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r DR. TALMAGPS SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED | DIVINE. Kvil Companion*?Kindly A<1vice to Yotinc Men?Avoiil I'ml Com. puny, Especially Skeptics :tml Idler* ? SIiuuTho?e Who Seek Only flvxiure. Y [Cyrriciit lw.j .Washington, I). C.?la this discourse W Dr. TaJxDugo speaks ou ;i theme which all f men, young nad oil, will be glad to se?> discussed, and the kindly warning will- ao doubt in many oas.-s be taken: text. Pro- i verba xUi., 20, "A compauiou of fools ahull | ye destroyed." "May ft please the court." said a convicted criminal waou asked by the judge what he had to say why sentence of death should not bo pronounced upon him, "may it please the court, bad eompauy has been ray destruction. I received the blessing of good parents and iu return therefor orotu|^_Jsod to avoid all t'vil associates. Had I ^Vuopt my promise I should have avoided Br this shame and the burden of nuilt which, 1 like a vilture, threaten? to drag me to f justice for my many crimes. Although I once moved in high circles and wa'? entertained by distinguished tneu, I ntn lost. Bad company did the work for me." Only one out of a thousand illustrations was that of the fact that "a companion of fools sUall bo destroyed." It Is an iuvar.able rule. Here is a hospital with a hundred raea down withttieship fever. Here Is a healthy man who goes into it. He does not so certainly catch the disease as a gcod man will catch moral distemper if he consents to bi* shut up with the vicious and the abaudoaed. In the prisons of the olden time it was the citetom to put prisoners in a cell together, A~and I am sorry to say it the custom stlSl l in some of our prisons; ao that when the |/ day of liberation comes the meD, tnsteau I of being reformed, are tuiaed out brutes. not men, each ou? having learned the vices J of all the rest. We may in our worldly occupation bo obliged to talk toaad commingle with bad 5 people, but he who voluntarily chooses that kind of association is carrying on a courtship with a Delilah which will shear the locks of his strength, and he will be I tripped into perdition. Look oyer all the millions of the race, and you cannot show me a single instance where a man voluntarily associated with the bad for one year and maintained hi3 integrity. Sin is catching; it Is infectious; it is epidemic. A young man wakes up in one of our great cities knowing only the gentlemen of the Arm Into whose service he has entered. In the morning he enters the store, and all the clerks mark him, measure him, discuss him. The bad clerks of that establishment, the good clerks of that establishment stand in some relation to him. The good clerks will wish him well, but they will wait for a formal introduction, and even after they have had the introduction they are very cautious as to whether they shall call him into their assosiation before thev know him very well. t>..? tha hn.i vAnn9 mtm fn that eatirt)* Mshment ull tjnttjor around him. They ( patronize him, they offer to show him sverytbinj: that there Is in the city on one sondition?tbar he will pay the expenses, for it always happens so when a eopd young man and a tad young man go together to a place of evil entertainment? the good young man always has to pay the charges. Just at the time the tioket is to be paid.for or the champagne bill is to be settled the bad vouni* man will offeot embarrassment and feel around in his pockets inil say, "Well, well, really I have forgotten my pockatbook." In forty-eight hours after this innocent ?oung raun has entered the store the bad young men will gather around hlm,sldp him on the shouldePwith familiarity, und, if he is stupid in not beincr able to take certain allusions, will say, "Ah, my young friend, you will have to be broken in." And forthwith tht-y go to work to ''break I him in." Ob, young man, let no fallen young man J slap you on the shoulder familiarly! Tura around nnd give a withering glance that i will make the wretch cower in your presence. There is no monstrosity of wicked aess that caa stRnd berore me giance oc i purity and honor, flod keeps the lightnings of heaven in His own Bcabbard, and l no human may reach them, but God gives to every young man a Hjrlitning which he may use, and tbat is the lightning of an k honest eye. Auybody that understands the temptations of our great cities,knows the I use of one sermon like this, in which I try ' to enforce the thought tbat a "companion . jOt fools shall be destroyed." And, llrst, I charge vou, avoid the skeptic ?tbat is, the young man who puts his rhumb in his vest and swaggers about, icofflng at your old fashioned religion, :hen taking out the Bible and turning over to some mysterious passage and saying: ''Explain tbat, my friend, explain that. I used to think just a3 you do. My father and mother used to think just as you do. But you can't scars me about the future. I used to believe in those things but I've got over it." Yes. he has got over it, and you will get over it if you stay in his companionship much loDger. For awliilo he may not bring one argument against cur holy Christianity. He will Ly scoffs and jeers and caricatures destroy your faith in tbat religion which was the comfort of your 'atbor in his declining years and the pillow >n which your old mother lay a-dying. That brilliant young skeptic will after awhile have to die, and his diamond will) iash no splendor into the eye of death., Sis bair will lie uncombed on the pillow. ^ Death will come up, and this skeptic will jay to him: '-I cannot die. I cannot die." Death wllj say: "You must die. You itave but ten seednds more to live. Your joul?give It to meright away. Your soul!" "Ob, nol" says the skeptic. "Do not breathe that cold air Into my face. You srowd me too hard. It la getting dark in the room. Here?take my rings und take all the pictures in the room, but let me ;ff." "No," says, Death, Your soul!-Your soul!" Then the dying skeptic, begins to lay, "0 God!" Death says, "You declared there was no God." Then thp dying skep;lc says, "Pray for me," and Death days: "It is too late to pray; you have only three seconds more to live* and I wlil count them jff?one, two, tLree. Gone!" Where? Where? Carry him out and lay him down beside his old father and mother, who 31ed under the delusions ot the Christian religion singing the songs of victory. i Again, avoid tho idlers?taat is, tnose people who gather around the store or the shop or the factory and try to seduce you< away from your regular calling and la your ousiness hours try to seduce you away. There is nothing that would please them so well as to have you give up your employment and consort with them. -v. * These idlers you will And standing around the engine houses or standing at noonday or about noon on the steps of some hotel or ushlonable restaurant. They have not iined there. They never dined there. Tbev never will dine there. Betoreyou Invite a young man into your association ask him plainly, "What do you do for a living?" If he says, "Nothing; I am a gentleman," look out for him. I care not bow. soft bl3 hand or how elegant his apparel or how big') sounding his family name, his touch !s death. ,t These people who have nothing to do will come around yoa in your busy hours, jnd they will ask vou to ride with them to Chevy Chase or to Central Park, and they wili tell you of some excursion that you mnL'o af ar\mck mino Hof uaii ntnaf IUUOV v* 0VWW muv *** ? jvu ? ?* *?? jrink, of some beautiful dancer that you Bust see. They will try to take you away from your regular work. Associate with .. rhese men, and, first of all, you will besome ashamed of your apparel; then you will lose your place, then you will lose jrour respectability, then you will lose your ?oul. Idleness ia the next door to villainy. When the police go to flud crimiuals, where do they go to find them? They llnd them amons the Idle?those who have clothing to do, or, having something to do, refuse to engage in their daily work. Some ono camo to good old Ashbel Green and ksked hiin why he worked at eighty ye:irs of age when it was time for luin to rest. 'Ob," he replied,-'I work to keep out of mischief!" "And no man cau ufford to be idle. I care cot huw strong his moral character, he cannot afford to be idle. But you say: "A great many people are suffering from enforced idleness. During the hard times there were a great many people out of employment." I know it. but the times of dullness in business are che times when meu ought to be thoroughly engaged in improving their minds and enlarging their hearts. The fortunes to be made twenty years from now will be made l>y the young men who in the times When business was dull cultivated their fc KL' * minds and improved tlioir hearts. Thov will pet tbo fortunes after awliiin, w.'iil? those men who liaujj around their s'oros, never eusr.iRin^ ia any useful occupation, I u*iil !)?> as poor then as they are now. It is absurd for a Christian mau to say he has j nothing to do. "I went into a store in New York when* there wore '' ve Christiuu men. and they > sairt they had nothiui: to do. Tiie whole ' world lying ia sin Poverty to be corn- i j forti;d. 9ickues3 to b.j alleviated, a Bible iu ' the back office. every opportunity of men- j | tal culture, spiritual culture; every iu- I duceinen: to wor.c, yet a uhristlan tnau, I sworn before high heaven to cons.3Cr.il>1> i (lis whole life to usefulness, has nothing to ! do! ir y??u have not any bu.sine?* for this I world, my Christian friend, thou you ought j to be doiug: business for eternity. People go to Florence and to Venice and J | to Home to see one of the works of the great masters. I think I can show you the picture of one of th? groat masters. "I ! weut by the field of the siothTuI and by the vineyard of the man void of understand- i ing, and, lo, it was all (jrowa over with ( thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. Then I saw aud considered i it well. I looked upon it aud received in- i ftruction. Yet a little sleep, a little 9lutn ber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as oue that traveleth aud thy waut as an armed man." ! There is no more explosivo passage in all the Bible than that. It first begins to hiss like the fuse of a cannou and then bursts like a llfty-four pounder. The old proverb was true, '"The devil tempts most men, but idlers tempt the devil!" Therefore seek something to do. If no worldly busiuess ~ in . I.rt numa T ?-/I UIIU13, id WIIVJ unuio \JL tu? uu:u Christ, go out on Christian toil, and the Lord will bless you, and the Lord will help you. Again, I counsel yon, avoid the pleasure set<kor, the man whose entire business it is to seek for recreation nnd amusDment. I believe in the amusements of the world so fir as they are Innogent. I could not live without them. Any man "of sanguine temperament must have recreation or die. And yet the* amusements and recreations of life must administer to hard work. They ;ire only preparative fo^the occupation to which God has called us. i God would not have Riven us the capacity to laugh if He did not sometimes intend us to indulge it. God hatn hung Jin 9ky aud set in wave and printed ongtass many . a roundelay. But ull the mu3lc and the ; brightness of the natural world wete merely intended to fit us for 1Ghe earnest work of life. The thunderaload ha3 edge-* exquisitely purplpd, but it jars tli% raoun- ; tain as it say9, "I come down to water the fleld9." The flowers standing under the j fence look eray and beautiful, but they say, i "We stand here to refresh the husband- , men at the nooning." The brook frolics and sparkles and foams, but it says, "I g?| | to baptize the moss; I go to slake the i thirst of the bird; I turn the wheel of the . mill; in my crystal cradle I rook muck- ; shaw and water Illy; I play, but I work." Look out for the maji who plays and | never works. Look out for that man , whose entire- business is to play ball or i sail a yacht or engage in any kind of tuer- j rimaut. These-things are all baautiful and j grand iu their places, but when they become the chief wocfc of life they ba^oms ! man's destruction.1 George^ Brammel wn admired of all England. He-iianced with peerssess and went a round of mirth au.l ' folly until after a while, exhausted of ' purse, ruined of reputation, Waited of soul, he begged a crast from a errocor, d?- j Glaring as bta. deliberate opinion tint In though that a dog1# life was bettor thai a , man's'. < These more pleasurlsts will com<* aro-ifTl ! you wblle you aft engaged in your wonc, and they will try<0.take you away. They have lost their plaoes. Why not you lojj ! your place? Thai&tMijjrjDU bc> one of th jm. Oh, my friends, berore'#ou go with those ] pleasure seekew, these ?ea whose entire j lirn in fnn and ^musemfiit-aad recreation, I remember while after item an his lived a life of integrity "and Cbfwtian consecration, kind to the poor aiMPelevutirig to the J world's condition, whotf lie comes to die | he has a glorious remlahpence lylns: on his . death pillow;the mere piijasarist lmsnoth- ! ing by way otrevlewlbat attorn playbill, a ! ticket for the race; an empty tankard or , the cast oat rinds of a carousal. And as in dellriu m of his awful death bewitches the i goblet and pre9so4 it t^ his Ifamthe dregs i falling on his tongue will oBmxtf'U'.icoil I and hiss with (bo adders of ah Eternal pol- j Again, beware of Sabbath brekkers. Tell mo bow a young man spends his Sabbath, : and I will tell you what are his prospects : in business, and I will tell you what are *| his prospects for the eternal world. God i ha9 thrust into our busy life a sacred day j when we are to look after ouc souls. Is it j exorbitant after giving six days to the J feeding and the clothing of these perishable bodies that God should demand one ! day 'or the feeding and the clothing of the ; immnri-iii noul? Our bodies aref seven day i clocks, and tboy need to bo wounti j up, uad if tUey are not wouad up ! they run down into the jjravo. No j man c&u continuously broa^-Sbe- Sab* j batli and keep bis physical and mental j' iiealtb. Ask those aged men, and they ! will tell you they never k^ewflrtnwho continuously broke the Sabbath who die', not (nil either in mind, body op naqral principle. A manufacturer gave'thls as bis experience. He said: "I owned, a ,lfcctory, . on the Lohigh. Everything prosperedI kept the Sabbath, ani jeveryintng'web.tr ^ on well. But one Sabbath' morning I bethought myself of a new shuttle, atmi 1 thought I would invent that shuttle before suuset, and 1 refused ait food and drihfc * until I had oompleted that shuttle. By sun down I had completed it. The next d?V ; Monday, I showed to my workmen u.A friends this new shuttle. k They all cob* gratulnted me on my greaPsocoesf^^Sfl^ tbat shuttle iato play. I enlarged' my business; but, str, that Sundaf'a wort o'rat- ' me $30,000. From. tbat dayeverythlng .5 west wrong. I failed la business, and I lost my mill. Oh, my friends, keep the Lord's day. You may think It old fogy Advice, but I give It to you now: "Remember the Sabbath day, keep it holy. 8lx days shalt thou Jabor aud* do all. thy work, but the.seventh' is the JJabbath of tho' Lord thy Ood} In it jthcu shaft not do any work." A man irald that he \7ouli ; : . > cneeK ana n?ia mm uy jgHjjgtwwMJiwrwa into hi* loving eye? aud^oqWwSSBilHM high position/he wns being tered lite with bright hopes, ft*#' w^rW ' beckoned tjlm, friends cDeerfj^lifiSjf but the archers shot ut hfuj;'. vlleTr men set traps for him, bn>l habit* hook?Ji4 fast to him with their iron grioples; h%T feet slipped on the way, and there be lie#! Who would think that tnat uncombed hair, ; was once toyed with by a father's (Infers? ' Would you thiuk that those bloated cheek* were ever kissed by a mother's lips? Would you guess that that thick tongue ouce ! made a household glad with its innocent prattle? Utter no harsh wOTds ia his ear, Holp him up. Put the hacpver that once manly brow. Brush the xlust from that coat that once covered a'geuerous hear:. Show him tile way to the home that oiico rejoiced at the souni of bis footstep and with gentle words tell Ills childrentostaud back as you help him tbrmgh the bail. That was a kind busbrndonce and an indulgent father. He will kneel with them no mure as once he did at family prayers ? the little ones with clasped hands looking up into the heavens with thanksgiving for their happy home. But now at midnight ho will drive them from their pillows and curse them down the steps and howl after them as, unclad, they fly down the street in nlirht garments under the calm starlight. Who slew that man? Who blasted that home? Who plunged those childieu into wor3o than orpbauHRO?until the hands are blue with cold, and the cheeks are blanched with fear, and the brow is scarred with bruises, aud the eyes are hollow with grief? Who made that life a wreck and tilled eteruity with the uproar of a doomed spirit? I \ TmiliKE'AT DESTROYER. SOME STARTLING FACTS A33U'? THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE file \Viu;ly One?Dr. Keeley'4 Deail' Catnte* it Ueiiewal of tha DUcuHAiov Whether Therapeutic* or iHorul j ?ion in a Bettor i'reventlve. Weaver, tell tae why you roam. With ruby nose aud hair half gray Wherefore did you leave your loom On the very first pay-day? Str.iusrer. have you ?ot t'ne dougu Wherewithal to set 'em up? I'll n tnla unfold. if so. Otherwise you'll Lave to drop. B-jer saloons arc seldom far. Here to you I'll tell my tale. While I bravely breast th? Ivir Driukiuj, ca yuu. beer and aiu. Other bums tleir tales of woe Te!i. hut seldom are they true As mine: but utV I let It go I'll take auothor beer ou you. Boer's 1:be stufr that mukos me prate: The fountain of my speeen turus ou I let loose secrets iuthnt state. Thanks: i'l.i take auother oao. You ask me wbv I ramble soy . Whether fate or I'm to bliuno? Ticking's thirsty work, you kubw. Have another? Mine's the same. Barkeep, fill a big one high. How I love to see it fotun! Strausrer, now I'm not so dry, That'd the stuff that makes me roaai ?John Spolloa ______ rii. Drafcs a* a Cure. tu of T>r I,nulla E. Keelav. dis loverer o 1 the 'fgold cure" for aloohoilsm, will uaturally Invito wide discussion of th? value of bis system of treatment fiad th? louudness of thti theories upon which it ?vus based. That suoh a discussion wil! preseut much diversity of belief and manj conflicting views regarding the pathologj ot the drink habit, which Dr. Keeley called a disease, is apparent from the many oon troversies engendered even while thif&mous specialist was making his most re markable claims. . i Bat this very question of whether th? drluk habit is a pathological condition oi not, and whether its treatment Is a question entirely of therapeutics instead ol moral suasion or mental discipline,' Is th? rock upon which the disputants have split, and it is safe to say that they can-never be brought into harmonious agreement.upon this proposition. If alcoholism is a dis ease?a morbid condition resulting from a failure of physiological functions?then its euro, according to modern therapy, becomes a question of drugs. Dr. Keeley believed he had found the oue specific foi this disease in bichloride of gold, and no one will deny that he was remarkably successful with this treatment.. He saved hundreds from drunkards' .^aves and verted moral nacure. j.ue umuouuoa Christianity, moral suasion, healthful and uplifting environment, must be combined with auy systom of therapeutics that is calculated to reclaim the drunkard to a life of sobriety and usefulness. Bichloride of gold will not keep a man out of a saloon if hi9 moral uature is too weak to resist the temptation.?Chicago Times* '{erald. The Sober Scot. The Sober Scot Society is Scotland's ate3t contribution to the cause of temper \nce. The.name, perhaps, is a trifle unlortunate, but it may be excused in view of the promoters' excellent object. The meet ing held recently in Ediuburgh to give the society a constitution was not largely at tended, but it was fairly influential. Colonel Ferguson, of the Sandhurst Military College, one of our Ayrshire lairds, has the credit of being the founder of the organi- zation, which seeks to influence moderate drinkers, not to, become total abstainers, but as to wiieo-rtthey themselves should drink and to whom they should offer driuk Members are pledged not to driuk in the forenoon, oaljr to drink at meals, never to ftaad treat to anybody betwoon meals and aev?r to Ofler'drtak In return for services rendered. TfiUJiptedga undoubtedly strikes at abuses and should do some good. The so clety hopes toget as Its first rresiuonc ijoru Balfobr, of Burleigh, Secretary for Scotland, and; among those wbo have con Beuted 'tRM ^lce-PJteeldents are Lord OfiMff0w,^IXOjrd Torphichen and Principal SirmlUmrt,' Mulr of the Edinburg Uni ' Ktpolwn on Drankennei*. " Napoleon Bonaparte.appears lu the Cectury Mttgaain^lu anawrole?that of a ternporauceadtntaW?. -In the second in*a.ment lot Rfe'^Meara'a hitherto uupub 11 shed '.'Taiks.WUhNapoIooa" at St.Helena It Is recOrdefr'ttuit, having a pain in hi? side, the eirZmparor asked his physiciat to show his liver wa-t situated and the. In -some remarks on tin causes of iM&mmaHon of that organ, men tloiied lotoxjeation as one of thorn. There upon NapbljgBn remarked: "ThenI ought not to have it, as I nevei w.if drank feat, once In my life; and tha ;waB\twenty-four\years ago, at Nice drank three bptttes of Burgundy, aud wa.< Completely dryok. O, how sick I was th< lirlfod&yl l wondwliowaman who one 5JaWU(r*l''nun nvnr tlilnlr of dolntr It aCTalli Sue headaches vomiting, and treuernlsick aess; I was nearly dead for tw./ days." r?Intein(>er?nce In Mexico. fche press continues to douonnca tin .growth ot tins Hauojr trafflo ia Mexico anc ^onbe? to It the Increased mortality au<) The Methodists there, headed by Bislioj '4^0Dat)e'?nd the Bev. Dr. Butlor, have lie jW& ja oampalgp against intemperance local Oatbollo Journals are oxliortlnj ^elr readers to arouai" themselves to pro ~yant the country froni becoming a prey t< alcoholism. It iajhij^rtei^that ttie Oov ?rnment will eadebyor fa'y jppaus ot pui>llr &T$ton to aid tUo tmapSrni?i> movumeut Note* ot th? Ora?ade. f^fhe Nofth Staffordshire (^Sogland) Chria SBE&gMit&ror Union has put on foot ? HBpgfrrobtniulug Ave. thousand uea totaV abstinence pledges in the year, fin attempting co enforce Sunday olosin; oil a saloonkeeper at Buenn Vista, Col. vb6^tbe\Methodist and Congregation* ministers were knocked do\ydih the flgly which ensued. x .<1 ?' * Jdel Stratton, n humble shoemaker It Worcester, Mass., was the man who iu duced John B. Gpogli tosigu the pledge li 1S13. IT tills plain-lliuu imu urn uuun im duty, the world-would have lost the mpa eiortuent udvouutu the temper/ince calfci ever hftd. ' > Lord1 Kitchener has issned a ?oric3 o Soudan laws settling land questions am regulating the sule of alcohol. No liquo; is to be sold without a license of 4250. Some seventy druggists of San Autonla Texas, have been indicted by the Gram Jury for alleged sales of liquor withou paying the proper State and county Ucensti j An English inspector of poorhouses fo. twenty-two years is quoted by the Hou P. W. Russell, M. P., as suylng that durlni till his experience he has never met with teetotaler in an English workhouse. In anticipation of the vote on the liquo question, which Is shortly to be taken ii that country, the New Zealand AUlaae ins put several organizers In the del! is employing ag.-ats to make a hoos# %)-l)OUSf nunvH.SH Ip 'nvrtr Af n?nhlhltfaa THE SABBATH SCHOOL.1 INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MARCH 25. j I Iteview of tli?* First ?u*ftor, I.uIcp i 1.. 7 ! 11; M?rk 1.. i9-34-Ool?ien T?xt: Mark J x., 45?Summary of the Variolic LeaMonn. Introduction*.?During tin* quarter we have studied tlio life of Christ trora HI? birth to the raiddle of the second year ot His public ministry. We have heard the nuffelsaioK His praises; wo have sueu-thfl i?a..kH tlui vnii'ft frnni liauv/m* tro UUVD ttUU UO.U'i ???. have watched His coufllct with Satan and rejoiced at the victory He gained; we have been forcibly impressed with the seven humble inen He has chosen as His disciples; we have listened to His heavenly instruction, in the upper room, at the well, and in the synagogue; and wo have beheld His mighty healing powor, and now we are ready to exclaim, Truly, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Lesson I. The birth of Jesus. At Bethlehem, Micah 5:2. God so ordered events that through natural causes Joseph and Mary were led, at just the right time, from Nazareth to Bethlehem. The angal of the Lord appeared to the shepherd*. "Cnto you Is born"?unto the Je<v3, unto all people; "a Saviour"?a Deliverer; "which Is Christ"?the auointdd Ono, and as such our Prophet, Priest and King; "the Lord" ?this child is Jehovah Himself. II. Jesus twelve years old; at the feast of the Passovor. Wnen they start on the return trip the child is left behind; found in the temple with the doctors of the law, uai-inff and iiu9worIncr aaestlons: all were astonished;, His parents gently reprove Him; He tells them He mast be about "His Father's business;" returns with them {o Nazareth. III. The preaching of John the Baptist. Tiberias Csesar Eoman Emperor; Pilate Governor of Judea;-JHerod tetrarcli of Galilee; Annas and Calaphas high priests. ' John preached in the wilderness; baptized in Jordan; preaohed repentance;insisted that they bring forth (raits unto repentance; different classes came to him; a thorough reformation required of all; pointed to the Messiah. IV. Jesus goes from Nazareth, in Galilee,. to the Jordan, to be baptized of John. John shrinks from sach a step; Jesus urges it; is baptized: the heavens are opened; the 8plrlt descends like a doveupon Hlm;.volce from heaven; led into the wilderness; fasts forty days' and nights; afterwards hungers; tempted. 91. Commacd stores be made bread. 2. Oast thyself down. '3. Fall down and worship Me. \ V. John the Baptist was near the dose of his life work. He was anxious that hl9 disciples should accept the leadership of Jesus. Pointod Andrew and Jphn to Jesus; they-follow Him; Jesus turned and asked them what they sought; invites 4?om with Hlm;'tbey abide with Him that day; bring their brothers, Simon and James, to Jesus; Jesasgoes inta Galilee; finds Philip and Nathanael. S 'i . , * ? VI. Nicodemds a jich ruler of the Jews', nnd member, of the 8an1iedrln came to brought uappmeis into runuy* Lome. A large percentage ?Mu?brlate3 and dipsomaniacs who yieldedto his treatmeut were apparently ."cured*7 and did not relapse again into drunkenness, Tiieh appetite for whisky was apparently de I stroyeil. That such treatiasnt left a [ patient now and thou a physical or mental wreck was not to be wondered at. For this work humanity will always bold J Dr. Keeley in grateful remembrance. But j notwithstanding his many remarkable, apparent *'curos." thousands of thoughtful J people who have given the subjoct much J etudy and investigation will decline to j lieve that alcoholism is a disease that oac j be cured with drugs. Thev have notei J the fact that an occasional Keeiey patient j who is supposed to be "cured" of the drinU I habit, after holding out two or three years, succumbs in an evil momeut to the baneful | American "treating habit," and away he I goes, dowQ deeper than ever, into the heli I ot alcoholism. j ti.o Hrini- imiiit id a montal and moral I disease. Drugs aloue ^ill not heal a per- j Jesus bj?night: introduced.the subject ol miracle?: rj^eus said: "Ye must be born again;". Nl&deicus failed to understand; iilustratlon'orthewirid. Jestis points Nfcodemus to xheSoaof Man; lHustratiou ol the serpent. Jn the wilderness; God's great love for man; h^tbat bol:evech shall Have life. V . VII. Jesus goes through Samaria; stops ut Jacob's well, meeta the woman;-,nska a drink; she expressesjurpriso; Jesus speaks of the gift of God?living water, nod tells her that those who drink shall never I thirst; she desires It; Jesus asks her ito call her hu3bauJ; she says she has uone; I has hud five; culls Jesus'a prophet; asks j about place of worship; true worship must I be in spirit and in truth. VIII. Jesus is at Nazareth; In the syna* J gogue; on the Sabbath Day. Reads trom I Isa. 61:1, 2; upplios tho Scripture to Him! self; He can save tho poor, the broken: hearted, the captives, the blind, the bruised; they question regarding His lowly birlh; He cauuot heal there because not accepted; justilies His course by reference to Elijah and Elisba; they think He puts them lower than the heathen; try to kill Him; He escapes. V ' IX. Jesus in Capernaum; in the synagogue; on the Sabbath day. Teaches the. people; they are astonished at His docj trine; un unclean spirit orios out; Jesus casts Him out; famo spread abroad; at Petet'y house; mothor-in-iaw healed, when the sun was down the diseased aud those possessed with devils were brought to Him, and Ho healed them all aud cast out the devils. He "suffered not the devi! to speak." Jesus is not dependent upon the testimony or devils to carry on His work or to prove His divinity. There is no concord between Christ and Belial. 2 Cor., 0:14-10. * X. Jesus in Capernaum at Peter's house, Great crowd at the door; a parnlytie brought aud carried to the roof; the roof torn up; the bed let down; Jesus saw theli faith; Thy sins be forgiven thee; the scribes reason; He speaketh blasphemies; Jesus answers them; which Is ea9ier to say, Arise, or thy sins be forgiven? tho cure; the peop.'o amazed. Tliey glorified God, saying, "t7e never saw It on tliis fashion." They saw that uouebutGod could perforin such a wonderful cure aud they were filled with reverenee aud fear. The divinity of our Lord is here fully established. XI. Jesus toaohlug at the seaside; soe? Levi at the receipt ot custom; rouuw ;Ut>; a feast at Levi's house; sat with publicans and sinners; the scribes ami Pharisees question the propriety ot this; the sick need a physician. Why do not Thy disciples fast? this a marriage feast aud It ii not an ocoasion for lastinar; two figures? old garment, old bdttle3. By the3e figures Jesus shows that tho Jewish system of religion was old and effete, ready to vanish away (Heb. 8:13), and that He proposed to roplace it with Goraethlng entirely new. Jesus calls His disciples from among tha sommon people. He pays no attention ta jaste or social distinctions, but wiierevei He finds an iiouest, humble heart He if) ever ready to say, Follow Me. He is preaching by the seaside, nour Capernaum. Mat. thew is sitting at Ills place of business, near by, and in his heart is longing to join himself to the one whom he already believes to be the Messiah; but he is a despised publican, and has been socially ostracized, therefore ho oannot expect to be noticod. Imagine his surprise when Jesus stops and says, "Follow Me." He hesitates uot a momeuc. CHICAGO WOMEN TO CO ARMED. The Street Lighting Fund Looted and Feint.let Assaulted by Thugs. Twenty wom'in residents near Waba9b aveaue and Tweuty-9lghth street In Chicago hAvo bought revolvers with which to defend themselves from attacks by hold-up men infesting that part of the city. They now purposo to practice dally in a nearby gallery until they master the natural feminine tear of firearms. Owing to the lootlug of the street lighting fund by the city administration tbe district has had no street lights for many months. Advantage has beeu taken of this state of affairs by thud's to assault and rob women on their way home from the elevated railway stations after nightfall. Seven assaults of this kind have been reported within .1 week. At a mass meeting it wan royolvod by the fathers, liusbauds and brothers to arm the women and to teach them the ti3e of Hit arms uutil they were able to secure for themselves tlio protection which the Police Department either cannot or will not give them. This accounts for the heavy purchase of Kuus. Most of the women thus armed ape residents of the lashionable Woodstock and Devonshire apartment houses. Among those who attended the mas.^vtneetlng were several women still bearing the marks of brutal treatment re ;?iv?iut tho Imudsor tuugs. XsniTiZ J5HGU tf> COIITQCIQll. The Dowager Empross of China appears to be determ'.nod to relapse into the ancient conservatism. She has issued an adict commanding a return to the old manner of study, according to tbe teachings oi Confucius, for examination for official rank: and orders the abolition of the study ol the "new, depraved and erroneous subjects of the Western schools," threatening wita punishment the teachers of such sub jects. Plant Nut Tr*?i ?n Their Orchards. Farmers Ik nearly every notthwestern Stnta are planting nuC trees tloug with their peaches and peHr.s, and are utilizing the hilisidf^wbere nothing aUe will grow, for nut orchards. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. \ i I PREGMANT THOUGHTS FROM THE | WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. Bi! Kiml anil True ? J.ove the Iavisibl" Thinc?-l> tin* C.olden liule ?Tile (Jui<-t:ic4H of Power ? Coinecratio" Without Iteitervntion. B.} kiu< 1. littlo inaiil-iu, lx? kind; In life's busy wayyoc will llntl Tharo is always room for :i girl that smiles Auil with loviu^ survico tho hour be^uil-as; ^ nif* wi:o is snouKtitlui as sue is iuir, Ami for others' wishes has :i cure; Who is quick toseo when the heart is sad, A ml i? loving aud tender to make it glait; Who loves her mother aud lighteus her | cares. Ami many a household duty shares: Who is kind to the aged and kiud to the i young, I Aud laughing and merry and full of fun: There i.s always love for u girl who is sweet, Always n smile her smile to greet: 1'heu bo kiud, little maiden, be kiud. Be true, little laddie, bo true, From your cap to the sole of your shoe; Oh. we love a lad with an honest eye. Who acorns decoit and who hates a lie; Whose spirit is brave aud whose heart is pure, Whose smile is open, whose promise sure; Who makes his mother a friend so near, He'll listen to nothing she may not hear; Who's his father's pride nnd his sister's joy? A hearty, thorough, and manly boy: Who love3 on the playground a bat and ball, But will leave tun bravely at duty's cp '; Who's as pleasant at work as he is at .jlav, And takes a step upward with each new day Then be true, little laddie, be true. , Lovo the Invisible Things. .. Did He say nothing of personal immortal Ityy tes; out U1UCD less mail nieii uavu sometimes imagined. He spoke not as a higher animal to higher animals, but as a Son of God to sons- of God. He told His disciples once that "he that liveth and be- i lieveth in Me shall never die.*' There is no dying, only transition, a passing through the curtain t> the other realm tbat is close at hand. He told His., disciples that this world is not the only dwelling-place in the universe; in' it are many dwellinfe-plaoes, and there will be a place for you beyond. When sometimes the worker grows weary and the soldier fiii.,t-bearted,- or his. little li e come.-* toward its end, and he looks back and sees how little he has done or can do for others about him, and tb?n looks forward to see into what kind of life his children are launched ami in what kind of conflict they are to take part?then, in that hour, he may take comfort from the reflection that, having done bis little here, the end is not, bat still there is another sphere out, of* which he can still put forth influences for the redemption and the upbuilding of humaWty. And when, the grave covers all that be can see of the one ne lovea naa uv?u with here on earth, be then can take hope and cheer from the faith that it has covered only w}?at be saw, and that which he really loved and which was invisible, the love, the faith, the patience, the long-nufTerlnff, the gentleness, the courage, these invisible things that made her what she was?these death cannot touch with so much as a llttle Anger. ?Lyman Abbott. U?e the liolden Rule. Bo patient with others as you would that other* should be patient with you. The sexton complained to the parson, because although the minister bad preached for two years, there were empty pews, an annual iefc't, -"nd still some imperfect ones among the attendants. And the parson was Impatient with the humble sexton because the humble sexton was impatient with the parson. And the pauson said to the sexton: "You must remember that you are not fitted by education, nor are you in a position to judge of th*3e things. It takes time to make an impression on this community; to ohange these selllsh dispositions; to move these bard hoarts. All things^nust be done in order. You caunot heat this church in a minute. You have to shov*?l the snow from the pavement one shovelful at a tim9. Do not be so st'ipidj do not expect your harvest i as soon as th^ seed is planted. Just stick to ' your part or'tlic bustness or Keeping iue jhurch clean. fre3h, warm, nnd in everyway salubrious and not worry about my.part. Give me time, and I will bring the Cjiurch up! Now, do not bother me any more bejause I must write a sermon on the 'Failure of the P?aco Congress because that was hold nearly six months ago, and there are still people and even nations with war in their hearts!' " c The Quietness of Tower. One of the impressive things about the cjjeate3t engines is the silence with which they do their work. The music of the spheres, which is the harmony of resistless energy, is I too soft to bo heard. And the same thing may be obtained in regard to the work of religious leaders or societies. Those which are most powerful are very quiet. The great spiritual ministry of the Christian church at large is carried forward with very little advertisementor noise. The grotesque is not the permanent or effective force: noise is not the same as work; frenzy is not power. And so the minister, the church and the religious society whioh ia steadily, quietly, doluir its. work, is giving the llr.st assurauce tbat it is in the possession of power. We shall come back more and moir to the method of Jesus. He - said I repeatedly: See that ye tell no man. His I work was quiet because it was transforming f tliu world. Congpcr.ition Without Reservation. Besetting sins are among the most euticIur. They would not be besetting sins unless th ay were. Whatever their form, they have a grip on ue which we never fully realize till we try to cast thom off. Trifling ai.though they may sometimes seem.as we first face them, we soon learn that our relation to j them is that of a real, terrible bondage. It j we are to livo Christian lives in any true ! sen.-e, to know anything of the happiness, j ' J ? ! " i rTOUCH;III eiLHI U^HUUOM ui viuc ivuunoio VI Christ, it ?:au only be as we consecrate ourselves without reservation to the struggle which begins when we first learn what Christ is like. aurl continues till our last breath? the stquggle to overcome, in His name and ! for His sake,the sin which doth so ehsily.be- ! Bet us.?Congregationalism ^ Of "Great Price" to God. Our active service may or muy not be pleasing to the Lord, accordlbg to what is the motive behind it; but if we would cultivate something that can never fail to please Him, we will seek to have always that "meek and quief spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price." Stop and think for a moment what an inestimable privilege it is tc be able to offer to the Lord something thai is of -great prioe" to Him\ and see if we shall uot be stirred up to cultivate mow and more of this inward quietness of spirit that kQows no anxiety and no hurry.?Han nah Whitall Smith. When the time comes for us to wake ouof the dreams of the world's sle -p, whj j should it i>?s otnerwise man out 01 ine urourn; of the night V Kissing of birds. first broker and low, as. not to '"dyingeyw," but to eyei thitt wak? to lif?; "the casement slowlj grows a glimtmying square," and then the era v. and th*.-n the rose of dawn; and last th? light. whose going forth is to the eud9 o heaven.?Buskin. I never yet found .1 Christian who was disappointed in Christ, although I havt found msftjy disappointed in themselves. III in now "J:i years since I first caught a glimpse of Him and Ho has been growing on tn( ever si nee. There is not a want in tho sou whiv'h He will not meet.?Mr. Moodv 1 LeKsonn Trom Mm Itoor War. , In Germttu military circles it is believed that the lessons taught by tho Boer w it j will make a large increas-a necessary iu tht i Germatf.cavalry, and will also lead to a thorough chaune of cavalry tactics, eliminating massed charge*, of which Einperoi Willfaui-ehowed himself so fond at the recent army manoeuvers. sat?y or Automobile. Making a cue for the 9afety of tho automobile as compared with horse-drawn vehicles, the editor of the Wheel declares that there were 81!) carriage accidents lu France within a recent month, causing sixty-eight deaths and 731 injuries. In tho same month there were oniy twenty-eight ' automobile accidents wltb two ile.iths. BRITAIN'S WAR BUDGET. Tha Cost of African Opsrations i? Estimated at $300,000,000. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach Win# Snppor' of Opposition. Hut the IrUU At tack the Budget. Lon-do.v (By Cable).?Great Britain lias served notice to the world that all of hex great wealth will support the war she iwaging. After a short debate Monday the House of Commons adopted the Govern ment budget providing for war expenditures of 4300,003,000. The House of Commons wa3 crowded and the public galleries wore thronged in an ticipatiou of the budget statement. The return of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, Sir Michael Hick3-Ba*ch, intro ducing the budget, shows that an expendi ture of $770,410,009 has to be provided foi In the budget of 1000-1901. The same stat<* merit shows that the exchequer account ol 189'J-IMO would have given a surplus oi upward of 325,000,000, but that the sup pleinesltury war estimates of $115,000,000 lnake^the expenditure exceed the rovenui by $3f,850,0,10. Deating with-the war expenditures, he said the Government had made the best calculations as to the amount it ougfit tc us I; from Parliament, with the view- of a successful prosecution of the war. He es timatedthe total war expenditure .at $3J0,? 003,090. | The proposals provide increased taxes on articles of consumption in Eaerland', and declare that $215,000,000 must be raised by new taxes. A lojin of about $175,000,000 is part of ttie proposals. Explaining the proposed loan, Sir Michael Htcks-Beach said he hoped to place the issue in such a way as not only to insur? ' profit for a few great and wealthy persons, but to bring the whole public in the war lonn. Tiia Chancellor of the Exchequer, aftet l^ayinpr the Q<?ure3 before the House, poluted out that the couatty hart to (ace a total estimated warexpendlture, in consequence of war, ol no less than six times as much as had been estimated in 03tob9r la3t. He explained the various reasons which led to the early introduction of the budget. In eluding "a desire to afford both our ndver mu-ies and foreign critics proof of earnest nes3 in the work in which we areengagftd.' ; At the conclusion o! the Chancellor'! statement, the leader of the oppositioc complimented him and promised support la the plans to defrav the expenses of th< Boer war. There was some protest from the Irjah Commoners, but this was de feated. Mr. John Redmond denounced the budget as "iniquitous," designed to up 101(1 aa "imquuuus war. MobUlzvlon of a British Fleet. Losdox (By Cable).?The mobilization of a powerful fleet began Monday evening at Torbay. Fifteen battle ships arrived. SPLIT TR AIN CAUSES A WRECK , Twenty Men Injured In a Collision 01 the,Illinois Central Railroad. Chicaoo (Special).?<Twenty menwor* injured in a collision between two frelglr trains of the Illinois Central Railroad a Janotioa "C," a side station near Broadview, III. Two of the Injured may die. The collision was the result of tin breaking of a coupllng-pln in the middli of oue of the trains, wlilch was runalug about a mile ahead of the other. The reai section of the broken train ran back toward the train behind, and before anything could be done to.avold the trains met, Two cars were burned, oue of tbom a day ooach, In'which were thirty stockmen. Passenger Curs Tumble. *"* '<T Hpktinodok, Penn, (Speolal). ? Taere was an accident to the early morning passenger train on the East Broad Top RailAf Woi.Hna Hf-oHAttr TIlA Hftnflllfttnf Gaorpe W. Briggs, and Mine Superintendent Frank Lyon and Grant Schmittle were probably fatally hart. A dozen otlier pasgenders wore seriously hart. Two Rilled and Forty faju red In a Wreck ( Bbuxl, lad. (Special).?Two miners pen killed and forty Injured in a collision be twe?n a train conveylBg the men from the mines to their home In this city and s freight train. There were 300 men on tlr wrecked work train. KRl/GER SAYS FIGHT ON. An Address to the Army Sent After Hit ' Conference With Steyn. ' Londok (liy Cable).?The conference be tween Presidents Kruger and Steyn and the General commanding the Boers la northern Natal was hurriedly arranged whan thA Mm of General Cronje's sur reader was received. President Kruger telegraphed a fervid religious appeal to the Boer troops, which all offloers and men were ordered to read. He urged the burgheri to, standfast and strive, for victory id the'name of the Lord. He told them that unless they had faith in God cowardice would ensue aud their posi tlon would be hopeless the moment they turned their backs to the enemy. Past vie torles, he said, showed that the Lord wuoh their side. The President of the Trans >vaal urged the men not to bring destruction on their progeny by falling back. A. high official la Bioemfontela, Orange Free State, Informed a Boer oorrespondeut that if the Free Staters now confronting Lord Roberts are repulsed they will retlr< toward the Transvaal, and that the uultel brethren of the two republics will muln tain the struggle to the last. MARRIED FORTY WOMEN. Chicago Bigamist Sunt to the Penitentiary ' For an Indefinite Term. Chicago, III.' (Special).?Forty womet scattered in about as many States were lot [to the altar by Wilfred Orton, '.who hai just been sentenced to the penitentiary foi an indefinite period by Judge Barker. Orton wits arrested upon four charges 01 jblgamy preferred by as many womeu, al jof whom he had married under the namt of Walter L. Farnsworth. Orton marriec Several women under the name of Waltei L. Bradford, and at one time cut quite t figure in Baltimore society. He caudidly admitted that he had mar rled so many women that he was prepared to lot the plaintiffs fix the number; four oj forty was uli the same to him?the mor? vbe merrier. Died at the Ace of 100 Tear*. Rufus Miller, colored, died in Port Jer vis, N. J., aged 100 years. For thirty yearhe wa3 engaged in landscape gardening His hair was only slightly gray, his teett were perfect and his eyesight was good. Innane Prisoner Kill* Two Men. Sheriff Cooley, of Chilton County, Ala. was struck on the head and ,fatally wounded by nn insane prisoner named Campbell,in the Clinton Jail a few day* uro. Campbell also killed Dan Jenkins colored, who had been placed to watcb him. . Three Persons Burned to Death. John Wostervelt, his wife, and six-year oM daughter were burned to death in th? destruction by fire of their home..on Chafdue BlufT, Va. A twelve-year-old son waa tliooniy member of the family who escaped. Cycling Note*. It is time to give the wheel a thorough cleaning foi>.?pring ridln,\ The coming season will show a return to t!i? use of the smaU sprocket wheel. It was said recently on excellent autliority that in the past twelve years 10,000,000 bicycles have been manufactured In the Uulted States. 'Plirt matorj nl pftiiQhflr hrnlrrts A-a now said to bo working ou the problem of changing tlimn so that the bicycle n:ay be trundlod backward. Tliis is a needed Improvement. The roads ia India may be classed as fair weather roads, and while wheelmen oau get over them easily la the dry season there are few roads that can bo used for cycling during the inonsoan nilus. QUEER TALE ABOUT AGUINALDO; Disguised as a Chinaman He Was in the American Lines. An 3rmy officer who has just returned from the Philippines say* that it in generally believed there that Aguin aldo was recently a prisoner for fonr days in the bands of General Young and that, being released without revealing his identity, he baa taken refuge iu the mountains in the southern part of Luzon disguised as a Chinaman. The orders of General Otis have been to disarm native prisoners, give them a square meal, talk to them kindly, explain the intentious and policy of the American authorities and set them free unless they are men of rank or suspicious characters. One day, about two months ngo, General Young captured a part ol Aguinaldo's bodyguard which was attended by twenty or thirty Chinese cargadores or burden bearers. The entire party was detained four days and the Filipinos were closely examined for information of the fugitive chief. Although'questioned separately their stories seemed to agree. Tbey explained that, being exhausted by the hurried march and the lack of food and rest, they had fallen to the rear of Aguinaldo's party and were unable to catch up with it before they fell into the hands of the troops. | They spoke freely of Againaldo's mnnamanta or> rJ nlana (TavA f a namaa Ui7 TUUAUUII4 MUVI jy ? I ' O MMMAWV# of people who were with him and confessed that they were glad to giro up the fight. They said that Aguiualdo was trying to reach some seaport where he conld find a boat that would take him to Hong Kong or soma other neutral port where he could throve himself upon the protection of a foreign Government and that he had abandoned everybody and was sacrificing everything for his own safety. The members of the Filipino bodyguard were so candid in their statements and professed such eagernes* to remain ^Vith the America# troops so that they could get food and protection that nobody thought of examining the half-naked and exhausted Chinamen who huddled together wherever they could find shelter and snappled like starving dogs at such food as was placed within their reaoh and when General Young moved on the soldiers gave them worn-out shoos and clothing and as liboral an allowance of rice as they could spare, warning them not to take up arms again, but to go back to their homes and settle down to useful labor. Sometime after one of the Filipino U ? a tswrrn nrliai>A uuujguacu VOWi: lUtv a i.uiru irueiu there was an American garrison and confessed that Aguinaldo was among the burdei bearers disguised as a Chinaman and almost frightened to death for fear he should be betrayed and discovered. The informant explained that the party captured by General Young was not made up of stragglers, but was the remnant of A.guinaldo'3 escort, and that every )ne of them expected to be shot or hanged as soon as they fell into the hands of the Amsrican soldiers. Ia order to save themselves they agreed to make the explanations narrated ffith the hope of securing their own sg, release and sending their captors on ^ , a wild-goose ch .e. After this incident Aguinaldo, accompanied by two companions disguised as Chinamen, entered the mountains and continued his flight to some seaoort where he hoped to secure means for leaving the islau'.l.r?-Williain E. Curtis, iu the Chicago Record. The Frsncli Workman. If Writing of ;'The Paris of tho Foubonrgs" in the Centary, "Richard Whiteing, author of "No. 5 John Street," says of the French workman: He is'the creature of the street for the sense of the joy of life, and tho vcreature of the home and the workshop for the sense of the hardship, and sometimes of the sorrow. Fashioned as he is in this way, two outside forces contend for the possesion of him. The question of questions is. Will he take his guidance from the recognized agencies within the law, or from the agencies of revolt? The State, and also, au we have seen, the church, offer him all sorts of bribes and bonuses to consent to work iu their way. They recognize his trade and self-help societies. They try to * L:? olfot- aq ft /?AVnf,PA gtJfc ill III l/U tun mvHi and to the urn as a voter. Bat he has heard of Utopias, and he longs to have one more straggle for absolute perfection at short notice, though he may have to lay down his life in the attempt. The key to modern French history is to be found here. Every political movement has to be a compromise between the aspirations of the foubourg and the world as its waga. The French workman has been bred in the belief in revolutioa as a recognized agency of progress, and by instinct and habit he loathes secondbest. The old order offers him the churches, the thrift and benefit societies, co-operation, insurauce against tistation tAfihnical aud CU faOy vuwuwov-, - ? _ other?the old political economy, in a word, and the paternal itate. The new whispers socialism, the Commune, anarchy sometimes, aud with these the barricade. How Prlnc? Patrick Got HU Name. The appointment of the Duke of Connaught to be Commandor-in-Chief of Ireland recalls an incident which decided the Queen to give him the name of Ireland's patron saint. When the Quoen and Prince Albert visited Ireland in 1849 an olcfclady in the crowd which welcomed her majesty to Dublin exolaimed, as the carriage in which tbe Queen s?t with her husband and elder children passed, 4<Ob, Quoen, dear, make one of them dear children Prince Patrick, and all Jrelaad will die for you." Tim hint: wm nnfc forarotten. and when, a year later, the Queen's seventh child was born, he -received the name of Arthur Patrick Albert. The /soldier prince was further connected with the Emerald Isle when he was made Duke of Connaught. Tho Road to Convalescence. A woman will be in bed all morn, ing, and go to a whist party iu the afternoon. She will be genuinely sick all day, aud go like a murtyr to a card party at night. The plea that her absence might inconveuieuce liei hostess is considered sufficient excuse. A man with an ache goes to bed, and roars. It would bo interesting to learn which is the shorter route to recoverv.?Atchison Globe