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I ire ' I A CENTLEMAN OF '76. Ho cut a gallant figure In bonnie buff and blue: A goodly sight his buckles bright And primly powdered queue! A more courageous quester Ne'er served Sultan nor Shall Than he. my brave ancestor. My great-great-grandpapa! And tnen in nis eiauou r Did my forefather gay, F Speak out the word he'd long deferred * For fear she'd say him "Nay;" > And when he saw how tender Within her eyes the light, He cried: "In your surrender I read?we win the fight!" And when the freedom-pjean Swept, surge-like, through the dells? A might clang whose echoes rang From Philadelphia bellsLoud from a stern old steeple He hurled the proud hurrah, The joy-peal to the people, My great-great-grandpapa. He held the brutal Briton A "thing" beneath his scorn; A Tory he conceived to be Thebasest caitiff born; And not a neighbor wondered He looked upon them so? Forsooth, that was one hundred v And twenty years agol How true the happy presage! In faith, how leal and true - Thv whole long life of love and strife, Thou saint in buff and blue! Beyond all touch of travail, With great-great-grandmamma, Now flooding time, slips by in rhyme For great-great-grandpapa! ?Clinton Scollard. IGSVIL1TS GANNON, 1 Fourth of July Story. * e#?f^?K^e(?f?{e*e(e(?(?t?f?i?j?(?fe^ -V I y^t RICrGSYILLE was verJ sorry. indeed, but it didn't see how it jg| was going to have A that Griggsville vL** wasn't anxious to set off firecrackers and have a balloon ascension, with fireworks in the evening. Quite the contrary, for the Fourth of July in the past had always been the greatest day of the year. Griggsville had thought it all over, remembering that crops were bad, that the times were hard and that taxes were highland had come to the conclusion that it would need all the money it could get for winter fuel and buck, wheat flour and bacon. All of the older folks agreed with / this decision; not without many mourni ful shakes of the head, but the boys of ^ Griggsville were much displeased. "Tf?o *t-V?o+ T /?o11 a Knrntnor flltomo " tWTjTRhff Xb O ? uav X VU41 M V *** sniffed Jack Morris when he heard the news. "Yes," chimed in Ruddy Wilson, "Alden's Mills and Norcross and Simpson's Landing and nearly every town in the county is going to have a celebration, and now Griggsville has backed out." "Course all of our games are off," remarked Dick Lansing, disconsolately; "no team will come here to play unless there is something going on." Dick was the manager of the Griggsville Baseball Club and he felt the disappointment deeply. For a moment all the boys -were silent, as if the weight of the affliction was too great for expression. Presently Will Spencer blurted out: "Let's have a celebration anyway. I've got a few dollars I'll put into it and we can get enough more among the boys to make something of a show at least?and we'll leave the old folks out of it, too." "That's all very well," returned Dick, "but it's easier said than done," and there the matter dropped. The next day when the boys met at the ball field Will came rushing up the street, evidently much excited. As soon as he was within heariner he ahouted: "I've got it, fellows, I've got it." "Well, out with it, old man; don't keep us in suspense," replied Dick, who didn't think much of Will's many plans. For Will had only lived in Griggsville a short time and Dick was a little jealous of his popularity. As soon as Will recovered his breath he unfolded his scheme. It was to go f down to Sullinger's Hole and find the cannon and muskets that were supposed to lie hidden in its depths. During the war the part of Missouri in which Griggsville is located had been overrun by roving bands of marauders belonging to both the Confederate and Union armies, and it was on one of these raids that the Southerners had pounced down upon a quantity of stores and ammunition held at Griggsville, and, being unable to get entirely ? 4.U ~ 1 1 ~_ 4.T 1 1 jiwuj witu men piuuucx, iucv uau dropped it into Sullinger's Hole. All this had been long known to the boys of GriJjfsville.T whose fathers and mothers often told of the wild day of the raid, and pointed out the bulletfurrows in their homes. And they knew, too, all about Sullinger's Hole. It lay at the end of a tangled path among the hazel brush and prickly ash at the bottom of the bluff which sheltered Griggsville. It was a quiet, glassy pool with a harmless little stream tricklincr intn it. hnt nn nutlet, that any one knew about. Grass and weeds and a few yellow water lilies grew close around its edges, but at its centre, it was said, no one had ever found bottom, although more than one of the men of Griggsville had sounded the pool. The earliest settlers in the county had called it the "haunted ' pool," but ever since old man Sullin| ger had scoffed at the idea and had L , crone bathinc in its waters, never to return, it bad been known as Sullin'ger's Hole. All these things the boys knew and they avoided the dark pool. They neither skated on it in winter nor swam in it in summer, although a few of the braver ones had fished around its edges and caught bi$, lazy, old bass and pickerel. It waf;, therefore, not surprising that Baddy Wtfgoa UNCLE SAM'S FOURTE shrugged his shoulders and laughed t< when Will made the suggestion. A "None of that for me," he said. ci "Oh, well, you needn't go along un- fi less you want to," responded Will, s' impatiently. "All this talk about si Sullinger's Hole being haunted is a * ' -1 T> 1,4. ? mnn-rr IOOllSUIieSb. i vo i;t?ugui a jjuuu ^ fish there, and it's a beautiful place, tl May be the old cannon and muskets ti were never dumped in there at all, g but if they were it would be a great si thing to drag 'em out and have a pa- ii rade with 'em on the Fourth and fire h the cannon early in the morning. I tl tell you, boys, it would be the biggest o celebration that Griggsville ever had." a i Will was very much excited, and a several of the boys at once grew inter- I ested. Will didn't know as much V about Sullinger's Hole as the other t< boys, and so he was less afraid. "I'd help," said Dick Lansing, "if tl I was sure there was any way of do- a, ing it." b "All right, Dick, we'll show 'em," w put in Will, whose eyes fairly glowed a: with excitement. "We'll have the old mina oil nr> Viaro hv thfi Fourth and it buuu **" -r ~j will be a celebration worth seeing." d When Dick went over, all of the V i doubfers except Ruddy went with him. w The company was pledged to the tl greatest secrecy, and work was to be- I gin at once. The baseball practicing a was forgotten, and seven boys set off k down the narrow pathway that led to ei Snllinger's Hole. h That night and thek next evening A they dragged or rolled a number of b< big dry logs and poles down to the r< edge of the pool. These they cut off B [ into equal lengths and fastened to- ir gether in the form of a huge raft that would support a dozen or more boys, w As early on the afternoon of the third te day as possible the seven slid quietly o; out of the town and down the hill to ai the pool. They carried with them bi ropes and a crowbar or two and a num- le ber of long poles cut in the woods, be- w sides hammers and nails and other implements. On reaching the shore of c< the pool they mounted the raft and w pushed it out. They all whistled and 01 "a hundred . willing hands d; shouted and sung until the birds of the g woods, unused to being so disturbed, h flew away much frightened. Every ol one of the workers felt just a little oi nervous in spite of the bright warm lc sunlight and the clear sky overhead, ti Once out on the pool they poled them- G selves along until they were about d twenty feet from the 9hore. tl One of the ropes with a big iron c< hook on the end was let down in the ^ water and dragged back and forth. G Suddenly it pulled against something A hard. Half shivering with excitement a: Dick and George Meiton pulled away ? on it. The raft swayed and lurched, w and the other boys came to help them. 0 At last a big, dark object came to the c< surtace, and tney saw mat u was oniy -"i the limbs of a big dead tree. As long ^ as there was light they poled about the edges of the pond with their & drags, but with the exception of snags G and weeds and mud they could find I ti nothing at all. to After two more discouraging after- S noons of work "Lank" Everson said h he wasn't going to waste any more of 7{ his time. Three of the boys agreed with him, but Will Spencer was able to persuade Dick and Jack to make one more 8 trial. By this time they had got over | most of their awe of the pool and they !r had all expressed their intention of " going there often to fish. The next night Will was handling 81 the drag rope. Suddenly it began to ! H 1 -A. - -3 1 T?J. J*. pun, anu, assiateu uj ifuw, uc uicn it carefully in. At the end was a mass of snags. "What's that?" shouted Dick, suddenly. Will pulled the rope nearer and Jack lifted out a long, narrow object. It was a gun barrel, rusted beyond recognition. The stock was wholly gone, but it had evidently been broken off in raising it from the bottom, because there were the marks of a fresh fracture. Forgetting that he was on a raft Will threw up his cap and shouted at the top of his voice: "We've found 'em! we've found 'em!" But although they dragged an hour they could bring up nothing else. "I don't see now we can ever gei the thing3 up even if they are there," said Dick. "Dive," answered Will, quietly. Tho other two boys looked at him with horror. But when they parted ' for t]je night Will had expressed hia figft intention of diving to the bQttorn [ OF JULY BICYCLE. y'o ) see if he could find the cannoi jid the next day all seven of the boj ame back very much excited. Tb nding of the gun barrel had reai tired them. Carefully they poled ot d as not to make the water mudd^ nd then Will stripped and stoo oised for a moment on the edge ( ae raft. Dick had insisted that h e a rope around him. The word we iven, and, with a look at the clea ky above, Will splashed head-firi lto the Sullinger's hole. They sa is white body go down and dow urough the water and then fade 01 f sight. No one moved nor uttere sound; every muscle was straine ad every eye was ' \ on the watei t was a critical moii.. it. What woul Pill find? ' Would he he sucked dow > his death as Sullinger had been? But the rope had ceased to spi irough Dick's hands. Then it pulle gain and a dozen feet away from tb oat a wet head popped out of tb ater. Will shook himself, sputtere ad shouted: "It's there, it's there; I touched it. Then he struck out for the rafi ragging something along in his hanc fhen he crawled out he laid an olc orn, rusted musket on the logs. A le boys were wna wun excuemen >ick insisted on stripping and makin dive, and he, too, brought up a mus et. Then Will went down with on ad of a small rope in his mouth. Thi e ran through the fork of the cannor larger rope was dragged down, an efore dark the boys were on -shor ;ady to begin pulling in their prize ut it would not stir. It was too dee i the mud. The next afternoon they came dow: ith' Tom Fisher's old white-face sam, fastened it to the rope, and wit ae strong pull the cannon came loos ad then it was no trouble to pull th attered and rusted and wholly worth ss old piece of artillery out of th ater. Somehow, in spite of all the boy >uld do, the news spread about lik ild-fire, and every one in town cam it to see what Sullinger's Hole ha< : 1 RAGGED THE OLD CANNON." iven up to the light of day. x undred willing hands dragged th Id cannon to the top of the bluff, an a Fourth of July morning it wa iaded with powder?but that is gel ng ahead of the story. For whe riggsville heard what the boys ha one Will Spencer became the hero c le hour, and the money for a grea jlebration was quickly subscribed nd on the morning of the great da rriggsville was out in her best wit ags waving and firecrackers poppin ad anvils booming. The news of th reat find had spread, and men an omen and children came from a rer the country to help Griggsvill jlebrate and to see Will Spencei nd Dick Lansing's ball team wo vo games. About the old cannon? When it wo red it split from end to end, bu riggsville still keeps it as a prou ophy. And she is probably cele rating around it t'o-day, fof Wil pencer made the dive which brougb im fame all over Missouri man ears ago.?Chicago Record. Cripples May Not Sell Papers. Newspapers may now be sold in th ;reets in all parts of Hungary, sav ransylvania, the prohibition, whic ates from 1848 having been repealec apers, however, must not be sold b ipples or persons likely to offend th gilt UI LLLU puUllU ilUl UJ Ksi?*k\xx wu ui. er fourteen years of age. An Epitaph. Stop, traveler, anil weep for him Who's lying liere below. He filled his cannon to the brim? That's all you'll ever know. Here He la Again. s. DR. TALMAGE'S SEKMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED - DIVINE. Tho Tuflnnitr nf Kino" Ana In Made the Text of an Eloqnent Tribute to the Medical Profession ? Good Reasons Why All Doctors Slionld Be Christians 9 "And Asa, in the thirty and ninth year of his reign, was diseased in his feet until his disease was exceeding great, yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers."?II. Chronicles xvi., 12,13. At this season of the year, when medical colleges of all schools of medicine are giving diplomas to young doctors, and at the sapital and in many of the cities medical associations are assembling to consult about the advancement of the Interests of their profession, I feel this discourse is appropriate. In my text is King Asa with the gout. High living and no exercise have vitiated ? his blood, and my text presents him with his inflamed and bandaged feet on an ottoman. In dnflanoe of G-od. whom he hated. rs he sends for certain conjurors or quacks] ie They come and give him all sorts of lotions and panaceas. They bleed him. They " sweat him. They manipulate him. They it blister liim. They poultice him. They scarify him. They drug him. They out him. They kill him. He was only a young - man and had a disease which, though very painful, seldom proves fatal to a young .6 man, and he ought to have got well, but he ig fell a victim to charlatanry and empiricism. "And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of * his reign was diseased in his feet until his 3t diseaso was exceeding great, yet in hift disw ease he sought not to the Lord, but to the n physicians. And Asa slept with his fa, thers." That Is, the doctors killed him. In this sharp and graphic way the Bible d sets forth the truth, that you have no right to shut God out from the realm of pharmacy and therapeutics. If Asa had : said: "0 Lord, I am sick. Bless the in d strumentality employed for my recovery." n Now, servant, go and get the best doctor you can And"?he would havo recovered. In other words, the world wants divinely 11 directed physicians. There are a great: d many such. The diplomas they received l0 from the academies of medicine wero nothing compared with the diploma they l? received from the Head Physician of tho d universe on the day when they started out and He said to them, "Go heal the sick and ?? cast out the devils of pain and open tlw blind eyes and unstop the deaf ears." God bless the doctors all the world over, and lei 1. all the hospitals and dispensaries and in[ flrmaries ar?i asylums and domestic clrclej .! of the earth respond, "Amen." u Men of the medical profession we often k. meet in the home of distress. We shak^ g hands across the table of agonized infancy. . We join each other in an attempt at solace where the paroxysm of grief demands an 6 anodyne as well as a prayer. We look Into 8 each other's sympathetic faces through the L dusk as the night of death is falling in the j sick room. We do not have to climb over u any barrier to-day in order to greet each 6 other, for our professions are in full symj, pathy. You, doctor, are our first and last ' earthly friend. You stand a? the gates of P life when we enter this world and you stand at the gates of death when we go out of it. n In the closing moments of our earthly existd enoe, when the hand of the wife or mother, . or sister or daughter, shall hold our right Q hand, it will give strength to our dying moe mentslf we can feel the tips of your fingers e along the pulse of the left wrist. We do not meet to-day, as on other days, in houses of distress, but by the pleasant altars of 0 God, and I propose a sermon of helpfulness and good cheer. As in the nursery children a sometimes re-enact all the scenes of the sick room, so to-day you play that you are 0 the patient and that I am the physician, and e take my prescription just once. It shall be 1 atonic, a, sedative, a dietetic, a disinfectant, a stimulus and an anodyne at the same time. "Is there not balm in Gilead? Is there not a physician there?" In the first place, I think all the medical profession should become Christians because of the debt of gratitude they owe to God for the honor He has put upon their calling. No other calling in all the world, except it be that of the Christian ministry, has received so greut an , honor as yours. Cbrist hi:nself was not only preacher, but physician, surgeon, aurlst, ophthalmologist, and under His mighty power optic and auditory nerve thrilled with light and sound, and catalepsy arose from its fit, .and the clubfoot was straightened, and anchylosis went out of the stiffened tendons, and the foaming maniac became placid as a child, and the streets of Jerusalem became an extemporized hospital crowded with Convalescent victims of casualty and invalidIsm. All ages have woven the garland for the doctor's brow. Homer said: A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal. Cicero said, "There is nothing in which men so approach the gods as when they try to give health to other men." Charles IX. made proclamation that all the Protestants In France should be put to death on St. Bartholomew's day, but made one excepI ilnn Knl *Ka /men A# Down fKn fofKa* I LIU 11, nuu kUUL bUO V.UOU VI X bUU of French 9urgery. The battlefields of the - American Revolution welcomed Drs. Mercer and Warren and Rush. When the French army was entirely demoralized by fear of the plague, the leading surgeon of that army Inoculated himself with the plague to ? show the soldiers there was no contagion d In it, and their courage rose, and they went 3 on to the conflict. God has honored this profession all the way through. Oh, the advancement from the days when Hippo~ crates tried to cure the great Pericles with a hellebore and flaxseed poultices down to if far later centuries when Haller announced j. the theory of respiration, and Etarvey the . circulation of the blood, and Asculitbe usee ' of the lymphatic vessels, and Jenner balked y the worst disease that ever scourged Euh rope, and Sydenham developed the recuperative forces of the physical organism, 6 and cinchona bark stopped the shivering e agues of the world, and Sir Astley Cooper d and Abernethy, and Hosack and Romeyn, ii and Griscom and Valentine aiott, 01 tne generation just past, honored God and 9 fought back death with their keen scalpels. \ If we who are laymen in mediclna would n understand what the medical profession has accomplished forthe insane, let us look into the dungeons where the poor creiltures s used to bo incarcerated?madmen chained ^ naked to the wail, a 'iennel of rotten straw j their only sleeping place, room unventilated and unlighted, the worst calamity > of the race punished with the very worst 11 punishment?and than come and look at ^ the insane asylums of Utica and Kirkbride ?sofaed and pictured, libraried, concerted, y until all the arts and adornments come to coax recreant reason to assume her throne. Look at Edward Jemer, the great hero of medicine. Four hundred thousand people annually dying in Europe from the small0 pox, Jenner finds thut by the inoculation of e people with vaccine from a cow the great k scourge of nations may be arrested. The . ministers of the gospel denounced vaceina' tion, small wits caricatured Edward Jenner y as riding in a great procession on the back e of a cow and grave men expressed it as . their opinion that all the diseases of the brute creation would be transplanted Into the human family, and they gave instances where, they said, actually horns had come out on the foreheads of innocent persons and people had begun to chew the cud, But Dr. Jenner, the hero of medicine, went on fighting for vaccination until it has been estimated that one doctor in fifty years has saved more lives than all the bafrlles of any one century destroyed. The profession has donewondef for public hygiene. How often they have 9tood between this nation and Asiatic cholera and the yellow fever. The monuments In Greenwood and Mount Auburn and Laurel Hill tell something of the story of those men who stood face to face with pestilence In southern cities, until staggering in their own sickness they stumbled across the corpses of those whom they had come to save. This profession has been the successful advocate of ventilation, sewerage, drainage and immigration, until their sentiments were well expressed by Lord Palmereton, when he said to the English rtotlnn at HlO HfTIA A hail hfiOIl flfO claimed to keep off a great pestilence: "Clean your streets or death will ravage, ^ notwithstanding all the prayers of this nation. Clean your streets and then call on God for help." 8ee what this profession has done for hu^ man longevity. There was suoh a i'earful i subtraction from human life that there was prospect that within a few centuries this ^ world would be left almost inhabitantless. I Adam started with a whole eternity of earthly existegoe lra? he out_off the most of years were left-^^B^HHH^DB^H^^H then 600, and thei^^^H^HBH^H^Hj^M then 100, and then 5071^MH9HHH^^^K of human life came dropped to 18. But medicM^BG^^HRHn in, and since the sixteenth^^^HB^^Hj average of human lifo has rise^^^^^HH years to 44. and it will continue to rB^H^n til the averAgo of human life will be 507^^H9 it will be 60, and it will be 70, and a ma9| will have no right to die before 90, and the prophecy of Isaiah will be literally fulfilled, "A.nd the child shall die 100 years old." The millennium for the souls of men 'will A be the millennium for the bodies of men. Sin done, disease will be done, the clergy- A man and the physician gettlnsr through with their work at the same time time. 0 But it seems to me that the most beautiful benediction of the medical profession I has been dropped upon the poor. No excuse now for any one's not having scientific C attendance. Dispensaries and infirmaries everywhere, under the control of the best doctors, some ot tnem poony paia. some or > them not paid at all. A half starved woman comes out from the lovr tenement house A Into the dispensary and unwraps the rags from her babe, a bundle of ulcers and rheum Ji and pustules, and over that little sufferer bends the accumulated wisdom of the ages, ? from .ffisculapius down to last week's autopsy. In one dispensary in one year C 150,000 prescriptions were issued. Why do I I show you what God has allowed this profession to do? Is it to stir up your vanity? Oh, nol The day has gone by, for pompous doctors, with conspicuous gold-headed canes and powdered wigs, which were the accompaniments in the days when the bar- (j ber used to carry through the streets of { London Dr. Brockelsby's wig, to the admiration and awe of the people, saying: u "Make way! Here oomes Dr. Brockelsby's * wig." No; I announce these things not * only to increase the appreciation of laymen ? In frv fha nrnrlr nt nhvafpfttna hnf frn ^ stir in the hearts of the men of the medical ^ profession a feeling of gratitude to God that they have been allowed to put their * hand to such a magnificent work and that they have been called into such illustrious 'j company. Have you never felt a spirit of '' gratitude for this opportunity? Do you 1 not feel thankful now? Then, I am afraid, a doctor, you are ^ot a Christian and that the ' old proverb which Christ quoted in his ser- ' mon may be appropriate to you, "Physl- ' cian, heal thyself." ~ Another reason why I think the medical ( profession ought to be Christians is be- t cause there are so many trials and annoy- E ances in that profession that need positive a Christian solace. I know you have the j n??of)fnHa nt a rrroaf monr nonnlo nr^ I know It must be a grand thing to walk intelligently through the avenues of human life, and with anatomic skill poise yourself on the nerves and fibers which cross and * recross this wonderful physical system. I d suppose a skilled eye can see more beauty 3 even in a malformation than an architect c can point out in any of his structures, 9 though it be the very triumph of arch and e plinth and abacus. But how many annoy- A ances and trials the medical {Profession 3 have! Dr.. Rush used to say in his valedlc- II tory address to the students of the medical y college: "Young gentlemen, have two pock- b ets?a small pocket and a big pocket; a u small pocket in which to ptrt your fees, a 2 large pocket in which to put your annoy- y ances." y In the first place the physician has no ? 8abbath. Busy merchants and lawyers ! and mechanics cannot afford to be sick J during the secular week, and so they nurse L themselves along with lozenges and hore- ? bound candy until Sabbath morning comes, * and then they say, "I must have a doctor." ' An<f that spoils the Sabbath morning church 0 service for the physician. Besides that, ' there are a graat many men who dins but once a week with their families. During the secular days they take a hasty lunoh at the restaurant, and on the Sabbath they t make up for their six days' abstinence by s especial gormandizing, which, before 8 night, makes their amazed digestive or- f, gans cry out for a doctor. And that spoils a the evening church service for the phys- ? lcian. a Then they are annoyed by people coming Q too late. Men wait until the last fortress v of physical strength is taken and death 0 has dug around it the trench of the grave, |j and then they run for the doctor. The ^ slight fever which might nave been cured ? with a footbath has become virulent typhus, ^ and the hacking cough-killing pneumonia. ^ As though a captain should sink his ship ^ off Amagausett, and then put ashore in a j yawl, and then come to New York to the j( ma rine office and want to get his vessel In- [ sured. Too late for the ship, too late for j the patient. t, Another reason why the medical profes- I sion ought to be Christians is because there ii opens berore tnem sucn a grana neia tor u Christian usefulness. You see so many s people in pain, in trouble, in bereavement. V You ought to be the voice of heaven to their souls. Old Dr. GasherioDe Witt, a practitioner of New York, told me in his last days, "I always present the religion of Christ to my patients, either directly or in- j *! directly, and I find It aUnost always Accept-' | | able,^ J?rg. Abercroinbie and Brown, of I Scotland, DrsTHey"and Fothergill of Eng- I v lund and Dr. Ru3h of our own country 13 Vere celebrated for their faithfulness in j ' that direction. "Oh," says the medical ! * profession, "that is your occupation. I ' i That belongs to the clergy, not to us." j 11 I My brother, there are severe illnesses in j ? which you will not admit even the clergy, ' *j I and that patient's salvation will depend upon your faithfulness. With the medicine v | for the body in one hand, the medicine for y [ the soul in the other, oh, what a chance. e There lies a dying Christian on the pillow. ? You need to hold over him the lantern of the gospel until its light streams across the pathway of the departing pilgrim, and you > J J.,I1 nf Aaath ? UBHU IU UI V imu UIC UU1A B1U V> v>v?-, I g "Hark to the song of heaven's welcome j that comes stealing over the waters!" I j There lies on the pillow a dying sinner, j All the morphine that you brought with I j you cannot quiet him. Terror in the face. Terror in the heart. How he jerks himself j up on one elbow and looks wildly into your face and says: "Doctor, I can't die. I am not ready to die. What makes it so dark? Doctor, can you pray?" Blessed for you and blessed for him If then you can kneel down and say: "0 God, I have done the best I could to cure this man's body, and I have failed. Now I commit to thee his poor, suffering and affrighted soul. Open J* Paradise to his departing spirit." M But I must close, for there may bo suf- ^ fertng men and women waiting in your office, or on the hot pillow, wondering r why you don't come. But before you go, O doctors, hear my prayer for your eternal ^ j salvation. Blessed will be the reward in ,, heaven for the faithful Christian physi/?Iot? OnmoHnu fhrniiffh nvflrwftrfc or from ' bending over a patient and catching his c contagious breath, the doctor comes home, and he lies down faint and sick. He is too weary to feel his own pulse or take the diagnosis of his own complaint. He is worn j out. The fact is, his work on earth is a ended. Tell those people in the office T there they need not wait any longer. The c] doctor will never go there again. He has w written his last prescription for the allevia- x tionof human pain. The people will run <?i tip his front steps and inquire, "How is the a doctor to-day?" All the sympathies of the a neighborhood will be aroused and there ti will be many prayers that he who has g been so kind to the sick may be com- z\ forted In his last pang. It is all over now. In two or three days his convalescent patients, with shawl wrapped around them, will come to the front window and look out at the passing hearse, and the poor of the V city, barefooted and bareheaded, will stand fkiA atraat nnrnsr fluvini? "Oh. how Si good he was to us all!" But on the other side of the river of death some of L's old JV patients who are forever cured, will tome : out to welcome him, and the physician of 1 heaven, with locks as white as snow, according to the Apocalyptic vision, will jcome out and say: "Come in, cocne in. I was sick and ve visited me." ^ A CURE FOR LOCKJAW. Tetanus Anti-Toxin Successfully Tried In San Francisco. 4 ?P 1?-?lrinttt rvt* fotnniia nan? n. LiCUllliOliL <74 ? ?t , v* MV.i to the locality, has just been successfully hi tried at the German Hospital, San Fran- pi cisco, Cal., under the direction of Dr. Con- ti rad Weil. Edmund Shein received an In- T jury to his thumb about a month ago and si lockjaw intervened. Within forty-eight m hours under the new treatment signs of im- si provement began, and at the end of a week o' the patient was pronounced out of danger, tc The treatment consists ol injection of a rc tetanus antl-tozLne similar in its source to tl the anti-toxin foe diphtheria. The army g: surgeons in the War Department laboratory ai at Washington have been experimenting of [ wlta tnia treatment xor ^gme timu.,, ^ ^ deck smaller gnHHHHBH|fflH hauds rrave veterans, we^^H|9HE^H^K|Bi The dull beat of the 'here's one brief march d^^^h^Smh^HH And. comrades, we shall coMRUH^KE >ne sleep to share, and o'er eacl^H|HHS The starry flag we lore shall waro^JBHH Pe mourn you not; the days seem far Since side by side, we fought, ^ jid onward to the meeting-place The way is now so short! iot many May-times shall we hear Tl,u tho a uv auiuuivuo VI tuu ui uui, Fe wait, with unforgotten hearts, Till, comrades we shall come >ur sleep to share, while o'er each grave, 'hank God ! the stary flag shall wave. ?Marian Douglas. A Prayer for Guidance. Father of all, graciously look upon us as a amily now seeking to behold thy face. As he morning light is thine, S3 the blowing ol J he whole day must come from the.,. Guide I s with thine eye, wehumblv pray thee,and Ive thine angels charge concerning us, lest t any time we dash our foot against a stone ibove all grant unto us large gifts of thf oly spirit. We do not pray for bread alone ut for the bread of life that cometh down rom heaven. For one another and for oui bsent friends we would fervently pray. Blese he old and the young.and with the sick and he faintinsr be thou verv eentle. Watch ovei hose who are full of care and 9peak comortably to those to whom wearisome days nd nights are appointed. Sanctify our uccesses, and may our failures teach us hat it is not in man to direct his way. Go rith the child to school and with the man to usiness, and may t^ose who stay at home eel themseives.under the constant care of >od. The Lord undertake for every one ol is according to our heart's necessity and nultiply unto us his grace, ao that beyond 11 our want there may be an overflow of .ivine love. Amen. The Stock Which Bred Heroes. There must come a time, not very farway, when the chief actors in the work of ecorating our soldiers' graves will not be oldiers who themselves fought for out ountry's life, but their children and their urviving countrymen, for death will have laimed the last member of the Grand trmy of the Republic. A million men were ent back to the walks of private, civilian ife when the rebellion closed. But thirty ears of time's mowing have cut down the iuman wheat then standing in the field, intil the sheaves yet to be gathered are omparatively few indeed. Let me assure ou, for your country, and in its name, that our heroism in its behalf shall be held in verlasting remembrance. You may transmit o your families when you go hence very ittle of material store; but your part as a Jnion soldier in the great Rebellion will be legacy to them of untold value, and youi hildren's children to the latest generation rill count themselves honored in having ome from the stock in which such heroes rere found.'-Rev. J. B. Stitt, D. D. A voice Wbich snail Live. When the last prayer shall be said over he last dead comrade and the la9t requiem hall be sung over his grave, he will still peak to the living both of the past and the uture. His voice will be heard in the loylty or his children and In their devotion to he old flag. It will be heard in the better nd ever-improving free education to the lasses, and in the more exalted national irtue which springs from the performance f noble deeds and in the living of good ives. Today the nation weeps over its ead, and strews flowers upon their graves, tut the air is full of song and the household a full of rejoicing in remembrance of the lessings which, through their lives, all AnAnnKla naana Vi a a K*AiirvYif f a aiii? Haafq .UUVltkUAU ^oavj UUO Ui WUgUI. kV UVViOl jong may the flag that they ao nobly deanded wave over this favored country! iOng may the nation's children gather uner its folds and fling its colors into the unainted atmosphere of American loyalty! iOng may the people shout and rejoice as ;s every star becomes a star of promise,and ts bright stripes, radiant with beauty, shall ymbolize the sunrise of universal peace!? tev. John W*. Sayers. .. Love of Country and of God. Love of country, illuminated by obligation o God, which made a few Dutch provinces bat were daunted neither by delay nor deeat, by starvation nor by death, ultimately ictorious over Spain and the sea; which lade the handful of New England farmers withstand the force of the Invaders, though he snow at Valley Forge was reddened by heir bare and bleeding feet; which inspired housands to leave home and shop nd bank and farm and school and ace the cannon's mouth,until in the grave of he gentlest of our rulers all animosities rere forever buried?this alone can till our outto with high motives and sublime ideals, levate our press and assure our commerce, estore our credit and preserve our fame.? lev. F. H. Smith. Made Strong by Faith. o search we, Lord, not for some rars Far visions of thy face; n present loves and joys and toils Let us thy presence trace; n brave contentions for the right, Forgivenesses of wrong, 'he fears that hope, the tears that smile, Weak lives bv faith made strone. ?Denis Wortman. Equality Under Country's Flag. The shifting scenes of a forming civilize ion shall give place to a consolidated naionality; the hardy and industrious, the arent and impetuous, the energetic and darig men of alt sections and nationalities, hall be linked in production and manufacure, by commerce and by cheap and swift ommunication. and joined by the feeling of Bciproeal fraternity. Equal rights and qual burdens will be equally distributed un- j er one nag. on which tue stripes shall symolize the tears and blood which purchased le Union, and the stars the hopes which rown our destiny.?Rev. 0. H. Tiffany,D.D. The Most Precious Sacrifice. We read in old familiar story that, one ay in the Uoman forum, the earth opened, nd a great gulf yawned in the very midst, he augurs said that this gulf would never lose its horrid mouth until it had been fed ith the most urecioua thinjf in ltome. here was doubt as to what the most preious thing might be, when a young soldier, rmed and mounted, rode boldly forward nd plunged into the chasm, declaring that iere could be nothing so precious as life iven for one's country.?Preachers' MagaIne. Memorial Day a Monument. Our grand American Republic was threatled with disruption and ruin, but by the i?voti?a and death of loyal citizen soldiery i? escaped that sad calamity. Memorial ay is the monument reared "by a grateful ation and established as the medium trough which the great event shail be kept i mind.?Rev. J. H. Macomber, U. S. A. o live, to live, is life's great joy?to feel The living God within?to look abroad, nd, in the beauty that all things reveal, Still meet the living God. ?Robert Leighton. rA Il?markable Experience. Isaac Black, a farmer living In Indiana, as been blind for years, but last w?ek he assed through an experience which is at- | acting much attention in medical circles, j he flrst of the week his eye sockets and ghtless orbs began to got aore. Thursday iorning he opened his eyes to And that ght had fully returned. The joy almost rercame him. He had prayed for years > be able to see his family and the surjundlngs of his home, and it seemed as lough his prayers were answered. But raduallythe next day the sight left him, ad again he is in total darkness. Oculists in give him little or. no hope of seeing T I Lag goodness^HnanHB3n^nnBB|^HH| through th?HBnHn|nH|H many turned Lessox II.?cMWHMIiBMMB! (Acts x., 30-44). Gora^MRfl^BN^B^Hn remission of sins." God and regardeth the hearts where, He sees any one hontS^HRB^^^^H earnestly living up to the light they^^^Hg^HH and seeking with all the heart for moro^^n^Hni will find a way to reveal Himself to tbesHBsHHi In this case He used an angel and men bring to Cornelius one whom He knew would show him the way. Petea preached! the life and death and resurrection ot Jesus of Nazareth and the forgiveness of sins through Him. j Lesson III.?The Resurreotion (I Cor.! xv., 12-26). Golden Text, I Cor. xv., 20,; "Now Is Christ risen from the dead and be? come the first fruits of them that slept.", The alternate lesson for this day showed tu| Barnabas and Paul spending a year at Antloch teaching the people. This resurreo-' , tlon lesson undoubtedly sets before us the substance of that which they would teach ?namely, that all believers should cleave^ unto a risen Christ, who Is In heaven at ?{ God's right hand for us. i Lesson IV.?Peter Delivered from Prison ' (Acts xlii., 5-17). Golden Text, Ps. xxxiv.,' 7, "The angel] of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him and dellv- , eth them." The greAt enemy of God and man cannot destroy the work of God, nor the soul that is redeemed by the precious blood of Christ, but he will, if he can, Btroy the body of the believer. Lesson V.?Paul Begins His First Mis-! 3ionary Tour (Acts xlii., 1-13). Goldenj Text (Mark xvi., 15), "Go ye into all tha , world and preach the gospel to every creature." The truth set forth In the first leaBon in this review is here made very protninent, that all real word of God, whatever?" or whoever may be tho channei?13 the work of the Holy 8pirit. He calls, separates, !".?>>yk mis ana stmas iorcn rsarnaoas ana nam iu -0 do the Lord's work by preaching the word of God. The Spirit moves, the word is! spoken, and the work Is done. "Be filled with the Spirit." Lesson VI.?Paul Preaching to the Jews C (Acts xill., 26-89). Golden Text, Acts xlil., \ 38, "Through this man Is preached onto you the forgiveness of sins." This sermon. V-/ was at Antloch In Plsldla In the synagogue- ^ on the Sabbath day, and the substance of it1 was, as always, the death and resurrection) of Jesus, and throusrh Him the forgiveness | of sins, to the Jews first, and also to thai. j gentiles. One has said that the Christianity- -.$jg j that does not start with the forgiveness of g| j sins through the blood of Christ is impo- ' -'.M I tent. Beware of it. | Lessor VII.?Paul Preaching to the Gentiles (Acts xlv., 11-22). Golden Text,'Acts MS xlii., 47, "I have set thee to be a light of th? 1 y? gentiles." From Antioch to Iconlum, then : to Lystra and Derbe, Paul and Barnabaa <$E i went on preaching the same gospel every- .' where and enduring persecution every] where for Christ's sake and the gospels. It f'f is probable that Saul's experience, as des-j : I I crlbed In II Cor. xii., 2, 4, was in connection , ^ 1 with his being stoned at Lystra. I Lesbox VIIL?The Conference at Jeru- . i salem (Acts xv., 1-6, 22-29). Golden J Text,' y&j Acts xv., 11, "Through the grace of the J | Lord Jesos Christ we shall be saved, even' - '<? j as they." The devil hates God's way o? , peace by the blood of Christ alone and will | either suggest some other way without the ' *;> | blood, Cain's way, the way of our new; . . ft theology people, or something In addition 1; to the blood and the free grace of God, like Mm these false teachers from Judea, and many ,*> among US'who, while they profess to trust la * Christ, think they must do their part or they cannot be saved, and thug they despise V the grace of God. I Lesson IX.?Christian Faith Leads to ' J Good Works (Jas. 11., 14-23). Golden Text, *v;:. Jas. 11., 18, "I will shew thee my faith byi ^ my works." The last verse of this lesson , ;>a makes it plain that James Is as clear as Paul upon righteousness imputed to us apart from any works of ours, and such o: passages as Eph. 11., 10; Titus ill., 8, show S59 j Paul to be as clear as James upon the nej cessity of works as an evidence to men of '-yffi our salvation. We are saved, not by our " v" | works, but by His work alone, in order that, as saved people, we may serve tha - i living and true God wolle we wait for His I Son from heaven (I Thesa. 1., 9,10). - < , Lessox X.?Sins of the Tongue (Jas. Hi., ' 'v'rS 1-13). Golden Text, Ps. xxxiv., 13, "Keep , ; thy tongue from evil and thy lips front : speaking guile." Not only works, but; words, must Indicate that we have been! born of God and nave become new creatures in Christ Jesus. If the heart is right and filled with the word of God, then tha lips will speak right things, for out of thej j abundance of the heart the mouth speak-' j eth (Prov. xxili., 16; Math, xii., 34, 36). j j Lesson XI.?Paul's Advice to Timothy, ? " .1 (II Tim. i? 1-7; 111., 14-17). Golden Text,; ' II Tim. ill., 15, "From a child thou hast! .' L ! known the Holy Scriptures, which are ablei to make thee wise unto salvation." To] ' '$0 know the Scriptures from childhood Is the . * greatest blessing a child can have, and thej mothers and grandmothers who, like Eu-' nice and Lois, thus train the children will! have greatly added not only to their own! but to others' eternal joy. Afl to being: furnished for all good works, our lessoni states that the Scriptures alone?of course in the power of the Spirit (John vi., 63)?{ are sufficient to thoroughly furnish anyj one. Lesson XII.?Personal Responsibility? (Bom. xiv., 10-21). Golden Text, Rom.] xiv., 21, "It is good neither to eat flesh*, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby! thy brother stumbleth." Not only works} and words, as previously stated, but even, our eating and drinking, should prove to, others the reality of our new life. Sell lu every form is to be renounced, and Christ have full control. "Unto Him and not! unto self," must be oar thought, remem-l bering that all believers must stand beforoj His judgment seat, and every one of us give^ acoount of himself to God.?Lesson Heloeiu ^FUTIJCKY'S TOLL GATE WAR. """ """' ~ * ~ - .. . t The Causes Which Have Led to Bloodshed Over the Turnpikes. Where roads are free it Is difficult to understand the trouble in Kentucky, where * ^ mobs have been destroying toll gates and killing the keepers. Early in the present century the fever of road-building and im- > provement took hold and private turnpike companies were chartered in great numbers, and since then practically nothing has been done to free the highways. The private companies have continued to squat on tLeir sections of roadway and collect al \ maximum of toll on a minimum expenditure for maintenance and improvement ot the way. The owners put the property la charge of cheaply employed gatekeepers and otherwise let it take care of itself. The county authorities seldom interfere to j' compel repairs, and the public is left to en- *: joy the privilege of paying for the use of poor roads whose free use would cause grumbling elsewhere. The charges are ex- / cessive, amounting in some cases to two cents a mile. The trouble began largely through official neglect of public duty in! the county of Garrard. This county had! ~I__ J- a *9 fkfl vuiou ill lavur ui mujiu^ roads, but the authorities for some rea^ sou delayed acting on the verdict. Then tho mob took hold. It 9wept over that county,, destroying the toll gates and burning the gatekeepers' houses. The movement exJ tended into other counties. Since last Sep-4 tember every toll gate in Washington! County has been destroyed. In Mercerf .1 K.?*. fam ootao urrt finte QtAnHIni* I vvuuij uub ion ? ?>?n?< and one gatekeeper was shot while defending the property. Lincoln, Mercer, Bath and Fleming counties have also been,oyexrun, and the mob spirit Is still rile* ?