TAKEN AT HER WORD.
He came and asked me for my love.
And said that his devotion
Should most indubitably prove
As boundless as the ocean.
But I was voung and fair and gay;
lAy fe was like a summer's day;
And this was all that 1 would say,
"You'd better ask Pepita."
His form was fine, and oh, his face
Recalled the young Leander,
'And for his cer in manly grace
Go back to Alexander.
But flattery had turned my head,
'And when he urged that I would wed,
'Conuettishly again I *aid;
"You'd better ask Pepita."
!A.nd then?I've heard of coarse, that man
Is fickle and peculiar,
Hanging from Elinor to Ann,
From Ann' to Jane or Julia.
But if I e'er had thought that hs
would so extremely docile be,
I never should have said?ah me!
He'd better ask Penita.
?C. W. Thayer, in Harper's Magazine.
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^ ~nr T Buckborn Junction, Joe
/\ Durks, who combined the duties
of telegraph operator
with those of baggage master
and ticket agent, was at bis table
receiving a message when Dan OakIrv
walked into the office. He bad
Just stepped from the Chicago express.
"What's the latest word from An-1
tioch. Joe?" he asked, hurriedly.
"The message was that a strong
~ north wind was blowing, and that the
town was pretty certain to burn unless
the engines and hose reached there tonight.
bnt they have beery saying that
for two days, and the wind's always
changed at the riplu moment and
driven the fire back."
Dan glanced along the track, and
saw the relief train, consisting of an
engine, tender and two flat cars, loaded
with hose and fire engines, on one
of the sidings.
"Look here!" he cried. "You must
get a fireman for me. and I'll rake out
the train myself."
He wondered why he had not
thought of this before.
"I guess I'll manage to reach Antioch,"
he added. "Here, throw in
some coal," he ordered, opening the
furnace door.
Dan Oakley knew he might ride
Into Antioch on his engine none the
iworee for the trip, except for a few
burn!?, but there was the possibility of
a more tragic ending. Still, whatever
khe result, lie would have done his full
part.
"Now, wbere's that fireman? Any
man who knows enough to shovel coal
Twill do," he said.
"But no one will want to take such
lone chances, Mr. Oakley. Baker said
it was just plain suicide."
"Confound It," and Dan swore like a
brakeman out of temper, in the bad.
thoughtless manner of his youth.
At the same moment a heavy, slouching
figure emerged fromfthe shadow
at the opposite end of the freight car,
and came hesitatingly toward the two
men. Then a voice said, in gentle admonition:
"nnn'r cxronr sn D.irmie. It ain't
?ight. I'll go with you."
it was his father.
Dan turned to his father and said
Earnestly: "Do you know what it
means if you are arrestedV Have you
thought of that?"
Roger Oakley waived the query aside
as though it concerned him not at all.
"I want to be with you." hp said,
wistfully. "You may not get through
alive, and I want to he with you.
.You'll need me. There's no one you
can trust as you can me. for I won't
fail you, no matter what the diingcr
Is. And there's the girl. Dannie. Have
you thought of her?"
Dan set his lips. "My God. I can't
think of anything else."
Tb*>re was a momeut's silence.
Dan made a last appeal to his father.
' "Won't you listen to what I- say?"
elnklng his voice to a hoarse whisper.
"They'll hang you?do you hear? If
ever they lay hands on you, they will
show you no mercy!"
Roger Oakley merely smiled as he
answered, with gentle composure: "I
don't think we need to worry about
ithat. We are in His hands, Dannie,"
and he raised his face to the heavens.
Dan groaned.
"Pnmp thpn " hp sai<l nlnml P:ifhpr
land son stepped to the engine. The |
old convict mounted heavily to his j
post, and Dan sprang after him. his
hand groping for the throttle lever.
.There was the hiss of steam and Joe
cried from the darkness: "All right,
Come ahead!" And the engine, with
Its tender and two cars, began its hazardous
journey. Dan kept his eyes
Kastened on the rails, which showed
plainly in the jerky glare of the headlight.
It was well to be careful while
pare was possible. By-and-hy he
.would have to throw aside all caution
and trust to chance. Now he increased
his speed, and the insistent
.thud of the wheels drowned every
other sound, even the far-off roar of
the flames. At his back, at intervals,
a ruddy glow shot upward into the
night, when Roser Oakley threw open
the furnace door to pass in coal. Save
tor this it was still quite dark in tbe
cab, where Dan sat with h'3 hand on
jtbe throttle lever and watched the yel
low streak that ran along the rails iu
advance of the engine. Suddenly the
.wall of light ahead brightened visibly,
and its glare filled the cab. They were
nearing the fire.
Dan jammed the little window at
his elbow open and put out his head.
'A hot blast roared past him. and the
iieat of the fire was in his face. He
drew the window shut. It was light
as day in the cab now. . . . All in
a second and they were in the burning
.woods, rushing beneath trees that
.were blazing to their very summits.
The track seemed to shake and tremble
in the fierce light and fiercer heat.
[Burning leaves and branches were
caught up to be whirled in fiery eddies
iback down the rails as the train tore
along, for Dan was hitting her up.
Tongues of fire struck across at the
.two men. Smoke and fine white ashes
filled their mouths and nostrils. Their
bodies seemed to bake. They had been
streaming wet with perspiration a
moment before.
Off in the forest it was possible to
Bee for miles. Every tree and bush
tood forth distinct and separate.
Roger Oakley put down bis shovel
\
" ;
for an instant to All a bucket witb ?
water from the tank on the tender.
He plunged his head and arms in it
and splashed the rest over Ws clotlxis. 5
Dan turned to him for the last time.
"It isn*t far now," he panted.
"Just around the, next curve and we'll s
see the town. If it's still there, off in
the valley."
The old convict did not catch more
than the half of what he said, but he
smiled and nodded his head. j.
As they swung around the curve a j,
dead sycamore, which the fire had ti
girdled at the base, crashed across the tl
track. The engine plunged into its ?
top. rolled it over once and tossed it
aside. There was the smashing of n
glass and the ripping of leather as n
the sycamore's limbs raked the cab, *
and Roger Oakley uttered a hoarse 8)
cry, a cry Dan did not hear, but he
turned, spitting dust and cinders from ^
his lips, and saw the old convict still
standing, shovel in hand, in the nar- V
row gangway that separated the engine
and tender.
He had s?t the whistle shrieking, d<
and it cut high above the roar of the ri
flames, for, off in the distance, under
a candpy pf smoke, he saw the lights ^
of Antioch shining among tne trees. 01
Two minutes later and they were tl
running smoothly through the yards.
with the brakes on and the hiss of escaping
steam. As they slowed up be- hi
side the depot Dan sank down on tbe ^
seat in the cab, limp and exhausted. m
He was vaguely conscious that the b:
platform was crowded with people,
and that they were yelling at him ex
citedly and waving their hats, but he jj
heard their cries only indifferently a'
well. His ears were dead to every- jj'
thing except the noise of his engine,
which still echoed in his tired brain. ig
He staggered to his feet, and was d
about to descend from the cab when J
he saw that bis father was lying face ^
down on the iron shelf between the h;
engine and tender. He stooped aud ^
raised him gently in his arms. ^
The old convict opened his eyes and t
looked up into his face, his lips parted in
as if he were about to speak, but no ^
Vound came from them.?From "The
Manager of the B. & A.," by Vaughau bi
Kester, Harper & Brotners.
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Some Points About Walking:* ?
The best exercise in the world is C(
walking, and this is toe most suitable tV
season o? the year fo^taking it. ^
A person who knows how to walk in- 0j
telligently can get along without a st
gymnasium. No other form of exer- A
else brings so many muscles into play ^
and develops them so normally. 01
The most popular games are those to
in which walking forms a prominent ^
part. Golf, croquet, and in a sense k:
cricket, and even bicycling, merely sa
give an excuse for walking one way
or another.
Every one should know how to walk tl
properly. It is because of careless
ness that so many walk badly. The ^
body should be carried erect, the chest n<
well out, the head back, while the arms ^
should swing freely at the sides. ?
The pace should be regulated to one's b<
strength. Every one should walk fast pi
enough and far enough to get the bocy
.in a comfortable glow. si
To get the best results from walk- m
ing one should give his undivided at- ^
tcntion to it. In other words, he
should walk for the pleasure of it. and bi
not carry worries with him. Exercise
walking is injurious. Never walk
just after a heavy meal or after vio- ia
lent exercise. Aud after a walk it is M
well to rest for teu or tifteen minutes ^
before taking up severe mental work, tl
?London Express. tc
K?llway Baihling in 1901. f]
In forty-three States and Territories
there will be built new railways and it
railway extensions this year. Contracts
already made show that about ^
8300 miles will be constructed, or Cc
enough to more than reach through e\
*1? <1. T1. ? ? 1?..t turn fo
I l-UC cur 111. JL Hid lliVilUS ilUUUU uw
miles more than was built last year, th
Tbe least building, which will be w
almost none, is in Maine. New Hamp- ^
I shire, Massachusetts. Rhode Island U1
and Connecticut, with Nevada, in the pi
West, for company, while most of the ?'
construction will be in the South and
Middle West. A remarkable feature w
of this new building is the great num- ??
her of lines with little mileage, the
average length being only about forty m
miles.
In work now under way Texas leads ^
with 703 miles on thirteen lines; then n(
comes Oklahoma and Indian Terri- a
tory, with 012 miles on nine lines; ^
Georgia, U09 miles on nine lines; Penn- q
sylvania, 300 miles on seventeen lines; P
New Mexico. 230 miles on two lines; n(
Illinois. 22-1 miles on four lines; Ar- ^
kansas. 108 miles on nine lines; Louis- et
iana. 175 miles on four lines; Min- p<
nesota, 105 miles on live lin?s, and "J
Washington. 105 miles on five lines. n
bi
The Physician's Orders. n<
Sir James Paget, the great physi- j*
cian, who died not long ago, used to
cite a case of his as an illustration of p<
how important it is to follow the physician's
instructions in even the minutest
details. He had performed a
dangerous operation on a patient, and w
had given strict orders that he was
not to be disturbed in even the slight- tj
est particular, as his recovery would v<
depend on absolute rest of body. A t<
nurse, a few hours later, disregarding ^
this order, gave the patient a cracker sc
for which he had asked. The patient o:
ate it. and in doing so scattered a few s'
crumbs in the bed. One of these got ?
uuder his back and tickled him, and t:
he moved his body to escape it. But
the movement made one of the liga- ?
tures slip, and the patient died in con- ia
sequence. Sir James said that the p
little crumb killed the man. el
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b
The Kaiser's Kngagenient King. y,
As the Emperor was driving a few B1
days ago from Uudvangen to Stalhelni
in Norway a gold ring clipped unob- a
served from his finger. It was after- tl
.ward picked up by a stable boy, who ^
handed it to the hotelkeeper, who in a,
turu restored it to His Majesty. On h
the roiiowing clay, as the Emperor c<
was driving back to Gudvangen, he ^
presented the coachman with a note e
for fifty kronen as a reward. The a
coachman at once declared that it was *
not he but the stable boy had found ?l
the ring. The Emperor at once pulled tl
out a second note for the stable boy,
and explained: "I am so extremely p
glad to have recovered the ring, for it t!
was my engagement ring."?London it
News.
But my text takes a stop further, an I _
it says, Go into the mountain and fetch ^
olive branches and pine branches and
palm branches. Now, the palm tre?
was very much honored by the ancients g
It had 300 different uses. The fruit waj
conserved, the sap was a beverage, th<
stems were ground up for food for cam
, els, the base of the leaves was turned .
into hats and mats and baskets, and thi
leaves were carried in victorious proces
sions. and from the root to the top o:
the highest leaf there was usefulness
The tree grew eighty-five feet in heighl
sometimes, and it spread broad leaves four jj
and five feet long. It meant usefulness, ^
and it meant victory?usefulness for what
it produced, victory because it wai jj
brought into celebrations of triumph. a]
And, oh, how much we want the pain fj,
branches in the churches of Jesus Chris1,
at this time! A great many Christian! U]
do not amount to anything. You hav<
to shove them off the track to let the t(
Lord's chariots come along. 0]
I know the old plan was, the plan now tl
is, in regard to worldly investments? b
you hear it, merchants tell you?do not ci
put everything into one thing, do not b
put all your eggs into one basket, but 1
have to tell you in this matter of re- tl
ligiou you had better give your all to e:
God and then get in yourself. f(
"Oh." says some one, "my^business is
)R. TALMAGES SERMON
iUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
abject: Religion ! Evergreen?'The Olive
Branch of Feace, the Pine Branch of
Consolation, the Palm Branch of Usefulness
alfft Victory?The Gospel Arbor
IComifht 1901.1
Washington, D. C.?This discourse of
)r. Talma^e is full of the breath of the
ills and fields and is a summer sermon;
ext, Nehemiah, viii, 15. "Go forth unto
lie mountain and fetch olive branches
nd palm branches and branches of thick
rees to make booths.".
It seems ns if Mount Olivet were unloored.
The people have gone into the
lountain and have cut off tree branches
nd put them on their shoulders, and they
sme forth now into the streets of Jeruilem
and on the housetops and they
tvist these tree branches into arbors or
ooths. Then the people come forth from
tieir comfortable homes and dwell for
:ven days in these booths or arbors.
(Thy do they do that? Well, it is a great
istal time. It is the feast of tabernacles,
ad these people are going to celebrate
le desert travel of their fathers and their
eliverance from their troubles, the expeience
of their fathers when, traveling in
le desert, thev lived in booths on their
ay to the land of Canaan. And so these
Doths also became highly suggestive?of
lit march toward heaven and of the fact
lat we are onlv living temporarily here,
i it were, in booths or arbors, on our
ay to the Canaan of eternal rest. And
hat was said to the Jews literallv may
s said figuratively to all this audience.
o forth into the mountain and fetch
live branches and pine branches and
yrtle branches and palm branches and
ranches of thick trees to make booths.
Yes, Ave are only here in a temporary
jsidence. We are marching on. The
lerohant princes who used to live in
owling Green. New York, have passed
ivav, and their residences are now the
slda of cheap merchants. Where are
le men who fiftv years ago owned Washigton
and New York? Passed on. There
no use in our driving our stakes too
eep into the earth: we are on the march.
he generations that have preceded us
ave gone so far on that we cannot even
ear the sound of their footsteps. They
ive cone over the hills, and we are to
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MIU>* LilCIII.
But, blessed be God, we are not in this
orld left out of doors and unsheltered,
here are gospel booths or gospel arbors
i which our souls are to be comforted.
0 forth unto the mountain and fetch
live branches, and pine branches, and
yrtle branches, and palm branches and
ranches of thick trees and build booths.
Well, now, we are to-day to construct a
jsnel arbor or gostiel booth, and how
jail we construct it? Well, we must
it all the tree branches and build. Acjrding
to my text, we must go up into
le mount and brine olive branches. What
aes that mean? The olive tree grows in
arm climates and it reaches the height
: twentv or twentv-two feet, a straight
em, and then an offshoot from that stem,
nd then people come and they strip off
lese branches sometimes, and when in
me of war the general of one army takes
ie of. these olive branches and goes out
1 the general of another army, what does
lat mean? Why, it means unsaddle the
ar chargers: it means hang up the war
napsacks. It is but a beautiful way of
iving peace!
Now. if we are to-day going to succeed
i building this Rospel arbor we must go
ito the mount of God's blessing and fetch
le olive branches, and whatever else we
ust have we must have at least two olive
irictiPi!?np?rp with Rod and oeace with
an. When I say peace with God, I do
>t mean to represent God as an angry
lieftain bavin? a grudge against us, but
do mean to affirm that there is no more
itagonism between a hound and a hare,
;tween a hawk and a pullet, between eleiiant
and swine than there ib hostility
'tween holiness and sin.
And if God is all holiness and we are all
n there must be a readjustment, there
ust be a reconstruction, there must be a
eaty, there must be a stretching forth
( olive branches.
There is a ?reat lawsuit going on now,
id it is a lawsuit which man is bringing
jainst hin Maker; that lawsuit is now on
te calendar. It is the human versus the
ivine; it is iniquity versus the immacute;
it is weakness versus omnipotence,
[an began it; God did not begin the lawlit.
We began it; we assaulted our MaiT,
and the sooner we end this part of
le struggle in which the finite attempts
i overthrow the infinite and omnipotent
the sooner we end it the better. Travers
tells us there is no such place as
[ount Calvary; that it is only a hill, only
1 insignificant hill, but I Dersist in calling
the mount of God's divine mercy and
ve. far grander than-any other place on
irth, grander than the Alps or the Hialayas,
and there are no other hills as
* ? ' t !.. ._j r i Li l
imparea witn 11; ana 1 nave nouceu in
rery sect where the cross of Christ is set
rth it is planted with olive branches.
And all we have to do is to get rid of
lis war between God and ourselves, of
hich'we are all tired. We want to back
it of the war; we want to get rid of this
utility. All we have to do is just to get
j on the mount of God's blessing and
uck these olive branches and wave them
;fore the throne. Peace through our
ord Jesus Christ!
Oh, it does not make much difference
hat the world thinks of you! But come
to the warm, intimate, glowing and
blasting relationship with the God of
le whole universe; that is the iov that
akes a halleluiah seem stupid. Why do
e want to have peace through our Lord
?sus Christ? Why, if we had gone on in
LOOO years of war against God we could
at have captured so much as a sword or
cavalry stirrun or twisted off one of the
heels of the chariot of His omnipotence,
it the moment we bring this olive branch
od and all heaven come on our side,
eace through our Lord Jesus Christ, and
3 other kind of peace is worth anything.
But then we must have that other olive
ranch?peace with man. Now, it is very
tsy to get up a quarrel. There are gunnvdery
Christians all around us, and one
atch of provocation will set them off.
; is eaey enough to get up a quarrel. But.
iy brother, do you not think you had
?tter have your horns sawed off? Had
it you better make an apology? Had
at you better submit to a little humiliaon?
"Oh." you say, "until that man
ikes the first step I will never be at
;ace with him! Nothing will be done
ntil he is ready to take the first step."
ou are a pretty Christian. When would
lis world be saved if Christ had not
iken the first step? We were in the
rong; Christ was in the right, all right
id forever right, and yet He took the
rst step. And instead of going and getng
a knotty scourge with which to whip
3ur antagonist, your enemy, you had bet:r
get up on the radiant mount where
hrist suffered for His enemies and just
tke an olive branch, not stripping off the
>ft, cool, fragrant leaves, leaving them all
n, and then try on tnem that gospel
vitch. It will not hurt them, and it will
ive you. Peace with God; peace with
lan. If vou cannot take those two doc
incs, you are no Christian.
But my text goes further. It savs, "Go
p into the mountain and fetch olive
ranches and pine branches." Now, what
i suggested by the pine branch? The
ine tree is healthy; it is aromatic; it is
rergreeti. How often the physician says
> his invalid patients, "Go and have a
reath of the pines; that will invigorate
ou." Why do such thousands of people
5 South every year? It is not merely t.o
;t to a warmer climate, but to get the inucnce
of f.he pine. There is health in it,
ad this pine branch of the text suggests
le helpfulness of our holy religion. It is
ill of health, health for all, health for
lie mind, health for the soul. I knew an
Sed man who had no capital of physical
ealth. He had had all the diseases you
Mild imagine. He did. not eat enough to
eei> a child alive; he lived on a beverage
f liosannas; he lived high, for he dined
very day with the King; he was kept
live simply by the force of our holy reliion.
It is a healthy religion,* healthy for
rie eye, healthy for the hand, healthy for
he feet, healthy for the heart, healthy for
lie liver, healthy for the spleen, healthy
)r the whole man. It gives a man such
eace, such quietness, such independence
f circumstances, such holy equipoise. Oh.
hat we all possessed it; that we possessed
, now!
to sell silks and clotns. wen, tnen, a
my brother, sell silks and ths to the b
glory of God. And some . says, "Mv si
business is to raise corn -.id carrots." ci
.Then, my brother, raise corn and carrots h
to the glory of God. yj
And some one says. "My business i>
to manufacture horseshoe nails." Then p
manufacture horseshoe nails to the glory ft
of God. There is nothing for you to do ti
that you ought to do but for the glory rr
of God. c<
Usefulness is typified by the Dalm tree .
Ah, we do not want in the church any
more people that are merely weeping wil- &
lows, sighing into the water, stabding and .
admiring their long lashes ^n the glassy !?
spring! No wild cherry dropping bitter lt
fruit. We want palm trees, holding ,
something for God, something for angels, b'
something for man. I am tired and sick v\
of this flat, tame, insipid, satin sliDpered, Sl
namby pambv. highty tiehty religion! It
is worth nothing for this world, and it
is destruction for eternity. Give me 500 ?'
men and women fully consecrated to J*.
Christ, and we will take this city for ? '
God in three years; give me 10.000 men
and women fully up to the Christian
standard; in ten-years 10,000 of them c'
would take the whole earth for God.
But when are we going J;o begin? We
all want to be useful. There is not a M
man in the news that does not want tc ej
be useful. When are we going to be- 81
gin? n
Ledyard. the great traveler, waa
brought before the Geographical Society j
of Great Britain, and they wanted him
to make some explorations in Africa, and e]
they showed him all the perils and al! jr
the bard work and all the exposure, and
after they had told him what they wanted
him to do in Africa they said to him,
"Now. Ledyard, when are you ready t<; ;
start?" He said, "To-morrow morning/' .
The learned men were astonished. They
thought he would take weeks or months
to get ready. Well, now, you tell me
you want to be useful in Christian service.
When are you going to begin? Oh. that 8(
you had the decision to say, "Now; m
now!" Oh. go into the mount and gather t<
the palm branches! ' * b
But the palm branches also mean vie- "
tory. Well, now, we are by nature the
servants of satan. He stole us; he has "
his eye on us; he wants to keep us. But P1
word comes from our Father that if we ?'
will try to brqok l<fc>se from this doing oi a1
wrong our Father will help us, and some
day we rouse up, and we look the black
tyrant in the face, and we fly at him, j?
and we wrestle him down, and we put ?
our heel on his neck, and we grind him ,
/lnof an/4 tern oa v "Vi/?fArty VI/*. ^1
tory, through our Lord Jesus Christ!" "
Oh, what a grand thing it is to have "
sin underfoot and a wasted fife behind
our backs! "Blessed is he whose trans- "
gression ia forgiven and whose sin is 01
covered." Rj
Some one says, "How about the fu- cj
ture?" What, savs the man, I feel so s(
sick and worn out with the ailments of
fife. You are going to be more than
conqueror. But, says the man. I am so
tempted, I am so pursued in life. You
are going to be more than conqueror. I, tu
who have so many ailments and heart- w
aches, going to be more than conqueror? e;
Yes, unless you are so self-conceited that b
you want to manage all the affairs of ei
your fife yourself instead of letting God 01
manage them. Do you want to drive pi
- - -i ? ^ ? i -1-- _ 1 1- L O ?AL k.
ana nave uoa taite a oacK neai: ??'
no." you say: "I want God to be my lead- ei
er." Well, then, you will be more than it
conqueror. Your last sickness will come, a
and the physicians in the next room will si
be talking about what they will do for w
you. What difference will it make what ci
they do for you? You are going to be bi
well, everlastingly well. And when the d
spirit has fled the body your friends 'will h
be talking aa to where they shall bury hi
you. What difference does it make to pi
you where they bury you? The angel or' 01
the resurrection can pick you out of the ei
dust anywhere, and all the cemeteries of
the earth are in God's care. Oh, you are
going to be more than conqueror!
Do you not think we bad better begin n
now to celebrate the com inn victory? In L
the old meeting house at Somerville my ?
father used to lead the singing, and he jr
had the old fashioned tuning fork, and "
he would strike it upon his knee and then h
put the tuning fork to his ear to catch r<
the right pitch and start the hymn. But, aj
friend, do you not think we had better b
be catching the pitch of the everlasting ei
song, the song of victory, when we shall
be more than conquerors? Had we not
better begin the rehearsal on earth?
My text brings us one step further, p
It# says go forth into the mount and 0,
fetch olive branches, and pine branches, |j
and myrtle branches, and palm branches ai
and branches of thick trees. Now you
know very well?I make this remark un- ,,
der the head of branches of thick trees?
that a booth or arbor made of slight
branches would not stand. The first blast j
of the tempest would prostrate it. So, v
then, the booth or arbor must have four q
stout poles to hold up the arbor or
booth, and hence for the building of the
arbor for this world we must have stout
branches of thick trees. And so it ia y
in the gospel arbor. *
leaves rustle with the gladness of God. g
Come into the arbor. Come into the ! '
booth. I went out at different times with A
a fowler to the mountains to catch
pigeons, and we made our booth and we d
sat in that booth and watched for the a
pigeons to come. And we found flocks in f<
the sky and after awhile they dropped o
into the net, and we were successful. So d
I come now to the door of this gospel
booth. I look out. I see flocks of
souls flying hither and thither. Oh, that ithey
might come like clouds and as dovea
to the window! Come into the booth, 1
j | Come into the booth. '
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HE GEEAT DESTROYEB
OME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Icohol In Childhoo<l?> Its Administration i
to Sick or Healthy Children is to Be
Discountenanced Under All Circumstances?Weakens
the Intellect.
Concerning the use of alcohol in child- i
ood Dr. Kassowitz (Deutsche Medicinal
eitune) concludes as follows:
1. Severe functional disturbances (derium
tremens, alcoholic mania, epilepsy)
nd organic changes (anasarca, enlargetent
of the liver) have been observed by '
le author and others after the continued
se of alcohol.
2. These diseases occurred not only af>r
the use of brandy and excessive doses i
f other alcoholic drinks, but also after
le use of ordinary amounts of wine and i
eer, and even after such small doses of
jgnac as are usually considered not only I
armless, but even curative.
3. From these results we must conclude I
lat the nervous system in childhood is
ictremely sensitive to the poisonous efjets
of alcohol. l1
4. The administration of alcoholic
rinks to children is permitted in the
est regulated families in the belief that
nail doses cure weakness and diseased
onditions. It is easily demonstrated, ,
owever, that this idea is absolutely
rong.
5. Physiological experiments have disroved
the former views that alcohol is a
>od and prevents body'waste; the excreon
of urea is increased rather than dilinished
during the administration of al>hol.
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a r? tu:_
U. r x uiu i/uio xu may ut \?uuviuu?u vnu v
ie protracted use of alcohol prevents the
rowth and development of the child. (
T. Even as an appetizer alcohol is iwebs,
since experiments have shown that
disturbs rather than aids digestion.
8. As an antipyretic alcohol is useless, (
ecause even after the administration of i
ery large doses the temperature falls but
ightly.
9. Researches have shown that the
tuch-lauded stimulating effect of alcohol
ither does not occur or is very passing,
ut that a slow degree of depression of
ie muscles and nerves takes place. The
?e of alcohol, therefore, for the prevenon
and treatment of cardiac weakness in
lildhood has no scientific foundation.
10. The internal administration of al>hol
a3 an antiseptic?that is, ns a bacjricidal
agent, in &cute infectious disises?is
not rational. Experiments have
lown that during its administration the
distance against infection is diminished
ither than increased, ana that alcohol is
w quickly oxidized to have any bactericial
power.
11. In school children, even after a modrate
use, the weakening effect upon the
itellect was evident.
12. From the foregoing ill effects of
iren moderate amounts of alcohol the ad
linistration of alcoholic drinks to healthy
r flick children is under all circumstances
> be discountenanced.?Medical Record.
Traced to Drink. "
W. Bode, a German doctor says: "Over;ers
of the poor, especially in lSrorth Gertanv,
have often declared that' from fifty
) ninety per cent, of all the poverty can
b traced to drink. Drunkenness is furlermore
the chief source of vagabondage
mong seventy-seven per cent, of the
amps. A great proportion of the exense
of hospitals and of sick funds is
tving to this cause. It shortens life among
b least ten per cent, of the men, often
>ry considerably. Investigations among
le English life insurance societies, which
eep separate tables for their moderate
rinking patrons and for those who toilly
abstain, as well as recent statistics
f the causes of death in Switzerland, furish
plain testimony on this point. In:mperance
is also a cause of the mortality
nr, r\r\r? nKiMrfln ainno fKfl pllllHrpn nf "in.
:mperate parents have little endurance,
r die for want of care. Among twelve
er cent, of the suicides drink is one of
le causes. A considerable number of acdents
are also to be traced to this
>urce."
Tragedy in a Single Drop.
The late Professor Henry Drummond
sed to tell this story: "I know a man
ho waa a temperance lccturer. In his
irly days he had been a great drunkard,
ut he was reformed, and had got consid able
notoriefy as a platform speaker in
tie of our large cities. By trade he was a
asscutter. One day, many years after
e had been a confirmed Christian, as
reryor.e thought, a servant girl brought
ito his place of business a decanter with
broken neck, and asked him to cut it
nooth. He took up the bottle to see
hat was wrong; the fumes of the brandy
lme out of the neck and went into hia
rain. He turned the decanter upside
own, and got a drop of the fluid upon
is finger, and put it to his lins. It set
is brain on fire. He went to tne nearest
ublic house and got drunk. That was the
egitining of a very bitter and disgraceful
ad."
Revival of Pledge Signing*
A revival of pledge signing is now in
rogress in England. The Christian of
ondon, commenting on a decrease of
11,271,756 spent for intoxicating liquors
i 1900 aa contrasted with 1899, says:
Let temperance workers meanwhile take
eart, ana continue their good work with
>npwerl ener:?v. If the million nledtres
Blessed be God that wc have a brawny "
Christianity, not one easily upset. The g
storms of life will come upon us, and 3(
we want strong doctrine; net only love, a(
but justice: not only invitation, but a,
warning. It is a raiehty gospel; it is an
omnipotent gospel. These are the stout
branches of thick trees.
I Temeriber what Mr. Finney said in
a sehoolhouse. The village was so bad
it was called Sodom, and it was said to ^
have only one pood man in all the village, * '
and he was called Lot, and Mr. Finney h
was preaching in the sehoolhouse. ana ?
he described the destruction of Sodom: !r
how the city was going to be destroyed h
unless they reocnted, and that there M
would be rain from heaven of sorrow and
destruction unless they, too, repented.
And the people in the sehoolhouse sat
and ground their teeth in anger, and 3|
clinched their fists in anger, but before
he got through with his sermon they got p.
down on their knees and cried for tnercy .
while mercy could be found. Oh, it is 31
a mighty gospel; not only an invitation, 11
but a warning, an omnipotent truth;
stout branches of thick trees. P
Well, my friends, you see T have
omitted one or two points, not because fi
I forgot to present them, but because
I have not time to present them. I w
have shown you here is the olive branch n
of peace, here is the pine branch of a
evergreen gospel consolation, here the t]
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victory and here are the stout branches
of thick trees. The gospel arbor is done.
The air ir aromatic of heaven. The ?
iraed nt be secured, it will make a Tar
igger drop in next year's drink bill than
fen this year shows."
License Endorses.
A singular episode has transpired in
hicago which opens another door of light
n the saloon question. It appears that a
cense for $800 is extracted from clairvoynts.
War is being made on the matter,
nd for the reason that to license clairoyance
is to "recognise it.*' "legalize it,"
nd "give it U certain respectability." Exctly.
That is precisely what the license
oca. whether it be a mountebank clairoyant
or a hell-filling saloon.?Central
hristian Advocate.
Inferior Beer.
The Wine and Spirit Gazette, of New
ork, says that some brewers of this city
lio are members of the Brewers' Board
E Trade and also the New York State
rowers' and Masters' Association are
:nding out broadcast over the country
Ivertisements announcing that a large
mount of bottled beer made of cheap
ud inferior material is in the market.
A Grand Testimony.
A erand testimony?The famous novelit,
Mme. Sarah (Jrand, says: ' The only
ling that I lind bad for my work is alcool
in any shape or form. L find that even
giass of light wine deprives me of.ntayig
power. I drink nothing at luncheon,
ut nave a small cup of black coffee afterards."
The Crusade In Brief.
The demand for temperate men and ab;ainers
is more imperative every year.
At Cincinnati the Catholic Knights of
hio almost unanimously rejected a propotinn
tn amend fchpir hv-Ia.iv* at) as fco ad
lit to membership saloonkeepers.
A much more stringent control over
isblicans is needed, and there should be
ecisive penalties bnLi: for drunkards and
jr those who tempt th-?r?i to this sin.
Deer guzzled dor.:!, as it is by many
orkingmen. is nothing better than brown
nir. Dull, ilroniri^ blockheads sit on the
!o-l)on> li .rash out what little sense
icy ever hud.?C. K. Spurgeon.
Beer drinking in this country produces
lie very lowest forms of inebriety, closely
Ilied to criminal insanity. The most danerous
class of tramps and ruffians in our
irge cities are beer driukers.?Scientific
imerican.
The Mayor of Madrid. Spain, has orcred
as a punishment that nil inebriates
rrested for drunkenness on the second of:nce
shall have their hair and beards cut
ff once every four weeks as a mark of
isgracc and punishment for the offence.
It is announced that the Southern l'a- !
itic Company has abolished the sale of
quors on all ferryboats and other vessels
nder its control. This order involves a
>ss of $50,000, but it is expected to pre;
ent accidents which may involve stilt 1
reater losses.
GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN1
PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS.
Out of fh? Deptlis?The Minor VlrtnM ?
ClieerftilnoB*, Gentleness, Conslderotlon
an?l Compassion Only Won bj
Faith and Effort.
Out of the depths have I cried to Thee.
0 Thou who hearest prayer, ,
Sovereign of time and eternity,
Making .mankind Thy care; V
Set me on high from the swelling floodBillows
that o'er me roll,
Thou who withheld not Thy precipus
blood,
The winds and waves control.
Out of the depths have I cried to Thee,
Hear my petition, Lord,
Give me a faith that asks not to see,
Trusting alone Thy word;
Saviour of sinners, I know Thou art,
Lord, I of them am chief.
Sanctify, strengthen my fainting heart,
Help Thou mine unbelief.
Out of the depths have I cried to Thee,
Father, for peace and rest;
Eye of eternal love, look on me, ?
Answer my spirit's quest;
Blessed Redeemer, who bled and died,
Bulging abundant grace,
My longing soul shall be satisfied,
When I oehold Thy face.
?Miss Anne H. Woodruff, in New York
Observer.
The Minor Virtues.
The minor virtue3 are fruits of obedience
to the great commandments of love
to God and love to man. They are cheerfulness,
gentleness, .consideration and
compassion. To some they appear to come
as mere gifts of natural disposition, but
these are of a lower aifd perishable sort,
To most of us they are heroic virtues,
only won by faith and effort in the service
of Christ. It is in trying days that Christian
cheerfulness is tested and that it
shines. It is under provocation that gentleness
reveals its quality. It is in contest
with self-will that our thoughts of the
right and needs of others comes to proof,
and compassion is never as beautiful as in
the company of strength.
The final importance of these high qualities
of /spirits depends upon the fact that
the life'with Christ is a life of service. It
is true that they are essential to the peace
of God, but the peace of God can never
rest content in itself. The major virtues
have their occasional opportunity to witness,
and it is immensely powerful in oui
meetings with our fellow-men, but these
minor virtues have their opportunity continually.
Few can really test our honesty,
for few come close enough to us in
business dealings, but cheerfulness and
consideration impress themselves on
strangers in the cnance encounters of our
crowded life. And in the closer intimacies
these, after all, are the winning virtues.
It xs easier to respect than it is to
love, and one may be justr and* honest and
vet unloved because he hides himself behind
morose or irritable looks and words.
It must be confessed that many good
men, men whom we hope to see enjoying
Christ's favor in the heavenly life, are not
lovable. Their real self is hidden, we like
to think, behind a veil of harsh and un*
. J?a- .._.i?+U
CUUBiUeitlbC UUCIICCI 1U1IIC9C. JL/UV 1U Hio
view of Christian life as the fruit-b*a#ng
life, pledged to love men because $hrist
loves them, and us, a piety'that is uncheerful,
ungentle, unsyfripathetic and
pitiless seems like no piety at-all.
Because these virtues are so constant
and their application is so wide, because
they show themselves in little words and
acts, they are an ideal training ground for
character. For every temptation to dishonesty
there are a thousand temptations
to despondency. For the inrush of murderous
impulses of hate, there are ten
thousand impulses to seek our ease at the
expense of others. It is here, indeed, that
the real battleground of daily life exists
for most of us. Our influence and our
happiness would be immeasurably increased
by cheerful, living, gentle thought,
loving consideration ana compassion for
all wno are in need.?Boston Congregationalism
Kind of Religion We Want.
We want religion that softens the step
and turns the voice to melody and fills
the eye with sunshine and checks the impatient
exclamation and harsh rebuke; a
religion that is polite, deferential to superiors,
considerate to friends; a religion
that goes into the family and keeps the
husband from being cross when the dinner
is late, and keeps the wife from fretting
when the husband tracks the newlywashed
floor with his boots and makes
the husband mindful of the scraper and
doormat; "keeps the mother patient when
the baby is cross and amuses the children
as well as instructs them; cares for the
servants besides paying them promptly;
projects the honeymoon into tne happy
harvestmoon land makes the happy home
like the eastern fig tree, bearing on its
bosom at once the tender blossom and the
glory of the ripening fruit. We want a
religion that shall interpose between the
ruts and gullies and rocks o? the highway
and the sensitive souls that are traveling
over them.?Helpful Thoughts.
The Trouble With RAlicinn.
Once there was a man who got hig teeth
filled by a dentist who wore artificial
teeth, and he bought from a man who
wore a wig,a preparation that was warranted
to mike hair grow on bald heads.
And this man believed that his teeth
would be saved by having them filled, and
they were. And he had faith in the hair
medicine, insomuch that he bought one
bottleful after another as long as there
was a hair left on his head. But one day
he heard of a preacher who went wrong
in spite of his own teachings, and straightway
the man who believes in the toothless
dentist and the hairless hair doctor found
that religion was a delusion. The great
trouble with religion is that it is not
warranted to make people better looking.
?Chicago Record-He raid.
The Water and the Vessel.
Tf I only wish for clear water it is of
little consequence whether it be brought
in a vase of gold or glass. I should even
receive it with more pleasure when presented
in glass, beeause I can see it more
clearly than in a golden cup. In like manner,
if I seek only the will of God I should
be indifferent whether it be presented to
me in tribulation or consolation, provided
[ can clearly discern it. It should be
even more agreeable in suffering, because
it is then more visible, and the only
amiability of tribulation is that which it
borrows from the divine will.?Francis ol
Sales.
Present Duty.
He who is false to present duty break*
a thread in a loom, and will find the Haw
when he may have forgotten its cause.?
Henry Ward Eeecher.
A Reformation.
One age is but the forerunner of another,
and to-day we are entering upon s
reformation that is more wonderful in itj
workings than any that has gone before,
and that demands of Christians a new devotion
and energy.?Rev. D. E. Marvin,
Coogregationalist, Asbury Park, N. J.
Punishment*.
x unisnmenu are ouen tne oniy instruments
in tlia hands of a loving God bj
which individuals with evil wills are per
auaded to do well The fact that God a.'
ways forgives does not banish the conse
quences of w?^i-<ioing.?Rev. D. C. Dor
Chester
Wheat Pftid (liurcli Debts.
The Kvangelical Church at Industry,
Kan., has just paid off its church debt
with a crop of wheat. List autumn the
pastor, the Rev. Mr. Bruner, together with
[i number of the leading members, rented
rorty acres of ground near the church
house. The work of seeding and the seed
;rrain were contributed. At harvest the
threshing %vaa contributed. The yield was
!J"0 bushels, of which one-third was paid
for rcnL- and the remainder has just been
-old for enough to pay the $350 mortgage
">n the church. The congregation is planing
to sow another field to raise fundi
[or improvement aud church expenses.
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THE SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR SEPTEMBER 22.
Subject: Woen of Intemperance, Frov.
xxilt., 20-35 ? Golden Text, Pro . xx.,
1?Memory Verses, 20-3!)?Commentary
on tbe Day's Lesson. '
29. "Who." A divine commission to
every man to investigate the prevailing
cause of woe and sorrow and strife, ana
thus, be deterred from taking the wrong
course in life. Robinson calls this lesson
the drunkard's looking-glass, set before
those whose face is toward the drunkard's
habits, so that they may see What they
will be if they go on. "Hath wote." What
space wojild be needed to record the
names of all who could truthfully say "I"
to this question! "Woe." Direful distress;.
both the condemnation for a sin
committed and a certain bwful condition
of suffering. Sin of all kinds brings its
own punishment, but there is no sin which
so speedily and relentlessly pursues its victim
as the sin of drunkenness. The drunkard
has woes of body and woes of mind;
woes in himself, woes in his family; pains,
diseases, poverty, and all without alleviations.
"Who hath sorrow." The Hebrew
word means, first, poverty and then misery.
The drunkard has sorrow of his own
making. The cup contains more than one
woe; a single sorrow is not all. These are
so numerous as to call forth a constant and
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hath contentions. Those who responded
to the first two questions will also respond
to this. Nine-tenths of ?11 the brawls and
fights, quarrels and misunderstandings are
traceable to drink. "Who hath babbling."
This refers to the tendency of strong
drink to foolish and incessant talking, revealing
secrets, vile conversation and
noisy demonstrations, which are common
in different stages of drunkeness. "Woundb without
cause." Wounds received iu
wholly unprofitable disputes, such as come
of the brawls of drunken men. Drinkers
are especially exposed to accidents and dia*
eases which temperance would have prevented.
"Redness of eyes.". Bloodshot,
blurred or bleared eyes. Gen. 49: 12. Alcohol
induces a paralysis of the nerves
controlling the minute blood vessels, the
capillaries, which results in a dilation that
speedily shows itself in the eye. In his
step and in his eye the drunkard shows
the secret of his sin. The traveler in the
drunkard's broad road to death bears a
great bundle of woes. Among them are
losses of time, of talent, of purity, of a
clean conscience, of self-respect, of honor,
of religion, of the soul.
30. "They that tarry long at the wine."
This answers the above questions. He who
begins to drink continues to drink, tarrying
often a whole night, and from that to
day and night. '"They that go." To places
or among people where intoxicating drinks
are made or stored or used. "Mixed
wine." Spiced, drugged, medicated wine,
the intoxicating power of which is in
creased oy toe inrusion or arugs ana spices.
Such men drink the ciip of costly aeath.
The chemical analysis of the liquors used
by the people in this country shows that
they drink alcohol, arsenic, alum, aloes,
bitter almonds, blood, chalk, cherry-laurel,
cocculus indicus, copr^ras, gypsum, henbane,
isinglass, lime/ lead, loawood, nux
vomica, opium, oil or Vitriol, oil of juniper,
oil of turpentine, toba'ccft,' sugar of lead,
resin, etc. ?
31. "Look not thou upon the wine."
This prohibits moderate drinking. Do not
put yourself in the way of temptation. He
who goes freely into temptation is already
more than half fallen. When it is red-.
The bright color of the wine gives if an
attractive look and adds to its fascination
and its danger. "When it giveth its color
in the cup.' Literally, its eye, the clear
brightness, or the beaded bubbles, on
which the wine-drinker looks with pleasure.
"When it goeth down smoothly.'*
This verse pictures the attractive side of
wine, when it seems perfectly harmless to
sip a little, when it is bright and inspiring,
thrilling the nerves with delight, promising
all joy and freedom. It is the shining
9iae of evil that is so 'danireroiis?this flowery
entrance to the path that leads to
death.
32. "At last it biteth." The pleasure
will be attended at last with intolerable
pains, when it works like so much poison
in thy veins and ca3ta thee into diseases
oo nura t-Vio hifjncr of ? awnent.
ics effects are opposite to its pleasures.
Its only beauty is when it sparkles in the
cup. It can only harm the one who ventures
to enjoy its pleasure. Then it bites;
sends its poison oeyond your reach. Ita
only end is ruin.
33. < "Thine eyes shall behold strangewomen."
The loving wife will be forgotten
and her goodness despised, and evil desires
spring up to fill her place witn others,
or to go from her with others who have
fallen into the same pit of drunkenness aa
yourself. Homes are broken up as the
result of strong drink. The tears and
pleadings of the devoted wife are spurned,
ind the dance hall is sought, where women
are dressed to suit the eyes of wicked men,
and, where natural affection is overthrown
and cruel lust rules. "Thine heart shall
utter froward things." When men or
women indulge in the use of strong drink
they let down the bars, to every sin that
follows in the train. Tha heart is the centre
of life, c.nd from it spring all evil desires.
In a state of drunkeness men utter
things out Of reason and contrary to decency.
34. "As he that lieth down in the midst
of the sea." To make one's bed on the
waves of the sea would be to be swallowed
up in death. So is the drunken man. Or
as a pilot who has gone to sleep when hi#
ship was in the trough of the sea, allowing
the tiller to slip out of his hand, and his
ship to be swamped with the waves which,
he might have outridden. Stupefied, besotted
men know not where they are or
what they are doing, and when they lie
down they are as if tossed by the rolling
* * ?? t r\r\ r\( <%
waves ot tne sea, or upvu iuc wv ^
mast. Their heads swim. Their sleep i?
disquiet and troublesome dreams make
sleep unrefreshing. "Upon the top of a
mast." The drunkard is utterly regardless
of life. He is as one falling asleep clasping
tne masthead, whenco in a few minutes he.
must either fall down upon the deck and
be dashed in nieces, or fall into the sea
and be drowned.
,35. "They have stricken me?and I was
not hurt." With consciences seared and
self-resnect gone the drunkard boasts df
the things which should make him blush (
with shame. "They have-beaten me?I'
felt it not." Angry companions bave done
their worst to tud my life, says he, but
their blows did not affect me. "When
shall I awake? i will seek it again.
Rather when I shall awake I will seek it
again. Self-control is gone. The drunkard
is a slave to appetite. He is aa insensiblo
to the pleadings and warnings of those
who seek his salvation as he is to the
beatings of his comrades when he is delinous.
Dig Advance In Telography.
The new Hungarian system of telegraphy,
the introduction of which was announced
eighteen months ago, has been a
marvellous success. The system has been
installed between Budapest and Fiume, a
distance of 375 miles, and is in practical
working order at a speed of 40,000 words
an hour. The messages arc written in
Roman characters and require no transcription.
The system is an ingenious combination
of the telegraph, the telephone
and photography, the messages being written
on sensitized paper by lay light and
developed and fixed by an automatic process.
Foreign Crop I?8j?ort?.
The arrangements made by John ITvde,
A n?.
tiie statistician m mc .......
partment at Washington, during his recent
trip abroad for the telegraphic exchange
of crop reports with grain-producing
countries contemplates three reports
annually from Great Britain and six t.o
eight from other European countries. Th<?
complete system will not hn in operation
until the opening of the crop reason of
19(L>
British Made Clotlie* For tlie Coronation
Queen Alexandra has expressed tho
iope that all ladies who attend the coro-.
nation ceremony will wear dresses made
13 much as possible of materials of British
manufacture and embroidered by British
workwomen.