Pittston Gazette

              mm ■ •atkblUhed 1850. 1 TOt. XLIX No.44. |' Oldest Newspaper in the Wvomine Vallev PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 7~75^7 A Weekly Local anC Journal. ISI.aOaYear 1 iiAdnm. bis companion's enthusiasm. Lady Craigenoch cooled down and fixed a cold and penetrating glance on him. broke in npon ma inougnis, relieving that a careless interruption might cost a million. Millions were in his mind now. and other things than millions. There was his faith with his associates. They were all waiting his word. When he gave it. rumors would die away, reports be contradicted, the manifesto poohpoobed. There would be buyings, the stock would lift up her head again, confidence would return, and the first to buy, the first to return to faith in the stock, would be Mr. Byers and bis associates. The public would come in afterward, and when the public came in he and his associates would go out again, richer by vast sums. The money and his good faith—his honor among financiers —bound him, and the triumph of bis brains, the beauty of his coup, the admiration of his fellows, the unwilling applause of the hard hit—all these allured him mightily. On the other side, there was nothing except the necessity of disappointing Mrs. Rivers, of telling her that the necessary resources were not forthcoming; that the agitation and the manifesto had served their turn; that the prince had been made a fool of; that she herself had been made a fool of too. Many such a revelation had he made to defeated opponents, calmly, jestingly perhaps, between the puffs of bis cigar, not minding what they thought Why should he mind what Mrs. Rivers thought T She would no longer wish to kiss that lean, strong hand of his; she might cry (she had Lady Craigenoch to cry to). He looked acroes at his wife, who was knitting; he would not have minded telling anything to her. But so intensely did he mind telling what he had to tell to Ellen Rivers that the millions, his good faith, the joy of winning and the beauty of the coup all hung doubtful in the balance against the look in the eyes of the lady at Prince Julian's. "What an infernal fool I ami" he groaned. Mrs. Byers glanced up for a moment, smiled sympathetically, and went on with her knitting. She supposed that there must be Some temporary hitch about tha latest million or perhaps Shnm had been troublesome; that was sometimes what was upsetting Mr. Byers. The next morning Mr. Shum was troublesome. He thought that the moment for action bad come; the poor stock had been blown npon enongh; the process of rehabilitation should begin. Various other gentlemen, weighty with money, dropped in with their hats on the back of their beads and expressed the same views. Byers fenced with tbem, discussed the question rather inconclusively, took now this side and now that, hesitated, vacillated, shilly shallied. The men wondered at him, they knew they were right, and, right or wrong, Byers had been wont to know bis own mind. Their money was at stake; they looked at one another uncomfortably. Then the youngest of them, a fair boy, great at dances and late suppers, but with a brain for figures and a cool boldness which made him already rich and respected in the city, tilted his shining hat still a little farther back and drawled out, "If you've lost your nerve, Byers, you'd better let somebody else engineer the thing." come, bnt he con Id not endure the self contempt which the thought of running away had brought with it He must face her; the woman could do no more than abase him. One other thought he had for a moment entertained—of offering to let her stand in, as Mr. Sham had let Lady Craigenoch. There was hardly any sum which he would not have been glad to give her. But long before he reached the bouse be had decided that she would not stand in. "By heaven, I should tbink not," he said to himself indignantly. care; sne cnea on. tie con 1a not neip looking at her now. At last she saw him looking, and with apology or irritation, he could not tell—she turned sideways and hid her face in the cushions of the sofa. Byers rose slowly, almost unsteadily, to his feet. "My God 1" he whispered to himself, as he stood for a moment and looked at her. Then he walked over to where she lay, her head buried in the cushions. tameness 01 niras m unexpiorea roresis is related by a writer in The National Geographic Magazine, describing a tour of exploration to the headwaters of the Saskatchewan: VHE SUNDAY SCHOOL. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR/ "Yes, and you're an interesting man," she said. "What are yon doing, Mr. ByersT" LESSON II, THIRD QUARTER, INTERNA- Toplc For the Week Jmly »—Comment by Rev. 8. H. Deri*. Topic.-A good vacation.—Mark Tt, T, It, U. K-tti. As our horses were winding through a deep forest a bird appeared which resembled a pine bullfinch flitting from tree to tree and following us closely. Somewhat later it gave the most remarkable instance of tameness that I have ever seen. Having followed us for about two miles, it waited in a tree during the bustle and confusion of making camp, but in the afternoon, when all was quiet and some of our men were asleep, the bird became exceedingly familiar, walking on the ground near us and finally perching on our extended hands. TIONAL SERIES, JULY 9. "Vindicating right divine," be an- swered. Text of the Lesson, Dan. I, 8-21—memory Veraea, 17-20—Golden Text, Dm. I. 8—Commentary Prepared by the Rev. D. M. Stearna. Man absolutely require* rest It la ft poor economist who makes no provision for a vacation—a season of quiet rest and recuperation. Bnt the ww fulu— of a vacation depends entirely a poo lis character. ft may be a blessing, or it may be s curse; it may stimulate us for an increased interest In the duties of life, or it may rob ns of mnch of the interest that we previously possessed. How to make onr vacation a good vacation is a very important question. The incident-in the topical reference is very suggestive. The IS have returned from an arduous and successful tour, and Christ takes them apart for rest, fellowship and communion. It may well be called a good vacation. 1. The apostles deserved their vacation. They had labored and were weary. They had preached the gospel, cast out devils, healed the sick. They were Lady Craigenoch smiled. "Well, whatever it is," she nid, "Sham baa promised that I shall stand in." Again she pansed. "Only," she resumed, "if yon're making a fool of that woman"— Bhe seemed unable to finish the sentence. There had been genuine indignation in "It doesn't make all that difference to you," he said roughly. "You wouldn't have gone with him." [Copyright, 1899. by D. M. Stearna.] 8. "Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself." The verse selected for the golden text does not always seem to reach the heart of the lesson, but in this case I think it does. Daniel may truly be said to have been a man of holy purposes and desires. In chapter x, 11, 19, he is called a man greatly beloved, and the margin says a man of desires. In chapter ix, 8, he says, "I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes." He purposed at all cost to know the Qod of Israel and live only for Him. 9. "Now God had brought Daniel into favor and tender love with the prinoe of the eunuchs." It is most profitable to note In this prophecy and in all Scripture the working of tiod, and to yield ourselves fully to Him that He may work la us is the secret of the best possible Christian life. In verse 2 it is said that the Laid gave Jehoiakim and the holy vessels into the hand of the king of Babylon, and in verse 17 God gave Daniel and his friends Knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom. We learned last quarter in John's gospel that all circumstances are intended to give God an opportunity to be glorified (John ix, 8; xi, 4). But he had one phrase ready for her. He reminded her of the paragraphs, the rumors and the manifesto. "We have by those means felt the pulse of the public." he said. He panaed;she said nothing. "The result is not—er—encouraging, " he wer t on. "The moment ia not propitious." She turned her face to him for a moment. She did not look her best; bow could she? But Mr. Byers did not notioe that. "" Theaffair bad three obvions resnita —the marriage of Prince Julian, Sir Henry Shnm's baronetcy and the complete renovation of Lady Craigenoch'a town honae. Its other effects, if any. were more o been re. Tbe birth and attributes of rumor have often engaged the attention of poets. Who can doubt that their rhetoric would have been embellished and their metaphors multiplied had they possessed more intimate acquaintance with tbe places where money 1b bought and sold! For in respect of awakening widespread interest and affecting the happiness of homes what is tbe character of any lady, however highborn, conspicuous or beautiful, compared with the character of a stock ? Here indeed is a field for calumny, for innuendo, for hinta at frailty, for whi*. pen of intrigue, for scandal mongers have their turn to serve, and the holders are swift to distrust When somebody writes Sheridan's comedy anew, let him lay the scene of it in a bourse. Between bis slandered stock and his slandered dame he may work out a very pretty and fanciful parallel Byers bad "wanted to do it," too, and their desires had clashed. But in his desire there had been no alloy of love; it waB all true metal, true metal of self. He stood over her for a minute without speaking. A strange feeling seized bim then; be had felt it once before with regard to this woman. "I love him, and I wanted to do it" It was soon evident that the object of onr visitor was to catch mosquitoes, which were hovering in swarms around our heads. It pecked at a ring on my hand, at our needles, and, in fact, any metal article. But the climax was reached when by accident the bird saw its own image in a small looking glass which lay on the ground. Then, with extended wings and open bill, it uttered cries of rage and pecked madly at the glass in which an enemy appeared. Among the solitudes of mountain forests squirrels, finches and whiekyjacks often show unusual confidence in man, but this particular instance is remarkable, because the bird wonld alight on our persons even after it had been momentarily, though gently, detained several times as a prisoner in my hand. By accident of birth and of political «vents Prince Julian was a pretender, one of several gentlemen who occupied that position In regard to the throne of an important European country. By a necessity of their natures Messrs. 8hum & Byers were financiers. Thanks to • fall in rents and a taste for speculation. Lady Craigenoch was hare put to it for money and had hacouw a good frieDd and ally of Mr. 8hnm. Sometimes he "You promised the money if the prince signed the manifesto,'' she "Promised T Oh, well, I said I'd"— "You promised," said Mrs. Rivers. "What's the difficulty nowT" "That state of public feeling"— he began. "If it had been for you, I'd have blanked the money and gone ahead," he blurted out in an indistinct, impetuous utterance. "I know that. We want the money to change it" Sbe smiled slightly. "If the feeling bad been with us already we shouldn't have wanted the money." She leaned forward ana asked, "Haven't you got the money 1 You said you had." "Yes, I've got it—or I could get it." "Yes. Well, then— Why have you changed your mind ?" Again she looked up. There was no surprise, no resentment in her face, only a heartbreaking plaintiveness. "Oh, why couldn't you be honest with met" she moaned. But she stopped sobbing and sat straight on the sofa again. "You'll think me still more of a fool for doing this," she said. sat." No vaC nnlees it is that became C we have a rig 2. The apC m can be ■Vv\j allowed her to pat a linger in one of bis pies and draw ont a little plnm for herself. By era, hearing ope day of bis partner's acquaintance Vbwith Lady Craigenoch, observed, "She might introduce ns to Prince Julian." Sbnm asked no questions, bnt obeyed. That was the way to be comfortable and to grow rich if yon were Mr. Byers' partner. The introduction was dnly effected. The prince wondered vaguely, almost ruefully, what these men expected to get out of him. Byers asked himself qnite as dolefully whether anything could be made out of an indolent, artistic, l&zy young man like the prince. Pretenders each as he served only to buttress existing governments. place for a vacation. pUce apart," a quiet, i Many a vacation ia proper remits are c the places visited a where "many are car 'v, . m 1 He made no answer, and for awhile she sat looking at him thoughtfully. She did not abuse him, and she did not cry. Here, however, the facts can be set down only plainly and prosaically. On all the exchanges there arose a feeling of uneasiness respecting the stock of the government of Prince Julian's country. Selling was going on, not in large blocks, but cautiously, continually, in unending driblets. 8urely on a system and with a purpose T Then came paragraphs in the papers (like whispers behind fans) discussing the state of the government and the country much in the vein which had marked Mrs. Rivers' dissertations. By now the stock was down three points. By pure luck it fell another, in mysterious sympathy with the South African mining market. Next there was a riot in a provincial town in the prince's country, then a minister resigned and made a damaging statement in the chamber. Upon this it seemed no more than natural that attention should be turned to Prince Jnlian, his habits, his entourage. his visitors. And now there were visitors. Nobles and gentlemen crossed the channel to see him. They crime stealthily, yet not to secretly but. that there was a paragraph. These great folk had heard the rumors, and hope had revived in their breasts. They talked to Mrs. Rivers. Mrs. Rivers had talked previously to Mr. Byers. A day later a weekly paper which possessed good and claimed universal information announced that neat activity reigned among Prince Julian's party and that his royal highness was considering the desirability of issuing a manifesto. "Certain ulterior steps," the writer continued, "are in contemplation, bat of these it would be premature to speak."• There was not very much in all this, but it made the friends of the stock rather uncomfortable, and they were no more happy when a lead' ing article in a leading paper demonstrated beyond possibility of cavil that Prince Julian had a fair chance of success, but that, if Jbe rsgalnd the throne, he could look to bold it only by seeking glory in an aggressive attitude toward bis neighbors. On the abearance of this luminous forecast the poor stock fell two points mora There bad been a sauve qui peut of the timid holders. Was the abuse never coming T Mr. Byers began to long for it If he were abused enough, be thought that he might be able to find something to say for himself. 10. "And the prince of the eunuchs unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king." The fear of man bringeth a snare, but whoso trusteth in the Lord happy is he. The prince feared man, for he did not know God. Daniel knew Ood and feared no man. We may hope that through Daniel the prince came to know the ~ of Daniel. Unless through us those know not God are learning to know our testimony is not as good as it be. m I •'You'd better let somebody else engineer the thing." All More or Ltw' Actors. her eyes for a moment; it faded away, but there came a slight flush on her cheek as she added, "But that doesn't matter if it's in the way of business, does it?" "I want to understand," she said presently. "Did you ever mean to give us the money ?" We are all mora or less actors and are governed by a reputation which has been given us, justly or unjustly. For instance, a girl is brusque. Some kind friend characterizes this brusqueness as frankness or honesty. The girl is pleased with the name which has been given her, ber brusqueness under the guise of frankness increases, and she finally becomes a terror to her friends unknowingly." Yon think that because—because I live as I do I know the world, and— and so on. I don't a bit It doesn't follow really, you know. Fancy my thinking I could do anything for Julian! What do I know of business? Well, you've told me now 1" "Yes, upon my honor I"— "Are you Buret" She forced him to look ber in the face. He was silent She rose, took a Japanese fan from a side table and sat down again; the lower part of her face wauow hidden by tha fan. Byers saw nouiing but ber eyes. "What did you mean?" she asked. "You've made us all—the prince and his friends and me—look very silly. How did that help youT I don't see what yon could get out of thatt" not r 8. "And Shurn has promised that you shall stand in," Byers reminded her gravely. lli 18- "Prove thy servants, I be* thee, ten days, and let them give as p to eat and water to drink." The bleei of the Lord upon very plain food will more for our health than the richest 1 without His blessing. doth not by bread alone, but by every word of (Math, lv, 4). Daniel did not live to He would not bow down to Idols and p Lady Craigenoch dag her parasol into the streak of earth that showed between pavement and curbstone. "If it had been for you, I'd have risked it and gone ahead," said Byers again. "Yes," agreed Sham. "Besides, he's entangled with that woman." "Is there a woman t" asked By era. "I should like to know her." "Anyhow I'm glad I called on her," she said. "I'm not much, heaven knows, bnt I'm a woman to speak to." "I don't know what yon mean by that," she murmured vaguely. Byers did not try to describe to her the odd, strong impulse which had inspired his speech. "I must go and tell the prince about it" she said. Then some one remarks: ' 'How sweet Ethel is! She has the loveliest character and sweetest disposition of any girl I know." Ethel must live up to her reputation for sweetness until this very sweetness becomes annoying. The man who has been dubbed a philanthropist is unwittingly more generous than he would naturally be, as he must live up to the good name he has received. So how much is real in our lives and how much assumed we hardly know ourselves.—New York Herald. * So, on his second visit to Palace Gate. Mr. By era was introdnced to the lady who was an inmate in Pripce Julian's house, bnt was not received in society. Lady Craigenoch, however, opining, justly enough, that since she had no girls she might know whom she pleased, had called on the lady and was en friendly terms with her. The lady was named Mrs. Riven and waa understood to be a widow. "To cry tot" be hazarded. She was looking at him now as though she thought him mad. She could not see what he had got out of it It had "How do yon know she cried f Think what she'd been throngh, poor thing t Oh, yon won't find her crying!" ably refrained from the wine and meat from the king's table because It wm dedicated to Ydols. In chapter i, 8, It Is implied that, he did both eat meat and drink wine, except when specially waiting upon God. 18,14. "So he oonsented to them In this matter, and proved them ten days." Daniel was willing that he and his friends should be judged by the outward evidences. Our Lord said that His works bore witness of Him (John v, 86). We are His workmanship that we may glorify Him by good works which men oan see (Eph. ii, 10; Titus 111, 8; Math. v. 10), and although there may be no sin In eating meat or drinking wine, yet to oauae another to stumble by doing either, or by attending the opera or the theater, indulging in the dance or the card table, is wrong before God (Rom. jdv, 81). The child of God does not need the thing* of this world to satisfy his soul. He becomes abundantly satisfied with TOm who Is altogetherlovely."What are you going to dot" he demanded.m m jprsjtpiS - v*" i. D "I hope not," said Mr. Byers with a perfect seriousness in his slightly nasal tones, and when they parted he said to himself, "That woman hates having to know me." But there were many people in that position, and he apent much time in increasing the number, so the reflection caused him no pain, but rather a sense of self complacency. When people know you who hate having to know you, you are somebody. The thought passed, and the next moment he found himself being glad that Ellen Rivers had a woman to speak to—or to cry to—even though it were only Lady Craigenoch. "Do? What is there to do? Nothing, I suppose. What can we do ?" "I wish to God I'd—I'd met a woman like yon I Shall you marry him now?" f C \ "And surely one needn't ask for bis death certificate!" pleaded Lady Craigenoch. Byers, as he took to* in Mrs. Rivera' boudoir, was quite of the same mind. He nursed his square chin in bis lean hand and regarded his hostess with marked attention. She was handsome—that fact concerned Byers very little; she was also magnificently self confident—that trait roused his interest in a moment He came to see her more than once again, for now an idea had begun to shape itself in his brain. He mentioned it to nobody, least of all to Mrs. Rivera. But one day she said to him, with the careless contempt that he admired : She looked up. A faint smile appeared on her face. The Leeeh. t "Yes," she said. "It doesn't matter now, and he'll like it Yes, I'll marry him now." The medicative leech is  tically a thing of the past.  off in the demand for leeches by the medical profession is quite astonishing, as may be judged from the fact that in the year 1845 the two largest hospitals in London called for about 60,000 of them, whereas now these institutions order only 50 or 100 leeches at irregular and infrequent intervals. Two visions—one was of Mrs. Byers and the babies in Portland plac»—rose before Byers' thoughts. 9 £ F»* da e In "He hasn't lost much, then," be said. "And you? You'll be just as happy?"' She was not crying when she received Mr. Byers. She was radiant She told him that her part was done; now he must do his part; then the prince would do his. Thus the great enterprise would be accomplished. That odd pang struck Byers again as be listened. He recollected the beginning of Lady Craigenoch's unfinished sentence. ''If you're making a fool of that woman"— That waa jnst what be waa doing. Ha escaped from the tbougnt anC| gratified his curiosity by turning the talk to Mrs. Rivers herself. Dhn iv. "It was the whole world to me," said ehe, and for the last time she put her Assuredly the leech has seen his best days. With the old regime, when "cap- 15. "Fairer and fatter In flesh thm all the children." This was the condition of Daniel and his friends at the end of ten day* as compared with the others who were chosen with them to stand In the Sin ion. ' and "bleeding" were the sheet What her fair fame Is to a proud woman the prestige of hia nerve was to Mr. Byers. The boy had spoken the decisive word by chance, by the unerring instinct which in any sphere of thonght is genius. In half an honr all was planned, the government of the prince's country saved and the agitation at an end. The necessary resonroes wonld now be forthcoming, confidence wonld be made, the coup brought off, the triumph won. She turned tideway and hid her foci in the cushions of the tofa. , of surgery, the leech all but ppeared. So constant was his em-4 in mediaeval times that his furnished a synonym for the profession and the doctor came known impolitely as "the\ "If I had all your money, I should do something with it" "Don'tI?" be asked, half liking, half resenting, her manner. "Oh. you make more money with it I suppose." She paused for a moment and then, leaning forward, began to discuss European politics with especial reference to the condition of affairs in Prince Julian's country. Byers listened in silence. She told him much that be knew, a few things which had escaped him. She told him also one thing which be did not believe—that Prince Julian's indolent airs covered a character of rare resolution and tenacity. She repeated this twice, thereby betraying that she was not sore her first statement had carried conviction. Then she showed that the existing government in the prince's country was weak, divided, unpopular and poor, and then she ran over the list of rival pretenders and proved bow deficient all of tbem were in the' qualities necessary to gain or keep a throne. At this point she stopped and asked Mr. Byers to take a second cup of tea. He looked at her with interest and smuement in his shrewd eyes. She bad all we genius, the native power, with none of the training, none of the lmowledge, of men. He read her so easily, but there was a good deal to read. In one point, however, he read her wrongly. Almost the only mistakes he made were due to forgetting the possible existence of unselfish emotion. not yet crossed her mind that there had been money to be got out of it So ignorant was she, with all her shrewdnew, with all her resolution. "And I understood that you were such a clever, faraeeing man." she went on. "Lady Craigenoch always told me so. She said I could trust you in anything. Do tell me about it, Mr. Byers." king's palace. It was manifest in 1 case that the blessing of the Lord r rich even in the matter of flesh and b (Prov. x, 82). The eyes of the Lord to Mad fro throughout the whole earl a sabtle alinsion to pacity for fees which characterprofession in those times. At the Hungarian speckled leech is request show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are whole toward Him (II Chron. xvi, 0). prone to give what on matters concern knows nothing. Ti opinions, which h with manhood. Gkx fore we were. It n congress or aseembl it is. Envy, jealo ness, malice, evil s sin. They are not breeding, offensive m- w "Accomplished, eh?" said he. "And it's a crown for the prince!" "Yes, and great influence for yon." "And yon'll be"— 16. "Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat and the wine that they should drink and gave them pulse." And some would say that they were altogether too narrow minded, and should have eaten what was set before them, asking no questions, but it was to honor the God of Israel that they did it. Some Christians are now oonsidered very odd indeed because they have adopted as a life motto "What would Jesus do?" "I can't explain it to you," he began. "You—you wouldn't"— "Yes. I should understand it if you told me," she insisted. "I shall be nothing. I shall go away." She spoke qnickly and decisively. The resolution was there, but to dwell on it was dangerous. So in the next fortnight it happened. 1 Prince Jniian looked on with vague bewilderment, reading the articles and paragraphs which told him that he had abandoned all thought of action, had , resigned himself to wait for an express recall from his loving subjects (which might be expected to asaail his ears on the Greek kalends); that, in fact, he wonld do nothing. Mrs. Rivera read the paragraphs, too, and waited and waited and waited for the coming of Mr. Byera and the necessary resources. She smiled at what she read, for she had confidence in the cauae, or at least in herself and in Mr. Byera. Bat the days went on. Slowly the stock rose; then in went the public with a rash. The paragraphs and the articles dwindled and ceased; there was a commotion somewhere else in Europe; Prince Julian and his manifesto were forgotten. What did it mean T She wrote • note asking Mr. Byera to oali Artificial Dreams. Then actually came the manifesto, and it waa admitted on all hands to be such an excellent manifesto as to amount to an event of importance. Whoever had drawn it up—and this question was never settled—he knew how to lay his fingers on all the weak spots of the existing government, how to touch on the glories of Prince Julian's bouse, what tone to adopt on vexed questions, bow to rouse the enthusiasm of all the discontented. ' 'Given that the prince'a party possess theneoeasary resources," observed tb| same leading journal, "it cannot berdenied that the sitaation has aasumOd an aspect of gravity." And the poor stock fell yet a little more, upon which Mr; Shum, who had a liking for taking a' profit when he saw it, ventured to ask bis partner bow long he meant "to keep it ____ »» up. chologista have undertaken the * study of dreams. When the sense of a sleeper is stimn- If he told her ha was a liar and a thief, she would understand. Probably she would. Bnt he did not think that she would understand the transaction if he need any less plain language abont it And that language was not only hard to use to her, but struck strangely on hia own head and his own heart. Surely there must be other terms in which to describe his part in the transaction T There were plenty of such in the city; were there none in Palace Gate? an odor, such as that of helio- ■ - " . . . - "Where tot" be asked. "Oh, I don't know. Anywhere." it only does he dream of "smelling violets," bnt visual images of flowers appear to him. If the experiment is prolonged, the dream visions become complex and filled with strange imagery. A vibrating tnning fork held near a sleeper's ear made him dream of a lion roaring, and when a little salt and water was put on his tongne he dream? ed that he was eating olives. "Back to your people?" at She looked at him for a moment. He had allowed himself to sneer. Her manner as she went on without taking anr notice of his question proved that Lady Craigenoch had been right in saying that she was a lady. "My work will be done," she said. "From the first moment I knew the prince I determined to nse my influence in this way. He only—he only needed a little encouragement." 17. " As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill In all learning and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams." Why he should have the latter we shall see as we go on. In a strange land, where the true God was not known, they desired to make Him known by their lives and testimony, and God honored them by* giving them that which would most glorify Him. Wherever He sees a heart willing to be wholly His He will see to it that the heart is filled with Himself and with His Spirit for Bl« service. He knows all the circumstances "Yet, m marry you no®," she said. handkerchief to her eyes. Then she stowed it away in ber pocket and looked expectantly at ber visitor. Here was the permission to go. makes one mindful byterian Journal. "Will yon take the money?" said he. "What money?" Tke Primely*! Mm. The principal idea in life molds all others to conformity with it Judas' principal idea waa money getting, and it led np to thieving and betrayal at hie Lord. The principal idea of the chief prieeta waa the retention at their power. To do that they moat murder any on* who seemed more popular than they; hence the importance of having the principal idea of life right and high. What is yours T—Sunday School Times. "It's a matter of business"— again be began. "What I've made—my share of it" "Oh, don't be silly I What do I care what money you've made?" ABANDONED ARMY POSTS. Troop* No Looter Needed Anion* the "And a little money?" She stopped him with an imperious wave of the fan. Her eyes grew animated with a sudden enlightenment; she looked at him for a moment or two and then asked, "Have yon been making money out of it somehow?" He did not answer. "How, please?" Bbeasked. "What does that matter ?" His voice was low. He spoke lower as he put his second question. Apachea to Curb the l«n(N. "I gave him one; you're giving him the other. We shall both be repaid by his success." It Is rumored In department headquar ten that there will be a rattling of dry bones at some of the older western posts In the near future. As a result of the shake up, predictions are that a number of them will be stricken from the list of necessary stations and either sold at auction or turned over to the Indian servtoe for agencies. in which we will ever be placed, and He will not fail to meet all our need that He n-ay be glorified (PbiL iv, 19). The first "behold" in the Bible Is in connection with giving, and God said, "Behold, I have given" (Gen. 1, 89). "Will you forgive me?" be asked. "Forgive you-?" She laughed a little, yet looked puzzled. "I didn't think about you like that," she explained. "You're not a man to me." "We'll talk about that tomorrow," said Mr. Byers. "I'm going to call in Palace Qate this afternoon." He looked fery thoughtful as be brushed his hat ami" e%mneC4 triumphantly. If the print's party had not the necessary resource, they could do nothing; if they would not the drooping jft up her bead again T Now, nobody was in a position to aolve that problem about the necessary resources so surely or so swiftly as Mr. Byers. "You're a very strange woman," he said. Probably he did not know how straight and hard his eyes were set on her. They could not leave her. What a pity it was that she would not gov. i the prinoe—as his wife or even, to use Lady Craigenoch's charitable evasive phrase, as she was now. To set the prince on the seat of his ancestors was not an exploit that appealed to Mr. Byers, but to set this woman on a throne would be worth—well, how much 1 Mr. Byers detected this question in bis own heart. He oonld not help reducing things to figures. 9 "Why don't you go with him?" be asked bluntly. It was just at this time also that Mr. Henry Sham accepted the invitation of the Conservative Association of the Hatton Garden Division of Holborn Bars to contest the seat at the approaching general election, and that Lady Craigenoch gave orders for the complete renovation of her town honee. Both these actions involved, of coarse, some expense—bow mnch it is hard to say precisely. The honse was rather large, and the seat was very safe. J Prince Jnlian sat in his library itf Palace Gate and Mrs. Rivers stood beside him, her hand resting on the arm of his chair. Now and then the prince glanced np at her face rather timidly. They had matters showed no progress. TtffcMrs. Rivers had become silent "Has Byers thrown ns overt" the prince asked at last. "Hash, hash I" she answered in a low voice. "Wait till he's been. He's coming today." Her voice sank lower still as she whispered: C*He can't have. Oh, he can't I" "You're a woman to me. I to yon, then?" What am 18, 19. "Among them all waa found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; therefore stood they before the king." As they had excelled before in body, so now they excelled in learning and wisdom, and it was all the Lord's doing, because they trusted in Him and desired to glorify Him. While outwardly they stood before the king of Babylon they could truly say with Elijah, "The Lord God of Israel liveth before whom I stand" (I Kings xvii, 1), and with Paul, "God whose I am and whom I serve" (Acts xxvii, 28). They stood before the king of Babylon in the name of the Lord God of Israel, believing that therefore they were there. Prince Julian had plenty of imagination ; without any difficulty he imagined himself regaining his ancestral throne, sitting on it in majesty and establish fng it in power. This vision Mrs. Rivers called up before his receptive mind by detailing her conversation with Mr. Byers. "You want nothing but money to do it," she said. And Byers had money in gTeat heaps; Shum bad it, too, and Shum was for present purposes Byers; so were a number of other persons, all with money. "I believe the people are devoted to me in their hearts," said Prince Julian; then be caught Mrs. Bivers by both her hands jwd cried, "And then you shall be my queen."' "I should like to bear, please. Yon don't want to tell meT But I want to know. It—it'll be useful to me to understand things like this." "I don't know. Things in general— the world—business—the truth about myself. Yes, you're the truth about myself to me." She laughed again nervously, tentatively, almost appealingly, as though she wanted him to understand how he seemed to her. He drew in his breath and buttoned his coat. Whipple Barracks, A. T., was abandoned some time ago, and but a small handful of men are kept there under Lieutenant Tupes. As negotiations for the sale of this post are about oompleted, the detachment will probably be withdrawn in a short time, after which It will bflt turned over to a custodian, who will look after Uncle Sam's interests until the sale is consummated. It may be used as a training ground for several Arizona troops which are being fitted for service at the front, but nothing definite on thhi score Is yet known. ' I* the Wmf PlaaL sometimes tee tht men who noeedn *inaia( applause. It ia aometimea ditto note tbe men who fail; all, in tbe long ran, the nnaoooeed only with the unworthy, fitting fail to aorYire only are in the wrong place.— It k kind ad popular couraging bat, after Worthy and the WTO they It seemed to Mr. Byers that he had to tell her; that thia was the one thing left that be could do—the one obligation which be could perform. So be began to tell her, and as he told her gat-, urally (or curiously, since natures are curious) his pride in the great coup revive—his professional pride. He went into it all thoroughly. She followed bim very intelligently. He made her understand what an "option" was, what "differences," what the "put" and what the "call." He pointed  how the changes in public affairs might make welcome changes in private pockets and would have ber know that the secret center of great movements must be sought in the bourses, pot in the cabinets, of Europe. Perhaps he exaggerated here a little, aa a man will in praising what he loves. Finally, carried away by enthusiasm, he gave her the means of guessing with fair accuracy the profit that he and his friends had made out of the transaction. Thus ending, be heaved a sigh of relief. She understood, and there had been no need of those uncivil terms which lately had pressed themselves forward to the tip of his tongue bo rudely. A hundred yards from Prince Julian's house he saw Lady Craigenoch walking along the pavement and got out of his cab to join her. She was full of the visit she bad just paid, above all of Ellen Bivers. "And you're the truth about myself to me," he said. "And the truth is that I'm a miserable scoundrel." Christian Register. "It would prejudice him," she answered simply, folding her hands in her lap Like tke Talis •( OoiMa. "Are you Y" she asked, as it seemed half in surprise, half in indifference. "Oh, I suppose you're no worse than other people 1 Only I was such a fool. Goodby, Mr. Byers." She held out her band. He had not meant to offer his. Bnt he took hers and pressed it. He had a vague desire to tell her that he was not a type of all humanity; that other men were better than he was; that there were unselfish men, true men, men who did not make fools, for money's sake, of women) yes, of women whose shoes they were not worthy to blaok. But he could not say anything of all this, and be left her without another word. And the next morning he bought the "call" of a big block of the stock; for the news of Prince Julian's marriage with Mrs. Rivers would send it up a point or two. Habit very strong. 20. " Ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were In all his realm." Thus the king of Babylon found them upon examination, because their wisdom was of God. The wisdom of this world is a \ain thing and wholly unable to understand the things of God. That is one of the great truths taught repeatedly in this book, and perhaps is one reason why the religious wisdom of this world in certain so called higher critics would, if it could, set aside this book, as well as some others. But It is written, "Forever, © Lord, thy word Is settled In heaven" (Ps. cxlx, 89), so that not only is Daniel there, but his book too. Some books I read and some wuium I hear are like the tails at a cornel They are grand and brilliant, bat extremely light As to real solid matter, a million square miles of their substance might be condensed into om square inch of the same density of common atmosphere which supports oar life.—Spurgeon. Five years ago it was thought the height of folly to think of abandoning any of the Arizona military poets, which are in the region infested with Apaches, but today it seems to be the settled policy of the gov* eminent to make these men self supporting and therefoie safe oltizena. As rapidly as the Dpwes bill requirements are complied with the Indians are admitted to the rights of suffrage. These requirements are ' 'the severance of all tribal relationships and the adoption of the modes and habits of civilization." This will soon cover the whole Apache tribe, once so bloodthirsty, and it is not improbable that the next five months will see the abandonment of Forts Apache, Grant and Huachuca in Arizona and Wtngate and Union in New Mexico. The only reason why the government keeps troops in those God forsaken regions now is because of fancied fear of the Indiana "Because she's the whole thing, you know," she said. "The adherents— good gracious, what helpless creatures I I don't wonder the republicans upset them if that's what they're all like. Oh, they're gentlemen, of course, and you're not, Byers (Mr. Byers bowed slightly and smiled acquiescently), but I'd rather have you than a thousand of them. And the prince, poor dear, is hardly better. Always talking of what he'll do when he's there, never thinking bow he's going to get therel" Byers let ber fun op. She was giving him both instruction and amusement Then she stretched out a hand toward bim and said suddenly with a sudden quiver in her voice, "I talk to you like this, and all the time I'm wantfng to go down on my knees and kiss your hands, because you're doing this." "Indeed I won't," said she, and she added almost fiercely: "Why do you bring that up again now t It would spoil it all." For, contrary to what the world thought. Prince Julian bad offered several times to marry the lady who was not received or visited, except at by Lady Craigenoch. Stranger still, this marriage was the thing which $he prince desired abofe all things, for failing it he feared "that spme day, owing to « conscience and other considerations, Mrs. Rivers would leave him, and he really did not know what he should do then. When be imagined himself on his ancestral throne, Mrs. Rivers was always very near at hand; whether actually on the throne beside him or just behind it was a point be was prone to shirk. At any coat, though, she muet be very near. The lean band held the square jaw. The attitude was a favorite one with Mr. By era, and his eyee were still on her. Br Omr IfBfstk We often do mora good path? than by onr labors a: the world a more lasting m eence of jealonsy and nc merit than we could ever rC oar symrsoder to "Yes, that's what I want to do," she said, with a nervous laugh. "It's 90 splendid of yon." Her breath came fast Her eyes were very flight At that moment Mr. Byers wished that the ?|nick breath and the bright eyes were or him himself, not for the helper of the prince, and for that moment he forgot Mrs. Byers and the babies in Portland place. It was years since he bad had any snch wish about any woman. He felt a sympathy with Prince Julian who had almost cried when be signed the manifesto, because if he mounted the throne Ellen Rivers would leave him. There was silence again. A few mina tea passed before the prince broke out fretfully: "I'm sick of the whole thing I 4'w very well aa J «nD- If they want me. let them send for me. | can't force myself on them." 91. ''And Daniel oontinued even unto the first year of King Cyrus." Thus he lived all through the 70 years of the captivity, and we find him also in the third year of Cyrus and in the first year of Darius the Mede (Dan. z, 1; xi, 1). Not only did he live, but he oontinued a faithful witness for God. Patient continuanee "And then be'a afraid—oh, not of tbe bullets or the gnillotine, or whatever it la—because be'a a gentleman, too, yon know. (Or perhaps yon don't know I 1 wonder if yon dot Shum doesn't Perhaps yon do.) Bnt he's afraid of losing her. If he goes, she won't go with him. I don't mean as— as she la now, yon know. She won't go anyhow, not as his wife even. Well, of course, if be married ber be'd wreck the whole thing. Bnt one would hardly expect ber to see that—or even to care if be did. She's very odd." Lady Craigenocb paused a moment "She's fend of him, too," she added. "She'sa very qneer woman." She looked down for a moment and tonched his hairwitb her hand. "If this has come to nothing, I'll never try again. I don't like being made a fool of." It Is also the policy of the government to turn over all abandoned military posts in the Indian country to the red men., to be used as agencies. Thus in IJtah can be seen the Ouray agency, once the site of old Fort Rouhldoux; in Montana can be seep the Fort Peck agency, once the site of a military cantonment of that namcy and in Arizona the Fort Deflapoe agency flourishes where once stood the sentinel of the advance of civilization. Fort Deflanw y-Hflnvpr Tityoa  "I think I'd better not try to have anything more to do with politics," phe said. "I—I'm top ignorant,"' There was a little break in her tones. By era glanced at her sharply and apprehensively. Now that his story was ended, his enthusiasm died away. He expected abnse now. Well, he wonld bear it She was entitled to relieve her mihdC "What a fool {'ve been I Bow yon panat have been laughing at me—at my poor prince and met" She looked across at him, smiling faintly. He sat, twisting his hat in his hands. Then she turned her eyes toward the Byers had nothing to say; he was wondering whether be might go now- Ghwoing at her for nermiwioB, he saw that her elear bright eyes bad grown dim presently a tear formed and rolled down bar cheek. Then she began to sob, softly at first, presently witb growing and rising passion. She seemed quite forgetful of him, heedless of what he thought and of how eho luojted- All that was in her, the pang of her dead hopes, the woe for her poor prince, the bitter shame of her own crushed pride and helpless folly, came cut in her sobs as she abandoned herself to weeping. Byers sat by, listening always—looking sometimes. He tried to defend himself to himself. Was it de cent of her, was it becoming, wasn't it characteristic of the lack of self control and self respect that marks the sort of woman ahewaeT It might be open to •B these reproaches. She aeemed not to When he Was gone, Mrs. Rivers went up stairs to her room and bathed her face. Then she rejoined Prince Julian in the library. Weary of waiting, he bad gone to sleep, but be woke up and was rejoiced to see her. He listened to her story, called Mr. Bytra an infernal rogue pnd, with an expression of relief yn his face, said: in well doing (Rom. ii, 7) la a good dence of growth in grace. Our Lord 1 Her hand rested for a moment on his forehead. He looked np smiling. "We can be happy together," he murmured. "Let's throw np the whole thing and be happy together." He caught her hand in his. "You'll stay with me anyhow T" Mo disciples indeed" (John vill, 81) "If ye continue in my word, then are Carry Our Ow» B«: Let any man carry his own and be is doing much more than sa' himself. He is perhaps making the possible contribution to the strength the common life. Let any man be lavi of his strength in serving others, a; he is doing much more than helpii „ others. E[e is re-enforcing his own strength to carry bis own burden.— Francis (greenwood Peabody, D. D. As time went on there were many meetings at Palace Gate. The priors, Mr. Shnm and Lady Craigenoch were present sometimes. Mrs. Rivers and Byers were never wanting. The prince's imagination was immensely stimulated !p those days. Lady 's Craigenoch"a love for a speculation was splendidly indulged. Mr. Shum !s cautious disposition received terrible shocks. Mrs. Rivers discussed European politics, tbe attitude iA tbe church and the secret quarrels of (be cabinet in Prince Julian's country, and Byers silently gathered together all the money of bis own and other people's on which he could lay hands. He was meditating a great coup, and jnst now and then he felt a qneer touch of remorse when be reflected that bis coup was so very different from tbe coup to which Mrs. Rivers' disquisitions and the prince's vivid imagination invited him. But be believed in the survival of tbe fittest, and, although Mrs. Rivera was Very fit, be himself was Jnst by a little bit fitter still. Meanwhile the government in tbe prince's country faced its many difficulties with much boldness and aeenwd on the whole safe fWWfc „ ' lea. !'We want money now directly," she went on. "We want the manifesto in ivery house. I can manage tbe distribution. And we must pay peoplebribe them. We must sow seed. It'll soon come up. And the prince will aci at the proper time." "Yon want me still T" "You'll do what I ask?" he whispered."There's the end of that! And novfv darling''— THE DOCTOR'S BELL. "That wonld put an end to it indeed," she said, smiling. "Yes, I'll marry yon now," she said, matter now." If a physician has a sympathetic manner, he will have a big practice, whether be cures or not.—Galveston News. "A lady?" asked Mr. Byers, with  touch of satire. "Ob, yes!" spid Lady {Traigenoch, scornful that be needed to ask. "But so odd. Well, you've seen her with bim—just like a mother with her pet boy I How bard she's worked, to be sure I She told me how she'd got him to sign the what's its name ? He almost cried because be'd have to go without her, you know. But ah? says it's all right now. He won't go back now, because he's given his word. And she's ■imply triumphant, though she's fond of him and though she won't go with bim." Again Lady Craigenoch paused. "People won't call on that woman, you know," she remarked after her pause. Then, she added: "Of course that's right except for a reprobate like me. But still"— "How much you want now!" be asked. "Thank heaven for it I" he exclaimed peeviahly. Thus, as has been said, the whole affair had only three obvions effects—the renovation of Lady Craigenoch's town bonse, a baronetcy for Sir Henry Shum (services to the party are a recognized flaim on the favor of her majesty) and the marriage of Prince But from it both Mrs. Rivers ancHSr. Byers derived some new ideas of the world and pf themselves. Shall women weep 9nd hard men curse their own work without reeultT The temple of truth is not a national institution. So, of course, one pays to go in. Even.when you aro in, it is difficult to look ?t more than oije side of it at once. Perhaps Mrs. $iyera did not realize this, and Mr. $yers conld not while lb seemed still to hear ber crying. He heard the sobs for so many evenings, mingling oddly with the click of his wife's knitting needle*. You can't tell something about the seriousness of a disease by the number of cures there there are for it,—Washington Democrat. ''Half a million now and anothe? next month," she said. A servant came in and announced that Mr Byers wi» in the drawing room- * Religion In Arrears. If duty be discharged diurnally, then it will be impossible for us to fall iota "And more before the end?" •♦yes, most likely- You can get It, you know," '•Shall I come, toot" naked the prince. "Oh, so," she answered, with a strange little laugh. "What's the nse of bothering yon T I'll see bim." "You always patronize yonng doctors, I notice, Mr. Higgs?" "Yes; they are I timid about making big bills, and they, take a genuine Interest in their patients."' —Detroit Free Press. arrears. Aye, there's the rub I Qur religion is in arrears; we have not balanced the accounts.—Joseph Parker, D. & "And shall I ever get it back?" "Tbe prince has given bis word." Mr. Byera assumed a doubtful air. "Ob, you're not as stupid as that. You believe him," she added, almost contemptuously. "Do you mean it's a speculation 1 Of coprae it Is- J thought you had courage." • i • .j .■.! "Make bim say something definite," urged Prince Jnlian. "Let's have an end of it one way or the other." Won by Strategy. "Before I give a definite answer to your proposition of marriage, Mr. Ticklowell," the Boston maiden said In calm, even tones, "I must know what your conviotlons are in reference to our duty toward the English sparrow." TRUST THRUSTS, "Vary well." She tjept down and Ssaed him. and then went off to talk to . r. Byers. A glass trust is being formed. Anybody ought to be able to see through that. —Kansas City Independent. by Marat H eminent as •' The fair boy with the business brains might have been seriously of opinion that there was something wrong with Byers' nerve bad he seen bim waiting for Mrs. Rivers in the drawing room, waiting to tell her that the necessary resources were not forthcoming. He hoped that be Bead fell her no more then, that; he wiahed thai be had out : "So I have," said Byers. And be added, "I may want it all too." What be would want it for was in his mind, but he did not tell her. "Miss Howjames," replied the young man, "my position as regards that persecuted but interesting bird is identical with that of Thoreau." It Is suspected that Attorney General Griggs Is In wireless telegraphic communication with the trusts.—Fort Worth Register. This latest formed leather trust will, of oourse, be charged by the opponents of ■uch things with a purpose of taking it out of the country's hide.—Philadelphia ■taw* tne I deck roar He thought a great deal about the matter that evening as he sat by the firti apposite to Mrs. Byers, who knitted • #r«ktngLaprt withiny EHM Rather than confess that she could not at the moment remember anything Thoreau had ever written oonoerning the English sparrow problem the proud Boston maiden slowly yielded.—Chicago Tribune. "She's an interesting woman." said lm itt a tynrfunctarx sympathy with Some Wild Bird*. ▲ most extraordinary instance ot the I'y, Btar ■Pi - . kt