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I * % HALF-WAY TOWN. BY TBANK WALOOTT HT7TT. IA.n easy road runs smoothly down To Half-Way Town; For everything that's but begun, And everything that's never done, -Just rolls aside, and one by one, Goes into Half-Way Town. Half-finished walls are tumbling down In Halt-Way Town. Half-finished streets are always lined iWith half-done work of every kind* lAnd all the world just lags behind In dreary Half-Way Town. Keep straight along, and don't look down Toward Half-Way Town. They say, if every one should try To keep on moving, brisk and spry, iWe should discover, by and by, There'd be no Half-Way Town. ?Youth's Companion. jj| Stella's guipier Trip |j By Ella M. Heos. ^ ^ ^ AM sick anil tired of this life! I I would rather die now than I endure it year after year, with ? out a nope or release: oieuu Monito threw hor crochet work to the other side of the small room. "If I could go to the seaside like other girls I might make a suitable match?one that would save me from the bondage of poverty!" Netta sadly looked up from her lounge. "You have much to be thankful for, dear Stella," she said softly. "Your health?a beautiful face " "What is the good of my beauty? iWhom do I see now? No one but Dr. James, .and lie is old and stout, and knows our poverty too well to think of me." At this juncture Mrs. Monito, a iquict, ladylike woman, entered the room, and looked from one to the other of her daughters. "What is the trouble?" she asked. "Mamma, Stella is tired and wants to go to the seaside," Netta said softly. "Poor Stella is weary of this life, and I think I had better give her Uncle L.oerime's gift, and then she can have her way." "Netta!" exclaimed the astonished mother. "Yes; my money increases very slow ly, and perhaps, after all, I may not get better." At the girls' last birthday their mother's brother had giveu each $100. Stella had bought some handsome finery with her money, but Netta, who shad been for years crippled by a fall, laid hers aside, hoping to save enough to take her to some celebrated physician. Buoyed up with that hope she 'had painted little pictures for the stores, and saved each dollar carefully, but Stella's constant repining . was wearing, and she determined to give up her hope and let her have her long looked for trip. "Do you really mean it, Netta?" Stella questioned eagerly. "Yes." 'Then I will tell you what I'll do, you dearest of sisters! I shall be sure ! fto make a conquest, and when I am married I will take you to France,- to (the physician you wish to sec." A 4- fKrtf mnmAnf OAma nnA fonnorl of I lUUl UiUUl^Ub oviut UUL uv (the <loor, and a moment later Dr. James, a tall, rather stout man of about forty-five years of age, with a grave, kind face, entei'ed. Two "weeks later Stella Monito was boarding in an aristocratic resort. Time went by, and her letters homo iwerc not very frequent. Finally one morning the postman brought one that Tan thus: 4,My Dear Mother and Sister?I am about to be married and bid adieu to a life of poverty forever. Mr. Leland, my future husband, is immensely ;wealthy. He owns a magnificent residence in the city and one on the Hudson. But there is one thing which I am sorry to mention?he does not wish me to acknowledge my relatives after marriage. Of course I shall not forget you, mother and Netta. and shall re turn the money which brought me here at the earliest opportunity. My lace has been my fortune. Stella." Mrs. Monito covered her face with 3ier hands. "My child has forsaken me!" she <rried. Netta could hardly utter a word of consolation. What was there to say? She knew her sister worshiped at the ehrine of wealth, and cared not how many hearts she broke if she only reached her longed-for goal. A few weeks later Dr. James made J'oem a visit which was not strictly professional. "Netta," he said. Sitting down beside her, "your sister's summer trip has won her a husband. I read the marriage notice in the paper yesterday. Now, I have a favor to ask of you. I a 1 tired of being alone in the world; J want a wife to take care of. and ithere is no one else who would please imo hilt" "UAll T ham rnn since you were that high"?with a motion of his hand?"anil if you will (have me I will take you to France to N the physician you have set your heart on seeing. If they cure you I shall rejo: e; if they do not, I shall love you ell the more." Netta looked up in his kind eyes in surprise ? his words were so unexpected. "No, no!" she cried. "I will not " take advantage of your generous offer. 1 will never be a burden to any man." And all the arguments he could use iwould not induce her to change her mind. The days wore slowly on. A letter tame from Stella: "My Dear Sister ? I am ashamed (that I have not been able to return your money, out tne truth Is, though my husband is immensely wealthy, and I am dressed in the richest of gowns, and waited upon like a queen, I have not a peuny of money under any control. Everything I have Is ordered and paid for afterward, but byand-by I shall contrive a way to get it tfor you." "Foor Stella!" the mother sighed. ''I am afraid that in the end she will (think her summer trip a failure." "And her marriage, too," rejoined INctta, 'as all marriages not based on (true love prove." "I have some good news for you!" ODr. James cried, as he entered the room followed by a strauze srentleman. 'Tut away jour letter, Netta', and lis* ten." Netta did bis bidding, and the stranger introduced himself as a lawyer. He informed that an uncle of Mrs. Monlto's had died and loft her heiress to his wealth?a goodly sum. Several weeks later found Mrs. Monito. and Netta en routo for England. Dr. James's nephew intended u> cross the ocean, and the doctor had intrusted them to his care. "God grant your dearest wish may 1 be granted, Netta," lie said to her when parting. Months went by, and Netta was on the road to recovery. By degrees she found her old strength returning, and at the end of a year was able to walk about without assistance. She was very happy, and to crown all. her sister Stella and her husband visited them. They -were making a tour, and as her relatives were wealthy now, Mr. Leland had no objection to his wife's associating with them. ! They insisted that Mrs. Monito and Netta should bo of their party. "For Stella's sake," Mrs. Monito said, "Netta, I will consent. She is unhappy enough. She sold herself foi gold, and only too late realizes what that bargain means." Another six months passed away. I Netta had a number of suitors, but to I nnno did shf> srive encouragement and Theadore Dunscombe, tJio doctor's nephew, interpreted that sign favorable to himself. He wrote to his uncle that Netta's health was perfect, and her life was now a happy one; then he "hinted that, in time, he dreamed of winning her. "Theadore is a good hoy," the doctor whispered, jvhen he read the letter. "They will be a suitable pair, and I must forget my wild dream." lie went to meet them when they returned, and congratulated Netta on the fulfillment of hoi dearest wish. After that he called but seldom, and was grave and restrained when they j met by chance. Dunscombe's wooing did not prosper, and at Inst he begged of his uncle to use his influence for him. "She thinks so much of your opinion that she will heed you," he pleaded, and the doctor at last consented. Ho went to see Netta, and made his errand known. She looked at him with a flushed face. "I cannot accept your nephew." she said decidedly. "I do not care for him as a woman should for the man sut; uiutiico. "But in time you might." "Never! I shall never love but ons man, and he has had my heart since childhood." "Netta, I never dreamed of this!" ho said. "Who is ho? Tell me!" "Need I?" she asked softly. "Who cared for me when I was poor and afflicted, and would have burdened himself with me then? If he has | changed, I " ; "Netta!" Ke opened his arms to fold I her in his embrace. "I never dared hope for this moment!" I Theadore Dunscombe did not stay to his uncle's wedding, but Stella and her husband came to witness it. "May God bless you, my unselfish sister!" Stella whispered to the bride. And to all appearances her prayer is answered.?Waverley Magazine. KoneymoonH Awheel. Much Interest was taken recently in a marriage solemnized at Christ Church, Guildford, England, in which a motor car played a prominent part. The bride was a well-known Guildford lady, while the bridegroom carries on hiieinpss in Worthincr as a maker of cycles and motor apparatus. The gentleman, accompanied by his best man, drove up to the church in a superb motor car, and immediately after the ceremony the happy pair started straightway for their honeymoon on the motor, their tirst stopping place being Worthing. A similar honeymoon took place in France not long ago. when a wealthy and eccentric baker espoused the daughter of a provincial farmer. The wedding was solemnized in Rouen, the girl's native town, and from that place a motor car conveyed the couple to Paris. The affair caused much excitement in the districts through which the honeymooning pair passed, and large crowds turned out to cheei them as their car dashed through the country lanes and roads. Males Fight Among Themselves. Tho ceneral nroDOsition mav be laid down that among the hoofed animals only the males fight among themselves. Females are 3elfish and crowd and push and strike with heads and horns to clear a path for themselves or their young, or both, but they do not wage formal combats. The one attacked commonly makes way at once, or if she turns in anger the other promptly retreats. On the other hand the mother will light in defense of her young. Not always, of coursesince no doubt there is as much difference of temperament among fourlegged mothers as among those who walk erect?but often. This, however, is but the courage of despair, since all ungulates trust for sufety to their legs rather than to any weapons of defense with which they may be provided. The fawn or calf or colt running with Its mother, and pursued, sticks as close to her- as it possibly can, running almost under her belly and obviously depending on her for safety. TVeJrd Courtships. Touched with infinite pathos, as wett as with surpassing weirdness, was the courtship of a young Lancashire miner who wooed his cousin, a girl of nineteen, across me uying ueu or ttie former's father. The girl, who had been summoned to nurse the old man, fell In love with the son through watching his tenderness to his ailing sire, and thus it came about that while the aged life was ebbing away two young lives were converging toward each other. The father in his final moments guessed their secret and joined their hands, and thus did this remarkable wooing wear to its end. In Germany, where the mortuary system is far more complete than our own, and where both male and female attendants are employed, it is no uncommon thing for courtships to be carried on in these halls of the dead, and many marriages have been planned and arranged amid their surroundings.?Tit-Bits. DK. TALMAGEVS SERMOT SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTEC DIVINE. (3 object: The* Defeat of Oblivion?Thorn:' the Earth and All Thereon May Fas AwsTp Yet Every Soul Will Be lie meenbered In Heaven. [Copyright, 1901.1 Wastitwgto*, D. C.?In this discours Dr. Talmage shows how any one can b widely and forever recollectcd and cheer despondent Christian workers; texts, Jol xxiv, 20, "He shall be no more remem bered." and Psalms cxii, 6, "The righteou shall be in everlasting remembrance." Of oblivion and its defeats I speak to day. There is an old monster that swal lows down everything. It crunches indi viduals, families, communities, States, na tions. continents, hemispheres, worlds. It diet is made up of years, of centuries, o aces, of .cycles, of millenniums, of eons That monster is called by Noah Webste and all the other dictionaries "Oblivion.' It is a steep down which everything rolls It is a conflagration in which everytbinj is consumed. It is a dirge which all or chestras play and a period at whicl even-thing stops". It is the cemetery o the human race. It is the domain of for getfulness. Oblivion! At times it throw a shadow over all of us, and I would no pronounce it to-day if I did not corn armed in the strength of the eternal Go< on your behalf to attack it, to rout it, ti demolish it. Why, just look at the way the fami'ie of the earth disappear. For awhile the: are together, inseparable and to eacl other indispensable, and then they part some by marriage going to establish othe homes, and some leave this life, and a cen tury is long enough to nlant a family, de velop it, prosper it and obliterate it. Si the generations vanish. Walk up Penn 'ylvania avenue, Washington; Broadway New York: State street, Boston; Chest nut street, Philadelphia; the Strand. Lon don; Prirces.s street, Edinburgh; Champ Elysees, Paris; Unter den Linden. Berlin | and you will meet in this year 1001 no | one person who walked there in the yea I 1S01. What engulfment. All the ordi nary efforts at nerpetuation are dead fail ures. Walter Scott's Old Mortality ma; go round with his chisel to recut th faded epitaphs on tombstones, but 01; Oblivions has a quicker chisel, with whic] he can cut out a thousand epitaphs whil Old Mortality is cutting in one enitaph. Call the roll of the armies of Baldwin 1 or of Charles Martel or of Marlborouel or of Mithridates or of Prince Frederic! or of Corte3. and not one answer will yo hear. Stand them in line and call the rol of the 1,000,000 men in the army of Thebes Not one answer. Stand them in line, th 1,750,000 infantry and the 200.000 cavalr; of the Assvrian army under Ninus, am call the roll. Not one answer. Stand ii line the 1,000,000 men of Sesostris, th 1.200.000 men of Artaxerxes at Cunaxa the 2.641,000 men under Xerxes at Thei mopylae and call the long roll. Not on n-- - c rxr? answer, ai sue opening ui uui ^i?w in the men of the Northern and Souther armies were told that if they fell in battl their names would never be forgotten b their country. Out of the million me; who fell in battle or died in military hos pitals you cannot call the names of thousand, nor the names of 500. nor th names of 100, nor the names of fifty. Oblivion! The world itself will ro' into it as easily a9 a schoolboy's rubbe ball rolls down a hill, and when our worl goes it is so interlocked bv the law c gravitation with other worlds that the will go, too, and so far from having ou memory perpetuated by a monument c Aberdeen granite in this world there i no world in sight of our strongest tel< scope that will be a sure pediment for an slab of commemoration of the fact tha we ever lived or died at all. Our earth i struck with death. The axeltree of th constellations will break and let dow the populations of other worlds. Stellai lunar, solar mortality. Oblivion! It ca swallow and will swallow whole galaxie of worlds as easily a3 a crocodile take down a frog. Yet oblivion docs not remove or swa low anything that had better not be r< moved or swallowed. The old monster i welcome to his meal. This world woul long ago have been overcrowded if nc for the merciful removal of nations an fenerations. 'What if all the books ha ived that were ever written and printe and published? The libraries would b their immensity have obstructed intell gence and made all research impossible The fatal enidemic of books was a mercifi epidemic. Many of the State and Nations libraries to-day are only morgues, ii which dead books are waiting for som one to come and recognize them. What if all the people that had bee born were still alive? We would hav been elbowed by our ancestors of ten cei turies ago, and people who ought to hav said their last word 3000 years ago woul snarl at us, saying, "What are you doin here?" There would have been no rooi to turn around. Some of the past genei ations of mankind are not worth remen bering. The first useful thing that man people did was to die; their cradle a mi; fortune and their grave a boon. In all the Pantheon the weakest go< dess is Clio, the goddess of history, an instead of being represented by sculptoi as holding a scroll might better be repri sented as limping on crutches. Faithn history is the saving of a few things on of more things lost. The immortalit that comes from pomp of obsequies c granite shaft or building named after il founder or page of recognition in some ei cyclopedia is an immortality unworthy ( one's ambition, for it will cease and is n immortality at all. Oblivion! A hundred years. But whil I recognize this universal submergence c things earthly, who wants to be forgotten Not one of us. Absent for a few week or months from home it cheers us to kno' that we are remembered there. It is phrase we have all pronounced, "I hop you missed me." Meeting some menc from whom we have been parted man yean* we inauire, "Did you ever see me bi fore?" Ana they say, "Yes," and call x by name, and we feels a delightful sens; tion thrilling through their hand into ou hand and running up from elbow t shoulder and then parting, the one cu: rent of delight ascending to the brow an the other descending to the foot, movin round and round in. concentric circles ui til every nerve and muscle and capacity ( body and mind and soul is permeated wit delight. Now, I have to tell you that this obi vion of which I have spoken lias its di feats, and there is no more reason why w should not be distinctly and vividly an gloriously remembered live hundred mil ion billion trillion quadrillion quintillio years from now than that we should t remembered six weeks. I am going to te voy how the thing can be done and wi be done. We may build this "everlasting remen brance," as my text styles it, into the si pernal existence of those to whom we d Kindnesses in this world. You must r< member that this infirm and treacheroi faculty which we now call memory is i the future state to be complete and pe feet. "Everlasting remembrance!" Notl ing will 3lip the stout grip of that cele I f ? 1 fc% (lit Ifv Did you help a widow pay her rent Did you find for that man released froi prison a place to get honest work? Di you pick up a child, fallen 011 the curl stone, and oy a stick of candy put in h hand stop the hurt on his scratched knee Did you assure a business man, swampe by the stringency of the money marke that times would after awhile be bettei Did you lead a Magdalen of the stre< into a midnight mission, where the Lor said to her: "Neither do 1 condemn thei Go and sin no more! Did you tell a mai clear discouraged in his waywardness an hopeless and plotting suicide, that f< him was nearby a laver, in which 1 might wash and a coronet of eternal bles edness he might wear? What are epitaphs in graveyards, whz are eulogiums in presence of those whof breath is in their nostrils, what are unrea biographies in the alcoves of a city librar; compared with the imperishable recort you have made in the illumined memoric of those to whom you did such kindnesset Forget them? They cannot forget then Notwithstanding all their might and splei dor, there are some things the glorifie of heaven cannot do, and thia is oe'e < them. . J T They cannot forget an earthly kindness ' done. They have not cutlass to part that cable. They have no strength to hurl into oblivion that benefaction. Has Paul for% inlioliifnnl-a nf "Malta wllft P7. tended the island hosnitalitv when bo and others with him had felt, added to a shipwreck, the drenching rain and the sharp I, cold? Has the victim of the highwayman ? on the road to Jericho forgotten the good Samaritan with a medicament of oil and wine and a free ride to the hostelry? Have the English soldiers who went up to God from the Crimean battlefields forgotten Florence Nightingale? e Through all eternity will the Northern g and Southern soldiers forget tho Northern [j and Southern women who administered to the d.vinc boys in blue and gray after a the awful fights in Tennessee and Virginia and Georgia, which turned every house and barn and shed into a hospital i. and incarnadined the Susquehanna and J. the James and the Chattahoochee and ~ the Savannah with brave blood? The g kindnesses you do to others will stand as ? long in the appreciation of others as the , gates of heaven will stand, as the "house p of many mansions" will stand, as long aa > the throne of God will stand. i. Another defeat of Oblivion will be ; found in the character of those whom we - rescue, uplift or save. Character is eteri naL Suppose by a right influence we aid f in transforming a bad man into a good - man. a dolorous man into a happy man, a s disheartened man into a courageous man, t every stroke of that work done will be ime mortalized. There may never be so much i as one line in a newspaper recardin* it or 5 no mortal tongue may ever whisper it into * ?i _i ii fcuman ear, due wncrever nut sum ?uu g go your work upon it shall go, wherever v that soul rises your work on it will rise, jj and so long as that soul will last your | work on it will last. Do you suppose p there will ever come such an idiotic laDse in the history of that soul in heaven that it shall forget that you invited him to 0 Christ; 'that you, by prayer or gospel work, turned him round from the wrong wav to the right way? No such insanity will ever smite a heavenly citizen. i- It is not half as well on earth known s that Christopher Wren planned and built i, St. Paul's as it will be known in all heaven t that you were the instrumentality of r building a temple for the sky. We teach i- a Sabbath class, or put a Christian tract I- in the hand of a passer-by, or testify for y Christ in a prayer meeting, or preach a e sermon and go home discouraged, as 1 though nothing had been accomplished, h when we had been character building with e a material that no frost or earthquake or rolling of the centuries can damage or bring down. f1 Oh, this character building! The struc? * ture lasting independent of passing cen'} turies, independent of crumbling rnausoII leums, independent of the whole planetary ' system. Aye, if the material universe, e which seems all bound together like one V niece of machinery, should some day meet d with an accident that should send worlds a crashing into each other like telescoped e railway trains, and all the wheels of conL? stellations and galaxies should stop, and *" down into one chasm of immensity all the e suns and moons and stars should tumble r like the midnight express at Ashtabula, that would not touch us and would not e hurt God, for God is a spirit, and characy ter and memory arc immortal, and over n ' that grave of a wrecked material universe '* might truthfully be written, "The rightea ous shall be held in everlasting rememe brance." 0 time, we defy thee! 0 death, we stamp thee in the dust of thine own '? sepulchers! 0 eternity, roll on till the last J star has stooped rotating and the last sun d is extinguished on the sapphire pathway, >t and the last moon has illumined the last y tiight, and as many years have passed as r all the scribes that ever took pen could I* describe bv as many figures as they could IS write in all the centuries of all time, but thou shalt have no power to efface from y any soul in glory the memory of anything t we have done to bring it to God and 18 heaven! ? There is another and a more complete " defeat for oblivion, and that is in the J* heart of God Himself. You have seen a sailor roll un his sleeve and ehow you his arm tattooed with the figure of a favorite ship, perhaps the first one in which he ever sailed. You have seen a soldier roll up "his sleeve and show his arm tattooed '* with the figure of a fortress where he was is garrisoned or the face of a great general d un'der whom he fought. You have seen 't many a hand tattooed with the face of a ci loved one belore or atter marriage, xms d custom of tattooing is almost as old as the d world. It is some colored liquid punc* y tured into the flesh so indelibly that noth> ing can wash it out. It may have been 5- there fifty years, but when the man goes '} into his coffin that picture will go with him on hand or arm. Now. God says that a He has tattooed us unon His hands. There e can be no other meaning in the forty-ninth chanter of Isaiah, where God says. "Ben hold. I have graven thee on the palms of e My hands." It was as much as to say, l" "I cannot open My hand to help hut I e think of you. I cannot spread abroad My d hands to bless but I think of you. WherS ever I go ut> or down the heavens I take n these two pictures of you with Me. They r* are so inwrought into My beinir that I i- cannot lose them. As lone as My hand? y last the memory of. you will last. Not on s- the back of My hands, as thouah to announce you to others, but on the palms I* cf My hands for Myself to look at and d study and love. Though I hold the winds 's in My fist, no cyclone shall uproot the in?. ?wftnr namo .mrl voup fane, and d though I hold the ocean in the hollow of 't My hand its billowing shall not wash out y the record of My remembrance. 'Bc-hold, ,r I have graven thee on the palms of My s hands.'" What joy, what honor, can there be comparable to that of being remembered 0 by the mightiest and most affectionate being in the uni\ferse? Think of it?to 4 hold an everlasting place in the heart of God! The heart of God! The most beau; tiful palace in the universe. Let the arch'8 angel build some palace as grand aa that tv if he can. Let Kim crumble up all the a stars of yesternight, and to-morrow night Je and put them together as mosaics for such a palace floor. Let him take all the suny rises and sunsets of all the days and the e" auroras of all the nights and hang them 13 as upholstery at its window*. Let him l". take all the rivers and all th? lakes and ir all the oceans and toss them into the foun0 tain3 of this palace court. Let him take all the gold of all the hills Z and hang it in its chandeliers and all the * pearls of all the seas and all the diamonds jf of all the fields and with them arch the jj doorways of that palace and then invite into it all the glories that Esther ever saw at a Persian banquet or Daniel ever '1 * *? /iiofloo nr g_ waiKeu amonjj iu jmujiuiuuu uu?va re Joseph ever witnessed in Pharaoh's throne d room and then yourself enter this castle j. of archangelic construction and see how n poor a palace it is compared with the ,e greater palace that some of you hav? alii ready found in the heart of a loving and J1 pardoning <?od and into which all the music ana all the prayers and all the ser j. monic considerations of thin day are trying to introduce you through the blood of l0 the slain Lamb. 2- Oh, where is oblivion now? From the is dark and overshadowing word that it n seemed when I began it has become somer thing which no man or wo-nan or child v who loves the Lord ncec' r fear. Obs livion defeated. Oblivion %ad. Oblivion sepulchered. But I must not be so hard ;? on that devouring monster, for into its tn fjrave go all our sins when the Lord for d Christ's sake has forgiven them. Just b- blow a resurrection trumpet over them is when once oblivion has snapped them :? down. Not one of them rises. Blow d again. Not a stir amid all the pardoned t, iniquities of a lifetime. Blow again! Not one of them moves in the deep grave it trenches. But to this powerless resurrecd tion trumpet a voice responds half hue. man, half divine, and it must be part man i, and part God, saying, "Their sins and J LL will T no more." u tI1U11 iliKjuaica Win x >r Thank God for this blessed oblivion. So le you see I did not invite you down into a s- cellar, but up on a throne; not into the graveyard to which all materialism is desit tined, butt into a garden all abloom with je everlasting remembrance. The frown of d my first text has become the kiss of the y, second text. Annihilation has become is coronation. The wringing hands of a :s great a,r0ny have bccome the clapping \'t hands of a great joy. The requiem with i. which we began has become the grand a- march with which we close. The tear of id sadness that rolled down our check has jf struck the lip on which sits the laughter of eternal triumph. THE GREAT DESTROYER 50MF STARTIJNC FACTS ABOlTk THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. (low New York Societ* Women Drlnli ?The Guzzlers Are Wlmt the World Call* T.ndie* ? Girls Sit and Order ' Drinks Without Food. Mrs. Fib A. P.oole. President of the New Yarl- State Women's Christian Ternpernnce Union, has been making ?nme investigations concc-ninT the imbibing ol ir>tovior>T\ts in prb';c pbces bv the women of Gotham, -md furnishes the following significant table of lu^hcons taken at the places named to the New York World: No. No. of nsinc What the Ple.ce. women .liquors, women drank, TleWon'eo'a NO *5 Wine or cocktails. Wnidnrf-Astoria.100 05 Wine or cocktails. fi'NeilJ's pn 7-7 Wine.co'ta's.beT Sherry's ?5 J.1? Wine or cocktails. Manhattan 60 4(1 Wine or cocktailft Savov 5 4 Wine or coektailsir Maillard's 75 21 C'ktails or liq'ura. The women who furnished the raw ma/ terial for Mrs. Boole's table were not disreputable characters who had stasreer^d in from the street'. The names of the places at which the observations wore made are suffic;ont to indicate t,h?t the puzzlers were what the world calls ladies. I More tnan tnat. inese wine w>nm-ii . stitute. or help to constitute, that which is known a" the highest social circle. At ill the fashionable restaurants in New York the larger naH of the receipts are said to he derived from th* sales of wines. whisky and other alcoholic drinks. F.ven popular candy stores of the metropolis now serve champagne, cocktails and hicrhballs. Restaurants in the shopping districts that reach out especially for the patronage of the women who trade in the dry goods stores, and where men unaccompanied by Indies are seldom seen, serve drinks to at least seventy-five por cent, of their customers. This i? a description ol the ofppe witnessed by Mrs. Boole at the Wa'dorf-Astoria: "There were twenty-s'X tables in the first room, seating two, four, six or eitrht persons. In the eourse of an hour the guests at most of these tables had changed once. "Of the persons at these tables thirteen were drinkin? at one time, and eight waiters with empty cocktail glasses came from tables that were nartially hidden by the stone columns in the room. "With three, possibly four, exceptions, mioofa wore nil women?women with srray hair, fine-looking women of thirty, young girls of eighteen. "One young ?rirl, of nerhars sixteen or seventeen, drank a cocktail and also a glass .of wine." Tn the restaurants in the shopni?<: district it is customary, we are told, for women and eirls to sit down at the tables and order drinks without calling for any* I thing to eat. This may he a little mow genteel than leaning aeainst a bar and drinking, but it is probably just as dangerous. It has been customary for people in general to look unon Chicago as the wickedest placp in. the world, but it wriMld surely be impossible for anyone to brint? such an indictment against the women of this city as Mrs. Boole ha? brought against the feminine half of New York's smart set. The saloons which flourish here indicate that, there must be a great, deal of drinking by Chicago men, but it has not become nccessary to turn candy stores in grogshops. as yet, and no first-class hotel in this city has thus far found it necessary to maintain a special deoartment for the use of men and women who may wish to meet by appointment and drink together. It is hardlv surprising, considering all t- e facts in the case, that Mrs. Boole cries out: "In the lamp of womanhood, in the interest of the children yet to he born, we call unon every class of society women and every woman who loves her $nd to discourage the custom of social drinking and help save the womanhood of 0>e nation from the curse of drunkenness." But Mrs. Boole must not make the mistake of regarding New York as the nation.?Chicago Record-Herald. Paying Tribute. There was once a man who drank very heavily; in fact, he was known as a drunkard. He lived in a small village, and wa.< generally admitted to be the bum of the town. One morning he started for the hotel for his first drink, and as he entered he saw the landlord's children playing in the yard. Thev were bright-faced, well-dressed, clean and were children that any father and mother might be proud of. He stopped and looked at them. They were romping, running and having a good time, and he could not help but admire them. As he stood and watched these children he could not help but contrast them with his own children that he had left at home?five ragged looking urchins. They were dirty, barefooted, and their clothes were tattered, and they were really a disgrace to any man. He stopped to think what was the difference between the children, and he came to the rightful conclusion that the difference was that instead of clothing and caring for his own family he was clothing and caring for the family of the rumseller. He stopped. He thought a moment. He turned and went home, and has never drank a drop since. One of his sons is new superintendent of a division of a large railroad. Another is the confidential cleri: in a banking house, and the three daughters are well and respectably married. Burden of Hereditary Weakness. Dr. A. Baer, royal sanitary counsellor, head physician at the penitentiary, plotzensee near Berlin, author of "Der Alkoholiamus" and other works upon this subject, says: '"Not unfrequently the children of topers die of hereditary weakness, not only showing a pronounced tendency toward diseases of the brain, epilepsy and idiocy, but they are also frequently subject to vicious inclinations and criminal tendencies. They lack perception for that which is moral and which contributes to a steady, well-ordered career. Weighted with the burden of hereditary mental weakness, they not unfrequently take to cramping, fall into crime, or become the victims of drunkenness or insanity. The tendency to drink degenerates not only the existing race, but also the coming generation." A Serious Evil. . It is a most serious evil that idle and worthless parents should lounge in public houses ana go on boozing themselves into stupidity or raging brutalism till midnight, while their miserable, neglected children are often left to run loose about the corrupt and filthy slums until their parents return, otten only to oeat ana terruy mese perishing little ones. The Crusade In Brief. The Anti-Saloon League baa decided to take a new tack in fighting saloons in Ohio, and purposes to make a test case on the claim that a saloon is a public nuisance, and should be abolished. The license system proceeds on the plan of sacrificing life for the sake of saving money. It deliberately immolates men by the thousand upon the blood altar of Bacchus in order to relieve taxpayers. Recently the ten-year-old son of an expressman in New York City was found unconscious in a hallway a few doors from his home. His case was diagnosed as alcoholism by an ambulance surgeon. Thanks be to the enlightened temperance sentiment of the times and to the progressive spirit of the profession we liave a class of physicians that know that alcohol is not needed in any form as a medicinal remedy. Next to the physician woman rules in the sick room and at times she rules him and may and can rule him far more fully than she does in the matter ot aieononc stimulants as a medicine and to the better jiterests of herself and family. Dr. Dana, of New York, expresses regret that the law does not permit the legal commitment of inebriates for a lcng term, declaring that "the ideal treatment is supervision of the case in an institution, .nsuring absolute abstinence from alcohol {or at least one year." - . V GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. loar Choice?Character Attained Only by Embracing Daily Snch Opportunities as Present Themselves?God Pity the Man Wlio Neglects His Duty. Why choose the evil, when the good More lovely, more divinely fair, With heavenly graces are imbued Awaits the searcher everywhere? Why go the downward ways of sin 'Mid vain regrets and wild despair; Why quell the good each soul may win, Why lose all hopes of heaven here? Peace like a river flows serene Beeide the path the righteous tread; Joy, as the sunshine, gilas each scene And falls with blessing on his head. Yet where the evil-minaed go Sharp thorns of selfishness prevail, And want and misery and woe The wretched sinner shall assail* Oh, mortal, wake; too soon thy soul All chance for good shall see no more, While evil deeds with vengeance roll To scourge the guilty o'er and o'er, Arouse ye, seek the narrow way By all the wise for ages trod; Seek paths of pleasantness that lay Through fields of virtue up to God. ?Oacar B. Smith. Open Doors. It is interesting to note how often trio word door occurs in the New Testament. The writers all seetn to have conceived of everything worth anything as lying over against us to be entered by a door. And it- i'a frno TViat-o ?rp trreat nossessiona awaiting every man, but each one must be entered by its appointed door. We know at once how true this is wben we think of some of the commonest objects of life. Thus one's profession must be entered by the door of long training in schools and colleges. One's trade must be entered by the long service of apprenticeshin. The realm of knowledge cannot be had for the asking, but must be entered by the door of long reading and study. Now, the same thing is true of the religious life or character. It is something to be entered also by a door. Here character stands over against every man, calling him to enter into it and possess it. It is the one thing on earth worth entering. It is above and beyond all other things. Everything also exists for character; other things are passing, while character is eternal. Now, right over against this world of character God has set ODen doors. We have merely to choose to walk through them. Thus the church is one door. It is not primarily a place of men holding some belief, not primarily a place for preaching. But first of all it is a door?a door from lower life to higher, from sin to righteousT*A<-Kin/mflaa f r? nranfor frr.m ?arth to heaven. What is the true church? Not the church that believes this or believes that, but the church that is a door for souls to pass over into the life of Dhrist and the consciousness of God, is ;he true church. The teacher ought to make the Sundayichool such a door?a door through which fouth passes over into a,manhood of purity.and purpose, and a knowledge of God's ways. Duty is a door. Obedience leads over nto knowledge. Duty leads over into God. tt is one of the,doors God dpens to every humblest man. Every opportunity of service for doing a kind deed is a door. God pity the man that passes by duties and opportunities; he is passing by' doors that ppen right into the heavenly villas. !rNot once or twice in our fair island story The path of duty was the way to glory; He, that ever following her commands, On with toil of hearts and knees and hands, Thro) the long gorge to the far light has Hia path upward, and prevail'd, Shall find the toppling crags of duty scaled Are close upon the shining "table lands lo which our God Himself is moon and sun." And then there is the door, greater than ill others, over into righteousness, Jesus Himself. He once said: "I am the door;" again He said: "I am the way." Yes, His life is the life that leads over into character and heaven. His truth sets us free. His faith opens the gates of invisible things. His love is the door over into the world of largeness and joy. Service done in His name is the door to God Himself.?Christian Work. Religion Not Something Apart. Religion is not something apart from (ife; it is not something for Sunday, although there would be little religion if there were no Sunday. Religion is not primarily for wasted energies and tired aerves nor for the sick chamber and the deathbed. Religion, at its best, is life at ita fullest and best; it is its animating purpose, its consecrating energy. It gives man an ideal worth striving for, one as full of inspiration as the sun is of light, and helps him so to marshal and direct his powers that he can attain it. When a man says that he has not time for religion he confesses that he has not time to cherish the best of which he is capable. Most of the service rendered to God and humanity is given by busy men. and women, those who are the most crowded with caree, and these are the most ready to respond to increasing calls upon their time and energy. There is a psychological reason for this. Such persons have a definite aim and purpose. It is a high and noble one that continually refreshes them and gives them such a mastery over their powers that they can always find time to do anything that is best worth the doing. Religion helps rather than hinders. It is like air, like light?it inspires everything that grows; it is the strength, the joy, the deliverance of the soul; it bears burdens, soothes sorrows; it takes the sling out of disappointments and shows us at the end of the journev, not a grave, but a life fit to employ the soul's full-blown powers forever in noblest exercise.?N. W. Christian Advocate. Governed by the Higher Law. A man to be morally strong must fee* that all his endowments are from God, who made nothing in vain. Every atom in the world of space is governed by a higher law, and in the same way man is governed by a higher law, which might be p,i11pH our law nf gravitation. Under that law we live and move and have our being. In obedience to that law lies our only safety.?Rev. Dr. J. E. Rankin. The Brotherhood of Man. Mankind's advancement by trade and international treaties is simply finding out by long, zigzag paths the sweet truth of Scripture that all are made for all, each needs each throughout this vast brotherhood of men.?Rev. S. Edward Young, Presbyterian, Pittsburg. | Square Your Thoughts With Christ's. Before the judgment scat of Christ no honest man need fear. The difficulty of getting the truth into a human mind is owing to the fact that we don't know ourselves. When a man sees himself as he is, the end of all discipline has been reached, i Never will a man see himself as he is un' til his thoughts and Christ's are accordant.?Rev. Dr. Reuen Thomas, Congregationalist, Boston. Priceless In Value. Kindly words, sympathizing attention#, watchfulness against wounding others sensitiveness, these cost very little, but they are priceless in value. The American Match Industry. Tt has not been such a long time sine? all the matcneg usea in tnis country were imported, hut at the present time 50.000,000 feet of lumber are annually used here in the manufacture of matches, and this industry employs about 15,000 persons. One factory alone in Ohio turns out 100,000,000 picces every day. Africa Not a Wllderne?i. With railwavs in South Africa in opera- j tion covering 5000 miles, and others under J construction which will add 2000 to the total, this portion of the Dark Continent j can hardly be longer looked upon as a v. i!- I dcrness. a ;: I THE SABBATH SCHOOL NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR OCTOBER 20. ' <nl>Ject: Joseph Exalted, Gen. xll.. 38-4> ''I Golden Text, I. Sam. II., 30? Memory Verses, 30-41 ? Commentary on the Day'* Lesson. 38. "Unto his servaota." The kings of indent Egypt were assisted in the man L 1 *1? nt igemeiib ui bluic citiauts uy mc outiwc the most distinguished members of the priestly order; and, accordingly, before idmitting Joseph to the new ana extraordinary office that was to be created, those ministers were consulted as to the expediency and propriety of the appointment. "Such a one as this." Doubtless the history of Joseph had been told Pharaoh ?nd his servants, and they saw that his long experience with Potiphar as well as his present wisdom would especially fit him for the proposed work. The spirit Df God is." Here is an acknowledgement of the existence and power of the true 3od. Joseph had expressly told Pharaoh * (v. 16) that the interpretation of the dreams was not in him, but that God would give the answer; and pow the king attributes Joseph's wisdom to the spirt Df God in him. Such an one would have wisdom, could be trusted and would be attended with the blessing of God. 39. "Discreet." Intelligent, having a :lear insight into matters. "Wise." This denotes a capacity to devise and employ; proper measures to gain the ends desired. 40. "Thou." This was very unexpected to Joseph and also to Pharaoh's servants. When Joseph was counseling the king to . appoint a man to gather grain, he could n/\f Kava KaH file ramnfoot iHoa fhnf. hp would be the man; and the servants who were so very willing that Joseph's plan should be carried out (v. 37) are silent now, when Joseph's name is proposed. "Unto thy word." Joseph honorea God before Pharaoh and God honored Joseph . in the sight of Pharaoh. A little time ago he was traduced as one of the vilest of men; now the king honors him as a man of incomparable worth. We may learn from this not to be greatly dejected by reproach, nor puffed up by praise. The best of men have passed through good report and evil report. 41. "Over all the land." Behold one . hour hath changed his fetters into a <*hain of gold, his rags into fine linen, his e ocka into a chariot, his jail into a palace. 42. "Took off nis ring." This was a token of the highest dignity and also an , instrument of power, for it undoubtedly ' ave validity to the documents to whica it was affixed. Thus Joseph was given chief authority in Egypt. People in the East do not sign their names. They have seals in which their names and titles are engraven, and with which they make an impression with thick ink, on all occasiona for which we use the signature. 'Tine linen." A costly fabric, worn by persona of rank as a mark of honor. It was exceedingly soft and of dazzling whiteness, and has been sold for twice its weight in gold. "A gold chain." This was a badge jf high office; an emblem of civil authority. 43. "The second chariot." The becond state chariot in the public procession. Herodotus tells us that Egypt was noted for chariots, both for peaceful and war- (\ like purposes. "They cried before him.'* 4-Vk/% k orl Irln iirknaa /lllfv if JLUatf U3f bile UlUg O liCiaiUO) n uuow uuv(r ?w was to go before and announce the comim? of the royal procession. "Bow the knee. The heralds cried. "Abreck!" This ia supposed to be an Egyptian word, and its v meaning is not definitely known. It may mean "rejoice," or "we are at thy service." Others think it means. "Cast your- , / selves down?do homage." "Set him over all the land" (R. V.)) This high position to which Joseph was exalted was a full recomnense for his years of patient suffering. It was also a proof of the equity and goodness of God, and it should be an encouragement to all good people to trust God. 44. "I am Pharaoh." This was the , same as thouzh he had said I am king, for "Pharaoh" was the common title of the sovereigns of Egypt. "Without thee." Joseph's authority was to be absolute and universal. Thus did God put honor upon this youth. Joseph had been tested and had stood the test. His integrity, courage. patience, faithfulness and faith in God had been thoroughly tried. 45. "Zaphnath-paaneah." This name has had various interpretations, some of which are as follows: "Preserver of life," "The revealer of secrets." "The treasury of glorious comfort." "Governor of the Living One." "Bread of life," "Saviour of fhp xvni-lH " ninrlce thinks it was raerelv "an Egyptian epithet, designating the office to which he was now raised." "Asenath." His naturalization was completed by this alliance with a family of high distinction. On being founded by an Arab colony Poti-phera, like Jethro, priest of Midian, mignt be a worshiper of the true God; and thus Josenh, a pious man, will be freed from the charge of marrying an idolatress for worldly ends. "On." Or HelioDolis, meaning "sun" or "light." Called Aven (Ezek. 30: 17), and also Bethshemesh. Jer. 43: 13. "Over all the land." No doubt for the building of granaries and appointing proner officers to receive the corn in every place. 46. "Thirty years old." This was the age which was appointed for entering the priesthood, and we will remember that this was the age when the New Testament Joseph entered upon his ministry of love and mercy. "Stood before Pharaoh." This meanR that he was admitted into the immediate presence of the king, and had his unlimited confidence. Among the Asiatic princes the privilege of coming to their seat and standing in their presence waa granted only to the highest favorites. Joseph though so suddenly and remarkably raised is not puffed with pride. 47. "By handfuls." A singular expression. alluding not only to the luxuriance of the crop, but the practice of the reapers grasDing the grain in their hands. This probably refers principally to rice, as it grows in tufts, a great number of stalks proceeding from the same seed. There was not a place in the then known world ? ?-11 fA nrA/?iiAfinn nf crftin BU WCI1 aua|jbbu VV vuu wmmvw. 0 as Egypt. 48. ''Gatherer! u[>." This was according to the advice given Pharaoh (v. 34), that a fifth part be gathered up. This was the Government tax, or was bought up afc low prices such as would then prevail. Doubtlsss the people also stored up grain for themselves, but according to their faith, which was much less than Joseph's. 49. "Joseph fathered." The king and his subjects owed their lives to Joseph. Through the blessing of God he was anlfr to supply not only the Egyptians, but other nations with corn when the famina came. New Vork'g Children'* Court. To protect the 12.000 children who annually come bptore the city courts for various petty offences, as far as possible, from vitiating contact with older prisoners. New York City will open a children's court on January 1. 1902. This plan, m.?de nossiblc by the new charter, pro? j__ vidcs that the case or every crnm. uuun sixteen vears of age shall he beard in the children's court, where all misdemeanors and felonies will be disposed of finally, misdemeanors going to Special Scions and felonies to Oer.eral Sessions. Magistrates will serve the court in rotation. Sacred Study For Pnbllc School!. The Public School Council of Cleveland, Ohios has voted to add the Lord's Prayer, the len Commandments and the Twentythird Psalm to the course of study now taught. "We ought to be improving the moral as well as the mental capacities of the children," said Mr. Hobart, a member of the board, "and I know of no more fitting way in which to do this than to add the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments and the beautiful Tcenty-third Psalm to the studies." , American Locomotives in Spain. The English Consul at Bilbao, commenting on the importation of American loco motives into Spain, nays all the orders ^ i -tr 1 i were ac nr.st unmu u> uuukm mum, uu* went to America, owing to the quickncsa of delivery guaranteed by the American firms and also because the price was lower than that asked by the English. The Consul admits the superiority of the Amerij can locomotives over the British for Spanish railroads. i