The Newtown bee., 1907-03-08

CHAPTER VII.
 And there said once a clerk in two v.rses. bepter IS shen ssn pat s than wisdom2 Woman. What is better than woman? No rhing--Chaucer.
 Man never is, but always to be blest Pope.
 If you must commit faults. commit faults that can be mended Swift.
 , Happiness is perpetual possession of be- When. soon or late. they reach that coast.
 Der hfe's rough ocean driven.
 may tney re1olce; no wAnderer lost,
 earth--1enesis l. 2s.
 God setteth the solitary in famiIies.-PsAlm 6S. 6.
 As soon as Robin was able to get about, he visited his old friends in the office of the daily paper. at AQuaton- The paper was at this time without an editor and he was offered the position of editorial writer, the nominal edi- tor and owner of the controlling stock in the publishing company being su- perannuated old gentleman, Father Baker. Money had been left Robin by his mothers father, for whom he had been named, to educate him for the ministry, but Providence had so plainly shut the door toward College and opened it toward newspaper writ ing that he accepted the situation and finally resigned his previous ambition of fitting himself to proclaim the Word of Life. There is both truth and poetry in Shakespeare's lines:
 There is a Providence doth shape our ends,
 Rough hew them, how we will
 John c. Patton, the missionary hero, has put the same truth in more mod ern language: steers us. all shall be we'll. Take action when M a.d n where God points the wsyi wait for no
 Prince Albert was equally express i've: "Find out Gods plan in your generation and then beware lest you cross 1t; but fall promptly into place in that plan" This is what Robin did and, though so nervously weak at first that he was obliged to walk for some time to regain composure, he soon got both strength and momentum in his new position. His first article was on Jay Cooke's failure, that philan- thropic millionaire having just been finored by his faith in the Northern Pacific line of railway, which has since justified his confidence in its capabili ties. Another young man who had al- so worked at type in the office was To- cal editor and the two worked to- gether harmoniously. The question came up and Robin, acting on the ad. vice of the principal stockholder, ad- vocated the license system, which the State adopted. There are merits, of course, in the local option system, en- abling one town to vote dry and an other wet, but later reflection drove | Robin to the conclusion that the true | Christian standard is abstinence from | what injures another, if only by the example of him indulging and temper ance in what is permissible. This | brought him to the Prohibition view | L, k,s k,~A t.x ernment has no moral right to derive revenue from that which dehauches | its citizens and that, so long as it de nies itself a share in the pernicioul revenue, Prohibition is success, nc matter how many speak-easies may that Prohibition is not shutting uI the saloons, but forbidding the gov. ernment to be silent partner in the nefarious traffic by licensing it, givini it legal permission to tempt as many of the unwary as 1t can in order to re. coup itself for the license exacted Obtaining revenue at the expense o the eternal welfare of immortal soul, may be advocated by spacious reason ing, but he who puts spiritual inter ests first, as God does, can never bs entangled in such sophistry.
 Robin now came to one of the most momentous events in his life-the choice of a wife. He had thought the | matter over ana naQ come to the con clusion that 1t was the duty of every honest young man to establish a home else how should posterity be kept ir safe and sure hands? He decided tha, he would marry before he knew or whom his choice might fall. For 1t years he had been wanderer on the face of the earth, with occasional vis- it's and few brief sojourns in his fathers home. He was wearied b, the city boarding house, though hi! lot had fallen in more pleasant place than is generally the case with youni men winning their own way. Hom was bright prospect in his eyes, bu
 he was to learn later that home is fading institution in American cities
 The average man has his lodge, whicl takes him from home. The wife 1
 taking up club life and the churcl and it's allied interests, which shoul' , recognize that the home was one 0