"BUT where's your boy, Gran?" asked Ned's wife; for the old lady had appeared at the door alone. "Did you miss him? Didn't he get to the train in time?"
"No—yes—that is, he went back after my valise. You see I got in at half past six—I wrote Ned it would be seven; I didn't want to wait; I wanted to see you and this little man—Gran's old precious! so I started on to walk, left the telescope in the baggage-room—or, no, that ain't just it—a man took it. I came along, met Ned just as I was getting off the street-car. We stopped and talked a minute, then he went after it, and I came on. I tell you I'm glad to get here. I'm dusty and tired. But say, you little, old darling, what do you suppose Gran's got in that telescope for you? You won't appreciate it, but you will grow to it."
"What in the world, Claudie, do you suppose it can be?" asked the young mother, who was kneeling in an almost worshipful attitude before the two.
"Tell mother you can't ever guess if you try," said Gran in an exultant tone.
They sat on talking until they were interrupted by a quick step and an imperative voice, which asked:—
"Say, Gran, did you take that valise to the baggage-room yourself?"
"No, dear. A kind-looking man took it for me. It was awfully heavy."
"Yes, a kind-looking scamp—a tramp, a thief. You've been took in as usual. The baggage man—I know him well; he's reliable—he said there had been no man, woman, or child to the baggage-room with any valise this morning. Yours is not in sight anywhere. That fellow was a thief. Anything valuable in it?"
"Why, yes, of course. I don't go lugging trash about," with more fire in her tone than could have been supposed possible in Gran. "There was lots o' things,—my silk dress that you got me, my new Hiptonette, that I'd just paid twelve and a half for, little things and fixings, such as I always need, and, worst of all, my old Bible, all marked through so I can find anything I want, and the picture Bible that I bought for baby."
A kind-looking man took it for me.
"It's too bad, Gran, dear," said Emily. "I kept feeling as tho Ned ought to hurry, didn't I, Ned?"
"Yes, you did; and I wish I had; but I was working out in our little garden. I intended to be on time."
"You were, dear; the train was too soon."
"Changed time," was Ned's laconic reply.
For a minute nothing more was said; the case as to the valise was too hopeless for words. There were only three ways to meet it,—the fool's way, of senseless worry; the way of philosophical stoicism; and the way of Christian quietness and trust. Gran was the trustful Christian, Ned philosophical, and Emily wanted to be both, so that she could be like the two whom she loved best, barring the baby. Gran broke the silence.
"Well," she said, "I hope it will do him lots of good, poor fellow! I can get along, even if I should never see another Bible. I suppose before the Lord comes those who live till then may have to carry all that they have of it in their hearts and brains, and mine is there all right. Maybe that poor fellow needed just such a Bible all marked up as that is. He will probably sell the dresses and things. I don't like to think of that dress that I just wore at your wedding being hung up in a pawn-shop. But maybe that's the Lord's way for that dress too. Now I happen to think there is something in that pocket that maybe he has use for. My! but I'm glad I didn't have anything that I'd be ashamed to have a poor sinner find in my pocket or valise—not a thing that wouldn't do anybody good if they'd let it. But, come to think, that old Book might be worse'n dynamite, if that man did but know it, and "—she paused, and bowed her head on the wondering, upturned face of the child for a second, "and, I tell you, he's my tramp from this time; I shall pray for him every day as long as I live."
Ned walked quickly out, and Emily impulsively threw her arms about Gran, and sobbed: "O, I wish we were all like you! You don't seem to be angry one bit."
"But I am," said Gran vigorously. "I am very angry with the thing that could make a tramp and a thief, and I'm going to prove the power of my anger at sin by my love for a soul. I'll pray for him. I'll pray for him three times a day as long as I live, because he did that to me; and I'll pray that the commandments he'll find in that old Bible may all explode in his soul, and come down in a shower of promises all about him."
Gran was as good as her word. Three times a day in her room, at the prayer-time that she had with the baby every night, at the church prayer-meeting, she prayed for "one poor soul," as she called him in public; for "my poor tramp," as she called him in secret. The rest of the family called him "Gran's thief." The baby grew up to pray for him, and to ask many wondering questions.
"What makes us pray for him, Gran?" he asked one evening when he was about four years old.
"Because he is a poor sinner for whom Jesus died."
"Just as He died for me, Gran?"
"Yes, darling, just the same."
"And just as He died for papa and mama?"
"Yes, darling, just the same."
"Is that why we pray for him, and papa, and mama, and me too, all just alike?"
"Yes, dear, that is the reason. We are all sinners together, and must be saved by the same Jesus."
"Does Jesus love us all alike?"
"Yes, dear."
"But, Gran, you pray for your thief more than you do for anybody. Do you love him best?"
No answer from Gran.13"Maybe Jesus loves him best; is that the reason?"
"He needs more, because he has no one else to pray for him, I suppose," said Gran, "and a thief is such a great sinner that somebody must love him a great deal to make it possible for him to be saved."
"So Jesus loves him a great deal," said the child, "and I must love him a great deal too; so must you, Gran."
"Yes, indeed, so we must; poor soul!"
"But don't you want to see him, Gran?"
"Indeed, yes. I'd go a long way to see him."
"Does he want to see you?"
"I—I—don't know, dear. Sometimes I think he does."
"Maybe he'll come to see you some day, Gran, and I'll have him to play with. Is he as big as me?"
"O, yes, darling; he's a man as big as papa—bigger!"
"Does he look like my papa?"
"O, no, he looks rough, I think, rather, altho not so very rough, after all! He is tall, and thin, but straight; he has a stubby beard, and his face is very sunburned."
"What is sunburned, Gran?"
"Tanned, so that his face is—let me see—about the color of mama's gloves."
The child stood leaning on Gran's knee thoughtfully for a minute, and then he said:—
"Now I'll pray for him again, Gran;" and the two knelt, while the baby voice said:—
"O Jesus, we love yours and Gran's thief, and we want you to bring him here so we can see him, 'cause we wants to so much; so please, for Jesus' sake; amen! And I'm going to watch for him."
He sprang to his feet with a little happy jump, and continued gleefully: "I'll run and get him, and bring him right in where you are. Don't you think you'll be glad then?"
E. W. A. H. H.
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RELATION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT.
By David Paulson, M.D.
WHEN chloroform is administered to a person he is not to blame for struggling and saying foolish and unwise sayings. Yet the eating of improper food or even good food in wrong combinations ferments and creates poisons that are taken up by the blood and carried to the brain and result in disorder. Then some of these people wonder why it is that they feel so harsh and unkind toward their neighbors, and why they do not experience a deeper work of grace in their hearts. If they would change their diet to that of a simple, healthy, and pure one, how different they would feel!
God's law established the connection between cause and its effect,—God Himself has arranged these conditions. And we can pick off the leaves of a plant or tree, but if the roots are left, it will grow again and put out more leaves. Highly-spiced foods create the thirst which is a cause of drunkenness. And many are today laboring for temperance reform while their cooks are at home making drunkards out of their sons.
People only see the outward, the superficial, for when a man is taken sick the first thing he wants to do is to get rid of the annoying symptoms. But they are only danger signals to him. We must deal with the cause. When a man comes to us in either spiritual or physical trouble, are we simply to say, "Peace, peace," to him, when God says there is no peace to him while he persists in doing the very thing that brought him into trouble? God wants us to go back to the cause. God wants us to lay the ax at the root of the tree.
It is the cause that is wrong; the effect is right, for it is ordained by God Himself. I sometimes think Satan knows a great deal more about physiology than we do, for all the great poison habits that he has led the people into, such as morphine, liquor, tobacco, tea, and coffee using, blunt the mind, by which we recognize God. And yet there are many who study these things and labor hard to in some way excuse them when used "moderately." We might as well talk of moderate stealing, moderate swearing, for an evil can not be indulged in at all and be excused. Sin and righteousness do not come from the same root.
Now if there was a cruel person in a high building who would throw an infant out of the window, the law of effect says that it would be crushed. Some one might pick up the infant and bind up the wounds, and thus be doing a noble work, yet they would only be remedying the effect. Those in the building might keep throwing others out, and hundreds on the sidewalk might keep trying to remedy the effect, but would it not be far better for some one to go up into the building and stop these wicked people from throwing them out? This would be getting at the cause. Nearly half the children die before the age of five, murdered in the majority of cases by operating causes that ought to be just as apparent as the one in the foregoing illustration. Several years ago 100 infants died weekly during winter in Brooklyn, but during summer 600 died per week. Was this a "mysterious dispensation of Providence," operating six times stronger in the summer than in the winter, or were the infants being thrown out and crushed, as in the illustration, by sour feeding-bottles, back-yard odors, defective plumbing, decayed fruit, and poisonous beef tea, the majority of these causes acting more virulent in hot weather than in cold?
So many are spending all their energies trying to remedy the effect and paying little or no attention to the cause! If I put my hand on a hot stove, God has arranged the law of effect that my hand shall be burned. Now if I should inject some cocaine into my hand to remove the painful effect and still keep my hand on the stove, would that be the thing to do?—No, I should remove the cause, that is, remove my hand from the stove. So simply doping with headache powders to smother the sad reminder of a wretched dinner, merely rubbing liniments on a painful rheumatic joint to get rid of the pain, does not prevent more of the poisons from those habitual beefsteak breakfasts to lodge there.
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In the Philippines.—There has been almost continuous fighting of a more or less serious character between the Americans and Filipinos during the past two weeks. In an engagement on March 15 the Filipinos lost over 200 killed and 450 prisoners. Fighting was continuous on the following day, and the Filipinos lost heavily, being driven from successive trenches. In an engagement on the 19th the Filipinos were driven fifteen miles by General Wheaton's brigade, and left 200 dead on the field. American gunboats have entered the lake east of Manila, capturing a number of small towns and several gunboats used by the natives......The transport Sherman arrived at Manila on March 22, with a regiment of regulars to re-enforce General Otis.
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International.—A battle occurred on the frontier of Morocco, on March 22, between the Dejedi and Benisussen tribes on the one side and the Mohayas on the other. The latter were defeated, losing 800 prisoners. The number of killed on both sides is said to be 400......England and Russia are said to be coming into harmony over the matter of railway concessions in China, the czar being desirous of showing an amiable disposition on the eve of the peace conference......Cecil Rhodes, the South African millionaire and politician, has secured from Germany permission to build a telegraph line through German East Africa, thus connecting Egypt and South Africa. This is the preliminary step to the building of a railroad between Egypt and Cape Town.
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Belgium has joined the other nations in demands on China. She is asking for a concession at Hankow......Denmark, following in the footsteps of her sister nations, is preparing to send a cruiser to Chinese waters in connection with her demands on China for concessions and privileges. With all these nations joining in the clamor for Chinese territory, China must begin to realize that her end as an independent power is nearing rapidly. The empress dowager has ordered the governors of the seacoast provinces of China to resist by force of arms any further landing of armed foreigners on Chinese territory......Germany has despatched a third cruiser to Morocco to enforce her demands for the payment of damages to certain of her subjects whose property was destroyed by a mob.
Casualties and Calamities.—The long-continued drought and excessive heat in Australia is reported to have caused the death of millions of sheep and hundreds of thousands of cattle and horses. One report states that the farms are left without a blade of grass, and many farmhouses have been destroyed by bush fires, while fifty per cent. of the stock of all kinds has perished......A European expedition traveling in the Desert of Sahara was attacked by Arabs recently, and one hundred belonging to the expedition were killed......Cyclones visited portions of Arkansas, Alabama, and Georgia on March 19, doing an immense amount of property damage. Thirteen persons were killed in Alabama, four in Georgia, and three in Arkansas......Advices from Sydney state that two villages in the Solomon Islands have been destroyed by a tidal wave, causing much loss of life......On account of the strict press censorship in Russia, it has not been known that a terrible famine is in progress in the eastern provinces of European Russia. There are several million people living in these provinces, and practically all have been reduced to the last extremity of want. The peasantry are endeavoring to support life on a mixture of weeds, acorns, and chopped straw, which renders them so weak that thousands of them are succumbing to disease. The death rate ranges from five to ten in the hundred......Thirty-three dead bodies have so far been recovered from the burned ruins of the Windsor Hotel, New York.
Miscellaneous.—A balloon voyage of 423 miles was recently made by four German officers in a little over four hours, who thus traveled at a rate of over one hundred miles an hour, the fastest trip of the kind on record......The two miners who had been imprisoned in the Bon Air mine at Leadville, Colorado, were rescued on March 23, having been thirteen days imprisoned in the shaft. They were given food, drink, and an electric light through a ten-inch water pipe. In order to accomplish their rescue a shaft had to be sunk through 200 feet of solid rock, at a cost of $3,000......Advices from Ecuador state that the Protestant missionaries in that country are in grave peril. A wave of fanaticism is sweeping over the country, through the influence of the priests, and a general massacre is threatened......The Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph, of London, have both begun the issue of Sunday editions, which is an innovation in London journalism......Mrs. Martha Place, the first woman to die in the electric chair, was executed at Sing Sing, New York, on March 20, for the murder of her stepdaughter......On March 17, thirteen Spanish priests from Manila arrived in San Francisco on their way to Central and South American countries. Over three hundred of these priests are still held by the Filipinos......Princess Kaiulani, of Hawaii, died at her home near Honolulu on March 6.
The Trusts.—The New England Electric Vehicle and Transportation Company, with a capital of $25,000,000, was incorporated under the laws of the State of New Jersey on March 23......About 500 jewelry firms in New England and the Middle Atlantic States have formed a jewelry trust, with a capital of $25,000,000......The cast-iron pipe trust, whose formation was anticipated some weeks ago, has become an accomplished fact......The Compressed Air Traction Company has been incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with a capital of $15,000,000. The company is empowered to manufacture and deal in compressed air in capsules......The manufacturers of bicycles have arranged the details of a gigantic trust with a capital of $50,000,000. There is also to be a $5,000,000 bicycle-saddle trust, a steel-tube trust, and a wood-rim trust......The plow manufacturers of the United States are forming a trust, the capital stock of which is expected to amount to $60,000,000. There is also in process of formation a canned goods trust, to have a capital stock of $20,000,000......A $50,000,000 wine trust is in process of formation at New York. It is the intention of this company to control all the popular brands of wines in the country.
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