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f PROGRESS Wl I FI.YI % Working Out the Man-Flij W tific Lines N M 3i0i0i0i0i090eei0i09ese60a 3 The day is almost at hand when man 11 will dispute with the bird for sujirem- j < in the air. For hundreds of years his ambition has been at work with j auch persistency of effort that he now i begins to see the end. He has grap- 1 pled with the invisible forces of the i' atmosphere, sometimes blindly, but I! always courageously; generally to i meet with disappointment, but happily j 1 with enough success to keep alive his ' determination to master the most dif- 1 ficult of all problems in physics. Lives ]? have been lost and fortunes hare been j i expended in the pursuit of this baffling 1 question of man-flight. Ridicule has b?en heaped upon the heads of those < who sought to cope with the feathered : messengers of the air, and their sanity I! questioned by the world at large. {i ? ' 1 ? j . x j I Tne advancement maue rowaru mc full solution of the problem of manflight during the year 1896 was greater than that of any previous year, and attracted the widest attention among scientists. Probably more interest , centered in the experiments conducted thirty miles southeast of Chicago on ' the shore of Lake Michigan by Octave k Chanute, of Chicago, than anywhere * ?lse. The prominent position occupied by Mr. Chanute in the scientific world was accepted as a guarautee that , he had faith in his experiments, and that he had.no other purpose in view but to demonstrate certain principles involved in the problem. At the time he was thus engaged Mr. Chanute observed much caution in his utterances concerning the results obtained. Fearful lest his conclusions j might not be properly formed, or that | he might be misunderstood, he re- < framed as far as possible from commit- J < ing himself on the subject further thau : j to say his experiments were very satis- j < factory. Since then he has gained j courage, so to speak, and has become ] enthusiastic over what has been ac- , complished. He is now confident that \ the way is clear for the solution of the < problem, and modestly takes to him- j self a goodly share of the credit for j pointing the way. He claims that his . exDeriments have marked out the best \ * I lines for investigators to follow, and numbers them as follows in the order i of their importance: 11 1. The developmsnt of the self-pro- 1 pelled aerodrome. , 1 2. The development of the motor- i less air sailer. i 3. The development of the motor. i Daring the past week the experi- < ments of last year have been renewed i near Dane Park, Ind., and Mr. ] Chanute has been almost a daily I ^riflitor to the scene of action. His in- i terest in the result will not let him < i stav awav longer than one day for sev- 1 ^,.eral reasons. One reason is that the ! < machine being nsed is one of his own 1 invention in its most important details, < and another is that the experiments < are following the second line of in- ' vestigation, which he laid down as i necessary for the solution of the J * problem of man-flight. It is said that! Mr. Chanute is the real one who is j! conducting the experiments, but this ! 1 he denies in favor of A. M. Herring, a \ ] , young man of considerable scientific j knowledge, who was associated with \ i Mr. Chanute last year in his extensive i I experiments at the same place. j \ The machine with which Mr. Her- i ring ia now experimenting daily repre- , ! sents the ideas of both himself and ] Mr. Chanute. It belongs to the same ^ < class as tiie maciune wnicn tne late i Otto Lilienthal, of Berlin, brought out' 1 in 1894 and in the use of which he met | his death last year. It might well be termed a flying machine, and yet this | PROFESSOR CHANUTE'S L i description does not fit accurately. It ' is technically known as an aero-curve, j or a gliding machine. Better still, it might be called an air coaster, for in j -if a o/tfmn if vorv tn ! the motion of those machines known ; as roller coasters. The resemblance ' is carried still further in the applica- j tion of the principles of operation. It is one of three sailing machiues ! invented by Mr. Chanute, including a j steeriug apparatus designed by Mr. Herring. The first machine was based ; upon a reverse of the principles evolved in the Lilienthal apparatus. Instead j of the man moving about under the j machine to bring the center of gravity under the center of air pressure, it i was constructed with a view to bring- j ing the center of pressure over the ! i center of gravity by the aid of wings 1 > moved automatically. This machine j t ? ? i 1. e ..L i nail twelve wings, eacu si.\ xeei iuug . and three feet wide, and each pivoted 1 to a central frame. It had a total wing surface of 177 square feet, aud weighed thirty-seven pounds. By a process of evolution this apparatus became the machine in use at : the present time with which such re- I markable results have been obtained. | Experiments showed many defects in 1 i TH THE 1: NO MACHINE. I: -* w 1 t jht Problem Along Scien- y ear Chicago. 11 ^ T t the machine, and it was rebuilt on a 3 ilifferent principle. The twelve wings L were discarded, and in their stead a were substituted three superimposed i c concave surfaces, each sixteen feet i long and four feet three inches wide, s with an aggregate surface of nineteen ! c 3quare feet. Attached to the rear of ! c this machine was a combined horizon- | a tal and vertical rudder, designed by p Mr. Herring as a result of his frequent a trials of the machine. In the course c }f the experiments it was found neces- | r 3ary to remove the lower surface, and r this left the present machine. The several changes therefore re- o iuced the sustaining surface of the f machine from 177 square feet to 135 1 square feet. The weight was lowered t it the same time from thirty-seven t A GOOD ? pounds to twenty-three pounds. This r general reduction did not impair the 1 strength of the machine, while at the r same time it improved its efficiency to a i remarkable degree. Repeated trials fi showed the machine capable of sus- fi raining an aggregate weight of 178 t pounds, this figure representing the t combined weight of the operator and v ihe machine. The frame is con- c str'ucted of spruce wood, braced with s tine piano wire, ana ine concave sur- i v Faces are formed by varnished silk i o stretched over the frame to the highest [ a tension. s Will this machine fly? Mr. Chanute t tvill answer this question by replying li :hat was never intended to fly. He t will inform those asking the question a :hat the machine is made for experi- f mental purposes solely, with the end in view of developing the motorless n rir sailer. At the same time, Mr. Chanute might say, the experiments may lead to a solution of the most important part of the problem of manlight?the maintenance of the equilibrium of the machine under all circumstances. He holds that this prob? ? A. T ^ U AO ,eui U1U?1 Ut3 9U1VCU UlOU At u?o I;cou iemonstrated to his satisfaction that antil automatic stability at all angles 3f flight and conditions of wind is jvolved and safety thereby secured it tvould be premature to seek to apply a iiotor or a propelling instrument to a iull-sized machine. The ordinary observer would an- ^ ?wer that the machine does fly, nevertheless, after witnessing a day's experiments among the sand dunes. The distinction between sailing and glid- ^ ing and flying would not appeal to any ? but the scientific mind while watching the "double-decker" travel through . the air a distance of 200 yards with ? Mr. Herring hanging by his arms beaeath. If the spectator was daring ^ enough to tackle the machine himself ' ind succeeded in getting the right , kind of a start he would be willing to take oath that the machine flew. He would also be willing to testify that his sensations while the flight lasted v _ 1/ i ( 1 ATFQT PT VIVr. -\r\rTTTVP were indescribably thrilling and de- ( lightful. All the flights begin from an eminence, the numerous sand hills near Dune i'arfc offeriug all the opportunities desired for starting. Another requisite is that the operator must start facing the wind, although with proliciency good results may be obtained with the machine traveling at an angle with the wind. Those who have seen I a buzzard or most any other large bird i begin a flight from the surface of the j earth will have noticed that the bird \ invariably faces the wind and runs a few steps before rising. For the same reasons the operator of the Clianute Hying machine must face the wind, holding the machine over his hea'l, then run a few steps down the side of the hill on which he stands and finally give a jump outward into space as J though he never expected to come down. He will be doing nothing more, ' in effect, than he did when he jumped j from the top of a fence in boyhood days with an umbrella over his head, j The wind rushing again><the lower sides of the two surfaces of varnished ; silk holds the operator suspended, ' while the angle at which he holds the surfaces either iinuels it forward or etards its motion. Sometimes a trong pust of wind comes along when east expected and suddenly raises the aachine higher than the starting point, lilt fnr the automatic rndrler this aight prove disastrous to the operator, le would, in all likelihood, turn a tack somersault with the machine and ;et badly hurt. Again, a blast of air rom above might strike on the top of he machine and cause it to shoot downward at a terrific rate of speed. This 3 what happened to Lilienthal last ear, and was the cause of the accident rhich resulted in his death. The line of flight of the machine in he hands of such a skillful operator as >Ir. Herring may be controlled very orgely. He has demonstrated time ,nd again his ability to steer the mahine in broad curves by simply shift tig iue weigut ui iiia uuu) irurn uue ide to another. Last Monday he suceeded in describing a compound urve during a flight of about 300 feet, nd landed with his back almost comtletely turned to the md. It has Iso been demonstrated xnat the mahine can be made to travel almost at ight angles with the wind at a high ate of speed. Flights have been made in all sorts f winds, the speed of which varied rom ten to twenty-one miles an hour. ?he latter wind is higher in its speed han any gliding machine was ever ried in before and tested the steadi3TART. iess of the machine most thoroughly. ?he speed at which the machine travels ests very largely with the operator nd depends upon the angle of descent rom the starting point When he inds that he is approaching the ground oo swiftly it is only necessary for him o tilt the front of the machine upward, rhen its speed will be immediately i?Un in ucLixcu, uuu uiuauiu^ v.uu uc xuuuc iu afety. The range of flight is also ery largely within the control of the perator, one who is skillful being ble to alight within ten feet of any pot indicated while the wind mainains an even rate of speed. The angest flight recorded is the one made his year by Mr. Herring, which was lmost 900 feet. Another flight of 600 eet was made last week. Long flights are not the aim of the len who are conducting the experiALBATROSS WHICH FAILED. aents with the gliding machine. They re seeking to arrive at intelligent onclusions concerning the problem of ? A ~ ? V? r? n Ant4l\tn/v Ul/U LLl.il LIU aw* unit J uiuic tuau aujiuiug lse, and it is claimed by Mr. Chanute hat many new facts have been discovred bearing upon this question. In .nticipation of an early solution of the [uestion Mr. Herring is hard at work >n a motor which he hopes to be able o apply to the gliding machine. An vidence of the faith that is within him s shown by the fact that he predicts hat an air ship will be constructed rithin another year which will fly to few York with but four stops on the ray to replenish the stock of fuel.? Chicago Times-Herald. Rewarded For Finding a Feather. The Gazette of Moscow says that rhile the King of Siam was passing hrough the streets of that city a white eather fell from the plume of his helr>At and was nicked ud bv the Deasant Foukianow, who is in the service of kl. Koch. Toukianow hastened to retore the feather to the chief of police. Ie was greatly surprised several days ater upon receiving from this official, u the name of His Siamese Majesty, a asket containing a portrait of the ?ing and a massive gold chain decoated with a token of the same metal earing the arms of Siam in enamel, toukianow has not yet recovered from his unexpected piece of good fortune. Odd tise for a Flower Pot. Frequently ice is hard to keep at land with campers and picknickers md the food suffers for the want of it. v common* ciay nower poi muy ue nade good use bf in keepiug the buter cool and firm. Place the pot over he plate of butter and wrap around t a cloth wet in cold water, sprinkling vater over the outside of the cloth as t becomes dry. Milk will remain :ool and sweet if treated in the same nauner. Prehistoric Mexican Doll. The sketch illustrates a prehistoric Mexican doll unearthed by a French mthropoiogist, Dr. Chipault. The in A DOLL OF ANCIENT DAYS. side is hollow and contains a rattle, which proves that prehistoric childreq were not unlike the little ones of today. SHE IS A MILITIA CAPTAIN. Two States Bestow a Title Upon a Chivalrous Yon rig Woman. Miss Mamie Telford Combs, better known now as Captain Combs, has created a sensation among military people. When the Fonrth Regiment of Missouri National Guards was camping in Carrollton in the summer CAPTAIN COMBS. of 1896 Misn Combfi, who was visiting her sister with a number o:F girls from various States, went daily into camp. Miss Combs took such an unfeigned interest in military affairs that she soon found herself on a footing of comaradarie with all the soldiers in camp. Her favoritism, which was unusual, culminated in a suggestion to adopt her as "daughter of the regiment." Fearful, perhaps, of a complication of relationships that might ensue if their daughter offered to be a sister, etc., the boys begged that she be given a rank on the grounds that only a resident of Missouri should be accorded a # daughter ship. Accord ingly Colonel Corty accepted ner as a member of his sta T. she was designated captain, and u.pon camp breaking up she was duly commissioned. Of course, when she returned last fall to her home ia Lexington, Ky., accounts of the "honors th;:ust upon her" by Missouri were heralded abroad. Infected with the fever of*enihusiasm, Kentucky, her adopted State, vested her wi th the same title, and now she is commissioned captain by both States. Captain Combs is a handsome woman of commanding appearance, and in her dark blue uniform, which offsets to a nicety her exceptional blonde beauty, she could not fail to attract I attention anywhere. Doubtless Miss Combs inherits her military instinct, I as she is a granddaughter of that character well remembered in the history of Kentucky, General Combs. Influence of Music on the Hatr. An English statistician has recent ly been engaged in an original lass, that of studying the influence of music on the hair. The investigator establishes, in the first place, that the proportion of beld persons is eleven per cent, for the liberal professions in general, -with the exceptions of physicians, who appear to hold the record for baldness, which is thirty per cent. Musical composers do not form an exception to the rule, and baldness is as frequent among them as in the other professions. The cornet-a-piston and the French horn act with surprising surety and rapidity; but the trombone is the depilatory instrument par excellence. "It will clear the hair from one's head in five years. This is what the author calls "baldnessof the fanfares," which ; rages with special violence among reg (mental bands.?Scientific American. TROPICAL TRAMPS. Weary Wastries Is a Hustler Betide the Product of Equatorial Countries. For real, downright appreciation of the sweets of doing nothing no being in the world can hold a candle to a tropical tramp. He is so restful. The , Weary Waggles and Wandering Willies of the North are bustling and energetic people when compared to the tramp of the tropics. The Tropical Tramp never i goes rushing about the country hanging on to the buffers of freight cars; he J would die at the mere thought of mov| ing so rapidly. ! Nowhere in the world is the art of j laziness so well understood, anyway, TYPICAL COLOMBIAN TRAMPS. I by all classes of people as in tropical i America, and a tramp in those regions ; understands it best of all. Then South ! America is such an ideal place for a i tramp?summer all the time, ,and all | nature providing bountiful "handI outs." I Here is a picture of Senor Weario ! Wagglee and some of his companions, who pursue their vocation of Tropical Tramp iu the Republic of Colombia. I3allari Making. Ballads spring i'rom the hearts of I the people, Hit from age to nge, from j lip to lip of the shepherds, peasants, ; nurses, of all the class that continues : nearest to the state of natural man. I They make music with the Hash of the I fisherman's oars, the hum of the spin! ning wheel, and keep time with the J plowman as he drives his team. The country aided man in their making, I the bird note rings iu them, the tree ; has lent her whispers, the stream its j murmur, the village bell its tinkling tune, the shells on the seashore their dreamy echoes. ?Ramsey. Sprigg?"Hello, old man, I'm awfully glad to see you out ago in. I heard that the doctors gave you up." Bowles ?"Yes, I guess I'd have died if they hadn't."?Cleveland Leader. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. Ho Liven Are Incomplete?Like Drifting of Human Experience ? A Prayer of King Alfred ? Character Wants Sunlight?The Power of Prayer. There aro no lives unfinished, incomplete, God gives each man at birth some work to do. Some precious stone of strange, prismatic hue. To carve and polish, till it shall be meet To place within His temple, still and sweet, Ere that be done the soul may no. pass through The door to grander worlds, to aim more true, To wider life with love's sweet joys replete. And if the working time be short, and earth With its dear human ties be hard to leave, Be sure that God, whose thought hath given thee birth, Still holds for thee the best thou canst receive; Be sure the soul in passing through that door, Though losing much, gains infinitely more. ?Mabelle P. Clapp, in Chilstlan Leader. Ijlke Drifting of Human Experiences * Up and down the wild, barren Arabian stretches of desert and mountain wilderness, which, after all, only measured from south to north a fourteen days' journey direct from Sinai to Palest ne, the Hebrew people wandered and encamped, leading their nomadic lire for forty years longer. What was it all most like but the drifting of our human experience up and down the earth and along tne ages of it, between the first Oivini? of the Commandments of Life ancl the entering into its full fruition V With the very heaven almost within our reach?with only such a little distance between the 'Bidding and the Reward, if we would follow the direct way?we wind and tangle our paths in a blind bewilderment; we make our long tarryings in a few scanty feeding-places; we grow old and pass uway without ever having come to the full faith oi the heavenly nearness, to the sure, realizing vis-ion of the glory that waits close by. It is like being lost in storm and darkness, toilins: exhausted up and down within short step and call of one's own door, and perish' lag in the night at the threshold of one's k oine.?A. E. T. Whitney, in "The open Mystery." A Prayer of King Alfred. Lord, who hasf wwught all things worthy ' and nothing unworthy, to thee I call, whom everything loveth that cac love, both those that" know that they love and those who know not what they love?thou who art the Father of that Son who has awakened and yet awakens us from the sleep of our sins ancl warneth us that we come to thee. For every one fails who flees from thee, and every one rises who turns to thee, and every one stnnds who abides in thee, and he dies who altogether forsakes thee, and he, quickens who comes to thee and he in JonJ nrU/\ nVlllf oKl'll HO In uvea luurcu W ll\J lUUlUU^iiij ?u?uv^ ?u thee. Thou who hast given us the power that we should not despond in any toil, nor in any iiconvenience, as is no wonder, for thou well rulest and makest us well serve thee ; thou hast loosed us from the thraldom of other creatures and always preparest eternal life for us and preparest us for eternal life. Hear me, Lord, thy servant! Thee alone I love abo.ve all other things ! Thee I seek ! Thee I follow! Thee I am ready to serve! Under thy government I wish to abide, for thou alone reignest. Amen. Character Wants Sunlight. Character is like unto a plant. Shut up your plants in the cellar, and though you give them the right soil, the due amount of moisture and sufficient heat, the absence of the sunlight will turn them into a collection of ghosts, pale and colorless caricatures of plants. So is it in the experience of the soul. Follow implicitly every rule of conduct in the Bible, grimly bend all yout powers of will to the discharge of daily duty, resolutely fight against every temptation that besets you, and yet without the warmth and sunlight of that grace which ie the vital principle of the religion of Jesus r* KiJot Q rifrn n1 KPa trill ahHvfil nn because of dullness and disoouragement. Progress in Christian manhood is determined by the measure of obedience to the apostolic injunction: "Keep yonrself in the love of God." Once the geniality of Christianity is grasped by the soul striving after the white flower of holiness, the assurance of final victory is vouchsafed, for the truth dawns upon the mind that the very genius of Christianity is its sunny helpfulness.? Rev. D. Sutherland. Unliapplness of Our Own Making Jonn iiunyan, in his immortal allegory, brings his Pilgrims to certain ''Delectable Mountains," which are clad with orchards and vineyards, with gardens and fountains of water. -From these sunny heights they caught some glimpses of the Celestial City, and were regaled with pleasant fruits. Now there is no reason why any of us should be content to live down among the ''dumps" of the low grounds, or in those marshy regions where the malaria of despondency prevails. * Much of our unhappiness in this world is ol our own makiug. We might have a great many more joyous days during our earthly pilgrimage. When we have had a conflict with some temptation, and by Christ's imparted help have conquered it, then we reach a deiectabl? mount, and can sing our psalm of gratitude. Every good deed wrought for the master or our fellowmen, every answer to prayer,every new discovery of Christ's love, every new attainment in the spiritual life,carries us up into a higher, purer atmosphere. We can read the eighth chapter of the Romans up there, and sing the one hundred aud third Psalm.?The Christian. The Power of Prayer. Are you in sorrow? Prayer can make your affection sweet and strengthening. Are J'ou in gladness? Prayer can add to your oy a celestial perfume. Are you in extreme danger, whether from outward or inward enemies? Prayer can set at your right hand an angel whose touch "could shatter a millstoue into smaller dust than the flour it grinds," and whose glance could lay aa army low. When St. Felix of Kola was hotly pursued by murderers, he took refuge in a cave and Instantly, over the rift of it, the spiders wove their webs, and, seeing this the murderers passed by. Then 311 Hi tile sa'nc, "wiu're woa is uut, u wuu ir but a spider's web; where Go<l is, a spider's web is as a wal'." What will prayer do for you? I answer. All that God can do for you? When He bids us prav it is as though He said to us. "Ask what I shall give thee." ?Cunon Farrar. A Sanctifying Force Needful. I heard some time since of an oculist who j was very fond of cricket. But he had given it up, much as he enjoyed it, for he found that it affected *4ie delicacy of his touch,and for the sake of those whom he sought to relieve he sanctified himself and set himself apart. That is what we wantthat there shall come into our lives a force that prompts us always to be at our best and readiest for service,"our fullest and richest to help?a tree that is always in leaf | and always m bloom and always laden with ! its fruit,"like the orange tree, where the ! beauty of the Mo^om meets with its rraj granee the mellow glory of the fruit.?Rev. j Mark Guy Pearse. j If wo look down, then our shoulders stoop, j If our thoughts look down, our character bends. It is only when we hold our heads up that the body becomes erect, k is only when our thoughts go up that our life becuuics erect.?Alexander McKenzie. D. D. , MULE SHOT TO LOOSE HIS HOLD j Baseball Player of Lost Creek, Penn., Flas His Hand Lacerated. Michael Covlo. pitcher of the Lost Creek (Schuylkill County, Penn.) Baseball Club, I was tho victim of a very peculiar accident. He was petting a mule, when the animal I ut him xntelilnir his hand. | ....... It crushed it.i teeth through the hanil, and, despite all efforts made to have the animal release its hold, it obstinatoly refused to do so. As a last resort the mule was shot and tho young man's hand pried out of the dead brute's mouth. All the bones were broken and the hand was mangled terribly. THE SABBATH SCHOOL. .INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR OCTOBER 10. I -sson Text: "Paul a Prisoner at Jerusalem," Act* xxll?, 17-30?Golden Text: I Peter lv., 16?Commentary on the Dsy'n Lesson by Ker. D. M. Stearns. 17,18. "Make haste and net thee quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning Me." In our last lesson Paul was on his way to Jerusalem in spite of the Spirit's warning that he should not ro (chapter xxl., 4, 11, 12). He had not b*>en many days in Jerusalem when the Jews of Asia laid hold of him in the temple, drew him out and would have killed him had he not been rescued by the chief captain with a band of soldiers and carried into the castle. He asked permission of the captain to speak i/U mr nuu iiaviii^ li no addressed them In Hebrew from the castle stairs. He described his former life and the maDnei; of his conversion, and has now come to the Lord's message to him at Jerusalem. The child of God who is willing to be wholly the Lord's, may be sure of the Lord's guidahce in all things, and if it should be necessary an angel from heaven or the Lord Himself will see to it. 19.20. "And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in everv synagogue them that believed on Thee." It is all right for us to confess to God all our sins, but it Is not for us to argue or reason with Him when He commands us to do anything or go anywhere. He knows where and how He can make the most use of us. He knows who will receive testimony through this one or through that one, and it is for us to say, "Here am I, send me where Thou wilt and when Thou wilt." 21. "And He said unto me, Depart, for I will send tbee far hence unto the gentiles." We cannot expect the full blessing of the Lord unless we are ready for that work to which He has called us (Acts xiii., 2). May it not be that many ministers who cannot seem to find an open door at home are being called far hence to some of the millions who have never heard of Christ and cannot hear until some one shall tell them? Let each Christian ask, "Am I really willing and obedient, and does my heart say honestly, 'Lord, tfhat wilt Thou have me to do?'" 22. "Away with'such a fellow from the earth, for it is not fit that he should live." That the same privileges should be set before uncircumcised gentiles as before circumcised Jew3 was to them intolerable, and it was for this same thing that Peter was called to account (chapter xt., 2, 3). I am not sure but the same spirit in a worse form is seen to-day when people of one church or denomination look down upon and make little of work not done by themselves. The ambition of churches or boards or societies to excel each other instead of all uniting to honor Christ and completa His church is tainted with the same spirit. 23, 24. "The chief captain commanded that he should be examined by scourging that he might know wherefore they cried so asralnst him." Paul had been speaking in Hebrew (xxii., 2), of which language probably neither captain, centurions nor soldiers understood a word, and the Idea was that a little suffering might bring from him a confession of his wrongdoing. Paul was certainly having a rough time of It, for he had been beaten by the Jews (xxi., 32) and was now threatened with scourging by the gentiles. 25. Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman and uncondemned?" This he said to the centurion who stood by while the soldiers bound him with thongs preparatory to scourging him. While Paul was willing to suffer all that was necessary for Christ's sake, and unjustly, too, here was something wholly uncalled for, from which his Roman citizenship might deliver him. I am writing this on the North Pacific Ocean on my way to Japan as I start on my tour round the world for "Him that I serve. I carry with me a pass L I A 1 fl ? 01.4M 4U/\ pon irom lae oeurmary 01 emtio ui mo United 8tates Government asking all Nations not only to allow me safely and freely to pass, but in case of need to give me all lawful aid and protection. As a child of God and citizen of heaven I feel free to accept and carry this and use it as occasion may require, feeling no lack of faith in so doing. 26. "Take heed what thou doest, for this man is a Roman." Thus said the centurion to the captain. As far as heaven is abov? the earth, so far are the privileges oi heavenly citizenship above all those of earth. The devil could not touch Job, neither could he have Simon Peter without asking permission of God (Job 1., 10; Luke xxil., 31, R. V.), and he tnat toucheth a child of God toucheth the apple of His eye (^ecn. li., o). iiei us rejuiceiu our uomou' ly privileges and walk worthy of them. 27. "Then the chief captain came and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea." So a believer should be ready always to give to every one that asketh as definite an answer concerning his standing in Christ. Paul did not think or hope that he was a Roman citizen. He know it and said yes. Any one who has truly adcepted Christ is accepted in Him and has redemption, even the forgiveness of sins (Eph. i., 6, 7), and should never hesitate to confess it to the glory of God. It is not honoring to Qod to think or hope that we are saved. We should know it (I John v., 12,13), and live it and ever gladly acknowledge it. 28. "And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was freeborn." The heavenly citizenship cannot be bought by money, or good works, or any merit whatever on our part. "Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them." "Not by works of righteousness, which we have done" (Zeph. i., 18; Titus lit., 5). See also Rom. iv., 5; Eph. ii., 8, 9. The only way to become a child of God, an heir of God and a citizen of heaven is bv a new trirth. a birth from above, even as our Lord said in John iil., 3, 5, 7, and I believe a careful study of Jas. i., 13; I Pet. i., 23 Eph. v., 26, with John vi., 63, will make it very plain that the new birth is wrought in us by the word of God and the Spirit of God concerning our Lord Jesus Christ. 29, 30. Paul was saved from scourging at that time, and we will in some way be saved from all that it is not best for us to endure (I Cor. *., 13). The captain was still in aoubt as to the real cause of the uproar, and so called the chief priests and council together that he might set Paul before them. But Paul's testimony before the council caused such a disturbance tbat the chief captain had to rescue him again and bring him to the castle. Then followed the discovery of the plot to kill Poul, through Paul's nephew, and his being sent under a guard of soldiers to Felix, the Governor ait Ciesarea. Notice how in the midst of all this and of Paul's seeming disobedience in going to Jerusalem at this time the Lord was with him.?Lesson Helper. OUR WESTERN PARKS. Reports Submitted Regarding the Sequoia anil General Grant. The acting Superintendent of the Sequoia and General Grant National Parks has rendered his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior for the past fiscal year. The report is dated Wershar's Mill, Cal. The report states that no trespass has occurred ?i? v.:n limi+a nt thrt narks durlnc the last fiscal year. There was one forest lire caused by carelessness of sheepmen or hunters. Several hundred acres were burnedover, but no serious damage was done. The report recommends that the boundaries of Saquoia Park be properly marked and that a fence be constructed around General Grant Park. Game and fish are more abundant than formerly in the park. A recommendation is made that 82500 be appropriated by Congress under the title of "National parks" for providing a suitable summer station for the guard of the Sequoia National Parle and its outlying detachments. Novel C:ti?c of liny Fever. Hay fever is unusually prevalent in Kaih fias City, and the -ohief cause is said to be the pollen of the rag weed which has been illowed to grow A3 it listed in the streets ind doorways. Prlestn Jliiy Not Hide JJloycles In Montreal. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal, Canada, has forbidden priests to ride bicycles within the city limits on tho ground that it is undignified. A Machine to Brush Away Insects. A Hungarian farmer of Beevllle La., ha9 invented a machine which.it is saiil, will brush away all kinds of insects from cotton plant*. m A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. . | THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. Important to Drinkers?Pathetic Story of a Sailor Who Broke Bin Promise to , Give Up Drinking?Remorseful Refrain ol a Condemned Wife 3Iurderer. A man who drinks whisky may feel awhil? frlolrr a >/? And paint the town brilliantly red: But soon in the gutter with misery utter He will curse and wish himself "dead. A man whb drinks brandv may feel like a dandy, * ' As long as the smell's on his breath; But soon in the tremens, snakes, bogies and demons , Will chase him and scare him to death. A man who drinks wine may feel very line, And play funny antics and shout; But for it he'll pay with headaches next And die when he's young, from the gout. A man who drinks gin with pleasure will grin, And have what he calls a good time; Till with a red nose and dirty old clothes, He, homeless, will be for a dime. A man who drinks beer feels good for a ?. y?ar, And thinks it don't hurt him a bit; TCI bloated and red, he goes to his bed, Or falls on the street In a fit. But he who drinks water, as everyone oughter, Enjoys to the utmost his life; He's happy and healthy, respeoted and wealthy, And loved by his children and wife. ?H. C. Dodge, in Chicago Son. Forgot His Promise. When W. Burns Thomson, known throughout Scotland as the medical , missionary, was a young man prosecuting his medical studies, he was assistant chaplain. of tha RHinhnroh orison. There manv strange and sad experiences in the lives of conviots came to his knowledge. The following, told by himself and inoluded In hi* ':1 biography by Mr. Maxwell, shows how on? mistake In conduct may prove fatal to character and even to life Itself. Mr. Thomson was leaving C<on jail ono Afternoon, when the Governor, stepping from a group of officials, said to him: "Please wait. We are expecting a heavy sentence." In a short time the gates vere opened and the police van came in. When the ' clatter of bolts had ceased, a prisoner stepped out of the van. After glancing fox a moment at the papers handed to him the Governor -whispered to Mr. Thomson one word, "Death!" After the man was taken to his cell the young chaplain went to see him. When the Warden had left the pell, the prisoner looked earnestly at his visitor and said, "So you don't know me?" "I do not recall having seen you before,A I waa rAnlv "Bnt I remember yon," the prisoner ex- -J% claimed, so bitterly that the chaplain wondered for a moment whether he could ever have done him an Injury. Almost Immediately the condemned man broke Into a paroxysm of grief, wringing his hands and crying: "Oh, if I had kept my promise! If I had only kept my promise, I should not be here to-day." He was a typical British tar with a free hand and a generous heart when he was sober. Under the influence of Hquor he had ' * quarreled with his wife and had pushed her down stairs to her death. It seems that three years previous to his trial and conviction for murder he had been ' sentenced to thirty days' in prison because * of a drunken row. Then he attended, the prison meetings held by Mr. Thomson, ^ho, after one of these gatherings, took the sailor into his private room, add warned him earnestly against drlnk; The murderer now told the chaplain this and ended his confession in these words: "I promised you faithfully that I would ^ ? ? - ' * JU S L|fA U?4. It ; l'J give li up, ana so j. aia iur a wunu, uui u came back on me. Since then I have been all around the world, and to think that I am here and that It has come to this!"' Then followed an outburst of agony and the plaintive wall, "Oh, If I had kept my promise!" ' ' ' This for weeks was his remorseful refrain until the moment of his execution. Beer and Life Insurance. Very many persons honestly believe that beer-drinking Is helpful, and laugh at the idea that It can be In the least harmful. They say that only fanatics and temperance cranks would speak against such an innocent drink as Deer. Such persona ought to read what Insurance doctors say about It. At a recent convention of the doctors the subject of beer drinking was V . ^ thoroughly discussed In a scientific way. What conclusion did they arrive at? Is beer good for. us to drink, will it strengthen . X us and prolong our lives? Surely the doctors should know. They said that the habit of drinking beer Is injurious and makes persons bad risks for life Insurance. Dr. Rogers, of the New York Life Insurance Company, said: "Recently I had occasion to make some study of wliat happens among persons engaged in the manufacture of beer, defined generally brewers. My cases in- ' eluded not only the workingmen engaged In the breweries, but also the proprietors of breweries. It is a curious fact that the mortality among the proprietors is about / as high as among the workingmen, jhow- -v, ^ Ing that they are all given to copious libations. "The mortality is low among brewers in early years. Up to forty or thereabouts brewers seem to be about as good risks as pretty much anybody else. After forty the mortality rises very high, and I should say that at flfty-flve or sixty years of ago -y-2 about three brewers may be expected to die where one average person dies." Figure* That Tell. For ten years, 1885 to 1894, the average | death-rate of the Ancient Order of Forest1 ... J ers, England, was over ten ana unaer eleven per thousand. For the same period, the ' average death-rate of the Manchester Uni ity Independent Order of Odd Fellows wa3 , . ' . twelve per thousand. For the same period, J the average death-rate of the Independent I Order of Rechabites was a little over six per I thousand. The Alliance News calls atten! tion to these figures and says: "If the death-rate of the Ancient Order J of Foresters for the ten years had been the same as the death-rate of the Independent Order of Rechabites, there would have been fewer deaths by 42,038. And notice, that if ' the death-ratii of the Manchester Unity In- ; dependent Order of Odd Fellow for the ten years had been the same as the Independent Order of Rechabites, there would have been fewer deaths by 39,807, making together 81,897. Does alcohol poison?" Temperance News and Notes. The Advantage of the sanitarium in the medical treatment of drunkards lies in the fact that it is easier in the sanitarium to control the meutai;coudltion of the patient and keep him out of temptation. Any good physican can treat acaseof alcoholism successfully if he can win the. confidence and co-operation of the diseased man. The superintendent of police matron i work in Chicago reports that 10.130 women I had been arrested during last year; 1121 lost children had been cared for and re| turned to parents, 574 destitute woman cured for. and 213 destitute children. She gives it as her opinion that liquor is the major cause of all this pity-exciting woe. Open drinking is bad enough, but this surreptitious tippling is infinitely worse. It has led to the break-up of many a home and brought misery and ruin on whole >-, ; families. They have a local wine in Scotland known | as "sweets," which carries about twentyseven percent, of alcohol. "Strong" would be a better title, and it is so intoxicating that the authorities propose special restrictions on its sale, such us now exist in Eugland. ' An amusing illustration of the good effects I of restraint is given in a recent letter re- ' | ceived by a magistrate from a m**n who thanked liim sincerely for having given tils wife six mouths' imprisonment, which had changed her, he said, from being a drunken scold to a steady, sober woman. nj jgjjMMlMlHl