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W' J HENRY GEORt STORY OF ]ig Was Once a Sailor, Prin '-Always an An This is Henry George's own story. He dictated it to a New York World reporter a few days before his death, And revised it carefully. "I -was bom in Philadelphia in i 1839." said Mr. George. "My father ' owned a bookstore and was a publish- J er in a not very large way. After- j wards he was a clerk in the CustomHouse and remained there quite a while. I myself began life in Philadelphia as a boy, workiug for $2 a week in the office of an importer of crockery. I did writing, carried bundles or turned my hand to anything else there was to do. "After that I went into the office of a marine adjuster, bnt I was very anxious to go to sea. My grandfather I - mam a# nAnairloroVilo nrtffl Wfto a oca cn^viuu vx wuoiuwiuviv in the early days of Philadelphia. He followed the sea from the time he was eight years old. He had taken part in the war of 1812, and had been captured by the British. I suppose I inherit my love of the sea from him or 1 from hearing my father talk about him. At any rate I went to sea, shipping as foremast boy on the old ship . .Hindoo, an East Indiaman of 500 tons burden. I sailed from right here in : | J New York, leaving the foot of Tliir- ; / tieth street, on North River, going L tfto Melbourne and then to Calcutta. "When I got back to Philadelphia after this voyage I was about sixteen years old, and I felt like staying at home a while. So I went into the printing office of King & Baird. There I learned something of $he trade, but soon afterward I went to sea again, gain? to Boston and back in a small caal schooner. "It was on this trip that I got the I y>; >-. j:. ? V-.: ' ? " , idea of going to California. I saw in 1: the Delaware Biver a little side-wheel 1 eteamer that was being built for i the light-house service. She was to f be taken to California, and I made up a my mind to go in> her. c "As a matter of fact, I did go. Off \ Hatteras we were struck by a storm, i which came near being the last of us. ] I remember it very vividly?how the- i squall drove the little cockle-shell now t v here, now there, now with this side ] touching the surface of the waves and i now wilh that, while I and a negro deckhand worked together, throwing i over bags of coal to lighten her. The .1 sailing master hung on to the bridge, y shouting to us through the speaking < trumpet and barely able to make him- ] self heard as he told us that the work < we were doing was for life or death. ! "We came through safely, but con- ] siderably damaged. Bunning along, i we went into St. Thomas, then to Per- ! nambuco and Bio Janeiro, and after- i ward to Montevideo. We did not go ] around the Horn, but through the 1 straits of Magellan. It was amostim- < pressive sight?the deep clear water < around us and the snow-covered moun- < il. J:_I to. ? uftius iii buo uisiauuc. c iuu upuu u, I schooner which belonged to English ; missionaries who were praying arid working with the natives. We saw a : number of Terra delFnegans, and they were not at all attractive. I heard af- i terward that the Patagonians killed and ate those very missionaries who were trying to convert them. i "We were, short of coal, and in go- : ing through the straits we had to stop and cut cordwood. "I landed in San Francisco in 1857, < after the close of this trip. I had in- i tended to go to Oregon, where I knew a family, one member of which was a niece of Governor Curry, but it was j the time of the great Frazer River gold ' excitement, and I have never been to j Oregon yet. I left the ship and joined j C/\\? n l?t<nrrav T? 1 \*riV vnm All I iUC X UOU LKJL lilO X 10?<C1 i 1 "I made my way in a topsail schooner to Victoria, which was then a Hudson i . Bay station. I found about 10,000 ! miners camping there. I also found j that the stories of gold were largely false. After working in a store for a while I made my way back to San Fraucisco as a steerage passenger. There I found Dave Bond, a Philadelphia printer whom I had known. He told me of work I could get to do at | the printer's trade in Frank Eastman s establishment. It did not last very long, and afterward I worked in a rice mill as a weigher. "When this failed I resolved to go * * 1 -? ? Al? ?. anlAHlAM s\\r iVl to T-ne mines m vuu imcuui ui iuc State, and having no other way of Teaching them I started out to walk. I was, in fact, what would now be called a tramp. I had a little money, bat I slept in barns to save it and had rough time generally until finally I jE'S OWN | I uic r a Dccn 1 ! iiio jg ; ^ iter, Tramp, Editor, and w i ti-Monopolist. w 1 made up my mind to return to San ] Francisco. ] "When I got back I ran across Bond < again, and again went to printing. 1 They paid seventy-five cents a thousand, or $30 a week, but as I was still a minor I got only 812. George Thurs- i ton, who is now a captain in the regu- ] lar army, was my foreman. ] "As soon as I became of age I joined ( the printers' union and so became en- t titled to full wages. After that I did i first-rate. I worked as a substitute, ] doing what printers called 'subbing' on daily papers. Then I went to work ] on a paper which Duncan was then t editing. I got to be foreman at S30 a ] week and he used my name as his pub- t lisher until he sold the paper. t "Then I subbed on the dailies un til four printers started a little daily paper called the Journal. Setting the type was the main thing then, as there was no telegraphic news to pay for, and so I was taken into partnereliipon the payment of a small sum?between SI00 and ?200, if I remember correct!y "I worked trying to,found the Journal until my clothes were in rags and the toes of my shoes were out. I slept in the office aud did the best I could to economize, but finally I ran into debt $30 for my wash bill. What finally broke us up was the threat of civil war, which created great excitement and made the news which came from the East by pony express an absolute necessity. As we did not have it we were forced out. "It was while in these straits that'I first met the lady who is now my wife. Her people did not regard me with favor under the circumstances, and I . Htxtx G?ioK<,e n H ? StyC?f I lardly blame them, but the young ady liked me, and promised to marry ne. I had nothing, but my friends ixed everything for the wedding, and i boarding-house, where I was ac[uainted, agreed to credit us for two veeks* board. As soon as we were narried my wife and I went there, tfext morning I got up at 6 o'clock md started out to find work on an ifternoon paper. I did not get it, but [ finally found work on the mornng papers, and we paid our board. ~ "My next move was to Sacramento, o: vhere I worked on the Sacramento Union and did well. I sent for my w vife, and it was there that my first p jhild, Henry George, Jr., was born, p [ disagreed with the foreman of "the ti jffice, and after doing so returned to S 3an Francisco and with two other f< printers started a job office. I came '] near starving to death, and at one time [ was so close to it that I think I ? 3hould have done so but for the job of li printing a few cards which enabled us s; to Duy a liuie corn meai. j.n mis w darkest time of my life my second p sliild was born. I gave np the job p office and went back to subbing, man- t< aging to make a living that way until p [ began writing. c "The first thing I ever wrote for a newspaper was a story sent back to a Philadelphia of how we had buried a p man who died of yellow fever on the b voyage when we were near Monte- i: video. About this time Lincoln was e assassinated, and I wrote an article on h it for the Alta Californian. They b printed it as an editorial and were as- b bonished to find that it came from one t of the printers. I became a sort of t reporter, but left that to work as a I printer at Sacramento on State work a ? -- - J? mi U- iU^ T tor ?o a aay. mere, uy iue ?nj, i u invested my savings in a mining ven- a ture and lost them. "On my return to San Francisco I li wrote an article for the Times, which t resulted in my being made news ed- t itor, and I afterward became chief ed- L itor?a place I held for a year or so. t From the Times I went over to the ( Chronicle, of which I became manag- j ing editor, but I did not like Charles s De Young, and I went to the Herald, v It was a new paper, aud I came East t in its interest. My wife had already jj come ahead of me to Philadelphia. jh| "This was in 18G8, if I do not fojaH get. At any rate it was just befdMyj they had completed the transcontjjflyJj tal railroad, and I crossed the JHMMH in a four-horse 'mud wagon.' mauy nights sitting at tha?jM0Mifc side, and I was all the morj^^^^^^P t therefore when we reach^^^H^n- t road and got a sleeping jM^HHHad p to sleep two in a berth^fiBHSBB^ \ "I had come Ea^mBjS06&T fight to get the Associat?(^^S|?Blpatches c for my paper. Tn^BBHF refused, t and the Western Unionfinally gave f / S / * . - . >rders abrogating an agreement it had 1 nade with rue. It afterward attempt- t id to keep my matter off the wires. I j A?\f 11 *\ frvr fVia Qnn T?r?or?. / sisco Herald, both from New York and Philadelphia, until finally the paper jot into bad financial straits and I returned to California. "It was during my stay in the East that I wrote for the New York Tribune an article headed 'The Chinese in the Pacific Coast'?the first article [ ever wrote on political ecouomy. "When I returned to San Francisco [ found the Herald dying, and, as the printers were the only ones on it who jould get money to live on, I went to tvork at the case. "After this I edited the Oakland Transcript, aud made a friend of Pro- ! lessor William Swinton. Governor 1 Elaight, who was fighting the Pacific Railroad, offered me charge of a Dem- ( jcratic paper, the Recorder, and I i ;ook it. It prospered, and I used the < noney I made from it in starting a t jenny paper in San Francisco. ^ "The artioles I wrote, supporting t Elaight in his anti-monopoly fight, at- t iracted attention, and about this time l [ also developed the idea which was f ifterward worked out in 'Progress md Poverty.' "I published it first in a pamphlet sailed 'Our Land aud Land Policy,' of 1 vhich a thousand copies were sold at ivrenty-five cents each. More might lave been sold, but when the edition a an out I determined to wait until I ;ould develop the idea in a way I ? ;hought more worthy of it. t "Our penny paper was printed on f i flat press of the old style, and we ound we could not get off enough s :opies to supply the demand or to \ nake it pay. A man was very anxious c ;o buy and we sold to him. One of a ny partners went to Paris with the t jroceeds of his venture, but I re- t uained ir San Francisco and was i inally induced by the purchaser of t he paper to take an interest in it for ? lothing, as he had lost hope of sue- c jeediug with it. We got the first 8 3ullock perfecting press ever used in c California, but just as we were start- t ng a morning and Sunday edition the t 3ank of California failed and brought 8CENE3 AT HENRY GEORGE'S HOM1 a a disastrous panic. ai "We were pressed for the moi^ey vi hioh had been borrowed to buy the ii ress, and the sacrifices we were com- b elled to make determined me io r&- p re. I held a small political offioe in h an Francisco, by appointment? for ai >nr years, and during this time wrote Ii Progress and Poverty.' Jj "I could not find a publisher in the a last or iu England. The publishers lughed at the idea of there being a w ale for a work on political economy tc written in San Francisco. My old X] artner, W. M. Hinton, who had a 81 Tinting office in San Francisco, de- y ermined to risk it, however, and he tl rinted an edition which sold for $3 a _ opy. "In January, 1880,. I came East fter the Appletons had agreed to remblish the book here. I came on j ?;i 1^4. lorroweu uiuucty, auu icn m.j xuumj a California, but 'Progress and Povrtj' was a success from start. I iave no idea how many copies have ?een sold. I think considerably over ialf a million. There were three ediions in German alone, and there have ! teen editions in Dutch, Spanish, { ''rench, Italian and even in Japanese | nd Chinese. From many of these, of ourse, I have never received anything I .tall." | When asked about the trip to Engand and Ireland which he made about he height of the Land League agitaion, Mr. George recalled the fact that i ie was twifle arrested as au euemy of I he Engli^BJtovernment. ne was in i 'onnen^flnfljtykthe first arrest took 1 Lochrea, and the ' ecomB$KFmiserable straggling ilJjl9HVe's ^ur^ier on- It was ^^^gj^^^^rrest which most im v^JfeBpiarge against me," lie said, | f H^Hping a stranger and a danger EH&raoter who liad conspired with 1 Vn other persons to prevent the 11 j^nent of rent. The police surround- a P me and forced me into what in some ~ >arts of this country would be called * lie hoodlum wagon. I was carried to he police station under a formidable ruard, and after being cross-examined vas locked up. u "From the window of my cell I n :ould study the misery and squalor of s he village, illustrated specially by the c act that it had thirty-two policemen, p -Jkh.? . CY ' .v - :_v VV . : )ut only one pump to supply the enire population with water for all pur? joses. The police searched my trunk tnd found a copy of my book on the [rish land question, which they conlidered dangerous matter, I suppose. "At any rate I was taken to the man>ion of the squire for examination. I ihall never forget the contrast it prelented with the misery of the village. Well-dressed people were playing lawn ;ennis on its beautiful grounds. It iad stately trees around it and an air )f the utmost respectability and com'ort. The squire sent me back to the lubordinate magistrate and I was re:ommitted to the lock-up. In the nean time a telegram had been sent to London, and Mr. Gladstone I think it vas, had ordered my immediate reease. So I was turned out. "I wrote a letter to the President, letailing the circumstances of the ar est, and on my return Secretary of itate Frelinghuysen sent for me. He old me that the English Government vas willing to pay me damages, but I lid not want them. All I wanted was o make it as plain as possible just iow things were usually done in enorcing English authority in Ireland." FEET 2 1.2 INCHES LONC. Phcy Are the Smallest In the United State* and Belong to a Chinese Woman. The tiniest feat in the United States ire the property of-the wife of a Chinsse merchant of Philadelphia. They ire just 2} inches long, or less than he length of the ordinary man's little inger. A few days ago the Oriental superitition regarding modern inventions ras so far lulled to sleep that the >wner of the Lilliputian feet permitted in X ray photograph of her right foot o be taken. No more misshapen thing vaa ever seen. In her most freakish nood nature never dreamed of anything like this. No curvature of the ipine ever approached this curvature >f the foot. It looks for all the world is if it were part of the frame of one >f those grotesque prehistoric mons .ers that the paleontologists tea up ib out. If little girls in China are not killed ? mv ?v I"" iLl " \ tHl VttW J 5, FORT HAMILTON, BROOKLYN. b birth?a kindly fashion that preails in Ohyia?their feet are placed 1 compresses, should they happen to e of fairly high caste. These comresses are never taken off for any sngth of time antil the girl has reached q age where her feet grow no more, a Chinese eyes her feet are perfect, a the eyes of others she has become hopeless cripple. These deformed feet of the Chinese omen of aristocracy are a potent fac>r in keeping slavery at high tide, rnable to walk, they must be contantly waited upon, and for this serLce slaves are necessary. Fortunately, - ? < i 1. le female slaves nave leet sucn as na a chixe.se lady's foot. Hie Lower Picture Shows the Bones 1 .re Reduced in Size by Compresses.) j ire intended, and yet this very fac^ I lakes them bondwomen. To be free nd an aristocrat a Chinese woman lust be a cripple. If she is left free ) grow as nature wills she is almost ertain to be condemned to bondage. Attempts have recently been made a several parts of France and Gerlany to introduce the American lobter, as it has been found that it esapes diseases that destroy the Euroean varieties. THE SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 21. j Lesson Text: "The Christian Armor," JSphesian* vl., 10-30?Golden Text j^pnesians vi., iv?t/uiuuieniiirj on me Lesson by the Rev. Dr. D. M. Stearns. 10. "Finally, mv brethren, be strong la the Lord and in the power of His might." The first three chapters set forth our salvation, or rather His salvation, in all its fullness. Then we are taught in the following chapters what our walk in the Lord, or our daily life should be, and now in the verses of our lesson we are taught how to do it and adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things (Titus 11.. 10). My waders must be very familiar with Eph. ii., 10, but It only just comes to me now to associate with 'it Titus II., 10. Thank the Lord for the association. May the words grip us with power. 11. "Put on the whole armor of God, that, ye may be able to stand against the wiles* of the devil." There is a real personal devil, the enemy of God and man, at present the prince of the power of the air, the Erince of this world, whose prison will soon e the bottomless pit and his final abode the lake of fire and brimstone (John xiv., 30; Eph. li., 2; Rev. xx., 2, 3, 10). 12. "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood." The demons -who do the devil's work are not all risible in the form of men or women. The air is often full of them. They come at us when we are weak and alone and fairly storm us with their evil thoughts and lies. They come at us in the house of God. and when we read His word, and even when on our knees in prayer.. How shall we know them? They are the opposite of all that is of Qod. Righteousness and peace atid rest and quietness are all of God and His Spirit through Christ. The opposite must be of the devil. 18. "Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand." One of the first ana greatest things is to understand that as we are saved freely by His grace (Eph. 11.', 8; Rom, ill.. 24), so we stand continually in the same grace (Rom. v., 1, 2) or undeserved favor of God. Unless we see clearly that all our salvation from first to last is wholly undeserved on our part, and is ours only in and through Jesus Christ and His finished work, satan will get many an advantage over us. We are not worthy, but Thou art worthy, 0 Lord. On that let as stand firmly and continually. 14. "8tand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness." Our Lord said, "I am the Truth," and He is also made unto us righteousness (John xiv., 6; I Cor. i., 30; II Cor. v., 21), so that when we have learned to see no one but "Jesus only," to "run with patience looking unto Jesus," and ever to consider Him (Math, xvii., 8; Heb. xii., 2, S), we have learned the secret of standing firmly. 15. "And your feot shod with the prep- 1 " a# n/\ar\nl a9 nnortfl ? Tho ' fftflf I aianv/u vi iuv qvoj/vi w* j/wuw. *mw k<?w? shod also takes us back to the Passover verse (Ex. xii.. 11), for we can do nothing and are asked to do nothing till we are safe under the blood. We are also reJ minded by Isa. 111., 7, "How beautiful 1 upon the mountains are the feet of him j that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth { peace." The first thing Is to be made nigh by the blood of Christ, "for He is our J peace" (Eph. if., 13, 14) Then have the mind atalcPon Him in perfect peace (Isa. ' xxvi., 3). Then carry tne tidings of peaoe J through the blood of His cross (Col. i., 20) to every creature. 16. "Above all taking the shield of faith, ' wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one." Many trials ' are very fiery, but none the less precious as tokens of His approval who gives us fellowship with Himself (I Pet. iv., 12,13). He bas not promised to keep us out of the fire, i but to be with us in it, even as with Danlei's friends (Isa. xliii., 2; Dan. Hi., 25), and 1 I* Uu nan hn hf>n?r gnntl in thft flttJ with US shall we not praise Him even for that? But J is to these fiery darts of the devil which he I J hurls at us, thereds not one that need touch as to harm us, for all may be queoehed by i quick and Arm "I believe God" (Acts ixvii., 25). Confidence In God and reliance upon His word will do it every time." 17. "And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." In I Thess. v., 8. it is written, "For an helmet, the hope of salvation." This is the completion of our salvation at His coming, which is everyday nearer than when we believed (Rom. xlH., 11). The blessed hope that purifies (I John iii., 3), for then we shall be like Him, even as to / our bodies, for we shall see Him as He is (Phil, iii., 21; Rom. viil., 23). From first to la9t all the knowledge and comfort of this come to us through His word, which is forever settled In heaven and true from the beginning (Ps. cxix., 89, 160). 18. "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and sup- < plioatlon for all saints." Our Lord spent whole nights in prayer. David and Daniel prayed many times a day (Ps. lv., 17; Dan. vl., 10). Wo should pray without ceasing ( (I Thess. v., 17). It i? possible to be ever j In an attitude of prayer, constantly com- , ? ?'?? XTItyi ohnnt ftVAPvfhinD'. He r jxiuuiug nuu AAiui , who prays honestly will expect answers i and watch for them as truly as the boy j who throws his ball Into the air watches j for it to return to him. 19. "And for me that utterance may be t given unto me, that I may open my mouth t boldly to make known the mystery of the t gospel." He said to the Corinthians, "In ( everything ye are eariched by Him, in all i utterance and in all knowledge" (I Cor. i., j 5). And yet, recognizing his own weakness t and the reality of the wiles of the devil, he s asks prayer for himself that he may have \ utterance ana boldness for Christ. Paul was very conscious of his own weakness and often spoke of it. 20. "For which I am an ambassador in j bonds; that therein (margin thereof) I may t speak boldly as I ought to speak." The \ Lord's messengers with the Lord's message y are supposed to have no fear of man, nor c of the face of man, yet many are very weak, t and not many seem to declare, without i thought of man's frown or favor, the whole u council of God. Many ministers seem to I know little or nothing of the mystery of t which God has just spoken, and more fully c in chapter ill., the mystery hid from the beginning of the world and apedaily revealed to Paul; that during the postponement of the kingdom God is gath- t . ering from Jews and gentiles a body for ii Christ, the church, which shall be one with t Him when He shall come in His glory and ( take unto Him His great power and reign, D Many seem to think that instead of gather- r ing out a body for Christ He is seeking the a conversion of the world, and are therefore 8 workiog and walking in much darkness.? 0 Lesson Helper. t a RICE INJURED BRIDE.' Painful Experience From tli* Old Tline Method of Congratulations. a Mrs. Albert E. Birks, who was married a few days ago at the home of her parents, j, Mr. and Mr3. John H. Jennings, in Greens 0 Furms, Conn., was compelled to undergo an operation, ir. New York City, for the removal of a kernel of rice which had become lodged in one of her ears. . Mr. and Mrs. Birks wore showered with rice on leaving the homestead by the happy " throng which had assembled to witness tbe wedding. At the railroad station the performance was repeated. After leaving the house, Mrs. Birks was . troubled with a peculiar sensation in one :! of her cars. She concluded that a particle of the rice thrown had become lodged .. there. She made several attempts to re- l' move it. While on her way to Now York, the piece of rice settled further toward tlie drum and , began to cause her much pain. On reach- ? ing New York, the pain had become intense, ? and Mr. Birks called in a physician. The latter made several attempts to remove the a] trouble, but was unsuccessful. It was not until after the services of three g doctors had been employed that the kernel of rice was removed. Then it had to bo taken out in small pieces. Tho bride suffered a loss of hearing, which it is feared, will be permanent. The " bridal couple finally decided to start South, 6t despite her suffering. r Want a Substitute For PhoRphora*. 01 The Belgian Government, after search- di Ing iu vain, offers a prize of $10,000 for a hi 3ubstituto for phosphorus. Co*tly Transportation. * It costs Klondlkera $1000 to carry a year's jj tupplles from Dyea to Dawson. y, ' ~"" ?i,. A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. The Present Need?A Bishop's Opinion on the Temperance Question?Advocates of Total Abstinence Have the Kespect of All Classes?Evils of Drunkenness. At a recent meeting of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union ot Philadelphia, Bishop Prendergast made an address to the delegates, in which he said: "We have active members, honorary members, and what migLt be called sympathetic members. For some reason, hard for you to understand, these will not work and give their names to your cause. This may be inconsistent, and we may sav that they are not doing all they could do, but one of the best effects of the work of the total obstinence societies is the change they have brought about in public opinion regarding the use of intoxicating liquor. "It used to be an evidence of crankiness for one to be a total abstainer. Now you have the respect and sympathy of all classes. I would remind you that the fathers of the Council of Baltimore, in urg-. ing upon Catholics to unite in extirpating the pestiferous evil of drunkenness, urged priests apd people to do so for love of religion and for love of country, two of the highest motives to be proposed to any right-minded man or woman. Drunkenness not only destroys religion in its victim, but brings disgrace on religion itself. It was one of the objections in the past (and, unfortunately, there is some of it left) urged against Catholics. It is an evil 4. U ~ Ti ikn AUt ugaiiisi. tuo uuuunjf. it utjoity/a buo uifcizen and the family. For love of religion and for love of country the Council of Baltimore urges priests and people to unite in extirpating this evil." The Bishop insisted that the ruling motive for work must be supernatural?the salvation of souls. The material good resulting from total abstinence was not to be despised, but the chief aim should be to preserve souls from sin. He spoke of the great good that may be accomplished by extra endeavor in the enrolment of Juveniles, and assured his hearers that he would continue, when giving confirmation, to advise and urge the children to join the tAnpevance societies in their parishes. Children's Societies. 1 The formation of total abstinence societies among the ooys and girls is one of the best possible means to combat the vice of drunkenness. When the youthful minds are plastic, there should be impressed upon them the necessity of .sobriety in the battle of life. Let there be formed in them the habit of abstinence from liquor. Teach them that in tbis, as in every other vice, there is always a beginning?a little insidious beginning, a perfectly harmless-looking beginning?but in this beginning, as in a disease germ, lurk all the terrible possibilities, all the direful consequences of the drink habit. In many families the children see liquot used on every occasion, sometimes as a beverage, sometimes as a medicine; and they are influenced, of course, by the example of their parents to ldok upon it as an indispensable article in the domestic economy. It should be the duty of temperance workers to combat this idea. It should be their earnest care to spread the light in such dark places. But the parents cannot very easily be reached, and even If they could, It would be almost an impossibility to change their lifelong views on the subject. The children, therefore, are the ones to be sought after, and it is with them, through the means of attractive societies, that the work of temperance can be best advanced. No Middle Ground. The drink traffic paralyzes every political, social, moral and religious condition which tolerates it. We cannot compromise with this evil. There Is no middle ground. Its presence is death. For the Government to legalize, sanction, or protect it is to form a league with hell and destruction. The tramo should be destroyed, and as a first jtep the Government, both national and 3tate, should dissolve its partnership in the business and cast it adrift, without protection. Then outlaw it as a public enemy, the legitimate prey for destruction. Behold the ravages of the fiend as It sweeps jver the land, consuming thousands of jouls annually, causlng>desolation, despair ind death to millions. We hear the lamentations of mothers and wives, the cry of hungry children. The demons howl in the rum caverns of death. See the grim gallows strangling their victims! Thousands )f young men, the flower of the land, deitroyed by the hideous traffic. How shall :bls tide of destruction be stayed? Who 7111 accept the commission of the modern jrophets, and cry out from the watch :owers of the land, "Oh, turn ye, oh, turn jq\ for why will ye die of strong drink, 0 Christian America!?Ex-Governor Hughes, )f Arizona. The Saloons In Winter. As the winter approaches, the temperince societies all over the country should lot cease to prosecute their work with rigor and earnestness. The temptation to -II?. A i.i.1 i~ lrinic is pernaps more auunng uuu immi m -he winter season than when the weather s fine, and out-door exercise an inviting possibility. The warmth and light and genial companionship of the saloons exert i very powerful influence in drawlngyoung nen into them. It should be the aim of a emperance society to provide for the so;ial side of a man's nature. It is well to lave high ideals; but harmless amusement, ind lots of it, is needed If we would save be boys from the sin of drunkenness and ill Its attendant evils.?Sacred Heart Reflew. It Wm Brink. Go to the Insane asylums, poorbouses, >risous, orphanages, and ask what brought he Inmates tbere. Many, alas, too many, rill tell you that it was drink. Men and 70men endowed with the noblest gifts, apable of doing much good, are burdens o themselves, their famiHee, and the com unity. Some have lost the use of their ninds, others their property, others have iroken up their families or condemned hem to a life of misery and shame; all if them are damning their immortal souls. , Happy Toronto. Here is the latest description of Toronto, | aken from the Christian Advocate: "The j aw disqualifies a saloon-keeper for mem- , ersblp in the City Council. The saloons , and, curiously enough, there are just as j naDy saloons as churches?200) are under , igld oversight, and are closed every ni?ht ? t 11 o'clocK ana an aay nuuaay. xao , treets are clean?a faot which Is not with- j ut its bearing upon clean morals, and , here is an utter absence of drunkenness , nd of aimless loafing." ( What Is Moderation? j Is not the right use of things beneficial, i nd total abstinence from things injur- i jus? 1 If so, then the only moderation possible < i regard to intoxicating drink as a bev- i rage is total abstinence. Who Will Lead ? A. writer in the New York Sun describes . tie hardships of naval officers. The almost 1 niversal custom in naval services of treat- '' lg visitors aboard ship to light wines and 1 iquors is referred to as a source of great ? xpense to the individual officer. 1 What naval offlccr will inaugurate a bet- v sr code and a more sensible procedure in c (lese matters, by refusing to put the wine f up to his neighbor's lips??National Tem- J erance Advocate. Temperance >'ew? and Note*. Alcohol is not a gift of God, but tho n nvii'a mnat nnwi>rful airent for destroying t< oil's image in man. I Where .Satan does not go ho sends his gent?drink. 4 The sparkle in the wine is made by one of 4 titan's sharpest teeth. Appetite for drink is the devil's iron chain round the drunkard's noek. g Moral suasion backed by lej?al suasion is a le power of God in legislation to save the n ate. a Drink, like death, makes all men equal. '' he most brilliant scientist and scholar is 9 ue with the drunken beggar, when the h rink habit has fastened its claws upon iui. Tlie total abstinence pledge does not take *' ivuy a man's personal liberty. If you lock'' j, aur door to keep a burglar out, that act 13 ? Ireeted against the burglar, not against aurself. P L ' : ??????? GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. * I I Am Thine?The Ambulance Corps?Self <n A Q?m. AUI^U^CU 1U VUUiillUll V* ouu? day Prayer?How Happinesa CornelBiesaed to Be a Child Again. I am Thine own, 0 Christ; Henceforth entirely Thine; And life from this glad Lour, New life is mine. No earthly joy can lure My quiet soul from Theo; Th,? -Wo delight so pure Is heaven to me. I cannot tell the art , By which this bliss is given, I know tbou hast my heart, And I?have heaven. The Ambulance Corps. "These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth."?Rev. 14:4. There are three classes In the Christian life?the men of the wing, the men of the oouch, and the men of the road. The first are those who fly before; they are the pioneers of progress; they are in advance of their fellows. The second are those who stand still, or rather lie still; they are the invalids of the human race; they come not to minister, but to be ministered unto. The third are those who follow; they are the ambulance corns of humanltv: thev are the sacrificial v-> souls that come up behind. I think with St. John that they are the most beautiful souls of all. They are lovely in * their unobtrusiveness. They do not wish to lead, they would rather be in the rear: they only cpme forward when others are driven backward. They want no glory from the battle, no wreath for the victory, no honorable mention amid the heroes. Tbey seek the wounded, the dying, the dead. They anoint for life's burial, tbey bring spices for the crucified, they give the cup of cold water, they wash the soiled feet. They break the fall of Adam: they break the fall of - g Magdalene. They take in Saul of Tarsus after he becomes blind. They are l'J attracted by defects, they are lured by ;; form of helplessness. They come out to ;j meet the shadows; they go in the track, not i J of the lark* but or the nightingale; they follow the Lamb. Captain of salvation,put me in the rear of Thine army?with the afhba- $! lance corps. It is not for the sake of safety that I ask it; it is not to be relieved from ...: \$i the burden and the heat of the day that I . ,t wish to be in the rear. It is because I think ' the trouble is greater there ; it is because I v': flPA mnrfl rnnm for siwrlflrte. more OhanOA of doing good. There are some whom ^ Thou sendest before Thee ?angels of the everlasting gospel who fly in advance over the face of heaven. . <:>: Speed them, bless them. Bat I am : ?: not fitted to be one of these; I am not Yyf swift enough, am not brilliant enough. Put . me in a sphere where swiftness is not V wanted, where brilliancy is not required. Give me the trouble without the glitter. O ' Lord. Let others lead, I am content to fol- ^ low. Be Thou my reward. Help me to i,'M serve Thee in the bockground. Is it not written, "They that tarry at home divide th? ^ spoil?" I cannot fight Thy battles,but I can nurse Thy wounded. I cannot repel Tby foes, but I can repair Thy fortress. I cannot conduct|Thy marches,but I can succor them who . % have fainted by the way. Write my name *,/v5 amongst those who follow Thee.?-Geo. ?8 Uathewson, D. D. Self Forgotten in Common Orlef. A Hindoo woman, the beaatlfal Eastern legend tells us, lost her only child. Wild with grief she Implored a prophet to give j back her little one t? her love. He looked s y at her for a long white tenderly, and said. 9 . s "Go, my daughter, bring me a handful of ' 5; rice from a house into which death has never entered, and I will do as thou de- h sirest." The woman at once began her search. She went from dwelling to dwelling, and had no difficulty in obtaining what the prophet specified; but when they had granted it, she Inquired. "Are you all here ; ' > around the hearth?father, mother, children?none missing?" But the people In* , -: variably ' shook their head* with sight 1K and looks of sadness, for far and wide a* -'Mj she wandered, there was always some vacant seat by the hearth. And gradually, at -JJ she passed on. the narrator eays/the wave* of her grief subsided before this' spectacle of sorrow everywhere, and her heart, ceasing /'M to be occupied with its own selfish pang, flowing out In strong yearnings of sympathy with the universal sufferlng,tears of anguish <' softened into tears of pity, passion .melted away in compassion, she forgot herself Id the general interest, and fonnd redemption in redeeming.?Rev. F. B. Meyer, In ''How to Bear Sorrow." A Sunday Prayer Almighty God, who has graciously opened . iji for us a way Into the holiest, may we on this Sunday have such a revealing of Thy love as shall flood dur being. Unveil the . cross to us and may we see there the heart of God. Bless us by showing us our faults. ' our secret sins. Search us, 0 God, and know our thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in us, and then lead us in the ' way everlasting. May we be truly in the Spirit on this Lord's day. Set a watch before the doors of our li^s that we may speak > only sucn woras as sqhii uuuui mac. amj we think only reverent, pure and worthy " !/VisM thoughts. Prepare us for thy worship In oui avt home and in thy sanctuary. May thy Word have new meaning for us today as we r ad it. or listen to it We ask that our minds may be opened to understand it and that thy spirit may guld? us into the truth. Hay there be muoh poVer in the preaching of th? >;' gospel. Let a blessing be upon thy wholr church, and may thy cause receive an impulse from on high which shall be felt over ' " all the world. Amen. jf ' 'M How Happiness Cornea. Our happiest moments do not come be* cause we plan them; they just happen. The \ j more elaborate your preparations for having a good time, the more likelihood that you will be disappointed. Your very oare and pianning nourish anticipations that cannot be met. Like the man in Christ's parable' when we say we have many goods, "take thine ease; eat, drink and be merry, there comes another summons. Goethe said that , bis best thoughts came like th^slnging bird* from out of the immensities of the air, and ill that he knew about them was when thej announced their presence. He did not make them; they came. It is so with all our best L % uoods and happiest experiedces. Thej simply come. The careruiiy arranged pleasure jaunt turns out to be a dead failure, jut the outing you take on the spur of the noment turns out to be a pure joy. You neet by acctdent an old friend, and the half lay you spend with him is red-lettered in pour calendar. You chance upon a book >> ihat opens to you a realm at which before t-ou bud knocked in vain. You look up and here is an unsuspected glory in the sky, or ight in the eyes of one you love that irradiates your heart. Joy does not come by vorkiug for it, it is the gift of God. to Be a Child Again. I know not whether we are wearied enough n early manhood to realize our childhood ind His Fatherhood ; but when some yeara lave passed and brought with them the laily burden of life it is a wonderful comfort o have a second self which is a child, and chen the work of the day is passed to lay mr folded hands upon the knees of God, as nice we did upon our mother's knee, and, joking up, to say. "Our Father which art in icaven."- JStopIcrd A. Brooke. As for our opportunities, we can make a eroic life out of whatever is set before ua r> work with or u^on.?Anna Robertson Irown. ' CANT COUNT HIS WEALTH. l?Tnr?ri#?r MrDnnald is th? Richest Sfat in the Klondike. One year ago Alexander McDonald, an Id Yukon prospector, had not money nough to pay Mr. Bounds for a little fresli leat which he purchased. To-day McDon* Id is the richest man on the Klondike, t>e* lg worth anywhere from S2,000,000 to $5,00,000, and the surface of half of his ground as not yet been scratched. As a matter o! ict Mr. McDonald does not know whethor e is worth $5,000,000 or 820,000,000, and ha an not know until the clean-up comes, a ear or two hence. No man who ha9 a laim or an interest in a claim on the Elon* ike to-day is able to tell how much it roduce. _ : .-. J ' 'i * .. .. ... a -jut . ^ ^