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IN ANY CARB. In olden times when a girl grew up, "They tied her with ropes of gems. They shackled her ankles and wrists with ore, And they crowned her with diadems. They soaked her tresses in perfumed oil, mThey rubbed her with paste and things, linen brought her forth, as a queen, beht To rivet thogazo of kings. But now?a dip in the tumbling wares, With a rest on the sands between, !A linen skirt, and a sailor hat? And?she's just as much of a queen! ?Madeline Bridges, in Life. g| By Alvan F. Sanborn. ONE of the largest and bestappointed cages of the menagerie of the Paris Jardin des Plantes is shared by a (beautiful, full-grown Abyssinian lioness named Imperatrice and a small shepherd dog named Coco. The intimacy between Coco and Imperatrice began far back, when the one was a roly-poly puppy and a other a tumbling whelp on the after-deck of a Nile River steamer. They have never, from that time to this, been separated, except as Coco has been sent out for an occasional promenade beyond the Cage's limits, and their friendship has never for an instant faltered. Every day. and several times a day, they give a voluntary performance which compares favorably with the performances given by regularly organized troupes of trained animals, and which invariably draws to the cage a number of eager, tiptoeing spectators. The dog begins by circling with pro- . yoking barks about the lioness, exactly as he or any other dog might circle about a cow in a pasture. The lioness receives the affront cow-fashion, .with lowered head, creeps toward her Challenger stealthily, cat-fashion, halts and crouches as if to spring?but docs not. Then the two beasts, eye to eye, zigzag comically around each other like a pair of pugilists watching and , ."working for an opening; the lioness eelf-poised and supple," but ungainly from lack of space; the dog nervous, nimble and alert. This capering is kept up for several minutes, at the end of which the dog, tired of futile manoeuvring, attains the lioness with a single flying leap? the program at this point never varies ?and grips her by the skin of the back, side or chest, or by the ear? wherever, in fact, his teeth happen to close ? and tries with all his little might to throw her. The lioness, with the adorable restraint and infinite gentleness of a considerate father making a show of wrestling with his small tooy, or of a great, loving St. Bernard Hog playing with a baby or a puppy, allows herself to be toppled over on her back. As she lies thus, prostrate, in feigned defeat and helplessness, the victor plants his forefeet solidly on her silken white stomach, and with nose well in air, proudly awaits the applause that is sure to be accorded by the people beyond the bars; after which?is It that, for the moment, he believes the monster is really slain??he seizes the lioness's tall in his teeth and tugs lustily thereat, just for all the world as if he were dragging a carcass off the field. This sham fight is now and again supplemented by a sort of hide-thethlmble game in which a hunk of the lioness's dinner meat serves for the thimble, and such holes as muzzles can poke in the straw with which the cage floor is strewn serve for the hiding places. When they are not engaged in either Of these ways, the pair may be seen softly fooling and toying, licking each other's coats and faces, or sleeping cuddled together with their fore paws around each other's necks?veritable models of gentleness, self-forgetfulness and good-fellowship, and above all. past masters in the difficult art of taking a Joke. V Iuaperatrice is always docile and contained, except when some one of the crowd of gazers does something to annoy her little comrade. Under the slightest injury or insult to Coco she become another creature; growls ominously, switches her flanks with her tail, and assaults the cage bars in a way to make one tremble for their firmness, while her chops drip foam and her soft, veivet eyes flash flame. She loves Michel, her keeper, who Is kind to her, although firm and masterful, and would defend him doughtily, in all likelihood, if she beheld him li distress, but she loves Coco more. Of this, her preference for the dog over the man, she gave a striking, almost tragic, proof a year or so ago when an occasion arose which forced her?at least to her limited animal Intelligence it seemed to force her?to choose between them. The three, Michel, Coco and Imperajtrice, were in the cage togethei. Coco, in a sudden fit of perversity, did a thing he knew very well he should not do. Michel, with never a thought of the possible eirect upon lmperairic*;, Save him a richly deserved whip-cut .which seat him into a corner yelping and ashamed. Thereupon, with a Bpring there would have been no such ithing as eluding, even if-It had been foreseen. Imperatrice set her teeth in Michel's right shoulder and bore him to the floor. Had he grappled, unarmed as he ,Was, with the infuriated beast, tried to appease her with soft words, or swooned from fright, Michel might never have left the cage alive. An ordinary man would have done one or the other of these things and perished. But Michel was not an ordinary man. Sure and swift as was the spring of the lioness, his thought was carcely less swift and sure. It was as if the enure for the creature's rage Was flashed through his brain by lightning. He understood instinctively, as ;well as lie COUlU n?ve uuuei&iuuu vj reasoning for hours about it, that lmperatrice was rebelling for Coco's Bake, not for her own, and that the Bole way to save himself. If way indeed there were, was to display instantly and unmistakably his affection for Coco. And so he forced himself by an incredible, almost superhuman, effort to ignore the rasing lioness and to flatter the dog. I ^ ., :v Although the lioness's jaws wera fairly crunching his shoulder hones ' 1 Annpooa. uuu uei" puna uuu u^j[/4vo? ing Ills chest, the resolute fellowcalled out, in a perfectly natural voice, quite as if nothing at all unusual were occurring: "Coco! Coco! Viens, inon Coco! Viens done iuon cheri! La bonne bete! La bonne bete! Le beau garcon! Qu'il est beau, qu'il est gentil ce Coco-la! Oh le bon chien qu'il est!" And then, as th? dog, his mood transformed from shame to joy by the caressing tones of his master's voice, approached, Michel stretched forth the hand which the lioness's fierce embrace left free and patted him kindiy on the head. The effect on Imperatrice was instantaneous. Her eyes >grew gentle, her teeth and her claws relaxed, reluctantly, it is true?for the savor of the warm human blood was probably sweeter than anything she had hitherto known outside her dreams?but surely, and sliding to the floor, she licked affectionately the face of the dog and the hand of the master by turns. Because it was pialn as daylight that the lioness had offended not from savagery, but from excess of love, she was not punished for her outbreak. Nor did Michel, after his return from the hospital, where his ugly woQnda sent him, attempt to read her any lesson. Rather he read hims&lf one, and it will be many a long day, you may be sure, before he disciplines Coco again in the presence of Imperatrlce. Coco, the rascal, thoroughly appreciates the situation, and conuucts, or misconducts himself accordingly. There are two very different Cocos since Imperatrice's memorable defence of him; a Coco in the cage and a Coco out of it?Youth's Companion. FOREST FIRES/ rhe Indians Managed the Matter Better Than We Do To-Day. A correspondent of the Bedford Inquirer, "an old mountaineer," makes the following novel propositions .for the prevention of destructive forest fires: First compel all owners of woodland under heavy penalty to clear their woods of all leaves and small underbrush by burning the same or otherwise removing at such times as the owners may select during the months of November, December and January, holding them responsible for any damage done to the property or others, so that proper care and judgment may be used. Of course the first clearing of mountain and other timber land on which there may be an. accumulation of leaves and brush (the product of many years) will be attended with some expense and great care, but when once cleaned nearly all care, expense and trouble r'ill end in case all owners of woodland each and qvery year be compelle i under heavy penalty during the aforesaid months to burn all the leaves which may have fallen from the season's growth. If this be done there can be no forest fires during the nine succeeding months; there will be nothing to burn. After the forests and groves are once cleared of all leaves and small underbrush, the cost of each year of burning the leaves of oae season's growth will hardly exceed the cost of a box of matches. Furthermore, if done properly, there can be no harm to any young growth, as farmers know from experience that burning stubble off a field will not kill the roots of grass. The ashes of the leaves, being left on the ground, will prove a good fertilizer, and more than enough uninjured acorns and nuts will be left to take root, where it is impossible if there be a heavy carpet of leaves. Fall fires, simply from the flash of a coating of one season's leaves, will be so Tight that birds and game of all kinds will scarcely be frightened, and in the months named there are nc young birds and nests and no helpless animals. Nuts, too, of all kinds could easily be seen and gathered when wanted. Let us learn wisdom from the Indians and the hunters of 100 years ago. When the leaves were burned each fall in West Virginia and Maryland the ridges were covered with a Hnneo <rpAwth of bluesrrass, affording pasture for deer and cattle. Tills annual fall burning had much to do In producing the smoky atmosphere which was called "Indian summer."? Bradford (Penn.) Era. Can Animal's Cry? Lady Burton says she has seen horses in the Syrian desert cry from thirst, a mule cry from the pain of an injured foot, and camels shed tears in streams. A cow, sold by its mistress who had tendered it from birth, wept pitifully. A young soko ape used to cry from vexation if Livingstone didn't nurse it in his arms when it asked bin to. Wounded apes have died crying, and apes have wept over their young ones slain by hunters. A chimpanzee trained to carry water jugs broke one, and fell a-crying, which proved sorrow, though it wouldn't mend the jug. Rats.discoverlng a young one drowned have been moved to tears of grief. A **1 hn/1 girane which a uuuisuiau o ?iu^ injured began to cry. Sea lions weep for the loss of their young. Gordon Cumming observed tears trickling from the eyes of a dying elephant. And even an orang-outang, when deprived of Its mango, was so vexed that It took to crying. There can be Utile doubt therefore, that animals do weep from grief, or pain, or anncyance.?Cassell's Little Folks. Something In Reserve. A young lady had a train to catch, and chartered a cab, which unfortunately was drawn by a very wretched horse. Having told cabby that she had to reach the station in twenty minutes, away the vehicle dashed at five milea au hour. They had barely got fifty yards, however. before the lady put her head out of the window and requested the driver to whip the horse, as she would otherwise miss the train. He accordingly did so. A little further on she asked him to " J ? -l\? ?t.i ? mni?n nc thn auiumiBmr me n uiji uuvc ujviv, .... ...v cab was only just moving. Cabby again complied. Soon after she said: "Can't you hit him on the head so as to wake him up a bit?" Looking at the young lad* the cabby exclaimed: "Well, miss. I've 'it the hanimal all over 'is bloomin' body except 'Is left ear, and I'm savin* that for the last 'ill!"?London Answers. DR. TALMAGES SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED niviMi: Subject? Control Your Temper?Why One May Ilave a Wholesome Indication? Sins That We Should Be An (fry With ?Pity the Sinner. [Copyright 1901.1 Washington, D. C. ? A delicate and difficult duty is by Dr. Taimage in this discourse urged upon all and especially upon those given to quick temper; text, liphesians iv, 26, "Be ye angry and sin not." Equipoise of temper, kindness, patience, forbearance, are. extolled by most of the raSiant pens of inspiration, but my text contains that which at first sight is startling. A certain kind of anger is approved; aye, we are commanded to indulge in it. The most of us have no need to cultivate high temper, and how often we say things and do things under affronted impulse which we are sorry for when perhaps it is too late to make effective apology! Why, then, should the apostle Paul dip his pen in the ink horn and trace upon paper for all ages, the injunction, "Be ye angry and sin not?" My text commends a wholesome indignation. It discriminates between the of" * *1 rr _ l il; J i-U lence ana iuc onenaer, me am nuu wc sinner, the crime and the criminal. To illustrate, alcoholism has ruined more fortunes, blasted more homes, destroyed more souls than any evil that I thint of. It pours a river of poison and fire through the nations. Millions have died becausc of it, and millions are dyii^; i?o\v, and others will die. Intemperance is aa old sin. The great Cyrus, writing to the Lacedemonians of himself, boasted of many of his qualities, amcng others that he could drink and bear more wine than his distinguished brother. Louis X. and Alexander the Great died drunk. The Parliament of Edinburgh in 1661 is called in history "the drunken Parliament." Hugh Miller, first stonemason and afterward a world renowned geologist, writes of the drinking habits of hia day, saying: "When the foundation waa laid, they drank. When the walls were leveled for laying, they drank. When the building was finished, they drank. When an apprentice joined, they drank." In tne eighteenth ccntury the giver of an entertainment boasted that none of the guests went home sober. Noah, the first ship captain, was wrecked not in the ark, for that was safely landed, but he was wrecked with strong drink. Every man or woman rightly constructed will blush with indignation at the national and international and hemispheric and planetary curse. It is good to be aroused against it. You comc out of that condition a better man or a better woman. Be ye angry at that abomination, and the more anger the more exaltation "to character. But that aroused fecline becomes sinful when it extends to the victim of this great evil. Drunkenness you are to hate with a vivid hatred, but tne drunkard you are to pity, to help to extricate. Just take into consideration that there are men and women who Once were as upright as yourself who have been prostrated by alcoholism. Perhaps it came of a physician'8 prescription for the relief of pain, a recurrence of the pain calling for a continuance of the remedy. Perhaps *he grandfather was an inebriate, and the temptation to inebriety, leaping over a generation, has Bwooped on this unfortunate. _ Perhaps it was a very gradual chaining of the man with the beverage which was thought to be a servant, when one day it announced itself master. Be humble now, and admit that there is a strong probability that under the Same circumstances you yourself might have been captured. The two appropriate emotions for you to allow are indignation at the intoxicant which enthralled and sympathy for the victim. Try to get the sufferer out of his present environment. Recommend any hygienic relief that you know of, and, above all, implore the divine rescue for the struggle in which so many of the noblest and grandest have been worsted. Do not give yourself up to too many philippics abouc wnac tne man ought to nave been and ought to have done. While vour cheek flushes with wrath at the foe that has brought the ruin, let your eye be mositened with tears of pity for the sufferer. In that way you will have fulfilled the injuction of the test, "Be ye angry and sin not." There is another evil the abhorrence of which you are all called to, and it is on the increase?the gambling practice. Recent developments show that much of this devastation is being wrought in ladies' parlors. It is an evil which sometimes is as polite and gracious as it is harmful. Indeed there never were so many people trying to get money without earning it. But it is a haggard transgression that comes down to us from the past, blighting all its way. I have seen in the archives of the nation in this national capital _a large book in which one of the early Presidents ox tne United States kept an account in his own handwriting of gains and losses at playing cards, on one page the gains and on the other the losses, and there are many I pages. In other days many of national reputation went from the halls of Congress and the Senate chamber to spend the night in notorious gambling saloons. In Spain a don lost in twenty-four hours what equals $12,000,000. Twenty years ago it was estimated that the average gambling exchange of mon^y throughout Christendom exceeded $123,100,000.000 a year, but statistics twenty years ago would be tame compared with the present statis[ tics if we could find any one able enough at figures to tabulate wem. It is all the same spirit of gambling whether the inI struments are cards or the clicking chips or the turning wheel or the bids of tne Stock Exchange, where people sell what I they never owned and fail because they cannot get paid for it. A prominent banker tells me that he thinks 50,000 people were financiallv prostrated by the recent insanities in Wall street. Here and there a case is reported, but the vast majority suffer in silence. The children are 1 ? - ? r ?i 1. iL. 1 l Drougnt nome irom bcuoui, mc nuuiuuc will De denied replenishment; the table will have scant supply; wild generosity will be turned into grim want. Forty years from now will be felt the disaster of last month's black Thursday. But, while you are hotly indignant against the crime, how do you feel about those who were fleeced ana slain? They [ did not know that their small boat was so near the maelstrom. Some of them were I born with a tendency to recklessness and ( experiment and hazard. They inherited a disposition to tempt chance. Do not i heap on them additional discouragements. Do not deride their losses. Help them to | start again. Show them that there are more fortunes to be gained than have yet been gathered, and that with God for their friend they will be provided for here, and through the Saviour's mercy they may reign forever in the land where there are no losses and infinite gains. While you may redden in the face at the fact that gambling is the disgraceful mother of multitudiou* crimes, of envies, jealousies, rerenfW, quarrels, cruelties, falsehoods, forgeries', suicides, murders and despair, ?be careful what you say to the victim of the vice and what you do. He needs more sympathy than the man who came up from inebriety and debauch and assassination, for many such repent and are saved, but confirmed gamblers hardly ?vpp rpfnrm. Diirincr the course of a Dro longed ministry I have seen thouiands* redeemed, many of them who were clear gone in sin, Dy Almighty grace rescued, in all parts of this land and in some parts of other lands I have seen those who were given np as incorrigible and lost recovered for God and heaven, but how many confirmed gamblers have I seen converted from their evil ways? A thousand? No. Five hundred? No. Fifty? No. Two? No. One? No. I read in a book of one such rescued. I have no doubt there have been other cases, but no evil does its work so thoroughly and eternally as Rambling. Such almost hopelessness of reformation ought to call forth from you deeper sympathy than you feel for any other unfortunate. Pity, by all means, for those who, shipwrecked and bruitjed among the timbers, have nevertheless climbed up to the fisherman's cabin and found warmth and shelter, but more pity for those who never reach shore, but are dashed to death in the breakers. Be angry at the sin, but sympathize with its victims. There is another sin that we are oftentimes called to-be angry with, and that is fraud. We all like honesty, and when it is sacrificed we are vehement in denunciation. We hope that the deteative will Boon . v. . - ; V ' " . at . ' . " ,v |i.i7 , ; come upon the track of the absconding bank official, of the burglar who blew up the safe, of the clerk who skilfully changed the figures in the account book, of the falsifier who secured the loan on valueless property, of the agent who because of his percentage wronpfully admits a man to the benent of a life insurance policy when his heart is ready to stop and who comes from an ancestry characteristically short lived. One act of fraud told of in big headlines in the morning papers rightfully arouses the nation's wrath. It is the interest of every good man and good woman who reads of the crime to have it exposed and punished. Let it go unscathed, and you put a premium on fraud, you depress public morals, you induce those who are on the fence between right and wrong to go down on the wrong side, and you put the business of the world on a down grade. The constabulary and penitentiary must do their work. But while the merciless and the godless cry, "Good for him?I am glad he is within the prison doors!" be it your work to find out if that man is worth saving and what were the causes of his moral overthrow. Perhaps he started in business life under a tricky firm, who gave him wrong notions of business integrity; perhaps there was a combination of circumstances almost unparalleled for temptation, perhaps there were ' alleviations, perhaps he was born wrong and never got over it. perhaps he did not realize what he was doing, and if you are a merciful man you will think of other perhapses which, though they will not excuse, will extenuate. Perhaps he has already repented and ia washed in the blood of tne Lamb, and is as sure of heaven as you are. There is another evil that we ought to a\)hor while we try to help the victim, and that is infidelity. It snatches the life preserver from the man afloat and affords not so much aa a spar or a plank as substitute. It would extinguish the only light that has ever been lcindled for thi troubled and the lost. Let the spirit of infidelity take hold of a neighborhood, and in that town the marriage relation is a farce, and good morals give place to all styles of immorals. Let it take possession of this earth, and there would be no virtue left in all the world's circumference. Have a lightning in your eye and a flush in your cheek ana a frown on your brow for a dastardy that would blot out the sun and moon and sfc^s of Christianity, and leave all things in an arctic night, the cold equal to the darkness. You do well to be angry, but how about those who have been flung of skepticism, and that is more millions than you will ever know of until the judgment aay reveals everything. Ah, here comes your opportunity for prentleness, kindness and sympathy. The probability is that if you had been plied with the same influences as this unbeliever there would not be a Bibltf in all your house from cellar to attic. Perhaps he was in some important transaction swindled by a member of the church whose taking of the sacrament was a sacrilege. Perhaps he read agnostic books and heard agnostic circles until he has been befogged and needs your Christian help more tnan any one that you know of. Do not get into any labored argument about .the truth of Christianity. He may beat you at that. He has a whole artillery of weapons ready to open fire. Remember that no one was ever reformed for this life or saved for the life to come by an argument, but in humblest and gentlest way, your voice subdued, ask him a few questions. Ask him if he had a Christian parentage, and if he says yes, ask him whether the old folks died happy. Ask kim if U ovpt heard of-anv one coin? out of this life in raptures of infidelity and agnosticism. Ask him if it is not a somewhat remarkable fact that the Bible, after so many years, sticks together and that there are more copies of it in existence than ever before. Ask him if he knows of any better civilization than Christian civilization and whether he thinks the teachings of Confucius or Christ are preferable. Ask him if he thinks it would be a fair thing in the Creator of all things to put in this world the human race and give them no direct communication for their guidance, and if they did wrong tell them of no way of recovery. I think if a famous infidel of our time instead of being taken away instantaneously had died in his bed after weeks and months of illneSB he would have revoked his teachings and left for his beloved family consolations which they could not find in obsequies at which not one word of holy Scripture wau read of at Fresh Pond crematory, where no Christian benediction was pronounced. I do not positively say that in a prolonged illness there would have been a retraction, but I think there would. I say to all young men hoping to achieve financial, moral or religious success, control yonr tempers. Do not let criticism or rebuff defeat you. Verdi, the great musician, applied to become a student in the Conservatory of Music at Milan, and he was rejected by the director, who said that he could make nothing of the newcomer, as Tie showed no disposition for music. But the criticism did not exasperate or defeat him. The most of those who have largely succeeded in all departments were characterized by self control. In battle they could calmly look at the bomb thrown at their feet, wondering whether it would explode. In commercial life, when panics smote the city, these men were placid, while others were veiling themselves hoarse at the Stock Exchange. While others nearly swooned because a certain stock had gone 100 points down they calmly waited until it would get 100 points up. While the opposing attorney in the courtroom frothed at the mouth with ra^e because of something said on the other side he ot tne equipoise dui a guiaa of water to his lips in refreshment and proceeded with the remark, "As I was saying when the gentlem.-m interrupted me." Self control! What a glorious thing! We want it in the doctor feeling the pulse of one desperately ill; we want it in the engineer when the headlight of another train comes round the curve on the same track; we want it in Christian men and women in times when so much in church and state seems going to demolition?self control! Surpassing all other characters in the world's biography stands Jesus Christ, wrathful against sin. merciful to the sinner. Witness His behavior toward the robed ruffians who demanded capital punishment for an offending woman?denun^ ciation for their sinful hypocrisy, pardon' for her sweet penitence. He did not speak of Herod as "his highness" or "his royal highness," but dared to compare him to a cunningfox, saying, "Go ye and tell that fox." But, alert to the cry of suffering, He finds ten lepers, and to how many of the ten awful invalids did He give convalescence and health! Ten. Rebuking Pharisaism in the most compressed sentence in all the vocabulary of anathema? "Ye aernents! Ye eeneration of vipers! How can ye escape the damnation of hell?" Yet looking upon Peter with such tenderness that no word was spoken, and not a word was needed, for tne, loojc spoke louder than words. And the Lord looked upon Peter, and Peter went out and irept bitterly." Defying; the mightiest Government of the worM. the Roman Gov?rnment, yet rubbir.? His hand just below the forehead of the blind until the optic nerve of him who was born sightless is created, and the sunlight has two new paths to tread. Best illustration the world ever saw of anger without sin,.anger against the abom- | inations which have mauled and blasted the earth from its deepest cavern to its highest cliff, but so much pity for the sinning and suffering nations that He allowed them to transfix Him upon two pieces of wood nailed across each other on a day that was dark as night, the windows of heaven shut because the immortals could not bear to look down upon the assassination of the loveliest being that ever walked the shore of the lakes or without | pillow or blanket slept on the cold mountains. Like Him, let us hate iniquity with complete hatred, but like Hin may we help those who are overthrown and be willing to suffer for their restoration. Then, although at the opening of this discourse * n noomo^ f a no ' UllI LCAt Ultxy uutc DVV. Iiiv-u ku vuiiiiiictiiu uo to do an impossible thinz. we will at the close of this sermon, with a prayer to God for help, be more ri^id and determined than ever before against that which is wrong, while at the same time we shall feel so Kindly toward all the erring and work so hard for their rescue that we will realize that we have scaled the Alpine, the Himalavan height of my text, which enjoins, "lie ye angry and sin not." It's a wonder some people don't get indigestion fro;n chewing the rag. ..j _ THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Poem : Death's Assistant Batcher?Drinkins 'or the Effect ? Experiments of Dr. Starr and Pertinent Suggestions by the Kansas City Times. In our world, death deputes Intemoerance to do the work of age; And hanging up the quiver nature gava him, As slow of execution, for dispatch. Sends for his licensed butchers; bids them, slay Their sheep (the Billy sheep they fleeced before), And toss him twice ten thousand at a meal. Oh, what heap of slain Cry out for vengeance on us. ?Young. Mental Mood of Drinkers. To the maty uninformed people who insist on drinking strong liquors "not because they like the taste, but are fond of the effects," the discoveries made by Dr. Allen Starr as to the quality of mental mood produced in the drinker by different sorts of beverages may prove instructive. In a recent article in the Medical Record he says that the result of careful investigation has led him to conclude that in the majority of individuals sherry produces a quarrelsome disposition, while, on thew other hand, port tends to exert a soothing effect. Champagne causes appar entiy a aeciaea exniiaraxioii ox me uuw ul thought, while Burgundy makes one think more slowly and by no means adda to the feeling of conviviality. Whisky, brandy and gin have entirely different effects on the 'individual, but Dr. Starr will not undertake to classify their manifestations with reference to any large number of persons. Ihe fact of the matter is he cannot do so, for each one of these beverages produces an effect upon the individual who may absorb them in overdoses that is in inverse ratio to the sober temperament of the absorber and in diametric opposition to every rule of psychology that was ever laid down. Four drinks of brandy may make a usually taciturn individual talk like a house afire, while five drinks of gin may put an alert and hustling man into a state of paralysis. Eleven drinks of whisky may set a normally peace-loving citizen to fighting every wooden Indian and police telephone box he comes across, and a mixture of all three of these brands of liquor during the progress of a spree may turn the most profane and irreligious man into a singer of hymns and a spouter of gospel texts and scraps of sermons. If the large number of experimenting persons who insist on drinking liquor without reference to quantity or quality or age or character for its effects and not for its "taste," would take the precaution to have the different stage* of their "jags" portrayed by phonograuliers and photographers, engagea especially to follow them trom barroom to buffet, and from beer saloon to alehouse, they might secure a collection of data that, when examined in moments of stern and reflective sobriety, would serve more effectively to prevent a recurrence of their experimentation than all the cures for alcoholism | ever invented.?Kansas City 'limes. It la a Deceiver. Alcohol, whether you call it a pOej&n or not, has something very peculiar lmts nature; there is about it a sweetnessffand seductiveness, a sort of serpentine spell of attraction, which gradually draws men on while they do not know it, and which at last they find themselves unable to resist, t Coleridge says: "Evil habit first draws, then drags, and then drives." Or, as an eminent French writer expresses it, "We are insensibly led to yield without resistance to slight temptations which we despise, and gradually we find ourselves in a perilous situation, or even falling into an abyss, and then we cry out to God, 'Why, hast Thou made us too weak to rise?' and, in spite of ourselves, a voice answers to our consciences, "If I made thee too weak by thine own power to rise out of the gulf, it was because I made thee amply strong enough never to have fallen into it.' Do not let any of us be so proud as to think we should be safe. If men of the highest genius have fallen under this temptation, if even an Addison, a Burns, a Coleridge, Itnd hundreds of others, were tempted by the"e'ices3 of their intellectual work to rekindle the vestal flame upon the altar of genius by the unhallowed fires of alcohol, I, for one, will not be the man to abstain from saying to anyone: 'Let him that thinketh he standeth ? however superior he may think himself from the same possibility of temptation?still let him beware lest he fall.' "?Archdeacon Farrar. Merely a Lack of 3Haalincss. A drunkard who is told that he is suffering from a disease knows deep down in his own soul that his principal suffering is a lack of manliness. If he has an honest interval occasionally he despises himself, recognizes that the plea of a want of will is one which might be urged in defense of all criminal weakness, of all dereliction of duty, as well as in defense of his worse than beastly appetite. Strictly speaking drunkenness is not per ge a crime, as the smypathetic justice urges, but it is the father of many crimes, and even in its "plainest" aspects it rolls up a greater total of misery, heartache, ruin and despair than all the crimes put together. We can imagine nothing, therefore, which is moTe fatuous or unforgivable than the coddling of the individual who is responsible for a share in this total with the notion that he has no responsibility, that he is somehow really distinguished as a deserving object of compassionate concern. The whipping post would serve his case a thousand times better, but unfortunately the nature of the offense makes that impossible. The frenzy which drives women to smashing saloons is always explicable, but they are after the wrong object. They should smash the drunkards, who are the real home destroyers and whose misguided apologists simply multiply the evil which they wish to decrease. A Painter's Grlui Joke. A saloon license was granted in a Pennsylvania town in a building formerly used as a trunk factory. Over the door was a big sign, "Trunk Factory." The saloon keeper asked a prohibition painter to change the sign to suit his business at the least possible cost. The painter took his brush and simplv carried it. around the crossline of the -'T," making the sign read, "Drunk Factory." Liquor and Business Men. It is beyond question that the daily potations of city men are terribly on the increase. The red. rules of self-denial and moderation during the hours of business have been brushed aside.?Toronto Truth. t Tbs Crsisde In Brief. While the pulpit sleeps, the saloon sells. Moderation the gateway to drunkenness. Alcohol, the mightiest evil genius for killing men. Human depravity ita deepest depthsliquor traffic. The number of saloons in Ohio last year Taa 10,348, an increase of 476 over 1899. The license receipts were $1,884,642. Alcohol vitiates the blood, inflames the stomach, overtaxes the heart, destroys the kidneys, hardens the liver and softens the brain.?Aorman Kerr, M. D. Experiments with marching soldiers have generally shown that spirits should not be used in times of great muscular exertion. "It would tickle the W. C. T. U. half tc death to know what hard sledding New York saloonkeepers have nowadays." The speaker was the proprietor of a successful downtown cafe. Experience has shown that about onethird of the living children of alcoholic parents are epileptic, and that more than one-half of the idiots in the world are the offspring of alcoholic parents. Kraepelin goes so far a8 to consider intoxication a mental disturbance fraught with great danger to societv. He point* out also the frequency with which alca holism is responsible for crime oi variom kinds and depras. v -. ;-rrv**; y < * '. '' ' " " . ' ... THE SABBATH SCH001 1 INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 21. Subject : Nonli Saved Jn tho Ark. Gen III., 1-23?Golden Text, Gen. vi., 8Memory Verge*, 20-32 ? Commenicrj on the Day'* Lesson. Connecting Links. ? According. to the commonly accepted chronology, more than 1650 years have passed since our last lesson. During that time the Old Testament world became densely populated, and the race had grown exceedingly wicked, so that God decided to destroy them from the face of the earth. 1. "God remembered Noah." Noah himself, though one that had found grace in the eyes of the l?ora, yet seemed to be forgotten in the ark, but at length God returned in mercy to him, and that is expressed by His remembering him. The strange work of judgment being over, the saved family, and all in association with them, come into remembrance. "Made a wind." Such a wind as produced a strong and sudden evaporation. 2. "Was restrained." When God's purposes were accomplished it was as easy-for Him to restrain the rain as to cause it to rain. 3. "Returned?continually." They gradually departed. The heat of the sun exhaled much, and perhaps the subterraneous caverns soaked in more. 4. "Mountains of Ararat." A region nearly in the middle of Armenia, even now called by the Armenians Ararat, on the mountains of which the ark of Noah rested; sometimes in a wider sense as the whole of Armenia iself. As the drying wind most probably came from the east or north, it is likely that the ark was drifted toward Asia Minor, and caught land on some hill in the region of the Euphrates. It cannot be supposed that it rested on either of the peaks now called Ararat, as Ararat was a country, not a mountain, and these peaks do not seem suitable for the purpose. 7. "Sent forth." Though God had- told Noah when the flood would come, even to a day, yet He had not revealed to him the time when the waters would disappear; the knowledge of the former was nfecessary, while a knowledge of the latter would serve only to gratify his curiosity, and the concealing it from him would serve the purpose of testing his faith and patience. "Raven?to ana fro." Going forth and returning. It is generally supposed that the raven flew off and was seen no more; it is evident, however, that she did return, but was not taken into the ark. 8. "He sent forth a dove." He sent forth the dove three times. The first time it speedily returned; the second time it returned bringing with it an olive leaf, and the third time it went forth to return no more. The dove is an emblem of a soul, which, finding no rest or satisfaction in this sinful world, returns to Christ as to its ark; the carnal heart like the raven takes up with the world and feeds on the carrion it finds there. As Noah put forth his hand and took the doVe into the ark, so ChriBt will graciously receive those who come to Him for rest. 11. "An olive leaf." An emblem of the restoration of peace between God and the earth: and from this circumstance the olive nas been the emblem of peace among all civilized nations. Sweet emblem of the renewed mind which, amid the surrounding desolation,- se^ks and finds its rest ana portion in Christ, and apt only art hut also lavs hold of the earnest of the inheritance, and furnishes the blessed proof that judgment has passed away and tnat a renewed earth is coming fully into view, lue carnal -mind, on the contrary, can rest in anything and everything but Christ; it (like the raven) can feed upon all uncleanne8s. 14. "Second month," etc. From this it appears that Noah was in the ark a complete solar year, or 385 days. 10. "Go forth of the ark." Noah did not leave the ark until the command came from God. It was the Lord who was directing this whole matter. 20. "Noah builded an altar." The first thing ^hat Noah did after his wonderful preservation was to pay his debt of gratitude to God, who had so wonderfully preserved him. Adam, Cain and Abel offered sacrifices, and there can be no doubt that they had altars on which they offered them, but this,, builded by Noah, is certainly the first on record. The word which we render altar signifies properly a place for sacrifice. Altar come* from the Latin altus, high or elevated, because places for sacrifice were generally either raised very high or built on tho tops of hills and mountains; hence they are called high places in the Scriptures, but these were chiefly used for idolatrous purposes.. "Unto the Lord." It was "unto the Lor3" he ercctg^ftii altar. fiupersti^pn would have worshiped the ark, as being the mean# of salvation, but Noah's faith passed beyond the ark to the God of the ark, and hence when he stepped out of it, instead of casting hack a lingering look at it, or regarding it as an object of worship, he built an altar unto the Lord and worshiped Him, and the ark is never heard of again. ."Burnt offerinp." This was "an acknowledgment of guilt and an atonement for sin, a grateful recognition of God's authority and goodness, the means of securing His favor, and a token of the giver's self-dedication to His service." At first sacrifices were offered by individuals, as Cain and Abel; but after the flood by heads of families, or tribes. This offering was a very expressive type of the eacriiice of Christ, as nothing less than His complete and full sacrifice could make atonement for the sin of the world. In most other offerings the offerer had a share, but in the whole burnt offering all was given to God. 21. "Smelled a sweet savour." That is. He was well pleased with this act. "Saia in iiis heart." in cnap. ?: o-n, vioa maae the covenant with Noah that He had in His heart to make. "Will not again curse." When Noah and his family first began to make their homes on the land there would be a fear at every rain that it might be .the beginning of another flood. This would interfere not pnly with their comfort, but with their progress. What would be the use of building houses or cultivating fields that might at any time be destroyed? The covenant was God's solemn promise in their, behalf. 22.' "Earth remaineth." Here it is plainly intimated that the earth is not to fexnain always; it, and all the works therein, must be burned up. 2 Pet. 3: 7. "Seedtime and harvest," etc. The Lord promises two signs as the guarantee, the visible proof, that the earth would never again be destroyed by a flood. The first was | that seedtime and Harvest ana aay ana night should not cease while the' earth, remained; the second was the bow set in the cloud. Chap. 9: 13. American Leather in Ofrminy. The steady decline of the German leather industry, which the Germans claim is due solely to the low import tariff on the foreijgn product, is really due ta the vast superiority of American leather, according to Consul Schumann, at Mainz, in a report to the State Department at Washington. In spite of a thorough study of American methods in this, regard, and factories built on the American plan, he says the Germans cannot duplicate the American article. To Tnrn Elvers Into Dry Valleys. Acting under the general directions of Chief- Hydrographer Newell, geolo^cal survey parties nave iust begun work in the Gunnison River Valley in Western Colorado, near Montrose, which looks to diverting the river by means of a great tunnel through a mountain range into a dry <.rwl Vorfilo 1'allov Another nartv has be gun the preliminary work of diverting St. P&ry's River into the Milk River "Valley in Montana PnnUhed For Ridiculing Dueling. Arthur Schnitzler, the playwright and novelist, has been expelled from the ranks of reservist officers in the Austrian Axmy and infamously degraded by a mil itary court of honor for publishing a novei in which he throws ridicule upon the practice of dueling. Discover? of PotMtlam, Potassium was discovered in 1807 by Sit Humphrey Davy. .'r,. :v,.;. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. * ' PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE , WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS* - - ' ' . . Two Kantian*?Realizing Oar Vi?Iong m Trnr.h ? Modern < lirUtlnnlty? R?>Jole? In the Lord ? A Mornine Pr?j?r ? God'* Beautiful World ? Lord's Day* 'j A woman snt by a bearthside place Rending a book with a pleasant face, Till a child came up with a childish frown And pushed the book, saying, "Put it down." Then the mother, slapping his curlj; head, Said, "Troublesome child, go off to bed! A great deal of Christ's life I inust know To train you up as a child should go." And the child went off to bed to cry. And denounce religion?by and by. Another woman bent o'er a book With a smile of joy and an intent look. Till a child came ud and jogged her knee, And said of the book, "Pat it downtake me." Then the mother sighed as she stroked his head, Saying softly, "I.never shall get it read; Rut I'll try by loving to learn His will. And His love into my child instil." That child went to bed without m sigh, And will love religion?by and by. ?Ram's Horn. . 1 ''M i Realizing Oar VUions of Tratb. When visions cease and ideals have perished, when the heights of perfect living are lost to eyes turned downward, there is peril for the soul. We live by what we se^, not merely by the gifts t? which we have attained. God counts as his people not only those who have reached the goal, but also those who are upon the roiH. Our heart belongs at the further ad of our desire. In loving Christ, whom as yet we know imperfectly, we have put ourselves in vital contact with One who is himself the truth, in whom nil our imperfect aspirations are to be first purified, then satisfied. It is God who gives the longing # and He will not- let it die without attainment if our wills are true. He corrects our vision as he leads us toward < - the goal. Peter had a vision of ceremouial purity which made the Gentiles all unclean; but God showed him that the true ideal was not a scornful sep j.! 1. 1_ - I 1 J W..4. A Hmnou much an ue unu pmcurcu, uui m helpful mingling which shonld bring a diviner purity to the unclean peoples. We hold oar ideals subject to God's correction, but we may be sure that our attainment will be more blessed and more useful than we dreamed. Here on earth we are always growing, and the wish changes as the knowledge grows. The pattern of the tent of our abiding is in the loving thought of Christ.?The Congregationalist. Modern Chrlitianlty. | While Jesrs Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, it is equally true that different aspects of his characterand work appeal with special force to the experience' and need of different ages of the church. The direction of Christian thought has naturally been determined in part by the objections and reproaches of the enemies of tha faith. In the early centuries Christian thought'was chiefly concerned with the nature of Christ and his relation to the Godhead. Controversy on these points kept the Eastern church in a ferment for centuries. In the Western church problems relating especially to the work of Christ as the Savior of men from the wrath of God engaged the mind of the church down to the time of Luther and beyond. But our time, set in the midst of immense and rapid changes, arousea to the vastness of the modem world and its moral meaning, touched with human insight and feeling as no age before it ever was, turns to Jesus of Nazareth as the perfect revelation of a righteous and loving God, the Creator of the universe and its moral Ruler and Redeemer.?The Congregationalism ~~ Rejoin In the Lord, Unless we "Rejoice in the Lord?* how can we, "through the long workday of life, still chant our morning song?" Joy that sprouts by the runlets, of April is dead when August comes; He only who is planted by the rivers of water has the unfailing fruit of seasonable joy. Let there be no sap in a mim'a gladness but that which flows from "the things which he possesseth," and how easily is his moisture turned into the drought of summer. Be joyful in the Lord. Emulate old Habakkuk. He was no dry-weather Christian. "Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my ? T\ T\ salvntion."?Maltbie D. tsaDcocu, u. is., ?n S. S. Times. A Mornlnsr Prayer. Teach us to use this day, O Lord, in glad remembrance of Christ's rising from the dead and the new life which He has given. Let Thy presence cheer our souls, the teaching of Thy Holy Spirit show us our own "sin and thine availing love revealed in Christ. Help us to worship Thee In all sincerity of cotffesslon, simplicity of faith and joy of thanksgiving. Make it a feast day to our souls in happy thoughts of Thee, in foretaste of the heavenly service and companionship of saints. Accept onr offerings and use and bless each effort % [ of ministration for which Thou givert | opportunity. May rest be sweet to body, soul and spirit, Dreparing us for better . work and hightr thought and for the j rest that remaineth for the people of Ood. Amen. God'* Feantlful World. Think of breathing in God's inrwt, pure air. and instantly giving it forth hi foul-mouthed speech! Think of transmuting the fragrance of ftowera int*profanity! How can any man be pro* fane in a summer garden, or in the b!o?somihg country? That is one of th? j.-oKonrfoninc thihirs about the *? muni ui.uk ?. goclation of man and nature?that maa ;an be so brutally insensible, sometime*, to the sweetly humanizing, refining, uplifting influences shed upon him and diffused through him by God's beautifttl world.?Zioa'a Herald. The Lord's Day, being the remenijranee of a great blessing, must be a | lay of joy, festivity, spiritual rejoicing [ tnd thanksgiving.?Jeremy Taylor. The root of worship is need; the blo?> jom. love: the fruit, character. Progress or CremnMon. Believers in cremation will derive encouragement from the report just issued by the council of the Cremation Society of England, which shows continued progress of the movement thpre. During the vear under review 301 cremr.tions have been carricd out by the society at Woking, as ajrainst 240 during 1890. being an increase of twenty-five ner cent. This brings the toUl_ number of cremations ?at WnVintr nn 1S24. During pcnvnuvu ^ - ~ 1P00 eighty-eight bodies were cremated at Manchester, sixteen at Glasgow and forty at Liverpool. This brinzs the totals al these places to 475, 75 and 102 respectively. It costs from $20 to $100 per ton to send freight to Manila. , ,.y ,s i