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THE BFST OF LIFE.
Not till life's heat is cooled.
The headlong rush slowed to a quiet pace,
f\. And e vrv purblind passion that ha3
ruled
Our noiser years at last
Spurs us in vain. and. weary of the race.
jWe care no more who loses or who wins?
Ah! not till all the best of life seems past
The best of life begins.
To toil for only fame.
Handclappings and the fickle gusts of
l praise. '
For place or power or gold to gild a
name
Above the grave whereto
All paths will bring us. were to lose our
days?
We. on whose ears youth's passing bell has
tolled?
In blowing bubbles, even as children do,
Forgetting we grow old.
But the world widens when
Such hopes of trivial gain that ruled us
lies , .
. * Broken among our chjldhooii'a tovsr for
tl,en Oi - X*. -t '
K We win to self-control!
Anu mail ourselves to manhood, and there
BjHtpon us from the vast and windless height
^M^^ree clearer thoughts that arc unto the
In9 What stars are to the night.
H ?The Spectator.
SWWocxsaoooooocoooooooooooo
MmHE QUARREL CURE. ?
HIV CJ
Bv Ida lCced Smith. O
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"T" INE day?w??t of tea? there
W^m -wire no friends in
\ the bloc^jftan- Molly and
MabA i^cri side by
aide, went to the, same school, read the
W same best
H hats trimmedlttsTexactly alike, even
& to the muptei><o? iriots on the
^tgray quills, wnich matte ftie blue felt
Hfetifeks so very charmjftg in the eyes
Hg^Bth. But, on A Ho tenfcr'May?oh.
HrBH^B how everything was changed!
went to school on one syde of the
with nefer p glance across at
H|^B, trudging diidaimlly along on
HBBB^nier; and'from bnwfast to bedHHB^ke
day was dut of Joint Tor both.
B^^w^Bsure, the quarrels never lasted
BRHVbut they were'ssricus matters
EHn^Vthey did last.
Bfl^^Bvain the mothers took counsel toBS^Ker.
In vain they reasoned, each
I. ner own particular mue giri.
pth Molly and Mabe! protested that
ley lcved each other, and never
[eant to quarrel; tut still the quarrels
could come, and make Loth miserable,
md they arose over such triFing
hings! After the "making up," the
jtvo friends never could see "how they
kme to quarrel over a little thing like
hat!"
So things went on until Molly's Aunt
rrances came to spend the winter with,
ler sister. Now, Aunt Frances 'Was
lolly's ideal of everything.fey
should be. So it v/as -nb-wcta'der
k her niece $ang her .praises 'mornnoon
and night. Neither was it
am wonder that Mabel,' who had a
g lady aunt of her own, grew tired
often hearing the samr strain,
[^B>n the fatal tenth day*chance<l to
|Hrk that, while Molly's Aunt
BLces was very nice in her opinion,
^Bown Aunt Angie was nicer. This
the thin end of the wedge of disHe;
but half an hour later Molly
\ v\ 4 r\ fVi rt K f V> O f
Huuoc u^Ma; uiai,
ipeak to .Mabel Bye
e lived?"so there!"
en driven deep, aud
it wide open.
tened to the tale of
to think anyone
h a perfectly grave
lue eye3 were daiic1
the story was endingly:
I it so much. Molly,
care if Mabel likes
est. But I'm sorry
ive quarreled about
; all the way from
a to cause a coldds,
and I shall feel
and Mabel never
Ir again."
Uy, hesitating beion
to "stay mad"
lease Aunt Frances.
>eak to her, just to
i quite sure I shal!
yell any more." ,
's kitten ran {iway
all the children in
jking for it. Molly
it look, too. And,
in the coal-bin?it
the cellar windowto
carry it home,
ited that she hugged
ittsn. and the quarmd
there.
ter dinner, Aunt
[oily to her, and
II pink box, with a
the outside,
e, "just look here!
ose I've got in this
questioned Molly,
r recovered Tron a
d with suspicion on
particular sort,
enough," responded
erfuilv. "You shall
Mnl'v mv iloar r
' \yill cure you; and my"fame will spread
l through the length and .breadth cf th^
land." (I forgot to tell that Aunt
?j- Frances was studying to be a doctor.)
s,' "But I'm not sick any more." pro?.
tested Molly, drawing away from th?
hox before she should be asked to take
a dose of whatever was in it.
"Oh, certainly not," agreed Aunt
Frances. "But I want you to try the
quarrel cure. dear. See? These ar-1
temper tablets of the very best-make."
She opened the box, and Molly saw
j1 the contents?tablets about the size 01
r a peppermint lozenge, clear, and of n
Ev lovely deep red. They did not look as
though they would taste bad.
?r "Take one," said Aunt Frances. "M>
prescription would include 'one at bedtime.'
So you might as well begin the
treatment right away."
Molly obeyed. The temper tablet was
sweet, and tasted of wintergreen.
"Don't try to bite it," cautioned th<
prescribing physician. "Let it dissolvi
in your mouth. And now, Nieceums.'
she continued, with a very professiona
air, "when you feel a quarrel cominj
on I want you to take one of thesi
tablets. Don't crush It with youi
teeth?just let it melt in your mouth
And be careful not to speak until it i
ell gone. Do you fully understand th<
directions?"
Molly nodded solemnly. The respon
fcibility of being a first "case" rath?
awed her.
"Will you treat Mabel, too?" sh
' nsked.
\>
"It won't be necessary," said Aunt '
Frances, gravely, "if you take the tab- I
lets as I prescribe. And, if I were you, '
I wouldn't tell anybody I was being
created."
The next morning Molly started for
school with a temper tablet neatly
wrapped in tin-foil in her small poclcet.
That day passed peacefully. So did
several others; and Molly had all hut
'forgotten that she was being treated,
when, .suddenly, one Saturday afternoon.
she felc a quarrel coming on.
Mabel had made a dress for her doll.
Molly didn't think it fitted very well, j
and said so. Mabel answered tartly j
that ?he guessed Molly couldn't do as !
well: and Molly had just opened her j
mouth to say something peppery when :
she remembered the temper tablets.
Hastily laying her beloved Flori- j
monda Isabelle face down on the floor, :
she ran out of the room. The temper f
tablet was at the very bottom of her j
pocket; but she picked it out, un- j
wrapped the tin-foil and popped it into I
her mouth. The rosy bit of sweetness f
tasted very nice, and she went back !
to her doll feeling better already.
"Thought you'd gone home mad," re- j
? 1-?rJfl-? hAr email nrvcx* ir*
| rnuifttru maucj, muu uvi omuu ?.
the air. . .
r
Never a word from Molly.
"I didh't care if you had," added
Mabel, with a sniff.
Molly rolled the temper tablet under
her tongue, but answered nothing at
all.
"Well, you needn't talk if you don't j
want to," snapped Mabel; and she gave I
her entire attention to putting the new j
dress upon its owner, Evelyn Kathryn j
j Olivia.
Little by little the temper tablet dissolved
in Molly's mouth; and, strange
I to say, her anger melted with it. It
was worn to wafer thinness; and Molly
was wondering just what she should
say when the "treatment" was' over,
when she heard a faint sound of music
far down the street.
"Oh. Mabel!" she cried, excitedly,
"there's a grind-organ; and maybe
there's a monkey! ^.et's go and see!"
"Oh, let's!" answered Mabel, jumping
up eagerly; and a moment later
Klorimonda Isabelle and Evelyn Kathr.vn
Olivia were left to be company for
each other, while their respective
mothers raced hand, in hand tlown the
street in searfch?of the probable "grindorgan"
and^the possible monkey.
That night Molly told Aunt Frances
the v.-hole story, and that young lady
listened with genuirife professional
pleasure. Her first case was doing remarkably
well, she said; and the patient
was advised to continue the use
of the invaluable temper tablets in all
similar emergencies. Molly followed
L- ia)*hfufiv on ri, before i
me presciipuvu nuuuu.v, .
spring both she and Mabel were com- j
pletely cured.
After a while Molly discovered the
reason why the temper tablets had
such a soothing effect in the first
stages of a quarrel. I wonder if you
have guessed it| too??New York
Weekly. ' \ 1
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The Unexpected Find.
This story was toid by a Philadelphia
man who dislikes nothing so
much as to be asked questions: "My
little girl is very fond of seasbells."
he said, "and, having been
called to Atlantic City ou business the
oibe^flday. I took advantage of the opportunity
to run down to the beach, to
see .if I- ?juld pick up a few. I was
tsti^iliij^ \lie sand, gathering a
fifid pebbles, which I placed
in my handkerchief, when along came
one of those old idiots who ask questions
with their mouths which their
eyes could answer. He smiled upon
! nil? and said: Tine day, isn't it? Are
you gathering shells?' 'No,' I snapped
back, saying tho first thing that popped
into uiy mind. 'I'm looking for a set of !
false teeth I lost while in bathing.' j
He expressed his sympathy and then I
liis fueo lit ui) as his eye caught sight J
of a pink ami white object on the I
sand. "Well, I declare! Here they are j
now!' he exclaimed, and, sure enough, j
he picked up a set of false teeth lying '
right at his feet.
"I was too surprised to do anything
hut grab them and put them into my
pocket. The funny part of it is that I
never had a tooth pulled in my life. I j
wonder whom that false set belongs |
to."?Philadelphia Record.
Suicide Catcher of Kxjuchs Train. '
It has become a fad recently in Italy
among persons who desire to commit
suicidt- Jo jump in front of express
trains. Three weeks ago the engineer
and the passengers of the (Jenoa-Rome
express were really vexed because in a
.short* run of eight hours four persons
iiio rmin in this way to end their
lives, regardless of the delay which j
i hey were causing by their selfish j
ilioughlessness.
Moral suasion appearing inadequate j
to the task of turning these self-mar- j
derers from the fatal error of their j
ways the railroad authorities lm vo j
adopted a special suicide catcher. 1c
is placed in front of the locomotive
like the American cowcatcher, and it
scoops up the person who tries to use !
,h;? engine for his own unpleasant pur- j
poses. Having scooped him lip. it dt- j
posits him on a little platform, where
he gets a free trip to the nearest sta- j
tioc, while the engineer and the fireman
enliven the journey by making
deeply felt remarks to him.?New York i
Press.
But One Emperor.
Apropos of the paragraph I gave in
iast issue of the German showman's
I experiences < r uie law ol ie?e luajmu:, .
I remember hearing tae following
story, for the truth ot' which, however. J
1 I would not l!kc to vouch. An officer j
1 in the German army, passing along a
street in Berlin with a friend, made a
remark about "the fool of an emper
or." He was immediately arrested by
! a vigilant policeman. He attempted to
set out of the difficulty by explaining
5 that he referred to the Emperor of
Russia. "That won't do." said the
i policeman. "I know very well you
J meant the German Emperor; there is
no other emperor you possibly could
' mean!"?M. A. P.
j Editors Less Quarrelsome
r Newspaperdom finds that there is
less of the acrimonious spirit shown
s between editors and newspapers than
e formerly. Bitter invectives against
rivals are now seen in print only in
. rare instances. The public cares nothr!
ing for newspaper family quarrels,
I and the editors know it and confine
c' their efforts to gathering and dissemi
iuatiug news and good reading inajter.
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j DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
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SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: The Golden Calf of Modern Idolatry
? The Spirit of Greed Destroys
Those Who Are in It* Gra?i> ? Money
Got Wrongfully is ? Curse.
[Copyright lwm.1
Washington, D. In this discourse
Dr. Talmage shows how the spirit of
greed destroys when it takes possession
of a man and that money , got in wrong
ways is a curse; text. Exodus xxxii, 20.
"And he took the calf which they had
made and burnt it in the fire and ground
it to powder and strewed it upon the
water and made the children of Israel
drink of it."
People will have a god of some kind,
and they prefer one of their own making.
Here co > the Israelites, breaking off
their golden earrings, the men as well as
the women, for in those times there was
masculine ;\s well as feminine decoration.
Where u. 1 they get these beautiful gold
earrings, coming up. as they did, from the
desert? Oh, they borrowed them of the
Egyptians when they left Egypt. These
onm?in/va ??? "? 11 f\A urv infn f% nWMml/1 nf
tWllJU^O ttic J/IICU V4IJ l&ll/vr I* vglittering
beauty. Any more earrings
to bring?" says Aaron. None. Fire is
kindled, the earrings are melted and poured
into a mold not of nn ea^le or a war
charger, but of a silly calf; the gold cools
down, the mold is taken away, and the
idol is set up on its four legs. An altar
is built in f.Tmt of the shining calf. Then
the peonle throw up their arms and gyrate
and shriek and dance vigorously and
worship
Moseg hn* been six weeks on Mount
Sinai, a-d he comes back and hears the
howling and sees the dancing of these
golden calf fanatics, and he loses his patience,
and he takes the two plates of
stone on which were written the Ten Commandments
and flings them so hard
against a rock that they split all to pieces,
When a man gets angry, ho is ant to
break all the Ten Commandments. Moses
rushes in, and he takes this calf god and
throws it into a hot fire until it is melted
all out of shape and then pulverizes it?
not by the modern appliance of nitro muriatic
ac:d, but by the ancient appliance of
niter or by the oid fashioned file. He stirs
for the people a most nauseating draft.
He takes this pulverized golden calf and
throws it in the only brook which is accessible,
and the neople are compelled to
drink of that brook or not drink at nil.
But they did not drink all the glittering
stuff thrown on the surface. Some of it
flows on down the surface of the brook to
the river and then flows on down the river
to the sea, and the se& takes it up and
bears it to the jnouth of all the rivers, and
when the tides set back the remains of
this golden calf are carried up intrt the
Potomac and, the Hudson and the Thames
and the Clyde and the Tiber. And men
go out and they skim the glittering >urface,
and t^iey bring it ashore and they
makJe another golden calf, and California
and Australia break off their golden earrings
to augment the pile, and in the (ires
of financial excitement and struggle all
these things are melted together, ( and
while we stand looking and wondering
what will come o?>it, lo, we find thrit the
golden calf of Israelitifeh worship has become
the golden calf of European and
American worship.
Pull aside this curtain, and you see th'e
golden calf of modern idolatry.' It i<? not,
like other Idols, madp' out of stocks or
stone, but it has an ear so sertsilive that it
can hear the whispers on Wall street and
rr" ' ' J? J Oi-i. - .1?.1 J
J. nira screei ana owe auxrcv aau mvfootfalls
in the Bank of England' and the
flutter of. a Frenchman'# heart on the
bourse. It has an eye so keep tbkt it can
see the rust on the failm of Michigan
wheat and the insect in the Maryland
peach orchard'and the trampled*grain under
the hoof of the Russian war charger.
It is so mighty that it swing4 any way it
mil the World's shipping. It has its foot
on all the merchantmen and the steamers.'
It started the American Civil War
and under God stopped it, and it decided
tho Turko-Rutaian contests Ode, JjroKer
in September, 1869, kTNew?prk/*obu?ed.
"One hundred and sixty ior aw?uli(m!''
and the whole continent shivjffed.-.^he'
golden calf of the text has, as farfo America
is concerned, its right front foot In
New York; iti left front foot in Chicago,^
its right back foot in Charleston, its left
back foot in New Orleans, and when it
shakes itself it shakes the world. Oh, this
is a mighty god?the golden calf of the
world's worship! x
But every god must have its temple, and
this golden calf of the text is no exception.
Its tenu>le is vaster than St. Paul's
Cathedral in England, and St. Peter's in
Italy, and the Alhambra of the Spaniards,
and the Parthenon of toe Greeks, and the
Taj Mahal of the Hindoos, and all the
cathedrals put together. Its pillars arc
grooved and fluted with gold, and its
ribbed arches fire hovering gold, trad its
chandeliers are descending gold, and its
floors are tessellated gold, ana its vaults
are crowded heaps of goH and its spires
and domes are ^oaring gold, and its organ
pi:>33 are resounding gold," and its pedals
are tramping gold, ana its stops pulled out
are flashing gold, while, standing at the
head of the temple, as the presiding diety.
are t^ie hoofs and shoulders and eyes and
ears and nostt-ils of the calf of gold.
Further, every god must have not only
its temple, but its altar of sacrifice, and
this golden calf of the text is no exception.
Its altar is not made out of stone as other
altars, but out of counting room desks
md fireproof safes, and it is a broad, a
long, a high altar. The Victim* sacrificed
on it are the Swartouts and the Ketchams
and the Fisks and ten thousand other
people who are slain before this golden
ca,lf.
What does this god care about the
groans and struggles of the-victims before
it? With cold, metallic eye. it looks on
and yet lets them "suffer. What an altar!
What a sacrifice of mind, body and soul!
The physical health of a great multitude
is flung on to this sacrificial altar. They
cannot sleep, and they take chloral and
morphine and intoxicants.
some 01 tnem struggle in a nigunnare ui
'stocks, and at 1 o'clock in the morning
suddenly rise up shouting: "A thousand
shares of New York Central?one hundred
and eight and a half, take it!"?until
the whole family is affrighted, and the
speculators fall back on their pillows and
sleep until thev are .awakened again by a
"corner" in Pacific Mail, or a sudden
"rise" of Rock Island.
Their nerves gone, their digestion gone,
their brain gone, they die. The gowned
ecclesiastic comes in and reads the funeral
service, "Blessed are the dead who die
in the Lord!" Mistake. They did not
"die in the Lord;" the golden calf kicked
them.
The trouble is, when the men sacrifice
themselves on this altar suggested in the
text they not only sacrifice themselves,
but they sacrifice their families.
If a man by a wrong course is determined
to go to perdition, 1 suppose you
will have.to let him go. But he puts his
wife and children m an equipage that is
the amazement of the avenues, and the
driver lashes the horses into two whirlwinds,
and the spokes flash in the sun and
the golden headgear ot t..c harness gleams
until black calamity takes the bits of the
I horses and stops tnem and shouts to the
I luxuriant occupants.of the equipage, "Get
! out!" They get cut. They get down.
, That husband and father Hung his family
| ho hard they never got up. There was
| the mark on them for life?the mark of a
I split hoof?the death dealing hoot of the
! golden calf.
i Solomon offered in one sacrifice on one
j occasion 22,000 oxen and 120,>'K)0 ahccp.
| But that was a tame sacrifice compared
I with th3 multitude of men wiio are sac!
rificing themselves on this altar of the
j golden calf and sacrificing their families
with them. The soldiers of General Havelock
in India walked literally ankle deep
in the blood of "the house of massacre,
where 200 white women and children had
been slain by the sepoys. But the blood
about this altar of the golden calf flows up
to the knee, flows up to the girdle, flows
to the shoulder, flows to the lip. Great
God of heaven and earth, have ip^rcy on
those who immolate 'themselves on this
altar! The golden calf has none.
Still the degrading worship goes on, and
the devotees kneel and kiss the dust and
count their golden beads and cross themselves
with the blood of their own sacrifira
Th* mumio rolls od rjidar tbo orcbpjL
^ . .v - *
. .
It is m* Je of clinking silver and clinking '
gold and the rattling; specie of th? banks ;
and broKers' shnns and the voices of all
the exchanges. The soprano ot the worship
is carried by the timid voices of men
who have just begun to speculate, while
the deep bass rolls out from those who for
ten years have bpen steencd in the entiling
cauldron. Chorus of voiccs rejoicing
over what they have made; chorus of
voiccs wailing over what they have lost, j
This temple of which I speak stands open
day and night, and there is the glittering
god with his four feet on broken hearts,
and there is the smoking altar of sacrifice,
new victims every moment on it. and !
there are the kneeling devotees, and the j
doxology of the worship rolls on, while j
death stands with moldy and skeleton arm
beatine time for the chorus?'"More, more, |
more!"
Some people are very much surprised at I
the actions of people in the Stock lis- i
change, New York. Indeed it is a scene (
sometimes that paralyzes description and j
is beyond the imagination of any one who i
has never looked in. What snapping of i
finjrer and thumb and wild gesticulation
and raving lil:e hyenas, and stamping like |
buffaloes, and swaying to and fro, and
jostling and running one upon another,
and deafening uproar, until the president'
~ ofri \raa Tin Hi hlQ m,1 llpfc !
UI tnc CAUliaiigc nvm%vo .
four or five times, crying, "Orc'.er, order!"
and the astonished spectator goes out into
the fresh air feeling that he has escaped
from pandemonium. What does it all
mean? I will tell y.ou what it mec.n&. The
devotees of every heathen teirpie cut
themselves to pie s and yell and gvrxte.
This vociferation ^nd gyration of the
Stock Exchange is aii apnropriatc. This
is tho worship of the golden calf.
But my text suggests that this worship
has to be broken up, as the behavior of
Moses on this occasion indicated. Thers
are those who say that this golden calf
spoken of in the text was hollow and
I merely plated with gold. Otherwise
Moses could not have carried .it. 1 do
| not know t. But somehow, perhaps by
the assistance of hi3 friends, he takes up"
this golden calf, which is an infernal insult
to God and man, and throws it into
the fire, and it is melted. And then it
comes out and is cooled off, and by some
chemical appliance or by an old-fashioned
file it is pulverized, and it is thrown into
the brook, ar.d as a punishment the people
are compelled to drink the nauseating
stuff. So you may depend upon it that
God will burn and He will grind to pieces.
the golden calf of modern idolatry, and He
will compel the people in their agony to
drink it. If not before, it will be on the
last day. I know not where the fire will
begin, whether at the Battery or Lombard
street, whether at S^oreditch or
West End, but it will bfe a very hot blaze.
All the Government securities of the United
States and Great Britain wll curl up
ia the first blast. All the monejT safes and
Hpnosit vaults will melt -under the first
toupb. The sea will burn.like tihder. and
the shipping will be abandoned forever.
The melting gold in the brijketfs Window
will burst tnrouga the liielted window^
glass into the street. $ut the flying populace
will not stop to;, scoop ,it Up. The
cry of "Fire!" from "the mountain will
be answered by the cry of "Fir?!''-in the
plain. The conflagration will- burn out
from the continent toward the sea and
then burn in" from the' dfea toward theland.
.wew Y6rk< and, London, with one'
t of the red scathe of destruction, will
go down. .Twenty-five thousand miles of
conflagration! The earth will wrap itself
round and-round< in sh?oud of flame and J
life dawn to perish. What then'"will become j
of yottr igolaen calf? Who then so poor j
as, to worship it? Melted or between the !
upper and nether - millstones of falling i
mountains ground to powder. Dagon I
down^ Moloch down, Juggernaut down, |
golden calf down!
But every dav is a day of judgTi?ent,
and God is all the time grinding to pieces
the golden calf. Some years ago, in a
time of panic, we learned as never before
that forgeries will not pay; that the watering
of stock will not pay; that the
spending of $50,000 on country seats and a
palatial city residence when there is only
$30,000 income will not pay; that the appropriation
of trust funds to our own
private speculation will not pay.' >ve naa ]
a great national tumor in the shape of !
fictitious prosperity. We .ialled it national
enlargement. Instead of calling it enlargement
we might'better have called it
a,swelling; It was a tumor, and God cut
Y? out, and the nation was s?.nt, b?ck to
tlie principles of our fathers and grandfathers,
when twice three made sir instead
of sixty/ and when the apples at the bottom
of the barrel wer? jost as good as
the apples on the top of the barrel, and
a silk handkerchief was-not half cottofl,
and a man who wore a $5 coat paid for
was more honored tban a man who wore
a $50 coat not paid for.
The judgments of God, like Moses in
the text, will rush in and break up'this
worship, and I say1 let the work go on
until every man shall learn to speak truth
with his neighbor, and those who make
engagements shall fell themselves bound
to keep them, and when a man who will
not repent of his business iniquity, but
goes on wishing to satiate his cannibal appetite
by devouring widows' houses, shall,
bv the law of the land, be compelled to j
exchange the brownstone front for the :
penitentiary. Lut the golden calf perish! r
' But if we have made this world our god,
when we come to die we shall sell our idol
demolished. How much of this world
** !+V* ttAii in b-i fha
(ire JfUU Kymg iU uiag iTivu jvu M*?v ?MV .
next? Will you have two pockets-^one
in each side of your shroud? Will you
cushion your casket with bonds and mortgages
and certificates of stock? Ah, no!
The ferryboat that crosses this Jordan
takes no baggage?nothing heavier than
an immaterial spirit.
You may, perhaps, take ?500 with you
two or three miles in the shape of fun- !
e^al trappings to the cemetery, but you j
will have to leave them there. It would j
not be safe for you to lie down tfiere ,
with a gold watch or a diamond ring; it j
would be a temptation to the pillagers.
If we have made this world our god, j
we shall see our idol, when we die, ground
to pieces by our pillow, and we shall have |
to drink it in bitter regrets for the wasted-i
opportunities of a lifetime. Soon we will
be gone. ' /
Where are the men who tried ^War
ren Hastings iu Westminster toaiir wnere
are the pilgrim fathers who put oat for
AmericaWhere are the veterans who on
the Fourth of July, 1794, marched from
New York park to the iiattery and fired
a salute and then marched back again?
And the Society of the Cincinnati, who
dined that afternoon at Tontine Coffee
House, on Wall street, and Grant Thorburn,
who that afternoon waited fifteen
minutes at the foot of Maiden lane for the
Brooklyn ferryboat, then got in and was
rowed across by two men with oars, fhe |
tide so strong that it was an hour and
ten minutes before they landed? Where
are the ve'terans that fired the salute,
and the men of the Cincinnati Society wl^o
that afternoon drank to the patriotic '
toast, and the oarsmen that rowed the
boat, and the people who were transported?
Gone! On, this is a fleeting
world. It is aj dying world. A man who
had worshiped it all his days in his dying
moment described himself when he
said, "Fool, fool, fool!"
When your parents have breathed their
last and the old, wrinkled and trembling
hands can no more- be put upon your head
for a blessing. Cod will be to you a father
and mother both, giving you the defense
of the one and the comfort of the other.
f or nave we not JL'aui s mcsseu iiupn: m.n, i
as Jesus died and rose a^ain, "Kven so
them also which sleep in Jesus shall (jod !
bring with Him?" And when your children
go away from you, the rfweet darlings,
you will not kiss them and say goodby
farever. He only wants to hold them
for you a little while. He will give them
back to you again, and He will have them
all waiting for you at the gates of eternal
welcome. Oh, what a God He is! He will
allow you to come so close that you can
put your . .ms around His neck, while He
in response will put His arras arc and your
neck, and all the windows of tieaven will
be hoisted to let the redeemed look out
and see the spect "'-? of a rejoicing Father
and a returned prodigal locked in that
glorious embrace. Quit worshiping the
golden calf, and bow this day before Him
in whose presence we must all appear
when the world has turned to ashes.
When shriveling like a parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll,
When .ouder yet and yet more dread
Swells the high trump that wakeg tbe
I dead.
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GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN.
PfiECNANT TH0UCHT5 FROVI THE
WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS.
All Unbeliever ? I'iclie* Worth Striving
For ? Make Your Heart a Garden?
When Yon l'reueh, 1'reach Boldly?
Thinking 'loo Much of tlie World.
Thoy say t-Jio world is growing worse,
I don't believe it,-though;
They say men worship but the purse,
I don't believe it, though
They say that greatness is no more,
That all the wise have gone before,
And only trouble is in store?
I don't believe it, thougff.
I They say there are no saints today,
I don't believe it, though;
They say we tread a downward way,
I don't .believe it, though;
They say there's only gloom ahead,
They say that all the knights are dead,
They say men's sweetest joys arc tied?
I don's believe it, though. ,
Men had their troubles long ago,
And that's what I believe;
The Lord ntill loves its here below,
And that's what I believe;
Old Homer of the sightless eyes,
And Caesar, lie 'neath other skies.
But greater men thuu they will rise, /
And that's what I believe.
The world grown fairer day oy day,
And that's, what Ivbelieve;
The Rood have not all passed away,
And that's what I believe;
Though many a one we lo,ved is jjone,
Fond hearts and true are beating on!
The happiest (fays arc* still to dawn,
And that's what I believe!
?S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Times-Herald.
Rlohen TVdrth Striving For.
Spiritual riches are -within the reach
of all. They may be inherited, and those
of tie who hav.e been blessed with a
godly ancestry should thank God for the
pleasure o'f spiritual capital with which
our earthly years* begin. But it is
equally true that earthly riches may be
wasted. An honorable family name, the
integrity that dwelt in 'One's father, the
faith'that belonged fx> one's mother, the
tendency toward religion which is the
best bequest which any one can leave, his
children?all, these, <may Ite thrown . to
the winds- as., spendthrifts^ in a month
run through their 'patrimony." But let
us -thank God that these riches depend
upon an inheritance of piety, and jno one
need despair because ,he has wasted his
spiritual substance, that any> one who
strives as the Bible directs to become
good and true and useful and Chritstlike
is certain, provided he relief on God's
help, to attain the end in view. These
spiritual riches aVe the reward of him
who strives and sacrifices, but when a
man once kiuws what it is to : be rich
toward God ne h,olds material .good at
its proper worth , and finds ^ his richest
and best life in the things of the spirit.
No torn in the srock market, no fire or I
flood, no rfaoth or dust can touch these
treasures' of the soul.
Mstke Your Heart a Garden.
Many flowers canhot gi-ow where are
the feet of the runner .and the strife of
the combatants. The first thing done to
make an arena for wrestlers is to take
away the turf and the daisies, then to
beat the soil down hard and flat. And
so our lives pet flattened, stripped Of.
their beauty and their fragrance, because
they are not meant to be. gardens, they
are meant- to- be , wrestling-groundsy
There comes to every life that is worth
living hom'3 of sacrifice when duty can
only be done at the cost of a bleeding,
heart. Every man that is not the devil's
servant has to carry a cross, and t(f be
fastened to it, if hq will do his Master's
work. Besides which crucifixion in ser
vice, there are all tne otner common sorrows
storming in uj>on iw, ao'tj^ft-aome-.
times it ns much ai a man caii: dp not
to be s<C-ept uway l%;$h<> current,.: but to
keep his footing in niid-cha'unel;?Aler.;
ander Maclaren, D. D.
When You I'rencli, French Boldly.
There are men who claim to ' be
preaching the word of God, when they
are only preaching their own uncertainties
and doubts. No man can be a true
and helpful preacher of GodJs word unless
his oWn faith in that word be full
and unshaken. The first apostles had
full nnd unshaken certainty that the
Holy Scriptures are in very truth the
word o? God, and therefore one great
characteristic: of their preaching was its
boldness. They never shrank before attack.
They uever put themselves on the
defensive. "They never apologized fot
the Gospel.?Church Standard. /
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Thinking Too Much of the World.
yMarks of discontent are plainly visible
in the countenances of nSost men
The eager haste of. the busy throngs,
pushing their way through the crowded
streets of our gretjt dties, clearly indh
cates the gnawing hunger which preys
Within. Did the Creator,make man tc
struggle and snffer, and remain forevei
unsatisfied? Men ^eek good, bitt find'it;J
not. Xhey kuock arpoorj wnicn. nevei
open. i They 's|?end their strength for
naught and, their labor for- that which
satisfie'th not.''?Christian Advocate.
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We' sAy that the sun sets, but it nevei i
really does set. We speak of jt as setting
only because its evening* conditioi?
looks like a going down. In reality, it
hai only the1 seeming of setting, and
meets us as bright as ever next morning
Sleep looks like death* but it is not
death. Neither is. death itself reallj
death; it is only the shadow or the ap
poara.nce of death. Yea, though I walls
through the valley of the shadow o'
death, 1 will fear 110 evil.?Gerard B. F
.Hal i?ck, D. D.
Tlie little sharp vexations
And the briars that catch and fret.
Why not take all to the Helper
Who has never failed us yet V ,
Tell him about the-heartache.'
And tell him the longings, too;
Tell him the baffled purpose
When we scarce know what to do.
Then. Ion Vine all our weakness
With the One divinely strong.
Forgot that wo bore the bunion
' And carry away the song.
Unless it is spiritualized, the nationa
life is doomed to destruction. . We cat
only remain, a sound nation if we ar?
sound at heart. But we can only bf
sound at heart as a nation if we arf
pen to and affected by spiritual and re
l^-lous influences.?The London Speeta
tor.
A church supplies to any civtfized com
niunity what every civilized community
requires to complete the moral and s/>
eial harmony. Where there is no ( buret
soik"tl)in? essential, to a full, freo. hope
fill life is missing.?Rev. Dr. I. M. At
wood.
Thank <?o<i vor rno sense or ntcnnipletenws;
for out of if have sprung n?
piratien. endenvor. growth. nnd all the
comph'ti'tii'ss possible to humanity.
The germ of true grentui'.-s is tin
utility.
TOUCHS TERRORIZE LONDON.
r?aii;s Rob Ppdmtrlann and T.augli at
I'olice Fnrw.
Organized bands of roughs, chiefly bovs,
for some time have infested several districts
in London. They tight pitched battles,
injure and rob unprotected persons,
and execute condijrn vengeance on any of
their members suspected of giving information
to the police.
Their favorite weapon is a loaded belt,
but in many cases they use revolvers. In
some narts of the metropolis they have apparently
terrorized the police, many of
whom have been maimed for life.
A demand is now made to arm the police
with revolvers as well as club9 in certain
proscribed areas.
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT^'
FOR NOVEMBER 18.
Subject : The Ten Lepers Cleansed, Luke
XYlt., 11-19 ? Golden Text: Col. 111.,
15 ? memory Vertes, 17-19 ? Commentary
on the Day'* Lemon.
11. "As He went to Jerusalem." From
Ephraim, where Jesus and His disciples
had been in seclusion. "Through the
midst." This mention of Samaria before
Galilee is confusing, being the opposite
direction to a journey to Jerusalem.
Probably "through the midst" is to be
understood as meaning "along the frontiers
of." ;
12. "Ten men were lepers." The leprosy
was a disease which the Jews supposed
to be inflicted for the punishment
of some particular sin, and to be, more
than other diseases, a mark of God's displeasure;
therefore Christ took particular
pains to cleanse the lepers. There were
ten in this company, for though they were
sHut out from the society of others, they
were at liberty to mingle together. The
law pronounced the leper unclean, and he
was obliged to warn passers-by with the
cry of "unclean, unclean." Leprosy is a
type of sin. The leper was (1) defiled,
and he defiled everything he touched, (2)
extremely loathsome, ana (3) shut out of
society. This all applies with equal force
to the. sinner. The surroundings, of the
leper were also unclean. Lev. 13 f 47-59;
14: 3347. We must see to it that our sur
roundings are not infected. The clothea
we wear, the books we read, the company
we keep, 'the places we frequent, the
scenes we visit, if leprous, will cause our
death. "Which stood afar off." They
were not permitted to come near to persons
in health. Lev. 13: 46; Num. 5: 2.
13. "Lifted up their voices." Their request
was unanimous. The ten cried as
with one voice. They had evidently heard
of the fame of Jesus and how He cured
the leprosy. "Jesus, Master." Their
faith in Him is sincere. Although they
do not yet know the Saviour's dignity
as the Messiah, yet they account Him a,
prophet, mighty in deed and word. "Have
mercy on us." They knew they were lepers,
and that no human power could save
them; they accordingly, very properly,
plead for mercy. Jesus ill ways helps those
who thus call upon Him. It is mercy that
the sinner must have. Justice would destroy
him in a moment. These lepers, 1.
See their helplessness. 2. Havrf faith in
Jesus. 3. Appeal to His (compassion.
14. "When He saw them. It was a
sight that might have touched any heart,
for they were smitten with a living death.
The pity of Jesus was excited, and He
called to them immediately. "Show yourselves
unto the priests." To obtain the
testimony of the priests that they were
wnn llir mi nn/4 nn/j minUf Via ralfl'i aarl f rnrn
ICrtllJf VU1CU ftilU lUlj^Ub Ut lUbnotU 1IV1U |
their enforced seclusion, and be again adL
mitted into society,- According to the I
law (Lev. 14: 2-32) the priest alone had i
authority to declare a person clean or un- I
clean, and whenever Jesus healed a leper
He sent him immediately to the priest.
See Matt. 8: 4. "As they went, they were j
cleansed." Jesus did not touch them as
in Matt. 8: 3, but caused thqir faith in
Him to be tested. They were commanded ;
to go to the priest, and they actually j
started on the johrney before they were Is
healed. It was a strong test, but tfieir !
perfect confidence in Christ was equal to j i
it. They had heard no words of cleans- j
ing, they felt, no change in their diseased ,
bodies; but they went. They acted their ;
faith. Every step they took away from J
the presence of Christ proved that they
trusied Him. They took Jesus,at His f,
word. This is faith.. 'Many will not be- '
lieve until they see wh&t'tney call a reason
for it, but. such are never likely to be
saved. ,The best .reason for believing and
obeying is that we are in_ harmony with
God's express command. The person who
acts on God's word is safe. !
15. "One of them. " The Samaritan.
The other nine who were Jews would naturally
separate from him as they started
to their priests at Jerusalem. The Sam- \
aritanno, doubt started to his own priests.,,
"When he saw?turned back." They had
not gone far until they saw they were i
healed, and they should have returned, if j
but for a moment, to thank-their benefatf.acfcor
for deliverance from -a disease that J
was worse than de?tth. But the nine Jews
were too .much" taken up with themselves !
in their, desire to obtain official certifi- |
cates fronnjfe&e priests to think of this, j
"With aMond voices glorified God." J3e- {
:ause of fchewonderiul cure that had been :
wrought in, hiio.. He had been loud in
prayer ana now he1 is loud in praise. '
Saved 80U& have- a' special license granted
? ? it- V 1_. a__ T..U 10. .
tnem to praise xne uwru. occ j-iurvt i?.
37-40:- Datfid said. "Seven tirpes a day
.do I/praise Thee," Pea.' 119: 164. Th<* j
wonder ja'that we do not praise Hihi j
more. : ' ' j t
10. VfGn his face at His feet." Before i j
he was* healed he remained at a distance, j.
but now lie draws near, and in a humble i
posture he shQws all who are present what !
the Lord has done for him. "Giving ! f
Him thanks."; The least any one should I
do is to express-thankfulness for God's j
rich blessings. Ingratitude is a great sin.
Et- is qaid of the .heathen that "when they f.
knew flod, they glorified Him not as God,
neither were thankful." Rom. 1: 21. "A
Samaritan." One who professed a verv
^corrupt religion, and from whom much I
less was expected than fror* 'he other j i
nine,. 1 j ]
17. "Were there not ten cleansed?" He j j
knew that He had cleansed the other \f
nine. How rich Christ is in doine good. 1 1
Here was a cure by wholesale. There is
an abundance of healing, cleansing virtue
in the blood of Christ, sufficient for all
His patients. "Where are the nine?" A
sadness of tone is perceptible in this)
question. The nine received the healing, I 1
hut fnrarot the Healer. However great or'.
numerous the temporal favors God be- 'I
8tows upon men, few comparatively give j!
Him the glory due to His name. Jesus'
noticed the*slight offered Him, and called! (
.attention to it. We should be careful}
and not be one of the nine.
18. "To give glory to God.'' They had.' 1
shown their 'ingratitude to God. When,' i
we-fail to honor Christ we dishonor GflA i
It is the duty of all people to give gK^
to God. Jer. 13: 16. "Save this str^jtf
er"?Or "alien." The Samaritans were '
Gentiles. Their religion was a mixture <
of Judaism and idolatry; they worshiped
they knew not what. In this transaction ]
the Lord saw foreshadowed the bringing
in of the Gentiles to His church. ,
19. "Thy faith." His confidence in
Christ was the means, and the power of 1
Christ the cause, of' his cure. The true {
nature of faith is here very clearly displayed
as consisting principally in moral j
qualities of obedience and love. "Hath ,
made thee whole." "Hath saved thee." ,
? 1. T--4i Tk?r? '
(K. v. margin; is mucu ucttci.
was more done for him that the mere
healing of his body. His faith had led
him as a humble penitent to the Christ,
and his soul is saved. He is now no logger
"a, stranger," but a disciple,
ABANDONED TUNNEL FOUND.
Dnj; on Catallna Island by Miner* Thlr
ty-aeveu Years Ago.
An old tunnel has been found in the
raou itains on C-atalina Island, on the Pacific
const. It is about 1000 feet in lengtR.
Ft* pxislence was known to one or two old*
time miners, and not to the owners of the
property. In the tunnel were found ledges
of copper, gold and zinc.
The tunnel was driven in i860 by miners,
who were not aware that the island
was private propertyv .and when the$
found that out they abandoned it. The
island was then owned by James Lick. It
does not appear that he ever knaw the
tunnel existed. ?
LAND FOR LOUISIANA.
t i .
Cnlted States Transfer* 1,004,000 Acrei T
l:ii<l?-r the Art of 1833. '
The United States General Land Office
Has triwerred 1.004.000 acres of swamns 1
and ov<rflo\vcd land to the State of Louis- i
iana urtW the <?>' of IS'.'t. This land is t
scattcrr I over t*he State, being in twentyfive
pnrthes. .
The laP'li are subject to homestead onlv '
in outrifht purchases at from 12% to 75 !
rent* net acre from the Louisiana State
Land OlSce. The monev derived from the ]
sale is sft apart for the construction of j
'eve* ani the protection of this land from
iverJow.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED]
WASHINGTON ITEMS. v ' '
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J. P. Morgan & Co. paid the Government
$370,300 for silver taken by Unlt-^jj
ed States marines at Tien Tsin, China.
Orders were sent to Pekin detaching '
General James H. Wilson from duty
as chief of staff under General Chaf- ,
fee. And directing him to return to the
United States. ^
The Navy Department has ordered J'ia
an extension of the usual gun practice
for the bluejackets.
Any attempt of Germany to obtain 8
naval base in the Western Hemisphere
will be stopped by the United States
as a violation of the Monroe doctrines
W. H. &tale, a photographer, of
Washington, was accidentally suffocated
by a gas stove. (
The Secretary of the Treasury ha?
held that the wife of a Chinese native
hnm nitl7on tlin TTr?lfr?/l Qfofna (a nn >
uwiu viiinv.u vk iuv vunw uuaito 10 cu
titled to admission Into the United
States. -v
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
Jose Guzman Benltez. Mayor of '
Ponee. and Jose Gomez Brlozo, K
physician, were appointed members of
the Executive Council of Porto Rico.
Hawaii has closed its last school for
teaching the native language. Hereafter
young Hawaiian* will be tangbt
to talk English.
A heavy rainfall in the Hawaiian *
Islands did much damage, and one native
was drowned.
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'/ DOMESTIC.
It was announced that a new effort
was to be made to obtain the liberation
of Oberlln M. Carter, late of the
Engineer Corps, U. S. A.
Leading Chicago physicians declare
drinking and cigarette smoking arc
increasing among American women.
The United States transport Meade
arrived at San Francisco from Man-,
ila. The vessel had over 300 sick and'
discharged soldiers. "" '
Hugh K. Norman, whose romantic
marriage and estrapgement from his
wife had awakened much interest.
died In 'Providence, R. I.
Wm. S. Jewett, of Lawrence, Mass.,
who is charged with misappropriating >
funds of the Lake National Bank, oft >
Wolfboro, JST. H., was sentenced to1
seven years in jail.
Rosslyn Ferrell, the train roller
charged with the murder of an ex- : . /
press messenger named Lane, was con- ;?ui1
vlcted of murder in the first degree, at , C-i
Marysvllle, Ohio. The .verdict carrier
with it the death sentence.
Vf. N. Cowden, a farmer at Quaker
City, Ohio, filed.a petition In bankruptcy
in the United States Court, alleging that'
his liabilities are 5359,000 and his ,v
assets $1000.
in.a cable car smasii-upMat Chicago
R. \W. Hill, William Metifeer,; Elmer, < /
Mosp and A. V. Wycboff were fatally
Injured, and five others were hurt. 7 * ''J
TJjSe gun from which the first shot to j
the? Spanish-American war was fired: ,'
reached Nashville. Tenn., which is to ;
befits permanent home. It comes from1
tl|e gunboat Nashville. ' I
, The building used by the Dallas^
doming News at Dallas, Texas., fori I' fifteen
years as a publication office!
collapsed, and Is a .complete wreck,;
'iipe 1QS8 is esumuieu ui ^u,uw, uuuc
aiice, $10,000.
("Lucky" Baldwin, of San Francis^
arrived at Seattle from Nome wlthj ' \
*?0,000 In gold" dust.
J One thousand deer have so fa;* been
brought down from the Maine wood*
by hunters, 231 less thah fo>" the same
period of 1SD9, while fifty-six mooat; ,' ?
six less than last year, have fallen.; *3
Because airs. H. P. Colegrove waited
to ride ride her entries at the Chicago ? ;
Uor.se Fair astride, the entries were
1 jarred. She is the originator of the
^ivided skirt for equestrienne's.
{-The funeral of John Sherman took
place with simple ceremonies at . fansfield,
Ohio. President McKinley Mng
one of the mourners.
Passengers from Alaska say that the
Dawson telegraph line will not be
completed mis wiuier, ,
Professor Shepardson, of Chicago
University, declared present-day
lynching Is a survival of the mob violence
of the Boston tea party.
Leale Willielm, a woman, was found
dead, having been strangled and
robbed on a street at Indianapolis,
?nd- .
: The river steamed Josie Weaver was
6urned at Brady's Landing, near
Madisonville, St. Tammany Parish.
La. The fire was caused by an ex- .
plosion
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FOREIGN.
The huuting season is now at It*
height in every part of the Dominion
of Canada. M6ose may be killed for
the first time in four years. ' ,
A meeting of the diplomats was held)
in Pekin to consider, the form of negotiations
for a settlement of the China
difficulty.
The Itussia Plague Commission announces
tlint Port Said, Bender Abbas
' ora I\nt infWtod with the
LUIU lUiOUll u?v MWb ? T disease.
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The Daily Telegraph, of London, announces
that Lord Salisbury will v&- ji
pate the office of Minister of Foreign
Affairs in favor of lyni Lansdowne, (\
retaining the post of Premier.
Recently the Socialists ia Germany.
have scored a number of successes, a
Pact that is beginning to cause the '<
Government great dismay.
Government inspectors report that
the steamer Bon Lomond, which arrived
at London from the Philippines,
had 'a verified case of plague on board.
The Sportsman, of London, announces-that
the Prince of Wales hae
:onceled his retainer of Tod Sloan, the
American jockey, for 1901.
James Eagnell, who was the oldest
Eludson Bay factor in*northern Britsli
Columbia, was shot and killed by
in Indian.
The Belgian ciiamcer 01 uepuues*
ias passed a la(v compelling manufacturers
to insure workmen against acci- I
lent, hut the Senate is expected to reject
the bill. J
Emperor William has ordered Fro- ). <
'essor Begas to make His Majesty's
>wn marble statue for the new FTall of
3Iories in Barmen, where statues of
he Einproi s ancestors are already
placed.
Canned goods and sausages may now
je imported into Alsace-Lorraine free
)f duty in small quantities.
A sensation was created in Berlin by
lie allegation that the Secretary of
State for the Interior had been bribed.
It is announced that the Arqluluke f
Francis Ferdinand will shortly renounce
his succession to the imperial
hrone in favor of his brother.
President Campos Salles, of Brazil.
anded at Buenos Ayres, Argentina,
iml received a hearty welcome.
Twenty-four lives were lost in a colision
between the French steamers
''aidherbo and MItidja off the Spanish
:oas* '
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