fellowship la In C hrlat and w nsrevte 1 7 » BO* OLD CARPETS. tbs nama of Jaaua la spoken there la a ; / • _____ band of naldfa.—J. W. Chapman, D. D. r i N M mm Ommmm a tw a ik ip i *«•# IRON heeled right over from the 'shock, ao that the gone had cast free from \h e carriages, and the seas had filled her. Thus for one terrible minate she lay, and then, w ith a heavy larch, she rolled beneath tha waves; and there was left h o t thirty o r forty straggling souls, who battled for their lives with the great rollerà of the Atlantic. Of these a few reached the aide o f e a r A lp end were shot thera as they clang to the ladder. P o r ourselves ws toy, our bows split w ith the shock, onr engine roces In fear away, and the men dragged me into their ful disorder. The other warships were craft, and shouted hearty words of en couragement, and fell to rowing with firs upon us a t hazard, and, of the first great joy. Yet I remenfcered dreaming, three «hells which tall, two cu t our decks; and it seemed to me th at the voice I had and sent doads of «pllntera of wood snd heard hi my aleap was the voles of Black, o f hum an flesh flying In the smoke-laden who cried to me aa ha had cast himself to a ir. At the fifth shot, a gigantic crash his death In the Atlantic. resounded from below, and the stokers W as die man dead? Had be really rushed above with the newt that the fore stoke hold had throe feet of w ater la it. ended that meat remarkable Ilfs of evil The hands received the news with a desp enterprise and of crim e; or had ha by groan. They bellowed like bulls a t B lack ; some miracle found safety while I slept? they refused al| orders. H e shot down Had the man gone out of my life w rap m an after man, white I crouched for safe ped in the mystery which had surrounded ty In the tow er; and they became bat him from the first? O r had be simply cast fiercer. O ar end was evidently near. himself from the dinghy in a fit of In sanity, anffydied the terrible death of the mysalf, and fired volleys upon the conning suicide? I could not answer the tromew to w er; or, in their terrible frenay, they dons question; b a t I had not readied the tbetter o f fife steamer which had saved Through all this onr one engine work ed ; and ao slowly did die groat ironclad belt of linen wh&h had been about draw upon aa th at the end of it all came Black’s watet - was now about mine. I before they could reach ua. Suddenly the found th at it waa filled with some bard men rushed to the boats and coat them and aharp stones. Instinctively I knew loose. Fighting with the dash of mad the t r u t h ; th at In hte last hoar the m as men. they crowded the launch, they ter of the nameless A lp had retained hte swarmed the jolly-boat and the lifeboat. curious affection for m e; had made over We watched their Insane efforts ao boat to me some of th at huge hoard of wealth after boat p a t away and was swamped, ha must have accumulated by his yearn leaving the’ men to drown. When 6 at pillage; and I restrained myseK with o'clock come, Black and K arl and myself difficulty fröhi casting the whole there and were alone upon the greet ship. Black then Into the waters w hkh had witn essed his battles for it. B ut the belt waa firm pulled me by the aim and s a id ; “Boy, they've left nothing’ b a t the ly lashed about me. and we were on the dinghy. The old A lp ’s done; and It's deck of the steamer before my benumbed hands coaid sot the lashing free. time you left her.” I t would be Idle fo r me to attem pt to “ And you?” I asked, lie looked a t me and A K arl. He describe nil I felt as the captain of the followed am slowly, as one in a dream, to steamship Hoffnung greeted me upon his the davits aft, and freed the teat of the quarter-deck, snd his men sent up rounds boats. Then be went to hte cabin, and to of cheers which echoed over the waters. the rooms.helow; and I helped him to pat I stood for same minutes forgetful of ev a couple of kegs of water in the frail erything save th a t I had been snatched craft, with some biscuit, which we lashed. from th at prison of steel; brought from When all was ready, the captain want the shadow of the living death to the to the engine roqm and brought K arl to hope at seetng friends and country and the top of the ladder; but there the Ger home again. Aad th en there came a great m an stayed, nor did threats or entreaties sense of thankfulness, and tears gushed up in my eyes, and fell upon my numbed h u d k . W ith many encouraging pats on “H e’ll die with the A lp .” said Black, “ and I don't know that ho Isn’t w ise;” (he back, they forced me down their com b a t he bold out his hand to the genius of panion way to the A lpperis cabin, snd so hte crime, and after a great grip the two to a bunk, where I lay inanimate, and desp In steep for many hours. B ut I men parted. awoke as another man, and when I had F or ourselves, we stepped on the frail taken a great bowl at soup nfy strength e st craft w ith which men ever faced the seemed to return to me with bounds, and A tlantic, and A that moment the first A I sat np to find they had taken away my. the lroociada fired another A ell a t the clothes, but th at the belt w hkh Black had nameleaa A ip. I t waa a crashing A ot, bound about me lay a t the foot of the b u t It had come too late to serve justice, bunk, and % ae unopened. or te wreck the A ip of m ystery; for K arl I t was not heavy .being all of linen had let the hydrogen into the cylinders un finely sew ed; but when a t last I made np checked. And in e cascade at fire, light- my mind to open It, 1 did ao with my lug the see for many mites, and making teeth, tearing tha threads at the top of aa day the newly fallen night, the golden It, and so ripping it down. There fell citadel biased over the w ater for one mo upon my bed soma twenty or thirty dia ment, then plunged headlong, and was no monds at such slse and lustre th at they more. lay sparkling wkh a thousand lights A fierce die It w aa lighting sea and which daisied the eyes, and made me utter sky—a mighty holocaust; the roar of n cry a t once of surprise and of admira groat conflagration; the end of a mon tion. White stones they were, Brasilian strous dream. Aad I thought of another diamonds of the flint w ater; and when fire and another taro—the faro at M ar I undid the mat of the seam, and opened tin Hall, who had aeon the finger of the belt folly, 1 found at least fifty n o n , Almighty God In hte m ission; end I said, with some superb black pearls, a fine em “ H te work te done 1” ^ erald, and a little parcel of exquisite B nt Black, dinging to the dinghy, wept rubies. To tha latter thera waa attached ae a man stricken with a groat grief, and a paper with the w ords “Take th ese; he cried so th at the coldest heart might they are honestly come by. And let me write white I can th at I have loved yon. Remember A te when you forget Captain Black.” T hat was all; and I judged C H A PT E R X X III. th at the stones were worth fire thousand About midnight a thunderstorm got up pounds If they were worth a penny. from the south, end the sea, rising eosne- The Hoffnung was bound to Königs w hA with it, wetted na to the A in. berg, but when the skipper and I had T he lightning, terribly vivid and lnceeee- oome to understand each other by signs an t, lighted ^ip the whole sea again and apd writing he, with great consideration, •gain. Showing each the other’s face, the offered to put Into Southampton and leave face at m worn and fatigne-stricken man. me there. I pot off In hte long-boat with And the ra in and the sea beat on until a deep sense of hte humanity and kind we A ltered , cowering and were numbed. ness, and with heariy cheers from hte Y et Black heM te silence, moaning a t rare Intervals as he moaned when the g n a t I should have gone to the quay A once whip sank. I t was not until the eon rose then, but crooning the rends I sew a yacht over the long swell th at we slept for an A anchor, and I recognised bar aa my boor or m ore; and after the sleep we were own yacht Cels la with Den aboard. To both calmer. The captain was very quiet, put to her side was the work of a mo end he gasad a t me often with the ex ment, end I do not think th a t I ever pression I had seen an hte faro when he gave a heartier hall A sa th at “Ahoy, D aniel!” which A en fell from my lips. “Ahoy r cried Dan In reply. “ Why, If It ain’t the guv fn o r P And A e old fellow began to about and to wave hte erase and to threw ropes about ae though ho were smitten with T he « p ia la pulled himself together w ith a greet effort, and sat aft, scolline w ith A e A e ri s a to a mechanical and altogether absent wny. Bleck eso tim ed te b fto i, aad when Ac •a n fell tew hi A s watt, and A e whole h ea vens were as mountain« sad peeks at «rimaos fire, I 0* ^ j £ a k k muU*t^ ■ >Vl wlth hot ts a rs ; and - when she smiled through them. It was se s glimpse o f bright sunlight shining through a rain- shower. In another moment there wsa nothing h u t the expression of great child ish joy on her face, and the oM Mary spoke. “Mark, I can’t believe I t ” she mid. holding mm d e w lest I might go away again, “and I always guessed yoqtfd coma. B ut Roderick awoke with s yawn, and whan ha saw me he robbed his «yea and said as one In s dream : — “Oh, la th a t yon 7” • e • a • e a Tha tea which Mary made was very fra g ra n t I t was a long story, and I «sold give them but the outline of I t or. In torn, hear but a tenth p art of their own anxieties and ceaseless efforts In my hfhalf. I t appeared (hat whan I had filled to return to the hotel on th a t night when I followed Paolo to tha den in the Bowery, Roderick had gone nt once to the y ach t and there had learned from Dan of my Intention. He did not lose an In stan t In seekitag the aid of the police, but I was even then astern of the Labrador, and the keen search which the New Yerk detectives had made was fruitless even In gleaning tidings of me. Paolo was fol lowed night and day for * twenty-four h o a rs ; bat he was ahot in s drinking dsn before the detectives laid hands on h|m , and lived long enough only to send Mary a message, telling her that her prettv eyes had eared the Cels la from disaster In the Atlantic. On the next day, both the skip- — ----------- _ h ■ . | Them da Usmdla lUMkura. P rajar, not only In tha morning J » 1*0"* b*t^el )n hM watch, bat prayar aant volcalaaa from toun<* ‘ <>“«•* »* activity, aaja tha baart from boor to boar, than Ufa tha Naw York Tribune. It la collecting la wakeful, hallowed, calm. I t beoomea ojd carpota to supply the flramen on beaptifql with th at beauty^ of god* the ocean ataainahlps with holders. Tha which aya hath not aaan. And day ba- haat la which thaaa- man' work la so Inc hallowed thus, do not omit ■ to great th a t a man who had not grad- make holy the night Taka by tha nally got accustomed to It would And power of prayar, through tha wild land It actually Insupportable. One of tha of dreama, the sanctifying presence of hottest things around a hollar room la One who lore# u a • * • Prayar, con* tha allcebar, with which tha fireman tlnually lived In. makaa tha praaanca from time to time poke the fire to pre- of a holy and loving Qod the a ir which vent the coal from caking Info lamps. Ufa breathes, and by which It Uvea, so I Thsss bars frequently become red th a t as It mingles consciously w ith tb s hot and onlsas tbs fireman protects his ■Work of tha day, It beoomea alao a p art hands serious burns re s u lt' Bxperl- of every dream. To us, than. It will be manta have bean triad with holders no strange thing to enter heaven, for of verleas m aterials, bat old pieces of we have bean living In tha things of carpet have so fa r proved to be the baaven.—Stopford A. Brooke. only thing which will aarety protect _— ------ rfW the hands of the men. W ith pieces of ° T * c *in r r \ „ „ „ carpet the bare can be handled wlth- Mo company depends ao much upon oat a^nger. An id** 0f tha high tem- what we bring to It aa our v* u ■ * perature of tbeea bare may be obtained tnde bleases ^han we btaas. from the fact th at a alagle day’s use *T was visiting,” said Arnot, "among my people In the wynds and closes of Edinburgh. I stood away back and looked up a t tbs high booses to see whether Betty Gordon, an aged salat of God, was a t home. I knew th at aha was a t homo by this sign, th a t her little flower pots were out upon her window till, th at, tha blind was opl' I knew" Betty wsa In, for when she went away she carefully took In the flower p o tr and pulled down the blinds. *T knew th at she was poor and nesdy, but she trusted God, and I was so glad th at somebody had given me some money th at morning* to give to the poor. I pot aside B etty's rent for a month In my pocket and went Into the cloee, and climbed up the winding s ta in to Betty’s door. At first I knock ed softly k but there v u no answer. Then I pulled the bell, but there was no answbr. Than I knocked loader, bat there wee no answer. At last I said. ‘Betty forgot to xmll down the blinds, and sbe has gone out, leaving her flqwer pots there. W hat a pity I* Then I went down the stairs. “The next morning I went back and knocked at the door. After a little waiting Betty came and opened I t " ‘Oh,’ sbe said, *ts It you, Mr. Ar not 7 r am so glad to see you. Gome to.’ There were tears In her eyes and a look of care. *T said, ’Betty, woman, w hat are you crying for ’ Whatever, Lord, ws tend to Thee, “ ‘Oh,’ sbe said, ‘Mr. A rnot I am ao Repaid a thousandfold will be. afraid, I am so afraid of the landlord. Than gladly will wa giva to Thea, Who glrost aD^- He came yesterday and I bad not the ------- root, and I dlnna open the door, and now I am afraid of hla coming, for he la a hard m an.' “ ‘Betty, w hat tkne did he come yes- cnrpnt A representative from tbo bethol bks boon, scouring Boston auction rooms In search of old carpets which have serv ed out their ussfolnoos as floor oovor- Ings and could, bs cut up Into strips for the fireman's ass. Ho found sav ors! rolls th at could bo bought for • small sum each. Thorn bs purchased and divided Into thras or four loto, sending one lot to each of tb s several Institutions doing work among tha aall ora. Thare they are being cut Into ■tripe and distributed aa faat aa they are called for by tha firemen. Tha bethel baa solved In this way one of tha perplexing problems beset ting the fireman. H itherto be h at of ten been unable to g it tha carpet Hs had not tha time to go after I t hs could not afford to buy It and he did not know where to look to find I t When bs burns bis bands and cannot work ha la laid off. The collecting and distribution of old . carpata to tha fire ‘He came between eleven and Do good, and leave behind you a man la a real and practical help to twelve o’clock,’ ebe said. *It waa twen monument of virtue th at the storm s of ty-five minutes to twelve.’ “ 'W ell,’ I m id, ‘It was na tha land time can never destroy. W rite your lord; It waa I, and I brought you, Bet ty, this money to pay your re n t’ STAHDDTG GUARD DT AFRICA. “She looked e t me and said, ‘Oh, waa It yon? Did you bftag me th a t money to pey my rent, and I kept the door abut against you, and I would not let you leave behind an the stars on the | H° 7 # w 40,1 camD*1*nlng to Africa 00 000 000,4 reasonably eom- you In? And I beard your ringing, and brow of evening. * Good deefe wlH tm r shtoe aa the stars of heavsn.—Dr. Chah <* « -« * 4o* * * * * « -t I said, “That is the landlord; I wish mere. *•. '1 ®''or* In “*• book, "Campaigning on he would go away.” And It waa my — t ■ — the Upper Nile,” Lieutenant Vandeleur ■to meeu sister, i t waa my ato Lord BALT RXVXR IB BO BABUL quotas a few entries from the records who bad sent ye aa Hla m m nnii#. and . - of a poet commander . The entries. It I would na let ye ta.’ " onto **• '* t™*- greet uniformity, but That la Just like some sinners. When Belt River, sacred to defeated can- ¡ J * * » of , t hwM#lT** ******* « - Jesus Is knocking a t their hearts they treat Him ae If He were a hard land- dldatea, la a real stream. White not *!“* .. navigable, It ta used every w inter aa . Ap? w 1Bth\ LJ00 ▼•■•ted camp dor- an ice harbor by tha towboats which ln* J“ 4 nff wom*a gq out of Pittsburg for the south. AprU ***• Lk,n <»“ • ***la •*» Salt River empties Into the Ohio tw* *°®tbor woman- Apr11 21at Uon » " t o 4 off Bunyoro rowful conviction that Black and I w est ? T * 1 m an ifestatio n s in the about twenty-five miles south of Louie- to London, and were seen by Irapector . * affa,r* *° H is lack o f power. villa I t Is a small stream which flow* m*n- ***n * petrols and fired aL He King, who had watched night and day Hla ^ c k o f In te re st T he m vterial- from the Kentucky hills to the great T,slt#d cattto-bouaa, and waa Wounded for the man’s coming. The detective had latlc e d e n tlflc view ’ l a 't b i t N atu re’s w ater and la aa tortuous, as crooked .•** guard. Immediately telegraphed to the Admiralty, towa are Inexorable; th a t they a re not and as unptefi— a t to navigate as the j April 22d. Section went out to took and to Roderick, who had reached my subject to m odification o r alteration. mind can Imagine. Yet It Is navigated' for lion and found him osar river. Bsd- for a abort diets nee from Its mouth ! «T grounded, but very fierce. Waa kill- he had hurried it buck to Southampton, . , L by steam ers qf light d ra ft Ftatbonte I«4 and brought Into ramp, there to bear of the going of the w an h ip a T ^ Ttow often April 24th. Another lion (probably and to wait with Mary tidings of the last Pa r* 1r*** o r sterllixea th e p rayers even and rafts are floated down upon Its bosom. Before the Civil W ar It waa ,1 looses) visited ramp last night and great battle, which meant life or d e a th 1 °* **ie devout ta h e a r t T he lim its- to me. | tlo n s of God’s Intervention a m p a t an Important stream to the m atter of ( carried off Nubian child. Waa seen by Long we sat discussing these things, down to m an’s lim itation o f faith . We bringing Kentucky whleky down to the P«trote and find a t April 25th. Lloneee came again, and end rary bright were e pair of dark eyA , expect nothing and get nothing. We flatboat* to a point where they could th at listened again to Roderick's story,! expect a little, and * God stays “ be unloaded to a river steam er. Re- went to cattle-house, whsre guard fired Hla and then to more of mine. B at Roderick | fractory slaves were generally aarign- a t and wounded her. One of the shots himself had ew A e from h i. lethargy, a o d ' * ? ? ¿ J « ad to tha ta A 'd f bringing these brats s tru c \ house a t considerable distance, his enthusiasm broke through all his old absolute fullness of blam ing la a t and entered thigh of Nubian woman. restraint. j th e com m and o f those who believe th a t down, aa the work was arduous. Salt River became a bugaboo among where It still rem ains Woman appar- “To-morrow, why to-morrow, you’ll a s - , God la w illing and able to show H la tound London. My deer fellow, we’ll go pow er to th e utterm ost. I t la a form tbe negroes and It waa from tha on- ently little the worse. ’ Forster told dm th at ha found th at to town together to claim the £50,000 o f n a tu ra l tew in th e sp iritu al w orld pleasant character of the work on this river th at “a trip np Salt River" came the tracks of tha Ilona paesvd one night which the Admiralty offered, end the £20,-; th a t those who tre a t N atu re fully aad to be need In politics to express the two yards from tha door of my bouse, ^ V D*’ v You’re " V com m it ab u n d . an t . seed nothing of American money galore. . . to th e earth ‘ ^ , destination of a defeated Candida ta As the door was made only of grass made for life, old m an; and we’ll take re*p mor* abnn<Unt h arv ests th an The name te supposed to have oom e and coukt easily have been pushed the old yacht north to Greenland, and thoae who fm r tbo ap p aren t w aste. I t from the salt springs which flow Into down, I congratulated myself on not hunt up A e place and Black’i tender, | •■ ■ notable fact th a t th e testim ony of It A Its source. having bean at homa w hiA seems to have escaped the Iron- people w ith abu n d an t fa ith Is th a t God iie e H fit R isreai Lions had never been beard of hero clads, and it’ll be the finest trip we ever fulfills every prom ise to th e u tte rm o st Anew." • _____ "Aff everybody known” said tha bofor*- 004 ** WM “ extraordinary “W hat does Mary any?” I asked, as AAlastow. householder to a New York Bun w riter, circumstance that they should bare the still held my hand. S ta re shine brightest In th e dark est w , i . ~ n d th e ir w inter fu n to stor- °°“ ° • » » through the dense grass and iT’li: i ’Ji? ? ■"»» t w » . pr„„T . J “ I don’t mean to leave yon again,” she n ig h t; torches a re th e oetter fo r beat- answered, and as she spoke there waa a ta g ; apices smell sw eetest when pound- J ? tBd i 2 gbaklnff * 1: 7° un« a root b . r f e fa a t r « for great tramp of rent epoo £ t w r L deck, • rln t« e s * gm th e t bette as we hurried up. the h and. I loved to LT“ i bl#ed' see crowded about me, and their shouting 0020 b rig h ter fo r K onr- was carried far over the water, and w a s, • flow -w orm s glisten best In the taken np qp other A ip a which threw d a r k ; ju n ip e r amelia sw eetest ta the their scarA lights upon u a so that A e fire; pom ander becomes moot fra g ra n t night was as a new day to « , and A a fo r ch asin g ; th e palm tre e proves the U t t l * ■ se n suales. b9tter fo r p r e - - n « : <*“ o n » 'tatb e more t e r k T it, « th . c w ld -to . v u all S | £ ed with radiant amllea and honest haads condition of all G ods chil- clasped mine, and t C w ater, echoed (he d re n ; they a re th e m ost triu m p h an t trium phant greeting, I coold not hot think . when m ost tem pted, moat glorious Wiggins—I’d like to borrow your lawn mower, old man. The doctor rays I need a little exercise. Higgins—All rig h t . Come mrmr and I’ll let yen have It long enough to mow my lawn. ■arw Id e a ta r P i a r . Manager—I’ve got a new Idea for a melodrama th at ought to make a h it | Playwrlte—W hat la It? Manager—The Idea is to Introduce a cyclone to A e flint act A A will kill all A e acton. Oar K a a S la f Wmtmam O ri. In A a Spirita, to Phltemon, whlcb glvee us thè story of thè runntng away of Onrafmua bis convereton under thè Infine no* of Paul, and hte return to Phltemon, hte master, Paul nera A la rignlflcant expraaston, “If tbou oount me, tberefore, a partner, recetve hlm aa myeelf. If ha hath wronged tbee or oweth tbe anght put th at on my ae- count and It f i t t e to me an lltarira- tion of w bat I am prlvltogrd to aujoy aa a follower of Jesus C brlet My stand Interviewer—And do you always w att ing before Ood te A e asme aa th at of to r Inspiration before beginning a Hla Boa, and Al who bava bsan boro poem? J X , ........ 1*. o a'W-V*/ ■gain may clolni thè asme Messing be> Great Post—Oh, no. Sometimes X “Yet while I had had occasion to know something of all thte, I had sup posed th at A la form of storage waa a summer buelneee only, whereas now I discover th at It la carried on through out the w inter aa welL “Wa found our summer clothes In the way and we,needed the room they occu pied. Why couldn’t we store them, we thought, and reqlhr th at seeped to ua a bright idea, and we went down to tha place where for y e a n we had turn ed to oer w inter clothes In tba*epring for storage through the summer and asked them about It and they aald. why, certainly, they took summer goods for w inter storage and they’d sand for oura right away. “Bo we shan’t be bothered with look ing after these thin clothes any more A rough the w inter and we shall have ”1 once made up my mind,” aald a London man, “th at I Would become tha poasaaoor of a good gold watch. I saved up the mooey fof It In this w ay: Whan I fait Ilka rating a shilling luncheoa, aa I often did, I kept It down to tanpoace. I pat tbo twopence oavod toward my watch fund. You will hard ly believe me, but with little economies like this I had to leas than ttx months saved enough money to buy my gold “But,“ aald a listener, "where la your gold watch? You are wearing a poor little ’gali' metal thing.“ “Well,” was A e reply, “whan I found bow easily I could got along without shilling luncheons I concluded I could get along w iA a ten shilling watch In stead of a ten pound one. Bo A nt the ton sent a small boy la Ms neighbor hood to deliver a note to a young lady who lived a few Macks away. He gave tha boy a quarter to make him hurry. After a short time the messenger ckme back and, handing tha mooey, said: “Mite Z says rite will bs glad to ess you to-nlgM, but she didn’t w ant tha quarter.”—Judge’s Library.