sin it cosls a thousand times more than it is worth As some of all kindsof quadrupedand all kindsof winged creatures passed before our progenitor that he might announce a flime, from cagie to but and from lion to mole, so 1 suppose there were in paradise specimens of every kind of fruit tree And in that enormous orchard there was not only enough for the original family of two. but enough fruit fell riiDe to the ground Biid was never picked up to supply whole towns and villages, if they had existed. But the infatuated couple turned away from all these other trees and faced this tree, and fruit of that they will have though it cost them all paradise The Heavenly Orchard. "That's Dr. Campbell; finest man in the kingdom; my greatest friend and benefactor." While thero is enough of tbo pomp of tho city about heaven for those who like the city best, 1 thank God there is enough in tho Bible about country scenery in heaven to please those of us who were born in the country and never got over it. Now you may have streets of gold in heaven. Give me the orchards with 12 manner of fruits and yielding their fruit every month, and the leaves of the trees are for him. Turning to the witness, the lord advocate coinmenoed the day's examination by saying; Presently there fell upon his ears tho sonnd of approaching footsteps, the light, delicate tread of his wife. He was instantly on the alert and making violent efforts to pull himself together. "May," he said, with a show ol "But, Ned, darling, was there—I mean—please don't be vexed with me for asking—was thero nothing in the paper to alarm you?" "It's orful, pos'tiv'ly orful," observed the housekeeper under lier breath as she stood upon the following morning in the center of a group of quaking, terror struck servauts, "and I don't know as 'ow the poor, dear lady can bear it. Nor I don't think she will if ye ask my opinion. She's jist out of one fit and in another, and four doctors with 'er all nioruin." Among the many devices to assist the blind one of the best is a typewriter in which the keys have raised letters and which punctuates the paper with either letters or the dots contained in one of "Before your lordship rose yesterday I had ooccasion to ask witness a question which I desire to put to him again. Dr. Campbell, is there any poison known to the medical profession which is fatal and which leaves no trace of its present after death?'' "Oh, May, how foolish you are!" ho replied, with a laugh which had no mirth in it. "I assure you that thero was absolutely nothing wrong with me but that pain; only, to tell the truth, when it came so instantaneously I was cheerfulness as she entered the room, "I am going to « xj erim-nt with a clu mical in which I am rath« r interested. Will you help mi.?" "the healing of the nations, and there shall bo no more curse, but the throne of God and of the shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him, and they shall see hia fare, and his name shall be in their foreheads, and there shall lDe no night there, and they need no candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God givcth them light and they shall reign forever and ever " But just think of a place so brilliant that the noonday sun shall be removed from the mantle of the sky because it is too feeble a taper Yet mast of all am I impressed with the fact that 1 am not yet lit for that place, nor you either By the reconstructing and sanctifying grace of Christ We need to bo made all over, and let us be getting our passports ready if we want to get into that country An earthly passport is a (tersonal matter, telling our height, our girth, tho color of our hair, our features, our complexion and our age I cannot get into a foreign port on your passport, nor can you get in on mine. 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"As far as I am aware there is no such poison—known—to—the—medical just going to read you a bit of news which, to say the least, is rather dreadful. But go to your seat first. Yes; well, give me another kiss before you go." "Oil. ho; tonight some time." " What is the experiment to I*'. Ned?" "Just to {five L!ruC o a small dose of it. It s tin- ouly way of which I can think to arrive at a definite knowledge of its acti hi and jiropc rties." "But- suj.jXKi it kills the poor dog. " "Noi'anger of that, my 'ear. Certainly your father used to eonsidi r the drug poisonous, but I li»vo long ago discovered that he was mi.taken. " "Will, if you are quite sure I shall not object. But, Ned, dear,'' asked Mrs. Gardner, looking puzaled, "why (his sudden eagerness for scientific re- "When? Now?" " 'Ere'sakeb, Mrs. Ferguson," interposed a domestic who commanded a view of the square. —profeMdon." The EilrDlc Story Kepeated, The answer came slowly and hesitatingly, as if the witness felt a painful reluctance in expressing hia opinion. "Vm tlmf's the other tmr#? Von tend to the door, Mercer, and take 'er to my room," ordered the housekeeper. "Has she been told about him beiu Worried by the dog?" asked Andrews, the butler, crossing his legs to keep them still. "No, it's crooil anuff without tellin 'eranv 'orribleperticklersof that sort." "I suppose it was Bruce who killed the cat. too?" questioned Robert, the This story of Eden is rejected by some or an improbability, if not an impossibil lty, but nothing 011 earth is easier for mo to believe than the truth of this Edcnic story, for I have neon the same thing in this year of our JAird 1897 I could call them by name, if it were politic and right oous to do so. the men who have sacrificed a jwradiseon earth and a jwiradise in tunv en for one sin Their house went Their library went Their good name went Their field of usefulness went. Their health went Their immortal soul went My friends, there is just one sin that will turn you out of paradise if you do not quit it You know what It is, and God knows and you had better drop the hand and arm lifted toward that I lending bough before you pluck yowr own ruin When Adam stood on tiptoe and took in his right hand that one round peach or apricot or apple, satan reached up and pulled down the round, beautiful world of our present residence Overworked artist, overwrought merchant ambitious uolitieian. avaricious "Is there any such drug known to you yourself?" was the next question. A light was thrown across his understanding, for he instantly started-to his feet, and the next moment his nervous fingers were busily playing over the lock of an oaken case whose contents became subjected to an intent and eager scrutiny. A long black handled operating knife appeared to engage his chief attention, for he several times felt its edge, breathed npon it, held it up to the light of day and contrasted its appearance with that of others in the box. Mrs. Gardner slowly roeo to her feet and proceeded to her place at tho table, while the doctor, with his face carefully hidden behind the paper, went on with his remarks. say, "1 will wait until the door begins to open ' Hut show them the radiant truth, that the table of God's love and pardon is now laid with all the fruits which the orchards of God s love and pardon and helpfulness can supply and they will come in and sit down with «fl the other banqueters terrestrial and celestial Oh. fetch en the citrons and the apples and the walnuts and the pomegranates of Solomon s orchard Again the same expression of pain foil upon the countenance of the old scientist as he paused under the searching eye of the counsel and then turned upon the judge a mute appeal for forbearance. But finding neither hope nor mercy upon the stolid fact) before him he answered iB a low voice: "Now, where was I? Ah, yes; I wonder, May, if you would remember that tall woman who came here once or twice about three months ago to consult ine." nilderf, tfitTnnn "Most likely," replied me nouseKeeper. "But the strangest thing of all is jist this. Mrs. Gardner rec'lects nothin of last night and doesn't even know ; when she went to 'er own room. She'll break 'er heart as sure's she lives, and j min' my words. They were too fond of each other for it to last long, and she'll go after 'im. Mark my words. And may the Lord save us all from a crooil "There is." Seeing tlmt her husband's medical visiting list might easily have been written upon one of her own cards, it was highly improbable that Mrs. Gardner would forget such rare incidents in his professional life, so she answered interrogatively : search?" Tlie Orchard of 1'ilate. "Silence!" crifd tho usher as a long drawn breath quivered through the thick atmosphere aud low whisperings ran along the benches. Two hours afterward Dr. Gardner stepped out of his room, lingering for a short space at the door to reassure himself that every trace of disorder had been concealed, and in due time entered the breakfast room, where Dr. Campbell and his daughter already sat. Across his face passed a scarcely jxtceptible movement, as from some dart ing sensation, as he replied: "Simply because I have nothing better to do today and neither health nor inclination for more active employment. You will help me to test the drug, will you not, May?'' Put having introduced you to Adam's orchard and earned you awhile through Hofot i s orchard. I want lo take a walk with rou through Pltate'sorchard of thrve tnrs an a mii Cu roet high, ten mniutcs walk fTom the Kate of Jerusalem signature, written by the wounded hand of the Son of God, to get into the heavenly orchard. under the laden branchesof which in God's good time wo may meet the Adam of the first orchard, and tho Solomon of the second orchard, and the St John of the last orchard, to sit down under tho tree of which the church in tho book of Canti- "In view of the fact that the prisoner has a wide knowledge of scientific questions, is it your opinion that that same ■ahmn or tana of aunilar qualities might After I bad read that our great-grandfather and great-grandmother had been driven out of the first orchard, 1 made up my mind that tho Lord would not be do- "Do you mean that extremely handsome dark woman of about SO, dressed ••Oh Ved. I'm very sorry that your "Yes, dear, with pleasure," slio an- '