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| ADMIRAL DE\A 882 _ _ % ^ ?. off HOMii " gp Life Story of th< Washington, D. C. (Special).?Admiral Dewey will arrive at New York about October 1. This information was received by Secretary Loup a few days ago, and was immediately announced by the officers of the Navy Department. Two or three days before Secretary Long cabled Admiral Dewey at Hon# Kong asking him to state about when he would arrive in the United States. Admiral .L?ewey was miormeu iuai uo was to govern himself entirely by his own wishes in the matter of coming home. The Department desired that he feel no official restraint whatever. The hero of Manila Bay was to take Vl r . THt ADAlRALS *" 51 tJmm { >? <:JA. * afliA* his time, if he desired, and 3top wherever he wished. Of course the official despatch to Admiral Dewey conveyed this information very briefly, but enough was said to let him feel that he waa to govern himself according to His individual desires. Soon after the Admiral cabled from Hong Kong the announcement that he would stop at various places on his way home. Lieutenant Ward, of Ihe Navigation Bureau, then made the following official announcement: "Admiral Dewey telegraphs that he will stop at various places on his way to the United States and will reach New York about October 1. George Dewey?the man who in one day made his bare name bigger than all the titles that could be fastened to it aud whose home-coming the entire United States are now awaiting with feverish impatience ?is a strictly American product. For nearly ten generations, covering the greater part of three centuries, the blood that feeds his cool, clear j brain has drawn its vigor from YanI kee soil. He is an American, and that is enough. Just as his name needs no official flourishes, his fame has no use for heraldic tinsel; and the pedigree cranks who profess to trace back his lineage through English barons and mediaeval kings even to the pagan gods, will do well to carry their wares to a cheaper market. George Dewey is no proper subject for trifling of this sort. The lively baby who was destined some sixty years later to smash the bubble of Spain's pride was born at Montpelier, Vt., December 26, 1S37. His father was Julius Y. Dewey, a physician of Montpelier, and one of the founders of the National Life Insurance Company. He was a fine, dignified specimen of an old school New England gentleman, very scrupulous about small things. He was one of the first communicants of Christ Episcopal Church, in Montpelier. George Dewey's mother died when he was five years old. His inseparable companion and closest confidante from infancy was his sister, now Mrs. Mary P. Greeley, of Montpelier. The affection between George and his only sister, Mary, is touching. They are of about the same age?only some eighteen months apart?and were constant playmates during their whole "childhood. When George got up a "show" in his father's baru.with a buffalo-robe for a drop-curtain,Mary was the "leading lady," whose duty it was to fall on her knees and weep when George "shot off the pistol." It was Mary who would glorv when George was victor in a fist fight. It was Mary who would go along to bait the book when George went fishing in Onion River or Dog Creek. This same sister, now Mrs. G.seley, a cultured widow, is living in Montpelier. Like Nelson and Lord Clive, George Dewey was a very bad boy at school. r/1 v K l^ Yc /'1 ^ jlpl He used to be known in Montpelier as "That naughty Dewey boy." He was a recognized leader among the boys of his age in the town. He could stay under the water of the Winooslfi River longer thau any of thorn. He could skate and swim and run as no other boy in Montpelier could. But at the little old district school wliere he learned to read and /EY I WARD BOUND. | s He ro of Manila. m cvafj BS3I! 9 write and multiply, he was a thorn iu the flesh of any one who had the misfortune to try to teach him. Teacher after teacher left the school in dis gust. "That Dewey boy runs th( school," was the complaint of all ol them. "Rnfc f.hA bov found his mate! and bis master at last ill Z. K. Pansborn, bis teacher, who is now prominent in the politics of Xew Jersey. W ^ Mayor Patigborn onco when George was unusually bad licked hioi within an inch erf his life. Says the Mayor, describing the incident: "I escortcd George home to his father that day. He looked at the rawhide and at the cnts on his son'e face. 'Well, Mr. Pangborn,' he said, sternly, 'I don't care what yon've done, if you've only made him mind you.'" And George Dewey did mind aftei that. At a meeting many years afterward with his former teacher and dis ciplinarian he said: "That rawhide came just at the right time. It made a mail of.me." The Norwich Military Academy was the successor to Paugborn'i .school. IHere George learned the manual of arms and prepared for the Naval Academy, the one goal on whicl all his boyish hopes were centred, Through the influence of Senatoi Foote, of Vermont, he was appointee to Annapolis in 1854. He graduated in 1858, and his pub lie career since then is found fn th( books of the Navy Department. As j lieutenant he was detailed to the Mis sissippi, one of Farragut's fleet in th? West Gulf squadron. The Mississippi ^jL^f !ir| Wjp^ MONUMENT OF THE FIRST OF ^WEY'S PROGENITORS IN AMERICA AT WESTFIELD, VERMONT. took part in the capture of New Orleans. It was when Dewey was thirty years old and stationed at the Kittery Navy Yard, off Portsmouth, N. H., that he first met Miss Susie Goodwin and fell desperately in love with her. She was the daughter of the fine old fighting Governor of New Hampshire, Ichabod Goodwin. Commander Khiud, of the Navy Yard, who outranked Dewey by *IS RRSTY \BAPRAL D&wev's _ BIRTHPLACE a good many numbers, was alsodeeplj attached to Miss Goodwin, aud for a long time all Portsmouth wondered which of the two navy officers would be Miss Goodwin's choice. Dewej won and Commander Rhind sailed or a fine old ship, the Narrangausett just about the time that Susie Good win and George Dewey were married October 24, 13G7. The great sorrow of George Dewey's life came in 1872. While on his first cruise on the European station as commander of a ship, Vie news came that a son had been born to birn. Five days later Dewey received the saddest cable message of his life. It told him j that his wife was dead. For a long time Dewey was iuconsolable. More | than one of his friends thought his j career had ended with tlie cablegram ! announcing his wife's death. His son, who is now in New York, i! was named George Goodwin Dewey; in honor of his father. From 1872 to 1876 he superintended the Pacific Coast survey. He wa? i made a captain in 1S84 and chief of the f Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting iu 1889. From that time up to 1897, l when he went to Hong Kong to as sume command of our Asiatic squadron, the greater part of his time was spent iu Washington. > No one in all Washington was more i sought after in clubs or a. greater favorite in society than the quiet, kindly, gentle man of the world, i George Dewey. i He had a suite of apartments in the \ Metropolitan Club at Washington, and was for years a member of the ! House Committee. He was scrnpul1 JW?f Iv \I ^ '/ i GEORGE GOODWIN DEWfcY, ONLY SON* OF THE ADMIRAL. oua in his attention to dress. He is always fond of a good cigar and a good story. Smooth Foreheads Ar? Kare. A pretty forehead is a possession to value, as much of the character of the , face depends upon it. Any forehead must and can be free from irregularities and wrinkles to be attractive. Care should be taken in youth to afr.,i rr\\ f lnnrr llnofl nil fVl A UVU1U l/UO Dil?45UV *?MVW WM forehead which are brought on by elevating the eyebrows. Look at the middle-aged facea you meet each day and mark the prevalence of these lines just over the temples. In nine cases out of ten the remainder of the face will be smooth. and youthful, but ! thos9 lines tell the tale of age. This lifting of the eyebrows is a senseless i trick, which is thought to give expression to the face. It is on a level i with the many other so-called trioks ; of expression, really nothing more than contortions of the facial muscles, i It is rare to find a woman who can ' carry on a conversation with an even . countenance and without nods and wags of the head. Even the l'ope Was Insured. The business of insurance seems to embrace nearly every imaginable risk. A youth who stood watching three giants hoist a piano' iuto the third story of a house with a block and tackle remarked to the languid man who bossed the iob: "I'd laugh to see that rope break." "So would I," replied the man. "The rope's insured. Every week an agent inspects it. If it ever breaks the insurance company pays for what is smashed. So you see it's nothing to me whether the old thing breaks or not. In fact, I'd like to see her break with a good, valuable piano like this in tow. I've paid so blamed much money into these insurance companies I'd like to make them fork over a little of it some time or other."? Philadelphia Fvecord, Wreck* Around Sable Inland. Since 1S02 a wreck register has been carefully kept of the disasters around Sable Island which shows more than 150 wrecks. * Once entangled iu the shallows of Sable Island, once stranded upon the bars, and it is all over with the hapless craft. Men-of-war and stately frigates have been wrecked ' here as well as steamships, barks and l fighting smacks. [ [ Storing Up Knowledge. r "Edith, what made you ask Mrs. ^ * 1.- J. 1 V?? i urumpet iiow xo mano ieu., know you don't like her tea." "Yes, mamma; but, you see, I think . I ought to know how uot to make it." ? Chicago News. A CEREAL DEGENERATE. Cheat or Che?? li Wheat in an Incipienl Form. 4 ao it ia Vin+ftTiipalli fliCttb UL vucoo, CIO *?/ .w termed, is a plant that has caused ac immense amount of controversy, the populir superstition being that it is the wneat plant itself degenerated bj % if ? "cheat." unfavorable conditions. Thi3 botanists strenuously deny, but in the earlier stages of its growth, at any rate, it so nearly resembles the wheat plant that t;U the main stem is sufficiently advanced to open and detect the difference in the budding ear its presence can only be surmised. As soon as the crop shoots, however, the undesirable visitor at once betrays itself, for the head of cheat does not bear the slightest resemblance to an ear of wheat. But different as is the appearance of the seed of the two plants, the farmer who excites the ridicule of the scientist by declaring his wheat has turned to cheat has some strong points in favor of his assertion. It is certain that chess seldom appears except in fields where the wheat has suffered from the effects of a hard winter, and that in this event it frequently does so in locali- i ties where it has hitherto been un- I known, while though wild fescue, which resembles it closely enough to deceive an ordinary observer, is common almost everywhere in the temperate zone, real cheas is never found in spots where it is improbable that kernels of wheat might have been carried. The strongest argument that sci- ! entists who are opposed to the farm- ' er'B theory can advance is that it is j impossible to again reproduce wheat j from cheat, no matter how much care > is taken or how favorable the condi- I tions. But the same captious critics 1 might find it equally hard to reproduce either of its original progenitors from a mule. Many stranger things occur in plant i life than for wheat to degenerate into an apparently useless weed. Almost all cultivated vegetables are given to sport more or less, and when neglected soon return to the wild condition from which they have' been improved by long years of assiduous culture and selection. Take the parsnip, for instance, which, though a wholesome and useful esculent when cnltivated, soon develops very poisonous properties when allowed to roam at will. Speaking of cheat, the well-known horticulturist, John Thorpe, says: "Cheat or chess is, in my opinion,; I based on years of careful observation, I wheat in an incipient form. It Eras : many of the apparent outside attri- j 1 butes of wheat itself, but lacks the | true principles of that plant. The j organs, as far as they are developed, resemble those of pure wheat, but the | gluten, the most valuable attribute of i the latter, is wanting. In other words, I regard chess as the pure type of the wheat species as first discovered, in which theory I am supported by the fact that the wheat plant has never been found growing wild." But the origin of cheat is of little interest to the bulls or bears, though the former will be delighted if amateur botanists have ample oppor| tunity of studying this peculiar plant I tliia /?rtmincr spnsnn I A Town Tramp* Avoid. I The genus tramp has become aner- ! i tinct animal in Oakland, Me., since | the adoption by the town authorities i of the tramp chair, of which Sanford i J. Baker is the inventor. It is simply a strongly built cage in ; the form of a chair on wheels. It is I so constructed that the occupaut must 'i^SwL topSS" i I if i rvr'a urn OITI TT> I vemain perfectly quiet in a sitting position. He cannot draw up iiis feet or move nuy part of hi* body. A shelf ' ! is placed near the top for food, and j j the contrivance can ho hauled about ! i from place to place at will. The vicj tini is confined as tiruily as though he were glued to the seat. The free library of the Philadelphia i Institute, founded in 1852. contains j 23,000 volumes. It is called "free." I but those who wish to draw books | must pay $2 a year. The Republican majority in the next United States Senate will be six teen and in tne next united otaies House oC Representatives it will be the same A TEMPERANCE COLUMN,' THE ORINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. flare Fattli in the Boy?Lin nor Drinking I is Diminishing Became Self-Interes'; Is Teaching tlie Importance of Clear Heads and Firm Nerves. Have faith in the boy, not believing Tliat he is the worst of his kind, In league with the army of Satan, And only to evil inclined; But daily to guide and control hioi Your wisdom and patience employ, And daily, despite disappointment And sorrow, have faith in the boy. Have faith to believe that some moment In life's strangely checkered career, Convictod, subdued and repentant, The prodigal son wili appear; The gold in his nature rejecting The dark and debasing alloy, Illuming your spirit with gladness, Because you have faith in the boy. Tho now he is wayward and stubborn, And keeps himselt sadly aloof From those who are anxious and fearful, And ready with words of reproof. Have faith that the prayers of a mother His wandering feet will arrest. And turn him apay from his follies To weep out Bis tears on her breast. Ah! many a boy has been driven Away from the home by the thought That no one believed in his goodness, Or dreamed of the battle he fought. So if yon would help him to conquer The foes that are prone to annoy, Encourage him often with kindness, Aud show you have faith in the boy. Have faith in his good resolutions, Believe that at last he'll prevail. Tho now he's forgetful and heedless, Tho day after day >ie may fail. Your doubts and suspicious misgivings His hope and his courage destroy; So, if you'd secure a brave manhood, 'Tls well to have faith in the boy. An Unsolved Problem. The economic aspects of the liquor prooiem in mis couuiry, us m^unou uj ttie committee that was appointed a few years ago to study the liquor question In iill Its bearings, are summarized by Professor Farnbow In tUe Atlantlo Monthly. Briofiy, the committee finds that production of liquor in 1896 consumed 58,000,00C bushels of grain and .gave employment directly to 1,800,000 persons, and that th? liquor traffic yielded to the Government more than 8182,000.000 in revenue. On the other hand, of course, are familiar statistics showing how the drink habit Increases pauperism and crluie. What these statistics do not show, however, and what probably such statistics never will be able to show, is the effect of Immoderate drinking in diminishing physical and montal energy. All drinkers do not die in the almshouse or becoire criminals. The majority of them are probably self-supporting, and never see the Inside of a police court unless to appear as witnesses or do jury duty. To what extent dots drinking diminish the power of persons of this class to think clcarly and toll vigorously? These are distinctly economic aspects of the liquor question, and yet they are aspects on wliluh it is Impossible to obtain statistics. It is encouraging to believe, however, that this phase of the liquor question is less serious thun it was formerly. The people " ? /I !?, ? A?A in tlmOA mn uuuooiauuiu^; IUJIj, *u *?* days of sharp competition in the various trades and in business, the necessity ot self-control. Self-interest is teaching the importance cf clear heads and firm nerves, aud this motive, commercial and practical in character, is contributing greatly to lessen the evils ot the liquor raffle. A Gin-Souked Land. Deeper and deeper runs the black current of the liquor traffic in "the Rivers," b" which West Africans mean the Niger Cotst Protectorate The Niger Delta includt3 the network of creeks and channels pstending from Lag03 to the Cameroos. This vast district is inhabited by races as degraded as any on earth. The reeking and decaying vegetation breeds loathsome diseases. In these Nigerswamp3 the shedding of human blood plays n leading part in religious customs. Tne Dutch and German gin distillers bore And- a grand field for their horrible traffic. The gin trade has succeeded the slave trade. Never have the great distillers of Holland been so busy. There is n great boom in gin, and the manufacturers of "liquid damnation" say they are utterly unablo to execute all their orders. High dividends have been paid to British shareholders in tho trading corn h? t .?/!/> < u 1 I In T)i.iHa1i hon.ta though the greatest makers are German und Dutch. Last year destruction was dealt out to the wretched Negroes by six million bottles of gin, and by over a quarter-million gallons of rum. Most of the natives have become drunkards, and, in spite of the noble work of missionaries like Saker and .Thomson, the population is growing more and more Immoral through the vast importation of cheap and vile spirits.?Christian Budget. Ingredient* Uaed In Coznsc. The members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union take comfort in the published result of the analysis recently made of the liquor supplied to the French army under the name of cognac. According to the report read before the Academic de Medicine, of Paris, the "best cognac" consists of ca3tor oil, cocoanut oil and : other fatty substances treated with nitric acid. "Pure Jamaica rum," sold by an English house, was proved on analysis to be made up of much the same materials. What Won His Vote. Duriag a temperance campaign a lawyer was discussing very learnedly the clauses of the proposed temperance law. An old farmer who had been listening attentively ahnt- lila knlf? with n. qnan. and said: "I don't knownuthin' about the law, hut I've (jot seven good reasons for votla* for it." "What are they?" uslce 1 the lawyer. And the srim old farmer responded: "Four son3 and three daughters." Tlie Biter Kitten. Eighty-four per cent, of the destitute saloon-keepers ovva their condition to the consumption of their own wares. Next come the sailors, with flfty-eigat per cent., the butchers with tl'ty-seven per cent., the j printers and iron and steel workers with I llfty-flve per cent. Notes of the Crusade. Some men will protest loudly If the saloon is located aloi>g their street or neighborhood, but be perfectly willing that the town should receive the license fee and locate it iu the midst of the poor and weak who cannot heip themselves. A new and daacrorous departure In educational institutions is the establishment aud endowment of a chair of brewing and malting at Mason College, Birmingham, England. According to tho State Auditor of Ohio the number of saloons in that State decreased 206 during 1303. One fact worth v of mention in the recent I city election.1! was the retirement of six saloon keepers from tho City Council of Chicago. There will now be twelve saloon keepers instead of eighteen in this body. Alabama lias passed an aet to prohibit the sale of liquor within six miles of the agricultural school at Albertvllle. Wo verily believe that a pre at deal of bad company, drunkenness ami folly ami si:i comes from mere want of knowledge, from ?rnptine.->s of head. Therefore, if \ou want to ke?p your brain and thoughts o.u of temptation *eai aud iearu; get useful knowledge. Some surgeons will not umlertnice to perform operations upon persons who liavu been addicted to driuk; tiiey value their reputations too highly to risk failure. One of the oldest temperance organizations in America is the Congressional Temperance Society, which has been in existence for sixty-live years. The late Congressman Dingley was for many years its president. Drinking to <lrown ono's misery is put tiiitf out firu witli oil. A Younsr Fooplo's Christian Toaoperanflo Union will be or#anizoil on September 23, Frances Wlllard'a birthday. A clergyman lias figured out that flvo dollars In spent for drink in England for every penny nud a half expended on missionary work. THE SABBATH SCHOOL. ______ INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS . FOR JUNE 18. ' Subject: "The New Life In Christ," Colos* Ian* 111., 1-15?Golden Text: "Let the Feace or God Rule in Tour Heart*," Col. 111., 15? Commentary. 1. "If ye then be risen with Christ," as typified by baptism (2: 12). By believing in Christ, one partakesjof Hlsnewllf^ He has been born again from above. Cnrlst's resurrection is the power and the type of the new life. The believer has had Implanted in him the life of heaven, the life of God. "Seek those things which are above." And lest any one should imagine that above meant only a little ways above, he adds, "Where Christ sittethon the right band of God." Not/only above the old life, as would be art and science, but as tar above as heaven is, tbe perfect life, the ideal life which Christ is living In heaven. This characteristic is dwelt upon with great fulness and beauty in Phil. 3:12-16. 2. "Set your affection," B. V., set your mind, expressing the inward impulse, as "seek," expresses the practical striving. "More properly, catching the spirit of the things above, being 'heavenly minded' already?anticipating heaven, not only In hope, but in tone and temper, seeing things as God sees them, and seeing all in relation to Him." 3. "Your life is hid with Christ." The spiritual life is bidden, not exposed to the outward eye, bat is in (the soul, its motives and affections; it is sustained by constant communion with- God, like tbe water of eternal life spriuRlnR>np in tbe soul. Its impulses, its joys, its peace, its soarces are bidden, but are real, for they are "with Christ," the same as tbe life of Christ, who is unseen In heaven. 4. When Christ shall appear," B. V., shall be manifested, In this world by the coming of His kingdom, by the fruits ot H1b life, and at last by His glorious coming in the clouds of glory. "Shall ye also appear with Him in glory," both in this present time, in the fruits which grow from the inner life, as the clusters cover the vine "and show what it is and manifest the glory of its life, and also in His final coming in srlory. 5. "Mortify," Gr., put to death, {'your members." Perhaps suggested by our Lord's command to "cut off the right band" and "pluck out the right eye" if they cause us to offend (Matt. 5: 29, 30). The word "members" is typical, and expresses the parts belonging to "tbe old man," tbe old nature, and is not to be taken physically. Our physical members are to be mad* Instruments of righteousness for God's service. "Which are upon the earth.". Booted in the earthly passions. "Fornication, uncleanness," etc. The strongest earthly4>asslons and appetites under various names. "Inordinate," nnmim,niihlj nnrflctrtlnpH "affetiHon." passions, "concupiscence," desires, nil evil longings. Paul wishes us to kill the various ?ins which once used our bodily powers as instruments of evil. "Covetousness, which is idolatry," for It Is the practical worship of wealth and material good, all the higher qualities of our nature being sacrificed and subordinated to them. 6. "For which things' sake the wrath of Ood," His intense hatred j>1 thesa vile things, so repugnant to His holy nature, cometh In the form of punishment. 7. "Walked lived." these two expressions involve two distinct ideas, denoting the character of their actions/ and the condition of their,life. 8. "Anger....malice." Now follows a list of other sins which belong to the old nature, and which whoever is risen with Christ must put away. "Blasphemy." Evil speaking, slander. "Filthy communication." The word means "fllthy talking and foul abuse," one of the meanest, commonest and most degrading of sins. 9. "Lie not." Another very common sin. "Put off the old man," the former nature, with his deeds, the natural expression of that nature. Put them off as one pats off bis garments. Intemperance is one of tbe wont and mcst typical manifestations of the old and worldly nature. *It fosters all the evils spoken of above, ns dampness and darkness foster crawling insects and vermin. It Is the hot house of crime. 10. "And have pat on the new man." Tbe new nature, the new life, which makes sacb a change In one'a character, motives, feelings and conduct tbat be becomes a new creature. "Whloh Is renewed." Is being renewed; "a gradual renovation day by day of the new ch^raoter which has once for all been put on."?Beet. "After the image of Him that created him." Who made him into tbe new man. He is becoming like Christ and like God. "In Knowledge." The human counterpart of the Creator's infinite knowledge. 11. "Where." In this regenerate life. "There is neither Greek nor Jew," etc. These mundane distinctions disappear. Whatever the nationality, or race, or culture, or outward circumstances, the new life is the same in all, a conformity to tbe image of Christ, agrowthjln His virtues. 12. "Put on therefore." As the necessary result of tbe new life. Dr. JMaolaren speaks of these verses as a description of "tbe a# ?KA vanomaH oaill " find *'fhA gatUiUUta Ul bUO iwuwtrwi U|u.| .... wardrobe of the consecrated soul." For these virtues are represented here as put on, not having existed before, and as enfolding the whole life like a garment which covers, adorns and protects the whole body. "As the elect." The chosen ones of God, in whom He delights, for they are holy, consecrated in heart and'life, thus belonging to Ood, and beloved of Him as children are beloved of their parents. These two words describe the proof that one is chosen, and the love that accompanies the choice. 18. "Forbearing one another." This is "meekneBB and longsufTerlng in exercise." Two words of household peace are the two "bews"?"bear" and "forbear." To forbear is "to restrain and control one's self when provoked." "And forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel (3. V.; complaint, n cause of quarrel) against any." Such occasions are sure to rise, and there is only one way of treating them ?in the spirit of forgiveness. 14. "And above all these things." Or over all as a bond or girdle; or as the outer garment which holds the others in their places, the power which unites together all the graces which make up perfection. "Put on charltv." Love. "Which is the bond of perfects ess." Love Is the general principle, harmonizing all the special gracas named above. 15. "The peace of God." R. V., with the oldest MSS.. rsadq Christ. It is the peace which He gives (John 14: 27); peace like His, peace with God, peace with meu, peace of conscience, peace of forgiven sin, peace from rest in God's love aud care. Thi9 Is the condition of soul in which the graces can best flourish. "Rule in yout hearts." Act as umpire; a flgure borrowed from the Grecian same?restrain passion, cairn all internal conflict, govern and control all exercises of the soul. "Peace is the Queen of the Tournament." "To the which (peace) also ye are called in one body." The united church: the body of Christ. THE SUICIDE'S FAVORITE DRUC. Carbolic Acid Used by a Large Proportion of Self-Marderera. Dr. Clifford Mitchell, of the Chicago Homeopathic College staff, hat discovered that twenty-one per cent, or mo persons who committed suicide In Chicago in 1893 did so by drinking carbolic acid, und that 3S1 person? in New York, Brooklyn and Chi? cago killed themselves by this drug. The figures were submitted by Dr. Mitchell to members of thellllcois Homeopathic Medical Association at its annual meeting, and on the strength of them the society voted to use its influence with druggists to havj the Indiscriminate sale of the drug restricted. | Dr. Mitchell secured his figures to corroborate n statement made recently by Dr. E. M. Deacon in a medical journal that j ons-third of the men and uonrly one-half J or the women who poisoned themselves In 1895 ilid so by drinkiug carbolic acid. The | figures indicated that the restriction put | on the sale of nrsenie and other poisons had | turned persona of a suicidal bent to car- 1 bolie acid, on tbu sale of which there are iv) restrictions. New Soundless Gun. The British Admlrality has offered ,$173, 003 for an electric >?aa Invented by the sou of a Tortlaud grocer. The guu throws an explosive shot a distance of live and a hall miles with a velocity of two seconds. It i* noiseless and smoke! es3. ' GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAftl " " PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. ] _______ " ^?1 The Simple Creed of Christ?The Gospel'* Unfailing Pertinence?From Darkne?? to Light?Danger of Great Light Bear* era?A Prayer From The Storm. "Have I not worked, 0 God? Have I not toiled and borno? Sackcloth for secret sin Have I not worn? ' * 0$ ' Have I not dwelt and knolt In bitterness alone. Eating ray Dea<l-Sea fruit, And made no moan? ' Have I not plead for strength . Kg My punishment to bear, Pressing my heart's wild cry Thro' midnight air? ' "Night after Dight, 0 God, Have I not laid me prone, Brow bent upon the floor, ; Yet made no moan? "The stony way Thou gavest Have I not bravely trod? Have I breathed one reproach, 0 God, 0 God? "Hast Thou 6'er known my feot The cruelest thorn to shun? Have I not bled and said, 'Thy will be done?' *2j "Yea, when the deepest hurt Festered in my heart's coro, 'This I deserved,' I said; 'All this?and more.' "In my supremest pain, Repentance and despair, My deepest plea has been For strength to bear; "Strength to endure my sin And eat its fruits and live? This and the wilder cry Of 'Lord, forgive!' "What more can I do, God, To win from pain release? "What more. 0 God, what mora For peace, for peace?" So prayed the woman. Pale Was she and thin and worn. And hollow-trowed and eyed, - And passion-toro. And?' Child," God answered her, "When Ilrstthou asked of me? Truly repenting all? I forgave thee. ^ ' One more thing thou must have, And that is faith. Deplore Thy sins no longer. Go? ,'3 And sin no more." ,"?a ?Ella Higginson in "When the Birds Go North Again." The Gospel'* Unfailing; Pertinence.' j The world does not outgrow Christianity. Modes of expressing its principles alter from! generation to generation, ana emphasis 1# put now upon one and again upon another; truth conspicuously, but its essential principles and their fltuess to human needs remain unchanged. This Is be-, cause it is tlj.e gift of our Creator. It' is not to be gu^Jpo^ed that he who has ordained the qualities and characteristics of | human nature will fall to consider tneuy in making to men a revelation of trntii and duty. Experience justifies this trust Ip His care andconsistercy. What comes from God we find to be, as we have reason to ex-' pact to And it, apt and pertinent in all tbe relations of our life. It meets the underlying, fundamental necessities of our being, and it is adapted also- to changing conditions and circumstances. 11 deals not so much with detailsas with principles. It does not require us or expect us ' " $, to look, to it for suggestion inregard to the| minor choices which we are called upon daily to make, but it supplies us with the elemental truths, the application of whloh' we must learn for ourselves, and without *' learning which we should remain unfinished. In character,instead of growing to maturity. From Darkness to Light. i I38 The traveler in passing up the west side of the Hudson in the cars, goes through a lovely country, where oa every side he sees nature in countless beautiful forms. Suddenly the train dashes iuto the dark tunnel! , -J and seems swallowed up. 80 the beautiful lives of the friends we treasure here pass on and seem lost in the valley of the shadow of death. But beyond the tunnel the train emerges beside the grand river, and we And the darkness was but temporary, and rejoice, oq n-a ohaii atan in thrt lffn bevond the crave. When we see the mountain stream dash into cavernous depths, disappearing from our view, none of us believe that it has ceased to exist. We know that somewhere it continues to flow on in its grand beauty. 80 the life of our friend we so tenderly loved has only passed through the darkness to live forever in the sunshine of God's presence.? Lvmaa Abbott. Danjer of Great Light Bearers. Some years ago I went to see the lighthouse which, standing on Dunnet Head, guard3 the mouth of the Pentiand Firth. On ascending the tower. I observed the thick plate glass windows of the lautern I cracked?starred in a number of places. I turned to the keeper for an explanation. It appears that is done by ? stones flung up by the sea. The wava on being thrown forward against the cliff strikes it with such tremendous force as to hurl the loose stone9 at the base right up to the height of three hundred feet. So are the great light-bearers, by the expos| ure of their position and in spite of the I elevation of their character, liable to be cracked and starred by the violence of the world.?Dr. Guthrie. , A Fraypr from the Storin. Blessed are all thy saints, my God and 1 Kincr. who have traveled over the tompestu ous sea of mortality, aad have at last made j the desired port of peace aud felicity. O, i cast a gracious eye upon us who are still ia j our dangerous voyage. Remember and suc| cor us in our distress.aad think on them that j lie exposed to the rough storms of troubles j and temptations. Strengthen our weakness, that we may d:> valiantly in this spiritual I war. help us against our own negligence ! and cowardice, and defend us from the I treachery of our unfaithful hearts. We are 1 exceeding frail and indisposed to every I virtuous and gallant undertaking. Grant, j 0 Lord, that we may bring ot:r vessel safe to shore, unto our desired haven. Anion. d w God Speaks to Man Alone. When God speaks he likes no other voice to break the stillness but His own. And hence the place that has always : btvn given to solitude in ail true religious life. It can be overdone, but it can be grossly underdone. And there Is no lesson more worth insisting on in days like ours than this, that when God wants to speak with a man he wants that man to be alone. . . . Than the worshipers who do r.ll their religion in public there i are none more profoundly to be pitied; and | he who knows not what it is to go out from, i the i>rrtwJ sometimes and be alone with God is a stranger to tbe most divine experience that comes to sanctify a Christian's heart.? Orummond in "Tho Ideal Life." I Tlie measure of love is sacrifice. The test I of love is not the enthusiasm with which it I is expressed, not its demoastrativeness. It is I measured by blood drops.?Rev. A. Z. Con! **. k | It is better to be afraid of your own ougiic than of the tongues of other men. Ship Saved l>y Wlreles* Ttlecrapliy. Wireless telegraphy had its first practical demonstration a few days ago off the English coast. "1 he Goodwin Hands light! ship was struck by a passing vessel, and the crew, utilizing the wireless telegraphy apparatus, notiileil South Foreland that their snip was ia a sinking eonaiuou. iuk? were thereupon dispatched to the assist* ance of tbe lightship. Tlie St. LouIh Fair Fund. The subscriptions from various sources t for tliM St. Louis fair have now amounted to 42.073,000, in addition to tbe 42.100,033 pledged by collecting committees. Tbe amount so far actually raised is now closa | to tbe $5,000,000 originally promised. l i