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* r / siriri : Mother Fell Through in Trying tc' . Save Her Two Sons. FATHER RESCUED JUST IN TIME, fh? Fafal Dolav of the Boy*?MothCl Called Them Into the House, Bui I Tli??y Continued Playinc On the Ic? j and Went Down?Father May ltecoim Insane From Crlef. Cape .May Court House, N.J. (Special).? In aa effort to rescue her two sons from drowning Mrs. Enoch Stevenson lost her j life. Both her children perished, and thoii ; father, who hastened to the aid of Ills wife, ' was taken from the water unconscious. A j minute more and he would have gouo down j to rise no more. i Tho two boys, ten and thirteen years old, | ware sliding on the ice of the mill pond ! near the Stevenson home. From her work ! in the house the mother could watch thorn. ! Time and again she looked out to see tbcm j playing on the apparently solid ic9. Going to thedoor she called them to come home. , "You must come in now," she said. "All right," they crl??d, and, boy lilce j slid toward me jujjo ui mo imuu , home, havinp: one more ?lide oa the way. > la ttie apparently solid part of the pond ' there was an area of rotten ice. Through j this Into the water far beyond their depth the la4s went, one a fter the other. Then i jterrifled screams announced their peril to 'their mother. She hurried to the poud, ! (jailing to them that she was coming, and j 'attracting the attention of the fathor as Bhe ran b> her cries for help. i When she reached the poud the littie fol- 1 lows were catching hold of the Ice, which ' fcept breaking as they grasped it. She ran j to the edge to help them, and her weight, j with that of the boys cliuging to it, broke I v the ice and precipitated her into the water, j ' The father was on the bank coming t< j her and shouting words of encouragement Seeing how treacherous the ice was ht throw himself flat when he reached th< opening, then many feet in circumference whore his wife and children were ^niggling. But In his efforts to reaoh his wife, iwho was nearest to him of the three, he lost his balance just as his fingers almost were touching his wite. x i The scream? of the family had caused neighbors to run to the spot. They broke A path from the shore to the opening in jthe road, and managed to drag the unconscious father out more dead than alive He was resuscitated. When he regained consciousness and learned he was the onlj one of the family saved, his grief wa3 sc great tbat it is feared his mind may become i unbalanced. A VICC-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ,I<len tenant-Governor Woodruff# Trlj ffeit la the Interest of Hit Boom. } . f New Yob* <1ity (Special).?LieutenantGovernor WoodrufC, accompanied by Mrs ' Woodruff, left.thls oltyTaesday on a West era trip in tno interest ot uis Doom as t - Vioe-Presldeatlaf \ candidate on the Bepublican ticket. Mr J Woodruff, in tta? / v. speeches that he wIL' ijjfc deliver, will discuu , every national ques< I -^WfY tion now before the \ AW?f American people. The LieutenantGovernor's itinerarj included an address S7 / XWfi/rJPW before the Michigan / TS&'fJKZr Club, of Detroit, or H "Washington as ai W S y> Expansionist," and u 9 vV / visit to Chicago F X^ / where several clubs } X/ of great political and timothy.i. wood- social influence had rcff. arranged informal receptions for him when he arrived in ttat city. Mr. Woodruff had received an invl tatlon to speak in Milwaukee alter Ms visit to Chicago. THE KENTUCKY CONTEST. Democratic Legislators la Joint Sessloi Ratify Action on Governorship. ; FnANKFOBT, Ky. (Special).?The Democratic members of the two hoases of the Legislature met in joint session at S o'clock Tuesday afternoon and by a vote of 74 to '2 ratiiled the former proceedings by whiob :Wiliiam (ioebel was declared Governot *>nd J. C. W. Beckham Lieutenant-Governor, and through which Beckham, since the death of Goebel, claims title to the of Goe of Governor. The Republican members of the Legislature remained away from the joint session, having decided in caucus not to attend. The Senate had adopted jthe resoluHrtna Mnn/lnw t?n<4 fha Wrvtiau TuaO/luv onrl kivu^ UAVUUWJ lipvi ?MV SAVUUW X UVOUMJ , w ,tho adoption of them by the jojnt assembly, from the Democratic standpoint, pat the finishing torches, as to its action, on tlif contests. COLD FlMPS.tN TEXAS. Wonderful Discover}** Reported Amoac the CUIspa Mountains. > i Austin, Texas (8peciai).?Discoveries of geld of wonderful richness have just been made in the Chispa Mountains, in Brewster County, aud there is great excitement over the results of assays that have beejj made. It. H. Russell, a mining expert, went to the new district to Investigate.He writes that-the ore rivals in richness and extent the New Altnaden fields of California. / ' Proepeotors are rushing, to the locality. .. Over 300 olalms have been already located. Commandant Pretoria* Set Free. rtrh r\ wn a /?An. OUR NEW BATTLESHIP; The Kearsarge the Largest in tin , United States Navy. I Captain Folger KeaiU His Order* ano Taken I'oHHcxaion of the VTar^iip Oil Behalf of tlie Government. Newport News, Va. (Special).?Another j now battleship was added to the United J States Navy Tuesday morning at 11.25 j o'clock, when the K jarjarge, the largest, < speediest aa<l most powerful first-class I battleship under the Americas flag, was , formally placed la commission. The General Superintendent, Walter A. j Post, as the representative of the Newport j News Shipbuilding aud Dry Dock Com- : pauy, turned the big vessel over to Captain W. M. Folder, who received it for the Navy Department. Rear-Admiral Barker, commandant on tills station, arrived from the Norfolk Navy Yard on a Government tug, accompanied by a number of officers. At the appointed hour the officers of the Kearsarge were lined up ou the upper deck. Superintendent Post formally transferred the battleship to the Government, and after receiving the ship Captain I)olger read his orders from Secretary Long, au- ' tlinriziug him to command the ship.* A flag was raised at the ship's stern, the pennant was raised aioft to theaftertop" and the naval post band played "The Star Spangled Banner." Captain Folger has ! not decided when he will take the Kear- I sargo to sea. The vessel is now completed. I The first draft of sqamen for her arrived | early in the morning, from the Franklin, at j Norfolk. L detachment of sixty marines ' arrived shortly after on the steamer from | Washington. As the flag was raised the j Cape Charles steamer arrived with two i hundred and fifty seamen from the Yer- J mont, at Brooklyn, comprising the crew of J the battleship Massachusetts, now out ot ' commission. The futi complement of 520 ) men has not been secured yet. lu the construction of the Xearsarg9, in ; four vears and one month, the shipyard ! lias made a record for fast building." The ! Iowa uDd Indiana were four years uud tout | mouths building at Cramps'; the Maaa.t- ! chusetts was Ave years and seven months j at Cramps', and the Oreffon.riW9 .five yaars , and eight months, at the Unloilron Works, j Tie Kentucky, sister sli(p.flf the Kearsarge, will probably be oomodtasfdaed in April, ' after fou^ years and $jre*. months In build.INCREASE IN THE,- PRICE OF ECGS , General Advance of About Two Cent* j Duo to the Cold Weather. I - I New Yobk City (8pMial).~The continued j cold weather resultdd.ln Wising the price of egqjs from one cent and a half to two cents a dozen. The; cold snap and tb<? snow hate com?to the relief o! the cold storage firms, who have'lost thousands ol : dollars this winter o^pg to the mildness ; of the weather and -the way In which the ; simple hen haskeptdn laying eggs. A "rreat many.or the eggs .used in New , Yorwcom?f?<^ Chicago,/where before i the last cold WfMh'or set In cold storage egga were salmir for from eight t-o uin.cent9 a doajHH^d fresh eggs for :o'B | thirteen tOrjttjSeen cent*. Deuk-r.-'. hur^ were lnformedteom Chicago of a geueral | advafice thet?gtod;the prices In this city I wsra raised dflUMfeauaniie. ! Within tbe^^Fttifrty days there have | been 700,OQjtefjj^K'df egajs in Chicago, a j supply, unuHRptfted la. tho history ot . any olty.ia^H*8uaotUy was about six:> pet emti ngp toe marketable egg3 in the j United Statisdurlng January. QUEEN Aflfjts TO NATION. j 1 'ner Troops Asked to Re-Enlist For | Los dps (By Cabifrjjpfe.he Queen, through | ber private searet&gijMfc Arthur Jolin j Biggs, has sent^agj^Pjlgy'letter to the 1 Co mm under-'.i-Cpbt^' UjjfiRjps**, F i >> : 1 "-XyDear Lord rge a | proportion of the >arm'yyi9'n6.n' ?a So:::': Africa, the Queen:&llyreaHras*tlnft ue ?~-sary measures must be adopted for home i defence. Her Majesty Is advised that it i wo.atd.be possible to raise for a year an ef llclent force from heroldsoldier?whc> have j already serve J as officers, non-oommlsslon- j ea officers or>privates, and, confident in their devotion to the .country and loyalty ! to her tJtfflRe. the Qaeen appeals to them : to place of tho?* father-in-law, l>x. Vf. 8. Woo'da, Prialdeiat of the National Binfc of Commerce, ;foi alienating the affections of bis wife and breach of contract, ' The terms of settlement are said to Inclade the payment to Mr. Grlssom of 980.00J; while Mrs. Grlssom was allowed a divorce, , tbo restitution of her maldfeu nome, JaHi Stone Woods, and the custody of their tsfft VVUlUiUUUUUW & 4 VkV4t UU f ir k V II UO tured by the British at>Elandslaagte, and t three othnr Boer prisoners were handed over to the Boers from Arundel, Cape Colony, a few days ago. A messenger under a flag of truoe had previously arranged the programme. The prisoners had a cordial interview with Gen SpMESJwAw//111 oral Clements and &?/'A vit 'If were taken in an ^lJ ambulance bnit way to the Boer camp. The accompanying picture of Coramamlanc Pretorlus shows him wearing tLe "smasher" hat worn by the Boer sol Hers fighting the British troops. ' viaColonel Benjamin S. Lovell Dead. Colonel Benjamins. Lovell, President ot the John P. Lorell Arms Company, of Boston, and well known throughout the New CtnfAS ,H/srl n? K.'j I. /s, rv* A .> * W?*r_ Eiil^iauu omioo, uiuu <?w aio uuiuo ?i oj- i mouth, Mass.. Monday afternoon. Colonel | Novell was boru in Weymouth, July 10, i 1844. He enlisted in Company A, Forty- I seco nd Regiment, Massachusetts Yolun- > teers in 18G2, and served during the re- j mainder of the Civil War. He served on j the staff of Governoi9 Long and Green- > halge, and was a member of Governor Wol- | cott's Executive Council. He was for Ave i years in the Massachusetts Legislature. A | widow and two daughters survive him. ; : Prominent Teople. , I i Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has a pas- j fiou for gay color?. Prince Henry of Prussia wa3 hold up and obbed by Siamese bandit9. Major-General Nelson A. Miles is not a graduate of the West Point Military Academy. Queen Victoria has given up heriioliday In Italy and will remain near London because of the war. i | Tne late Philip D. Armour, Jr.. of Chicago, left an estate of $7,000,000 to his widow and two children. y Governor Mount, of Indiana, L? personally supervising an elaborate adhibit for pis State at the Paris Exposition^I 1 yodfuiu vuuu? . i st': vaiks?m Mrs. Grlssom filed ber anlt for dlyorca-; Monday moimiog, and a deere* was granted^ lier witiila afew.houre' time. , : j BOY BANISHED- FOR TVy&.; YEARS j niatotemttln with friends tintl! the period of his banishment. expires. At the eurtftf thw two"years,'If'het"com03 backto MIsIhcnosetts, the boy wyi be placed in oharge of 4fcptobatIoo'offlder. ,"Hobra?ka liurglar# Get^HTOOO. ' Lse Johbjioa sold bis hardware store at Mead, Nefcj and received cash iu payment amounting to a little over $7303. Burglars the following day got tLe ontire amount from Ms trousers pockets. The Coal Famine In Europe. Tho scarolty of coal abroad is a feature not confined to any one country. English production, curtailed by the South African I war, 19 light, and the only appareut obstacle to a heavy movement of American ' coal to England lies In the scarcity of tonnage and the high rates demanded. Plana For a^ar College. Secretary Root, of the War Department Washington, has adopted plans for an Army war college, to h8 located ou Governor's Island and conducted on line) sim*T..,fol W-.r ?r t:?r IU IUVJO I.LAKJ Ilium 1' .?t. vwuunw wt, Newport, II. I. To Cnmmauil at I'aco I'.igo. The Secretary of the N'nvy at Washington appointed Commander Beujainin Franklin Tilley as the tlrst commandant of the new United States naval station of Pago Pago, Tutuiia: Commandor Tilley has beeu Id command of the collier Abarenda for nearly a year. Southern Cotton 31111* Sold Ahead. Southern mills are reported so Id abeac on brown cottons and stocks are scarce i and the same story of small stocks comes from New England. Cotton yarns aw specially active, and some large New England concerns are seeking to All their ordor* thronffh the aid of Southern annnlles \ A f 'vivi DK. TALMAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE Br THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: What Religion I>oe* For the Prolongation of Human Life?Keligion in Not a Hearse?Care of the Health a Positive Christian Duty. f Copyright 19W.'.] Washington". D.C.?This sermon of Dr. Talmago presents a gospel for this il/e us well ns the next aud shows wliat religion does for the prolongation of earthly existence; text, Psalm xci.. 1C, "With long life ;il r a?tlafv him " Through the mistake of its friends religion has been chiefly associated with sickbeds aud graveyards. The whole subject to many people is odorous with chlorine aud carbolic acid. There are people who cannot pronounce tne word religion without hearing In it the clipping chisel of the tombstone cutter. It is high time that this thing were changed and that religion, instead of being represented as a hearse to carry .out the dead, should be represented as a chariot in which the living are to triumph. ' Religion, so far from subtracting from one'n vitality, is a glorious addition. It is sensitive, curative, hygienic. It is good for the eyes, good for the ears, good for tbe spleen, good for the digestion, good for the nerves, gooddfo? th? muscles. When David, in another part of the Psalms, prays that religion nay.be dominant, he does not speak of it as a .mild sickness or an emaciation or an' attuefc.pf moral and spiritual,cramp. He speojep of it as "the saving health of all nations," while God in the text promises longevity to the plons, saying, "With Jong life will I satisfy him." The fact is that men and Women die too aoon. It is high time that religion joined the hand of medical Science in attempting to Improve human longevity. A.dam'lived 030 years; Methuselah lived 9G0 years." As late in the history of the world .as Vespasian there were at one tiipe in his empire Torty-flve people 185 years old. So far down as the sixteenth century Peter Zartan died at 185 years of age. I do not say, that religion will ever take the race back t;o anteHliitulnn Inntrnrtt-V .hilt I do sav that the length of human life will be greatly improved. _ ? It is said in Isaiah Ixv., 20, "The child shall die 100 years old." Now, if, according to Scripture, the child Is to be 100 years old may not the men and women reach to 300 and 400 and '500? The faot la that we are mere dwarfs' and skeletons compared with some of the generations that ure to come. 3?ak? the African race. They hare been Under' bondage for centuries. Give them a chance, and they develop a Tousaalnt l'Ouverture. And li the, walte race shall bo^rougbt-out fromunder the serfdom of sin what shall be phebody, what shall be the soal? ReJlglon has oniy jtfst touched our world. Give It foil power for a few centuries, and who' can tell what will be the strength of man and the beauty* of woman and ttie longevity of all? ' [ My design i? to show that practical jre-"; iigion is the friend of longevity. I prove., it, first, ftom the fact vfbatMt makes thp care of our health a paritife Christian : duty. Whether we shall Kb early or late, hours, whether we shalT^He. food digest*.' able or lndigestable> wiiotnfcthexeshall be thorough or Incomplete- adujpcatiou, are questions very often ref?rred|to' the roalm of whimsicality, bat tiri^tiaa man lifts this whole problem o^mtith Into the accountable and the Dlvine^SJesays, '/God has given me this body, and He has callcd it the temple of the Holy Ghost, and to de* ji. ?? -**?? Ifr* iffiilla r\t* ntn* mKla IttCb 113 UIIUI.9 VI LUUL US ITiiiid Vk WHMkMMiw its pillars is a God defying sacrilege." He sees God's caligraphy in every page?anatomical and physiological. Ha says, "God litis given me u wonderful body for noble purposes." That arm with thirty-two curious bones wielded by forty-sis curious muscles, and all under the brain's telegraphy ? 350 pounds of blood rushing through the heart every hour, tho heart in twenty-four hours beating 100,000 times, during the same time the lungs taking iu titty-seven hogsheads of air, and all this mechanism not more mighty than delicate aDd easily disturbed aud demolished. The Christian man says to himself, "If [ hurt my nerves, if I hurt my brain, if I hurt any of my physical faculties, I insult God and call for dire retribution." Why did God tell the Levites not to offer to Him in sacrifice animnls imperfect and diseased? He meant to tell us in all the ages that we are to offer to God our very best physical condition,and a man who through irregular or gluttonous eating ruius his health is not offering to God such ^ sacrifice. Why did Paul write for his cloak at Troas? Why should such a great man as Paul be anxious about a thing so insignificant as an overcoat? It was because he knew that with pneumonia and rhematism he would not be wortn half as much to God and the church as with respiration easy and foot free. A.n intelligent Christian man would conalder it an^ibsurdity to kneel down at night and pray and ask God's protection while sat tha sapnetime ho kept the windows of ;4H*?a<iroom tight shut agaiust frpsh air. just as soon think of going to tgftftcp'Qlhis house and leaping off and MHB& pwfyingto Gel to keep him from get Kg burt. aa ionc; ns you refer this ^bole sabieot' of physical health to the realm t^Vnlmsiijallty or to the pastry cook ijb?'3[;oft!* btitcher or to the baker or to ;&ii?^p$?heanry or to the clothier, you aro Vot-awlng like a Christian. Take care of aty'ivoitr physical forces?nervous, muscuJac,'*bone, brain, cellular tissue?for all you mqifttie brought to judgment. uvm'uo ojakuui luw > gets, burning out the eontlng of your stomach with wine, logwooded and j^rflSmlned, walking with thin shoes to nbu^uttirfeet look delicate, pinched at yoa are nigh cut in two and ^^HKgiftrt '.Worth anything, groaniug flBMDgWtiiqadacho and palpitation of the Hfipi 7?a tblnk came from Clod. .wWraj ^Ms??me from your own folly. .Wu9{Sfin|?1xai^^y man or woman to dedmmUmMjstp^aT the Holy Ghost? What iWby^tt..)3 the whispering galt^ryBHfo^umaiiAOul. What Is the eye? /^w^'iwservatofy God constructed, its j&BHHBGHraBpln'R the heaven?. So wonJj&fSlEiSffiaeB*) bodies that God names SUs^wxf attributes after different par j of trt*m^rt?|romnl3clence?It is God'a eye. 'Hia&mpjpresence?it is God's oar. Ills omiffBfe'ence?it Is God's nrni. WJ^n^it becomes a Christian duty to take ' caJft'?f Our health, is not the whole tendency toward longevity? It I toss my watch about recklessly and drop It on the pavement and wind it up at any time of day or night I happen to think of it, and often let it ran down, while you are careful with your watfch and never abuse it'and wind it'up just at the same hour 'qvery night an$ put it in a place where it will j not suffer from the violent changes of atmAnnhftM ' wKIaK TPnI/tli tttJ11 loaf* f ha I IUWJ ^UUlUj ITM^VU IT ItkVIt II III . WVJ? kuw I longer? " Common s?4i3o aoswors. Now,' the humanTsody,if God'rf watch. Yoiv aae the hands of the watch.. <You see the fatfe of the watch, bnt.tb6feeatlug ot the heart h> the ticking of ,the wa.tclj. Oh, be carerul and do not ljt'It tub ilowat Attain, I ttfearlc. that practical religion 13 a friend oHongevKy la the fact that it is* a prote?t against dissipations which in jure aod destroy the health. Bud men and wom?* live a v?cy short life. Tlielr sinnkill. fkem. I W|0Whundreds of good old flien, jfcAti'donot Icnow half a dozen ^^dafcybjSff-'.' Why? Tlwy do not get old. Lcnt$lw*oti diBd ht Mlsaoloughl at thirtyslx'ywinr of nge' hlinsell Lis awii Mozeppa, hia unbridled passions tiio liorse 'that dashed with him Into the desert. Edgar A. Poe died at Baltimore at" thirty-eight years of age, - Tuo black that alighted on bis .bust nbSva hit ohamber door was deUrlaopt tremeni*. Oul y. Utfa ai> d not b i u g more.^ Nappleon^ttonaparle-'Uvid on(y frtst bevond midlifo.tbeu died at.&t. Helena. and one of his doctors said'that' his-'disease was induced by exwsftlve snrifflug. The hero of AusterUiz,. tho tnan who by one step of his foot in' the <ienter ot Europe shook the eart'i, killed by a snuffbor. Ob, how many people,we have known who havo not lived out half their days because of tbelr dissipations and indulgences. Now practical religion Is a protest against all dissipation of any kind. But," you say, 'profossors of religion have fallen, professors of religion have got drunk, professors of religion havo misappropriated trust fuuds, protessors of religion havo absconded." Yee, hut they throw away their religion before they did their morality. If u man on a Whito Star lino j steamer bound for Liverpool in mid-AtI lantic jumps overboard and is drowned, is that anything against the White Star line's I capacity to take the man across tlie ocean? Aud if a man jumps ovsc the guawale of bi3 religion and goes down never to ri.ie h that any reason for your believiug that religion baa no capacity to take the man clear through!' In the one ease if he had kept to the steamer his body would have been saved; in the other rase if be bad kopi to bis religion bis morals would have been saved. There are aged people who would havi> been dead twenty-live years ago but for the defenses and the equipoise of religion. You have uo more natural resistance than hundreds of peoplo who lie in the cemeteries to-day slain by their own vices. The Hmitnrj mildrt fhrtir nuan . ?<> kini1 anrl nipns. aut :i3 they could, and it was cailed congestion of the braip or something else, but the snakes' and th<3 blue flies that seemed to crawl over the pillow tu the sight of the delirious ent showed what was the matter wit' 4:n. You, the aged Christian man, walkt. along by tbat unhappy one until you came to the golden pillar of the Christian life. You went to the right; he weut to the left. That is all the difference between you. Oh. if this religion is a protest against all forms of dissipation then it Is an illustrious friend of longevity! '-With long life will I satisfy him." Again, religiou is a friend of longevity iu the fact that it takes the worry out of our 'temporalities. It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Wlieu a man becomes a genuine Christian, he makes ov<?r to God not only I1I3 affections, but his family, his business, his reputation-, his body, his mind, his soul?everything. Industrious he will be, but never worrying, because God is mauaging his affairs. How .can he worry about business when In answer to his prayers God tells hi?i when to buy and when to sell, and,'if he gain, that is best and, If he lose,, that is best? Suppos-j you had a supernatural neighbor who came In and said: "Sir, I want you to call on me in every exigency. I am your fast friend. I could fall back on $20,000,000. I hold the controlling stock iu thirty of the best monetary institutions of this country. Whenever you are in any trouble. C&kl UII lUO( UUU X Will UOi[; JVU. AVJ^U UUU have my money, and you can have my Influence. Here is my hand In pledge of it." How tnnch would vou worry about business? Why, you would say. "I'll *do the best I can, and then I'll depend ou my friend's generosity,(or the rest." Now. rnofe than that is promised to every Christian business man. God says to him: "I owu New York and London and 8t. Teter3burg and Pekin, and Australia and California are Mine. I can foresee a panic 1000 years. I have all-the resources of the nniverse, and I am your fast friend. W&Bi&. you get in buslnete trouble or any other*/.trouble, call' on M?fi,and I will help. Here Is-Myhand in pledget of omnipotent deliverance." How much should that .'man worry? , -Not much. What lion will :'dkre to Dut ies paw on. that Daniel? Is there not rest In- this? Is there not an ?tWMi?il>acatIon1v4n this? iv^Oh," yoasay^'hfcre is a man who asked ?k>d for a blessing la'a certain eatorprlsn. *Knnrt'4iv<t T.^nlnln fhiit " "f ,OUViUVlVJk YWVV?.?M,>1*> ...... ? , wtftt; xoud^isafaqtory,'and one wneel | is going nj)cth,'?nd the other wheel i9 going soiitb/an$.one wheel laterally and the other playsvertically. I^o to the munuyoar mttolUiiftr^vi a contradiction. Why ao.yoti notvinake' all the wheels go on? wkyVVl^fljelj," he days, "I made them to go Itt^SffgWHWrdirectlons on purpose, and the^^W&ttce the ri^ht result. You zo dowii 8tatr?and examine the carpets we a^Q:tarolng''6at (a thLs establishment and yoaiwlll ae9." I go down on the other floor, and 1 ft tie, the carpet?, and 1 am obliged to confess that though the wheels in that factory go in opposite directions they turn out a beautiful result, and while I am standing there looking at tue exquisite fabric an old Scripture passage comes into my mind?"All things work together for good to them who love God." Is there not re3t in that? Is there not tonic m that? Is there not longevity in that? Suppose a man is all the time worried about his reputation. Oheinansays he lies, another says he is stupid, another says he is dishonest, and ha|[ a dozen printlug establishments attack him, and he is in a great state ot exciccjmeui uuu wurtj uuu fuma acid canuot steep,,but religion comes to lilm and say?: ' Man, God is on your side; He will take care of your reputation. If God be for your, who can be against you?" How much should tnat man worry about his reputation? Not much. If that broker who some year3 ago In Wall street, after he had lost money, sat down and wrote a farewell letter to his wife before he blew his brains out; it instead of talcing out of his posket a pistol he had taken out a well read New Testament, there would have been one less suicide. Oh, nervous and feverish people of th# world, try this almighty sedative! Yon will live twenty-five years longer under its soothing power. It Is uot chloral that you want or morphine that you want; it Is the gospel of Jesus Christ. "With long life will I satisfy him." Again, practical religion is a friend ot longevity iu th? fact that it removes all corroding care about a future existence. Every man wants to know what is to become of him. If you get on board a rail train, you want to know at what depot it is going to stop. If you get on board a ship, you want to know into what harbor it is going to run, and if you should te.ll K" in roll it f la tn hu Ill U )UU U.VVD liv/ luiuiu^biu > MMk iw V/ ~-w your future destiny I would in as polite a way as I know bow tell you I did not believe you. Before I bad this matter settled with reference to my future existence, the .question utmost worried me into ruined health. The anxieties men have upon this subject put together would make a martyrdom. This is a stato of awful unbealtbiness. There are people who fret themselves to death for fear of dying. I want to take the strain off your nerves and the depression off your soul, and I make two or three experiments. Experiment the first: When you go out of this world, it does not make any difference whether you bnve been good or bad or whether you believed truth or error. You will go straight to glory. "Impossible," | you say. "My common sense as well as my religion teaches that the bad and the good canuot live together forever. You give me no comfort In that experiment." Experiment the second: When you leave this world, you will go into an intermediate state, where you cau get converted und prepared for heaven. "Impossible," you say. "As the tree falletb so it must He, and I cannot postpone to an intermediate state that reformation which ought to have been effected In this state." Experiment the third: Thore is no future world. When a man ' 1 * ? * u - * ltltv> r\ ha^ ivAi-ri' (lies, III it l ia uic inm i uiiii. ?vllJ about what you are to do lu another state of being, you will uot do anythiug. "Impossible," you say. "There is soirfc'thing that tells me that death is not the appendix, but tBe preface. There is something that tells methat oa this side of the grave, 1 only get started and that I shall go on forever. My power to think says 'forever,' my affections ?ay 'forever.' my capacity to enjoy or staffer 'for iver.' " .'iAnatixon I saw the storm was over, and tlie rainbow rose higher and higher until lt'-seoontd retreating to another heaven andvplantlog one column of its colors on obejilde of the eternal hill, it rose upward and hp ward, and, behold, there was a rainbow about the tbroae. Accept tbatsaflflllcft and quit worrying. Take the tonic, the inspiration, the longevity of this truth. Religion I* sunshine; that is health. Religion is fresh air and pure water; they are healthy. Religion is warmth; that js henlthv. Ask all the doctors, and thev will tell you that a quiet conscience and pleasant anticipations are hygienic. I offer you perfect peace now .and hereafter. What do you Want ia the future wor!d?t, Tel! me," and you shall have it. Orchards? There are the trees with twelve manner of fruits, yielding fruit every month. Water scenery?. Th?rft i? the river of life, from under the throne of <iod, clear as crystal --a .i,? mimrirnl with tire. Do I Iiuu inn aaa. ui you want music? There is the oratorio of Mie Creation leil on l>y Adam, and the oratorio of the lied Sen led on by 3Io.se?, ami the oratorio of the Messiah led on by St. Paul, while the archangel, with swinging baton, controls the one hundred and fortyfour thousand who make up the orchestra. Do ycu want reutiion? Tuere are your dead children waiting to kiss you, waiting to embrace you, waiting to twist garluuds in your hair. You have been accustomed to open the door on this side thesepulcher. I opeu the door on the other side the sepulcher. You have been accustomed to wnlkin the wet grass on the top of the grave. I show you tlie underside of the grave. The bottom has fallen out. and the |o .g ropes with which the pallbearers let down your dead iet them clear through in'o heavun. fliorv be to God for this robust, healthy religion. It will have a tetdencyto make >ou live long in this world, and in the world to come you will have eternal life. "With lou- Ufe. will I satisfy him." / y THE GREAT DESTROYER. SOME STARTLING FACTS A30UT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Dmnp III in Out?Abolish Rnm snil Tlterv Will Itn So Wlle-Beatluz, Say* Clarence W. Mearle, a Pollca MajfUtrate i of New York City. What is all this noiae about. Deep us muttered thunder; Has a car run off tlio track, Crushed somebody under? Roaring waves of angry souud, Through the long noctural, B"ut against the silent air Like a mob internal. Sea they're dragging out a man. Bloated, bloared and bleeding, Screaming, fighting, cur3ing thostf Pushing on or leading. What's the man been gutity of. What has he been doing? Why this row at dead of night, What'* tho matter brewing? Nothing bat a drunken wretch, Filled beyond ills measure, Crazed and drunk on sour mash, Swallowed down at leisure. Dump him out to freeze or die, In the icy gutter; Who will care a flg for him? Let him curse and mutter. Bast the villain's hoary head; Friend, he hasn't any; Call the nearest policeman, Give the ghoul a penny. Send him where the Ivy twines, Where he cannot bellow; Cart him off, we do not want ... , Any such a fellow. ?Rev. John O.'Foster, iL M. Knin Makes Wife-Beater*. Dui;iag my many years' experience as Magistrate in the New York police coarts, writes Clarence W. Meade, I have passed judgment upon hundreds, yes, thousands. >f wifer-beaters. Scarcely a day passes that there are not such cases in each police ' ourt, especially those on the east side of the city. There are men whom we are sure to have brought beforH us at regular Intervals ' iiargect witu cue crime. i Know mpuy who are oommitted to Blactwell's Island ju !iu average eight times a yeat.?* Naturally the question of how to do away with this social evil has ?iven me mtffch >:onceru. Evidently the prescribed legal remedy is insufficient if not, indeed, posllively harmful. Imprisonment ha3 no terrors for the habitual wife-beater. I have come to the conclusion that there ould be no better remedy than the whipping-post. I would like to see a whipping-post put Jn the back yard of everv police court of New York City and there have th? wife-beaters and men who are :ruel to their families publicly or privately tlogged. I believe that no man who has felt the humiliation of being stripped to the waist and given the lash will ever do iuytlffng that will briag him to the whipping-post the second time. There is something radically wrong witli the law as it stands aud we are obliged to saforce it. Piratically all of the wife-beating and extreme cruelty to famllie^lb this 5lty Is among the poorest class ot people, Under the present statutes there is no pun- 1 whmuiit prescribed which does not punish the cruel drunkard's wife aud family more than it does him.. The wife is usually the complainant. In nine cases out of ten she soon repents under her enforced suffering and Is back in tourt within a week either to withdraw the oompiaint or wich the necessary ball. Ct often happens that she brings with her if bondsman the saloon-keeper who sold ijer husband the liquor which aroused in him the wire-beating frenzy. After getting his liberty the man may possibly behave himself for two or three weeks, but his flenflish nature is almost iiire to manifest Itself again in that time. His wife will appear in court again, de ;ermtuea cuis time to maice mm serve tue 'till term of six months. Within a week or .two she will be back practically begging to zot him out. So it goes month in and month out. It is a run&iug farce without my relief whatever to the family. I always nsk these women in court: ' "Which would you rather do, have yout husband's abuse with bis support, or let him stay on the island while you'struggle ilong without his abuse and without his upport?" Liquor Is at the bottom of it all. Liquor is tho greatest curse of mankind. Every ill-used wife says that her husband is all right, is kind to his children, bring3 bis money borne, etc., until be begins to drink then all is changed. There are seven police coujrts in the Borough of Manhattan. Take rum away md I am certain that two courts will be ulficient to do all the work. With no li[uor there would be no wife-beating and i:o cruelty to children. A Quaker's Temperance Lecture. Several persons, among them a Quaker ;vare crossing the Alleghany Mountains in i stage. \ A lively discussion arose on the subject if temperance aQd the Mquor business, and hose engaged in it were handled without> ?loves. One of tho company-remained 9llent. \rter enduring it as long as he could, he mid: "Gentlemen, I want you to understand :ant I am a liquor dealer. I keep a public 'louse ol ; but I would have you to Lnow that I have a license, and keep a decent house. "I don't keep loafers and loungers about 017 place, and when a man has enough be ;an get no more at my bar. "I sell to decent people, and do a respectable business." He thought be had put a quietus on the subject, and that no answer could be given. N'ot so. The Quaker said: ^'Friend,.that is the most damnable part }fl thy business. If thee would sell to jjuiukards and loafers, thee would' help to ?itl off the race, and society would be rid if'them. "Bufthee tabes tha youug, the poor, the Innocent and the uususpecting, making irunkards and loafers of tUem. "When their coaractar and money are ill gone, thee kicks them out, and turns .hem over to other shops to flnisb off; and .bee eusuares others and sends theui ou he same road to ruin." Unanswerable Fact*. In Georgia 117 counties are dry and only wen I. y wet,- Sixty per ceut. of the people ire dry and only twenty wet, and if you ake the dry from the wet cities there will lot be more than teu per cent. wet. If you will examine the reports of your prison commissioners and of your State uinltarium you will see that in the wet ouuties iusanity and crime are increasing yitU alarmlug rapidity while both are deceasing In the dry counties, so that now (ess thau twenty per cent, of the area ol - mr State that is wet furnishes mdre thau isty ^er cent, of our convicts aud lunatics The Crusade lit Paragraphs Men are drunkards because boys are '.eilipttJd to drink. ft is much easier to "rectify" whisky :aan it is to rectiry the evil it causes. In Connecticut, liquors aud groceries iiinnot now ieijally l>e sold ou the saint premises. The churches ic Auburn, N. Y., liavf inited in a movemeac to lesseu the treu:ng ha'tit. The directors should see the inconsistency of demaudiug total abstinence ou the pur*, ui an cuijjjujco iiuu ai iuc lumevtime pinning the temptation beloro ;hem at ?very eating-house. Id DirmMkliam, England, there is on'.caused puato house ti evorv 140 peopllbove tlftw? yflfcrs of axe. "la ifbeitieiil >ae to evurjBorty families. In 1896 luBu^laud nud Wales there were 131,450 retail licensed premises. One recjminendatiou of the Royal Comttiissioij, ?1 idopted; would reduce tue number to 62.100. The crusade now being waged ?galu9-. '.he wine-room, deserves, as it has received, "he encouragement and hearty support of avery man, women and child in the com- , nunlty, The late Doctor Howard Crosby, fot many years a close observer among the poor, oncw declared ttiat he had "'nevei fouud a family borne down by poverty that lid not owe its fall to rum." THE SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MARCH I I. SnUject: The Paralytic Healed, Mark ii, l-ia?Golden Text: Mark (1., 10-Uetn> ory Verses, 9-1'J?Commentary oa th? Day'a Lesson. 1. "And again." At ttie close of tho missionary tour in Qalilea. "Capernaum.' LII. i.-? i tin MlllCU WU3 ms UUtUO, VI 11OUU4 u a t LO IV was noised." The news spread very rapidly, "lu tlio bouse." Probably Peter's house. Wliou Christ is in the house, 1, Good meu will be attracted to it. 2. Bad meu will bt beueflted In it. 3. Divine benediction will rest upon it. 1. Beneficent ministries wU flow from it. Those who have Christ ic their home do not act like other people their motives are purer, their charltloi more disinterested, and they have witt them the source of joy and blessedness. 2. "Many were gathered together." Th( audience included Pharisees and doctor.; of the law who had come from the towns ol Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem. The; had come to inspect and criticise thl3 now Teacher. It was like the gathering ol Israel ou Carmol to witness the issue be tween Elijah and the priests of Baal "About the door." There was a great concourse of people so that the house and court were both filled. "Preached the word". The doctrine of the Son o[ God They had come partly f'6 criticise and partly out at curiosity, and now Jesu; seizes the opportunity to preach the Gospel 3. "They .come unto Him." Access tc Jesus seomed impossible. There were many obstacles in the way. Suould they have wilted for a convenieat season ? No. They must force their way to Christ. "Bringing one." There are many so weak and discouraged that they cannot go to Jesus without assistance; we should alwaya be ready to held such. "Sick of the palsy.' I'Palsv?a contraction of the word paralysis?is a disease that deprives the part affected of sensation, or the power of mo< tion, or both." This patient was utterlj helpless. The disease is considered incurable. "Palsy is a type of sin. Sin In the soul takes all- the forms which paralysis In tliA hnrlv. 1. It tfilraa n.mn\r Mi* sense ot feeling. 2. It weakens the will sa that wliea meu would do good evil is pressntwith them. They put off duty; thes know but will not dome to a decision. 3. It . produces a fixed oondltlon of evil with Intense suffering." "Borne of four." Euct one holdfag' h corner of the "pallet," oi bed. There was co-operation Is this work One could not have done It; it needed four. In the union ot hearts and hanis there I? strength. (United thoy had no difficulty. 4. "The press." It seemed quite impos jlble for tne crowd to make an opening sufficiently large for them to pass through ' Uncovered the roof." Luke says "through the tiling." In the eastern countries the houses were flat-roofed and joiuad together so one could walk upou them from one end of the city to the other. These house-topi were places cf prayer and meditation, and from the house-tops criers proclaimed the , times of public worship. Outside stairs ilways led to the root. "Broken it up.' 1 l'hey took up the tiling. They determined that nothing should stand in their way. "Let down the bed." Imagine the arresting of the discourse of Jesus, and the breathless surprise of the cfrowd as this opening through the tiles appeared, and slowly a pallet was let down before them. Willing uauds wOutd help to steady it and, bring it j safe to the gfouad. On that bed lay one mtrnlvTirtd? Ills fevered face and arllstealnc eyes upturned to jesus. 5. "Saw their faith." Many of tho gifts j of healing and restoration were obtained through the faith und prayers of the friends ot the sufferers. See Matt. 8:18; Mark 5:33; John 4:59. Jesus saw their | faith. Beal faith acts. Their holy boldness pleased Him. "Faith is vhe chan- j nei through which the grace of God flows J into the soul in converting, healing j power." Christ always notices and com- j mends faith. To the poor Gentile womUn | who came to Him for the healing of hot daughter He said, "0 woman, great i3 thy faith." "Son." Ho spoke with tenderness. Matthew adds, "Be of good cheer." Evidently the young man was despondent because ot his sins, for it seems probable that this disease had been brought on as a result oT dissipation.. "Thy sins are forgiven" (B. V.). Our first great need is the forgiveness of sin. Jesus rightly puts this ahead of the healing of tho body. Wo cannot doubt' that this paralytic was a conscience-stricken young man. The conditions necessary to forgiveness are ropentance, confession, forsaking sin, and faith. Although this man did not speaU Jesus inu3t have seen these marks In him. 6. "Certain of the scribes." "The scribes wero the leaders of the nation, the theologians, legislators, politicians." They had come up from Jerusalem und other places forthe purpose of opposing Him. Luke 5:17. "iiaasomog in tncir uearc3. ' xasy bad not yel spokln openly. 7. "Blasphemies." Jaliiasr to Himself what belongs to Qod only. He is iatrudlng on tfca Divine rights, 'yiie blasphemer was to be put to death by stoning. "But GotJ only." They rightly understood ffraf nil sins are sins against God, and therefore only God could forgive thtem. 8ee Psa. 51:4. i 8. "Wheh< JeSus perceived." In telling them the thoughts of'ltfaelr hearts Jesus gave them the fullest proof of Hb divinity. Ha "searcheth all hearts and undorstandoch nil tho imaginations of the thoughts." No sin escapes His notice. "Why reason ye." Matthew says, "Wherefore think ye evil?" Why are you putting a misconstruction on my words? 9. "Whether is it easier." Both are equally easy and equally difficult. Everything is equally easily to that power which is unlimited. A universe cau pe as easily produced by a single act of the Divine will, as the smallest part of matter. 10. "That ye may know." "Eternal miracles are the proof of Internal ones." Christ was conscious of Divine power. "It failure had been the result His humiliation would have been overwhelming and final." He proposes now to prove His divinity beyond question. "Power ou oarth." They worrt thlnklnir of God as being In heayeu, and Jesus calls attention to the fact that there Is power* on earth now to forgive sins, The Son of Man has com? to earth and has brought this power with Him.. 11. "Arise." Here Is tho test. Christ shows His ability to forgive sins by His ability to heal. 12. "He arose." The man had a part tc perforin. Had he not acted at the word of command he could not have been healed. He exercised the power of bis will and put forth the necessary effort to arise, believ- i ing that strength and healing would be j giveu him. '"Before them all." This thing i was "not done in a corner." Christ's mir- | acles were performed iu tho rao3t public manner and were never questioned by j those who witnessed tbem. "Amazed," Luke adds. "They wore Ulled with fear." | "Glorified God." They had a high degree.: of reverence for God and werq filled wltU ! admiration for Hi9 power Unci (jooaness. , 'Ou this. fashion." Christ's works are j without precedent. He acts Independently > and advteos with no one. They h'ad seen ! three marks of His divinity. 1. Forgiving | sius. 2.~ Perceiving thoughts. 3. Healing 1 diseases. TEACHER DEFENDS HIMSELF. Cracks the Skull of One of Three Pupllt ! Who Attacked Him. Forseveral years the public school teach er at the village of Flora, Ind., has had a great deal of trouble with the pupils and It was the boast of the latter that no man was ever able to stay more than one term Last fall Frank P. Stewart* was employed :o teach the school, and he started In with *o much determination that the unrulj sleraent was held at bay. Recently, howaver, trouble resulted owing to the Incor :igible nature of some of the older boys lud a rough and tumble light ensued when :he teacher undertook to correct one ol :he pupils. He was attacked by thtea young men, and finding them too much foi liui, titewart seized a stick of stove wood lud struck Charley Glrard on the head. Snooting him down aud fracturing hi? ikull. Glrard Is still unconscious and may lie. Stewart bus not been arrested. mi*!! fiV::?ro neiorms in tne Vrencaflfary. A rolio of ma llneval ftines btkl(f?baea swept away by a decree of Prafldeat Loabat, ibollslilug the use of fetters iu tha FroncU Navy. It lias been tho c:ntom to ruauaole lien in a row to aa irpa b.ir, wtiiali, wit'a the rollini,' of the snip fu heavy sap, proved a to rriblo pu nts hment. SbVoratte forms la otli.ir o>il-of-date puaJslnu-ants Xh :lia uavy will s'lortly bj urtfel upom tha Chamber of Deputies. ?? ? ;; ? V? , ' GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. ' "i PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. Not Dead? T~rrfY5^?ft?r Kigh-.c suftne** ? "Pray, Jacob*. I Can't"?"To Love and Servo Thee" ? The Real Rudder ol Life? Beginning at the Bottom. 0 you that walk in memory-haunted ways, A little bright face missing, Guarding a tress .of hair through weary dayg, .%& And a fair picturo'klasing? She is not de-id, dear, lonwly-hearted friend, ? She la not dead, but living In that sweet land o'or which tba blue akietr Dead. ^ Their life dews ever giving. She lives whote life is sweet with lovo and praise, And time is moasurod not by shadowed days. ! You linger by her grave in summer time, j 8ad thoughts your soul beguiling, : Though lilies thero with morning-glori?^.* twine. <i> i And upward look with smiling. ; 0 mother learn of blossoms mute and sweet, * J And crooning winds that ever i 8peak of a land where little children's feet I 8tray not, and sorrow never j Casts its dim shadow o'er tho lovely place I Where God's own glory lights each shining face. ?Mrs. M. A. Holt, in Zion's Herald. TliirRt for Righteousnen*. j "We hope, we aspire, we resolve, we trust. When the morning calls us to life and light: But our hearts grow weary, and ero the night 0ur lives are trailing the sordid dust." The chief difficulty with Christian life Is not with that portion which comes un<)er the ! observation of the world. There are only a ! few hours of the twenty-four each day thai the most of us are under the scrutiny of the world. A much larger segment is tiuder th? observation of our families; but every, bour^ avery moment, is under God's observation. . After one fixes his eyes on Jesus, he finds little satisfaction in himself. He sees-in Him such a wealth of goodness, that bis best attainments seem poocehougb. Whether ; be actually succeed for a singly day in doing ! bis best God must judgef. "I judge not mine own self." But one does know some- i I thing of the joy there is'in aiming at the best, in striving to do the best, "in loving j aud serving the highest and best." The Ctintva '' W hA /Inno Ii!j Konf ???ll ?' "V Uto UUOl, aV,U5 \YUlJf , Joes nobly; angels could do no more." Ia i not this a more consoling thought that be | who attempts tho best his circumstances , I allow, does well, acts nobly? Whether an| gels do better one knows not; but tbiB one | knows?apostles did no better,for Paul modestly affirmed of himself: "Not as though I ' bad attained, either wore already perfect, but I press toward tho mark for the prize of high calling."?Rev. Joseph Luccock, D. D. "Pray, Ju?'oI>k, I Can't." The mother of the late Dwight L. Moody for many years never sanctioned her son's ;hoiee of the pulpit as his lifa work. She was a Unitarian and her conversion was acjomplisbed through her son. The mother uever even heard her son preach until long years after he was world renowned. In 1875 lie returned to North field to preach shortly | 'ifter coming back to America from one of uis great London successes. The family still lived on the old farm and drove lo town to Sunday meetings just js tbey used to do years before. Most of* thft family were going to drive to sown tbat moruinir to hear Dwight Tha nother startled the daughter by saying. *1 Jon't suppose there would be room in the tvagon for me this morning.' No one had i .hought of the mother unbending and going lo hear Dwight. 'Of course, there'll be room, mother,' said the daughter, and tho imther was taken down to church with the rest. Mr. Moody preached from the flfty^ 'irst I'.->alm and preached with a fervor that was i>robablv mostlv inspired by the pres 1 ?ncH of bid mother. When those who wished prayer were asked to' arise old Mrs. Mondy itood up. Thn sou was completely overcome. and turning to B. F. Jacobs, now of 'Jnieago. said with emotion, 'You pray, ; Jacobs, I can't.' " t "To Low and Servo Thep." We trust our Heavenly Father to provide for us. not merely in things material, but . most of all in the guiding of our lives, in the 5baj>fng of our aspirations, in the fulfillment )t our hopes, in the return of our sympathy jnd love, because, however imperfect our K.-qunintiince with him may be, wo know 1 ;bat he can be trusted to do just these things [ for us. II is the testimony ol common sen3e ! :bat God's providence is over us and can bo I depended upon. It is that of duty that wo : :rust it. It is a source of blessing to look forward into the future with the Serenity* ; which is based upon companionship with :be Almighty and upon tbo sense of His jver-ruling earn. Nothing can divide us from Him. nothing can cool His love for us. ! nothing can veil the freshness of the rela: :ion between us which the past has developed. Whether it be in the details of outward life, our comings and goings, our auyiDgs ana sellings, or in our nouier ?na higher aspirations and hopes, over one and ' ill and in one and all the providence of God i superintends and controls. In the beauti: 'ul words of George Herbert; Lord, it belongs not to my caro Whether I die or live. I To love and serve thee is my share. And that thy grace must give. i I i TIio Keal Rudder of Life. i What is the reason that one does not dis' :ern the full jrlory of the present life? It is precisely, as God said to Moses that day, jecauae" a man cannot look straight into God's face and live. Sometimes oue wishes i that a boy could see life as an older man jees it. But in reality that would be no blessing to the boy. It would simply make bim morbid, anxious, timid,prematurely old, in! jtead of fearless,natural,bealtby-minded,as | ae ought to be. . . . It is natural and right for youth to be thoughtless and free, and God's hand Is before the face of many i t young man, not because God grudges bim i ;h"e vision. but because he is not ready for it. 1 . . And that brings us to the real problem of human life. It is not?as 30 many people seem to think?an explanation of experience; it is, on the contrary, au education through experience. God does not expect people never to make mistakes and never stumble in the dark; He expects them only to be taught by th<Mr mistakes and to nimble on through tin* dark until in His jwn time Ho shows them His glory. Resinning nt tlie Bottom. No one ciiu be a drunkard without knowing that be is doing wrong. But the excessive love of money, of power, of public praise, often fail to impress us with their ?uiit, and the need of penitence and reform is much more difficult to be realized. It ;osts a sharp twinge of one's whole being to acknowledge that one has been wroug nil jne's life, nod that, however fair and beautiful the structure of character, it needs to bo rebuilt from the foundation. Religious con- ,. version involves no intellectual perplexity jr complication. It is perfectly simple. It means the surrender of every other aim and the determination, firm and unfaltering, to love God and do hb will no matter what our ircurastances. It i9 the substitution ot <his dominant purposn in place of any and #very other, no matter what. What a good God we have that remember? us in oar low estate, thinks ?lpOn lis when we are poor and needy and is Nearest to >43 when we need Him most!?Mason. : i 3pT / "say's he avenged lawton. 'y Indian Soldier Write* That He Shot Man , .Who Killed General. William Colombo, an Indian graduate or thft Carlisle (Peun.) SohooJ, is a private la Jh? Fourth United StaMi,Cavalry in th? 'Philippines and took part in tlia light when General Lawton was killed. In a letter to Major Bratt, Superintendent of the Tiidtiur^phool, just received,. Uolombe says: "General Luwtor. was killed about twenty yards from wliere I stood firing at a ?ian who was shooting from a tree, aad he was tlie very man who killed the General, t kept shootiuc until he fell from the tree."