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f r THE ANGLEWORM. An Angleworm yawned and stretched liiaiselt out, Then sighed and drew himself in? *'Although I cau render myself short and stout, Then instantly quilc long: and thin. This earthly existence 1 always have found To he a most consummate bore; There's nothing to do but make holes in i the ground. And nothing, alas! to live for!" I "Tut, tut," said Hie Grub Worm, phlegmatic and slow, "Why look you so sad and sedate? Cheer "up, little brother?you certainly know That fishermen love you?for bait, Though some creatures lead a tumultuous ? lite. That may be. indeed, much more spicy. They pay up with hcauaches, and sorrows and strife Unknown to the genus lumbrici. "Just think," said the Grub Worm, "how simply you're made? How uncomplicated you grew: The gard'ner may cut you in twain with ??' lus spade. And instead of one worm, you are two! f Each portion strikes out in a different way. And soon both are hardy and fat! L Where else will you find in a creature of clay ? 1 Such wonderful structure as that?" Serenely contented the Angleworm then Resumed his old habit9 of thought. And ncycr?no, never?grew weary^again Of his gloomy terrestrial lot, Though a small onion bed and a cucumber f patch His orbit of action defined, And life was a bore, pretty much as be f"fore. I 4 He never thereafter repined. Brer Angleworm lived as an Angleworm shouid?* Was bound by no statutes or code? '? An idealist and tho' pious and good, He dramea of no better abode, ft And Death and the Grave had no terrors for him? This -worm beneath human contempt, ' Compared with ^hich we are as bright Seraphim, tV? _ ) From sin and pollution exempt. Oh, Angleworm! Angleworm! Happy thy lot! In Earth's tranquil breast to abide, [Without a regret for the thiugs you have notImpassive. whatever betide Kcither envy nor hope, nor passion nor fear. Nor visions of happier states. Can light with a smde or dim with a tear, He scorns both the Furies and Fates. And, bound to this poor little atom of Earth That floats in the Infinite Vast, Man gropes about blindly, 'twixt anguish and mirth, And guesses and doubts to the last. May be, 'mongst the millions of glorious t- spheres That roll through the regions of God, Pire beings?of Jove and Apollo the peers, To whom we are as Worms of the Clod! ?Punseutawney Spirit. rflfj ' |jjt3Uljq6PUOUUPPOTtnTO& | When a Friend Deals | g With a Friend, v ^ By Fraqkliri Michael. 9* s, JT ND you say ..the mortgage. /\ is t wonty-tive hundred dollars, due March 1st." "And you can't get the money anywhere?" "Nowhere; I've tried every place In town, even old Peddicord. Money Is tighter now at the banks than at any time sipce the panic started. They' won't let out a dollar except to old customers. So if you can't do this, Ral. my home is gone, that's all." ^^"*fTetu?"*Just state that proposition oVer, again, Mac." ? "It's this: I'll transfer the title of the farm to4 you: you assume the inert-" gage ami holil the place in your name; .when the panic is over and I get straightened out, I'll take it back, pay you for what you've paid out and for your trouble besides. If I am never able to redeem it, the farm'll t>e yours for good; understand?" "Yes; but Mae, you surely know that this is not a good business proposi? tion." ? ; "Yes, I know that well enough. It's n proposition I would make to no man living except llalstou Blair. The- laud would bring at least sev#nty-flve dollars an acre if times were good; now it .would not sell at all. aud if the mort; gage is foreclosed I'll get little or nothing for my money and work. E; Olive and I are both sick and discouraged, but if you can do this for 1. us. we'll have one chance left to get Ull WUi icu L "Well, I don't kno-: what to say. I must bnve time to think. My burdens are heavy enough now. as you know. At the same time I feel as though I must help you. I'll tell you. you drop in?say Thursday morning? and ('11 see what I can do for you." The above is iu substance the talk that took place between the Iloverend Rnlstfcn Blair and Philip McClure <>ue morning in February, The meu had been intimate from boyhood. They graduated from school together, * Blair at the bead of the class, McClure near the foot. Blair was brilliaut and popular in school; McClure . was dull ami reserved. Blair passed through college and entered the ministry; McClure went from school to the farm. Blair scored a success from the start: married a girl as ambitious as himself, and was at this time pastor of the most fashionable churc^ iu Ailsbury. McClure married pretty Olive Pinkney, bought an eighty-acre farm two miles out from Ailsbury and prospered until hard times, poor crops, low prices and sickness combined to !?*?%% f/v ftvfrftmihf . u*A ll.'lVP i'^UU^'C lillll IV ttlU VAUVIUUJ .? V . seen. The feeling that existed between the young men could not be called friendship: it was not reciprocal. On McClure's part it was genuine hero worship. He idolized Blair; he gloried in his successes, and. above afl elsfe, had absolute faith in him. Blair, von the other hand, accepted McClure's worship and encouraged it, because it satisfied the demand of a selfish nature. He was one of .those mortals who. .while incapable of xfeep feelings himself, was yet able to play upon the heart strings of those about him. '1 But to resume our story. The outcome of the talk recorded above was that McClure's farm was legally transferred to Blair. McClure at once moved his wife and two babies to 'Ailsbury; took possession of a small cottage and found work in a brickyard. He was a good worker. Tho farm was rented, and three years passed without incident. But the souls of the McClures1 were wrung with anguish when they beheld the havoc wrought by careless renters 011 their little farm. Tho young orchard, their special pride, was trampled to ; death by horses and catttlo: the lawn J iu front of the house was turned into j a nursery for pips and geese, and eocKle-burs were fast taking the plnce j of all other crops in the held. Still, ! the real owners of the laud must suf- 1 fer in silence; they had no right to j protest. During all this time Mr: Blair was ' very busy and the McClures could not j complain if they saw but little of him. His success as a preacher was marked;, his church was crowded at every service; lecture committees were most urgent in their demands j upon him, and. as a fitting crown to ; all this, ho hud just accepted a call to a leading pulpit in the metropolis. The MeClure family was as poor at the end of the three years as at the j beginning, but they had saved enough j money to pay all baeu interest on the j mortgage. They could get time on j the mortgage now because of 1m- j proved business conditions; good health had come again, and. above all, they desired to put a stop to the ruin on the farm. With this in mind, Philip callcd one morning upou Mr. Blair in his slydy.' The minister listened to all his visitor had to say, nervously marking ( with a pencil the while on the tablet on his desk. When the story was finished he said without looking up: "I see no necessity for opening'up that subject at this late day, Mac.,,;> "But Ualston," reasoned MeClure, "I feel able to run the farm nicely now, and I thought that as you* were going away soon, you'd not want to bother with it any longer, anyhows Besides, you know I was to have it back whenever I^thg^fcht best" minister run out He was dead. to ^Guiuc uuu v& vv gnu tu make IqJSj^K&lSeattle. Not a man of a 11 "t|tii|*Bpro and others I asked could an|^HEpy simple ques- : tlon until I fojjMBWBassiau. Fie told me the word u48!?jpwlan and meant low and marshy^Sirad. 'Tundra' dif- , fers from 'steppe? in this that 'tun- j dra* is used to describe the low, flat and ordinarily valueless land between two streams and is common along the 1 coasts of Siberia and on the American i side of the Bering Straits, all of i which is 'tundra.' 'Steppes' originally ' meant "a sandy desert, but. by long custom, it has come to mean grassy j plains as well. I don't know whether j the word is in American dictionaries i or not. for I haven't had time to look i it up. but I know I hadn't heard it i a dozen times in my life till the later ! gold discoveries in Alaska." . __ | The Koar of a Battle. The roar of the navy's four-poinr- ! seven's, their crash, their 'rush as they J passed, the shrill whine of the shrap nel. the barking of the howitzers, anil .the mechauical. regular rattle of the ! quick-tiring Maxims, which sounded ; liUf the clicking of many mo\Ving machines on a hot summer's day, tore the air with such hideous noises that one's skull ached from the concussion, and j one could only be heard by shouting. ! P.ut more impressive by far than this ! hot chorus of mighty thunder and ! petty hammering was the roat of the 1 wind which was driven down into the ! valley beneath, and- which swept up again in enormous waves of sound. It roared like a great hurricane at sea. | The illusion was so complete that you expected, by lookiug down, to see the ' Tugela lashing at her banks, tossing i the spray hundreds of feet in air. aud , battling with her sides of rock. It j was like the roar of Niagara in a gale, aud yet when you did look below not a leaf was stirring, and the Tugela was slipping forward. Hat and sluggish. and iii peace.?Richard Ilardiug Davis, in Scribner's. Common Delusion*. Full nine out of ten persons plume fhomooivaa nn hf>in2 different from i others, wlteu their ,very belief in the notion is its own contradiction. AVe ! complacently aver, '"I have such a t kveu sense of the ridiculous." when a irue senso of liunior would have prohibited the boast. But what we most plume ourselves upon?if wo are the average man or woman?is our power to read character. "1 may not be particularly clever." we observe, with that guileless braggadocio which masquerades us humility, "!?ut of ouc thing I'm certain. and that is, Pm a good ' judge of human nature. I'm never deceived in a person," when, if such perspicacity wereWeally possessed we'd say nothiu^^ftfe^efore thos? ' V, . ' : Dfi. TALMAGESS SfiKMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE 8Y THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: Life'* Stormy Way?It is ftonRh Sailing Without Christ in the ShipHe Smooths the Pathway For Those Who Trust in Hiiu. rCopyrizht inou.l WASiiiXGTOfX, D. C.?Dr. Talma^e, who is now in Europe preaching to immense congregations in the great cities, sends this sermon, in which he describes the rough places of life and indicates the best means of gettihg over them and shows how many people fail to understand their best blessings: text, Mark iv, 39, ''And He arose nnd rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still." Here in Capernaum, the seashore village. was the temporary home of that Christ who for the most of His life was homeless. On the site of this village, now in ruins,_ .and all around this lake whnt scenes of kindness and power and glorv and pathos when our Lord lived here! t nnrlarofon/j fnftli n<T nf t V) ~ immrtT tal Scotchman, Robert McCheyne, when, sictingon the banks of this lake, hs wrote: It is not that the wild gazelle * Comes down to drink thy tide, But He that was pierced to save from hell ; Oft wandered by thy side. ' Graceful around thee the mountains meet, Thou calm, reposing sea, But, ah, far more the beautiful feet Ox Jesus walked o'er thee. I can easily understand from the contour of the country that bounds this lake that storms were easily tempted to mal$e: these waters their-playground. This lake in Christ's time lay in a scene of great luxuriance; the ^surrounding hills, ter*' raced, sloped, groVed; so many hanging gardens ot beauty. On the shore were castles, armed towers, Roman baths, everything attractive and beautiful?all styles of vegetation dn smaller space than in-almost any otherLspace in the world, from-! the palm tree of the forest to.'the trees of . rigorous cliinate. It seemed,as iftthe Lord had launched one wave of beauty on all the 4tene and it hung and swung from rock and hill and oleander. Romnn gentlemen in pleasure boats railing this lake, and countrymen in fishing smacks coming down to drop their nets pass each other with nod and shoar and laughter or swinging idly at their moorings. Oh; what a beautiful scene! It seems as we shall have a quiet night. Not a leaf <fuivered in the air, not a ripple disturbed the face of Geunesaret. Tlnf-. thorA npprrtA to he a little excitement up the beach; and we hasten to see what), it is, and we find it an embarkation. Front the western {ahdre a flotilla pushing out; not a squatfren of deadly armament, nor. clipper* with valuable merchandise, no? piratic vessels ready to destroy everything they could seize, but a flotilla, bearing* jfflessenjiers of light and life and peacsy . Wrist i3 in the stern of the boat. 3t& jjftcip'.es are in the bow and amidshiflHH Swrns, weary with much speaking to lan?9R mifflitudee, is put into somnolence by tn<r' rowing of the waves. If there was any m'oiibn.<at all, the ship was easily righted; HE* 'tug -iKnd passed from starboard to larboiijp;, the. boat would rock and. by the gimfreness ,of the motion, putting the Master aaleeo. And they extemporized a pillow iqaae out of a fisherman's coat. I think no sooner, is Christ prostrate and His head touched the 'pillow than He is jound asleep. Tile breezes of the lake run. flteir fingers through tl> locks of the worn speper, and the boat rises and falls like i sleeping child on the bosom of a sleeping mother. ^Hpalm night, starry night, beautiful Hght! Run up all the saiis. ply all the ISSje-and let the large boat and the small bojjfcglide over gentle Gennesaret. But tblflpailors say there is going to be a shtdlgts- of weather. And eve-, the pas'swgera can hear the moaning of the storm as it comes on with great stride and all lutrrinnno JlTlH HftrknPSS. The large boat trembles like a deer at bay among the clangor of the hounds; great patches of foam are flung into the air; the sails of the vessel loosen and in the strong wind crack like pistols; the smaller boats, like petrels, poise on tne cliffs of the waves and then plunge. Overboard jo cargo, tackling end masts, and the drenched disciples rush int; the back part af the boat and lay hold of Christ and sav anto Him. "Master, carest Thou not that we perish?" That great personage lifts His head from the pillow of the fisherman's coat, walks to the front of the vessel and looks out into the storm. All Around Him arc the smaller boats,-driven in the tempest, and through it comes the cry of drowning men. By the flash of the lightning I see the calm brow of Christ as the spray drooped from His beard. lie has one word for tne sky and another for the waves. Looking upward. He cries, 'Peace!" Looking downward, lie says, <n? iriroj f;;ll flat on their UC OLlll . ??v, ? faces, the for.m melts, the extinguished stars relight *heir torches. The tempest falls (lead, and Christ stands with His foot on the neck of the storm. And while the sailors are baling out the boats and while the.v are trying to untangle the cordage the disciples si id in amazement, now looking into the calm sea, then into the :alm sky, then into the calm Saviour's countenance, and they cry out, "What manner of a man is this, that even4 the winds and the sea obey Him?" The subiect, in the tirst place, impresses me with the fs.ct tha- it is very important to haye Christ in the ship, for all those boats would have gone to the bottom of 2ennesaret if Christ had not been present. Oh, what a lesson for you and for me to learn! Whatever voyage we undertake, into whatever enterprise we star:, let us always have Christ in tne ship. All you :an.do with utmost tension bf body, mind and soul you are bound to do, but, ob. have Christ in every enterprise! There are men w ) ask Cod's help at the beginning rr great enterprises.. He has been with them in the past; no trouble can overthrow them; the storms might come down from the top of Mount Hermon and lash Gennesaret into foam and into agony, but it could not hurt I hem. But here is another man who starts out in worldly enterprise, and he depends upon the uncertainties of thn life. He has no God to help him. After awhile the storm comes, tosses o(F the masts ot the ship; he puts out his life! oat and the innirlimt- slipi-ifT and the auctioneer trv to help him cff; tlicy can't hel,> him off; he mast go down; no Christ in the ship. Your life will be made up of sunshine and shadows. There may be in it arctic blasts or tropical tornadoes; 1 know not what is before yeu, but I know if you have Christ with you an shall bo wed. You may seem to get along without the religion of Christ while everything go23 smoothly, but after awhile, when sorrow hovers over the soul, when thy waves of trial dash clear over the hurricane deck, and tli2 decks are crowded with piratical disasters?oh, what would you do then without Christ in the sum? Take Cod for your portion, God for your guide. Cod ior yrnir nelp; tnen all is well; all is v eil for a time; t.i shall be well forever. Blessed i3 that man who outs in the Lord his^ trust. I^^hall^ney^^expnfounded.^ I. t tie boat" the^rmbre delightfSlV -But when the wifwi^wept. down. aM the s?n tossed inttrwrath, then they found that following Cortsfc was not smooth safling. .So you haye-'found it; ?b' I have: 'o'iikI it., - ' ' ^ Did notice/the .end,?gf the lire' dF t'.ie' aj??tles of Jesus Chtyst? You rouid say-if eyer men,' ought to hayv- had a smoot^ilife; a a?wtb'depa'ctiire. then tho*? men, the disciples of Jesus Christ." ought to have' had 'such a departure and such a life. St. d-aniea lost his' head. St. i'hilin was hung to death on a pillar. St.. MattheW had nis life dashed -out with-a halberd. St. Mark was dragged" to* death through the streets.' St. James thfc Less was beaten-to death with a'fuller's club. St. Thomas was struck through with a spear. They did not find following Christ! stnoolh Mtiling. Oh, how they were aMS tossed in .the tempest! John fin;; Hngh McKail dam; tlie Albigcnses, the JSc jtcli Covenanters?did^^^H^^HBB .sailing? But Hfl^^HKjH can draw ' A young mau God. while his employer scoffs at Christianity; the young men in the same store, antagonistic to the Christian religion, teasing him. tormenting liim about his religion, trying to get him mad. They succeed in getting him mad and say, "\oure a pretty Christian!"' Does that young man find it strTcoth sniling when he tries to follow Christ? Or yon remember a Christian girl. Her father despises the Cli%stian religion; her mother despises the Christian religion; her brothers and sisters scoff at the Christian religion; sh> can hardly find a quiet placelin which to say her prayers. Did she find it smooth sading when she tried to follow Jesus Christ? Oh. no! All who would live I he life of the Christian religion must suffer persecution. If you do not find it in ono way you will get it in another way. But be not disheartened! Take courage. You in ft irlorious comoanionshii). God will s^e you through all triafs, "an*1 He \rill deliver you. My subject also impresses me -with the fact that good people sometimes get'frightened. In the tones of these disciplos ns they rushed into the back part of the boat I find they are frightened almost to death. They say, "Master, carest Thou not that perish?" They had no reason to be frightened, for Christ was in the boat. I suppose if we had been there we i would have Deen just as much affrighted. Perhaps more. In all ages very good people get verv much affrighted. It is often so in our day, and men Bay: "Why. look at the bad lectures. Look at the various ] errors going over the church of God. We ] are going to founder. The church is going .to perish. Shq is going down." Oh. how many good people are affrighted by iniquity in our day and think the church of Je8U* Christ ia gojmg to be overthrown, and are just as much /affrighted as were the disciples of'ray text! Don't worry, don't fret; as though iniquity were going to. triumph1 over righteousness. .A lion goes into a cavern to'sleep. Hejiea. dow-i with Iub shaggy mane covering the paws. Meanwhile the spiders spin a web across the,inouth 'of the cavern and say. "We tolKre Raptured him?' Gossamer thread afW gossamer thread until the whole frost of thfe cavern is covered with the jrBidfer's web,, and the..ipiders, say, "The lion is doh'e; the lion is fast." ,After awhile the lion has got through sleeping. He rouses himself, he shakes his mane, he walks out igto the rahlight. He does not even knoaiT.be spider's web is itmn, and with his npt he shakes the mountain. So men comflribinning their sophistries and skeptician# about'Je^us Christ. Ha seems to fa.steeping.' ;They,.8av: ."We have .capture^ffeSjgrd. < He -pfili nev^r come forth n^m'nif^fhemtion. Christ is dfrercome foreverf Si religion will-taever make any conqtigsfc ^it)ong men." But after awhile the Liim offithe tribe of Judah will rouse Himself and come forth to shake mightily the nations.; What's a emder's web to the aroused lioii? . Give .truth and error a fair grappfcf and truth V^ill come off victor. Do not('be afigd ftt a gteat revival. Oh. -that sucfi'jealejWfrom heaven might sweep through "fell our churches! \ Oh, for such days .'as Richard Baxter saw in England . sand /"Robert McCheyne saw in Dundee!? foh, for such days as Jonathan Edwards Ifcw in Northampton! I have often heard my father tell of the fact that in the early pn.rt of this century* there broke out a revival at Somerville, N. J., and some people were very much agitated about it. They said: "You are going to^bring too many people into the church^ St once," and they sent down to New Brunswick to pet John Livingston to stop the revival. Well, there was no better soul in .ill the world than John Livingston. He went and looked at the revival. They wanted him to ston it. He stood in tho pulpit on the Lord's day and looked over the solemn auditory and he said: "This, brethren, is in reality the work of God. Beware how you stop it." And he was an old man, leaning heavilv on his stait? a very o!d man. And he lifted that stiff and took hold of the small end of the staff and began to let it fall slowly through between the finger and the thumb, and he said: "Oh, thou impenitent, thou art falling now?falling from life, falling away from peace and heaven, falling as certainly as that cane is falling through mv hand ?falling certainly, though perhaps falling slowly!" And the cane kept on falling through John Livingston's hand. . The religious emotion in the audience was overpowering. and men saw a type of their doom as the cane kept falling and falling, until the knob of the cane struck Mr. Livingston's hand, and he clasped it stoutly and said: "But the grace of God can stop you as I stopped that cane," and then there was gladness all through the house at the fact of pardon and peace and salvation. "Well," said the people after the service, "I guess you had oetter send Livingston home. He is making the revival worse." Oh, for gales from heaven to sweep all the continents! The dangfer of the church of God is not in revivals. Again, my subject impressed roe with the fact that Jesus was God and man in the same being. Here lie is in the back nurt of the boat. Oh, h<j v tired He lookp! What, sad dreams Ho must have! Look at I His countenance; He mist be thinking of the cross to come. Look at Him: He is n man?bone of our bone, flesh of oar flesh. Tired. He falls asleep; lie is a man. But then I lind Christ at the prow of the boat; I hear Him say, "Peace, be still," and I see the storm kneeling at His feet and the tempests folding their wings in His presence; He is a God. If I have sorrow awl trouble and want sympathy, I so and kneel down at tlie back part of the boat and say: "0 Christ, weary One of Cennesaret, svmnathize with all ray sorrow! Man of Nazereth! Man of the Cross!" A J Ian, a Man!" But if I want to conquer my spiritual fosg, if I want to get the victory over sin, cfeath and hell. I come to the front of the boat, and'I kneel down, and I say. "O Lord Jesus Christ. Thous who didst hush the tempest, hush all my grief, hush all my temptation, hush all my sin!" L learn once more from (his subject that Christ can hush a tempest. ItNdid seem as If everything must go to ruin. The disciples had given up the idea of managing the ship; the crew were entirely demoralized; yet Christ rises, and the storm crouches at His feet* Oh, yes. Christ can hush the tempest! You have had trouble. Perhaps it was the little child taken away from you?the sweetest child of the household. the one who asked the most curious questions, and stood around you with the greatest fondness, and the spade cut doivn tnrougn your o;eeuing nenrc. x crnajis u was an onlv son. and your neirt lias ever since been iike a desolated castle, the owls of the night hooting among the fallen arches and the crumbliner stairways. Or iill your property swept away, vou said: "1 had so much bank stock; I had so many Government securities; I had so many houses; I had so nnuv farms?all pone, al gone." Why. sir. all the storms that ever trampled with their thunders, all the shipwrecks have not been worse than this to you. Yet you have not been completely overthrown. Why? Christ says: "[ have that little one in My keeping. I can pare for him as well as you >. an, better than you can, 0 bereaved mother!" Hashing the tempest. When your property went awav away, God said. "There are treasures in heaven in banks that never break."' Jesus hushins the tempest. Thpre is one storm into which we will ali have to run. The moment when we let 10 of this world, and try to take hold of the next we will want all the grace possible. Yonder I see a Christian soul rooking on the surges of death. All the powers of darkness seem let out against that soul ?the swirling wave, the thunder of the sky, the shriek of the wind, all seem io I unite together. But that soul is not troubled. There is no sighinR. there are no tears: plenty of tears in tiie room at the ..depasture, hut he weeps no tears?calm, ^jatisfied and peaceful; all is well. By the | "flash of the storm you see the harbor just ahead, .you are making for that harwell. Jesus being our Into the harbor'pf heaven now we glide; 1 We're.'home at.Iast. home fljJnat. Softly we drift on the bngTiTTsilv'ry tide; We're home at l&Sfv^ Glory to God, alLcTur dangers are o'er; We sUnd seetfre on the glorified shore! Glory toT/Go^we will shout fevermore, We at last. -iijJBW1?? r v ' in a Doe's Clothes. Mrs. Eugene Kelly have re rnn don from Paris. Sirs. Kelly 'has ^ whose clothes cost as ijiucli 'Hion^aEi society woman's. It has several cM?b, one studded with diamonds; . tcoaMjku-ititer and summer frocks. It ^^BlM^E^iiaht.dresses and a wonderful bLxith a wired Medici collai. handkerchiefs. ile * ; GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN,! ! precnant thouchts from the i world's createst prophets. Now ? Heart-lioom for Jimhs' OfT-ir* ? Chriit a Living Personality?The Secret of a H;ipi?v Life?"If It I'lea^c Will"?Whom Go<l Cliasteneth. Kisses which fall upon the dead's mute lips, Like dew 6n roses which the lirst frost nips, Come all too late; 'Tls better far to give thorn while the lips caasp^ak; I The ftoldea cord of life at be3t is weak; ( Ah! do ujt wait. Kind word9 in ears whose earthly powers are spent, Like sunshluo on the tree by li?htnmg reat, Caa give no b.ilai: 'lis better farto K*ve them while those ears can hear; For life has much of woe and much of fear' And Love brings calm. It is too lato, when life's lamp burneth low, When hands once warm are cliill as winter's snow, To do kind deeds. 'Tis better here where feet are prone to slide. 'Tis bettef now ttfan wait till eventide, To help their needs'. Ah! friends, dear friends?if any such there be? Keep not your loving though's away from ./i' me Till I am gone; I want them now to help me on my way, As lonely watchers want tho light ot day Ere it is morn. And though sometimes my heart, o'er some sore wrong Lontpbroodtng, weaves some bitterness in song, * . 'Tis but a shade Within life's textures where the best are poor, Oh, close not up to many faults Ljve's door' I need your aid. ?E. F. Hodges, la Zion's Herald JBf art-Room for Jnaua' Offers. 4 Evsrychlld of God m iy will rejoice bv aoausejae.has such a Father in heaven. '! have set thftjLord always before me; therefore my heart IIglal. ami my glory rejoiceth.". "InHli presence is fulness of j ?y." This refers Scr'the experiences of the present life, and then up at His right hand will be tne "pleasures toreverojure. jlc is n uh heart that skulks away from a loving Father In sullen, dis rust ami dread. TUeu. too, what joy is kindled ia our souls wh<ia we are brought into full reconciliation with God, through the atoning love aa?l moliatlon of Jesus Christ! The returning prodigal's heart thrills under every kiss of his forgiving Father. "Earth has a joy unknown in heaven. The new-born peace of sins forgiven. Tears of such pure and deep delight, ? Ye angels, never dimmed your sight." The assurance of a full salvation is eao ugh to keep our hearts aglow. "I give uuto you eternal life," says our omalpot-nt Saviour; "yfe shall never perish, uelther shall any man pluck you out of my hand." A.11 things work together for good if we love God. Even sharp pruning may make us yield richer clusters of spiritual fruit, If we will let God have His way. And when the discipline and conflicts of this earthly school life are ended, we look upward, and see that "our names are written in heiven." All these joys our living God provides for u and offers them to us. Wo cannot create canary birds, but we can provide cages for them and (111 our rooms with their music. ?veu 90 wo cannot create iui nuu guka which Jesus offers;, but they are oure if we fumis! hear.-room for them.?Rav. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. Christ a Li via Personality. The living Christ is the essential life of the church?the hear:, sending nourishing currents through all its channels; the brain, giving unity, harmony and direction to all Its members making it one body. When Christ died the disciples were scattered.dissevered members of a lifeless body. They were homeless fishermen?no longer disciples in a school diviue of a divine teacher. But when they saw the risen Christ they wore reunited, drawn together, needing no call, waiting for no summons. If the gospel be but a record of history, an Incident in ages of changing empire, it is but the winding 9heet of a buried mummy. If Christ be a living, present personality, then is flo a vital power, attracting, impelling, energizing, unifying, directing. As on the resurrection morning the disciples were glad , when they saw the Lord, so now the living Christ thrills the soul of every believer. Christ in you, the hop9 of glory, i9 the prophecy of endless joy and blessedness. The Secret of a Hnppy Life. A damp, dreary February day wag followed by a night of extreme cold, an l in fha mrtminnp rha frPfia anH ahrnha the* r;?ll_ ings of the iron fonco, all outdoor objects indeed, were incased iu an icy armor which sparkled in the sunshini with diamondlike brilliancy. '"Very beautiful, but it will all be gone before noon," sighed one near m, casting a glanee at tbe dazzling outside world, and thua turning away. A little maiden, flattening her nose against the frosty pane to get as much of tbe wonderful sight as possible, looked up in surprise at the melancholy speech. "Xever mind," she said, reassuringly. ' There'll be something else beautliul for tomorrow." Thesecret of a happy life lies hi Ideu in that childish speech. It is the Father's wish that we should look for some new joy in each tomorrow, and that the better things should always lie aaoad.?Selected. "If It P!casa 111? Will." Tbou hast been my confidence In health, 0 God,forsake me not now that my strength faileth. My heart is faint by reason of the weakness of the fli-sh, nud mine eyes are dim wich shadows of pain; yet in thee do I put my trust. Send healing, if it pltsase thee, and may I use returning strength for better service. Let not courage failln suffering and in hours of weakness keep my heart from doubt. Let mo war witness to thy love by cheerful patience. Talce away nil fear of death and let me wl^th a quiet heart resign myself entirely to thy will. Care thee for those I love and reward all who minister to my need. Help ma to forgive those who have sinned against ma aud pardon thou my tr ins-jresslons. In the name of Jesus Christ who shared our infirmities and suffered for our sins. Amen. V* ' -'"VV. r Whom God Lovelh He Clmstcneth. Do not fret or rebel beeaus-j yojr iK'e may seem given over in a special way t > trouble and affliction. May it n)t be that God Is thus tightening up tin hnrj strings, that the music of your life may be truer an i clearer and sw.-eterV How seldom d>we Hud u really earnest soui who has not b jeu schooled to trouble ! Whom Gni loveth lie ehistendtb. No sorrow is for sorrow's sake,h it for character's. Let u$ tru.it th it when w ) suffer God is tuning us up to concert pit jh,making us mora earnest and serious and strong, fitting 1X9 for better ministry to ot jers.? James Buckham. Those who say they will f >r^Iv > but can't j forget au injury, simply bury ihe hatchet while thoy leave the handle ou:, rrndy for immediate use.?D. L. Moody. The clubbed tree gives its fruit: the cleft wood perfumes the ax. the ground gem shows Its beauty.?Bishop Warren. That is the best sermon which mak??s living easier Monday morning.?Lyman Abbott. D D. CHICACO WILL DECISION. Maker Need Not Sign In the Prcaeucc of WltireMet* Six religious and charitable institutions, by the decision of Judge Gibbons at (.'hij capo,.are sustained hi their claim to bequ?.8li n$grc<;atiag .$100.WO. A precedent i? established which, if nvstiincd by the iSujjliir.io Court, will materially allVi-t judicial practice in the piovin;.: "[ wills. J:i curct the der-Unm holds that the maker oj a will need not si^n the itu-iruliini' in the pi wife of t!ie witne.-*M to the d.)t u nont an.I tti.it the witiiv-'.-.es i:e>vl not he iiuonned that the iiwlruiuent v. hicli Oir>v :it.tonfc is a will trr fc-ut . ) ) \ I ) THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY I. I i Subject: Jesti* Walkinjj on thd Sea. Matt, xlv., 22-33?Golden Text: I Matt xlv., 33?Memory Verges, 25-JJ'^Commentary on the Day's Lessou. . 22. "And straightway." The time IioaJ comt for instant action. "Jesus constrained.'" Commanded. The disciples seemed un willing to go and leave Him alone, iby the exercise ot direct authority He coikpellec them to embark. "Unto the other pide." Towards Ca'pernum and BethsaidaJ John 6: 10, 17; Mark 6: 45. "While We sent the multitudes away." The multitudes would not leave while the disciples wer< present. / 23. "Apart to pray." He was cdnacious that a solemn and awful crisis of His day on earth was come, and by communing with His heavenly Father He would nerve His soul for the stern work of the morrow, and the bitter conflict of man.y coming weeks. There on the desolate hilK top, in that night of storm, He could gain V strength and peace and happiness unspeakable. "Evening was come." About six o'clock. From verse 25 we see that He must have remained in the mountain, alone with His God, far into the night. \ 24. "In the midst of the sea." The ship in the sea is a striking emblem of His church in the world. Not infrequently dc the waves and the winds of strong persecutions come against the chUrch. The ship is safe in the sea so long, as the sea does not get into the ship; and so the church is xn the world a mighty power for good, but when the world gets in the church it begins to sink. 25. "In the fourth watch." . The .Tews had four watches, or periods of the nigftt. The first watch was from six to nine o'clock; the second, (rom nine to twelve; the third, from twelve to three; and the fourth, from three to six in the morning. It was therefore between the hours of three and six in the morning taat Jesus apeared to them. They had toiled nearly all night. "Jesus went unto them." He wnl always go to His disciples when they are in trouble, and are laboring against the waves. "Walking on the sea. He thus shows His unlimited power. Here are three miracles in one. First, though at a distance He knew the distress of His disciples. Second, He found them out on the lake and probably in the midst of darkness. Third, He walked upon the water. . 20. "Saw Him." At last, in their worst extremity, they saw a gleam in the darkness, ana an awful figure, and a.fluttering robe, and One drew near them, treading upon the ridges of the sea, but seemed as if He meant to pass them by; and they cried out in terror at the sight, thinking that it was a phantom. "Cried out." Little things will frighten us in a. storm. When without are fightings, within are fears. Even the approaches of deliverance are sometimes the occasions of trouble. 27. "Straightway." Christ is anxious to allay our fears now. instantly, as He did theirs. "It is I." Nothing but the voice they knew so well could.' under such circumstances, have given them comfort and :ouraze. Those who are grievously tossed with difficulties and temptations require a similar manifestation of -His goodness. When Christ proclaims Himself in the soul, all sorrow and fear and sin are at an end. ' 28. "If it be Thou." Or. "since it is Thou." There was no doubt expressed here. Peter knew it was Jesus.- "Bid Me come." Peter's fault lay in the words "bid me," which betray an ambitious and over-confident desire to outdo and outdare the other disciples. That Peter's faith was sincere is seen (1) from the fact that in dependence upon Jesus he left the boat, and (2) when he was "sinking he called on Him for aid. 29. "Come." Sometimes the answer is come in order that we may know our weakness and have-out pride of wisdom brought low. The lx>ra Knew mat reter's faith would fail him, but He said, Come, if thou desirest to make the experiment. "Walked on the waters." He walked on the water, but he was upheld by the divine power of Jesus Christ, not by the water.' 30. "The wind boisterous." So long as Peter kept his eye on his Lord he could tread the boisterous waves in perfect safety; but as soon as he began to look at tneir blackness, and consider the depths beneath him, "he was afraid:" His faith failed, his courage staggered, and, in the hurry of his thoughts, lie was taeized with a sudden terror. "Beginning to sink." It was not the violence of the wind or the raging billows which endangered his life, but his littleness of faith. Christians are upheld, as they are saved, by faith. I'dter cast away his confidence,, which we are exhorted not to do. Heb. 10:35. When we "draw back" the Lord has no pleasure in us, and we .begin to sink. "Lord, save me." This prayer w*as a model in many respects. 1. It was direct. 2. It recognized the divinity of Jesus. Peter would have had no confidence in Christ's ability had he not known He was more than a mere man. 3. It was personal. 4. It was short. If Peter had prayed as many people do to-day he Viqto hopn manv fathoms under water before he came to the point of asking to be saved. 5. It was earnest and came from the heart; he was going down; in another moment he would, have perished. Prevailing prayer is born of necessity. *31. "Immediately." Christ will never permit a soul to sink that is earnestly calling for help. "His hand." His hand is a strong hand, a sure support. "Littles faith." Tnis was a gentle rebuke. Faith may be true and yet weak. Peter had faith enough to bring him upon the water, but not enough to carry him through the billows. We should not consider so much the danger to which we are exposed as the power of Christ by which we are upheld. The test may be great, but God's grace yill be sufficient in every case. 1 "Doubt." Why? what reason had you for doubting? Had 1' not told you to come? and did you not.make the first'part of the journey in safety? t^nd was I not right here by your side to preserve you? Wherefore didst thou doubt?; 32. "The wind ceased." TJjis was another miracle. All they needed was Christ on board. The storm was over and immediately they were "at the land whither they wetot.' Tins was still another miracle. When Christ comes into the soul He brings peace'and a calm with.Him. , 33. "They that were in the shin." The sailors who were present as well as the disciples. "Came and worshipped." They were deeply im Dressed witn the many manifestations of His divinity. The day, and night, too, had been full of nroofs that He was the Son of God. The day before He had miraculously fed the multion/t linv? JioploH their sick: and now I VUUt, UUU UUVk , one miracle follows another in such auick succession that they cannot restrain themselves, but. ih a rapture\of wonder, devotion and reverence," "they fall at His feet and openly declare, "Thou art the Son of God." "Of a truth." The fa.ct is established beyond any possibility of there being a mistake. A "CONGRESSIONAL" FAMILY. Two Brother* Nominated In North Carolina In Congress. It is a rare thing to-see two brothers in Congress at the same time from the same State, whose father preceded them in the same body. And yet that will be the result of the norafhation of Claude Kitchen, whom the Democrats of the Second District of North Carolina * named as their oandidate for Congress. The new nominee, who is but thirty vcars of age, is a brother of Congressman \V. W. Kitchen, of the Fifth District of North Carolina, and who will unquestionably be re-elected to another term this year. The father of these two young men, the Hon. W. H. Kitchen, a few years i)io represented the same district (Second) his younger son has now been called upon to represent. Orifiintil Kleal; House For Sule. Any wealthy enthusiastic Dickens lovei ean have the original Bleak Mouse. Broadstairs. Kent. Knglaud. for $15,000. It is in the market, and unless taken will be demolished to make way for a ntoilern boarding establishment. .municipal Ownership In Berlin. The Berlin Council will hereafter build, operate ami maintain all st-i**-4 ?ar liues for municipal account. 4<WJ" m THE GREAT DESTROYER. SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. mint* Hob a Poor Man of Ills Beer ? The Allegation That Alcohol. Is a Food Which Does No Harm Sliovrn to B? a Fallacy by Scientific Investigators. What! rob a poor man of his beer And give him good victuals instead'/ Your heart's very hard, sir, I fear, Or at least you are soft in the head. What! rob a poor man of his mug And give him a house of his own, With kitchen and parlor so snug? 'Tis enough to draw tears from a stone! What! rob a poor man of his glass, And teach him how to read and write? What! save him from being an ass? 'Tis nothing but malice and spite! What! rob a poor man of his ale And prevent him from beating his wife, From being locked up in a jail, s With penal employment for life? VWiafc! rob a poor man of his beer Atod keep him from starving his child? It malkes one feel dreadfully queer; And%!U thank you to draw it more mild. PrXl?8?or Atwater Confuted. ProfessorVAtwater, or those who have spoken for ?im, have declared that one and one-half vo two ounces of alcohol, taken in divided do3es during the day are oxidized, and yseem" to do no harm. The subjects ? his experiments were adult males, sor?e of whom were accustomed and anmolMt accustomed to drinking some kind of ||fiholic beverage. It is further stated tha^Bthose experimented upon were not unde^?^?rvation, in aa experimental way, long^kflugh to determine what might have beeM^sresult o? imbibing this amount of alcoW^||^^?ng time. The fact to which attentioi^^iW^. be called is that no definite measures were instituted to determine whether the organism at all suffered in its functions by the taking of these small daily quantities of alcohol. It will not satisfy the earnest investigator to be told that tney "seemed" to do no harm, nor need he content himself with this answej. Others hafa? determined that, arriving at definite results. Dr. Herman Frey, in Sahli's clinic, in Berne, Switzerland, in 1896, undertook to determine the effects of small quantities nf n1pr?lir?l ltnrm munmilnr u?nrlr Wo i^an. not, within the limits of this article, give these experiments in detail. Suffice it to say that they were carried out with the utmost care and all apparent sources of 'irror eliminated. Alcohol was given in '-he form of cherry brandy, cognac, wine, beer and diluted water, not more than one and one-fourth to two' drachms, or jive to ten grams of alcohol being administered at one dose. The strengta of the muscular contractions was measured by Mosso's ergograph. As a result of his experiments Dr. Frey found that alcohol in these quantities decreased both the strength of the individual contractions and tne amount of work which the muscle was capable of doing before being fatigued, in some cases the decrease amounting to nearly fifty per cent. Of many experiments these were only two which did not show this result, and these, the experimenter thipks, were influenced by suggestion, as they were hysterical subiects. Concerning the effects of alcohol upon, mental processes" w? h3v?"only to recall the work of Kraeplin and his co-laborers. These eminent and careful investigators, after manv experiments, 1350 in one group, announced without reservation that "all the intellectual functions examined suffered a marked depression after the ingestion of small, moderate and large doses of alcohol, and this depression makes its apEearance immediately after the alcohol as been ingested." Among the mental processes tested were the cower to add figures and to commit to memory. In these there was a constantly decreasing power with the continued ingestion of alcohol, followed by an immediate rise when the alcohol was withdrawn. Nor should it be forgotten that the quantity used wasexactly that which Professor Atwater and others say seemed to do no harm. As to the heat producing power of alcohol that is another fallacy; for, in spite of the fact that really more heat is produced in the body by the oxidation of alcohol, the heat radiation by reason of the dilatation of the peripheral vessels is increased in a still greater degree, and the sum total of the effects is an actual decrease of bodily temperature. Let any one consider these facts, which have been established by the most careful possible methods and with mathematical precision, and he must deny in toto that alcohol deserves a place in the list of carbohydrate or any other class of foods.?Nejv York Independent. A Study in Beer. There lies dead in Bellevue Hospital a man whose intemperance killed him at the age of forty-three. For many years before his death life must have been a burden to him, for ??was forced to carry about 480 pounds Vft-fKfejftmostly diseased. It is notf said that he was a drunkard, but as for that there are different degrees of drunkenness. There is the man ma^ with drink, the drivelling idiot inclined to rambling philosophy and incoherent friendliness, tne babbling enthusiast, the insensate inarticulate joker, the dull sleeper. Amend drank prodigious ouantities of beer and acquired cirrhosis of the liver. As he lay dying all that his drowned-out intellect could amuse or interest itself with was a calculation of the amount of beer consumed by him during the twentyfive years that he had driven a beer wagon. This, he said, was seven quarts a day, 2555 auarts a year, 63,875 quarts for the twentyfive years. What a vision of bestiality! Nearly 500 pounds, of beer-wrought flesh, with a 'trembling' spark of intelligence hidden away among its masses of fat. and at the end, after long confinement in the hospital had reduced this mass to less than 200 pounds, the partially released but still Kucif ifaolf Tinf 1* Stupeneu BfJint wuuiu win* .?u.i? ?v?v.i the waves of beer under which it had been submerged for a quarter of a century.? New York World. Civilizing Africa. The civilization of Africa eoes on apace. A British steamer sailed from Hamburg a few days ago with 1000 tons of spirits on board for Lagos and Southern Nigeria. Another steamer, sailing from the same port, carried double that quantity. The spirits consisted of bad fcin and worse rum, and the trade ii principally in the hamta of a few big English and German firms. An Inrlillou' Foe. Drunkenness entraps the bread-winner of the household and robs hnn of bis wages, his strength, his character and his employment. It robs the wife of the love and protection pledged to her at the altar. It takes from the children the care and affection of a father. It steals from every member shelter, foou, clothing and an honorable name. Tlie Crnnade In Itrief. British officers say that the total abstainer is the better fighting man. More deaths are due in England to alcoholism than to diphtheria or tvphoid fever. There are 740 saloons in the First Ward of Chicago, and in one section there arc twenty in one block. The Sons of Temperance, an English society, has an adult membership ot 42,775, a gain for the year of 2300. Railroad companies in Ohio are forbidden under penaltv of $200 to emr?loy locomotive engineers who are addicted to drinking. Only six per cent, of criminals in this country are women, but the proportion will change for the worse tt wine rooms are to 'oe multiplied throughout the country. The Buffalo (X. Y.) Reform League is now paying attention to saloons run in connection with groceries, and unking this combination the subject of legal nro* feedings. They have been summoned to show cause why their liquor tax cvrtilicates should not be revoked. The Grand Master of Masons, of Arkansas, has decided tuat no man who sella alcoholic liquors as a beverage can become a Mason in that State, but that tlios-j now in the order who are so engaged will be given a reasonable time and brothcrlv aid to change their occupation. ' . ? A