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whose white fongs glittered through the

whose white fongs glittered through the
darkness.
Hale quickly removed his shoes as he
gained the entrance to the lighthouse.
The door was left open. He listened.
Both men assembled the stairs. The boys
heart beat with great thumps against his
side as he felt for the key.
II he could secure it, it would be easy
to lock the wreckers out when they came
down, and then to repair what damage
they might have done to the lamp. But,
alas. the key was gone!
For an instant Hale was confused and
disappointed, but it was not long before
he had contrived another plan, which he
determined to put into execution.
AT all hazards he would follow the
wreckers to the top of the lighthouse.
Trusting to his perfect knowledge OF
every nook and Granny in the premises,
Hale, with the stealthy motion of a cat,
assembled the steep, narrow, winding
stairs
| For the first time in his experience they
/ ere aked beneath his weight.
! Up, up he went, every slight noise send.
ing thrill of terror through his frame
up past loophoes. which now admitted
no single ray of light; up, until the sec.
ond last round was very nearly completed,
and then he stopped.
What was it that made him shiver as
though afflicted with an ague? What
caused him to crouch down in the inky
darkness, scarcely three feet from the bot
tom of the last rickety flight of stairs
He held his breath and listened. Despite
the fearful roaring of the tempest without,
Hale distinctly heard the low murmur OF
voices, and the loud, echoing sound OF
descending footsteps.
He recognized the wreckers. One was
an Indian. the other Miles Parker, a white
man, and both suspicious and dangerous
characters.
"Ughv exclaimed the former, as he
paused on the last ster. me hear um
noise! Sh!"
The sharp-eared Indian had detected the
almost suppressed breathing OF Hale.
TIE brave boy never moved muscle, but
the beating of his heart vas painful In
that fearful moment.
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kFEIA FTER the merry Christmas time come
~ the happy New Year, and that it may
INk7 indeed be a happy one to you is the
earnest wish OF your editor. Not that your
little boats may idly drift DER calm, sunlit
seas, oh, no; but that you may have courage
to battle every storm, and then, when con-
Gueror you stand, your days will be filled with
the happiness that comes alone from work
we'll done.
Do any OF you remember the little story
told YOU last year about the month OF Janu-
airy? wish some of you would write it for me
this week and send it in real early, SO we may
publish il on our next page.
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01y Oqe Coy.
Bv Fronie Abbott.

"Oh, mamma, come here and see
What Santa Claus has done.
He's left so many, many toys,
Pm 'fraId some boys got none"
So the little voice rang out,
so full OF JOY and glee.
He thought, "How good old Santa was
To brother Will and me.''
"But here are two almost alike;
This one I'll give TO T i'm.
I'll never miss il from nv lot,
And I'm sure 1t will please him.
"He is lame. you know, mamma;
HIS mother, she is dead.
He sells newspapers on the street,
And scarcely earns his bread.
$50 I'll give him just this one,
For this l well can spare;
And lots OF nuts, and candy, too,
With poor little Tim I'll SHARE"
And, each little boy and girl,
Spare just one Toy, l pray,
To make some sad heart glad
On this joyful Christmas day.
And remem Der, my dear little friends,
That all things in charity given
Are recorded in big golden letters,
By our Father who is in heaven.
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Names Of Puzzle-Solvers.

Answers to puzzles of December 20 have been
received from the following members of C. R.
c: Max Selig, Ethel Mcclure, Retha Walda
and Alice Bell.
For December Is from Jessie Harkin.
Answers from non-members for December
20: Fred Anther, May Carroll, Mazda Cuff,
Mignon de sannon, Ethel WiIds. L. Mortimer
and Emma Leslie.
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I. Hidden fruits.
(a) He appeared we'll to-day.
(b) The little chap pleased his sister.
(c) A suitable monument should be erected
(d) A vessel of queer shape achieved tho
honors of the day.
Selected.
II. Oh! oh! exclaimed Tommy,
My brains in q -;
If Il don't do these -,
Pa will make such fuss.
Oh! - here is something
To bother me more!
This lesson in French,
Unjust &c DER and Ger.
al wish" Tommy said,
With - and trOWn,
81 could be away,
From this musty old town"
There is different word in each stanza to
be trans posed. MAY +. MERRILL
III. Anagram. Pay. hen, aye, warp. A
greeting. MAZDA CUFF, c. R. C.
w. Curtailing. Drop final letter) Curtail
a bano of cattle and have a personal pronoun.
JESSIE HARKN c. R. C.
v. Curtail q wild animal and have minis
ter.
VI Behead a laboring article and have q
fastening. Five and six. by
ETHEL WILDs, C. r. C..
VII. ri. Tmtmhe nnnaooi. Something
we see in the sky. CLAIRE MCCLURE,
6years old, c. K. C.
WORD SQUARES.
VIII. 1. Wish.
2. Unsealed.
8. Hang.
A. Closes
TX. l J. Bssid.
8. To unclose.
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Letters Acknowledged.

Pleasant communications have also been re-
cefved from the boys and girls whose names
follow: Claire Mcclure, Carrie Mill $, Bonnie
Mills Ethel wilds, Beckie Heino, Clinton E.
Harrington, Addie r. barley, May carroll.
Irere Moore, Helen Snyder and Marie Ches-
worth C., r. c.
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a Placing n2irt,ke.

When for the first time in her life
She saw the snowfakes fall,
She held out her tiny apron,
AS If she would catch them all.
She opened her eyes in wonder,
In wonder and glad surprise,
Then ran quickly to her mother
With sparkling and merry eyes,
And cried, ooh, mamma, please look out &
And see what's coming down
God is popping Christmas corn
For all the boys and girls in town."
ADDIE f, BARLEY,
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Answers for December 20.

answers tor December ~.
/. Spine-pine.
II. Scorn-corn.
III. (a) Amy.
To- Ethel.
Nv. Ice+v=Vice.
" Santa Claus.
vi. (a) Brake-baker.
(b) Stake-steak.
(c) Master-stream.
(dD Nails-snail.
VII. A heavenly body ST Al
Gentle T A NE
An ancient prophet NJ 0
To repose-
"a misprint occurred in last)
VIII. Jack and
Jill, etc.
TX. A Merry Christmas.
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BLUE CANON, CAL, December 49, 1896.
Dear Editress: 1t has been several weeks
since l wrote to the CALL, but we are having
examinations in our school and 1 have not
had time to write. Next Friday will be the
last day of school until next spring. I would
very much like to get acquainted with the
little boy who lives in the lighthouse. Ihaye
never been very near to a lighthouse. and
would like to know more about it. If we have
much snow up here this winter, as it is place
where snow us ually falls in the winter, the
rotary snow pillow will come up here to work /;
and as we generally have from three to twenty
feet of snow, should like some of the little
chill dren who live in San Francisco to como up
here and see what wonderful thing 1t is.
You will see inclosed some answers to the
puzzles of Dec. Is. 1 remain.
Your little friend,
RETHA WALDAN, C. r. C.
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puzzles of Dec. IS. l remain.
Your little friend,
RETHA WALDAN, C. r. C..
SANTA CRUZ, CAL. Dec 20, 1896.
| Dear Editor: l am little girl II years old
| and go to the Laurel School. am In the sixth
| grade 1 send you puzzle, wishing to be-
! come member of the c. R. c. / love books
| very much and am generally reading one
| like history the best of all. We had a fl ne
| time at school the last day. We had a tree and
| a Santa Claus; Donald Kelsey was Santa Claus
have fine time in summer when many of
mamma's old friends come to spend the sum-
mer here. Fearing that my letter might be
getting too long l remain yours truly,
HETTIE SNYDER.
P.S. Please print this letter.
SAN FRANCISCO Dec 20, 1896.
Dear Editor: This is my first letter to you
and l would like to join the c. r. C. l read
the "Childhood's Realm" page every Sunday.
and enjoy it very much. always try the puz-
zles and sometimes get all of them. Have got
them all to-day. but do not know if they are
right. go to the Cleveland School and like
my teacher very much. l am in the fifth
grade and was No. this month We had a
Christmas exhibition and took part in it. l
will be 10 years old next month and have
little sister named Jessie, 8 years old. WISH
ing you merry Christmas, remain your
new friend, FRED ANrHER
419 Tenth st.
TRINIDAD Dec 10, 1896.
Gear Editor: This is my second letter to THE
CALL and L was so glad to see my other one in
print in THE CALL CT Decem Der 3. / like the
childrens page as it is nice to read the letters
from the little boys and girls during the long
winter evenings. 1t is SO lonesome at a light
house. Every night before go to bed, mamma
and go upstairs and look out OF the window
up the hin and watch large deer that comes
there every night. He ltkes to gaze at the light.
When the ocean roars he stands for half an
hour and listens to it. My papa will n OF allow
any one to shoot him, because / enjoy his
visits. Last week steamer tried to come into
our wharf but it was so rough 1t had to stay
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SAN FRANCISCO, Monday, Dec. 81, 1896
Dear Editor: This is my first letter to The
CALL, for we just began to take it before the
holidays. l enjoy reading the Childhood's
Realm very much, but would enjoy it more to
have my name appear in it. Your new friend,
ELSIE DEWEY
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the great break between the sixth and
seventh verses. accompanied by total
change OF subject; his historical bias leads
him 10 seek an explanation for this
change In some variation OF authorship:
he pronounces the two parts of the psalm
respectively. Now the literary student APP
proaches the Bible with his mind intent on
forms OF observation-disclosures. lyric, philoso-
ply and the like. To which of these
classes is the present psalm TO be referred?
He discovers that the two halves of the
same literary class-what are called occa-
sional poems or anthems. IL Is not diff
cult TO discover an occasion TO which both
of these anthems are fitting.
The speaker proceeded TO describe the in
auguration of Jerusalem by King David;
twenty-fourth Psalm fitted into two parts
of that days programme; the first half
would be sung by the procession at the
foot of the hill c'Who shall ascend into
the hill of the Lord?) The second part is
a military anthem of a spiritual order.
sCmmoning the newly-captured but ancient
city TO open its gates TO King Jehovah.
Coming to the second question, why this
literary study of the Bible is only just
now becoming prominent. the answer is
simple. 1t is only the publication of the
revised version of the Bible which has
made literary study possible. The old ver-
sion was beautiful in single verses. but un-
ing the connection Of thought which makes
literature. In the revised version Ii Is
quite possible to read Job or Deuteronomy
at a single sitting, apprecating the unity
and force of each as a man appreciates a
play of Shakespeare when Ii Is presented all
context-that is the literary study OF the
Bible.
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Religion Is Not "a Dry Dock for Old
NulkS. SAWS He


Prof. Albion w. Small. of the University
of Chicago, occupied the pulpit at Plymouth
Church yesterday morning. His sermon
was from John ii, III have written unto
you, young men. because We are strong.
and the word of God abideth in you"
1t would have harmonized better with a
common idea OF religion" said the speaker
IF the apostle had said TO his pupils: L
have written to you about religion because
you are weak Religion seems appropriate
enough 10 the sick. the infrm. the weak
headed. the condemned criminal, but the
strong and the secure often fancy that IL is
not in their line. 1t would have harmoni=ed
woll with another estimate of religion If the
apostle had said: / have written TO you.
oId mon. because you are old and have out
dock on which to haul up old hulks for re-
pairs. Religion is the high seas OF life's
career. where the sinews of mankind are
stIa ned 10 tnt ir highest tension Z r succ SIS.
Bur the strength That Is splendid In youth
and calves possess in larger measure The
apostle wisely congrat ated young men,
no. upon their youth alone, but because
come morally strong. No man is at the top
of his strength until he combines manly
strength with Cody strength.
ITO be a Christian Is TO begin TO be I'm
sympathy with Christ. in perception. feel
ing and purpose. 20 be eager to have a
hand In everything that Christ would pro-
mote. to be opposed 10 everything that
of God abide In US to join in with the whole
mighty purpose of the worlds redemption
Such partnership calls for the most strenu-
the highest attainable degree of broad
mindedness and large-heartedness. II Ia.
wolves strength OF Imagination. OF prin-
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LESSONS FROM CHARLES LAMB.
rrOf. ii. w. ROlfc Goes Over the Pa
thetic Life of This Writer.

The address at the Second Presbyterian
Church last evening was given by Prof. II.
W. Rolfe of Chicago University. who took
for his subject Lessons from the Life of
Charles Lamb" The speaker recounted
the sad. pathetic life of this writer and
drew the lessons of his faithfulness, his
devotion. his tenderness and love for his
sister Mary. Lamb was born in the very
heart of London, in the old Temple. place
full of interesting associations. place
we'll suited TO the imaginations of a child.
Charles Lambs father was clerk to one
of the benches of the Inner Temple and
II was probably through the latters in
fuence that Charles admitted
Christ's Hospital, an old London school. In
entering this school he was but continuing
in surroundings suited to his meditative
disposition. 1t was at Christ's Hospital
that his friendship with Coleridge began
and formed one of the important influences
of his life. 1t was in his fifteenth year
that Charles Lamb was obliged to leave
school and go to work to assist i'm the sup
port of his family. His elder brother John
would not help and his sister Mary, who
was ten years his senior. could not. There
was ii great friendship existing between
Charles and his sister Mary and their re-
newed companionship was a compensa ton
for the loss of the advantages Of school,
The work he found to do was uEcongeniaI
His family was poor and mis- home life
Mary had their books and friends and
were happy
The happiness broken by tragedy
for in a moment of insanity Mary killed
her mother. Charles undertook the entire
charge of his sister after her release from
the asylum TO which she committed
His anxious care continued until his death
His constancy and devotion was something
remarkable and vas of the strongest
traits of his character. For his sister he
gave up his sweetheart. TO whom many
of his poems and essays were written He
gave up literature for time he was so
full of care for his sister but his poverty
was an incentive for him to write. He
shared the hopes and fears of other au-
thors. Some of his writings were sue
cesses. some moderately so and others
were complete failures. His entirely sue
cessful work was done with his sister and
they wrote together the Tales of Shak-
speare. He was successful critic. After
twelve years Of hard work he began to
see the fruits of his labors His life from
beginning to end WAS sweet and inspir-
ing one, full of noble courage and one
with lessons of beauty and value The
speaker was listened to with interest as
he recited the story of this great English
writer and drew from ii the applications.
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CITY NEWS NOTES.

Revival services will be held in the
South-street Baptist Church every evening
this week. Rev. L. Nj. Mcclure, of Ander-
son, will assist in the services.
The regular meeting Of the directors OF
the Bows Club and Employment Associa-
ton will lie held at the rooms. 81 East
Court street. tomorrow at $3.50 o'clock.
A defective fue in the frame house at
30 West New York street. owned by Allen
Hissey. called the department at. 1921
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. Loss about =.
The funeral of George G. Baker. the
brakeman who was killed Saturday night
in the accident on the Big -Four railroad in
North Indianapolis, will take place at his
late residence. 20i Pine street, Tuesday aft
ernoon.
Mr. Valentine Abt. noted mandollnist,-
who shas received man" hatterin2 notices
in the East. will he the star on a pro-
gramme to he presented at Plymouth
Church on Dec. 2 Prof. Charles Hulme
has charge Of the programme, which also
includes numbers by local musicians and
Prof Huin1e'S orchestra.
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the Mandarins greetings and the guests
assembled. the designations and pleasantries
INDUCED in were distinctly Oriental Fan
tan, Chinese poker, and numerous games
were played.
At IL o'clock Chinese luncheon was
served in Chinese style on pain wooden
tables and in the regulation bowl similar
to that which Ii Hung Chang used during
his stay in this country. Nc forks or
compelled to eat with chopsticks or go
without. Tea was served in the regulation
The whole house was decorated in a man
ner befitting the occasion. One room on
the second floor fitted out in an exact
reproduction of joss house, and joss
sticks burned throughout the evening.
During the time between the games of Chi
nese poker and the luncheon lantern feast
was participated in by the guests and by
who were present and in whose honor the
reception was given. The lights were
turned down and the guests provided with
Chinese lanterns fastened to the end OF
sticks. and under the leadership of persons
familiar with the house a promenade took
through the darkened rooms lighted only
by the decorated lanterns and sang the
chorus of the Mandarin
After the luncheon. the guests having en-
deavored to satisfy their appetites with the
use of chopsticks and green tea. the time
was given over to various divertise menus
At intervals selections from the Man
DARN were given by members OF the COM
pdny.
The invitations for this unique reception
numbered about 300 printed on rice paper.
and looked like Chinese napkins to the cas-
ual observer. but close examination
the Chinese characters took the form winch
I to the initiated had some meaning. Oppo-
/ site the Chinese characters a translated
version of the invitation was printed, and
read Reception at the home of Ii Hung
Chang Re-Gin-Ald De-Ko-Ven, the great
Mandarin, takes great pleasure in inviting
you TO be present at reception TO De given
at his home on Sunday. Nov. q. 1886.
Guests are only admitted providing they
are dressed i'm Chinese clothing. Mr.. De-
Koven composed special music Tor the
Fai
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ly no study deserves the name systematic.
no study can be systematic which does not
A FEW QUESTIONS ASKED.

"A word now in conclusion:
Have you a clear and definite purpose
in mind as to what you are studying for?
AS to what you are trying to accomplish?
Have you a sharply outlined plan In
which provision is made for the intelligent
study, one by one. of the great epochs.
the great character. the great doctrines,
and above all that great life. the life Of the
Christ?
Have you decided that you will think for
yourself, that you will use the mind which
God has given you. employing aids and as
sistance only when it is necessary and
wise?
rs your study in accordance with the
great principles which underly the work.
ing OF the human mind? Are you logical?
Is there order. connection, consecution?
rs your work comprehensive? Are you
careful not to lose yourself in wilder
ness of detail; forgetting the great purpose
and the broad plan with which you began
your work?
rs your work producing results? At the
end of every month. or three months, or
six months can you feel that you have
made progress? Are the books of the Bible
coming. one by one. into your possession?
Are you beginning TO look forward to the
have been mastered? How is it? Are these
things so? Your work then is systematic.
This book, your book, my book. God s
book-this book, say; we must study; we
must study il in no other way than did the
incarnate word himself. Let us take Him
as our model. in this as in all work. We
must study 1T reVerently, FOR IL Is divine !:
study ii historically for it Is human; and
ated in the image of God and endowed
with minds. minds which our Creator in
tended we should use.
And I'm such u work, undertaken by the
intelligent men of our day. entered into
with such spirit and pursued in such a
manner. with God himself over all and in
scribe nor for the mind of man to COM
prehend what would be accomplished.
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LITERARY STUDY OF BIBLE.
Prof. II. q. MouItOnfs Talk mt Second
Presbyterian Chrurch.

Prof r. c.. Moulton spoke at the Second
Presbyterian Church yesterday morning.
He began by explaining that he did not
appear as representing any church. but
simply as representing the literary study of
the Bible. He would endeavor TO answer
two questions: What exactly is the liter
airy study of the Bible. and secondly. How
comes it that such study is only just begin
ming? The purely literary study CT the Bible
has to be distinguished on the one hand
from its theological study and on the other
hand from the historical analysis which has
come to be called the higher criticism. AS
an Illustration. the speaker read the TWEEN
ty-fourth Psalm. The use of this as a de-
votional exercise or as subject for
preaching will be understood by ALL The
higher critic is above all things his
torian. intent upon questions of authorship.
date and relation of the literature TO con-
temporary events. In the case of this par
ticular Psalm he notes Gas all must motel