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CHICAGO "Madame, we sacrifice cat to care tables. This was the manner In which a noted physician and scientist Is said to hare defended certain vlvisectlonary practices to the tender-hearted woman who vould have condemned them. An this albeit In a somewhat different 1 manner Is what Mrs. Clinton Locke, president of the Beresford Cat club of Chicago, been doing for years. Mrs.

Locke dearly loves her cherished cats and kittens, but she loves sick little children, ailing women, and -dependent Invalids till more. All of Mrs. Locke's cat money goes for charity and the sick babies, perhaps, are most potent to charm It to humanitarian uses. Every time a fresh call Is made upon Mrs. Locke's sympathies a fine cat or kitten is presently missing from the Lockehaven cattery.

The sacrifice Is a real one, for the mistress of the cats and cattery holds each separate pet and treasure In esoecial tenderness and affection. There is scarce a charity or charitable enterprise of Chicago or vicinity but conic tell grateful tales of Mrs. Locke's frequent generosity in this connection, and the number of men and women saved from suf-. ferlng or started up In the lucrative industry of cat culture because of the pretty haven inmates and their kindly owner would "run into the hundreds. Beclnalaa; Odd Charities.

The beginning of Mrs. Locke's "cattish charities dates back twenty years. At that time a personal friend, a great traveler, brought to her a fine blue cat from Persia. The career or Wendella, as the pretty puss was named. In honor of the giver, marked the beginning of the cat-loving -fad in Chicago.

She proved a most attractive and lovable pet, and was presently joined by other fine cats, imported from England. be-'fore the pioneer of the cat fancy in Chicago was aware of the fact or of her distinction, other cat-loving women, admiring and envious, were endeavoring to start catteries. Mrs. Locke, with numerous charities weighing upon her heart and brain, always saw and recognized an opportunity to make money in behalf of these beloved institutions and efforts. With every cat or kitten sold a check was promptly sent to some needy place or person; the only exceptions ever made to this rule have occurred when other fine cats have been imported, for the good of the Lockehaven cattery and collection, and, indirectly, of the beneficiaries for whose sake the cats were sold.

To hunt up the records of the hundreds of choice cats now to be found in Chicago would be to trace Mrs. Locke's cats and kittens to all parts of the city. And stilly although Mrs. Locke is now disposing of many of her cherished pets and treasures, because of the ill health and encroaching duties that render it impossible for her to longer care for so many, the Lockehaven cattery is well worth a visit for the ake of the fine animals it still contains. Ilaadsome Lacy Claire.

Lucy Claire, duly accredited as the handsomest "smoke" cat In America, and an envied champion because of her four first prizes, three of which were won in Chicago, with the fourth hailing from Cincinnati, is still the undisputed star of Chicago's feline society. Had the challenge cups to be offered at the oncoming show of the res-ford Cat club been sooner provided Lucy Claire would have carried them off long ago. With her remarkable unbroken records. Hippie, a handsome orange, is another noted lockehaven beauty. Ripple belongs to the rare Manx family, vsobolink, a Lockehaven Manx kitten, one of Ripple's children, and now the property of Mrs.

Samuel Harvey of Chicago, bids fair to be almost as Interesting as his noted and handsome progenitor. Jessica Kew is the only child of Daffodil, another famous Locke- HOW Hawkins lives on the West Side. He Is emptjyed as a clerk in a house furnishing goods establishment in Halsted street. He is short and rather fat. His salary Isn't very large, but he manages to save most of It every week.

Xfetil last Wednesday he had $50 In a savings bank. He might have five times that BOUGHT A HUNCH OF ORDERS. amount right now if But upon that point hangs the baeis for this Thanksgiving story. When Hawkins reported for work Tuesday morning another clerk called him aside and asked him if he had made out an application for a turkey. "Who'd give me a turkey?" replied Hawkins, somewhat contemptuously.

"What I get I work for, and it's been my experience in this town that folks don't give you something for nothing." "But you're wrong In this- case," said the clerk. "The boss has Issued an order that every one of the one hundred and fifty employes be given a turkey." "How can I go about It to get one?" asked Five years have elapsed since the Trans-iberian railroad was opened for a sufficient distance across the wild and Isolated plains Siberia to affect the economic aspects of that country. Most of the results have from time to time been indicated In these columns; It will be Interesting now to summarize some the conclusions deduced from an able analysis of the effects thus far of the railroad upon the development of Siberia. This analysis has Just appeared in La Revue Economlque Russe. whose facilities for studying the whole question give more than ordinary value to the broad generalizations based upon the data collected.

In, the first place, the development of the past five years would have reached still greater 'propsrtions If the -times had been normal; but Siberia's trade, prosperity, and growth have been unfavorably affected to some extent by the unsettled political conditions In China and Mancboorla, and by the two bad crop years of 1900 and 1901. Still, as every on knows, the Immlgratloa baa been enormous; and the effects of this Inpouring upon agriculture and the towns have nof hitherto been very clearly shown. A Urge' umber of the Russian farmers, who removed to Siberia, having some knowledge of modern agricultural methods, introduced systems of farming that are less rudimentary than those practiced by the Siberians: ieeidca bringing in sew methods they are a ii Tf- 4 CZZMJ 0f tsfr's' haven beauty and prize winner, a rare cream this time, and Laddie Kew, the equally famous cream prize winner owned by Miss Lucy Johnstone of this city. As the "littlest one" of all her feline pets and treasures, Mrs. Locke has a feeling for the diminutive Jessica shared by none of the others, unless perhaps It be the cat mummy presented to her -in Persia ten years ago, and which she smilingly describes as "my oldest cat." This mummy, which was presented to Mrs.

Locke In Cairo, was taken, from the tombs of Zagavig. In Egypt, and verified by Brusch Bey, head of the museum at Gizeh, Is over 4,000 years old. It, too, has ben made to serve charitable purposes quite frequently, and before long will probably do so again. It Is planned to make this cat one of the unusual or "freak" exhibits of the present season Beresford Cat club show. This show, which will take place on Dec.

17, 18. and 19, is to be given in the hall above the new Coliseum Annex. Already entries have been made from many other states and cities, and the prizes, medals, and other emoluments arranged to reward the efforts of the cat lovers and exhibitors of Chicago and elsewhere will be many, varied, and well worth contesting for. Lady Marcus Bereeford of England, in THE' INTER OCEAN, SUNT) AT MOBNING, NOTEMBETl 30. 1903.

WOMAN SELLS BRED CATS TO AID BABIES. HIGHLY 111 III ZV': I I I l.if I i I in wor ha ie i III I I HUf reur4a. NT I III I III. 7 II ill -I VV ZZrm-Z? JI I If III I c. v.

Ml' I I f' 7. IV Hi KP rCsxZr -r i 1 I Mrs. Locke A CLERK FAILED TO "CORNER" TURKEYS A THANKSGIVING Hawkins, who was becoming Interested. "Easy enough," said the clerk. "Make out an application for one and then give it to me.

I will band it in to the 'old man's' secretary and you'll get your turkey tomorrow." Hawkins lost no time in making out an application. His supposed friend took the slip of paper and hastened over to where several other clerks were working. "See here, fellows," he began excitedly, "we've got a chance to make Hawkins look like three cents. I Just told him the 'old man' was going to give us all a turkey and he bit at it like a fish. He made out an application and I promised to get an order for him.

Now what I propose is that we fake up an order for a turkey, send him over to the barn with it, and then let him get the The clerks pronounced this a capital scheme and Immediately began writing out an order. Hawk! as Does Soaae Flaarlaa-. Meantime Hawkins was sitting In the doll department doing some figuring. In the first place It had dawned upon him that ail of the employes would not need turkeys. A brilliant inspiration followed this thought, lis knew that turkeys were selling at 20 centa a pound, and if he could buy 100 or so at prices ranging from 6 to 10 cents a pound he could make a handsome sum.

Hawkins kept on flgurtaguntil he saw himself worth $1,000 and then he stopped from sheer mental exhaustion. During the entire day he did very little work in the doll department. When the manager rebuked him several times for not being attentive enough to customers Hawkins made faces at him behind his back and Inwardly vowed that he would reelgn as soon as he had cleared the fortune which be expected by Thanksgiving day. That evening, before Hawkins finished work, one of the clerks handed him the following order, which bore the name of the proprietor of the store: "Barnmaster: Please give bearer one turkey as a token of my appreciation of the WONDERFUL EFFECT OF THE giving much more attention than the Siberian farmers have ever done to the raising of cereals for export. Growth of I'rfcaa Popalatlwa.

On the other hand, a large part of the Immigrants have settled In the towns. The growth of the urban population, and particularly of the towns on the railroad line where It crosses the rivers, ha been one of the most marked results of the building of the road. The road has ruined most of the fsirs formerly for the exchange of commodities and has correspondingly increased the Importance of the towns as permanent business centers. Omsk, for example, was dead and seemingly beyond hope of but now its population baa doubled and It has become a very active business center. The Sunday Inter Ocean has already told of the enormous expansion of butter production and export in the past five years; but cattle raising In Siberia will not begin to reach the limit of its poaeibllittes till many millions of dollars' worth of beet cattle are sent every year to the marketa of Europe.

The railroad as yet shows little Indications of an increase In this trade. It haa wonderfully stimulated butter making and exports, but from 1SS8 to 1900 only 38.000 cattle and 15,000 horses were sent over the road into European Rcssla. The railroad has exercised an extremely favorable Influence upon the development ot the mining Industries. It was impossible, until tho road was built, to transport the pr- MAw I Y- 'l wfr 7 Wit I '-z WWW I -fiiMni a iJITT7iJirI aPa -IZXW 1 ytff -nr0M Vl 11 fSi? 411 A' I I VWI 1.1' il I WfrtJ it I I whose honor the Chicago organization, which is the largest of Tts kind in the world, was named, will send two medals, one each for the best long and short haired domestic cat, respectively, exhibited at the show: There will be twenty-two cups to be competed for, twelve of these to belong to the challenge variety, which must be won three times to become the property of the owner. As the same cups are to be offered at the cat show as those at the pet stock show in January, Chicago owners and exhibitors will have two chances this winter to compete for and retain these coveted challenge cups.

Many of the Beresford Cat club members are planning to show at this later exhibition. also, and the authorities of the pet stock show have given ten medals to be competed for at the Beresford Cat club's exhibition. Mr. E. W.

Jefferson of Chicago will offer a cash prize for the best and handsomest stray cat rescued and exhibited by a small boy or girl of Chicago. Mrs. Clinton Locke. Mrs. Fred Everett Smith, and others will give prizes of 13 In gold for fine cats in various classes, Mrs.

Locke also offering several cups for various classes, and the list of other generous and devoted prize givers will be very long. Mrs. George M. Pullman, Mrs. Frank O.

Lowden, Mrs. P. A. Valentine, Mrs. J.

manner in which he has served me during the last year." "Did every one get an order like this one? inquired Hawkins as he began swelling out wlih pride. "No, you're the only one," said the clerk rather sadly. "It made some of the fellows "I'LL MTT ALL TOTT CAN PRING AROUND," SAID THE RKSTAl RANT MAN. pretty He said he overheard the boss saying you were a rattling good business man. The 'old man said that some people would take taffy or bite at Jokes, but that you were the king bee when it came to being up to date." The only reason Hawkins didn't float up to the ceiling at these words was that the gigantic scheme in his kept him anchored.

Mi Little Scheme. "Do you think," be asked carelessly after regaining his composure, "that any of the fellows would care to sell their turkeys?" "You are certainly a sly one," laughed the clerk, punching him in the ribs. "What have you got up your sleeve now? Going to corner the turkey market?" fected mining machinery of today to the gold tnlnes of the Altai and Baikal, to the mining district tributary to Irkutsk, or to the auriferous region of the Amur. All these districts are now supplied with considerable quantities of the best modern machinery. Coal Fields Opeaed by Railroads.

The railroad has actually created the coal Industry. The mining of coal Is Indispensable to the future development of The search for resources of this fuel began with the first studies for the building ot the railroad, and the day of considerable production coincided with that of the opening of most of southern Siberia by the completion of the road. Several great coal fields of the country are todsy in process of development-One of them Ilea along the upper Irtysb; another Is In the province of Tomsk, near the village of Sudjcnka; another la the province of Irkutsk, near the village of Chlremkhovo. The furnaces of the locomotives are fed today with Siberian coal. The development of coal mining Is continually Increasing, and coal win be produced in export quantities before I long.

Thus the rsllroad is completely transforming the mining business. For a long time two-thirds of the contribution of Russia to the gold output has come from Siberia, thouglr nearly all the mining was confined to washing placer gravels; now the extensive quarts veins are beginning to be worked, and the mining of soli is expected to develop in a pro KVJ1 it IN lrrWafi-i. RVll VAI' and Some "It happens." responded Hawkins, with a far-away look in bia eyea and a mysterious twist to his mouth "it happens that I've got an old uncle living in Lemont who is worth all kinds of money. He thinks I'm all right, and If I bought these turkeys pretty cheap and resold 'em to him it would make a hit with him." "Aha! Foxey Hawkins!" roared the clerk, and then turning toward the main door be darted out of the store. Hawkins followed, but upon reaching the sidewalk be made bia way to a restaurant on West Madison street which la carpeted with sawdust and makes a specialty of low prices.

The proprietor is a small, thia man with an eager face and a hungry look. "How would you like to buy an outfit of turkeys?" Inquired Hawkins carelef sly. Now, the restaurateur was quite well acquainted with He knew htm to be a young man who never Indulged in Jokes, and so he answered quite seriously: "If yoo give me gooIHarkeys I'll buy all you can bring around, provided the price is not too high." "What would you say if I let you have all you could handle at 12Vs cents a pound?" pursued Hawkins." "I would say 'Bring em I'll pay you cash for all you'll let me have for that figure." "How many turkeys have you ordered for use In your restaurant?" "Ten." Calls Off Deal with Batcher. "Well, III guarantee to bring you at least ten by Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, and I may have a lot more Upon hearing this pormlse the restaurant man rushed to a telephone, called for tho butcher with whom he deals, and told him not to bring the turkeys he had ordered. The butcher growled considerably, for the little restaurateur had agreed to pay 20 cents a pound for the consignment.

However, he agreed to call off the order. Hawkins went home that evening and dreamed of turkeys with gold dollars for After be had left the restaurant man walked out on the sidewalk and put up the following sign: "Cheapest turkey dinner in the world here BUILDING portion more nearly commensurate with the resources in this metal. Some ot the old Industries, on the other hand, have been very unfavorably affected by the grand, new facility for transportation. The rudimentary workshops or the old era are closed because they are unable to compete with the European manufactures that are now so easily brought Into the country. The iron Industry is an example.

Great Isalrsmeat of Prrreaa. A Governor General ot Siberia said, twenty wears ago, that gold mining, the mining ot ore, and the manufacture of iron were the only industries of Siberia. It Is easy to see the reason why all the rude and primitive establishments tor Iron smelting have been rained by the railroad; they have simply been brought into competition with similar establishments in the Urals and have been unable to stand It. All the blast furnaces and Iron shops along the Angara river have been closed. Ot course, after the Introduction of Improved processes and appliances, the iron Industry of the country may be expected to revive.

We may look upon the Trans-Siberian railroad as a great modern Instrument ot progress suddenly thrown Into a very primitive country. The Inevitable effect Is to destroy the old things to the profit of the modern systems of Industries which the railroad represents. We have often heard of the steamboats on Siberian rivers. Their owners are now finding It necessary to tie up the old boats and put of the Cats Which May Be Sacrificed to Save Babies. tomorrow.

By special arrangement I have succeeded in buying my birds at half price, and the charge for Thanksgiving dinners will be reduced accordingly." When Hawkins reported for work Wednes- THANK MB FOR NOTHING." GREAT SNORTED TH day morn lag he approached a cash boy and asked him if be was going to get a turkey. "Sure t'Ing," said the youngster. "Want to sell it?" asked the amateur trader. "Naw. I dons seen K.

It's too big an fat." "I'll give you a dollar for it," pursued Hawkins. "Han over de dough." responded the boy promptly. "111 give y' me order fer de bird." Hawkins handed over a dollar bill and received a note addressed to the firm's barn-master. Before noon he had bought five more turkey orders at $1 each. While out for luncheon he hastened to the aavlngs bank and drew out hla $100.

.1 With tbia he returned to work and eontin OF A RAILROAD ACROSS new ones In their places; to cut their freight rates, and make other changes in order to bold their trade. It la the same with many of the other old Industries. In epits of the large freightage that passes over the line the expenses of the railroad in 1900 exceeded the receipts by about 1,000.000 GABRIEL'S HORN IN CHURCH. Xesro la Belfry ((d It, hat It Wroaajht Kffee Desired. Srv-lal Correspondence of The InUr Vsn.

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 28. The Rev. George A. Cox, a revivalist of some note ia northern Indiana and southern Michigan, resorted to an unusual expedient laat week to turn sinners from their evil ways.

It was so successful that he may repeat it for their benefit If the notoriety resulting from his first attempt does not put the worldly on their guard and thua make it Impossible to dupe them again. He had been preaching night after night to a village congregation, but had utterly-failed to awaken interest. The usual special prayers for the conversion of sinners had been offered and meetings "for women only" and "for men only" had beep held, but nothing seemed able to bring the sinners to the anxious seat. One night he secreted a negro boy in the belfry of the little church. The lad was provided with a large horn, and at a certain Juncture In the minister's closing ned buying turkeys until he had dealt out most of his money.

Then he sought the private office of his employer the man who. he thought, had said so many complimentary things bout him. "I like to get away this afternoon, sir." be began. "Well, why don't you go?" growled the owner of the store. "I thought I'd first ask your permission, aa I always endeavor to please my superior, and then I wanted to thank you for "Thank ma for nothing!" snorted the great man.

"If you want to get off go ahead. Also tell the manager of your department to see that you are docked for your absence. litres aa Eiprru Wtfoi. "He wants me to think he doesn't like me, remarked Hawkins as he told a group of clerks of his Interview. Then, with his pockets filled with orders for turkeys, ha hastened out of the store.

On the corner he hired so exprets wsgen, and had the driver take him to the firm's barn. The barnmaster, a good-natured Irishman, grinned. broadly when the orders were presented. "They's nswthln doln at priilnt. young man," he said.

"They's only wan turk here now, an' that's mesllf. P'raps if yes come back later ye may be toindin' of a few more." "I'll wait." said Hawkins. And wait he did. He loitered around In front of the barn until o'clock, and then "he again sought out the barnmaster. those turkeys come" yet?" he asked Impatiently.

"Shure. is it birruds yure -tslkln' about?" exclaimed the barnmaster. "Why. Oi thot at firrust 'twas only a bit uv slsng ye wux gtttin off. Nivlr a bit uv a turrukey gobbler is there sround this barn, an', pbwat's more, they won't be afther a -com in'.

Thim shllps uv paper ye hov there Is counterfuts. Te hov bin blsrneyed by yur own kind. What you had betther do is go home an' aay nswthln'." Hawkins eyes filled with tesrs. All his visions of weslth hsd been thrown aside by the barnmaster. He rode to the restaurant, and between sobs, told the little proprietor of the trick that had been played upon him.

rubles. The government, however, had an interesting reason for not regarding thia as a d'nCwaa found in" that year that the receipts of the government roads in Russia had been Increased by several million rubles in carrying freight tha Trans-Siberian railroad. prayer he was to blow it wjth all hts might. The sermon, that evening was from the text. "Many are called, but few are chosen." and Cox eloquently dwelt upon the delights of the saved and the sufferings of the lost.

Then be knelt in prayer and begged the Lord to hasten the day of bis coming and to turn the hearts of the wicked toward him before It was forever too late. "Gabriel, come blow thy trumpet he shouted. "Come and sound thy mighty warning ot approaching woe to a stiff-necked people." This was the signal for the negro boy In the belfry, and he Bounded blast after blast tn answer to the minister's prayer. There was a commotion in the congregation. 'Many pious men and women fell on their knees and began to pray.

Sinners sat with blanched faces and trembling forms, expecting every moment for the world to come to an end. "Ah. brethren." exclaimed the mlnUtcr, "our petitions sre at last answered. Down upon your knees, brethren, that you may receive the Lord in contritcness of heart and humility ot for this is surely the day of the resurrection." I So well had the program been carried out 1 Ogdea Armour, Mrs. H.

O. Stone, Mlnnt Maddera Fiske, Mrs. J. Whit comb Cotton. U-a IT Dial.

VImjuuI Tul 1 I. 1 1 A VW 111 WW, Mr. William G. Hibbard. James W.

Child, and W. H. Truesdale of New York, Mrs. W. P.

Cowen. and Mrs. B. P. Robinson are all numbered among the well-known men and women who are to give prizes.

A. J. Bourlsnd and E. Vldal. late or England and Canada, are to be the show Judges, and a number of prominent and distinguished visitors are expected, among them Mrs.

F. J. Sarmiento of Detroit, whose cats are noted beauties and prise winners; M. I. Jones, who will bring a number of fine cats With Mm.

and Mrs. E. R. Pierce of Cincinnati, who, being Intensely and devotedly patriotic, believes that there are ne finer cats than thos tt tlr ryuToA Ar.mm1 ly "Maine," variety, and who will exhibit a number of these cats at the Beresford show. AUTO BUILT BY A BOY.

ladlaaa Lad' Maeblae May Be Seat 1 Werla'a Fair. 8pe-ll CVnvtnndrne of Tbe Inter Ocean. HAGERSTOWN. Nov. IS.

Ralnh Teeter, the 12-year-old son of John H. Teeter of Hagerstown, is said to be the youngest successful electrician In the' world. At the age of 7 he constructed small devices in which electricity was applied, and by the time he was 9 he had a lot of magnets, buttons, switches, eto. He astonishes all who hear him talk about electricity. Some electricians who were oa a recent trip of Inspection on an electric car were amazed at hearing him explain the principles of the trolley car system.

So interested did the party become that question after question waa asked the boy, who did net fail in any instance to give the correct answer. It is not In the theory alone of the subject that Ralph la proficient. He Is able to aoDlv his knowledge In dozens of different ways. His father has had built for him a workshop 12x14 feet. In it la a three-horse power gasoline engine, which Is operated and cared for by Ralph personally.

There is a power lathe la which wood or Iron can be treated, a work bench of regulation size, and an outfit of The shop ia equipped with any- Bomber of electric devices. The subject of electric lighting Just now en gages Ralph attention, and he has begun the construction of a lighting plant to bo Installed in his father's house. It will be constructed by Ralph alone at odd times. The engine in the shop will be used to furnish the power. This engine, it may be remarked.

has been remodeled by Ralph. Last summer Ralph made for himself an automobile from start to finish. True, he did not make the engine entirely. He found an old gasoline engine in the scrap heap at his father's machine shop, took It up to his own workshop, and succeeded In msking a first- class machine out of He fitted It with new electrical batteries and provided anew feed through which the engine sucks In the gas to be exploded In the cylinder. sured Ralph started In on the vehicle proper.

He shaped steel axles In Ills own lathe, a steel steering device was also turned out from his own shop, and the wheels were dressed and fitted by him. The vehicle Is similar to the runabouts commonly seen on city streets, and every part of it was made by his own hands. Many expert mechanics have inspected this machine and have pronounced It a wonderful production for a boy and a creditable one for a mechanic of any age. It fa ihe intention to exhibit the automobile at the St. Louis world's fair as the production of the youngest automobile builder in the world.

Ralph Is a pupil in the schools of his home town. His xecord as a student Is not espe cially brilliant. It is only in mechanics and electricity that he is In advance of other boys 1 of hla age. JOKE. The restsurant man almost collapsed.

He rushed outside, demolished, the alluring sign he bad displayed the day before, and then, telephoned to the butcher. That dignitary said he hadn't a aingle turkey left. A frenzy aelsed the restaurateur. He tor ALL HIS VISIONS OF WEALTH THROWN ASIDE. his He kicked over a case filled with Cigars.

He seized a plate sad ran about seeking the man who hsd promised him wealth and thrown him down. But Hawkins wasn't In sight. He had fled tn the express wsgen. When he reported for work Friday morning a few of those who had sold him orders for turkeys refunded his Others kept It, and ssid It served him right for intending to get the best of "helpless msrried No one ssys anything about turkeys to Hawkins nowadays. The msnsgerof the toy Asnartment has noticed that a box filled with jnechanlca! gobblers was smashed while being carried behind the counter, but he hasn't evea dared to accuse the plump clerk or navisg committed this act of vandalism.

ASIA. The earnings of the Russian roads would net have had this expansion it it had not been for the great road of Asia which acted as a feeder and distributer of their commerce; the government therefore decided that, after all. It had lost no money by it Siberian road that year. that saints and sinners alike dropped cn their knees, and a hundred voices were raised in surplication for forgiveness, many of the oldest and moat hardened sinners tn the village praying lustily for mercy. A call for penitents was followed by a rush to the mourners' bench, and by hallelujahs from members who saw their sons and daughters taking the first steps toward a better life.

After quiet had been restored, and while the congregation sat In breathlesa silence wait lng for something supernatural to happen, Mr. Cox called the negro down from the belfry, and the lad came down, horn in hand, and a broad grin upon his face. Aa he came down through the little scuttle hole -in the ceiling and dropped to the floor. Mr. Cox pointed him out as the supposed Gabriel, and then began to shame the sinners for tho cowardice they had displayed.

"If thus you are frightened at the horn of Gabriel," said the minister, "what will you do when you come to stand before the Julg ment seat of the God whose mercies you have trampled upon, anl whose grace you have so long abused? Shame upon you. Come to Cad, confesa the evil of your lives, and nk forgiveness before Gabriel's trumpet shall souai la reality for you.".