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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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MONUMENT OF THE FIRST OF ^WEY'S
PROGENITORS IN AMERICA AT WESTFIELD,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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[ Storing Up Knowledge.
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know you don't like her tea."
"Yes, mamma; but, you see, I think
. I ought to know how uot to make it."
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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.
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
. FOR JUNE 18.
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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.
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