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Mother kneads it on her lap and then tosses it into the air in order to reassure it.) Wow-w-w-w! ,Wuh-ow! Wuh-ow! Wow!. Wow! iWow!" ?noted alike for their intelligence. . anDrvhtnnari I UIL'JI jJUUUC Syilll auu luai patriotism which " "Come on boys! They're three for five, remember! Three for five; Three I for five; Three for five! Three for five aneverytimeyourlngthebellyougitagood cigar! Come on, boys! Come on an' Bang! Bang! Bing! Boof! Prst! Bung! Bang-bang-bang! (Bunch of fire | crackers under a barrel.) "Wow! Wow-ow-ow-ow-ow! Ub-uhuh-wow! Uh-wow! Wowub!" (Same baby.) " befitting that on this day of days, made sacred throughout all time by that heroic declaration of our illustrious forefathers, we should assemble to do honor to those who founded this republic in strength and wisdom and at the same time pledge to each other "Lemo! Lemo! Lemo! It's five a glass, remember, good people. The i cool, refreshing lemonade right here is five a glass. Five cents, a nick, a half a dime, the twentieth part of a dolIrtw l\HT?o o Inrffa rrlooa nf tlia /*nnl T'P. Itti UUJO a jjiuuj v?, vuv vvv?j ?.v freshing drink! Oh, YES! Come on! Come on! Come on! The pure juice of the lemon, bear In mind. Too good! Too good! Another soul made happy! Come on! It's five, Ave, five, five, five! Hey-y-y! Come a runnin'; Lemo! Lemo! Lemo!" " and In all seriousness, my fellow citizens, allow our thoughts, on this, the glorious birthday of national freedom. to dwell upon those problems which?" Bing-bing-bing! Bang! Boof! Bingbang-bang-bang. Fsss (a 'sizzer"). Bang! Bang-bung-bing-bang! "Wuh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh?(baby holding its breath) ow! Wow-ow-ow-ow! Uh-uh-uh-wowow-wo wow-wow!" "That's the time you ring the bell an' git one o' the Dewey perfeetos. Yes, sir, the cigar's all right. A nice, free smoker. Come on, now! Come ae^jo WJ5A#* on, hurl Somebody else try it. Three shots for Ave, an' every time you ring the bell you git a good cigar." "?the palladium of our liberties. Now I ask you, my fellow-citizens, as calm and thoughtful and patriotic citizens of the guarandest country on .God's green footstool, is It not your iolemn duty to " . "Wovr! Wow-ow-otv! Uh-wow!" \ "Choke off that young 'un!" "?repeat it. is it or is it not your .Tf\E: ft ft ft OP iHPEPEHpEHc&v^ggl/ 1ST 0N& rtUHDI\ErD?JlSgg \/e yeAp\5 AGO flffjj If :j-SI I lorious day!, ft 11 J display. | j| ifh palrioi" zeal, i J? " wbal" N]cy fed, J? ial~ was dor)e, If W&shinofon if ?? . &.**' II :l" arjd your squib, d io phrases 9Kb \ ^ wf)o advertise. |1| 1 blazing sK**5- |1 15, gold cascadeiy \\ 5h^i^K Aloud \\ r/ifl)- Hjc crowd. . 11) c usual doubt" I rcjoice about*. # tgbl'3 wfyerj all ivdoqc j ishiggtog. 11 or display . \ degee dayT 18 Th'vgsJ^f 'sJ idern fp'-' uj/Qe lebr/at tori 'duty? Why, fellow-citizens, we are standing upon the threshold of one of the most sublime epochs in the magnificent history of our imperial commonwealth. Wi-i-th pro-phetic eye I glance along the glittering pathway of the twentieth century and there I behold?" "Get 'em hot! Get 'em hot! The big e sack for a nickel, remember! Get the real California duplex, double-jointed, kn?/.iYul?n.l flrr fmnt noonnta renipm. WC?Cl*CU?CU, JUJ iivuv VM, .% ? ber! They're fresh roasted! They're nice and hot, remember! Takemalong! Takemalong! Takemalong! The 1901 model with the bnll bearings, remember; The only pneumatic peanuts sold on the grounds to-day. Loosen up! Loosen up! Buy peanuts for the ladies! Bear in mind that these are the stem-winding peanuts. A written guarantee with every peanut, remember! Come ou! Come on! Get your peanuts right here! Step right?" Bang! Bang-bing! Bang! "Uh-wow! Uh-wow! Uh-wow-w-w!" "?realize the immense responsibility resting upon us as the uncrowned sovereigns of this incomparable domain? From where the pines of the North bend in the Icy blasts of an arctic winter to those tropical strands where the sweet magnolia fills the soft air with its sensuous perfume, and from the rugged Plymouth rock on that bleak New England shore to where the Golden Gate throws out its mighty arms in hospitable welcome to a new world of commerce far beyond the dancing waves of the Pacific, there comes one great paean of joy, one majestic chorus that?" Bang! Bingety-bang! Bang: Bang! Bang! Bingety-bang-bang! Br-r-r-r-r!" (Two bunches at one time.) "Uh-uh-uh-uh-wow-w-w! Ulr-uh-uhwow-w-w! Wo wo wow! Wowowow!" "Lemo! Lemo! It's a pure drink, remember, indorsed by leading physicians. It perfumes the breath and curls the hair, remember! Step right up. girls, and drink till you bust. Come on! Come on! Come on! Drink>/vM<4/v?nn 1 Ti.ni ?... rt nilUpTT eiuunu; ll 11 tusi yuu uui u. nick, five cents, a picayune, a half dime, good people. We're here to-day and gone to-morrow. Come a runnin'!. Drink 'er down!" " the people, for the people and by the people shall jiot " Bing! Bing-bing-l)ing! Bang! "A good cigar if, you hit the bell. Who'll be the next'? . - i "Wow! Ub-wow! Uh-uh-ub-wow!H "Oh, yes. we're selling a large package of the antiseptic peanuts for fifce to-day! i>oc leu, out nve: txvuicuiv^i, good people, that these peanuts were not made by a trust. Satisfaction guaranteed, bear in mind, or money refunded as you pass out the door. Heyy-y-y! Come an' get 'em. They're the real Peruvian, home-made, rock-ballast, heavy-weight peanuts, warranted to regulate the stomick and cure rheumatism," Bang* Bang! Bang! "?Indeed recreant to our trust if we did not offer a willing and loyal support at this crisis to that unselfish patriot, that fearless statesman, that intrepid leader of men, who now holds the most exalted position within the gift of mortal " "Wow! Uh-ub-uh-uh-uh-wow! Wowwow-wow! till-wow! Uh-wow! Uhuh-uh-wowow! Wowow! Wow!" "?that glorious banner, whose, stars shall endure when the stars of heaven have crumbled into nothingness and?" Bang Bang-bang! Bangety-bingbung! Bang! Bingety-bingety-bang!" t TTT ( | TTTrtTt.ll" wow:; wow;: nuwun;; nun.. "Number-r-r eigbt! Next time you ring the bell an' then you git a good cigar. Three for " "?arching dome of heaven. Oh* h-b, fellow-citizens, may we not " "Wow! Wowow! Wow!" "Oyes! Oyes! Oyes! They're the self-raising peanuts, remember, without knot or blemish. A bushel for a nick, good people. Fresh roasted, good people. Dig up. Dig up! Buy your peanuts here. Come on! Come on! Come on!" "Tbe lemonade is five to-day, remember, five, five, five, five, five, five cents! The large cold glass for a nick! Hurry up! Hurry up! Unbelt! Unbelt! Give the ladles a nice cold drink!" "Nine's the number! You come .mighty near the hole that time. Tryer agin! Tryer agin! Tryer again." "?shall review with grateful memory the courageous " "Wow-uh wow! Wow-uh! wow! Wow-w-w! Wow-w-w!" "That's what they all say?the best rhey ever tasted. Come on! Come on! The genuine Manila peanuts right here, good people. A picture of Admiral Dewey inside of every peanut, remember. Everybody this way! Come on! We're closin''em out at Ave a pack right here now?come on!" " high on the scroll of fame In that immortal list where shall remain in imperishable glory the names of ? "Wow-w-w-w! Uh-wow! Uh-wow! Uh-wow!" ^e rings the hell and here's his cigar. Now then, who's next, who's next? Three for five! Three for five!" "It's ice cold?wow uh-wow uh-wow ?fresh roasted here for? Oh, yes! Oh, yes!?beloved country, in whose " Bang! Bing! Bang! Bang! " to the end of time. I thank you for your kind attention."' Bang! Bang!?George Ade, in the Chicago Record. 'ff Jfi f* [ A Suggestion. "John Henry," said Mrs. Bainbridge to her eldest son, on the morning of the Fourth, "you must stay at home to-day and rock the cradle." "U'hf nnt iiit tlip skyrocket?" de manded Johu Henry, as be whizzed through the doorway.*-Harppr'? Ri? I ar- - k Family Pride. "Say. fellers, yer don't need ter tint lie's do only chap wot got buried or de Fouit'. Yer oughter see me brud der." ! m vir i /m T-itn nrmi r/\*t I m, TALMAUJSa SJSJXMUIN SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: The Cnrso of Speculation?Integrity and Villainy In Wall Street-* Lessons Drawn From Gambling Crazos VThlch Have Swept Over the World. [Copyright 1901.1 Washington*, D. C?In this discourse Dr. Talmage arraigns the spirit of wild speculation and gives some account of the financial ruin of other days; Proverbs xxiii, 5, "Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven." Money is a gold breasted b.ird with silver beak. It alights on the office desk or in the counting room or on the parlor centre table. Men and- women stand and admire it. They do not notice that it has wings larger than a raven's, larger than a flamingo's, larger than an eagle's. One wave of the hand of misfortune, and it spreads its beautiful plumage and is gone, "as an eagle toward heaven," my textbook eays. though sometimes I think it goes in the other direction. What a verification we have had of the flying capacity of riches in Wall Street! And Wall Street is one of the longest streets in all the world. It does not begin at the foot of Trinity Church, New York, and end at the East River, as many suppose. It reaches through all our American cities and across the seas. Encouraged by the revival of trade and by the tact that Wall Street disasters of other years were so far back as to be forgotten, speculators run up the stocks j from point to point until innocent people on the outside suppose that the stocks I would always continue to ascend. They father in from all parts of the country, j <arge sums of money are taken into Wall Street and small sums of money. The crash comes, thank God, in time to warn off a great many who were on their way thither, for the sadness of the thing is that a great many of the young men of our cities who save a little money fnr the nurnose of starting themselves in business and who have $500 or $1000 or $2000 or $10,000 go into Wall Street and lose all. And if there was a time for the pulpit to speak out in regard to certain kinds of nefarious enterprises now is the- time. * Stocks rose and fell, *' * now thev begin to rise again, and ..y will fall again until thousands of y ~ang men will be ruined unless the printing press and the pulpit give emphatic utterance. My counsel is to countrymen, so far as they may hear of this discourse, if they have surplus, to invest it in first mortgages ana in moneyed institutions which, though paying comparatively small interest, are sound and safe beyond dispute, and to stand clear of the Wall Street vortex, where so many have been swamped and swallowed. Wnat a compliment it is to the healthy condition of our country that these recent disasters have in no wise depressed trade! I thank God that Wall Street's capacity to blast this country has gone forever. Across the island of New York in 1685 a wall made of atone and earth and cannon mounted was built to keep off the savages. Along by that wall a street was laid out, and as the street followed the line of the wall it was appropriately called Wall Street. It is narrow, it is unarchitectural, and yet its history is unique. Excepting Lombard street, London, it is the mightiest street on this planet. There the Government of the United States was born. There Washington held his levees. There Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Caldwell and Mrs. Knox and other brilliant women ot the devolution displayed their charms. There Witherson and Jonathan Edwards and Gfiorge Whitefield sometimes preached. There Dr. Mason chided Alexander Hamilton for writing the Constitution of the United States without any God in it. There negroes were sold in the slave mart. There criminals were harnessed to wheelbarrows and, like beasts of burden, comSelled to draw or were lashed through ie streets behind carts to which they were fastened. There fortunes have come to coronation or burial since the day when reckless speculators in powdered hair and silver shoe buckles dodged Dugan, the Governor-General of His Majesty, clear down to yesterday at 3 o'clock. The history of Wall Street is to a certain extent the financial, commercial, agricultural, mining, literary, artistic, moral and religious history of this country. There are the be3t men in this country, and there are the worst. Everything from unswerving integrity to tiptop scoundrelism?everything from heaven bora charity to bloodless Shylockism. I want to put the plow in at the curbstone of Trinity and drive it clear through to W-.ll Street ferry, and eo it shall go if the horses are strong enough to draw the plow. First of all, Wall Street rtands as a type in mis country iwr incu luxgut; and the most outrageous villainy. Farmers who have only a few hundred dollars' worth of produce to put on the market have but little to test their character, but put a man into the seven times healed furnace of Wall Street excitement and he either comes out a Shadrach, with hair unsinged, or he ir burned into a black moral cinder. No ha1-" way work about it. If I wanted to find integrity bombproof, I would go among the bankers and merchants of wall Street, yet because there have been such villainies enacted there at different times eome men have supposed that it is a great financial debauchery, and they hardly dare go near the street or walk up and down it unless the^ have buttoned up their last [jocket and had their lives insured or reigiously crossed themselves. Yet if you start at either end of the street and read the business signs you will find the Eames of more men of integrity and Christian benevolence than you can find in the same space in any street of any of our cicies. When the Christian commission and the sanitary commission ^antod money to send medicine^ and band cges to the wounaea, wnen Dreaasiuns were wanted for famishing Ireland, when colleges were to be endowed and churches were to be supported and missionary societies were to be equippd for their work of sending the gospel all around the world, the fir3t street to respond has been Wall Street, and the largest responses ia all the land have come from Wall Street. But, while that street is a type of tried integrity on one hand, it is also a type of unbounded swindle on the other. There are the spidera that wait for innocent flies; there are the crocodiles that crawl up through the slime to cranch the calf; there are the anacondas, with lifted loop, ready to crush the unwary; there are financial wreckers who stand on the beach praying for a Caribbean whirlwind to sweep over our commercial interests. Let me say it is no place for a man to go into business unless his moral principle is thoroughly settled. That is no place for a man to go into business who does not know when he i3 overpaid $3 by mistake whether, he had better take it back or not thai is no place for a man to go who has large funds in trust and who is all the time tempted to speculate with them; that is no place for a man to go who does not quite Know whether the laws of the State forbid usury or patronize it. Oh, how many men have risked themselves in the vortex and gone down , for the simpio reason their integrity had t not been thoroughly established! R-member poor Ketcham?how soon the j flying hoofs of his iron grays clattered with hin to his destruction; remember poor Gay, at thirty years of age, astonishing the world with his fortunes and | his forgeries; renemDer tnat lamous man whose steamboat and whose opera houses could not atone for his notorious rides through Central Park in the face of decent New York and whose behavior on Wall Street by its example has blasted tens of thousands <^f young men of this generation. I hold up the polluted memory to warn young men whose moral principles are not thorcughlv settled to keep out of Wall Street. It is no place for a man who shivers under the blast of temptation. Let me say also to those who are L doing legitimate business on that or j similar streets of which that is a type to stand firm in Christian principle. You * are in a gre?.t commercial battlefield. Be courageous. There ii such a thing as a hero of the bant' and a hero of the Stock Exchange. You be that hero. Again, I have to remark that Wall Street a type throughout the country of legitimate speculation on the one hand and of ruinous eamblinR on the other. Almost every merchant 13 to some extent a speculator. He depends not only upon the difference between the wholesale price at which he get3 the goods and the retail at which he disposes of them, but also upon the fluctuation of the markets. If the markets greatly sink, he greatly loses. It is as honest to deal in stocks as to deal in iron or coal or hardware or dry goods. He who condemns all stock dealings as though they were iniquitous simply shows his own ignorance. Stop all legitimate speculation in this country, and you stop all banks, you j stop all factories, you stop all storehouses, you stop all the great financial prosperities of this country. A stock dealer is only a commission merchant under another name. He gets hi3 commission on one style of goods. You, the grocer, get your commission on another 6tyle of goods. The dollar that he makes is just as bright and fair and honest a dollar as the dollar earned by the day laborer. But here we must draw the line between legitimate speculation and ruinous gambling. You, a stock operator without any property behind you, financially irresponsible, sell $100 of nothing and get oaid for it. You sell 100 shares at $10,000 at thirty days. If at the end of thirty daya you get the scrip for $9000, you have made a thousand. If at the ena of thirty day3 you have to nay $11,000, then you nave lost a thousand. Now, that is trafficking in fiction. That is betting on chances. That involves the spirit of gambling as much as anything that ever goes on in the lowest gambling hell. At certain times almost ivery prosperous merchant wakes up, and he says: "Now, I have been successful in my line of trade, and I have a tolerable income. I think I shall go down to Wall Street and treble it in three weeks. There's my neighbor. He was in the same line of business. He has his $300,000 or $400,000 from the simple fact he went into Wall Street. I think I shall go, too." Here they come, retired merchants, who want to get a little excitement in their lethargic veins. Here they come, the trustees of great property, to fool everything away. Five hundred temporary tents built to accommodate the people until they could have opportunity of interviewing John Law. A lady of great fashion had her coachman upset her near the place where t r :? d 0 LIU LUW was ?/aaaiujf m uiuu tuui ouw might have an interview with that benevolent and sympathetic gentleman! Stocks went up to 2050 per cent., until one day suspicion got into the market, and down it all went?John Law's Mississippi scheme?burying its projector and some of the greatest financiers in all France, and was almost as bad as> a French revolution. Excitement following excitement until all kinds of gambling projects came forth under the wing of this South Sea enter* prise. There was a large company formed with great capital for providing funerals for all parts of the land. Another company with large capital??5,000,000 capital?to develop a wheel in perpetual motion; another company, witn a capital of ?4,000,000 to insure people against loss by servants; another company, with ?2,500,000 capital, to transplant walnut trees from Virginia to England; then, to cap the climax, a company was formed for "a great undertaking?nobody to know what it is." And, lo, ?600,000 in shares were offered at ?100 a share; books were ooened at 9 o'clock in the morning and closed at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the first day it was all subscribed. "A great undertaking?nobody to know what it is!" An old magazine of those days describes the scene (Hunt's Magazine). It says: "From morning until evening Chanze alley was full to overflowing witn one cense, moving mass of living beings, composed of the most incongruous materials and in all things save the mad pursuit whereof they were employed utterly opposite in their principles and feelings and far asunder in their stations in life and the professions they follow. Statesmen and clcrgvmen deserted their high stations to enter upon this great theatre of speculation and gambling. Churchmen and dissenters left their fiorce disputes and forgot their wranglings upon church government in the deep and hazardous game they were playing for worldly treasures and for riches, which, if gained, were liable to disappear within an hour of their creation. Whigs and Tories buried their weapons of political warfare, discarded party animosities and mingled together in kind and friendly intercourse, each exulting as their stocks advanced in price and grumbling when fortune frowned upon them. Lawyers, physicians, merchants and traveling men forsook their employment, neglected their business, disregarded their engagements -rfcJ.l ?lnnn in tlio stream, to be at last engulfed in the wild sea of bankruptcy. Females mixed with the crowd, forgetting the station and employment which nature had fitted them to adorn, and dealt boldly and extensively and, like those by whom they were surrounded, rose from poverty to wealth, and from that were thrown down to beggary and want, and all in one short week and perhaps before the evening which terminated the first day of their speculation. Ladies of high rank, regardless of every appearance of dignity and blinded by the prevailing infatuation, drove to the shops of their milliners and haberdashers and there met their stockbrokers, whom they regularly employed and through whom extensive sales were daily negotiated. In the midst of the excitement all distinction of party and religion and circumstances and character were swallowed up. But it was left for our own country to surpass it all about thirty-seven years ! ago. We have the highest mountains and the greatest cataracts and the longest rivers, and of course we had to have the largest swindle. One would have thought that the nation had seen enough in that direction during the morous multicaulis excitement, when almost every man had a bunch of crawling silkworms in his house, out of which he expected to make a fortune. But all this excitement was as nothing compared with what took place in 1864, when a man near Titusville, Penn., digging a well, struck oil. Twelve hundred oil companies call for a billion of stock. Prominent members of churches, as soon as a certain amount of stock was assigned them, saw it was their privilege to Become presidents or secretaries or members of the board of direction. Some of these companies never had a foot of ground, never expected to have. Their entire equipment was a map of a region where oil might be and two vials of grease, crude and clarified. People rushed down from all parts of the country by the first train and put their hard earnings in the guli. A young man came down from the oil region of Pennsylvania utterlv demented, having sold his farm at a fabulous price ' because it was supposed there might be oil there?coming to a hotel in Philadelphia at the time I was living there, throwing a SoOOO check t3 pay for his 1? _??i |,f> did not care ilUUUilajr Uicai auu ~ ?? anything about the change! Then he stepped back to the gas burner to light hi3 cigar with a thousand dollar note. Utterly insane! The good Christian people aaid, "Thia company must be ail right, because Elder So-and-so is president ot it, and Elder Soand-90 i3 secretary of it, and then there are three or four highly respected professing Christians in the board of directors." Tiiev did not know that when a professed Christian goes into stock gambling he lie3 like sin. But alas for the country! It became a tragedy, and a thousand million dollars were swamped. There are families to-day sitting in the shadow of destitution who but for that great national outrage would have h:'.d their cottages and their homesteads. I hold up before the young men these four great stock gambling schemes that they may see to what length men will go smitten of this pas? sion, and I want to show them how all the best interests of society are against it and God is against it and will condemn it for time ana condemn it for eternity. I do not dwell upon the frenzied speculat;""a Wall Street last month. You have enough remembrance of that financial horror. I only want you to know that it was in a procession of monetary frenzies, some of which have passed and others are to come. "< : V. " ' ~r'; \ 7 : THE GEEAT DESTROYE? ( SOME STARTLING FACT* ABOUT f THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. EIJa Wheeler Wilcox Say* Do J?ot Har- I ne?8 Bacchus to Your Load of Work, Then Yon Will Have Plenty of Courage Hope and Energy. If you were lost in a dark wood and could not see the moon or the stars you would not extinguish your lantern, would you? If you found yourself in a desert you would not throw away your bottle of water. Well, then, do not talk about being driven to drink because you are out of work and in trouble, or because times are so hard that your business barely pays your office rent. Of course drink gives you a momentary or "hourentary" exhilaration, ana causes you to forget your worries. "Rllf fUo 1 lows, with increased gloom and enfeebled i courage and strength. 1 If you are a sensible man. with good average intelligence, you will hoard your strength and save all your faculties unimpaired by drink or drugs to carry you through this dark place in life's woods, and you will keep your light of sober reasoning aflame. If. after you pass through the woods, you have still the desert to encounter, you will not add to the pangs of thirst by "fire-water." You will, instead, endeavor to keep your head cool and your brain clear. As well tie your feet in a bag when you are in a hurry to reach a destination as to fill yourself with drink when you have a hard and difficult path to pursue. If you want to try the experience of drunkenness, wait until you achieve a success and then "celebrate," if you are determined upon it. Then you can afford to rest and repent at leisure, ard if you have \ strata of good principle and moral worth in vou one experience will be enough. You will not want to try it again. But don't harness Bacchus to your load of work and worrv and imagine he will pull yon through. He is not that kind of a sjod. He makes excellent promises, but he hakes you onlv a little wav and dumos yon in the first ditch, much the worse for his brief merry companionship. Keep yourself perfectly normal in times of anxiety. If you are in the habit of s usinpr stimulants and nicotine, reduce yonr . usual quantitv, and if you have the will oower, give them up entirely for the time being. I know a man who did this during business depression, and he was amazed at the result. Where he had been despondent ind nervous all the time, when not under the influence of a stimulant he found himself full of courage, hope and energy. Instead of waking with a weight on heart and head he woke full of ambition for the new day before him. Instead of trying to kill dull time by drinking, exneriment upon yourself by finding the strength of vour will in giving ud the use of all stimulants until you can "celebrate" a victory. It is more novel, and nays better in the ?nd.?Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in the. New York Journal. Drink and Yonng Criminals. The National Conference of Charities *nd Corrections in session in Washington has eiven prominent recognition to the terrible increase of criminals, the appalling arowth of the population of our penal institutions. A paoer read before the conference by Mrs. Ophelia Amigh, sunerinl-endenfc of the State home for iuvenile offenders at Geneva, HI., casts valuable light upon the important question. Mrs. Amigh is reported as saying that every girl now in the home under her care had one drunken parent, and in the case of many of , them both parents were confirmed drunkirds. Mrs. Amigh says: "If we desire to raise fine stock we IfAAninn fViA air-Da O Y\ A HflTYW ' never (,111111V VI ACCUlli^ l>iie utiu uutt.w drunk all or half the time, and yet nearly all the children who come to us are the 1 products of such conditions." She goes on to say: "One has to ait but one dav in the Juvenile Court in Chicago t<r realize what it is that fills all kinds of charitable and penal institutions in Illinois as well as in other States. All kinds of crime follow in the wake of intemperance, and something must be done or we shall become worse than a nation of leoers." Mrs. Amigh mentions one particularly startling instance which has unfortunately been Daralleled many times. She says: "We had one girl brought to us not ouite fourteen years of age who had delirium tremens, and we barely saved her life. She had drank more or less since she was ten years of age. What can we say of the brute in man's form who would ever dive or sell intoxicants to a child like that?" It might not be irrelevant to ask: Wbaf shall we say of the man who legalizes a traffic the result of which, by centuries ot' experience, is known to be thinjs M these? Prohibited Hit Own Beer. Recently Guinness, the great "beer ba? ron," of ?>ublin, erected some model tenements for the use of working people, and among other things prohibited all intoxicating liquors; even his own beer is not allowed to be sold. Lemonade and mineral waters can be had, but intoxicants of " ' ?l a# KifKa I every toriu are sous oui. x icu^ u. but no bars. Very significant.?National Temperance Advocate. A Contlnuou* Performance. 0 how many are waiting to see if something cannot be done! Thousands of drunkards waiting who cannot go ten minutes in any direction without naving the temptation glaring before their eyes or appealing to their nostrils, they fighting against it with enfeebled will and diseased appetite, conqueung, then surrendering, conquering again ana surrendering again. The Crusade in Brief. Divest a saloon of every possible social facility or appurtenance and men will still patronize it. ilen drink for the feeling of mental elation and satisfaction that it gives, not for social enjoyment. The fifty-four saloon keepers of Spring Valley, 111., recently paid to State's Attorney Porter at Princeton $3000 in fines for operating saloons on Sunday. TH? little villaze of Phoebus, situated between Fortress "Monroe and the Hampton .Soldiers' Home, is cursed with, perhaps, the mojt disreputable and indecent aggregation of saloons that surrounds any military post. The liquor traffic is at last frightened. To make it still more frightened do your best to circulate in your community the news that there is a fight going on between God and the devi], with a good prospect that the devil will be worsted. As a matter of fact, there is no substitute for the saiooa, because there is no substitute for alcoholic stimulation. The South Dakota Legislature has a bill under consideration which makes intoxication a misdemeanor, tixing the maximum penalty at $20, The English House of Commons on March 20 p.iss)d on second reading the bill prohibiting the sale of intoxicants to persons under sixteen years. The vote stood 372 to 54. This important legislation is known as ''the children's bill,'' and has been actively supported by the prominent temperance people of England, including the officers oi the World's W. C. T. U. The Y. M. C. A. at Manila has had a Good Templar lodge instituted at its headquarters, tne first in the Philippines. Work is the most harmless kind of dissipation. The men who break down while working hard have been in the habit generally of smoking and drinking a great " " *? tL.:. L. deal, and that accounts im mcu uim? iowu. Judge Townsend, of the United States Court, has decided that incorporated cities and towns in the Indian Territory may pass an ordinance prohibiting the introduction and sale of intoxicating liquor within their corporate limits, but must limit the fine to $25, and in addition the offender makes himseli amenable to the Ijnited States statutes, which make this offp.nsa a telonv. 'Mis \*i JOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. >RECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS laart-Rreak In Sprint;?The Pare Air of Oort'i Love ?i The Problem of Life?' Seeing Only the Picture'* Kraine ? * (tiorlout Expectancy ? l>ay by Day iVhen the earliest violets ope )n the sunniest southward slope, iVhere the cress and windflower slim Palely light the wood path dim, JVhen the air is sweet and keen 2re the full-blown flower is seen, iVhon that blithe forerunning air Breathes more hope than thou canst bear, Thou, O buried, broken heart, into quivering life shall start! Thou shalt ask the flower-loved breeze, 'Wherefore waken these?and these? Soulless gazers on the light, therefore lead these up from night, \.nd not send a thrilling call iVaking eyes more sweet than all?" ?Edith AI. Thomas, in Independent. The Pare Air of God's Lore. A tourist among the Alps tells of llimbing one of the mountains in a lense and dripping mist until he had j )assed through the clouds and stood on i lofty peak in the clear sunlight. Beleath him lay the fog, like a wavelesa lea of white vapor. He could hear the lounds of labor, the lowing of tha cat:le, the voices of the children, and the 1 - - ? mMIama KaIIo r>r\m in rr nn jeais ot iue tiling ucjjo, w>u>uB ? !rom the vales below. But there he itood on the tall summit, far above all he vexed, troubled, broken- life of the ales, with only heaven's deep blue ibove his head and the glorious mounain peaks round him. Something like his a true Sunday experience is to svery devout life. Through the week lays we dwell in the low vales, amid he mists. E-ife in the world is full of itruggles, of failures, of disappoiutnents, of burden-bearing. Then the Lord's Day comes, and we climb out of ;he low places of care, toil, and tears, ind spend the day in the sweet, pure lir of God's love and peace. We get lear to the heart of Christ. We have vider views. We see life from jts heaven lide. We see God's face and hear iiis roice.?Wellspring. The Problem of Life. Here is a potter working in his clay, [t is a coarse material, and his hands jrow soiled in molding it; but it is not Cor him to reject it because it is not :lean or to dabble in it. like a child, iust for the sake of getting dirty. It is for him to take it just as it is, and to work out the shapes of beauty which ire possible under tne laws and limits >f the clay. Precisely such material is :his modern world. It is not very clean; its wava of business, its methods of in iustry, its habits of society, are soiling to the touch; but it is not one's duty to wash his hand3 of it, or to surrender to its evil, but to take these very conditions of the present'age as the material out of which one is to mold a new type of moral beauty. To run away from the tendencies of modern life?that is easy enough; to yield to its evil? that is still easier; but to be in the tvorld, yet not of it, molding, its material. yet not defiled by it?that is the real problem of the modern Christian. ?F. G. Peabody, D. D. Seeing Cfcaly the Picture'# Frame. The years monotonous? The same old seasons, and weathers, and aspects of nature? Never anything new to admire or wonder at? The monotony is in' our eyesight, which goes on seeing nothing but the common and invariable things; simply because, from long familiarity, these are the easy things to see. But these are only the frame of the picture; the picture itself is never twice alike. Suppose, to test it, we should open a ledger account with Nature. It should be headed. "The Face of Nature in Ac* count with an Exacting Mind." On th? nnrtfl chs\nlsl Ka onforoH the* Dr ICLl UUUU OUVUiU uv vubvkvv* VM. ? side of'the account; namely, to all the phenomena of the year that we could fairly stigmatize as the "same everlasting old thing." On the right-haad page should go the Cr.; namely, by all the aspects of land or sea or sky that in any candor we must confess never before to have been noticed by us.?Edward Row. land Sill. A Glorious Expectancy. The .periods preceding the greatest advances of the Christian church have been peculiarly characterized by expectancy. Relievers have looked for greater manifestation of the presence of God thau ever before, have prayed for it, talked of it and acted in obedience to his commands, and yet have greeted it with joyful surprise. Such expectancy is growing at this time. Many believe that the new century is to suow in ita opening years some glorious revelations of God's power in transforming the kingdoms of this world into the kingdom of Christ. They find encouragement in considering the days when the earliest disciples were on the threshold of the new time which in our age is approaching its consummation. They were prepared to inaugurate the new era by having revealed to them: The Glow from Death'* Shadow. Have you ever considered how much of the color, the glow, of life comes out of what we are accustomed to call the "dark shadow" of death? eliminate death, and what becomes of nine-tenths of all that illuminates our literature, 1 our art, our religion, our finer intercourse one with another? It all goes out like a snuffed candle. There would be uo more stars of faith, no more dawn of lofty expectation, no more swift, suffusing, mysterious aurora of hope. The sun would rise and set, and rise and set, forever. All our light would be daylight, and our utmost expectation would be?tomorrow.?James Buckham. Teach Me Day by Day. I need Thee to teach me day by day, according to each day's opportunities and needs. Give me, O my Lord, that purity of conscience which alone can receive, which, alone can improve Thy inspirations. My ears are dull, so that T hrtflr Thr vnipp. Mv lire dim, so that I cannot see Thy tokens. Thou alone canst quicken my hearing, ami purge my sight, and cleanse and renew my heart. Teach me to sit at Thy feet, and to hear Thy wordA.men. This, then, is our Savior's lesson. True lore finds joy in bereavement. Selfishness sees only the grief and the pain of separation. . . . But to one who has caught the secret of love there is a joy that arises above the pain of bereavement, because of the greater joy that comes to the one beloved. The departure of every Christly soul is always "a going to the Father."?Charles A. Savac** Ravages Ainonj; th? Pea?. The Department of Agriculture, at Wa?V ington, has issued a report o;i the ravages of the green pea louse, giving warning that this insect, one of the most important of those which ravaged the crops of the country during the" pa^t two seasons, will widen its range geographically and increase the amount of destruction. The loss it caused along the Atlantic coast States in 1809 is estimated at $3,000,000. and in 1900 this had rcached !;-t.iH)0,000 by the middle of June. Vigorous i-fTorts are making to control its spread, ami the official bulletin gives a detailed description and means of lighting it. TVoraen Are t'liarceil HaJf Jar*. In St. Petersburg cabmen charge half aa much for women aa for men.