l H , have. m hm for. are hull! way ”do” ands-tine- “length. hustrled by thought-unjust, "Whom-world. whileseeklng faraway “www.mswnn butane nemfinmumnmemm mawnmramwmm ' SANDY’S BESSIE. One beautiful afternoon a few days ‘ monochrome- vIsitIturued into ‘ ascend avenue from a cross street to see ' Milacll'ab shoot some committee m for a (laledorrian club picnic. Justhefiaru I reached tbeshoeehop, how. ever, a little girl emerged from the throw of malty and entered the doc. She was a thin, pale, puny child of the kind the cities breed, stmp shouldered, narrow chested, ill nour- , hhed, almost untanght except in the Jan! school of experience. I lingered . outside-a moment, waiting for Sandy to , dispose of his customer before entering, but as the littlegirl did not appear] opened the door. "Fifty cents; fifty cents,” Sandy was Hunting as l mapped inside. "Cumin ya understan that, ye puir heathen? Piftycents.” . lie was standing before his bench, gee- tioulatiog,with ls pair of newly soled mm sixes too small for the girl, who atoodln a mntely submissive ntti- “Idne mutter ist todt,’ begun the We gentle. Incomplaining voice. "hill—— “m hither. Owen,’ cried the old ”W. ”can ye tell what is’t fish-wants? Thuglrltoldnsbsrstory. Her mother was dad. Shawas the oldest of four children.“ had aseneighteen years, “sigh III. looked but fourteen. She andtwoothlrchildren had got work- hflu’s Mink—and they were all ewuehow,but ltwas very hard. the money for mending the but the neighbors had told her ”der Herr lacNab" was such a buartsdman,and cfpuaaledinquiryinSandy's to tenderrogard as ”runs— 1 had finished he was ”energetically in token shoes in a inst of newspaper. Then he put than intothe girl’s hands and geutl y pushed her toward the door. “Achl Du Iieber Gottl" said the child, and WEB & reverrmt Old World figs;rt iii? 5 i cutesy. she turned to go. “Whaur are ye leevin, lase?’ said Bandy, following her to the door. I ex- plained tbeqnery, and she gave him an addrunaar by. Sandy tucked a crum- Mullah lutolwrhand, and as he ' putspinebuf laccaboy to his nostrils amountlater ltbought I saw his hand ysbout his eyes. The another courtesy, this time to the door of the shop, and was gone. “Pill! Initherlm balms,” said Sandy, uhehegsn a loudnt-tst on the lull”)! a fine. heartily he paused and in , “What said she as sheng out?" "Bltseaid. ‘Ah,tbondesrfiodl"'l re- "lt wasa prayer of thankfulness.” ”Pill! lltl'nl puirhwirnl” sold Saintly, Q hiswork totakeanother pinch “She pits the proud an michty toluene wi' her simple faith. An I ca’d hw aheathenl Koch, Owen, lad, it's a wt! for hairns desertit by their kin. Think o’t, men! ln 0? this eeaty four little sues fechtin wi' an poverty In hunger by thelrlano mun prey o'the evil en de- aeern'd by them that's no then neglectit tathapowerfu', except U rubbery. ' ne’er a sicht of wsvla woods 0' the bonny wash 0’ the sea; without for childish play—eh, if my Janet—ma, as, het- gt-dllttle one. ounce the that leovin see he ‘ h" it fit! ‘ I' u i i is F! r f i i» i E. 5? E E! E , think: “Boo, if ‘twere Bees? My sin RErVey 8', Gillian!» Mein'street‘t ; ’ "dilution-y "mum in nu. mohbut the m wt": chOwenJhescsr'swi'meyshsuwlll till mydeeingdsy,soleaonssees weebairnwarslin wi’thiswlckedwarl' like the put: Dutch lsas.butl moan wee Bessie? " . And the old men. dashing his hand across his eyes to clear away a mist thatwasnotallofage.drowfrora his inner vest pocket one of those old fashioned daguerreotype cases that used , to be so common on country house con-4’ tor tables twenty years ago and handed it to me. i opened it, and after turning the case this way and that to avoid the reflection from the glassy surface, saw two dimly outlined faces, the mother's and daughter's, looking at each other. It was impossible to get much idea of what they were in life, but I looked at them as one would look at astrzrnge face inacoffinand then headed back thecaee in silence. Just then the door was flung open and a number of men entered the room, their forms but dimly discernible in the dusk which had fallen upon us nuheeded. “Why, it's Langdon,” said one, ad. vending with an exclamation of sur- prise. “I suppose you've got everything all arranged for the picnic, Sandy?" “No," said I, hastily interposing, ‘fwe have not been talking about the picnic at all. That’s what I came for, but Mr. Macb'ab has been telling all about the old days in Scotland, and we hadn't really got down to business yet." Sandy hustled about to light a couple of gas jets as I spoke, and when he had finished he slowly returned. thankful, I was sure, for the moment's respite. “I‘m thinkin," said he slowly, "that I s'all nu gee to the picnic." "Not go to the picnic!" said young MscGowan in astonishment. “Why, uncle, how can that be? What would the picnic be without you?” “Aye, lad, it's kind 0' you to speak sac. ” but I'm owrc said for sic tricks. lcnnua pit the stanemor burl the cuber, nor rin,norloup, norwnrsle.uor steps bielan fling. Young folk s'uld be blithe an merry an ‘ auld folk s’uld stay home. Dinah mind me, lad, but go your ways" “He’s thinkia o’ his Intro, puir Bandy,” whispered Rob Mackenzie in my can—Owen Langdon in New York Recorder 'rse Glass spa-gee. Did you ever carefully examine one of the so called "glass sponges!” The most delicate and beautiful of thee perhaps is the Venus lower basket, whichisfoundonly in the deepsesueor thePbillipine islands. It looks forall the world like spun glass woven into an intricate pattern, and is so delicate and exquisite that one can hardly believe it to be nothing but the skeleton of s sponge. This particular species of sponge is composed of hands of spicules running lengthwise from end to end, with em bands intersecting at right angles. Ile- fora they are thoroughly skeletonized the corners of the squares formed by the crossbands are filled with a brown jelly. like substance, which reduces the spaces to little tubeliko holes. The edges of these little holes project slightly above the general surface of the sponge and give it the appearance of being dotted with miniature volcanic craters. The ridges, instead of having their surfaces made up of a continuous glassy skeleton, have their soft sub stances supported by whole multitudes of delicate microscopith rayed spic- ules. In some instances these fragile spicules seem to be supported, or at least held in place, by little hooked stars and rosettes. In its natural state the whole of the Venus flower basket ie covered with line hairs, the month being kept closed by a net of fine glosslikv undies. Captain Simmous' men found the flow or basket fastened to a rock by a handle carefully attached to the basket in four difleront places. and the divers of the Exile brought up one specimen that rested on the top of a marble martini which at some time had been lost in the harbor at Najsja—St. Louis Republic. fat-r Cooper's Cherry 'I'islelo. There is in the city of Brooklyn at the house of Mrs. A. A. Golden a table. the history of which, withou't doubt. will in- terest many an old New Yorker. It was made by Peter Cooper, which lends it the more interest. it was at this table that he and his wife ate their llret dinner after they were married. e. la appearance it is much smaller than the modern dining table. It has two leaves and two end pieces that are at- tachedtotbaleavesby hinges. In all it is about four feet square. The legs are fine aad,oldssthetshle “.mcsrefullyhas lthssahafit Mrs. Goldenthsre is no ' kecptheruaesreservesgsinstnoteasndlo Bargain onuuer‘sasnar1vus'uus run...- an the are llasuql‘rlsl u- lotions-III. lirw You, Dee. l.-Dr. ' t views-yd nil hoisting, debate. In every case Dr. Briggs' objeétlons were voted down. The obbetions made to the amended shargeeby Dr. Briggswere firsttskeoup. The first. objection, “I object that the ehsrgesputinmyhandsflomt, rave, were finally dieposedof by the dismissal of the usesgalust me on Nov. 4, Immand that the pvesbytery could not legally cite me a secoudtlme to answer to charges which they had dismissed." was overruled by an overwhelming majority. The second objection, "I ohjeetto the on dersnd regularity of the proceedings in the in any and every action taken against me since the dismissal of the said charges of Nov. 4,13%" wasalsovoled own. The fourth objection, "I object to the relevancy of all the proof: from Scripture. confession and catechism." was also lost. The fifth objection, in which Dr. Briggs objected to the otter of evidence by the wholesale, stirred up considerable discus. sion. A motion that thstpart of the eighth charge in the amended charges thus ob- jecltd to be stricken out was lost. AT THE MONEY CONFERENCE. Tho Proposllloa of c. 7. ‘I'eltgsn, the Danish Delegate. ' ‘ Bnussrm, Dec. l.—The special committee chosen by the conference to consider the plans of Alfred do Rothschild, Adolph Soetbcer and Moritz Levy for the rehabili‘ tattoo of silver has closed its work without coming to any definite conclusion. The proposition of the Danish delegate, O. F. Teitgen, was considered hy-tbe cornv miller in connection with the Rothschild plan. Teitgen proposes the coinage of sil- ver llvu franc. four shilling or dollsrpiecu. rutadlogold aceordiugtotbe prim of atl- verintheyearpmioostothe adoption of an international agreement, with a selgu- iongaoflOpereent. Healaopropoaestbe appointment of a permanent International eommimion to fix the initial priee. Should the price of silver falltobparcent. below thatclnagaratlotbe emulsion willhave anthoritytollxanew ratioand order the neoinsge of the pieces These coins will be legal tender internationally, banks to hsvutherighttodemsndgold in exchange forthem at suytilnafrorn thegoverumaat Inningthapartienlsreelnbeld. hunks-Ia and Woman's Work. Palm-Irma, Dee. l.—'I'ha Pennsyl- vania «nominee on woman's work of the board of World's fair managers and the conga-loud delegates met here and gave veportsofthework heingdoneiothelrdis. trlcts. The state committee on woman's work ismpoaedof Mrs. Harriet A. Lucas, Min Mary E. McCaudles. Mrs. Mabel Cronise Jones. Mm Ida Elkiua Tyler and John W. \Voodslde. Pro-In Tho-peon'a Platform. T030570. Dec. l.-—Sir John Thorupoon, the new Canadian premier, will not inter fore with the English privy council's de- eision abolishing Roman Catholic state aid to public schools in Manitoba He will also adhere to the high protective policy of the late Sir John Mudonsld and will favor a reciprocity treaty with the United States To In} tho Aalltmt law. Bosros, Dec. l.——'i'he Sherman trust and antieombine law will be tested in the United States circuit court on Dec. lit in the ease of John N. Pattiaon and others. olllcersof the National Cash Register com pany, who were indicted for creating a monopoly in alleged restraint of trade and who declare the law unconstitutional. M I. luv. Bytes! Lona Bunsen, N. J., Dec. l.——No elew has been received as to the whereabouts of the Rev. George S. Sykes, who disapproval Oct. m. It isssaerted that a young woman in west Longllraueb has disappeared also lie is credited with taking several thousand dollars of his wife's money. no Papa Will Not mien It. Rout, Dec. I.——The pope has declined to sanction the marriage of Prince Penlinaad of Bulgaria to the daughterof the es-Duke of l’arma, because Prince Yenlinand stip nlstes that the issue of the marriage shall be trained as members of the Greek Bal‘ garian church. Halli-nor llvaaks Down. Janssrcm, Dee. 1,-zdward Hallie". the negromunlsrsv,wkohaaheanssatsuad threetlmesto be hanger! and reaped by manual theshruwd practices of Lawyer Pesball, bascompletely broken down under the certainty that holslobsuuutsdstan early date. ' lawatov Gibson latter. Ipall’a pis- row nodding. WW. Dee. l.-lpala wt mints- woollen AW. mm mm armors -m—me I Houses, LEMON XI. FOURTH QUARTER, IN». TERMTIONAL BEBIEG, DEC. 11. ‘v Test of Ilsa m. am av, ins-aus- cry Versus. l-I l-Goldu Test. Ants av. ll—co-Ineatsry by Ilse lav. D. I. flann- » In. Thlsverseintrodnbesnsto s gather- ing of the church “Jerusalem with the apostles and elders. Paul and Barnabas also being prevent and declaring before them all the wonders which Godghatl wrought among the Gentiles by them. The first part of the chapter tells why the apostles had left Antioch and the «use of thiscouucilat Jerusalem. The principal point ofdlspute was: .Cau Gentiles beaaved by faith in (3th most they alsoho circumcised lafore they can be saved! Peter told what- he had seen at the gift of Gad upon the uncircumcised, and now Paul and Barnabas tell what they have seen of the same grace. 1:5. James now some up the evkleuce and gives his decision. James, the brother of John, had been slain (xii, 2), so this must he James the son of Alpheus (Math. r, 8), the suthorof the sciatic of James. II. In verses It to Is we have a complete and miss summary of the purpose of God with the church, the Jews and the Gentiles. The purpose of the present dis pensnttou is not the conversion of the world. but, as it is written here, to take out of the nations a people for Ilia name. 15. “And tothissurco the words of the prophets.” While the gathering of one body out of Jews and Gentiles on equal terms is not clearly revealed in the Old Testament,” Paul testifies in Rom. xvi, 25, %; Eph. iiiJ. 6; the purpose of God to bleu all nations through the nation of Is- rael is very clearly revealed; and it is also written in this wnuection, "Surely the lad God will do nothing but He reveal« eth Ilia secret unto llts servants, the prophets" (Amos iii. 7). Id. “After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David." The restoration here spoken of has never yet taken place, the prophet says that whenitdoeatseplacelsraelshallbe planted in their land and never be pulled up any more (Amos ix, “45). Before this regatherlng of Israel as s nation the elect church must be completed. It. After the conversion of Israel as s lath-,thenshall allnationshecouvrrtsrl, for the time will coma whenall kings shall fall down before Ilim, all nations shall serve llim (Rs lxxii, ll). As one hassaid, ltis now some Jews and some Gentiles (tbaalect church), the- it will be slitha Jmanlxdt—fl; Jakarta"), and sftcfdsat‘hll the (lentils am. In, H, II, II). 13 There isnosurprisatofiadiaany thingthatoonnatopanandlledoea nothing that from all eternity lle did not see that He would do. It). Understanding the purpose of God James saw that the present election was not to be by any special mention with Jewish rites, but by simple faith in Jesus. and by His grace whosoever will. without respect to pemrns, may he saved (Venice 7 ll). 20. the advised writing to tin: Helltile converts that having received Jesus, and therefore being saved, they should abstain from all delllements of hioiatry and un- clesunen, and observe in theireating such portions of the ceremonial law as would be for their health and prove them to be up state from the hen! hen about them ( ll Cor. vi, to, vii. r). . 2|. It. was customary to read from Moses and the prophets in the synagracue every Sabbath day (xiii, 15. .4 , and Jesus "ins- self had testified that Moses wrote of Him that all Scripture referred to Him, and that He had come not to destroy, hot to fulfill (John v, es; Luke xaiv, 23. 44; Math. v, If). 21 Having come to thh decision it pleased the apostles and elders of the church at Jerusalem to send to Antioch with Paul and Berna!» such chief men as Rumbas and Silas, that not only might the Christians at Antioch learn, the de claims of the council by letter, but also by the tattnwny of these brethren 25. Listen now to the letter and hear leading Jews at Jerusalem addressing (lentils believers” brethren. lit-hold the graeaoftlollsodtheloveoftiw lloly Spirit. What a contrast to the old saying that the Jews have no dealings with the thmuttanai l myself have heard a minis— terof thetlospel object tothetem “breth- up," saying that he felt like knocking a man down who called him brother. Such was not the spirit of the apostle-n St. Such troublns and autumn: still live, and pervert theworrl of lied and my» tlfy the grace of (led, going so far one saythat unlein we believe a. theydoov joiathatreoasasanlou waeaaaot beloved; saws-I'll that even though we believe wehsnmethlnuodo helmweeaahe saved. and yet ethos-insist tkstwaasnaot knew whetherwaarsssvwl till wsdie. 3. Thelsttsvtntllastotkelovv of the chunhtowardllsrashaa sndPaul,ro the nailyefthe church number Is this matter. sad tothsls gust " an lupus nuns-e. " Thandowerfealdlyl-Bo y'on whh to marry that Van Iteausrelow girl! Ills Ben (“lawn—Yes, air, if you have so . TheWirlowee—Well, I have. Ills Mine is beautiful. The Wldowsrol know that. Hit Sou—She is very rich. about that? , His Son (much snoouraged)—Abaalutaly sumslr. The Widows—Theo l’ll marry her say- mwmons-An you alnoiutelyanrv ’ ETEGE R3 ‘ Under Mamsemenouu. : self. by jingol—llsrpsr’s Baa-1'. —l.ife. Ibo Didn't Basia the Turkey. Kate, the only servant, had left without an hour's notice, and Hrs. Dunne was spendiuga week out of the city. So the two girls, Lizzie and Mamie, who had just returned from boarding school, had the housework to attend to, with very limited experience. It was Seturday,and a gentleman was invited to tea the next evening. It w. agreed thst Lizzie, being the elder, should be cook. Certainly the turkey didn't taste so nice as it would have done if mother or Rare had been at home. but then they would have it cold for tea, and surely that would be all right. On Sunday "suing, after tea, which Ills, sleconslderudasuwus, abetold shegnest a compliment for her superior cooking, Said the guest: "I assure you. Hi- Liute, your trunking exactly suits my late, but"-—wish rather a humorous twinkle in his eye—"did you hate the turkey!" “Busting" and "needles" were taupe» rably connected in Link’s mind, and she answered indignant”: "Ban it, indeed! Do think, In. 0—“! new in Buaday -Datruis rue Iavlar Dru-v Nearly every courtship might truthfully beeslladaparlordruma,frorn thefaet thathoth thepartieaof the first pasture much “madeup,” and do a good dealof very neat acting. who has been permitted to go behind the scenes and tolesrn of things not lmeutlul to he made known to the public. innocenra ly points out some of the went. places that are simply gilded over. One such little brother, of an inquiring company," when they two were alone to» “Mr: Jaysmith, do you weigh very much?" in! lover boy contlnlud. , “0b, genders, not" sold the young man, blushing at the ram thmighz; "but why do you ask?" “I don't believe she can either, but I heard her tell ma she was going to throw you over as soon as she watchmen Not a Harlem. The merchant was notoriously clues, and hisckrkawmnotfoudof him. 0:» day heralledoueoftho lnstof them into his private ofles. “Charles," hesaid slowly, “what would you dolf I were todouble your salary?" “Pall dead on the spot." exclaimed the young man. Theold man's face widened. "Won." he said, ”I do not wish to ho one a murderer, so we shall let it remain at the old res," and Charles went out and uked t patertohlt hims whack lo the back with a dray ptnwlschange. a wot: see—o. ammliz. soon as l Inflamm- my vs you a ring a very baudeordesm modular-mus. ruin of s a. yan’llgtvam. gushed-W what lsltl In, an Vestal. lire. Nunavut the Helm o'er)— ~lwasts alrLsad possibly you do. I had-ayes 2 light Isvayua parlance mpovtatlou— loll! 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