PAGE SIX. rr tm -------- UD THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG., MONDAY. JULY i EILNE iia RE es * 5, 1909. _-- L A Great Life Insurance Company Assets, of the highest grade, Including Policy Reserves, Liabilities, . $136,000,000, Insurance in Force, | Billion 400 Million Dollars On Seven and One-Half Million Policies. plus amount held at interest . Total Number of Claims Paid, Ordinary and Industrial policies Ages 1 to 70. Both sexes. Amounts $15 to $100,000. ELDER MARSTON'S REVIVAL. (Continued from Saturday's paper.) "Father," she cried, as she burst into the wide sitting-room, "Elder Marston is a terfeiter. I went to the school-house book after the people had left to-night found him making money." The dim light in the room grew dimmer; the words "making money, making money' were repeating' themselves over and over aghin She tried to walk to the settee, but-could not lift her feet along the rapidly rising floor. The settee became frightened at her staring eyes, and ran far away, almost out of sight, down a long, icy road. Her feet were very cold, but her face was burning in the flames of ignited matches A crash like millions of goblets broken with blows downed the words "making money, making money, making money," and then came silence, Help was summoned, and the fainting girl was carried to her bed. One of the boys saddled a horse and galloped for a physician. David, the hired man, took down the shot-gun and ran to the school-house. When nearly theré he hegrd the door close with a bang, and although he could see no fleeing figure he fired, and then called out: "Halt, thou, or I'll shoot again!" "Why, shoot again, certainly," responded a voice- which David had heard in song, in prayer, in preaching service every night for a month. He ran as he never had run before. He hallooed for-help, shouting the names of the nearest neighbors, and shoufing again. Lamps were lighted in the school-housé, and there the farmers gathered while David togl them what the girl had One of the earliest arrivals was Charley Cook. The re- cent converts looked at this reformed son of Belial for their cue. They were dumbfounded at Mar:ton's brazen imfamy. To their simp- ler natures such evident blasphemy loosened the very grasp of God. Scoffers whispered in their ears that the preacher had done, this very work for years, aud reveled in sin every sum mer. "He was too good any way; these per fect men are always scaly" But through the promptings of temptation a strong voice pitched in. earnest supplication drew all to view the figure of Charley Cook, and his sim ple devotion stemmed the rising tide of in fidelity He was kneeling on the littered floor near the centre the room where he had stood or knelt every night since his con version, and where he had tried to atone for sins committed He bent down there now, His rough wool hat beside him, his hard hands clasping the sacred book from which the light was dawn that had dispelled his darkness, and lifted up his voice in prayer. "Lord," he said, without a trace of formal intonation, "can't a traitor carry good -news? Can't a lost man light a beacon-fire? Can't a hungry snan bring bread? Can't a sick man heal? Help us to ask if this message is good, if this beacon-fire leads up out of trouble; if this bread satisfies, if this medicine cures us. And if they do, help us to take 'em, no matter how they "come Amen."And then he rose and went out and led the chase with such tireless vigor that by another nightfall the culprit wis overtaken and landed in jail, No eyent in twenty years had so engrossed attention as did this trapping Bf the counter- feiter, this unmasking of Elder:Marston. In the following his arrést the school- coun- for a she - thought Seon. weeks and | to their credit see JOHN F. PRYDEN, President. Agents Wanted to write Industrial 174 M 155 M 'otal Payments to Policyholders 313 Million Dollars X Good Income-Promotion-Be L Inouse where his last work had been performed 'articulate rills Men came for miles, [to smothered groans as the whole mass 'sank where crowds had | swiftly down | became a place to visit. land told of other services he had been as infamous as here. could criminate the man. The closest failed to reveal the hiding place In that brief while granted him tween the flight of Maxa and the arrival David every/ vestige of work had obliterated the rush of This phase o that search tools his even in moments that detection ment; lieved Elder Marston were expression at the awful revelation, they pin- ned their faith to Maxa's know her sense of justice was sO strong as to beat down all bdrriers of timidity. She could tell exactly all she:knew And now that her preliminar® hearing was at hand, crowds of countrynfen flocked to the city for what was to them a veritable judgment In the city such curiosity had been aroused that Commissioner Bayne concluded to hold [ the inquiry in quarters more commodious than {the little offite where his customary business was transacted. The "old hall" was near at hand, once used for sittings of the Federal court, now seldom occupied above the first floor, whose crowding occupants nionopolized the little room; and never in. the forty years erection had the ancient walls in- y closed so dense a throng. The newspapers had exploited Elder Marston's record with 'a brilliancy of description that won attention It was understood that the prisoner would appear as his own attorney. His shrewdness, his logic, his eloquence, were said to be phe- nomenal The hall woukl not contain the crowd that came to witness the proceedings Men pushed inside the bar, and took up po- sitions.about the desks and tables. They were packed about the deep windows through whose small, untidy panes the light had come so long. Officials of all. grades took seats of honor near the bench: A hush of habit fell upon the gray-haired commissioner and ordered the to A murmur of comment followed as a slender, dark-faced man the room, searching swiftly with his deep-set eyes till tHey rested Maxa Haven. Was it anger or appeal she in them A swaying¥ crushing move of .the crowd thd how sdeep was the In the shuffling noise of many feet timber somewhere -in the room grieved beyond since ts the audience took his seat be brought "in as prisoner entered on read ment interest a breaking ed in a moment by the rage to hear was. a sense of offending in the incident The formal arraignment listened to in a hush that drove the great crowd forward half a man's breadth, that bent the body and turn ed the ear to catch the faintest sound "Not guilty," said Elder Marston, calmly; and it was his first arrest "Ah! he will fight again; it swayed back with loosened tension: feet were shifted to an position was utterance since The audience breathed casier rose the casé--when attorney to state commissioner, lool pa eyes, saw the centre of the room slowly sink- ing. Before he coule ing they saw their damger ber crashed, of ruin. "The floor is falling," yells dred voic3s in'a breath--voices that roe cdi flocked to hear him preach, where doubtless { mingled on Jut they | they found nothing in the place or its surroundings was panic she was screaming to yells and shrieks, then sank Dastards and heroes had equal footing in the audience; could be distinguished now. foot. But as the scores of persons uninjured of |'sprang from the windows\and the lower doors, be- | the work of | shine been { men His craft had not deserted him last maimed body was stretched in the gra followed | f the case won com- | suffocating horror ef the dust cloud- to and while sincere men who had be- | thankful consciousness of life. of rescue began. Out into the sun from shadow of death strong 11 +h fellows to safety. till the as the assisted their light of a winter sky--out from the crous All but one, When. Elder Marston's ear first caught the sound of breaking wood he testimony, glad to [knew the avalanche was coming. Calmer than others, because he knew what they were there Maxa Haven. He felt the floor quiver as the crowd drew back, and his last look on the hundreds swept downward was on the girl, was on the persecuting witness, clinging there with both hands to the broad ledge of the window, clinging and crying for help. He knew how much. this fuin meant. Surely some lives would be. lost; why not hers? He knew the tale locked 'in that honest heart and waiting for the telling by those honest lips; and he knew that with her silenced he could not be convicted. But one glance backward as he reached the air changed all his swift- formed plan. Through the srising cloud of dust he saw that she had gained a footing on the broken timbers which the floor had left, and was standing pressed close against the wall and gazing at the crush below She would be saved unharmed Conviction lay that way; but--could he not escape? Nothing was easier. In the mad confusion which/ had seized the town he had safe conduct through any streets he chose He was already on the outer circles of the crowd, the spirit of flight stirring within him, when he heard a later cry, a sharp voice lifted and repeated over and over again: "The walls are falling! Look out!" Theéte was Elder Marston's battlefield. Just silence now, and all the world could not bring home that charge. 'Just silence, and those trembling walls, that vaulting roof, would hush forever the lips that could accuse him, Doubtless Let her scream. So were No one thought of look ing up there. Only he knew. Dared he keep silence? Would not his hands be All scores of others red' roused a few to apprehension, which was still | that There | thought, -and | | | An | woman." the | st him with dilated | brick fell at his fect, but he did not mind the this mstant. Then came the revulsion the last vestige of that wicked Elder Marston turned back through the crowd, pushing and pressing near er till he stood under the window where Maxa in an erased was clinging "Can't a hungry man bring bread?" ( harley Cook had asked in his prayer Aye; but he will feed at times: ' Can't a sick man heal? Yes; but there is cdntagion in life; the healer is better that he bettered .his friend "Help with ladder," he cried. "There's a They were slow to-obey him They A loosened me this had drawn back from the walls warning If only he might save that girl! open his lips in warns | He was hetter than any three as tHey.raised A straining tim- | the ladder the firsth shot in the broadside | sprang up swiftly "before it had hun- | house from "the sash from ts fastenings, threw it behind He waited for none of them, but touched the He stood on the broad ledge and tore Strength | stricken, and weakness was unger- | the | cate complic to learn, he darted one thought at what might They would have be the end, then turned his eyes and studied ghosts of John Calvin and J illion Dollars [lion Dollars | The Prudential Insurance Co. of Am lacorporated as a Stock Company by the State of New Jersey. x down with of blessing effort hands He which him blindly, and stooped and and heart br lifted o safety; but in thrust beyond the the rescuer lost his balance and crumbling walls, tomb where he lay acquit, beyond the reach questioning > eye S her t the the reach fell with under the heavy roof, ir of human The Growing Good Feeling. urier rganic un slowly, for ons Tl of such a step, however have along and understanding I and ardent Methodist of would Canadian C Toward « make hast ati travelled » the stiff: Presbyt a generation been 1 the hn Wesley had they talk eff spirit of wor ago a discdssion have impossjble imagine to be haunting their erring footsteps, of such a united church boards ship may be, Christendom will The form of church one temperament will be repellant to a but that circumstance need not prevent ful comprehension where combined desirable as in mission There servers who prophesy that outcome of this movement will be a cliurc membership, fiumerically through its very 'magnitude, will tend to ar excess of authority The outcome, 'in meantime, is a broader f: those of differing creeds, a closer sion of the humanitarian spirit under} work of the churches. While ous expression of opinign in the the three denominations comcerned, there has been a comforting absence of bitter denun tion . possibility as Whatever ghly ever find a universal temple ed the is improbable that all service which appeals tq nother fields considered, iendliness betw 1prehen ing the there ounce ol Art of Genuine Hospitality. Emerson "1 pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber | yourself ta get a rich dianer for this. man or this woman who has alighted at cur gate, or a bed-chamber made ready 'at These things they can get for : | But let this m ur looks, in vour havior, read your heart thought and will, which he price in apy vil well travel fifty sleep hard in erder to beh cost at will, any v ge stramwger, accent, and and edrnestness, your cannot buy at any lage or city, and which | sparely riminly be mph dine hd { the board be spread and let bed for the Her, but let not the ¢ lie in these things i wd m and dre travel Odd Names Given In China. e children are endowed with in. names. Th alled" Mabel, Jenny Celestial | Perfun nan eir girls, for instance, are Matilda, but Cloudy Spring Peach or bovs ippIness, es 1 being Casket of 1elr attractive wisdom rather Thus we Industr m ledge; year-old, . they § st 1 Me, Joy to ve, ar Happin ble Devotion taken as amples. 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