" They crossed the street through a little maelstrom of fine dust which a wind circle had picked up, and the sheriff led Bull into the jail.

This may be all right; we have not said yet that it is wrong; but it looks suspicious, doesn't it?shows that in the arena of conventional Christianity, as in the seething maelstrom of ordinary life, money is the winner.

If such be the case, the wonderful noonday silence of a tropical forest is, after all, due only to the dullness of our hearing; and could our ears catch the murmur of these tiny Maelstroms, as they whirl in the innumerable myriads of living cells which constitute each tree, we should be stunned, as with the roar of a great city.