STARVE CROW FARM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13432, 4 November 1905, Page 2

STARVE CROW FARM.

» ■ ■ ■. By STANLEY J. WEYMAN':

[Alt, Eights Reserved.]. • CHAPTER XXXIII.-THE SMUGGLERS' OVEN (Continued). "Oh!"-she cried. " Oh!_ thank -(tod you've come! Thank God you've come! I. thought yon had left, me," ■' • She was thankful—oh, ehe iras thankful; though theso were no rescuers, but tho two who had consigned her to that, horrible place, Bess raised tho lanthorn so that its light fell on tho girl's haggard, twitching face. ■ . "We could rat corns before," she said, •with something liko pity in her tone. "Wat's all." 'All!" Henrietta gasped. "All! Oh; T thought you had left me! 1 thought yon had left me!" Boss considered her, and there' was beyond doubt something like softening in tho girl's dark face. But her tone re mained ironical. ■; "You didn't," she. said, "much fancy your bedroom, I guess?" Henrietta's teeth chattered. "Ob, God forgive you!" she cried. f.'l thought you'd left me! I thought you'd left.'mo!"' i "It was your own folks' fault," Bess retorted. "They've, never had their eyes oIV tho blessed house, one. or another of them; from dawn to dark! Wα could not come. But now here's fowl and plenty!" raising the light. "Row's the child?" ' "Bud! Hail!"' Henrietta muttered. She was coming to her senses. She, was beginning to understand thi» position; to comprehend that'no rescuers were- here, no search, party had found her; and t^hat—, and that—had not uno of.them dropped a word about hero going back? (loins back meant going back to that—place! With :i sudden gesture she thrust, the food fmm her. "Ain't you going t- eat?' , Bess asked, faring. " I thought you'd be famished. , ' "Not lure! Not hero! ,, she answered viqlently. "Oh. nonsense!" Ilia other rejoined. "Don't .ho :i fool! You're clemmed, I'll 1* hound. Kill while you can." But "Xot here! Not here!" Henrietta replied. And she thrust the food away.' Tho man interposed. ' ■ "Stow it!" ho 'said, in a threatenin" tone. " " s'ou eat while you can and where you can!" • lint slip was desperate. "I'll not cat here'. , she cried. . ".I'll not eat here! And I'll not go back!" her voice rising. "I will die before I will go back. Do .you hear}" with the fierceness of a wild creature at hay. "I do not care- what you do! And the child is riving Another night—but J'H not suffer n! • And >f you lay a linger on me "— repelling Hess, who had made a feint 'of seizing heiv-"I will scream until-I am heard! Ay, I will!" she repeated, her eyes sparkling. "But take me to the •liohso and I will go quietly! I will go quietly J"' • B It was plain thai she was almost beside herself, ana that fear of the pkee where she hmlgpassed so many hours had driven out all Stlicr fear. The two, who had not left her. alone so long without misgiving looked at one another and hesitated ■They might overpower her. lint the place was so closely watched that a single shriek, mjgli[ be heard; then thev would ho taken redhanded. Nor did liess at least wish to use force. The position and her views were changed: All day curious eves had been fixed on the house, and inquisitivo people had started up where they were least expected. Bess's folly in bringing this hornets' nest about their ears ha'l shaken her influence with the men; and 1 tie day had been cne long exchange of savage recriminations. She owned to her self that she. had dono a foolish thing • that she had let her spite carry her too far. And in-secret she'was beginning to think how she cnnld clear herself. She- did not despair of this. She did not even think <t would bo hard ; but she must, as a' sine qua. non, conciliate the girl whom she had wroneed. Unluckily ! she saw now that she conciliate ! her without taking her to (he house, and she could not with safety take her to the house. The men were'irritated by the peril which she had brought upon them;' they were ferocious and out of hand, and terribly suspicious to boot. They blamed her, Bess, for all: they had threatened < her. And if she was not safe anion* them, ! she was quite sure that Henrietta would '. not be safe. t There, .was an alternative. She mHit ' -"> '-■! girl go there and then. And she ' would have done this, but she could not I ro it. without Giles's consent, and she dared not propose it to him. He was wanted for other offences, and (he safo return of Henrietta and the child would not clear him. He had looked on the child, and now looked on the girl, as pawns in his g.ime, a quid pro quo with' -'•■oli —if he were taken while they remained in his friends' hands-he buy his pardon. Boss, therefore, dared I r.ot propose to free Henrietta; and what ! was slie to do if the girl was so foolish I as to refuse (~ go back to the place where she was safe? '•Look hoc," she said at last. "You're safer here {him in )],e house, if you will only lake my word for it.".,? Biu there is no arguing with fear. "I will not! ,, Henrietta persisted, with passion. "I will not! Take ..me out of tins! Take me out! The child will die here, and I shall go mad!—mad!" "You're pretty mad now." the man retortcd. But that said, lie met liess's : eyes and nodded reluctantly. "Well!" Jin said. "It's her own look-out. But I think she'll repent it. ,, "Will you go quiet " liess asked, "Yes. yes!" " And you'll not cry out? Nor try to break away?" "T will not! I will not indeed!" "You swear it?" "I do." ! •"And by fi ." the man interposed I l,i- v. "gljo'd hejtw keep to it." . i "Very well," Hess said. "You have if. j your own way. But I tell you truly, I ' put- you in here for the best. And ner- ! iiaus you'll know it before you're an hour older." However, all's said, and it's your own doing." "Why don't you let me go?" Henrietta panted." " Let me go, and let me take the child!" "Stow it!" the man cried, cutting her short. "It's likely, when we're as like as not to pay dear for taking you. Do you shut your'talking trap!" "She'll be quiet," Tiess . said, more gently. "So dowse the glim. lad. And do you «ive me. the child," to Henrietta, •lint she cried, "No, no!" and held it more closely to her. ■ "Very good! Then take my hand—you don't know the way, And not a whisper, mind! Slip the bolt, Giles'. And, mum, all!" CHAPTER XXXIV.—IN TYSOX'S ' KITGHPA". The distance to the house was short. Before Henrietta had done more, than taste the bliss of the open night, had done move than lift her eyes in thankfulness to the

dark profundity above her, she was under tl|o eaves. A stealthy tap. was answered by.-the .'turning of a key, a door was quickly, and silently opened, and she was pushed forward. Bess muttered a word or two to a person unseen, and gripping her arm led her along a passage.' A second door gave way as mysteriously,- and Henrietta found herself blinking on (lie threshold of the kitchen which'she had left .24..hours before. It was lighted, but not with the wastefulness and extravagance of the previous evening. Nor did it display those signs of disorder and dissipation which had-yesterday opened her eyes. She was sinking'under the weight of the -child, which she had hugged to her that it might, not cry, and she went strAigli.fc.to the settle and laid the hoy on it. He opened his eyes and looked vacantly before him; but, apparently, he was too far gone in weakness, or in too much fear, to cry. While Henrietta, relieved of the weight, and perhaps nf a portion of her fears, sank'on the settle beside, him, leant her face on her arms,/ and burst into passionate weiping. Ifc was- perbaps the best thing in her power. For the men had followed her into the kitchen: and Lunt, with brutal oaths, was asking whv she was there and what new folly was this. Bess turned on him—she weli knew how to meet such attacks; and with scornful tongue she i bade him wait, ndilimr that ho'il learn I ln-and-bye if ho could learn anything. Then, while Giles, ill-content Himself, gave some kind of account nf the thing, she began—as if it were a trifle—to lay.,the supper. And almost by force she got Henrietta to the table. " It's food yo\i want!" Rhe said bluntly. "TWt play the silly! Who's hurt, you? who's going to hint ynn? Here, a sip of this, and you'll feel better. Never heed him," with a contemptuous prlanro at Tiunt. "He's m6?t times a grumbler." For the moment Henrietta, was quite broken,, and the pressure which the.other exerted' was salutary. Rhe did what she was bidden, swallowing a mouthful of the Scotch cordial Bess forced on her. and eating and drinking mechanically. Mean, while the three nifn lmd brought their heads together, and sat discussing the position with unconcealed grudging and mistrust. At length- " Yon'e grown cursed kind of a sudden !" liiint swore, scowling at. the two women. The child, in tlia presence of the men. sat paralysed with (error. "What's this blamed flips about?" ' "Whatfuse?" Hess shot ai him over her shoulder. And going to the child she bent over it with a bowl of bread and milk. "Why don't you lay 'em up in lavender?" the man sneered, "foe here, she was a peacock yesterday and you'd grind •her■"pretty face under' your heel! Today—r- What does it mean? I want to know." "I suppose you don't want 'em to di»?" the girl returned, in the same tone of contempt." - "What do I care whether they die?" , "They'd be much use to us dead!" she retorted. fiiles nodded assent. "The girl's right tliPfe." Ire said in a low tone. "Best leave it to her. She's a cunning one, and no mistake." „ , "Ay, cunning enough!" Lunt answered, ''But whose game :'s she playing—hers or ours?" "Didn't know yon had one!" Bess flung at him..' And then in an undertone"! "Dolt!".she muttered. " It's all one, man; it's all one!" Giles said. On the whole he was for peace. "Jiest have supper, and talk it over' after." " And let the first that conies in through the door find her!" Lunt cried. "Who's to como?" "Didn't they come hero this morning? And last night? And if she'd been here, or the child " "Ay, but they weren't!" Bess answered brusquely. "And that's the reason the coves won't come again. (For the matter of that," turning fiercely on them, "who was ib cleaned up after you, you dirty dogs, and put this place straight? Without which , they'd have known as .much the moment they put their noses in—as if the girl liiid been sitting on the settle there? Who was it thought of that, and did it? and,hid you safe upstairs?" "You did, Hess—you did!" the gipsy answered, speaking for the first time, " And a gay clever wench you are!" He looked defiantly at Lunt. " You're a game cove," he said, " but you're not fly!" Lnnt, for answer." fired half-a-dozen oaths at him. But Riles interposed. " We're all in one boat." he said. "And food's plenty. Let's stop jawing, and to it!". Two of the men seemed to think the advice good, and they began to eat, still debating. The third, Saul, continued to listen to his companions, but his sly eyes never left Henrietta, who sat a little farther down the table on the opposite side. She was not for some time aware of hie looks, or of their meaning. But Bess/who knew his nature—he was her cousin,—and who saw only what she had feared to see, frowned as she marked the direction of his glances. In the act of sitting down she paused, leant over the table, and with i>. quick movement swept off the Hollands bottle. But. the gipsy, with a grin, touched Liint's elbow. And the ruffian, seeing what she was doing, fell into a fresh fury and bade her put the bottle back again. "I shall not," she said. "You've ale, and plenty. Do you want to be drunk it, the eifl's folks come?" ' " Curse you!" he retorted. " Didn't yon say a'minute ago that they wouldn't come?" fliles sided with him—for the first time. "Ay, that's blowing hot and cold!" be ; said. "Put the "in'back, lass, and no two words about it." She stood darkly hesitating, as if she meant to refuse. But Lunt had risen, and it was clear that he would take no refusal that was not backed by force. She replaced (he Dutch bottle sullenly, and Giles drew it towards him and with a free liand laced his ale. . "There's nought like dog's-nose," he. said, "to comfort, a man! The lass forgets it's wintry weather and I've been out in it!" "A dram's a dram, winter or summer!" Lnnt growled; and he followed the example. But Bess knew that she had lost the one ally on whom she had counted. She could manage Giles sober. 'But drink was the man's weakness, and when he was drunk he was as brutal as his comrade, and more dangerous. She had satisfied her grudge against Henrietta; and she was aware now—only too well aware—that she had let it carry her too far. She had nothing to ffain by further violence; sh'e had everything to lose by it. If the girl were ill-treated there would be no mercy for any of the party, if taken; while escape, in the face of the extraordinary measures which Clyno whs taking and of the-hostility of the countryside, was doubtful at the best. As she thought of these things and ate her supper with a sombre, face, she wished with all her.heart that shefhitd 'never seen the girl, and never, to satisfy a silly spite,

decoyed ha - . Her one aim now was to get her out of the men's, sight and shut her up where she might be safe till morning. It. was a pity, it was a thousand pities, that Henrietta had- not stayed in the smugglers', oven! And Bess wondered if she could even now persuade her to return to it. lint a glance at Henrietta's haggard face, on which the Jast 24 hours had imprinted a stamp it would take many times 24 hours to efface, warned her .that advice—short of the last extremity—would be useless. It remained to remove the girl to. the only, place where she might, with luck, lie'safe and "unmolested; In this Henrietta might aid her—had plie her wits about her, lint Henrietta' did not seem to be awake to the peril, die insolence of the gipsy's 'glances, which had yesterday brought the blood \to her cheeks, passed unnoted, sc complete was her collapse. Doubtless strength, would return, nay, was even now returning; and presently wit would return. For. her nerves were young, aiid would quickly recover their tone. lint for the moment she was almost comatose. Having eaten and drunk, she sat heavily; with her elbow on the table, her head resting on her hand. "'The sleeve had fallen' , back from her wrist, and the gipsy lad'p eyes rested long and freely on the white roundness of her arm. Her 'fair complexion seduced him as no dork beauty had power to seduce, He eyotl her as the tiger eyes 'the/fawn befoi;e it springs from covert. Bess, who read his looks us if they hnd been an open book, and who-saw thab Giles, her one depmidance, was growing more sullen and dangerous with every draught, could have struck Henrietta for her fatuous stolidity. : One thing was clear.: the. longer she pnt off the move the more dangerous the. men were like to be. Bess never lacked resolution, and she was quick to lake, her part. As soon as she had eaten and drunk her fill, she rose and tapped Henrietta on the shoulder. . "We're best oway." she said coolly. "Will you cany the brat upstairs, or shall Tor a .moment she thought |lial she had carried her point, for no one spoke or objected. But when Henrietta rose and turned to the settle to take up the boy, tlie gipsy muttered something in Taint's car. The ruffian glared across at the girls, and struck the hnfr of his knife with violence on the board. "Upstairs?" ho roared. "No, my girl, you don't! We keep together! We keep together! S'help me, if I don't think you mean to peach!" "Don't be a. fool," she answered. And she furtively touched Henrietta's arm as a sign to be ready. Then to the gipsy lad, in a tone full of meaning: "The gentry mort is not worth the nubbingcheat," she said, in thieves' patter. "I'm fly, and I'll not have it. iStow it, my lad, and don't be a flat!" "And let yon peach on?" he answered smiling. Lunt struck the table, "Stop your lingo!" he said. "Here, you!" to Giles. " Are yon going to lot thssc two sell us? The lass is on to preaching, that's my belief!" "We'll—stop that," Giles replied, with a hicco.igh "Here, I'll—l'll take one, and you—you the t'other! And we'll fine well stop their peaching, pretty dears!" He staggered to bis feet, his face inflamed with drink. "Peach, will they?" he muttered, swaying a little, and scowling at them over the, dull, unsnuffed candles. "We'll stop that, and—and ha' some fun too." " S'Jielp us if we don't!" cried Lunt-, also rising to his feet. " Let's live to-day, if We die to-morrow! You fake ono and I'll take the other!" The gipsy lad grinned, t "Who's the flat now?" he chuckled. He alone remained seated, with his arms on the table. "You've raised your pipe too soon, my lass!" -. "Stow this folly! " Bess answered, keep, ing a bold face. " We're going upstairs," she continued. "Dp you' , —to Henrietta — bring the child." But, "Curse me if you are!" Giles answered. Drink had made him the more dangerous of the two. Ho lurched forward as he spoke, and placed himself between the girls and the foot of the open stancase that led to the upper floor. "We're one apiece for you and one over! And you're going to stay, mv girls, and amuse us!" And ho opened his arms with a tinsv laugh. ' ' If Henrietta had been' slow to see the danger, she saw it now. And the shock was the greater. The men's red faces and vinous eyes, still more the dark face of the smiling gipsy who had raised tile tempest for his own ends, filled her with fear. She clutched the child to her, hut as much by instinct as from calculation, and she cast a desperate look round her— only to see that retreat was cut off. The girls were hemmed in on the hearth between the "fire and the long table, and it was hard to say which of the men she most dreaded. She cowered, white"to the lips, behind her companion, who looked greater confidence, than she felt. For whatever Bess'-: fears, she rallied bravely to the occasion, being no stranger to such scenes. "Well," she said, temporising, "we'll fit down, a bit if you'll mind your manners. Biit we'll sit here, my'lads, and together." "No, one apiece," Giles hiccoueliod, before she had finished speaking. "One apiece! ■ You come and sit by me— 'twnn't be the first time, niv beauty! And—and t'other one by him!" Be?s stamped lipr foot in a. rage. "No!" sha cried. "I will not! You'll just stay on your own side! And wo on o'jrs!" ■; , "You'll jiist. do as T say!" the man answered, with tipsv obstinacy. "You'll just do—as I sa,y!" And he lurched forward, thinking to take her by surprise and seize her. Henrietta, screamed, and recoiled to the farthest corner of the chimney nook. Bin liess stood her erouprl. and with a dark face, thrust her hand into her bosomprobably for a knife. She never drew it, however. Before ("files could touch hpr. or Lnnt. who was coasting about th» long table to- come at Henrietta, had compassed half the was a knock at the.door. It was a small thins, but it was cnoneh. Tt checked the men as effectually as if it had been the knell nf doom. They lu'iir arrested, eye questioning eye; then, tiptoeing to gain their weapons, they cast "ooks of menace at the women. And they listened with murder in llmiv eves. "If von broatho a word," Giles hissed, "I'll throttle you!" And he "aise-1 In* hand for silence. The klirirk was repeated. "S'linenne must go," the gipsy lad muttered. His fiici was sallow with fear. "Go?" Bess answered, in a low tone, "but one of. fierce passion. "Who's to so but mo? See now where you'd be without me!" "And do you sse here," Lunti made answer, and he drew a pistol fi-im 1-is pock-at, and cocked it: "one word nxre 1 ban's i:cedfm, and I'll blow your brains out. my lass. If T go. yon so fust! So mark me. :md speak 'em fair!" And with a gesture he pointed to the dairy, and beckoned to the other men to retire thither. '■ '■■ He seemed to be about to command Henrietta also to go. But he saw perhaps that in- sheer terror she would disobey him, or he thought her "sufficiently Hidden where she was. u?or when he had seen the other men out he followed them, and, holding the door-of the dairy half open, showed Bess the pistol. " Now," he said; " and by G—d, remember. For I'll keep my word." Boss had already, with a hasty liand, removed some of the plates and mugs from the table. She saw that Henrietta was all but invisible behind the settle. Then .she'went to the door. ■'■■ "Who's there?" she cried'aloud. ■:'. No one answered, but the knock.walrepeated. Henrietta raised her white.face above the level of the settle. She listened. ■Hope, terrified a? she was, was" rising in her heart. Who was likely to visit/this lonely house .'it,.i'i late an hnnr? Wns it not almost certain,.that , .her. friends were there? And that "another minute would see her safe in their hands','

.Giles's dark face peering from the'doorway of {lie dairy answered that question. The muyzlc of his vfcapon now covered her, now Bess. Sick at heart, almost fainting, she sank again behind the settle and prayed, while Mess with n noisy "hand ■ thrust buck the- great bat and operited. the' door. There was no inrush of feet, and Besslooked out. "Well, who is it?" she' asked nf the darkness. "You're lute enough whoever you arc," The entering draught Mew the flumes' of the candles awry. Then a woman's voice answered: "I've come to ask how the missus is," it said. ■ ' " i "Oh, and a fine time this!" Bess scolded, with wonderful "libness. "She's i neither better nor worse. So there! I hope you think it's worth your trouble!" " And the baby? I heard it was dead.' , "Then you heard a lie!" The visitor, who was no other than Mrs ' Tyson's old servant, the stolid woman '■ who had once admitted Henrietta'to thu ' ltnn.se, seemed at a loss what to say ue:u. ! After an awkward pause: "Oh," she said, "well, I'm glad. I was not sure you lindn't, left her. And if she can't get out of hor bed " "You thouglit thoro'd lie pickings about!" Tlfiss cried, in her most: insolent | tone. "Well, there ain't, my girl! And don't you come up again Bearing iis after dark, or you'll hear a bit more of n:y | mind!" ...!.] "You're not easy scared!" the woman, retorted contemptuously, " Don't tell in?! It takes more than the dark to frighten j you!" • I "Anyway, 9 o'clock is my hour, for! getting scared," Bess returned. "And j as it's after that, and you've a dark' wall; | hack D'yon come through the wood?" i "Ay, I did." ' "' j "Then you'd best go back that way!" [ Bees replied. ' ! And she shut the door in the woman's ' fiic?, and flung the bar over with a. re- \ sounding lmrnr. i _ And qnicltly, lieforo the men. lieaviim I sighs of relief, had had time to emerge from their ret rout, she was aenss the floor, and had dragged Henrietta- to her fee!. ' j . "Up the stairs!" ?h« whispered. "The door on 1 lip left! Knock-! Knock! I'll liCPii them hack." ; Taken by surprise as she was. Henri- ■ ptta's courage rose to the occasion. She bounded to the open stairs, niid was h::K. way up. when the men took in the position and understood that she was escap- . inn; them. They rushed forward then, fallinir over one another in their eagerness to seize lira , . But they were too late. Bess was before them. She ..sprang on to the widest of the lower steps where the staircase turned in the corner of the room, and flashing her knife in tlioir eves she swore that she would Wind the first man. who ascended. They knew her, and for the moment fell back daunted and dismayed : for Oilen had put w> his pistol. He' bethought himself, indeed, of pulling it out, when he found parley useless j but it to then too late. By that time , ■Bess's ear told her that Henrietta was safe in Mrs Tyson's room, with the bolt shot behind her. (To' be continued.)

To the' English love oMlie eweet old bells; Wo would inisa their music.cadi day; ■ "■'. We say ; -. h .■'■■. We will have them rung 'iu our stroets and. \ '. MW, ;', -, ■•■■.••■ : Wo long for silence nnd peace sometimes, lint not for the hush of our peals and chimes. ■ You say it is barbarous taste, . . And waste I '<' But we iwe rich in the soiimls that are dear; They waken ouir Sabbdtli days To praise, And bring us thoughts , of our Father near. Ring out, sweet, bells, until «11, hearts sing - In answering anthems' to Heaven's Qrent King, ..." MmIANNB : FaR}IINGHAII. .\VAotIdT~LIEE!' A Onc'ininnto Sermon by. the Rev. Trios, Philips, M.A., of London. Taking the. churches generally up and i down the land, the. great need of tho land \ is life. Get life and you.will get everything. Get life and you will get—l will I have to coin a, word to express what I I mean,—you will get impressibility, which I 1 can best describe as-the knack of doing ,a thing because you cannot help it. 'Die i property of bubbling over. Think of a Sunday school boy on a hot afternoon in j summer and you will get a good idea of I what I mean. Turn to the Acts of tho Apostles and you have it, and the , strange I thing is that wo are beginning'to think that the Acts of the Apostles were norniiil, It has boen the custom to look upon James and John as extraordinary people ' and ourselves as ordinary people. But now people are beginning to look upon James and John as ordinary people and I themselves as extraordinary. They simply I carried out. tho behests of Iheir Master. Whoii you go to the Book .of the Acts you find the quality of which I am speaking, i The Holy Spirit camo upon them like a I tempest. Those men preached like angels, I'livcd like heroes, and died like, martyrs— • for the simple reason that they could not ! help it. You will also find abundant joy. i They preached gladly in those days, and : they listened gladly too. They came .toi goihor gladly, they ate their bread gladly, [ they gavo gladly, ■ they did everything I gladly. Tho striking thing was that there 1 was iio command to reach thu unrcached. ! Yon are not told to go nfler the people, I because there is no need for it. When p tho irrepressible Jiff is within you the ' Hi ing is to keep .people back instead of pressing them'on. Wnim tho Holy Spirit comes upon tho people they do not wait for .in ordination service before they toll the I glad liiding?. AVhy, 5000 are converted " before the bills for an ordination stsrvico could bo printed. . We come, under the ; 'influence of Jim Word of, tiod, and do ! what we can at once. The story is told ' of a niiiiyo minister in Culm, who warned some, deacons. He thorcforo called all tho congregation together, and said. to them: "Wo must have some deacons. A deacon' . is a man who helps. If tho smallpox breaks out in Ihe ■hoiiso of one of tho members of ihe ohiirol , . the deacon goes to visit him. If any poor fellow is down in his luck, the deacon does his best to get the fellow 'but of 'his difficulty. ; Hands up all those who want to bo deacons." And there wasn't ono. But as the-service proceeded tho Holy Spirit ewopt over it, and tho ro3ult was that every man and woman was willing to become a deacon. ""Phut is right," s;tid tho minister; "I ordain you all deacons." And lie was .right. Wlint wo all want, is irrepressibility. There is too littlo of the (spontaneity of the Welsh revival. ' Here is love in endless torrents, Pity like the boundless sen, Jcniis, Prince of Life, is dying, Dying to purchase life for me. Who can help to speak about Him.? Who cm help to tell His praise? This if life, to ha remembered Throughout , heaven's ei«t«3s days. JOTTINGS. The Rev. _ Archibald G. Brow, the eminent Baptist pastor, has jni>t shown his practical sympathy with rural work for Christ. He has been spending a month

in the village of Staplehurst, Kent, whore is ono of tho oldest of Congregational ■churches,-whoso pastor is tho Rev. T. On tho'first Sunday ho took Ihe evening service, and preached i\ powerful sermon from " It is good (beautiful) for us to be-bore," Ho oomplaincd of tho ventilation not being sufficient; and having promised to' take tho services on another Sunday evening, ho challenged the officers of the church that if they would put a good ventilator in the front window before tho" Sunday on which howas to preach, ho would pay for it. Tho challenge was accepted; and tho work tjiccessliillv accomplished. / A window from Westminster Abbeyremoved to mako room for a memorial to the late Dean—has bccn~olFcerd for rebreotion in Capetown Cathedral, which will be ready for consecration in three years' time. The Jewish Chronicle announces that Digger, of Warsaw, a. Jewish doctor in tho Russian army, who is at present a prisoner of war in Japan, has been , elected an honorary member of a scientific section of Ihe University of Tokio. English papers to hand contain details of tho .death of Dγ Barnardo. The, event was sudden, kit not surprising. Dr Barhardo jsull'ered greatly from angina pectoris. / Ho hoped to" find relief at Bad Naulidini. nut-had a severe attack on tho way at Cologne. Ho consulted an ominent specialist at Paris, who took so grave a view thai, Dr Bnrnardo decided lo return homo at once. Tho journey was made in easy singes, and home was reached safely. .I'lio doctor had further all neks, but appoaml to be rallying. His mind was to the hist in his work. He was pushing a million shilling scheme, and, wb understand,, was pleased Willi (lie result so fat-. At 6 on t|io Tuesday evening ho was engaged with his correspondence, and at the same lime Inking a light meal. His head suddenly fell buck, .nnd ho oxpired. As a young man Dr Bernardo was moved by Iho wrechedncss of the TJasf hnd. Ho worked in connection wilh the Ragged School movement. On Sundays and some week evenings ho lau«'ht a class, of tho roughest lads in a disused donkey stable in Hast London. One winter night Ihere entered,- ns Iho school was being clnsnd. a shivering waif without hat, shoes, or shirt. Ho Ix'gwd to be allowed I"™" ,, ™ ~ " 10 n ' s ' lf ' "W' ,o l '.v lllu 'ire. Oh, no! Run away home," said Dr liarnanlo. "Clot no home," roloried Ihe lad. Dr Rarnardo was sceptical. Ho questioned Hie lad, and learnt ho was olio of a class of friendless little fellows who lived nowhere." Ho gave Ihe. bov~ Jiili Jams-coll'oe, and promised him' a filt-nping-plnce if ho conducted him lo whnro ho could f.nd boys sleeping unsheltered in the winter night. Jim led him to a (liwopulablo tumble-down part near Momidsrlitcli, nnd (hero 11 lads of from nme lo 18 were discovered asleep in the gutters of an iron roof. Jim asked bnal I show you another lay sir? ■ hnros a lot more." R,,t tho' voun r doctor ha-] seen enough. The ' siVht haunted him and the cull came to him to -nu C B hlS ''J 0 {° 1,,e rescu " of "in Waifs. ■ Ihe Rev. A. N. Cooper, View of Klevbelter known as "The Walking l'arso.i, ,, - ••Iγ °"i ' Walk '' n S » e an Education." J lie roads of every country in Europe are familiar to me, he says, ''except those of J>u;bis, lnrkoy, Greece, and Sweden. I nave walked through Prance from north to south, and-nearly from east to west, I have walked through a largo part of Germany, and havo crossed tlm Alps on foot by t'iree different pauses. I know the roads of Italy from the frontier at Ohiareo to Rome, and from A.fo In Venice, I have been across pathless Bohemia, and throu'"h Eungary and the Austrian Tvrol. I have walked in Spain, Portugal, Norway, /Denmark, Belgium, and Holland. I-have even wallmd through tho littlo Republic of .Andorrc." He eomfs to ,-ho conclusion that the world is wonderfully alike all over. "One feels almost disappointed," ho says, " that it is possible to go all through Italy and never see a knife used in anger, or to , walk noross France from sea to sea without mooting a !.rigand, or all tho Continent over without hearing a disrespectful word of ' your nation or your religious belief." But travelling enlarges one's ideas in less obvious directions than these, and walking, according to Mr Cooper, is the host and cheapest of all wave of travelling —from an educational point of view especially.