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WITH T,OVE. NUGGETS AND ROMANCE IN THE PLACERS OF THE KLONDIKE. Clarence J. IJerry, Only Recently a Poor Farmer, Now the Harney Barnato of the Fields?We titling Trip of Fifteen Mont hit Was Worth a Million a Month. Clarence J. Berry is the Barney Barnato of the Klondike. He took $130,000 from the top dirt of one of his claims in live months. He kept it all but $22,000, which he paid to his miners. He did not have to give his wife even so much as pin money. She had a pan of her own. She would occasionally get time from her sewing and mending to drop around to the dump. She sifted out 310,000 or so ill her spare moments. This was her amusement in the strangest year's honeymoon that is reeorueu. xne two started fifteen months ago as bride and groom. She was the devoted sweetheart of a poor Fresno farmer. They have returned to San Francisco with all kinds of gold dust, nuggets and coin. They have millions in sight, and ' behind the millions is a pretty romance. Berry was a fruit raiser in the southern part of California. He did not have any money. There was no particular prospect that he would ever have auy. He saw a life of hard plodding for a bare living. There was no opportunity at home for getting ahead, ? ~ ^ moti nffViza For Wpqf lip ttUU) nac KJi/uicu. tutu vi M4 Vw., MV only dreamed of the day when lie would make a strike and get bis million. This was three years ago. There had then come down from the frozen lands of . lijjll MRS. CLARE* (As she appeared on her wedding Alaska wonderful stories of rewards for men brave enough to run a fierce ride with death from starvation and oold. He had nothing to lose and all to gain. He concluded to face the dangers. His capital was $40. He proposed to risk it all?not very much to him now, but a mighty sight three years ago. It took all but $5 to get him to Juueau. He had two big arms, the physique of a giant and the courage of an explorer. Presenting all these as his only collaterals, he managed to Bqueeze a loan of $60 from a man who was afraid to go with him, but was willing to risk a little in return for a promise to pav back the advance at a fabulous rate of interest. Juneau was alive with men three years ago who had heard from the Indians the yarns of gold without limit. The Indians brought samples of the rock and sand and did well in trading them. A party of forty men banded to go back with the Indians. Berry was one of the forty. Each had an k outfit?a year's mess of frozen meat ^ and furs. It was early spring when this first batch of prospectors started Dut over the mountains and the snow was as deep as the cuts in the sides of the hills. The natives packed the stuff to the too of the Chilcoot Pass. rlt was life and death every day. The m?n were left one by one along the - cliffs. The timid turned back. The whole outfit of supplies went down in Lake Bennett. The forty men had dwindled to three?Berry and two others. The others chose to make the return trip for more food. Berry wanted p gold. He borrowed a chunk of bacon and pushed on. He reached Forty I (Tne poor lumorma iarmer who iouna a fortune in the Klondike.) Mile Creek within a month. There was not a cent in his pocket. The single chance for him was work witL those more prosperous. His pay was $100 a month. It was not enough, and, looking for better pay, he driftec ! from one end of the gulch to the other, I always keeping hi9 shrewd eye open for a chance to fix a claim of his own. There was a slum in the prospects of the district and he concluded to go back to the world. The slump was not the only reason. There was a young woman back in Fresno who had promised to be his wife. Berry came from the hidden world without injury and Miss Ethel D. Bush kept her pledge. They were married. Berry told his bride about thepossi | bilities of Alaska. Slie was a girl of I the mountains. She said she had not i married him to be a drawback, bat a | companion. If he intended or wanted to go back to the Eldorado, she proposed to go with him. She reasoned that he would do better to have her at his side. His pictures of the dangers and the hardships had no effect upon her. It was her duty to face as much as he was willing to face. They both decided it was worth the try?success at a bound rather than years of common toil. Berry declared he knew exactly where he could find a fortune. Mrs. Berry convinced him that she would be worth more to him in his venture than any man that ever lived. Furthermore, the trip would be a bridal tour which would certainly be new and far from the beaten tracks of sighing lovers. Mr. and Mrs. Berry reached Juneau fifteen months ago. They had but little capital, but they had two hearts that were full of determination. They ' took the boat to Dyea, the head of navigation. The rest of the distance ?and distances in Alaska are long? :ce ; trip to the Klondike gold fields.) was made behind a team of dogs. They slept under a tent on beds of boughs. Mrs. Berry wore garments which resembled very much those of her husband. They came over her feet like old-fashioned sandals, and did not stop at her knees. They were made of seal fur, with the fur inside. She pulled gum boots over these. Her YUKON MINER IN WINTER GARB. skirts were very short. Her feet were I in moccasins, and over her shoulders was a fur robe. The hood was of bearskin. This all made a most heavy garment, but she heroically trudged along with her husband, averaging about fifteen miles each day. They reached Forty Mile Creek a year ago in June, three months after they were married. They called it their wedding trip. T71 ~ JOLiuiiuine was gun ? j^uuu wtajr uii, and it was thought at first that the claims closer at hand would pay. One day a miner came tearing into the set tlement with most wonderful tales of the region further on. His descriptions were like fairy tales from "Arab- , ian Nights"?accounts fitting actually the scenes in spectacular plays, where the nymph or queen of fairy land bids her slaves to pick up chunks of gold as bic as the crown of a hat. Berry told the tale to bis wife. She said she would stay at the post while he went to the front. There was uo rest in the camp that night. Men were rushing pell mell, bent on nothing but getting first into the valley of the Klondike and establishing claims. Mrs. Berry worked with her husband with might and main, and before daylight he was on the road over the pass. There were fifty long miles between i him and fortune, and he worked withs j out sleep or rest to beat the great i field which started with him. He i made the track in two days! He was , among the first in. He staked claim I forty, above the Discovery, which meanB that his property was the forti etli one above the first Aladdin. I was agreed that eaoh claim shoul< have 500 feet on the river?the Bon anza. This was the beginning o Berry's fortune. He then began t< trade for interest in other sites. H secured a share in three of the best oi Eldorado Creek. There is no on living -who can tell how much thi property is worth. It has only beei worked in the crudest way, yet fivi months netted him enough to mak' him a rich man the rest of his life There are untold and inestimable mill ions where the small sum from the to] was taken. Berry wanted to bring his bride ti him from the settlement and he pro ceeded to built himself a house. I was of logs, lie dum it sonci ana xnei sawed holes for the door and windows This was late last summer. The ther mcmeter was getting accustomed t standing at forty degrees below zer lay in and out. Mrs. Berry trudgei through the nineteen miles of hari anow and took her place in the hu with her husband. There was nojfloor but the snow bank. It cost the coupl $300 a thousand feet to get firewooi hauled, and there was but little chanc to use fuel save to thaw out the moosi and caribou which the Indian peddled. This new gold king and queen madi the first strike of a year ago in Novem ber. They were working along El A /-1/\ Hvnalr a V?r?nr? r?V? nf t.Vl A RoTlftTl za, which empties into the Klondiki about two miles above Dawson City Their site was the fifth one abovi where the first discovery had beei made in this particular region. I took nearly a month to get into payin; dirt, but when the vein was opened i was simply awful. The first prospec panned 32 and S3 to the pan. It grev suddenly to $25 and 850 a pan, an< kept increasing. It seemed they hac tapped a mint, and one day Mr. am Mrs. Berry gathered no less than ?59; from a single pan of earth. This the; have saved in a sack by itself, and th< people who have listened to the Strang* stories of the young man and hii young wife have no fear that they havi been mistaken. They have left n< room to think they are not telling th< truth?truth which seems probable ii the face of sacks and lumps of gol< which they have not yet had time t< send to market. Tliey have it piled up in their rooms in the hotel in Sai Francisco. Berry and his men worked fiv< months at this claim. They thawe< and washed thirty box lengths of soil This brought him ?130,000, out o which he paid $22,000 for help. H< then put fifteen miners at work in hii best diggings and started home to ge some coin. He has acquired fiv< claims, all of which are being worked He has not the slightest idea ho? much he is worth. He guesses tha he has at least ?1,000,000 more read^ for him by this time. It may be twic< or three times that amount. He hai a good wagon load of the yellow stuf in the safetv deposit vault. Mr. an( Mrs. Berry have one of the best roomi at the best hotel on the coast. The; have leaped from poverty to wealth ii a single twelve months. Mr. Berry is going to leave in a fev days with his wife to see the farn where he used to raise plums anc peaches. He is going to buy the place just for memory's sake. Mrs. Berr] wants it. She will live there the resf of her life. The pin money she pannec out?SI0,000?is to go for a new house She has had enough of the Klonkike, Her new king and the new gold kinf of the coast will go back in the spring There is no chance that his property will be jumped or robbed. He ha: left it in trusted hands. Berry talki in immense figures. It is possible tc deduct half as a tribute to blinded en thusiasm, and he will then have enougl to rate him among the very richesl men of the world. Berry gives all the credit of his for tune to his young wife. It was possi' ble for her to have kept him at home after the first trip. She told him tc return?and she returned with him. It was an exhibition of rare courage, but rare courage rarely fails. Th( wedding trip lasted fifteen months. Berry says it was worth $1,000,000 a month. This estimate is one meas ured in cold cash?not sentiment.? Chicago Times-Herald. Incident of Travel Abroad. Chauncey M. Depew telld this char acteristic incident of the difference o: travel on railroads in Europe anc America: "It was at the station o: Bingen on the Rhine. I said to th< station master, 'Why is your train i half hour late?' The station mastei said, 'I don't know.' 'Well,' I saic to him, 'I am the President of th< New York Central Railroad, and i: you were a station master at Peekskill on our line, I would discharge you ii twenty minutes if you did not knov why the train was a half hour late. 'Yell,' said the station master, 'I del you vat is de matter mit your railroat men over dere; you are always going chook, chook, chook; over here ve le1 dings take care of demselves and v< live forever.'" But Mr. Depew adds that, so far as the handling of trains, safety anc speed are concerned, the Americar railways are far superior to those o! Europe.?New York Herald. THE LARCEST WOODEN The chief feature architecturally Stockholm is the Industrial Hall, sho wooden building in tlie world. It is c the greatest industry of Sweden and ] of the exhibition grounds, adorned wi about 100 meters. The cupola itsell minarets, in which lifts ascend to the tensive view is to be had of the exhit I virons, so much renowned for their b< WORLD'S YOUNGEST CYCLIST. : A Seventeen-Monthii-Old Chicago Boy Wh? * Ride* a Wheel. r This is the picture of Harry W. Slining, the tiniest cyclist in the world. He is only seventeen months old and l rides what is probably the smallest j ( e wheel ever built for practical riding. His mount weighs oj pounds, has a frame 7? inches high, and the diame- I wViAiil ia Tti ifl I i perfect in equipment, all the parts having been made especially for the diminutive machine. Even the lamp ia a midget. Under the guidance of hi3 father 01 some Mend of the family the little fel- 1 low pedals along Chicago boulevards with a solemn and dignified air, takQ ing nc heed of the attention he is at 1 HARRY SLICING, YODNGEST WHEELMAN'. 1 ? J trading. Occasionally observing o 5 scorchfir flash by croushing over the p handlebars, Harry tries to do likewise, 5 to the huge delight of the spectators. | 3 He is learning the pedal mount and is 3 already making feeble tries at simple 3 tricks. ^ A Cat That Dives For FlBh. j Most cats are afraid of water, but 1 j the tabby mascot that sails the seas on | 5 board the British cruiser Pallas is an ' [ exception. This cat has more of the j habits of a muskrat than of the animals of its own kind. From kitten3 hood it has had a marked fondness of I water, and improves nearly every op- 1 portunity to swim and dive. Like all j cats it likes the flesh of fish, and does j not wait for the cook to serve. It has 3 contracted the u:iique habit of riving j j. off the side of tb.e vessel whenever it T^oVion a. finVi dinner.and seldom comes j to the surface without a good-sized 5 fish in its mouth. It hunts its watti t game in much the same way that an ordinary cat hunts mice. Crouching ? " -- At-- J _ on tne (lecK 11 peers over me buic, | ( f. ready to spring when itu prey swima j along, and then dives with unerring j j accuracy. This distinctively sailor cal is the pet of the officers and crew, and ( , is regarded as the ship's mascot. Its j ) fame has spread throughout Her Ma- ( jesty's realm, and crowds collect td j watoh its antics wherever the ship goes | j into port. , Lon^-Dlstance Electricity. ' It is proposed to deliver electrical ! energy equivalent to 4000-liorse power in the car house at Los Angeles, Ca3.? ! from Santa Ana, a distance of eighty miles, under a pressure oi 33,000 volts. ] . The power station is in Santa Ana ' f Canyon, twelve miles from Redlands. | 1 I The current will be generated at 1000 ! I p volts anl transformed r.p to 33,000. I j The Santa Ana River furnishes the ! 1 l power. The water is to be directed ' j r from the stream by a canal flume and ! , 1 tunnel work along the side of the can- I 3 yon to a point where suddenly it falls j ( through 2200 feet of pipe a distance of 750 feet to the water wheels. ( 1 r r The Wisdom of Kruger. ; ] ' A golfer in South Africa left his ; 1 1 property to be equally divided be- ] ] 1 tween two sons. Not being able to ! < I apree they decided to let President I i t Kruger arbitrate. He said to the ] 3 eldest: "You are the eldest, are you j ' not?" "Yes," was the answer. "So j 1 i you shall divide the property." Tbie j i 1 pleased the elder immensely. "You j ] i are the younger,"continued Kruger tc E the other, "so you shail have first 1 choice!"?Golf. 1 - i BUILDING IN THE WORLD. J a^ggjVTjTggr? r i Wl I Y of the Swedish National Exposition at j wn above, which is said t-j be the largest onstructed of wood because lumbering is , Norway. The hall is built in the middle j Lth a large cupola arising to a height of j ; is surrounded by tr-rrets resembling uppermost platform, from where an ex- , tition grounds, the capital and its eu? . jauty. 2&k?tift ? EES i WORDS OF WISDOM. Find a -way or make one. Everything is either pusher or pushed. The world always listens to a man with a will in him.?Mar den. The only worthy end of all learning, of all science, of all life, in fact, is that human beings should love one another better.?George Eliot. A loving confidence in the God we have offended is the key to his heart, the key which unlocks the treasury of his grace.?Rev. E. M. Gouldburn, D. D. The are no songs comparable to the soncs of Zion. no orations eaual to i 0- J - 1 those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach. ?John Milton. If you would be well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable im- j pression of you; if with a little mind leave him with a favorable impression of himself.?Coleridge. When God sends darkness, let ft be dark. "lis so vain to think we can light it up with candles, or make it anything but dark. It may be because of the darkness wo shall see some new beauty in the stars.?The Story of William and Lucy Smith. Restraining grace is an amazing work of God. It is more wonderful than his setting a bound to the sea, that it cannot pass over. Think what a hell every unconverted bosom would become if the Spirit were to withdraw and give men over to their own hearts' lusts.?M'Cheyne. The universal reign of love, creating new economics, a new commerce, new i politics, a new social life, supplanting greed of gain with passion for service, und mutual competition with mutual helpfulness, unreal as it seems to us, immersed in the struggle and held by the habits and ruled by the ideas of to-day, is yet the destined result and fulfilment of the centuries and ages of divine teaching.?Philip Moxom. Creation is the organ, and a gracious man finds out its keys, lays his hand ihereon, and wakes the whole system the universe to the harmony of oraise. Mountains and hills, and )ther great objects are as it were the Dass of the chorus; while the trees of ;he wood, and all things that have life, ;ake up the air of the melodious song. ?Spurgeon. High Heel* Convicted Him. "I never see high heels on a pair of shoes or boots," volunteered an old detective officer to a Star reporter, "but I am reminded of the capture of A.tzerodt, one of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. It was the high* heeled boots that he wore that brought about his arrest. It came in this way. Lewis J. Weichmau, the War Department clerk, on the night of the assassination of Lincoln, who was one of the boarders at MrB. Surratt's, gave considerable information as to the conspiracy. It was at first thought that he was in the conspiracy himself, but he managed to clear himself to the satisfaction of the authorities and was never prosecuted. With another detective officer I went to Mrs. Surratt's house about daybreak on the morning ifter the night of the assassination. Shortly afterward a man came to the bouse with a pick and shovel. He was iressed as a laborer and said he had been employed to do some digging in the yard and wanted to see the lady }f the house about going to work. Mrs. Surratt, who resided in H street,, near Sixth Northwest, had been placed under arrest during the night. The make-up of the man was very perfect, so much so that for a time he completely threw us off from suspecting him. His story was very clear, and /here were indications that there was wort needed to oe done in me yara. x Sold him to wait there, and later on I would see about the work to be done. Ee took a seat on a box, and it was ;hen I noticed he had very high heels jn hia boots. On a further examination I noticed that the boots were not ;he boots that laborers wore, but were fine calfskin, and showed that they aad been polished the day before, ihough the rain during the night had washed much of the blacking off. This jonvinced me that all was not right, J ind I locked him up. In a couple of ; [lours I ascertained that he was none jther than Atzerodt, the man who had Deen selected by the conspirators to murder Vice-President Johnson, but who had failed in his purpose. As it [vas, it was his high-heeled boots vhich first directed my suspicions to aim, and it was Ms nign-neeieu ooois which hung him. When he was executed he wore the same high-heeled boots, and they were buried with iim."?Washington Star. Ballets or Solid Gold. Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the colonies, has eceived a dispatch from her majesty's iiigh commissioner at the Cape stating that in the fighting at Fort Martin, aear Hartley, South Africa, on Saturlay, the noted chief, Mashingombi, was slain and between 400 and 500 of his followers were taken prisoners. The Government forces occupied all the positions at Marlies Kraal, where they captured more than one hundred prisoners. A dispatch from Fort Salisbury says ihat the British forces took the natives completely by surprise. When \ charge was made upon the stockides thte natives fled to their caves, in tVioir wArfl afterward caDtured. WJ ? A Mashingombi's main cave being destroyed with dynamite. Mashingombi was wounded during the attack and died soon after being taken prisoner. Two bullets made of solid gold were | found after the tight.?Washington 3tar. Eccentric Provisions For Death. Dr. and Mrs. Thayer, of Framingliam, Mass., had their coffins made ac- ; jording to their own designs. For n ; long time the two coffins were finished ! ind exhibited before either the doctor ar his wife died. It took ten years to finish the work on tho caskets, which tvere of carved rosewood, beautifully arnamented with silver. They qost 55000 apiece. Tho doctor died two 1??'o /JJ/1 Kiif alio lmr? years ueiuio ai&o ?nu tiis body placed in ail ordinary coflin ind went on exhibiting the rosewood joffins and delivering especial lectures. 3he died not long ago, and left money for the building of an elaborate marble tomb where she and her husband ire to lie side by side. It is to be lighted by electricity for one hundred rears.?New York Tribuna GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS Dying: Only to Live Again? God as GuardIan of Our Treattureii-Sunday Prayer? Clirittt'ft <21 Tt One of Peace?Hoarding Breed* Stagnation-Sweet Communion. Self is the only prison that can never bind the soul. Love is the only angel who can bid the gates unroll; And, when he comes to call thee, arise and follow fast; . His way may lie through darkness, but it leads to light at last. ?Henry Van Dyke. Dying Only to Lire Again. And what is it to sleep awhile, if I am Christ's? To die, if I am like Christ in dying? and be burled, if I am like Christ in being buried? I trust I shall be like Him when He comes forth in His glory. I shall belike Him, for the apostle _ says We sutiii uw iik.? xii m, iur we suuu soo xiiui t*a He is"we shall be changed from glory Into glory." We shall sit beside Him, for He hath made room for us. Then il we can calmly look at Death and face him, because his strength hath been overcome, it reconciles us to parting a little while with friends. A father and a mother may be taken from us, but we shall see them again. The little ones that drop from our arms?we can almost see them this morning; some ol us cau almost feel them in our arms, can oee the glance of the beautiful eye, and heai the sound of the little prattling lip; they tteem to be with us now. We followed them co the grave, and we left them there, where the winter's storm has been howling about them. Sometimes loneliness like that of the atorm has sw<-pt over our hearts and sunk us almost in despair; but through Christ's resurrection we see our children safe in the Saviour's arms... .He died once ; He dies nc more ; He sits on the throne of everlasting dominion ; His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; and as He died once and has risen tc iie no more, so when we have died once and gone to the grave, and we come up safely oc ihe other side, thank God! death is passed forever; we shall then put our leet on the peck of the King of Terrors, and shall b< Able tc say "0 grave, where is thy victory? 0 death, where is thy sting V" ?Bishop Simpson. God Will Guard Our Trea*ures. The infinite Ruler of the universe, wh< Is wise in counsel and wonderful in working the God who guarded the infant Moses ii iiis basket of rushes; who sent His mestenger birds to Elijah by the brook Cherith; who quieted Daniel among the ravenous beasts and calmed Paul in th( raging tempest?He it is who says to ue "Roll your anxieties over on Me, for ] have you on My heart." Yet how many ol us there are who hug our troubles and saj to God, ''No, we won't let anybody carrj these troubles but ourselves." What fools we are ! Just Imagine a weary, footsore traveler tugging along with his pack in t hot July day. A wagon comes up, and th( kindhearted owner calls ou?, "Friend, yoi look tired. 'Toss that pack into my wagon.' But the wayfarer, eying him suspiciously mutters to himself, "Perhaps he wants tc steal It," or else sullenly replies, "I am oh liged to you, sir, but 1 can carry my owr luggage." The folly of such conduct is equal to that of the man who should checli his trunk through to Chicago and then rui into the baggage cur every hour to see if hif trunk is safe. We do not hesitate to true our own valuable property to railway off! clals and expressmen and laugh at the foil} of those who refuse to do it; would it not b< well then,for us to ''check through" all oui dearest interests as well as our cares? Whei we reach the door of our Father's house w< shall find that all our treasures worth keep Ing will be safe and not one of them lost bj the way.?Theedore L. Cuyler, D. D. A Sunday 1'rsyer. Son of God, this Is thy day, and we woulc give it all and altogether to thee. Wilt thoi make it a day of life to us. Help us keej it holy unto thee. Give us restful quiet ir our hearts. Prepare us in the morning foi receiving the blessings which may be offered to us during this day. May the public and private reading of thy word bring us me9 sages from thee that shall sweeten and purify all the fountains of our life.' A* we pray, may heaven's benedictions b< given to us?comfort for our sorrow,strengtl for our weakness, guidance for our feet wisdom for our ignorance. As we seen t( be a blessing to others, may we receive th< mind that was In Christ Jesus. Bless us ir our home life on this day of rest. May w< be drawn together in closer fellowship as f family. May our love beoome deeper, ten derer, more unselfish as we mingle in wor ship. May thy blessing rest on those wh( shall preach thy word and upon all wh< shall assemble for divine service. Amen. Christ's Gift One of Peace. The breath of summer is the voice o Christ?"Come ye apart and rest awhile." So He said to His disciples?so He said tc us. It is His invitation to communion. H( does not say, "Go ye apart," but always "Come." The resting is to be with Him How many make that Invitation the ideal o: vacation?a resting with Christ? How manj take care to have Christ with them and to rest in His loving presence? Yet that alon( is true refreshing. The mountains bring peace?but Christ's gift of peace is sweetei far. The broad stretches of lake and rivei afford sweet solitude, but Christ's voice on the water adds a new charm. And the best of it is that we can have this communion with Him wherever we are.?Rev.George A. Faull. Hoarding Breeds Stagnation. That largo expression of the apostle's, "The love of God is shed abroad in youi hearts through the Holy Ghost," may be applied to a pure and strong human friendship that flows into our souls, as all truest love does, to flow forth again in blessing upon other souls. To try to hoard love, to shul the affluent stream in upon our narrow boundaries, is only to bring stagnation into our being and to force the free current away through other channels, where it may quench the thirst of a more grateful soul.?Lucy Larcom. Sweet Communion With the Holy Spirit. Public worship is what we make it. It needs not nearly so much to bo enriched with liturgies or with music as with the sacrifices of prepared minds and hearts. Where every attendant at church goes as a worshiper from his closet with a sense of the presence of the Holy Spirit, increased by secret communion with him, his presence inspires every other worshiper, and the entire service is a benediction whoso fragrance returns with the worshiper to his home.? Helpful Thoughts. Self Culture Supplemented by Service. Let us have all the self-culture we can get, but lot it not be without the law of service. There is no form of selfishness so repulsive, so hard, so cold and desperate, as that found along with self-culture when it does not open into anil become one with benevolence. There is a good d^al of it uuru.'iii, iiuu 113 urciii; <-11111 la uui luimjiiuui,)y encountered. Belter ignorance, l>ettet untaught instinct, than self-culture, when i* ends with self.?T. T. Hunger. We are always inspired,but wo incessantly stifle the inspiration. God does not cease to speak ; but the noiso of the creatures without and of our passions within confuses us, aud prevents our hearing. We must silence evory creature, including self, that in the deep stillness of the soul we may the ineflable voice.?Fcnelon. Condemn n Frequent Crime. The Bannister African Baptist Assooia* tion, in annual session at Richmond, Va. has unanimously passed a series of resolutions emphatically condemning the crime of outraging white women in the South, and calling upon the colored people to coaperate with the white in stamping out the srime and bringing to justice auy and all who commit tho offense. Debts of Two Nations. England's National debt shows an averago daily increase of nearly $100,000 during the last five years. In the same time the debt of the United States has shown an average daily increase o{ 8125JJ00.. . . _ A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. ^ THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. The Bent Beverage?Creating Appetite tot Strong Drink by the Cue of Alcohol in Cookery?Banish All Alcohollo Beverages From the Pantry?It* Great Dangef r^rx/jO You may talk of drink delicious, Of champagne and all that, But a drink that's never vicious, ' ^ And never shrinks your hat, Is water, pure and sparkling. Just bubbling from tho spring, With no rum its color darkling, No poison and no sting. You mav prate of beer and whisky, Of brandy and Rhine wine. That will make the drunkard frisky, But water is divine; It is filled with health and profit For tliose who drink it plain, And no sot may vainly scoff it _ , Who'd be a man again. * i Alcohol In Cooking. I We wonder If we are to answer for all sinl of thoughtlessness. If so, a largo number of Christian people will find a long scow against them for tempting people who aw trying to reform, or for creating an appetite , for strong drink by using alcoholic liquors in their cooking. Wine sauces, brandy puddings and cider-flavored mince pie# have been the stumbling block over which - many a man, trying to reform, has fallen, A yonng man who bad been a hard drink* . er, and who had been taken to his palatial home dead drank many a time, desired to reform and make something of his life. He signed the pledge and fought bravely to ' )j? keep it. One day he said to a friend, "I do not think I can remain at home and keep my pledge." \ His friend asked why, and he replied: "I can make myself go past saloons, I can remain away from the club, but I must go to the dinner table at home, and there often I find wine sauce3; and the very smell of ^3? them stir up my old appetite so it seems as if I would go wild." The mother was told her son's trials, and i iryucu, t?3 3U liiaujr uiuoi ttumuu ua(v? i "Oh, it's all nonsense; a little wine or brandy ( in oooking can't hart any one; it's jast an excuse." We know other men who have given up strong drink who never dared taste of a minoe pie or any kind of pudding away from home, for fear they would find some flayor of strong drink that would make it a hard fight for them to keep the pledge. ) And yet women, when their attention is called to these facts, will say, "Men have no business to be so weak," and go on " cooking with the recipes themselves and keep recommending them to their neighbors, forgetting what the Bible says about making one of these little one to offend. . If some voice or pen oould only arouse these thoughtless women, and get them to banish wine, brandy and cider from their pantries, it would not only be a blessing to the men who are trying to reform, but, would save so many others from forming . an appetite for strong drink at theii ; mother's table.?Golden Censor. * Temperance Laws In Germany. A considerable number of German towns and villages have for some time subjected their bibulous Inhabitants to the regulations of a modified prohibition law. This not only restricts the time for the sale o( ' an minis ui nquur nuu tun liuuxa ui yuuuu , J-J : restaurants and placos of amusement, but 1 exercises a sort of censorship over their ' visitors. Persons who neglect their fami* lies on account Jof drinking, or who have ' j? * been repeatedly brought before the magis' trates as "drunk and disorderly" are de5 nied the privilege of procuring alcoholic r beverages. A "drunkards' list," published 1 periodically, exhibits their names and oo5 cupations, and copies of it are sent to local * Innkeepers and liquor dealers, who are 11a' ble to heavy fines if they sell liquor to those mentioned in the list, which is placed on; the wall of the restaurants and hotels, and reads something like this: "To whom It * may concern. It is not permitted to sell liquor to the following persons: . Hans . ' Sueffel, tailor; Peter Faesschen, shoemaker; Fritz Spundloch, carpenter; Fraeuleln Klara Klatsch, seamstress; Kunz Eater, laborer. Von Biersteln, Mayor." A simI pie-minded servant girl recently thought . the "Buergermeister" included and refused j to enter his service.?Baltimore Sun. A Well-Kept Diary. , Not long ago, in Europe, a man died at ? the age of seventy-three, who began at the . ' J age of eighteen to keen a diary, which he j continued to keep for fifty-two. years. It . Y:4 j is now published and is a most striking 5 commentary on the life of a mere worldj ling. His life was not consecrated to a . high ideal. In the book he left he states . that in fifty-two years he had smoked 628,5 715 cigars, of which he had reoeived 48,, 892 as presents, while for the remaining 585,023 he had paid about 810,485. In fiftytwo years, according to his book-keeping, I he had drank 28,786 glasses 01 Deer, ana 20,I 085 glasses of spirits, for which he spent f $5350. ' The diary closes with these words: "I > have tried all things; I have seen many; I ) have accomplished nothing." A stronger ! sermon could not be preached than to put this testimony against that of the mission- . v I ary apostle, Paul: "I have fought a good ' fight, I have finished my course, I have 1 kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up > for me a crown of righteousness, whloh the ! Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at ' that day" (2 Tim. iv., 7, 8).?National Ad; vocate. ; Recognized From the Beginning. 1 The illustrious scholar, Cornelius a LaPike, commenting on the first case of drunkenness related in the Bible, records an ancient tradition which says that when Noah was preparing the wine he mixed with it the blood of a lion, a fox, a hog and a I sheep; and the old legend goes on to tell that ever since that time the drunkard has ( always exhibited the malignity and ferocity , of the lion, the cunning and duplicity of the fox, the sensuality and grossness of the hog, and the dullness, the stupidity and the sheepisbner 3 of the sheep. 80, from the beginning, drunkenness has been recog' nized as the great begetter of crime. Everybody's Enemy. The fact that some of the saloons in San ' Francisco during the progress of the Christian Endeavor convention were draped in honor of the visitors and displayed the j motto "Welcome C. E." would seem to indicate that the saloons do not know yet who | arc tneir rrienos ana wao mow eumuioo, Against the saloon keeper as a man no enI raity is felt. But the saloon is everybody's enemy.?Independent. Neither Food Nor Medicine. Alcohol is neither food nor medicine. It does not supply, but diminishes vital force. It weakens the nerves and deadens the sensibilities, and lessens the power of the system to resist disease or to recover from its effects. The use of alcohol causes threefourths of all the diseases of the world.? Home Doctor. Literary Men on Alcoholic Stimulants. John O. Nicolay, the biographer, says: "I feel confident that my own literary work would receive detriment rather than help from the use of wine to stimulate thought or writing." Ernest Ingersoll, author of several works on travel, says: "I don't remember of ever having taken an alcoholic stimulant to help me work." Thomas Duna English, English poet and magazine writer, says: "I never used an alcoholic stimulant for the purpose indicated. Good literary work requires a clear head." Richard Watson Gilder, poet, editor in chief of the | Century Magazine, founder of the Society I of American Artists, says: "I have never used wine as a mental help; I have soon it do much harm when thus used." Temperance Sewn and Notes. i Alcohol adds nothing of inventive quality | to the human mind. Its line is not construction, but destruction. Whisky in the Klondike region retails at ' $1 a drink. This would offer some men an excellent opportunity to sober up. Austin Dobson, British poet and essayist, who lives in London, says, "1 have been a water drinker for twenty years and belive ni vself to be the better for it." "Well," snid Chappie, draining his glass, "the bottle's empty. It doesn't take mo ! Jong to make a quart of champagne look silly." "That's so," returned Blinks. "And it doesn't take the quart long to reoiprocatft tho attention, either." ? ' '?** Ml