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; *. / ' v. IT ISN'T THE START ALONE. It isn't the start alone that counts, it isn't the start alone; It's the place you hold at the end by v.-'nieh the worth of your work is known; The dancing horse and the prancine horse IHUJr UC JfiUUU vuv uivv But they never receive a cheer if they lag at the rear when the race is done. A fool may start for a lofty goal and hurry ahead and still Be a fool if he quits with the end he sought beyond him over the hill. If the cable that stretches through the sea from the distant, foreign shore Fell short by a hundred little feet and cables were made no more, Its uncoiled lengths would fail to serve; no answering instrument Would respond to the call from the faroff land, where eager heads are bent! It's the end that counts?the end at last? your start, may be tine, oh, friend, But the world will finally judge you by the place you hoid at the end. The bride whose face is aglow with pride t as she passes along the aisle, Beholding the grand display of wealth ana the fine display of style. May weep in the years that wait, while she that in poor, coarse raiment is wed May still have the love that's dear to her heart when the hair gleams white on her head. And the wonder who stands at the head ot nis Class mav lauer or stujaui*.- <jl fall. And end as the servant of him at the foot! The start that you make isn't all. The fields may he green in the spring. , where the grain is damp witn the dew at dawn, But what if the hills he parched and bare when the harvest time comes on? The path you take may be smooth at the siart, and levei and straight and wide, But far away it may wind about where robbers in ambush hide! Oh, look to the end?the faraway end? ere ever the die is thrown, For it isn't the start alone that countsit isn't the start alone, e T- -L-: nu:??~ ?o. U. ixiaci j in mcvviu-XXW4U:U. [50000000COOOCOOOOOCOOCODC Qoufile J]BSBfter. ? A War Komancc That B?san in Sffeien n O and feuded on a Federal Scaffold. O 5 ? JC BT HAJ. OEOROE F. WILLIAMS. q Scooogooocoooooooooccooooo IN all wars the crime of desertion is the most detested among soldiers, and offenders seldom escape the penalty of death called for by military law, when an army is on duty in the field, and in the presence of an enemy. There were more executions for this offense in the Fed-eral Army in the Civil War than one , .not familiar with its inside history tvould credit. Most of these deserters . were men who, belonging to the criminal classes, took to "bounty jumping" as a change from burglary and 1 pocket picking. But there were a few { Instances where deserters were im- [ gelled to leave their colors by motives which lent an air of romance to the !ate they risked. When General Sheridan began his famous operations in the Shenandoah Valley, during the month of August. :8G4. he was reinforced by two di- ' visions of cavalry, led by Generals ; Wilson and Merritt, a part of the Nine- 1 feenth Corps, under General Amory, ind all of the Sixth Corps, commanded by General Wright. Having crushed Early's forces in the battles of Winchester and Cedar Creek (the latter being the scene of "Little Tbil's" famous ride), the Sixth Corps returned to the lines of the Army of the Potomac, which was still pressing the : siege of Petersburg. Ya., thus holdiug : Lee in leash. While the Sixth Corps was in the I Shenandoah Valley, three men of foreign birth deserted from a Pennsyl- 1 vania regiment and entered the Con- ; federate lines. Announcing a willingness to enlist under the Southern flag these misguided men only stipulated j i ! ?? emit tn enmo r>thm* nnint I in the field of hostilities. Their re- ; quest being considered a reasonable one. they were transferred to General Gordon's division, then fighting in the Confederate trenches that defended the city of Petersburg. In October, 18U4. the United States Government offered pardon and immunity to all Confederate soldiers who would surrender and take the oath of allegiance. Copies of the announcement to that effect were scattered throughout General Lee's lines by means of kites, trigger attachments releasing me uuuu;? VL [UJ/CIO midair. Among the first to embrace this off or wore the three Sixth Corps men. who thus hoped to escape military service and hardship. Unfortunately for them the Sixth Corps had meam\ liile arrived in General Meade's lines, and their own regiment happened to he on guard over the "deserters' corral" when they came through the lines, i Being at once detected, all three were j placed in strict confinement, tried by | court-martial, and sentenced to be ! hanged, a soldier's death by Isullet being denied them, because of their enlistment in the Confederate service. Three days before the one fixed for their execution I was surprised by the receipt of a note from the olhcer com- j tnanding the Sixth Corps provost j guard, requesting me to call at his , quarters. On my arrival I learned j that one of the condemned men wished (to see me in private. Shackled band ami foot, tbe prisoner was led. stumbling into a tent that was surrounded by sentinels, and jier- j mission was given me to enter. 'J ii?? J man who was to suffer a shameful j death was a fine specimen of mauhoou j and it was difficult to conceive how j he could have been induced to takej such awful risks. "I have a favor to ask of you, sir," he began in a low, modulated voice. *'1 know there is no hope for me; but. If you will grant my request it will enable me to die more calmly." "What do you want me to do?" I asked. "To write a letter to the woman I I love and send her ttie money ueiuug-, g ing to me and on deposit in a New I (York savings bank." I "Certainly. I will carry out your I Instructions faithfully." I "Thank you. Now let me tell you I my story. I am a native of Sweden.' I My name is Oscar and my 5 family live on a farm a few miles I from Stockholm. Two years ago I f I fell In love with a young and pretty j < . y,,r ri-yfxir -t . ... . ' , , ' . ' -i. ' girl ("here is her picture), the daughter of a farmer richer than uiy own peoITor fnniiltr nrmocpil I1)V SUit. be- i (/.c t-iv... ... .. ~ ? cause I was comparatively poor, and Christina and I were very unhappy. In an evil moment I read a letter written by a youug neighbor of ours i who had gone to America. He said be had joined the Union army on a bounty of over $1000 paid him on enlisting. "A thousand dollars is a great deal of money in Sweden, and I decided to emigrate and become an American soldier. To my surprise bounties had j risen, and I got $1200, all of which i.s now in the hank. I had no thought of ever deserting, being willing to take my chances: so left a sealed letter in the bank, to lie opened only in the event of my being killed in battle. It contains my will and i:eo.ueaths all the money to my sweetheart. "These two men who nre to die on the same scaffold with me. entered the j sppviee full.v resolved to desert at the j first opportunity. One nicrlit while we were on picket guard together at Cedar Mountain, a week or two before the battle, the.v revealed to me their purpose of slipping thrcu-'h the lines into Early's camp, anil askeil me to go with them. As an inducement they explained that after joining the Confederates it would be easy to get transferred elsewhere and tlnn we could redesert, and get free of all military duty. "To this day I do net know why I consented to take the step that has proved so fatal to all of lis. But I did, and here I am in heavy irons doomed to an awful and disgraceful death. Now, however, that you have promised to grant my request. I am more resigned to my fate." "Have you told this story to anyone J else?" was my natural inquiry. "No, what would be the use? It is i no excuse for the military crime I | have committed. As long as my girl I remains ignorant regarding the precise nature of my death, it will be happier for her, and in time she may, with my money, get a better husband." I took down in my notebook all the necessary details, again promising to carry out his instructions, and the interview ended, "Oscar" being taken hack to the guard tent. As he had asked earnestly that I would place myself in front of the scaffold, I obeyed. It was a bright, sunny November morning, when the division to which these hapless men belonged was paraded to witness the execution. Obtaining the necessary permission from General Wright, I stood beside the provost marshal and saw the men die. "Oscar" that was not his name as may well be supposed?stood in the centre. As the noose was placed around his neck he recognized my presence, and. just before the cap was drawn over his eyes, he gave me a look of thanks which I shall never forget. The next instant the drop fell. In due time I wrote to the young woman, announcing her lover's death "in front of Petersburg," and the bank transferred "Oscar's" deposit to her. Three years after I received a letter from Sweden, saying that the arirl had never married, but died of srief. It was the saddest tragedy that came to my notice during the entire war.?The Journalist. Is the Short Story Doomed? In "The Editor's Study," in Harper's, Mr. Alden gives some interesting opin- I ions as to the magazine of the future. I-Ie predicts the passing of both the serial and the conventional short story: ' The aim of this kind of magazine becomes ever more and more distinct from that of the book,"' he says, "and the time will come when the serial [)ublication in it of fiction or of history will be an exceptional thing. We are confident that even the conventional short story?that elaborate structure formerly deemed necessary?will disappear from its contents, its place being taken by the vivid, suggestive sketch, with an even stronger appeal to the normal emotional sensibility. What used to be known as the 'article' has already been transformed, to use George Eliot's pregnant phrase, from a diagram into a picture. The essay. as we are using it in these pages, is not the formal and extended treatment of a subject, but au expression of some phase of thought concerning au interesting theme that, limited as it may seem, has through its suggestiveness an indefinite expansion. "The briefer the contributions to the magazine the greater its variety. But brevity should not be sought at the sacrifice of literary art. The brief sketch or essay or story should not bo a fragment. Brevity is comparative; txveuty pages may be short, and a single page tediously loug. The artistic requirement is tne economy; tLers must be no waste." The American Conqueit of England. "The United States," said a booL publisher, "is engaged not only in a commercial conquest of Great Britain, l?ut in a literary one as well. There is an uprising of American writers who arc producing American works of tiction and of fact, and these works are taking hoid in England to-day. Now. the thing which is nost significant is that English novelists are being more widely read in the United States than in their native land. These writers are studying American taste and are becoming more and more concerned with their American editions, for in these are the greater profit. This accounts in a measure Tor the growing power of the American publisher and the declining authority cf the British publisher. New York is rapidly succeeding to Londo.^as the book centre of the English-speakin? people."?Washington Star. Has Monopoly of Moving Coin. One truckman down town lias for many years had a monopoly of the moving of bullion and coin, and he could not probably estimate even roughly the number of millions of dollars that he has carried on his truck. For the purpose of transportation, gold is boxed in heavy packages. The truck is guarded by several men always, and <sh one recent occasion when the amount involved was very large, Wall Street was treated to the unusual spectacle of the cashier and assistant cashier of the City Bank riding on a load of gold.?New York Commercial. DR. TALMAGfTS SEEMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: Good or Evil Returns to Bless or Blast?Actions 3Iay Make the Circnlt of Many Years, But Come Back to Us They Will. [Copyright, 1901.] Washington, D. C.?In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows that the good or evil we do returns to bless or blast us; test, Isaiah xi, 22, "It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth." While yet people thought that the world was flat and thousands of years before they found out that it was round Isaiah, in my text, intimated the shape of it?Got sitting upon the circle of the earth. The most beautiful figure in all geometry is the circle. God made the universe on a plan of the circle. There are in the natural world straight lines, angles, parallelograms, diagonals, guadran^les, but these evidently are not od's favorites. Almost everywhere ?1 tt: vnu wiierc you uuu nun j;cuiuwu.wu6 tw** the circle dominant, and if not the circle then the curve, which is a circle that died younc. If it had lived long enough it woulu have been a full orb, a periphery. J An ellipse is a circle pressed on?y a little i too hard at the sides. Giant's causeway in Ireland shows what God thinks of mathematics. There are over 35,000 columns of rocks?octagonal, hexagonal, pentagonal. These rocks seem to have been made by rule and compass. Every artist^has his molding room where he may make fifty shapes, but he chooses one shape as preferable to all others. I will not say that the Giant's causeway ! was the world's molding room, but I do say out of a great many figures God seems to* have selected the circle as the best, j "It is He that sitteth on the circle of the earth." Tiie stars in a circle, the moon in a circle, the sun in a circle, the universe in a circle and the throne of God the centre of that circle. Appreciation of this would correct the 1 architecture of churches, whose shape is often a defiance of divine suggestion. When men build churches they ought to imitate the idea of che Great Architect and put the audience iu a circle, knowing that the tides of emotion roll more easily that way than in straight lines. Six thousand years ago God flung this world out of His nght hand. But He did not throw it out in a straight line, but in curvilinear, with a leash of love holding ic so as to bring it back again. The world started from His hand pure and Edenic. It has been rolling on through regions of moral ice and distemper. How long it will roll God only knows, but it will in due time make complete circuit and come back to the place where it started?the hand of God?pure and Edenic. The history of the world goes in a circle. Why is it that the shipping in our day is improving so rapidly? A scientific shipbuilder says it is because men are imitating in some respects what the small wits deride, the old model of Noah's ark, not as we see it in old time pictures, but as it really was according to the account given. Great ships have we now, but where is the ship on the sea to-day that could outride a deluge in which the heaven and the earth were wrecked, landing all the passengers in safety, two of each kind of living creatures, hundreds of thousands of species? Pomology will go on with its achievements until after many ceutnries the ! world will have plums and pears equal to the paradisaical. The art of gardening will grow for centuries, and after the Downinga and Mitchells of the world have done their best in the far future the art of I gardening will come up to the arborescence I of the year I. Tf malrprs of rnlnred orlass eo on im proving they may in some centuries be able to make something equal to the east window of York minster, which was built in the year 1290. We are six centuries behind those artists. But the world must keep on toiling until it shall make the complete circuit and come up to the skill of those very men. If the world continues to improve in | masonry, we shall have after awhile, per- J haps after the advance of centuries, mor- j tar equal to that which I saw in the wall of an eshumed English city built in the time of the Romans 1600 years ago, that mortar to-day as good as the day in which it was made, having outlasted the brick and the stone. I say, after hundreds of ?ffVaf nnint njasuuit muj auutuvv ?v. If the world stands long enough we may have a city as large as they had in old time3?Babylon, five times the size of London. You may go into the potteries of England and you find them making cups ana vases after the style o: the cups and , vases exhumed from Pompeii. The world is not going hack. Oh, no! But it is swinging in a circle, and will come around to the styles of pottery known so long ago as the days of Pompeii. The world must keep on progressing until it makes the complete circuit. The curve is in the right direction: the curve will keep on until it becomes the circle. Well, now, what is true in the material universe is true in God's moral eovernment and spiritual arrangement. That is the meaning of Ezekiel's wheel. All commentators agree in saying that the wheel means God's providence. But a wheel 13 of no use unless it turns, and if it turn it turns around, and it _it turns around it moves in a circle. What then? Are we parts of a great iron machihe whirled around and around whether we will^or not. the victims of inexorable late: j\o: So far from that I shall show you that we ourselves start the circle of good or had actions, and that it will surely come around again to us unless by divine intervention it be hindered. Those bad or good actions may make the circuit of many years, but come back to us they will as certainly as that God sits on the circle of the eiirth. Jezebel, the worst woman of the Bible ?Shakespeare copying his Lady Macbeth from her picture?slew Naboth becausc she wanted his vineyard. While the dogs were eating the body of Naboth Elijah, the prophet, put down his compass and marked a circle from those dogs clear around to the dogs that, should'eat the body of Jezebel, the murderess. ''Impossible!" the people said. "That will never happ3n." Who is that being flung out of the palace window? Jezebel. A few hours after they came around, hoping to bury her. They find on'y the 7>aims of the hands and the skull. The dogs that devoured Jeiebel and the dogs that devoured Naboth. Oh, what a swift, what an awful circuit! But it is sometimes the case that this circle sweeps throueh a century or through many centuries. The world started with a theocracy for government? lhat is. God was the president and empc-ror of the world. People got tired of a theocracy. They said: "We don't want God directly interfering with the affair4 of the world. Give us a monarchy." The world had a monarchy. Prom a monarchy it is going to have a limited monarchy. After awhile the limited monarchy will be giyen up and the republican form of government will be everywhere dominant and recognized. Then the world will get tired of | the l.publican form of government, and it will have an anarchy, which is no government at all. And then all nations, finding out that man is not capable of righteously governing man, will cry out again for theocracy and say, "Let God come back and conduct the affairs of the world." Every step?monarchy, limited monar- | chy, republicanism, anarchy?only different steps between the first theocracy and the last theocracy or segments of the great ! circle of the earth on which God sits. But do not become impatient because you cannot see the curve of events and therefore conclude that God's government is going to break down. History tells us that in the making of the pyramids it took 2000 men two years drag one stone from the quarry and put it into the pyramids. If men short lived can afford to work so _i i? - - ii..i Porl in f Viiiilrlintr Biowiy as X,UUL, lauitwv 0 of eternities afford to wait? What though God should take 10.000 ?;ears to draw a circle? Shall we take our ittle watch which we have to wind up every night lest it run down and hold it up beside the clock of eternal ages? If, according to the Bible, a thousand years are in God's sight as one day, then, according to that calculation the 6000 years of the world's existence has been only to God as from Monday to Saturday. But it is often the case that the reboiu.d is quicker, the return is much quicker than that- Th? rirrle ia ?nnn?r romnVfcprl You resolve that you will do what pood j'ou can. In one iveek you put a word of counsel in the heart of a Sabbath-school child. During that same week you give a letter of introduction to a young man struggling in business. During the same week you make an exhortation in a prayer meeting. It is all gone. You will never j hear of it, perhaps, you think. A few j i raira nff-pr n mnn Mmeu un to von nnH I says, "You don't know me, do you?" You say, "No, I don't remember ever to have seen you." "Why," he says, "I was in the Sabbath-school class over which you ivere the teacher. One Sunday you invited me to Christ; I accepted the offer, j You see that church with two towers yonder?" "Yes," you say. He says, "That is I where I preach," or, "Do you see that governor's house? That is where I live." One day a man come3 to you and sayi "Good morning." You look at him and say, "Why. you have the advantage of me; I cannot place you." He says. "Don't you remember thirty years ago giving me a letter of introduction to a young man?a lefter of introduction to William E. Dodge?" "Yes, ves, I do." He says, "I am the man. That was my first step toward a fortune. But I have retired from business j now and am civing my time to philanthro- i nies and public interests. Come up to my | house and see me." Or a man comes to you and says: "I want to introduce myself to you. I went into a prayer meeting some years ago. I sat back by the door. You arose to make an exhortation. That talk changed the course cf my life, and if I ever get to heaven under God I will owe my salvation to you." In only ten, twenty or thirty years the circle swept out and swept back again to your own grateful heart. But sometimes it is a wider circle and does not return for a great while. I saw a bill of expenses for burning Latimer and Ridley. The bill of expenses has these items among x>ther3: Shillincs. Pence. | One load of fire fagot3 ? 4 I Cartage for four loads of wood..5 Item, a post J 4 Item, two chains 5 4 j Item, two staples . 6 ! Item, for laborers 2 8 making in all 25s. Sd. That was cheap ( firo mncMrrir.cr nil f-'ip circumstances, but I it kindled a light whMi shone all around I tbe world and aroused the martyr spirit, | and out from that burning of Latimer and Ridley rolled the circle wider and wider, starting other circles, convoluting, overrunning, circumscribing, overreaching all heaven?a circle. Eut what i? true of the good is ju9t as true of the bad. You utter a slander against your neighbor. It has gone forth from your teeth. It will never come backyou think. You have done the man all the mischief vou can. You rejoice to see him wince. You say, "Didn't I give it to him?" That word has gone out, that slanderous word, on its poisonous and blasted way. You think it will never do you any barm. But I am watching that word, and I see it beginning to curve and it curves around, and it is aiming at your heart. You had better dodge i>.. You cannot dodge it. It rolls into y?ur bosom, and after it rolls in a word of an old book rolls in after it, saying: "With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again." You maltreated an aged pa.rmt. You begrudge him the room in your house. X UK die lUipabtcub nibu too .. and garrulity. It makes you mad to hear him tell the same story twice. You give | him food he cannot masticai* You wish he was away. You wonder if he is going to live forever. He will be gone very soon. His steps are shorter and shorter. He is going to stop. But God has an account to settle with you on that subject. After awhile your eye will be dim, and your Rait will halt, and the sound of the grinding will be low, and you will tell the same story twice, and your children will wonder if vou will never be taken away. Thev called you "father" once. Xow they call you the "old man." If you live a few years longer they will call vou the "old chap." What are those rough words with which your children are accosting you? They are the echo of the very words you used in the ear of your old father forty years ago.' A gentleman passing along the avenue saw a son dragging his father into the street by the hair of the head. The gentleman, outraged at this brutal conduct, was about to punish the offender, when the old man arose and said: "Don't hurt him. It's all right. Forty years ago this very morning I dragged out my father bv the hair of his hean!" It is a circle. Other sins may be adjourned to the next world, but maltreatment of parents is punished in this world. That circle is made quickly, very quicklv. I should not like to see the countenance of Voltaire when his influence comes to full orb. When the fatal hemorrhage seized him at eighty-three years of age his influence did not ccase. The most brilliant man of his century, he had used all his faculties for assaulting Christianity, his bad influence widening through France, widening out through Germany, widening through all Europe, widening through America, widening through the 123 years that have gone since he died, widening through earth, widening through the great future, until at last the accumulated influence of his baleful teaehiT; and dissolute life will beat against h' .smayed spirit, and at that moment it 11 be enough to | make the black hair of eternal darkness j turn white with horror. No one can tell how that bad man's influence girdled the i earth save the one who is seated on the i circle of the earth?the Lord Almighty. "Well, now," say some, "this in some rej spects is a very glad theory ard in others I a very sad one. We would like to have , the good we have done come back to us, but the thought that all the sins we have ever committed will come back to us fills us with affright." My brother. I have to tell you God can break that circle, and will | do so at your call. I can bring twenty I passages of Scripture to prove that when | God, for Christ's sake, forgives a man the sins of his past life never come back. The wheel may roll on and on, but you take your position behind the cross, and the I wheel strikes the cross and is shattered I forever. The sins fly off from the circle I and fall at right ancles with complete oblivion. Forgiven! Forgiven! The meanest thing a man can do is after I some difficulty has"been settled to bring it up again, and God will not do anything [ like that. God's memory is mighty enough to hold all the events of the ages, but | there is one thing that is sure to slip His memory, one thing He is sure to forget, and that is pardoned transgression. How do I know it? I will prove it. "Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven." But do not make the mistake of thinking that this doctrine of the circle stops with this life. It rolls on through heaven. You might quote in opposition to me what St. John says about the city of heaven. He says it "lieth four square." That does seem t) militate against this idea of a circle. But do you not know there is many a square house that has a family circle facing each other and in a circle moving, and I can prove that this is so in regard to heaven. St. John says, "I heard the voice of niar.v angels round about the throne and the beasts and the plders." And again he savs. "I saw round about the throne four nnd twenty seats." And aeain he says, "There was a rainbow round about the throne." The two former imply a circle: the last, either a circle or a semicircle. The seats faring each other, the angels facinz each other, the men facing each other. Heaven an amphitheatre of glory. Circumference of patriarch and prophet and apostle. Circumference of Scotch Covenanters and Theban legion and Albieenses. Circumference of the good of all apes. Periphery of splendor uniinapined and indescribable. . A circle! A circle! But every circumference must have a centre, and what is the centre of this heavenly circumference? Christ. His all the flory; His all the praise; His all the All hp.ivon wreathed into a jrar land round about Him. Take off the Imperial sandal from His foot and behold the scar of the spike. Lift the coronet of dominion from His brow and see where was the laceration of the briers. Come closer, all heaven. Narrow the circle around His great heart. O Christ, the Saviour! 0 Christ, the man!" 0 Christ, the God! Keep Thy throne forever, seated on the circle of the earth, seated on the circle of heaven. "On Christ, the solid rock, I stand; All other ground ia shifting sand." . ' / THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FtfR NOVEMBER 24. Subject: World'* Tempnrance I-csson, Isa. v., 8-30 ? Golden Text, Isa. v., "2 ? | Memory Vi?rsest 11, 12 ? Coinmentan ! on the Day's Leftsou. 8. "That join house to house." Covetousness is one of the leading sins in our land at the present time. A desire to be rich, a desire to add house to house, and field to tield, leads men into all sorts oi wickedness and dishonest dealings. It leads to the selling of strong drink, to * .ij! r I renting Dunaings ior sajuu;is auu jaiuuiiu6 I dens and other unholy purposes. It is the i "love of money" that is the "root of al) evil." 9. "In mine ears." That is, the Lord | spoke what is to follow into the ears oi tne prophet. "Shall be desolate." God's curse will rest on the many houses and farms which have been acquired through penuriousness and unlawful or unholy ! means. The houses shall stand without | tenants. 10. "Ten acres?one bath." Ten acres , of vineyard shall yield only about seven fallons of wine. "An homer?an ephah." 'he homer, or kor, was about eight bushels. An ephah was about three and onefifth pecks. The owner would thus reap ' only a tenth part of the seed he had sown. 11. "Woe." Grief, sorrow, misery, a heavy calamity, a curse. "Early in the morning." W hen it was regarded especially shameful to drink. Acts 2: 15. Banquets for revelry began earlier than usual. Eccles. 10: 16, 17. "May follow strong arms. jinat mcy uegm auu v.uutinue to use it from early morn till night. "Till wine inflame them." Until there is excited, excessive action in the blood vessels, causing them to act in excitement, in anger, or any evil way which their natures might be made to feel, under the unnatural pressure upon the forces and functions of the body. In this condition no man is abie' to use good judgment or to execute his work correctly. 12. ''The harp." A stringed instrument of triangular figure. Music was common at ancient feasts. Amos 6: 5, 6. "The ! viol." An instrument with twelve strings. "The tabret." A small drum orjtambourine. played on as an accompaniment to i singing. "Pipe." The nrincipal musical wind instrument of the Hebrews, consisting of a tube with holes, like a flute or clarionet. It was made of reed, copper or bronze, and was used on all occasions in religious worship, processions, feasts and mourning. "Wine." Such as indulge in revels must have every sense gratified, for only by being stimulated by such ex citement could they at all be satisfied there. "They regard not." The most positive proof that such conduct is sinful. When so filled with worldly pleasure there is no taste for anything serious. "Neither consider." In punishing the Ruilty13. "Gone into captivity.' The pro* phet sees the future as if it were before nis eyes. Those who follow after stronc drink are sure to end in sorrow as though they were already fallen, with no further power to act for themselves. "Because they have no knowledge." # Because of their foolish recklessness in following strong drink they make drunkards of themselves. They act contrary to wisdom. They becoma?captives because their brains . are "so ruined by excessive drinking that they are not capable of acting the part of prudent, careful'men. "Honorable men are famished." Strong drink ruins those in honorable positions just as quickly as men of low estate. "Dried up with thirst." Both the great men and the common people suffer alike when in captivity to the cruel power of strong drink. Awful thirst follows drinking, and the -burninz sensation which drinkine men feel is like the drying up of themselves. 14. "Hell hath enlarged herself." The ffrave, the unseen world of spirits. Not here; the place of torment. Poetically, it is represented as enlarging itself immensely in order to receive the countless hosts of Jews which* should perish. "Their glory." All their honors shall be laid in the dust. Death will put an end to all their joy?. "Their multitude." Did they glorv in their numbers? Their multitude shall go down to the pit. Ezek. 31: 18; 32: 32. "Their pomp." The fioure thev ""'la "Wo tVint reini^eth." Death will turn their mirth into monrninir. He that I rejoices and revels, and never knows what j it is to be serious, shall go where there j is weepins and wailing. 15. "Mean man?mighty man?eyes of the lofty." When death overlooks this class of men, those ruined by drink, even though they come from various positions in life, then it is that thsv are brought low. There is no further room for boastinz. Death settles the matter. t 18. "Shall be exalted in judgment." j When man's glory is all passed away God is unchanged. Though men scorn His of* I fered mercy and retuse ills wjse counsels i He is not cast down. He is exalted. | "Sanctified in righteousness." Regarded as holy by reason of Hi3 righteous deal- : ings. 17. "Then shall the lambs." When | these are gone into captivity and swallowed up in death others shall ah Ifceir ! place. IS. "Iniquity." Guilt incurrine nun- j ishment. "Cords of vanity." Wickedness. Rabbins says, "An evil inclination is at first like a fine hair-string, but t':e finishing like a cart-rope." 19. "Let him make speed." etc. They challenge the Almighty to do H's worst, and set His justice ac defiance. 21. "Wise in their own eyes." Tiioie who prefer their own reasonings to divine revelations, who despise or reject rhe gospel. or who claim to have a knowledge of it. but do not practice it. 22. "Mighty to drink." Those who boast that they can drink more than others and yet be aole to stand. They shall not escape the curse of drunkenness. "To mingle strong drink." To add spice3 to stroug drink, and the count themselves strong because thev can endure the effects. Their glory h their shame. 05 Wliiph instifv the wicked for re ward." Who, as judges, pervert justioc I and for a bribe acouit the guilty; God will [ punish such. ' Take away the righteousness." Thoueh a man be proven innocent, yet because he does hot give a fee he is condemned by these unjust men. Misery will overtake him. 24-30. In these verses t'ne prophet sums up his terrible denunciations and shows how complete their ruin will be and how necessarily and unavoidably it will follow upon their sins. Because they had despised the word of God they should be destroyed like chaff before the fire by the foreign armies that should come upon them and devastate their land and carry them away captive. "Upon a guilty race, unpitied liy heaven or by earth, these armies execute their commission; and leave the land desolate and dark, without oae ray of comfort to cheer the horrid gloom." Largest Tooth ot TOa*to<lcn. Relics of prehistoric times'have been unearthed at White Sulphur Springs, lnd 'J'er., by Professor W. H. Holmes, of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and W. A. Gill, a Government photographer. The find includes several large teeth and bones, together with many arnnv points ana neaas. uiu: lomu, im.ii ->i ? masladon, measured sixteen inches long and four inches across the top. This is caid to be the largest t&oth of these extinct animals ever seen. The rest of the collection, which is made up of three large boxes of relics, contains smaller teeth of the iuastadon and the mammoth. Horses In the United States. The National Convention of Carriage Builders has just been held at Cincinnati, Ohio. President F. B. Judkins, of Merrimac, Mass., in his annual address said the last bulletin of the Census Department gave 124,123 horses in New York City alone, proving conclusively that the much-heraldo 1 approach of the passing of the horse has not yet arrived, and that there are still 2,777.497 horses in this country, not including those kept on pastures and ranches. A Tunnel Electric railroad. The Mersev tunnel railroad at LiverdooI. Enzlana. is to be operated by elec tricity. The contract calls for the expenditure of ?3,250,000. The work is to be finished in eighteen months, dating from July 15, 1901. \ 4 \ / GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN PRECNANT -THOUGHTS FROM THfc WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. Poem: If I Might Kneel? What tlie Sal nnil the Shovrer Are to the S?ed Jenai Christ Is to Un ? Oar Capacity Foi Goodness Is infinite. If I miirht kneel Where Jesus' smile could courage give; If I sometimes rnight feel His hand in comfort on my head, And hear Him say: "My little child, I know it all; I still -nnil heal Each wound; be of good cheer;" If I close to His side might stand, And kiss the braised feet, And know He knew it first, and love9 me still? Perhaps, then, in Gethsemane, I might make a song above my prayer. And feel His face bending to see My need, and clasp my faltering hand, And guide to the white gate, and say, perhaps: "Well dono! This is thy Father's house, Where many mansions be." Perhaps, all spent with carrying weight In life's sojourn. Give humble faith unto His will, timi ... t L t. And say, in prayer: xaou kuowcsi ucat, i Thy -will be done, So I Thy presence earn." A Glorious Possibility, What can be less like a flower than the hard, ?dead, withered seed? Take it into your hand and ask yourself. '"What power can bring out of the date-stone the graceful palm? What can bring a shapeless seed into the stately flower, with its richness of color and sweet fragrance?" If a seed had any consciousness of life, I can think what dreams it would have-^dreams of what it was, and whence it came; dreams of beauty amidst beautiful surroundings. Then it would wake to scorn itself?an ugly thing, without root to take hold of earth, or stem to reach up to heaven: without shape or color or sweetness?a flower, indeed! But the sun shines or it, and every ray whispers to it, '"I am come all the way down from heaven, that you might have life and might have it more abundantly." And the raindrop finds it out and says, "Be of good cheer, little one, I am come that you might have life." And the very earth says, "I am yours for the unfolding." And in vain do the frosta and bleak winds laugh in their mocking, "We shall see what will become of these dreams." And in vain does the fro3t smite at it with keea sword. See, there it stands, its dreams more than fulfilled? a thing of finished beauty. All that the great sun and the soft ? J nn Qrm'oa f\f + VlP snower una iuc uiuucu earth can be to the seed, that, all that, the Lord Jesua Christ is come to be to us. We, too, think of ourselves?hard, dead, without any capacity for goodness. Alas! our longings and clreams do but mock us. But what if the very Lord and Giver of life Himself do come" to be our life, to give us Himself for our unfolding as the sun and shower do give themselves to the seed! What limit is there, then, to the glorious possibility that ia ours* So doth He, the Almighty Saviour, stand in our midst: so, blessed be His name, doth He give Himself to us.?Mark Guy Pearae. He Sid Ko Harm, One day we were conversing with man who described his .Neighbor as one who did no harm. That was the beat that could be said o? him. He was quiet and kindly disposed. He lived for himself and had little dealings with others. He had a good, well-furnished home, and had ample means at his command. He neither said nor did anything to distract or mar social relations; he was neither spiteful nor resentful nor envious; was honest and industrious, and died without incurring any special ill will. Life is full of these negative characters. They do no particular harm in a community, but they do no special good. This is not enough. There must be a career of usefulness. Men must be benefited. Our lights must shine. Good works must be performed. A direct beneficent influence must be exerted, rne nome iuuai. uc blessed with counsel, grace and kindness; the community aided in all lawful ways; the church has the benefit of our influence and help and tjhe nation enjoys the power and advantage of worthy and benevolent citizenship. The gospel of Jesus Christ covers all relations ana conditions, and must be illustrated and enforced to the fullest and most practical degree.?' The Angelus. Kind of Religion Wanted. "We want religion that softens the step and turns the voice to melody and fills the eye with sunshine and checl^ the impatient exclamation and harsh rebuke; a religion that is polite, deferential to su-, periors, 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 newly washed floor, and makes the husband mindful of the scraper and door mat; i?? , ?i,0 mntiiop naHpnt ivhen the baby IxCC^rj w tic tuvkuvk is cross, ancT amuses the children as well as instructs them; cares for the servants; projects the honeymoon into the harvest moon, and make3 the happy home like the Eastern fig tree, bearing on its bosom at once the tender blossoms and the glory of the ripening fruit. We want a religion that shall interpose between the ruts and gullies and rocks of the highway and the sensitive souls that are traveling over them.?Helpful Thoughts. The Firit Step. Thi=i experience of becoming a Christian has ever one beginning. Its first step has ever been one of sell-abasement. There may be different degrees and intensities of feelings, but in every case there has been something of the emotion or state of soul that called out the prayer of the publican. "God be merciful to me, the sinner." as though all else was lost sight of in the sense of the soul's distance from God and holiness. He who has known nothing of this has never entered upon the Christian life. He has no right to speak about it, and nothing that he says about the soul, its culture and its aspirations, its soaring or its expanding, its f>rogress, its destiny, its sweetness and ight, is entitled to* the least consideration.?Taylor Lewis. The >"ol>l? Life. If we will not let the world?either the aggregate of material things, or society, with its maxims and ways?hinder in from the noble life; if we will not al low it to prevent, buc use it to aid, us m seeing Goa. in loving Him, in doing our duty for His dear sake, then, however solitary or sad or unsuccessful my life may otherwise have been, I have connuered. and all else is defeat.?Alexander McLaren. A Prayer. O Father, our spirits thirst for Thee. Hide not Thyself from our supplication. If only through much tribulation we can find Thee, teach us to bear our cross, that we may be Thine. Thy will is ever blessed. In joy and in sorrow we would worship Thee. All ours are Thine, all Thine are ours while we love Thee. Thy will be done in us evermore. Amen. A Solemn Truth. This is a mighty and a solemn truth which we must all learn?if we would be happy, joy comes through what we freely do for others.?Rev. ?J. 0. Rust, D.D., Baptist. Nashville. iVIunila Cock Fights Stopped. There are to be no more cock fights in I M.n-linm Bnnft liii lip??n nrneticed I by the Spaniards for lOt) years. 1 lie sentiment of the Americans in Manila is against the sport and it will' be stopped, just as bull fighting in Havana has been. The local authority vested in the Municipal Board has decided that the sport is depraved and demoralizing and hazardous to the youth of Manila. The Spaniard who has enjoyed a lucrative monopoly of such spectacles has been refused a renewal of his license and the two cock pits which he has operated will not longer be legally sanctioned. Germany still imports seventy-five per cent, of her steel pens from England. t ' " ]>& %:rX " * " THE-3REAfDESTR0TEE SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Anarchy's Hot Heel?A Stirring Article Which Charge* That the localized Saloon Is the Br?e<r*r of Assassins-* Rid the Country of the Vile Monster. The Religious Telescope (United Brethren, Dayton, 0.), under the title "Anarchy's Hotbad," speaks as follows: The legalized saloon is the hot-bed of anarchy. This is a fact well known to aU well-informed people. Nine-tenths of the saloons trample upon the laws of the land. Authorized ana protected by law, they defy and outrage the law? selling to minora and on the Sabbath day, and even mobbing those who seek to enforce the law against them. By so doing they are the champions of lawlessness. They inculcate in the minds of our youth a disregard and contempt for all law, and are the breeders and wet nurses of anarchy. Will the American people and especially Christian church recognize these facta and act accordingly? May God grant. Just now public sentiment is'thoroughly aroused against anarchy. This is well. Were it otherwise, in the presence ct _the anarchist's recent monstrous crime, we ? miarht well despair of the life of the republic. The death of President McKinley at ? the hands of an anarchist has thoroughly aroused the people . . . and the universal voice declares that anarchy must be driven from the country or exterminated. This is well, as far as it goes. But this excitement, instantaneously aroused, will soon die out; this fiery indignation will soon consume itself, and if the breeder and wet nurse of anarchy, the saloon, is still legalized and permitted to go on doing it^. hellish work, there will be a new litter of anarchists begotten every decade, and the life of the Government still imperilled. * This, then, is the lesson to our wise men, and especially to the church, from the assassination of President McKinley. Anarchy killed our President! The taproot, the hot-bed, the wet nurse of &nar-' chy is the legalized s?aloon. To effectually exterminate anarchy and keep the country, rid of the vile monster, the people must1 rise in their might and cut that tap-root, destroy that hot-bed, crush the rattlesnake head of that wet nurse. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." ' Can the people do it? Yes, easily, if they will just rise above partisan prejudice! and concentrate their votes for the extermination of the legalized rum traffic as the paramount issue. Will the people do it? Yes. if all the branches or the Christian church will! stand together on this question. Will' they? Time .will tell. Now that the voice of God, through the assassinationi of President McKinley, calls mightily for. the extermination of anarchy, and points to the saloon a3 its foul breeder, every pulpit should thunder for the, overthrow of the saloon. And' this thundering^ in the spirit of the Lord Jesus, should be kept up year in and year out, until all Christians concentrate their votes for the overthrow of the breeder of the anarchy which so recently slew the President of the United States. Testimony Fron? the Bench. Judge McAuley, of Kansas City, in committinar a "plain drunk," gave utterance to the following: "If X had my way I \ would not only close every saloon in the county Sunday and week days, but, I would stop the sale of intoxicating liquor in any shape or for any purpose whatever. I would make it a crime to manufacture the stuff. This may be far reaching, but the sentiment is justified by the sights and experiences in this court room. Ninetyfive per cent, of the cases tried here are the direct results of whisky; the other five per cent, includes morphine and cocaine fiends and a few petty grievances that come before me for adjustment. "The woes that arise from the use of whisky, the ruined men and women, the broken families, the griefs and tears all aired in this court are enougll to turn gray the hair on a buffalo robe." : \ Liquor Among the Indiana. The Boston Herald, in a sketch of Kiel, the leader of the Canadian rebellion, mentions him as having been active in opposing the barter which the Hudson Bay Company has found it profitable to carry . on with the Indians, giving them rum in1 return for skins. The Herald says: ' "Of all the causes of decline in the Indian, it may be said that indulgence in intoxicants "is the most pernicious, and early in his career Kiel set his face as a flint against the payment of the hunters in this commodity. Bad rum in exchange for good pelts was an arrangement peculiarly satisfactory to the Hudson Bay Company, and one that it relinquished most reluctantly. This piece of prohibitory work on Riel's part was thorough, and in its effects most salutary. During the agitation or tne reiorm ue uisum.icu qualities well calculated to endear him to his followers." Is Alcohol a Muscle Food? Professor Bunee. of Switzerland, cites Baer on Der Aikoholismus, Berlin, 1878, (page 103): "Better than through all the laboratory experiments and deductions is the demonstration of the complete uselessness, indeed, harmfulness, of even the most moderate doses of alcohol, which demonstration has been made through the thousandfold experiments by the commissariat of the army, and which have already established conclusively that soldiers" in times of peace and in times of war. in all climates, in heat, cold and rain, endure best of all the fatiguing exertions of the mo3t exhausting marches and maneuvers when they are deprived absolutely of all alcoholic drinK9."? Union Signal. Experience Meetings Valuable. One of the best means of promoting temperance in working class neighborhoods is by the holding of an occasional experience meeting. Get a level-headed chairman?such are to be had, though rare!?a man who can cheerfully lead the speakers " * 1 * .??? ? ^1* a /waa/1' to reel at tneir ease, sejte upuu ^mu points and tactfully put right any little indiscretions into which the fervid live minutes' speakers may fall. "What total abstinence has done for me" is a theme which "the brands plucked from the burning"' can always use to good advantage. A Severe Reflection. Most of the arguments in favor of the canteen which are now so industriously propagated by high army officials rest upon the assumption that the average soldier is so confirmed in his drinking habit*? that some sort of provision must be made by the Government for gratifying his appetite. That is about the severest reflection on the American soldier that could be made.?The Watchman. The Crusade in Brief. The habit of alcoholism strongly predisposes to the contraction and propagation or tuberculosis. Bauuran. of Bcauvaise, h.13 shown that the mortality from tuberculosis and that from alcoholism ai \ nearly identical. Some parents who set intoxicating liquors upon the table wonder where their children learned to become drunkards. The American Journal of Education, say.?: 'There are many indications of a coming assault of the combined liquor interests upon the law compelling the teaching of temperance iu the public schools.*' The judges of the license courts in Philadelphia have come to the support of public morals and decency by declaring their opposition to saloons having side entrances and rooms up stairs for the accommodation of women. After a long, and at timss discouraging campaign, the good people of Heber, Ark., have succeeded in securing the pro Inbition or saioons. ah up^cm was liiKcu from the decision of the county court to the circuit court with the above result. In 125 years of national life the Anarchists have killed one President of the Republic. Within the last ten years, at the most conservative estimate possible, the saloon has killed 1,000,000 American citizens, beside mothering the whole brood of anarchy.