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THE PENEMLM ABED
Tribunal's Decision i:i the D.s.iu'js
With Great Britain.
A DIPLOMATIC COMfliOIYIISE.
The Decision Give* Venezuela Control ol
the Orinoco Itlrcr and 5000 Square
Miles of Territory Kft*t oC the Sclioinbur^k
Line?Kendorlnc of the Award?
England Satisfied With tlio Verdict.
Taiiis (By Cable).?The Anglo-Venezuelan.
Boundary Arbitration Commission has
rendered its verdict, fixing the boundary
lino between the United States or Venezuela
and the colony o! British Guiana.
Great Britain obtains almost its extreme
claim, offset, however, by a cession of a
small amount of land near the Orinoco
Biver and in the interior. The river ro
mains wholly within Venezuelan territory.
The verdict was unanimous.
. The nward of the tribunal, briefly sum
marlzed, means that of the 60,000 squar*
? n-- <-i J TT. 1_ inn
TDlies Claim' ti, t eiirzucin uuimu> uiiij iuv
formed pnrtly of the marsh laud n*ar tin
River Barima, nud a portion In the In
terior; while Great Britain retains all th?
forest country.
M. de Martens, the umpire, who has pre
siaed over the deliberations of the tri
bunal, entered the room, accompanied by
the other four members of the tribunal
After they had taken their seats in tin
presence of the counscl of the two parties
of Sir Edmund J. Monson, British Arabass
ador to France, the entire staff of the Brit
Ish Embassy, and a large concourse of peo
pie, M. do Martens roso and in his opening
sentences announced that the court
would read the award, which had beet
unanimouslv arrived at, in English and io
* French. D'Oyly Carto, private secretarj
to Baron Russell of Killowen, one of the
British members of the tribunal, read the
English text and M. de Martens read the
Freuch.
After the reading the President of the
tribunal rose and, speaking in English,
eald he was glad to announce that, aftet
three months of hard work, the court had
unanimously decided upon the award
which had just been read. It was a pleasant
duty now to restore fciie former good
understanding between the contending
parties, tie tnen eloquently iunu.vcu ui.*
colleagues and the respective counsel,
tendering on behalf of the tribunal special
thaDks for the hospitality extended to al.'
by France. Theso sentiments he repeated
In French.
Benjamin Harrison, the principal counsel
for Venezuela, then made a few remarks
nnd was followed by Sir Iticbar 1 Webster
principal counsel for Great Britain, whc
thanked the French Government for it?
hospitality, and said that Great Britaio
and Venezuela wculd work side by side it
harmony.
The s tting was then adjourned.
! Subsequently Mr. Harrison anAMr. Mailet-Prevost,
who cave a joint interview
?' lointed out that Great Britain up to the
Irae of the intervention of tbe United
States distinctly refused to arbitrate auj
portion of tbe territory east of the Scbom
uurgk line, alleging that its title was unas
eallable. This territory included the Ata
curl River and Point Barirun, which is ol
the greatest value strategically and com
mercially.
The award, continued the counsel fot
Venezuela, gives Point Barlma, with a strip
of laud fifty miles loDg, to Venezuela, which
thereby obtains entire control of the rivei
Orinoco. Puree thousand square miles ie
Intnflnr nrfl nlan nsrardAd to Venezuela
Thus, by a decision iu which the British
arbitrators concurred, the position taker
by Grent Britain in 1895 is shown to be un
founded.
This, however, as the Venezuelan counse.
pointed out, in no wise expresses the ful!
extent of Venezuelan's victory. Great
Britain had claimed thirty thousand
square miles cf territory west of the
SchomburRk lino, and this she was disposed
to arbitrate in 18D0. Every foot of
that section is now awarded to Venezuela.
The decision is called a diplomatic
compromise.
FIRST RACE A FIZZLE.
Tlte Shamrock in the Lead When till
Time Limit Expired.
New Youk City (Special).?A fickle wind
that bogan in forcc, slackened, blew by fits
nnd Btarts, swelled aud diminished again,
now dying away almost altogether and
then regaining just enough energy to belly
out the sails of Ibe two big racing yachts,
made a failure, and a very flukyono, of the
first of the races for the America's Cup between
the Columbia and tbe Shamrock. It
left them three miles from home wheu the
time that they had under the rules to finish
the course had elapsed. After starting
almost a minute behind her rival,
Cpiumbia had overtakeu and passed
her nnd had rounded the turning
mark two minutes uhead. On the
beat home Shamrock by line handling and
much luck, overtook Columbia, gained the
lead and lost it again, and gatned and lost
it ajtain. When the five and a half hours
within which the rule* said the boats must
cover the course had elapsed the two wera
ao uear together that an apple could have
been tossed from one to the other. A
piomeat before this Columbia had poked
lier nose ahead to lcoward of Shamrock.
They were ou ulmost even terms when the
whistles were blown that announced the
end of the time. Shr.mro k was perhaps a
third of a length in the lead.
The course over which the two yachts
sailed was llftecu miles to leeward from
Sandy Hook Lightship and return. A
tremendous crowd, quartered on a big fleet
of steamers, saw the race. There was no
crowding of the yachts by the vessels as
ft clear course was maintaiued. Sir Thomas
Llpton was satisfied with his first clTort to
"lift" the cup, while Mr. Isoliu was confident
thero was no danger that it would bo
won by the Shamrock.
Mr*. Etldy Sueil For Libel.
By means of seven libel suits, the papers
In which were filed at the Clerk's office oi
the Superior Court in Boston, Mrs. Josephine
Curtis Woodbury, seeks to recover
hoavy damages from the leaders of the
Christian Science cult; to establish licr innocence
of certain charges which she avers
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy rnado against !ier
publicly, tiq<1 to expose what she mioses
nre the nefarious practices of tho Christian
Scientist?!. Tho seven suits aro practically
all tlie same. T!ie declaration in her suit
against Mrs. Eddy for ?150,000 damages
.consists of souR-tbinK like 15,000 words.
Dutch OmciaU Killed by llorneo lCIolera.
The Colonial Department at Tho Haerue,
Holland, received a despatch from Batavia
saying that, in a riot at Kendangau, ia the
southeastern part ofBorne>,two Dutch officials
have been killed. Manv of the
rioters were shot ana others arrested. The
situation is now more satisfactory.
Murder* it lUilnny Man.
Ethan Mill?, former lieutenant ia the
volunteer engineer scrvicc and formoc
Lieutenant-Governor of Idaho, shot and
Instantly killed Chief Engineer O'.Uelvinay
of the Oregon Short line in tho tatter's office
in Salt Lake City. Utah.
T?x:in Killed Three.
William Me Kinney, of Stranger, Toxas,
shot and killed his wife a few days ago.
Then he mounted his liorso and went to h
storo in Strauger in which Pan I Norman
was employed, and killed him also. After
doing so he blow his own brains out. Why
McKiuney killed his wife is a mystery.
Thoir relations wora of tho pleasantcst
character. II') was slrty-flvo years of apro
*nd sh? was liTty-Ilve. Norman had heeu
murrieu i'ui/ iiuuui m.v xwks.
iitate of Sicse liaised.
A. ukaso baa been issued by the Servian
Government raising the stato oi siege
established in the Department ot Hoigrade
at tbe time ot the attomptod
taaasiination of Former King Milan
V V
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Wa*liineton
The Government Is pnylnsr from S2H0 to
ft'fiflft n Hnv fnr t>Rr;h ViiSSel OfirtviDJJ hOFSCS,
supplies and army baggage to th? Philippine,
and $1000 a day for each vessel that
carries troops.
General Otis cabled the War Department
that he had informed tho insurgent envoys
that the only things the United States
would recosrtiize would be a white flag and
the grounding of arms.
Rear-Admiral Howison has reported to
the Navy Department thnt* he has lowered |
! his flag on board the Chicago, now at N>w
York, and thus closed his sprvlce as Commander
of the South Atlantic Station.
The Agricultural Department has asked
Profassor Harry 15. Hirst, of the University
of California, to conduct a serlos of Irrigation
investigations in California.
Former Postmaster James P. Wlllett, who
I was recently succeeded by Assistant Postmaster-General
Merritt as Postmaster of
* ? ?- - Imt fu II in<? ilnnn an
>? H3I11UHIUII, ?VI13 MUCH
elevator shaft from the fifth floor of the
new postofflce building.
The War Department is without complete
records of the Americans held prisoners by
the Filipinos, but the number is estimated
at thirty.
The promotion to the grade of RearAdmiral
oI Captain A. H. McCorraick, commandant
of the Washington Navy Yard,
has beon announced at the N*ftvy Department.
Our Adopted Inlands.
The latest achievemaut of the city government
of Santiago de Cuba is the or|
ganization and equipment of a motropolil
tan lire department, with modern steam
engines, hose wagons and apparatus.
The average dally attendance at the public
schools of Manila is now over 3Q00 and
the number of pupils is steadily increasing.
The commander of the insurgent forces
iu Eastern Mindanao, Philippine Islands,
| has offered to turn the country over to
I (ho TTn:t?fi statins Rntl surrender the rebel
arms.
Acuinnldo lias Issued a decree Inviting
Filipino deserters to return within a month,
In which case they will be pardoned.
The Tngalogs of the island of Mindanao
in the Philippines have expressed their
readiness to accept Americau sovereignty
in exchange for protection against the
harassing Moros.
Dotn??ttc.
Three persons were suffocated by ilium innting
pas at Baltimore, Md. They are
Louise Willett, aged five years; Nancy MasI
sey, a colored servant, aged thirty-two
years, and Edward Massey, colored, aged
three years, her son.
The case of Julia Morrison, the actress
charged with the murder of Frank Loiden,
was called in the Circuit Court at Chattanooga,
T^nn., and was continued until
January, 1900.
Two masked men stopped the 8neffel
stage eight miles from Ouray, Col. They
unloaded the mail and baggage In searching
for gold bullion, but overlooked the
OOX containing 7U,UUV worm ui HUIU. xuw
mails were left untouched and the pussengers
were not molested.
The University of Chicacro intends to
confer the degree of LL.D. on Admiral
Dewey when he visits Chicago.
William Hale, a slim prisoner in the
Raymond Street Jail, Brooklyn, 9uwedtwo
ban In his cell door, and, crawling out,
escaped over a high wall.
The converted yaoht Viking, one of the
mosquito fleet during the Spanish war,
went into commission at the navy yard at
Norfolk, Vh. The Viking has her armament
aboard.
Henry Lublin, once a prosperous druggist
of Chicago, killed himself by taking
prussloncid, in order that his aged mother,
in Vienna, Austria, might receive t50l)0 insurance
on his life. He left n letter saying
that he had killed himself with this object.
The town of Duqueen, Ark., has been
destroyed by fire. Fifty-four buildings
were burned, entailing a loss aggregating
*250,000.
Jacob B. Cramp died In Philadelphia of
paralysis after a short illness. He retired
from the Cramp shlp-bulldlug firm In 1891.
Deceased was the son of William Cramp,
founder of the firm. He w is sixty-four
years old.
A larsre number of borses have beenjmr
chased in Chicago for use in drawing Eaglish
artillery in the Transvaal.
A girl baby was born to Mr?. Cornelias
Vanderbilt at her home in New York City.
The first child was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt on May 1, 1898, and
was named Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The safe in a private bank at Durnnd,
111., was blown open by robbers and 13500
stolen. The robbers escaped and there is
no clew.
Two cannon from Morro Castle, Ilavana,
have been received by Princoton University,
at Princoton, N. J., through General
J. W. Clous, stationed at tbe headquarters
of the East, at Governor's Island.
These trophies are the gifts of L. C. Van
A-xen, 1879, of Now York City.
Mamie Simpkins, aged fifteen, a daughter
' of Charles Simpkins, of Cooperstown, N. J,,
was burned to death while blacking a stove i
with a pntent preparation, one of the Ingredients
of which was benzine. Her invalid
mother was badly burned in an effort
to put out the flames.
George Kluttz, a millionaire distiller and
i one of the most prominent men in North
Carolina, has gooe Insane on trusts. He
imagines himself a modern Croesus, and |
desires to control every railroad in Amer- j
lea. He ha9 been placed in a sanitarium
Korelcn.
Frederick T. Moore, the fugitivo assistant j
teller ol the Natioual Bank of Commerce of
i Boston, was arrested at the request of the ;
United States Legation at Santiago ae i
Chile.
M. Aubert, the French Consul at Pretoria,
South African Republic, lias beeu
promoted to the rank of Consul-Geueral
as a reward lor his impartial and courteous
conduct in the present crisis.
The Mining Commissioner at Johannesburg
has stated officially that the proclamation
of September 29, relative to the
protection of mlusrs, had boen withdrawn.
The Royal and A-iclent Golf Club, of i
London, has adopted new code rules, with '
the view of settling the differences in the j
game : ? played In England and Scotland. j
The putting green Is limited to a radius of I
twenty yards.
The Gazette in London announces that i
Mr. Hiram S. Maxim and Mr. John Corkell
Melggs, of the United States, have taken
out certificates of naturalization.
Two hundred British soldiers have ar
rived at Vancouver, B. C. Other." will
follow with munitions of wnr. This contingent
i3 to strengthen the North Paclflo
Station at Esquluiault in cu.se of Asiatic
contingencies.
Former Captain Dreyfus hns written a
letter to the relatives of M. Scheurer-Kestner
in Tarls assuring them that he will
never forget what he owed to the late
Senator. *'I shall teach my children," he
| say?, "to love and venerate his memory,
| for It was owing to him that I regained my
I liberty and houor."
I The referendum in Queensland on the
project of Australian federation has been
completed. The votes cast in favor of t'je
scheme were 38.433 against 30,'JKG ia oppoI
sltion.
A Socialist member of the German Reichstug,
Herr Schmidt, has been sentenced to
three years' imprisonment for lese raajeste
in publishing a fairy taie reflecting ou the
Emperor aud the Priuces.
Two natives have been appointed in
Samoa to act as Judges in certain cases
affecting the island population.
A carriage in which foreign doctors were
on their way to attend a post-mortem ex
atninatlon in Oporto, Portugal, was stoned
by h mob.
A large street demonstration in favor of
universal suffrage was orgauizod at Budapest,
Hungary, u few days ago by the
Socialists. As the proceedings beca-ne
threatening the police Interfered and made
a hundred arrests.
President Loubet, at Paris, has signed a
decree by which promotion of army officers
higher than major will be made hereafter
by the MlulHtor of War instead of aa Irresponsible
commission. General de GalliUet
ui:ged tlio reform|
i *-k ' 'l-\ ' r*'M >5?'S~"
DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
!)UI?UAT !> LMSOUUrtSC. DI inc. IKUILU
DIVINE.
Subjoct: Tlie <Jlory of the Nutt?Navnl
Heroes Deserve Full Measure of
Praise?Useful Lessons Drawn From
Tlielr Kravery and Devotion.
[Copyright. Louis KIopscU, 1899.1
Washington, D. C.?At a lime when tho
whole nation is stirred with patriotic emolion
at the return of Admiral George
Dewey and his gallant men on tho cruiser
Olympia and the magnificent reception accorded
to them, the Rev. Dr. T. De Witt
Talmnge, in his sermon, preaching to a
vast audience, appropriately recalls for
devout and patriotic purposes some of the
ureat naval deeds ot olden and more recent
times. Text, James ill., 4, "Behold also
f liu ohlnc "
If th is exclamation was appropriate about
1872 years ago, when it was written concerning
the crude fishing smacks that saiied
Lake Galilee, how much more appropriate
in an age which ha3 launched from the drydocks
for purposes of peace the Oceanic of
the Whl:e Stur line, the Lucania of the
Cunard line, the St. Louis of the American
line, tbe Kaiser Wilheltn der Grosse of the
North German Lloyd line, the Augusta Victoria
of the Hamburg-American line, and
iu an age which for purposes of war has
launched the screw sloops like tbe Idaho,
the 8lienandoah, the Ossipee, and our ironclads
like the Kalamazoo, the Roanoke and
the Dunderberg, and those which have already
been buried in the deep, like the
Monitor, the Housntonic and the Weehawken,
tbe tempests ever since sounding
a volley over their watery sepulcher*, and
the Oregon, and the Brooklyn, and the
mxas, nuu me uiympm, m? iowu, mo Massachusetts,
the Indiana, the New York, the
Marietta of the last war, and the scarrod
veterans of war shipping, like the Constitution
or the Alliance or the Constellation,
that have swung Into the naval yards to
spend tbeir last days, their decks now nil
silent of the feet that trod thera, tbeir rigging
all sileut of the hands that clung to
them, their portholes silent of the brazen
throats that once thundered out of them.
Fall justice has been done to tbe msn
wbo at different times fought on the land,
but not enough has been said of tho3e who
on ship's deck dared and suffered all things.
Lord God of the rivers and the sea, help
me iu this sermon! So, ye admirals, commanders,
captains, pilots, gunners, boatswnlns,
sailmakers, surgeons, 9tokers.messmates
and seamen of all names, to U9e your
own parlance, we might as well get under
way and stand out to sea. Let all landlubbers
go ashore. Full speed now! Four
bells!
Never since the sea fight of Lopanto,
where 300 royal galleys, manned by 50.000
warriors, at sunrise, September 6, 1571,
met 250 royal galleys, manned by 120.000
men, and in the four hours of buttle 8000
fell on one aide and 25,000 on tbe other;
yen, never since the day when at Actium.
31 years before Christ, Augustus with 260
ships scattered the 220 ships-of Mark Antony
and gained universal dominion as
oln/ia fha H ft v tt h p n of Unlit
mis tbe 1200 galleys of the Persians,
manned by 500,000 men, were crushed by
Greeks with less than a third of that force;
yea, never since the time of Noah, the first
ship captain, has the world seen such a
miraculous creation as that of the American
navy in 1861.
There were about 200 available seamen
in all the liavul stations and receivingships
and here and there an old vessel.
Yet orders were given to blockade 3500
miles of seacoast, greater than tbe whole
coast of Europe, and, besides that, the
Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland, Mississippi
and other great rivers.coverlng'an extent
of 2000 more mile?, were to be patrolled.
No wonder the whole olvilized
world burst out into guffaws of laughter at
the seeming impossibility. But the work
was done, done almost Immediately, done
thoroughly and done with a speed and
consummate skill that eclipsed all the history
of naval architecture.
It iooks picturesque and beautiful to see
a war vessel going out through the Narrows,
sailors in new rig singing,
A life on the ocean wave,
A homo on the rolling deep,
the colors gracefully dipping to passing
ships, the decks immaculately clean and
tbe guns at quarantine Ilrlug a parting
salute. But tbe poetry is all gone out of
that ship as it comes out of tbat engagement,
Its decks red with human blood,
wheelhouse gone, tbe cabins a pile of shattered
mirrors und destroyed furniture,
steering wheel broken,smokestack crushed,
a hundred pound Wbltworth rifleshot having
left its mark from port to starboard, (
the shrouds rent away, ladders splintered j
and decks plowed up aud smoke blackened ,
and scalded corpses lying among thosn who
are gasping thdrlnst gasp far away from J
home aud kindred, whom they Jove as
much as we love wife and parents andchil- '
dren.
Oh, men of the Ame ican'navy returned 1
from Manila and Santiago and Havana, as !
well as those who are survivors of the ;
naval conflicts of 19G3 and 1864, men of tbe
western Kulf squadron, of tbe eastern gulf 1
squadron, of the south Atlantic squadron, (
of the north Atlantic squadron, 'cf the (
Mississippi squadron, of the Pncillc squadron,
of the West India squadron, and of j
tbe Potomac flotilla, bear our thanks! I
Take the benediction of the churches. Ac- '
cept the hospitalities of the nation. If we '
bad our way, we would get you not only a
pension, but a home and a princely ward- 1
robe and an equipage and a banquet while !
you Jive, and after your departure a !
catafalque and a mausoleum of scupltured
marble, with a model of the ship in which j
you won tbe day. It is considered u gal- !
lant thing wheu in a naval fight the flag- ship
with its blue ensign goes ahead up a '
river or into a Day, us .auiuirai ;
standing in the shrouds watching and giving
orders. But I have to tell you, 0 vet- \
erans of the American navy, If you are as '
loyul to Christ as you were to the govern- |
ment, there Is a flagship filing ahead of :
you of which Christ is the admiral, and lie '
watches from the shrouds, and the heavens
aro the blue ensign, and He leads you toward
the harbor, and all the broadsides of
earth and hell cannot damage you, and ve
whose garments were once red with your
own blood shall have a robe washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb. [
Then strike eight bells'. High noon in
heaven! !
While we nre heartily greeting and ban- 1
quoting the sailor patriots just now returned
we must not forget the veterans J
of the navy now in marine hospitals or
spending their old days in their own or
their children's homestends. Oh, ye veterans,
I charge you bc-ar up under the
aches and weaknesses that you still carry
from the wartimes. You are not as stalwart
as you would hnvobeen but lor that uerv- :
ous strain and for that terriilc exposure.
Let every aolieaud pain, instead of depress- '
ing.reminu you 01 your namny. J ue sinKiug
of the VFeehawken off Morris Island, De- J
cember 6, 1863, was a mystery. She was
I not under lire. Tilts sea was rough. 1
But Admiral Dablgren (ton the deck
of the ling steamer Philadelphia 1
?<aw her gradually sinking and
ilnally she struck the ground, but the
flag still floated above the wave in the
sight of the shipping. It was afteward
found that she sank from weakness 1
through injuries in previous service. Her
plates had been knocked loose in previous
times. So you have in nerve and muscle
and bone and dimmed eyesight and difficult
hearing and shortness of breath many
intimations that you are gradually going
down. It is the service oT many years ugo
that is telling on you. lie of good cheer.
We owe you just us much as though your
lifeblood had gurgled through tue scuppers
of the ship in the Re i river expedition
or as though you had gone down with the
i Melville off Hitteras. Only keep vour (lag
flying, as did the il ustrious Weehawken.
i Good cheer, my boys!
Sometimes off the coast of England the
! royal family Lavo inspected the British
j navy, inatupuvered before them for chat
purpose. In the Baltic sea the czar and
I czarina have reviewed the Russian navy.
I To bring before the American people the
J debt they owe to the navy I go out with
| you on the Atlantic ocean, where there is
| plenty of room, and in imagination review
the war shipping of our four great
conflicts?1776, 1812, 18G3 and 1898. Swing
1 Into line all ye frigates, ironcltds, lire
rafts, gunboats and men-of-war! There
I they come, all sail set and all furnaces
' jr. r.,11 i.i.iuf aliunvpa nf nri-atxl tnsslnp
from their cutting prows. That is the I
Delawaro, nil eld Revolutionary craft, I
commanded by Commodore Decatur. 1
, Yonder ro?s the Constitution, Com- !
' modore Hull commanding. There Is the 1
| Chesapeake, commanded by Captain <
' '.V.' U7 ^:V.V-r ? .-."-v
f '* r ; ' *>2
Lawrence, whoso dylnt? words were,
"Don't friv9 up the ship," and the Nlafjara
of 1812, commanded by Commodoro
Perry, who wrote on the back of an old
* I-1- t'WTa. Iinm
lauer, rusnui; uu ui.i um j >? ......
met the enemy, and they are ours." Yonder
Is tbe flagship Wabash, Admiral Dupont
commanding; yonder. tbe flagship
Minnesota, Admiral Goldxboroutrh commanding;
yonder, the fiiifrship Philadelphia,
Admiral Dablgren commanding; yonder,
t&e flagship San Jacinto, Admiral
Bailey commanding: yonder, the flagship
Black Hawk, Admiral Porter commanding,
yonder, the flag steamer Beuton, Admiral
Foote commanding; yonder, the flagship
Iiardford, David O. Farragut commanding;
yonder, the Brooklyn, Rear Admiral
Schley commanding; yonder, theOiympia,
Admirttl Dewey commanding; yonder the
Oregon, Captain Clark commanding; yonder,
the Texas, Captain Philip commanding;
yonder, the New York. Hear Admiral
Sampson commanding; yonder, the Iowa,
Captain Robley D. Evans commanding.
All those of you who were in the naval
service durintc the war of 1865 are now in
the afternoon or evening of life. Witti j
fiomo of you It is 2 o'clock, a o'clock, 4 j
o'clock. C o'clock, and it will soon be sun- |
down. If you wero of age when the war
broke out, you are now at least GO. Many
of you have passed into the seventies.
While In our Cuban war there were more
Christina commanders on sea and laud
than in any previous conflict, I would revive
iu your raiuds the fact that at least
two great admirals of the civil war were
Christians, Foote and Farragut. Had
the Cbristiau religion bei*u a cowardly
thing they would have bad nothlnrto do
with it. In its faith they lived and died,
In Brooklyn nHvy yard Admiral Foote |
held prayer meetings and conducted a revival
on the receiving ship North Carolina
and on Sabbaths, far out at sea, followed the
chaplain with religious exhortation.
In early life, aboard the sloop-of-war
Natchez, Impressed by tlu words of a Christian
sailor, he gave his spate time for two
weeks to the Bible, and at the end of that
declared openly, "Henceforth, under all
circumstances, I will act for God." Ilia
last words while dying at the Astor House,
New York, wore: ' ! thaak God for all His
goodness to me. He has been very good
f/v ma >> Whan ho wnfP.rMtl llfi.'lVttn 111! (lid
not have to run a blockade, for it was |
iimid the cheers of a great welcome. Tbo
other Christian admiral will be honored
on earth until the days when the flros from
abovb shall lick up the waters from beneath
and there shall be no more sea.
Oh, while old ocean's breast
Bears a white sail
And God's soft stars to rest
Guide through the gain,
Men will him ne'er forget,
Old heart of oak?
Farragut, Farragut?
Thuuderbolt stroke!
Accordiug to bis own statement, Farragut
was very loose in his morals iu early
manhood and practiced all kinds of slu.
One day he was called into the cabin of his
father, who was a shipmaster. His father
.-aid, "David, what are you going to bo
anyhow?" He uuswered, "I am going to
follow the sea." "Follow the sea." oaid
the father, "and be kicked about the
world and die iu a foreign hospital?"
"No," said David; "lam going to command
like you." "No," said the father; i
"a boy of your habits will never command
anything." Aud his father burst into teurs
and left the cabin. From that day David
Farragut started on a new life.
Captain Pennington, an honored elder
of my Brooklyn church, was with bim in
most of his battles and bad his intimate
friendship, and he confirmed, what I had
heard elsewhere, ttoat Farragut was good
and Christian. In every great crisis of
Hfo Ho nsbnri mirf ohtnlned the Divine dl
rectlon. When in Mobile bay the monitor
Tecumseh sank from a torpedo and tbe
great warship Brooklyn, that was to lead
the squadron, turned back, he said he
was at a loss to know whether to ad*
vance or retreat, and be says: "I prayed.
'0 God, who created man and gave liirn
reason, direct me what to do. 8bali I ro
on?' And a voice oommanded me, 'Go
on,' and I went on." Was there ever a
more touching Christian letter than that
which he wrote to his wife from his flagship
Hartford? "My dearest wite, 1 write and
leave this letter for you. 1 am going into
Mobile bay in the moraing if God is my
leader, and I hope He is, and in Him I
place my trust. If He thinks it is the proper
place forme to die, I am reudy to submit
co His will in that as all other things. God
bless and preserve you. my darling, and
my dear boy, if anything should liappea to
me. May His blessings rest upon you and
your dear mother."
Cheerful to the end, he 9aid on board the
Tallapoosa In the last voyage he over took, I .
"It would be well if I died now in harness."
The sublime Episcopal service for the dead
was never more appropriately rendered
than over his casket, and well did nil the
torts of New York harbor thunder as his
body was brought to the wharf, and well
did the minute Kuns sound und the bells
toll as in u procession having in its ranks
tbe President of the United States and bi3
cabinet and the mighty men of land andsea
the old admiral was "carried, amid hundreds
of thousands of uncovered heads on
Broadway, and laid on bis pillow of dust in
beautiful Woodlawn, September 30, amid
the pomp of our autumnal forests. (
A We hall with thanks tbe new generatioa
of naval heroes, those of the year 1898. Wo
are too neur their marvelous deeds to fully
appreciate them. A century from now
poetry and sculpture and painting and history
will do tbem better justice than wo
can do tbem now. A defeat at Manila would
have been nn infinite disaster. Foreign
nations not over fond of our American In- 1
stitutions would have joined tbe otberslde, !
and tho war eo ipany months past would |
bavo bucn racing still, and perhaps a nun- j
dred thousand graves would have opened
to take down our slain soldiers nnd sailors[t
took this country three years to get
over tbe disaster at Bull Hun at tbe open- '
Ing of the civil war. How mar.y years it
would have required to recover from n
defeat *t Manila in the opening of tbo
Spanish war I caunot say. God averted j
the calamity by giving triumph to our navy
under Admiral Dewey, whose coming i
up through the Narrows of Now l'ork bar- <
lior dar before yesterday was greeted by j
the nation whose welcoming cheers wlil j
not ceaso to resound until to-morrow, and j
next day In the capital of the nation tbo ;
jeweled sword voted by Congress shall be j
presented amid booming cannonade and ]
embannered hosts, and our autumnal j
[lights shall become a conflagration of j
splendor, but the tramp of these processions
ana the flash of that sword aud tho i
huzza of that gieeting and tho roar of !
those guns aud the illumination of thoso I
nights will be seen and heard as long as a
page of American history remains inviolate.
Especially Jet the country boys of
America join in these greetings to the
returned heroes of Manila. It is theit
work. The chief character In all the
scene is the once country lad, George
Dewey. Let the Vermouters come down
and find him older, but the same modest,
unassuming, almost bashful person that <
they went to school with aud with whom J
they sported ou the playground. Tho uou- ?
* ^9 *! ?? u?/*rM ininimt annil him A I
few weeks ago at a banquet iu England 1
3ooiH of the titled noblemen were af- i
fronted becanso our American miulstet <
plenipotentiary associated tbe name of I
Dewey with that of Lord Nelson. As well '
mlfibt wo be nfTronted because tlio immu (
of Nelson is associated with that of out ?
most renowned admiral. The one man lu I
all tbe coming ages will stand as high a? i
the other. So tnls day sympathizing with t
all the festivities and celebrations of the
past week and Willi all tbe festivities and
celebrations to come this week, let ui
anew thank (lod and those heroes of the ^
American navy who have done such great 1
i hings for our beloved land. Coino aboard '
tbe old ship Zion, ye sailors and soldiwrs, f
whether still In t!s?j active service or Don- '
ornbly discharged and at home having re- i
sumed citizenship. An I ye men of the
past, your last battle on the seas fought,
take irorn me, in God's name, salulaliou .
and Kood cheer. For the few remaiuiuq '
lights with sin and deaths and hell make
ready. Strip your vessel for the fray. Hane
the sheetehains over the side. Send down ,
the topgallant masts, barricade the wheel. .
liir? in i im flviiiir iih l)onm Steer straicrht
for the shining shore, ami hear the shout
of tho great Commander of cnrth und
heaven as He cries from the shrouds, "Tc
him that overcometh will I j?ivo toeatol
the tree of life which is in the midst of the
>>uradise of God." Hosanna! Hosannal
Tracts Fur Our .Soldiers.
The report of the American Tract Society
for last year shows that during the yeai
thirty-two new, permanent publications I
ivere begun, making a total of 6238. The
society is publishing literature in Spanish t
tor distribution among our new Isia?') dos- v
sessions. n
GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN.
PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS.
Dreaming of Hoine?Peace Through Trust
?Nothing Done "Off If awl"?Saw Only
tlie Dark Side?No Koom tor iie*ens"
-Come Czoho to Him?As God Sees l'?i
It cr.mes to mo often in silence
When the firelight sputters lowWhen
tho blark, uucertain shadows
Seem wraiths of tho long ago;
Always with a throb of heartacho
Thiit thrills each pulsive?vein,
Comes the old, unquiet longing
For the peace of homo again.
I'm sick oT the roar of cities,
And of faces cold and strange;
I know where there's warmth of welcome,
And my yearning fancies range
Back to the near old homestead
With an aching sense of pain,
But there'll be joy in the coming
When I go home again.
When I go home apjain! Thore'a music
That never may die away,
And it seems that the hands of angels
On a mystic heart at play
Havo touohed with a yearning sadness
On n beautiful, broken strain,
To which is my fond heart wording?
When I go home agdin.
Outside of my darkening,window
Is the ?roat world's crash and din,
And slowly the autumn shadows
Come drifting, drifting In.
Sobbing the uight wind murmurs
To tho splash of the autumn rain.
But I dream of theelorious greeting
Whan I go home again.
?Eugene Field.
Peace Thron^li Trust.
To see God is to feel our distance from
Him, and that distance is made by oursin.
To know God is to be brought near to Him,
and that includos forgiveness for our sins.
He is revealed as our Father through Jesus
Christ and only through Him. His perfect
manhood reveals God, and to relive his life
i3 to know the Father as the Son has revealed
Him. That we reproduce that life so imperfectly
is no reason for discouragement, fir
Jesus Christ riot only opens and shows the
way to God, but gives power to walk in it
and more life with more experience in that
way. He is more to His disciples than auy
inun could be, even thoir dearest friendmore
than all men. For He has brought
them, as sinners, into touch with
God, and .they know it. Call that service
expiation if you will, though that
word is not in the Bible, or atouement,
though that word is not in the revised version
of the New Testament, or propitiatfon,
or redemption through His blood. Whatever
you call it, it is nothing to you till you
know It by experience. Then you know
you are at peace with God because your
trust in Christ is reckoned for righteousness,
and is constantly becoming righteousness
more complete through growing
Knowieage 01 Jtlim wnose me you suen 10
reproduce. Then you know that He in the
Way, the Truth and the Life, the one Mediator
between Ood and man. ' This Id
spirituality, a word which Christ never
used, though what we mean by it He called
life eternal, and described it as knowing
the true God and Jesus Christ, whom He
sent into the world.
Nothing Done "Off Hand."
Every great victory is the result of years
of preparation. It is not given to any man
to achieve success in life without this preparation.
Dewey began years ago to prepare
for the victories that have within a year
made him the idol of the people of his coun- f
try. His triumphs have been due to the
preparation that (hade him capable of making
use of the opportunity when it came to
him. Every success in life is the expression
of a man's ability to recognize and lay hold
of opportunity. And no man can do this |
without preparation. The man who expects
to achieve victories "off hand"
never achieves them. No great book was
a""' urrlffron nn rrrftat Qflrmnn fiVfll* I
preached, no great picture ever painted, "o!I
hand." They are all the result of the cumulative
power of work and growth and development.
The man who writes the great
sermon begau to muster ait the details of it
during his first years at college. The man
who wrote the great book began to adapt
himself to tha work of writing it years before
n line of it was ever penned. And only
the ertlst who paints a great picture knows
of the years of patient, wearisume preparation
back of the finished work.
Saw Only the Dar t Si 1p.
Evangelist Moody exhibits finely his mental
poise and characteristic good sense, as
well as his profound spirlc of Christian
tolerance and charity, in suyinir, as he is reported,
in an interview upon Mr. Ingersoll
since the latter'* death: "I am not going to
say a word about him. Do you know, I
never mentioned his name in an address
while he was alive? and I don't believe in
talking about a man after his death. It does
no good to talk against such a man. I am
sorry for his wife and children, for it was
said that he was a kind husband ami
father, and I don't want to tear open that
wound. I believe that ingersoll was driven
riway from Christianity by the abuse of
Christians. Ho was railed at by them, and
he saw the dark side of Christianity. Ho
p;ot twisted when he was young. We're not
tils ju.igos. It is for God alone to judge him.
1 am told be was an examplary man in his
home life. I am not going to have anything
to say about him." Our preach srs will do
well to examine both the spirit and praotlce
af Mr. Moody.
No Kooin for lievenge.
Of Abraham Lincoln it has ueen beautifully
said: '"His heart wai as great as the
world, but thero was uo room in it to hold
the memory of a wrong." Is not the secand
clause of the sentence really included
in the first? Is not maguamlnity of heartijreatness
precisely that quality which overlooks
and forgets everything small and
mean and bns?, scorning to take
account of such minute, insignificant
matters as mi're personal slights and
Injuries? Ho who is truly largeyheurted
find high-minded is ever generous in hisseutimeut9
and conduct toward others. Ho is
:oo exalted to cherish envious or vindictive
feelings. Let him who is conscious of auy
jf these low feelings or motives reflect that
jy giving way to thein he writes himself
iown as a small man, unworthy to be classed
A*ith the great. And this classification, unike
some others, will be ratified in the
jthor world.
Come Close to Hint.
Come close to Him. He may take you tolay
up into the mountain-top, for where
Uo took Peter with his blundering, and
laruos and John, those sons of thunder, who
igain aud again so utterly misunderstood
heir Master and His mission?there is no
reason why He should not take vou. lou
:an hardly bo farther back than they were.
3o don't shut yourself out of it and say,
'Ah these wonderful visions and revelations
)f tho iiO'rJ are for choice spirits, for an
ilection within the election!" They may bo
or you. The Lord will come to those that
ire humble aud of a contrite heart and who
remble at His word. ? Bev. John McNeill.
Before men we stand as opaque beehives
Chey can see the thought* go in aud out of
is; but what work they do inside of a man,
hey cannot tell. Before God we are as
jlass beehives, and all that our thoughts
ire doiutf within us He perfectly sees aud
mderstanas.?Henry Ward Beecher.
God's highest favor to a mao is <o Mi>
llm grow.
Rrr. McKinlry'ii nistorlc Gavel.
G. 7v. iialrd, Superintendent of theStr.te,
iVar and Navy Building, in Washington,
jas presented to President McKluley a
fa vol of historic Interest. The gavel wa9
nade from iron wood from the timbers of
?l,l Hnu?ioh Iif Plnvo /la] TCafa
luantnnnmo Buy, where the llrst light boween
tlie Uuited States forces and tlioie
>f Sp.iin occurred on Spanish soil. In the
iplit there Dr. Gibbs und several marines
vera killed. The gavel was made by
lardiuer 0. Lewis, Chief Engineer of the
fuleau.
>lrl(lrnfl? From Tran'Tnal'd Gold Minea.
The total amount paid In dividends by
he gold-nroduftlnc mines of the Transvaal
rns. In 1836, *7.450,000; In 1897, $13,500,000,
nd la 1898, $24,450,000.
' V :
THE SABIiATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT'
FOR OCTOBER 22.
Gubject: Ezra's Jonrner to Jerusalem
Ezra vill., 21-32?Golden Text: fczr;
ill., 22?Coinmeutary oil the Day'i
Lriaon.
21. "I proclaimed n fast there." Ezrr
entered upon liis work with lusting anj
prayer. The journey was a dangerous one
especially with all the treasure ho carried
Ezra realized the dangor, but he wont forward
In fnltb. The chief reform of Ezni
was the abolishment of mixed marriages
with the surrounding heathen. The course
of the Israelites was ruining and degrading
the nation. Nearly their whole history
previous to the exile showed how they
yielded to the surrounding idolatry, because
they refused to drive out the Idolaters
in Joshau's time?a history ending in
exile on that account, and the history ol
over seventy years slnco the return wns a
commentary on the practice which Ezrn
rebuked. The mixed race of Jews and
Samaritans, with their half-heathenish customs.
was a living warning of the results
Df tholr course. Ezra's work occupied but
Bight months, though It Is probable he
- > ?1.? Ufa ll?A n 1
9JJUI11 Luuaw U1 IUO ICUiniUUQL Vl UIO uivr UI
lerusalom. Thirteen years of sllenco in;?rvene
and then Nehemiah came up tc
Jerusalom. "Tc seek o( Htm a right way
for us." That is, to commit themselves tc
che guidance and protection of divine Providence
and Implore Him to give them a
prosperous journey. Their journey lay
jlilelly through the desert, and tho Arabians
and Samaritans wore likely to attack
them.
22. "I was ashamed to require a band
jf soldiers." Ezra had preached trust Id
God before the heathen rulers aud he
ivould not dishonor God by asking the
asual military escort. Ho had represented
3od, the object of his worship, as supremely
powerful, and as having tho strongest
affection for His true followers. Thu3 we
see that this good man had moro anxiety
for the glory of God than for his own personal
safety. Their faith was rewarded by
:he enjoyment of perfoct safety during the
A'hole way.
23. "And Ho was entreated of us." Ezra
oad the assurance that his prayer had been
aeard.
24. "I separated twelve." Appointed to
the special duty of being custodians of the
sacred vessels. We have here the particular
3are Ezra took of the treasure of God's
janotuary. Having committed the keep
mg or it to uoa, ue commuiea me caro 01
it to proper men, though without God they
would have watched la vain. Our prayers
should always , be seconded with our ?deavors.
Do we expect God should by
His providence keep that which belongs to
us? Then ought we by His grace to care
for that which belongs to Him; let God's
honor und interest be our oare. The
prophet in foretelling the return of God's
people and ministers out of Babylon gavo
the solemn charge (Isa. 52:11). "Be ye clean
that bear the vessels of the Lord." In Zerubbabel'a
time the vessels were delivered
by number; here, by weight, that it might
saslly appear if any were missing. This
intimates thut such as are Intrusted with
holy things are concerned to romember,
both in receiving their trust and in discharging
it, that they must shortly give a
very particular account of it, that they
may be faithful to ltandso give up their
ncoount with joy. Tfra sliver and gold
were a present to the hous9'of God that
tho king and hla counselors had set apart.
This gift amounted to about $2,575,000.
25. "And weighed unto them the silver,'*
tc. We may gather from this that the
silver and gold were in bars or Ingots, and
not in coined money. The Persians had
coined money at this time, but the treasury
kept the bulk of its stores in bars
(Herod., HI., 96).
26. "Six hundred and fifty talents of silver."
A talent of silver was about $1600.
Of gold a hundred talents. Gold is usual!;
-U ..I a a rr,oil.
WUIUi auuub 31AICCU kliuuo uiuvu u? UK
ver. The whole treasure was worth $4,000.000
or $5,000,000.
27. "Vessels of flne copper." Probablv
some factitious metal made there that
took the polish and assumed the brightness
of gold, aud because of its hardness
was more durable. There is still a factitious
metal of this kind made among the
Asiatics. It requires much art. in making,
but the constituent materials are of small
value. Vessels of this metal, because ot
their lustre and durability for ornamental
and domestic uses, are iu many respects
more valuablo than gold itself. Drams.
Darics, worth about an English sovereign,
or $5.
28. "A freewill ofiferlng unto the Lord
God." The money was ior religious purposes,
and would be a great help to the
people at Jerusalem as well as smooth the
way of Ezra to the ueeded reforms.
29. "The chambers of the house of the
I Lord" are the rooms placed on either side
of the malu building (see I ICIng3 6:5),
partly as chambers for the priests, partly
as storerooms (see Neh. 13:5;.
31. "We departed ou the twelfth day."
The company began to form and arrange
for the journey upon the first day of the
month. Upon a review of his company
Ezra observed the lack of Levltes, and the
tlmo used In securing their union with the
returning exiles, aud in weighing the
treasures, etc., took up the time until the
twelfth day. Ahava is the namo both of a
town and small stream, not far from the
river Euphrates. -This would be a natural
course to pursue from Shushan. This account
of Ezra's preparation and journey
is a beautiful example of method and thoroughness
which Is of great value in the
work of God. Ezra sought first the
prosperity of God's cause, but he did not
count it lost time to suond twelve daj-s la
preparation for the journoy. Time used
for prayer is never lost time. Time consumed
in perfecting plans for God's work
is not misspent time. Always take time to
do a thing right. Things done by half are
never done well. The pra)rerful minister
is the careful minister. So important was
the mission which called Ezra to Jerusalem
that be could not afford to go without first
ranking his company complete and arranging
for the safe-keeping of the treasures
for the house of the Lord. When he had
done all bis part he could confidently beseech
God to give them n safe journey.
32. "We came to Jerusalom." The dangerous
jonrney was completed with safety
at the end of four months. "Abode three
days." That is, they rested that long. On
tho fourth day the treasures were weighed
and handed over to the custody of the
officiating prtests ot me tempie. iu? returned
exiles offered burnt-offerings, and
Ezra delivered the royal commission to the
magistrates, while the Levitlcal portion ol
the company assisted In performing the
additional work wblch the arrival ot so
many now worshipers occasioned.
NEW CLASSMAKINC PROCESS.
Electricity Uaed to Melt Sand With Itetnarkable
Itesults.
A lamp chimney manufacturer in Indiana
has patented a now process which may
revolutionize glass making. Heretofore
the greatest trouble iu glass makiug lay In
the melting of the sand. It has taken a
great deal of time, and requires the best
fuel, natural gas being the best adapted.
While passing through his plant recently
thft mnnuffinturer saw a elobe oil an aro
light break, and a piece of'glass fell on the
carbon. It was only u second until it was
reduced to a liquid nnd dripped to the
ground. This gave him his cue, and he
directed the construction of n big vat, with
sides and bottom composed cl carbons,
over which he could turn a lateral and
longitudal current. An arrangement was
made to run the snnd through this vat. It
worked perfectly, and the bust molten
glass is being turned out In almost as many
seconds as it required hours for the old
fuels to melt it.
The vat is being used. It is so arranged
that it oan be adapted for evory kind of
glass making, from plate to bottles. The
cost of melting by this procoss is not as
great as by using coal or oil, though it may
be more expensive than natural gas.
u o Trver C? or jfc'Wa Riling to
Uncle Mace Jacksua celebrated his 127th
birthday a few days ago at bis forty-acre
ilupVuimi, Mit-u \r.? i? ?n
nojj-ro. and admitted that he never
.?;? WaaimiKfon, Hlthough lie was bora
;iil?ed hi VhxiiiiM.
T^nxr AqrHlmf Killing Kaclea Repealed.
It in lawful to kill envies in Connecticut
at any time of the year, the law prohibiting
It havine been ronenlert two ve-ir<? ssro
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
? THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST*
IN MANY WAYS.
The Signboard?A Fable About a Hodm*
1 Trap and a Saloon?Once Inside tU?
' Latter and Your Liberty 1m Gone For*
ever?A Warning Worth Heeding.
I I will paint you a sign, Rumseller,
1 And hang it abovo your door,
A truer and bettor signboard
Thau ever you bad bofore.
I will paiat with the skill of a master.
Anil maoy shall pause to see
That wonderful piece of paintlug,
So like the reality.
I will paint you ruddy and smtling, . ^
White-aproned and supple and gay.
Like an angel of light to the simple,
i liut body and soul aro your prey.
J Hero your victim comes In, Rumselier.
' At your liADd be takes bis first drink,
1 His flrst act in tlie drama of rulo,
Tbink ot it, Rumselier, think.
And now farther on view the signboard,
i What scene is this tbat appears?
I must paint with deeper colors.
i Mixed with darkness and blood and
: tears.
Hore's a homo that you Hosted, Rumselier,
> A home of despair, want and strife,
Here are children of shame aad sorrow,
? And a broken hearted wife.
, 1 will paint tho form of a mother
As she kneels at her darling's *lds
Hir beautiful boy that was dears:
Than all the world beside
I will paint tbe shape of n coffli*. -.-3^
Labeled with one word?"Lost."
I will paint ail this, Riraseller,
i I will paint it free of cost.
But all the sin and shame and sorrow,
Tho crime and want and woe .
Tbat are born here in your rumshop,
i No bands can paint, you know.
But I'll paint you a sign, Rumselier,
And many shall pause to view
That wonderful swinging signboard,
I ou luaiiuiij, touivijr nuo.
Anil now as 1 olose. Ram3ellor,
Hour a kind timely warning, I pray,
Tnere's a day of judgm?nt sooa coming,
A great and terrible day!
, Repent and believe on Jesus,
R-jpent and forsake tlie whole,
Then God will forgive in His mercy
And eternally save your soul.
?Presbyterian Journal*
Trap Doors.
I saw th9 other day a mou9e-trap so artfully
and ploaaantly contrived that, It I
had been a member of that small fratern* . /, 1
1 ity, I quite believe I should have entered
and taken possession. The iron wlrea were
so neat and elegant, the room Inside socommodious,
the little hook from whioh
the cheese hung so convenient for
mouse's housekeeping, and the toasted
cheese Itself so delicious, that it must
have been a very strong-minded mouse Indeed
who could have withstood the temptation
of the various attractions. The entrance,
too, was made so easy?the door
stood just a little bit open,as If to Invito tha
wanderer to become a guest; but whenonco
the moose entered, the door closed behind
him, and if,-after eating the savory morsel.
he turned to ao out. he found hlmsel?
an unwilling prisoner, wltli all the terror
or starvitlon before him; for his newabod* .
had no lurder, and In one "glorious supper"
be bad exhausted the whole stock of
firovlslons. He now disliked this dreadful
Ittle house as much as he before admired
it. The bars was so strong, the hook hurt
bis bead, and the cheese?why oven that
became nauseous to the palate when onlf
remembered and not onjoyed. Poor
mousy! a prisoner indeed.
It Is just so with the beings God created ,
in His image, endowed with soals, who are
made victims by entering the trap-doors
prepared by wicked men.
,, Children, do you krow what I mean?
I can scarcely walk a block or turn a
corner without encountering a trap-doorIn
some we see bright lights and piotures
within, while the sounds of music corns
stealing out upon the air. Others are not '
so inviting; but the bait inside of all is of
the same nature, and the effect on the partaker
the same. Obi beware, dear children;
never enter obe of these trap-doors
opening into a liquor saloon. The mouse
: paid no entrance fee, bat he found inside
the trap an expensive place for him. It
cost him bis liberty.
These saloons costs far more than that, ,
and often the soul's eternal happiness.?
Temperance Advocate.
Drink and Heredity.
In opening a discussion the other day at
1 the Society forthe Study of Inebriety, Professor
Sims WoodUead drew attention to
the Hearing of modern theories regarding
heredity upon the drink questloo. The two
hypotheses which he especially set hlmsolf
to controvert were, first, that the taste for
1 ilrlalc is transmitted from father to son?In
1 other words, that children are born with
euch an innate tendency to drink that they
1 are hardly to be beld accountable when la
1 lator years they become drunkards; second,
1 that a drinking nation gradually develops
1 a sort of immuoity to drink, so that, bad
as may bo the effects of alcohol on the
1 present generation,'the drunkenness of today
does but lead to the temperance of tomorrow,
and to the gradual development ,>Jj^
of a race whloh will not only be immune to
the effects of alcohol, but indifferent to its
' charms.
> We do not shy how far the views of Professor
Sims Woodhead will meet with general
acceptance. So far as concerns the
Impracticability, nay, the uudeslrablllty,
of driving away the taste for alcohol by inuring
the tissues to Its effects, we are en1
tlrely at one with him; but when It becomes
1 a matter of measuring up tho responsibility
of the individual there seems but little to
chnnao bo fnr as the "natlent" Is concerned
between au Inherited tasto for nlcoliol And
an inherited weakness which makes It dlfQcult
to keep away from it.?The Hospital.
British Soldier* and Total Abstinence.
At the annual meeting of the Army
Temperance Association, recently held In
London, the Marquis of Lansdowne, tha
War Secretary, in speaking of the spread
j of total abstiuence in the army, said:
"In the last twenty years the number of
| courts-martial, minor punishments and
I flpfs for drunkenness had approximately
diminished Dy one-half." Tiie flgurea
which show the relative proportions of ofi
fences committed by the abstaining men
and the non-abstainers indicate a much
, greater difference than this.
What the Man Voto? For.
We liconse a rumseller to make men 98
drunk; wo pay policemen whom the rumseller
may call In to remove the drunken
man to jail; wo pay the officers of court $
high fees to sit on the prisouer; wo pay ?
big salary to u judge to sentence him; and
If he committed crime we pay the expenses
I of a penitentiary to shut him up for years.
j The man who votes for license votos for alt
; this.?The American Issue.
Tho Crimado In ISrlef.
Drink buries sorrow that rises increased
j to-morrow.
! r, I l,/?H nn/l n /<ln*?Kraln
keep clear of the saloon.
Tito s iloon makes more criminals than
: tbe church makes converts.
The drink-seller fatlons on the destruction
of public health and virtue.
The saloon is the devil's polishing room,
where the llnishlng touches are given.
Muti is then ready for any crime.
What is the diilerenco between swamps
j and saloous? Only this, that the suloou
I poisons both body and soul, and has a
I Government license.
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It is said that tho trustees o' Tufts ColI
lege, Massachusetts, recently refused $40,j
000 from a promineut Boston br wer on the
ground that to accept it would close tho
I mouth of the college on tho temperauce
' question.
An increase of thirty per cent, in the
nrrests for drunken ess ami of more than
fifty per cent. In the cases of alcoholism in
< the hospitals, such as Philadelphia has.
experienced since it began high license, is
not to be desired for any other city.
The faculty of the Stanford University,
not content with having carried this town
tor prohibition, are now making a light
against the saloons of the neighboring
town of Mayfleld, the evil influences of
which have been felt by the.students of the
' unlver?lty
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