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FAITH WITHOUT FANAT1c1sM,


Truth runs close upon the verge OF
error, and there are no high boundary
walls. One may easily step across the bor-
der without being conscious that he has
passed into an enemy's country. This is
nowhere seen, perhaps, more frequently
than in the facile transition that is so often
made from faith to fanaticism. 1t is good
thing to trust God, and one cannot trust
Him too much, provided there is no relax
alton Of labor. But with some natures the
tendency Is very strong to substitute prayer
for patient toll, and to expect the end with
out the use Of appointed means. Very many
have plunged into the morass because they
.disregarded reason under the plea Of direct
guidance from heaven. They shut the eyes
of their understanding that they might act
upon impressions and impulses which they
took for granted were from God. Nothing
can be more dangerous. He who puts aside
his reason, which Is our God-given guide
to listen to some dream, or vision, or voice,
is almost certain to go astray. Now IL Is the
immediate age, now instantaneous healing
without remedies, now some other similarly
baseless craze which casts aside common
sense, degrades Scripture, and retards spir-
itual progress, all in the name Of faith. But
it really is fanaticism. Cease not to pray, but
keep pegging away. is the proper rule. Be-
lieve God implicitly when He clearly speaks
but use your intellect with the utmost cool
ness for. the ascertainment of what He says.
1t is very easy to ascribe to Him what really
comes from our own fancy, or pride, or am
bition, or incidence. Many false spirits are
gone out into the world, and it is our busi-
ness to try the spirits by variety OF tests 80
as to see whether or not they are OF God.
Trust is one thing, presumption is quite
another. Blessed is he, and marvelously
sane, who is master Of the strongest, fullest
faith, and yet has not the slightest touch OF
fanaticism.
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wNl honor mo with your presence on the
sh6ft-eruise, my officers and self will en-
Isvor Gt-feast in part, to show our ap-
6reciation Of the kindness we have re-
Cceived at your hands ard the hands OF your
friends, since coming into the beautiful
bay. and meeting these most hospitable
people Hoping for favorable reply at
the hands Of Mr.. Frenauld, believe me with
much esteem, very sincerely.
Your humble, obedieut servant
WILLIAM Fox,
Commanding q NJ 6. Cruiser Wanderer.
To Captain Ralph Denham, a NJ Pro-
v1ncial Cruiser, Sea Hawk.
What do you think of that, Mr.. Day
ton?' asked the Captain, when he had
finished reading the letter aloud.
Il must say think it very handsome,
Captain. OF course you will not say
mo- to such an offer? 1t is most for
tunate think to have ship like the
Wanderer to bear one to New York, in
stead of going through the woods and
over the sands on horseback" replied
Lieutenant Dayton.
Even If the offer were not tempting,
I should feel inclined to accept. to show
my appreciation Of Fox's kindness"
Then you will go on the "anderer'
Yes; and I shall at once write Fox
to that effect; Frenauld is waiting for
my answer"
Captain Denham sat down to a desk,
and quicking penning his reply, sent 1t
up by Lieutenant Dayton.
And thus 1t came about that Captain
Denham sailed away in the Wanderer.
Had the powers Of darkness deliber.
ately planned to aid Captain Fox and
Colonel Graham in their dark schemes,
matters could not have worked better
into their hands.
Colonel Graham was not demonstra-
tive man; on the contrary, he was cool,
self-possessed, suspicious and cynical.
But when Fox read him Ralph Denham's
letter accepting the offer, Graham
sprang from his chair, and in his mo-
mentary exultation, seized his COM
panion's hand, and cried with an oath:
Now, we have him, sir! We have
him!"
It was reported that Col. Graham
would return to New York on the Wan
derer, but the people expressed no sur
prise when the vessel sailed away with
out him.
The night before the morning when
the snip SalleQ away, lol. OIhndul, WIN
still made his headquarters at the inn,
was taken alarmingly i'll, and DR..
He eiges, who was called in to attend to
the case, bled him freely.
The illness was trick to give an ex-
cuse for remaining behind, but there
was no trick about the DOCTOR lancet.
Bleeding was then thought to be apana-
cea for every i'll, from a toothache to
Asiatic cholera, and the doctor left his
patient 80 weak that.he could not move
if he would.
1t was decidedly dangerous to @fool"
with doctors in those days, when bleed
ing and blistering killed the weak, and
tested the powers Of the strongest. =
Squire Condit was the only person OF
note in the town that did not visit the
sick man, but the people all thought the
Squire eccentric.
A few days after the Wanderer sailed
away, Dinah, the old black woman, lit
orally forced her way into Col. Gra-
hams room.
The rather startling disclosures that
the old woman made, and the remarka-
BILE conduct of the invalid must form
the subject Of the next chapter.
ITO BE CONTINUED
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egyptian Onions

English imports of3onions have IN.
creased from Egypt, andlit is acknowI.
edged that this country is at present
the most active and aggressive com
petitor in the onion trade, Says writer
in Chambers's Journal. Egypt has
been regarded by some people as the.
land of pyramids and mummies only,
but it has from time immemoriai had
reputation for onions. Ancient;
Egyptians swore by the onion and re-
garded the plant as sacred. The in.s
scription on the pyramid Of Oheopsi
tells us that the workmen had onions
given tthem, and from the Bible We
learn that the Hebrews, when slaves
under Pharaoh, enjoyed these bulbs
and that when far away they remem.
bered "the leeks and the onions and
the garlic" The trade with Egypt
for onions is now 80 important that.
four lines Of steamers are engaged in
the traffic, bringing eonsignments
from Alexander to Liverpool, Hull and
London. " .si
Inc ERyptlan onion lS q nandsomed
and useful vegetable, and by selecting
the best strains OF seed the quality
tends year by year to improve. The
Egyptians know two varieties the
.'baali'' and the 'tmiskaoul' but snp-
plies of the latter kind are seldom sent
abroad, as they absorb so much mois-
tnre from the frenuently irrirated
ground in which they are grown that
they do not stand 8 sea voya kwell.
The ''baali" onion is the moee4 46pular
Egyptian onion and is grown il yell
low soil, which .is sparingly watared
while the bulbs are maturing, in order
that the onions may stand 9 lengthy
sea voyage with little risk Of "sprput-g
ing" Soexcellent in quality are these
onions that efforts are, il is said, being
made in other countries to raise onions
from Egyptian seed. n
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POPULAR scIRhC 3.

A foot of newly fallen snow changes
into an inch Of water when melted.
The colors penetrating deepest are
Ehe blues and the green's, the red be-
Ing cut off first. II.
Keller has shown in Madagascar that
The corals always grow out in the di-
lection of the strongest light.
The. .Geysers OF the Yellowstone Ma
tionsl Bark are failing. Their force
has fallen off fifty per cent. in sixteen
years. ;s..
The Du Points, OF Wilmington, Del,
have a horseless family carriage, with
2 seating capacity for eight persons.
The motive power is electricity. s
A thirty knot torpedo boat de-
stroyer, the Captain Orella, built BY
the Lairds for the Chilean Govern.
ment, made an average Of 80. IL knots
on her trial trip on the Clyde.
Leaving out patients that were mori-
bund at the time the injection was
made, 5794 cases Of diphtheria treated
in private practice in this country by
the antitoxin method gave a mortality
of only S.S per cent.
The air tight compartment theory
OF building ships was copied from 81
provision Of nature shown in the case
of the nautilus. The shell of this ami.
NAL has forty OF fifty compartments,
into which air or water may be ad-
mitted, to allow the occupant to aink
or float as it plesses. i. :.3s,$
The making of artificial ears seems
to have reached scientific perfection;
within the last decade. Made Of a
specially prepared rubber, flesh coll
ored in the rough, they are painted
by hand in exact imitation of the re-
naming ear of the unfortunate cus.;
toner, and as carefully t'touched" and
marked as an artists picture. The
maker gets q hundred dollars apiece
for them. q; y y
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TEMPERANCE.
II WILL DRINK NO MORE"

WILL DRINK NO MORE.
Dear mother. I received your letter.
Oh, hcw it cheered my heart
80 far from home and friends,
Doing the workers part.
You ask about my habits,
Pray set your mind at rest,
do not drink, dear mother, 9
And try to do my best. 2.
"The tempters they are many,
The tempted they are more, ...
And they often sail In their painted ships
Quite smoothly from the shore,
But in looking down the river 3D..
Oh, their sufferings who can tell
gee the struggling, helpless forms;
see the wrecks as we'll.
IT see on the shore friends weeping,
lhear the children cry.
And again ! see the cruel waves
Still running mountain high.
I stretch my hands to save them
Above the breakers roar.
Alb, too late. too late! In sight Of home
They sink to rise no more.
IT will not drink, dear mother,
And I'll try to do my best
God helping melville absent,
30 set your heart at rest"
Oh happy, happy mother. .
A victory you've won!
And you a loving heart have blessed
Oh, happy, thoughtful son! ,
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A PICTURE.

blessed are they that hunger and thirst" :"
Think OF the picture that that suggests-the
ravenous desire Of starving man, the al
most fierce longing OF parched throat. Is
that picture Of the intensity, OF the depth
Of our desires to be good? Do we profess
ing Christian men and women long to be
delivered from our evils and to be clothed
in righteousness, with an honesty and On
earnestness and a continuity of longing
which would make such words rs these
anything else, if applied to US, than the Bit
terest irony? o, one looks out over the
Christian church and one looks into ones
own heart and contrasts the tepid, the lazy,
the occasional and, 1 am afraid, the only
half sincere wishes to be better with the IN
mistakable earnestness and reality Of our
belongings to be rich, or wise, or prosper
GUS, or famous, or happy in our domestic
Observation-Disclosures McClaren.
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i 1h S$hes'Ifs c]ofhin,@e. ING

Ralph knew who he Was-rather be
did not know who he was, in regard to
name and parentage-and though he
consoled himself with the belief that
neither could be bad, he realized
that In this community, there was a
strong, even bitter, prejudice against
these Of ilIegitimate birth, and that
maidens far beneath Lea Hedges in the
social scale would hesitate before Civ.
ing him their hands In marriage.
Usually, Ralph was the soul of cheer
fulness; tonight, he was gloomy, and,
In her futile efforts to rally him, Lea
herself became taciturn.
At length they reached promontory,
that commanded q magnificent view Of
the bay, and Of the islands to the east,
now o cloud OF green and gold, in the
distance. Here they sat down on the
trunk Of fallen tree and, turning to
her, Ralph asked:
How long have you known me, Leaf"
Il have known you Ralph" she re-
piled, ever since can remember.
He became silent again, dreading to
launch out on the sea, to whose shore
be had led her.
why do you ask that strange ques-
hon?"
She did not look at him, but toyed
with the ribbon of the hat which she
held in her lap.
Il was wondering how long two
friends-good friends as you and I are
could be acquainted without knowing
exactly what the one thought Of the
other, he said.
Il have never doubted about that; you
have been to me brave brother, IN
whom I felt all sist6's pride; and I
think I have been to- sister; you
have often told me- in these very
woods.@ATd now she began to knot
the strings as if she had a spite against
them.
II was then youth and you a little
girl. We have both changed. You are
no longer sister to me, Lea"
Not sister, Ralph"
mo; the time-the time I have so
often thought of, and always with
feeling of dread-has come. Oh, Lea,
you must be much more than sister to
me-or-or less.
He turned to her AMI reached out
both his hands; and, as she did not
make response, but sat there trem-
bling, with face as white as statue,
he called out:
Forgive me, Lea. I could not help
it. 1t seemed that my heart would
break if I did not tell you Of my love
before left Now care not to return,
but I do not blame you. We're you in
truth my sister, and one in my position
asked for your hand, I could not en-
courage him"
oh, Ralph, Ralph" she cried, spring.
ing to her feet, and -cl:nging with her
white arms to his neck. DO not leave
me so, Ralph, my more than brother!"
AS he folded her to his breast, and
kissed her face, which the setting sun
seemed to surround with an aureole Of
golden light, Ralph Denham became
aware of another presence.
He looked up and saw the scowling
dark face and towering form OF the
Montauk chief before him.
Releasing Lea, Ralph strode before
the Indian, and in an angry tone de-
manded:
What brings you here?"
Here" said the chief, dehantly
glancing around him. Here I stand on
the lands of the Montauk. What brings
you here?'
Il should give my reply If this lady
we're not with US, said Ralph.
II shall receive your reply when she
is not with you" said Uncas, thro wing
his long rifle across his shoulder, and
striding into the forest from which he
had come.
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NATURE ATD DEATH.

Nature Is full of death. The leaf falls. the
tree dies, the gray earth is wrinkled with the
graves OF her children. The air is tremulous
with knells: there arc vacant places in our
homes the dust is strewn over the faces
that we loved. What is man. whose breath
is in his nostrils? Behold. we die,
we perish. we all perish! Who, then,
do we forsake the living fountains for our
broken cisterns2 f[e who eateth OF
this bread shall hunger. he who drinketh OF
this water shall thirst again but he who
eateth the bread OF life, and drinketh of the
water which Christ shall give him, shall
hunger and thirst no more. Lord, give US
that water Lord, evermore give us that
bread from heaven, which is Thyself!
Give it to US now and forever.-Canon Far
rar
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cERMANY'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY.
1.o17,112 Persons Employed In 1t and an
Increase Of Female Employos.

increase OF einaie GhpioScss
The growth Of the textile industry in the
German Empire is shown in the result of
last years census of mechanics reported to
the State Department by Consul Sawter ut
Giauchau. In this industry over LOCO, 900
persons are employed, and the interesting
fact is noted that there has boon yearly de-
crease of male and corresponding increase
Of female employees. The exact number Of
employees was LOTT, l12, against 932. .592 in
1882. Since 1888 the males decreased from
5S2.070 to $50, ,230. a change OF 20, $40. Their
places have been filed by females, whose
number grew from $780, ,522 to 464,3l6 in the
same period.
One result ofthose changes is the improved
sanitary surroundings and comfort provided
for the employees. Their every interest in
this way is being considered to encourage
good and satisfactory labor. Wash rooms
and lockers for non-workinS apparel are
provided, and dining rooms where coffee
and potatoes (the latter one OF the chief COM
ponents of the lunoheon) are roasted or
boiled in special wire receptacle. There
are also separate lunch rooms for whole
families employed in tho factories where
they can distribute food from tho family bas-
ket and enjoy together the recreation af-
iorded by tho MONDAY meal. Somo Of the
larger factories have 4 buffet, wher9 can be
purchased, Mt IL merely nominal price, beer,
sausages, rolls, coffee cake, or any little lux
ury in the form Of pastry.
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Expert Shuplifting.

A new and ingenious scheme has
recently been developed by expert
shoplifters in Eastern cities. They
employ q sweet-faced child, who en-.
ters crowded store, carrying large
paper bag, from which the odor oi
onions and other vegetables is very
prc2cr1eeo, The chief passes her
spoils to the girl, who places them in
the bag under the vegetables. By
this means they have for some time
succeeded in decei7ing the police, and
in one instance deceived q detective,
even when such bag had been opened
On suspicion, -.
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A NATION 8 DRCNKARDs.

recent issue, says: "The total number Of
drunkards in this country is modestly esti-
mated by the Quarterly Journal Of Inebriety
to be 100000 persons. As there are about
Is, 600, 900 adults in this country. this means
that one persons out Of every fifteen drinks
intoxicating liquors to excess-that Is to
say, drinks to drupkenness.-Sacred Heart
Review.
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CHIEF CAUSE OF POVERTY.

The bulk of the poverty in this country is
directly or indirectly caused by the enormous
amount expended by the people Of this eoun-
try for that which Is neither bread nor meat.
A Nation, State, a county or town. whose
inhabitants support more saloons than gro
cery stores, but have an impoverished peo-
pie. It cannot be otherwise, no matter how
the financial question is settled.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
w,Ry-F1LLEp AND woRD-FILLED SERMONS.

Sermons may be divided into many classes
but there are two great general 9lVisions
which embrace mcst pulpit productions;
They are the sermons filled with words and
the Sermons filled with work. The first kind
costs little and is worth little. Its preacher
holds the low ideal that sermon only meane
the collection of certain accepted andP Pcon.
yentional ideas. He gathers his material
from commonplace sources, places them IN
position, and weaves the various parts into
{. continuous whole. The result may De
neat and interesting address, but it lacks per-
sonality and the touch Of mystic influence
which moves the heart and life Of the hearer.
The work-fllled sermon possesses the power
denied to the word-f1lled sermon, because the
preacher puts himself into It. It is not q
mere collection of ideas gathered with
more or less carefulness from different
sources, but is presentation OF ideas which
have been thought, studied and prayed over.
The trouble with much preaching In our day
Is that it involves too little labor. Ours is
an age Of helps, and busy men are tempted
to seize the gold dust that lies on the surface
oi their subject without waiting to delve
down patiently and earnestly to the golden
nuggets in the rock beneath. They are
content with what comes easily, and
90 they fall short Of the stand
ard at which they ought to- aim.
Speaking the other day at the ordination Of
young minister, DR.. James Stalker, that
prince Of Scottish preachers and writers,
gave, a most interesting "reminiscences OF his
own ordination, His father, a shrewd and
sensible country elder, was present at It, and
snlemnly spoke to his son after this fashion,
when ali was over: james, have been
looking round this congregation (tlere were
about seven hundred members In IT.;
see in this field many things to do. and
there will be thousand things 10 attend
to, but you must see and get your ser
mon thoroughly ready for Sunday The
famous preacher added his cordial testimony
that II he had attained any success in the
pulpit he owed it to the fact that he had
taken his fathers advice to heart. He fills
his sermons with work, and SO his words go
to the ends of the earth. Smaller preachers
in smaller spheres should do likewise. Words
without work are as useless in the pulpit as
ont of IT,
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An Unpleasant Country.

Between Carthage and Stislingville,
in Jefferson County, New York, there
is stretch of country where the sand
drifts like snow, making great banks,
and binding the eyes OF those who
look upwind. 1t is desointe, barren
region, where the soil is only as deep
.as roots OF the grass. Boston Eudget.
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cHRIsT's LIFE.

All the perplexity and painful distress, the
dark difficulties that may dominate ones
whole existence. would disappear if we
would only learn that in Christ Jesus our
eating and drinking, our sleeping and cloth
ing OF the body, are as much spiritual mat
ters as falling upon our knees in prayer, or
reading Gods holy word. or partaking Of
the holy communion at the table Of the Lord.
In Christ Jesus life is one. and there ought
to be no division between things secular and
things spiritual, things bodily and things
bodily and things heavenly: they must be
one, absolutely one.-Webb-Peploe.
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Marriage to Avert Starvation.

A minister of Milwaukee, Wis, was ap-
piled to few days ago by Il man and Wo-
man, who desired that they should be made
nan and wife in order that they might not
;tarve. The minister learned that 1t Is the
rule Of the county poor authority there to
help only married men, aud the would-be
groom was destitute and unable to gain work.
He is widower and has 4 six-year.old child
dependent on him for support. A young
woman, as poor as himself, but able to get
work occasionally, has been caring for the
child. and to her the father told his story.
She at. once offered to marry him.
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AS you value your faith. your God and
your saviour, as you look for nobler and
better character, keep the spiritual eye up
ward. Pray when and where you will. but
pray as habit. The heavenly eye must be
kept trained and adjusted to heavenly Vi
sions if it would gain anything from them
Bishop Lawrence.
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five had prayed more, we need not have
worked so hard. We have too little praying
face to face with God every day. Cooking
back a. the end I suspect there will be
great grief for our sins of omission--omis-
sion to get from God what we might have
got by praying.--A. 4. Bonnr.
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No man knows the fullness of life until.
locking into the face Of his Saviour. he sees
in it the infinite love, the infinite intellect
ual mastery and power to command, and the
infinite inspiration Of the presence Of the
living Christ.-Rev. David Nelson Beach.
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REAL "pRRsoNAL LIBERTY. ="

Whenever there Is talk of a community
voting mo license" there Is always great
stress laid by the opponents Of temperance
On personal liberty" This phrase sounds
we'll, but translated into plain English it
simply means the right OF man to get
drunk If he should feel so inclined. Indulg-
snce in drink robs man of his real "person-
al liberty" and the saloon, instead Of being
Its friend and upholder, Is It's most deadly
9nemy.
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Liverpool to Emulate Glasgow.

The Liverpool (England) City Council has
resolved to promote II bill in Parliament to
buy up the street car lines OF the city ut Il
cost Of not over s5,000,000.
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'.BeSin with small things. You cannot
enter the presence Of another human being
withC;,7 finding there more to do than you
or Or any soul will ever learn to do per-
fcrtiv before We die"