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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."
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