Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-SONG FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTUrT We tread a better earth to-day i Than that the fathers knew; !A broader sky line rounds away To realms of deeper blue. ^lore ample is the human right, . More true the human ken; The law of God has been a light To lead the lives of men. ! He led our venerations on In mist of smoldering tire; v To more than all the centuries gone The marching years aspire, Across the onward sweep of time We strain our vision dim, ' And ail the ages roll and climb To lose themselves in Him. "We eaze upon the aeons past? A olind and tumbling surge, A.nd slowly, from the weltering vast Behold a law emerge. The water seemed to heave and sway In chaos undenied, Yet not a foam flake drove astray, For He was wind and tide. D purpose of the stumbling years, O wistful need and hope, Whereby in all the woven spheres The atoms yearn and grope; I Flow throufih the wandering will of mai A tide of slow degree. And merge our strivings in the plan That draws the world to Thee. ?Frederick Langbridge, in Chicago Stand ard. sennrn^HHnHHrn^HmmTOge % Tie Horse That Ran Away| OLD A n t e 1 o p ( Ranch of North eastern Xehrasks went out of ex istence with a iGff \ wSFmt i ?reat manj' othei things, during the ' \r 1 season of tlle "bip VfeJ * drought." Everj ( \r cattle country has Aad a historic drought. Local events an marked from that period, and as is said 1c I the* Smith whpn nnp isrpniinlscent.. "be tore the war," so they say in Nebraska ""before the dry spell." But when the Antelope was in its prime there was kept in one of the corrals a black iorse that was never used l'or any bul special service. If a child was sich at the ranch house and needed a physi -clan, out came the black, and furious iy he covered the distance as no othei iiorse on the range could. When the Sioux rose in the west of the State It was the black that carried the warn ing through Kcyapaha and along the Niobrara, where the sparsely settlec villages were. He even in a day at that time journeyed 120 miles and flung his proud head high in the aii ' iwhinnying as if he could joyouslj -cover that distance over again withoui Test. Of course, he was a range horse: no thoroughbred's blood in him. off spring from no mother coddled under the trainer's watchful eye, but child oi I, the range mare and stallion, facing Masts of ice and sand, fighting foi food while the blizzard raged above, swimmer of swollen streams, com panion of the coyote, the rabbit and the antelope, nature-born and nature; I bred. The black lived long and well at the iAiitelope Ranch after he was tamed somewhat, but one day he broke the bounds of his corral by some chance, .and. standing where the dip of the plain land came up to the bars of his late prison, he gave a triumphant onrno ir? a rwl nlnnfro/1 \r\ir\ tha triMor. ness before him. The ranchmen heard his cry, they came running, come just In time to see him arch himself on a distant elevation and scream again. He was free. .Once long before this time he had been free. That was ; ;when he grazed with his mother, fai out cn the Elkhorn, when no strap 01 halter lay upon them, and only the i mfP sllJJF ^wild beasts were their companions He had dreamed much of those days alnce his capture. Not that he hac ?ver failed in a duty put upon him bj bis man captors, but the dreams ol ;what had been, what he still longec for, would cling to him, and carry hin away with such wild surges of blooc that he would bouud against the cor ral's side and make deep moans as if ii pain. No horse was ever made upoi .whom harness.lay naturally; the herit age of the horse wat the free plain from which he could only be sum moned by the call of his companion man. If he responded it was becaus* fce too loved and was not a captive rAll this the black knew, and he curv eted in the afternoon sunshine, threv ilia uu.iu.iy irys IU1 uyuri, uiew iui . warm air from his nostrils, and gal loped away?north, north, to where thi Keyapaha flows through Indian land ' Mares with silky manes and tremulou: nostrils were waiting for him there Mares with eyes that would softe: Us they heard the beat of his oncominj hoofs. He had heard them call t< him in the night when he beat himsel against the corral's timbers. .?*****?* * He roused the rattlesnake from it: dusty bed; he left the blowsnake puff ing and blowing far behind. The jacl rabbit coursed with liim, and distan antelope raised their heads, gazed am .were not afraid. That which is fre Sears not freedom in others. The sui went down, the night, came and th black slaked his thirst in a stream al most on the border line of Nebraski gnd Sooth Dakota. Then he swung o; f again, stronger, freer. From distant Buffalo Gap the breath of the mountains came to him; the grasses and wild flowers spurned beneath his flj'ing feet sent after liim a sweet per fume. Wolves liowlod aiiout mm, out held off. No terrors had they for him. He was coming to the White Rivet country and the waiting mares of his breed. Not so many had been the years of his captivity that lie did not know just where they would be lingering in the shadows of the valley. Few there were left uncaptured by the white man, but these few. dauntless, unconquered, still roamed where, as a child, he had been part of their child days. Every glittering star told him when it was midnight, and he poised himself on the great roll of land above the valley where the mares waited. He listened, but the grasses gave nc warning of pursuit He had outstripped all men. He listened for a sound from the valley, but there was i none. Then he called, the wild challenge of-the full-blooded range horse to the female of his breed. The cry went up and down on the night air. It rang back from other rolls of lana, and it burst through the shadows ot the valley and roused the mares. One | ?two?three?they all called back. Below him was the sound of rising animals, the pattiug of hoofs on range grass. He had found his own. He could not see them, so far be* low were they, but they, looking up, could see him silhouetted against tho sky. His mane was blowing free; he was a something carved out of the night; he was flesh and fire and blood, and he was free. Again he called, and 'r again he was answered, and this was | repeated several times. No n?ed for him to wait longer. He leaped from 1 his eminence, and he dashed down the ' rough way to where he knew he would L be awaited. Heedless of rock and shale, heedless of gashed waterways now dry, he leaped on, spurning all ' earth beneath his feet, coming with J the wind of the plain. A rock turned ' beneath him; he was quick and did not fall; shale slid with him, he ' bounded ahead. Then for one instant there opened before him a horrible | gulch, unsoundable, unknown. It had not been there when last he was in j this valley. The mares were beyond calling to him. Surrender? He drew | off and went at It. rising in the air . for frightful span to cover, screaming . again his wild song of freedom as he | leaped. The pursuing ranchmen found him . in the gulch's bed the next day, back ! broken, blood at his lips. dead. He ! was free.?H. I. Cleveland, in the Chi. cago Record-Herald. Gntta Percha From Peat. [ A German scientist has recently devised a method of manufacturing arti' licial gutta-percha from peat, and, if it ' turns out to be what is claimed, it will simplify one of the greatest problems in electricity?the insulation of ocean cables. Thus far gutta-percha is the only substance which has been found ! to furnish perfect protection for a ' wire against the chemical influences of ! salt tvater, and the product is not only - limited, but is controlled by an Eng! lish firm of cable manufacturers, who > own the forests in the East Indies from ' which gutta-percha is obtained. Ex perlments to find a substitute have ' been going on for years throughout : the world, but thus far nothing has ; hopn ^ntirelv successful. The price of gutta-percha has been advanced con1 siderably by the demands of the manu1 facturers of golf balls, which has almost doubled the cost of cable manufacture, and if this German inventor ' Is able to make an equally as good insulator out of peat he will make a very Important contribution to the world's economy, for peat can be found in almost every country on the globe in quantities almost unlimited. There are 3,000,000 acres in Ireland. 2,500,000 I in Scotland, and even more in Germany, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Fin ' land and otner countries or Europe. Tne Secretary of State's Duties. The Secretary of Slate's duties are more ceremonious than those of any other Cabinet member. At the New .Year reception he presents the entire Diplomatic Corps to the President. He then returns to his own home and entertains the corps?with its dukes, marquises, counts, viscounts, barons and other nobles?at a magnificent luncheon. With great ceremony he will from time to time personally introduce to the President all new di plomats accredited to this country. He reserves one forenoon in each week for the reception at his office of Ministers and Charge d'Affaires. He also attends to the correspondence between onH Hm omnornrs: lcinc.1? sultans and other rulers of foreign States. "When a royal child Is bom ' he frames a letter of congratulation to ' the parents. When a royal personage | dies it Is he who dispatches this na' tion's formal message of condolence, j A clerk in the State Department copies these polite missives upon large sheets J of gilt-edged paper, in a faultless copperplate hand. A messenger takes them to the White House for the Presi1 dent's signature. They are then re1 turned to the Secretary of State, who seals them with the Great Seal of the ' United States.?Ladies' Home Journal. The Social R?nlc of Cabinet Offlceri). - The social rank of each Cabinet of licer is reckoned according to his - standing in the order of succession to ' the Presidency, which is arranged ac cording to the age of each executive - department. The State Department ? having been the first executive branch of the Government created, the Secs retary of State is the official and social head of the Cabinet and the first of 1 its members to succeed to the Presi? dency, in the event of the death of > both President and Vice-President. If f the President, Vice-President and Secretary of State were all to die before their successors had been appointed s the Secretary of the Treasury would '- become President, because his is the v sppond oldest of the executive depart t ments. This right to succession ex3 tends in turn to the'Secretary of Wat, e Attorney-General, Postmaster-General, a Secretary of the Navy, and lastly to e the Secretary of the Interior. This 1- gradation thus indicates the social, a rank of each Cabinet offic?r in his own a circle.?Ladles' Home JournaL " DE, TALMAGE'S SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTE! DIVINE. ! Snbject: Now Is a Time For Rejoicing - Jfeans or rrniae l>or the victories o Peace?The Triumphs of Husbandr, ?Conquests of the Pen. Washington, D. C.?This discourse o Dr. Talmage is a national congratulatioi over the achievements of brain and ham during the past twelve months. Th I texts are: I Corinthians ix, 10, "He tha ploweth shall plow in hope;" Isaiah xli 7, "He that 6mootheth with the hammer;' Judges v, 14, "They that handle the pei of the writer." There is a table being spread across th top of the two great ranges of mountain which ridge this continent, a table whic! reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacifi sea. It is the Thanksgiving table of th nation. They will come from the Eas and the West and the North and th South and sit at it. On it are smokinj the products of all lands, birds of ever aviary, cattle from every pasture, fisl from every lake, feathered spoils fron every farm. The fruit baskets bend dowi under the products plucked from tb peach fields of Marvland. tjje apple or chards of Western New York, the orang groves of Florida, the vineyards of Ohi< and the nuts thrashed from New Englan< woods. The bread is white from th wheat fields of Illinois and Michigan, th banqueters are adorned with Californi: gold, and the table is agleam with Nevad silver, and the feast is warmed with th fire grates heaped up with Pennsylvanii coal. The hall is spread with carpet from Lowell mills, ana at night the light will flash from bronzed brackets of Pnila delphia manufacture. Welcome, Thanksgiving Day! Whateve we may think of New England theology we all like New England Thanksgivini Day. What means the steady rush to th depots and the long rail trains dartini their lanterns along the tracks of the Bos ton and Lowell, the Georgia Central, th Chicago Great Western, the St. Paul am Dulutn and the Southern railway? A si the happy group in the New Englani farm house; ask the villagers whoss son] of praise in the morning will come ove the Berkshire hills; ask all the plantation of the South which have adopted the Nev England custom of setting apart a day o thanksgiving. Oh, it is a great day of na tional festivity! Clap your hands, ve peo pie, and shout aloud for joy! Througl the organ pipes let there come down tni thunder of a nation's rejoicing! Blow th cornet! Wave the palm branches^ "Oh that men would praise the .Lord ior m goodness and for His wonderful works t( the children of men!" For two years and a half this nation ha: been celebrating the triumph of sword an< gun and battery. We have sung inartia airs and cheered returning heroes an< sounded the requiem for the slain in bat tie. Methinks it will be a healthful changi if on this year's Thanksgiving in churcl and homestead we celebrate the victorie of the plow, the hammer and the pen, fo: nothing was done at Santiago or Manili that was of more importance than tha which in the last year has been done ii farmer's field and mechanic's shop an< author's study by those who never won an epaulet or shot a Spaniard or went J hundred miles from their - own doorsill Come up, farmers and mechanics and liter ary men and get your dues as far as I cai pay them. Things have marvelously changed. Timwas when the stern edict of government forbade religious assemblages. Those wh< dared to be so unloyal to their king as t< acknowledge loyalty to the Head of thi universe were punished. Churches aw fully silent in worship suddenly heart their doors swung open, and down upoi r>Vinrr>}i a score of musket thumped as the leaders bade them "Grouo< arms!" This custom of having the fathers the husbands, the sons and brothers a the entrance of the pew is a custom whicl came down from olaen time, when it wa absolutely necessary that the father o brother snould sit at the end of the churcl pew fully armed to defend the helplec portion of the family. But now ho\ changed! Severe penalties are threatene< against any one wno shall interrupt relig ious services, and annually, at the com mand of the highest official in the Unite; States, we gather together for thanksgiv ing and holy worship. To-dp.y I wouli stir your souls to joyful thanksgivini while I speak of the mercies of Cod and ii unconventional way recount the conquest of the plow, the hammer and the pen. Moat of the implements ox husbandr; have been superseded by modern inven tions, but the plow has never lost it 1 ? - ?j i.i 1 I reign, it nas iurrowea us nay uuuuS< I all the ages. Its victories have been wavei by the barley of Palestine, the wheat o Persia, the flax of Germany, the rice3talk of China, the rich grasses of Italy.; It ha turned up the mammoth of Siberia, th mastadon of Egypt and the pine groves o Thessaly. Its iron foot hath marchei where Moses wrote and Homer sang am Aristotle taught and Alexander mountei his war charger. It hath wrung its colte on Norwegian wilds and ripped out th stumps of the American forest, pushin its way through the savannahs of the Cci olinas and trembling in the grasp of th New Hampshire yeomanry. America] civilization nath kept step with the rattl of its clevises, and on its beam, hath rid den thrift and national plenty. I do not wonder that the Japanese an* the Chinese and the Phoenicians so pai ticulariy extolled husbandry or that Cic cinnatus went from the consulship to th plow or that Noah was a farmer befor ne became a shipbuilder or that Elisha wa in the field plowing with twelve yoke o oxen when the mantle fell on hini or tha the Egyptians ia their paganism woi ehiped the ox as a tiller of their lands. To gat an appreciation of what th American plow has accomplished I tak you into the western wilderness. Here i; the dense forest I find a collection of Ir dian wigwams. With belts of wampur the men lazily sit on the skins of ceei 1-:?~ fnafnnpBf) ralnmets. or. drb muutvtiiK , _ en forth by hunger. I track their ir.oeca sins far away as they make th-* fores echoes crazy with their wiV halloo ~r f.s! in the waters of the still hke. Now tribe challenge and council fires b'aze, and wa whoops rin^,, and chiefs lift the torn? hawks for battle. After awhile wa;;on from the Atlantic coast come to tho3 forests. By day trees are felled, and b night bonfires keep off the wolves. Lo cabins rise, and the great trees begin t throw their branches in the path of th conquering white man. Farms are cleared Stumps, the monuments of slain forests crumble and are burned. Villages appeal with smiths at the bellows, masons on th wall, carpenters on the housetop. Churche rise in honor of the Great Spirit whoi the red men ignorantly worship. Steamer on the lake convey merchandise to he wharf and carry east the uncounted busl: els that have come to the market. Brin hither wreaths of wheat and crowns c rye, and let the mills and the machiner of barn and field unite their voices to ce ebrate the triumph, for the wildernes nn;l the nlow hath COT quered. Within our time the Presidential Cabir et has added a Secretaryship of Agricu ture. Societies are constantly being e; tablished for the education of the plow Journals devoted to this department ar circulated through all the country. Farn era through such culture have learned th attributes of soils and found out that a most every field has its peculiar prcfei ences. Lands have their choice as t which product they will bear. Marsh lowlands touched bv the plow rise an wring out their wet locks in the trenchei Islands born down on the coast of Per and Bolivia are transported to our field and make our vegetation leap. Highway by this plow are changed from bogg sloughs into road? like the Roman Appia way. Fields go through bloodless revoh tions until there the farmhouse stand; In summer honeysuckles clamber over th trellises. On one side there stands a gai den, which is only a farm condensed. 0 the other side there is a stretch of meadoi land with thick grass, and as the win breathes over it it looks like the dee green ocean waves. There goes a brool tarrying long in its windings, as if loat to leave the spot where the reeds sin* and the cattle stand at noonday under th shadow of the weeping willows. In wi: ter the sled comes through the cracklin snow with huge logs from the woods, an the barn floor quakes under the &uunins Iof the flail or the deafening buzz of tH thrashing machine. Horses stand beneat \ I mow poles bending under loads of hay and whinny to the well filled oat bins. Comfort laughs at the wind^ rattling the sashes and clicking the icicles from the 5 eaves. Praise God for the great harvests that have been reaped this last year! Some of them injured by drought or insects or _ freshets were not as bountiful as usual, lf others far in excess of what have ever before been gathered, while higher prices 7 will help make up for any decreased supply. Sure sign of agricultural prosperity e ura Vioira in fVio font thaf. onhflp anH nnrses [i and sheep and swine and all farm animals i have during the last two years increased e in value. Twenty million swine slaughtt ered this last year, and yet so many nogs j left. '' I come next to speak of the conquests n of the American hammer. Its iron a>rm has fought its way down from the begine ning to the present. Under its swing the 3 city of Enoch rose, and the foundry of [j Tubal Cain resounded, and the ark floated c on the deluge. At its clang ancient teme pies spread their magnificence and chart lots rushed out fit for the battle. Its iron e fist smote the marble of Paros, and it rose g in sculptured Minervas and struck the y Pentelican mines until from them a Parft thenon was reared whiter than a palace i of ice and pure as an angel's dream. a Damascus ana Jerusalem ana R.ome and e Venice and Pari, and London and Phila.. delphia and New York and Washington e are but the long protracted echoes of the 0 hammer. Under the hammer everywhere 1 dwellings have gone up, ornate and luxue rious. Schoolhouses, lvceuins, hospitals e and asylums have added additional glory a to the' enterprise as well as the benea ficence of the American people. e Vast public works have heen constructi ed, bridges have been built over rivers s and tunnels dug under mountains and s churches of matchless beauty have gone up for Him who had not where to lay His head, and the old theory is exploded r that becausc Christ was born in a manger , we must always worship Him in a barn, g You shall yet see American labor rising e up with a stronger arm and a stouter 5 heart and a swarthier frame. New cities i. will be built. Commerce on the lakes will e take new wings. Where now stand unbroi kfcn forests creat capitals of business and ? nffliwneii will rise and streams that have ] id.ed away 6000 years will be harnessaed 5 to ponderous machinery and compelled to r toil and sweat like the Chattahoochee and s the Merrimac. At one of our great dry ir docks we shall yet build the model ocean f steamship. It will come together under the chorus of a thousand American ham mers. She shall start amid a great na3 tional hurrah and move far out at sea as e though an island had been unanchored e with its forests of masts or as if some one i, had said in Scripture phrase unto a b mountain, "Be thou cast into the sea." j But. considering the youth of our nation and the fact that comparatively few per8 sons devote themselves entirely to literai ture, I think we have great reason to 1 thank God for the orogress of our Amerii can literature. As historians have we not - had in the past such men as Bancroft and b Prescott, as essayists Irving and Emerson, i a3 jurists Story and Marshall and Kent, b as theologians Edwards and Hodge, as p poets Pierrepont and Sprague and Longi fellow and Bryant, as 6cu,ptors Powers f I on/1 Palmpr pq nJUTltprfl w ttUU VIU?? iVi U UUU A WIt.1V* I taw r ? i such men as West and Cole and Inman 1 and Kensett? And among the living s Americans what galaxies of intellectual - splendor and power! Edward Egglestm and .Will Car'eton and Mark Twain and John Kendrick 1 Bangs and Marion Harland;and Margaret Sangster and Stockton and Churchill and e Honkinson Smith and Irving Bacheller and s Julia Ward Howe and Amelia Barr and 0 Brander Matthews and Thomas Nelson 3 Page and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and e William Dean Howells and a score of oth era, some of tliem fixed stars and come 1 meteors. i As the pen has advanced our colleges s and universities and observatories have i followed the waving ox its plume. Our lit-" erature is of two kinds?that on foot and t that on the wing. By the former I mean j the firm and substantial works which will 9 go down through the centuries. When, on r the other hand, I rpeak of literature on a the wine, I mean the newsnapers of the s land. They fly swift'.y and vanish, but 7 leave permanent results upon the pviblic 1 mind. They fa1! -noiselessly as a snow flake, but with the strength of an Alpine glacier. i This unparalleled multiplication of intel ligence will either make or break us. i Every morning and evening our telegraph g offices, with huge wire rakes, gather up a the rews of the nation and of the whole. s world, and men write to some nurpose when they make a pen out of a thunders' bolt. i- It needs great energy and decision and s perseverance for a man to be ignorant in ti thi3 country to-dav. IS seems to me that 1 it requires more effort for him to keep out f knowledge than to let it in. T'^e mails bags at the smallest nostoffices disgorge s large packages of intelligenco for the peoe pie. Ace demies with map3, globes and f philosophic^ apparatus have been taking i the places of these institutions where thiri ty or farty year3 agD you were put to the i torture. Men selected frr their qualificar tions are intrusted with the education of e our youth instead of those teachers who g formerly with a drover's shout end goad ' compelled the young generations un the e hill of science. Happy childhood! What a ..with broken toDS and torn kites and the e trial of losing the best marble and stump[ ing your foot against a atone and somebody sticking a pin into you to see wheth3 er you will jump and examination day, - with four or five wise men looking over i- their spectacle? to see if you can parse the e first page in Ycung'3 "Night Thoughts" e until verbs and conjunctions and particis pies and prepositions get into a grand riot, f How things have marvelou3ly changed! t We used to cry because we had to go to '- school. Now children cry if they cannot go. Many of them can intelligently dise cuss political topics long be "ore they have e seen a ballot bon or, teased by some poetic a muse, can conpose articles for the newei papers. Philosophy and astronomy and a chemistry have been so improved that he *, must be a genius at dullness who knows ' nothing about them. 1- On one shelf of a poor man's library is t more practical knowledge than in the 400,h rnn vnlnmpi of ancient Alexandria, and t- education is possible for the most indigent, r and no legislature or conn-ess for the- Lst .* fifty years has assembled which haa not s had it in rail splitters and farmers and e c.rover3 or men who have been accustomed y to toiling with the hand and the foot. 3 The nen which Moses dipped in the o light of the first morning, and Jeremiah ' filleJ with tears, and Ezetiel thrust in vis1. ions of fire, and Matthew touched with I, the blood of a cross, and St. John dipped \ in the splendors of beatific qlory?that pen e has wrought marvels for'all classes of our s people. To-day our libraries and colleges n and schools and publishing houses and s churches celebrate the ever growing conr quests of the American pen, and our prosi pect3 are all the time brightening. g Lift up your eyes, O nation of God's if right hand, at the glorious prospects! v Build larger your barns for the harvests; 1- din deeper the vats for the spoil of the is vineyards; enlarge the wa"ehouses for the merchandise; mu'.ti"tly galleries #f art for the *ucture3 and stat'ies. Advance, 0 nai tion of Cod's riglit hand, bat remember 1- that national wealth, i; unsanctif.ed, is J- sumptuous waste, is moral ruin, is nagiLir. c-nt woe. is splendid rottenness, i3 gilded e death! Woe to na for the wine vats if i- drunkenness wallow? in them! Woe to us e for the harvests if greed sickles the.n! 1- Woe to us for the merchandise if avarice : swallows it! Woe to us for the cities if o misrule walk3 them! Woo to the land if -/ rinrl Hpfvine crime c".ebauehe3 it! Our only d safety i9 in mora Bible3, mere churches, 3. more free schools, riore good men and u more good women, more consecrated printis ing presses, more of the glorious gospel of s the Son of God, which will yet extirpate y all wrongs and introduce all blessedness, n But the preachers on Thanksgiving morning will not detain with long ser3. nons their hearers from the home group, e The housekeepers will be angry if the r- guests do not arrive until the viands are n cold. Set the chairs to the table?the easy V chairs for grandfather and grandmother, d if they be still alive; the high chair for p the youngest, but not the least. Then put r, out your hand to take the full cup of h thanksgiving. Lift it and bring it toward ?, your lips, your hands trembling with emce tion, and if the chalice shall overflow and i- trickle a few drops on the white cloth that g covers the table do not be disturbed, but d let it (suggest to you the words of the ;s psalmist and lead you thankfully to say, - "My cup runneth over!" h (Copyright, 13Qlt L. Uopacb. j THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. I Effect* of Beer Drinking?It Kills QolcVer | Than Any Other Llcjuor?How the Superb Constitutions of German Young Men Succumb to It. Dr. S. H. Burgen, a practitioner of thirty-five years, twenty-eight in Toledo, says: "I think beer kills quicker than any other liquor. My attention was first called to j its insidious effects when I began exam| ining for life insurance. I passed as unu- ! sually good risks five Germans?young business men?who seemed in the best health, and to have superb constitutions. In a few yeirs I was amazed to see the whole five drop off, one after another, with what ought to have been mild and easily curable diseases. On comparing my experience with that of other physicians I found they were all having similar luck with confirmed beer drinkers, and my practice since has heaped confirmation upon confirmation. "The first organ to be attacked is the kidneys; the liver soon sympathizes, and v.an nnmea mnst frenuentlv. dronsv or ! Bright's disease, both certain to encl fatally. Any physician "who cares to take the time will tell you that among the dreadful results of beer drinking are lockjaw and erysipelas, and that the beer drinker seems incapable of recovering from mild disorders and injuries not usually regarded of a grave character. Pneu-' monia, pleurisy, fevers, etc., seem to have a first mortgage on him, which they foreclose remorselessly at an early opportunity. "The beer drinker is much worse off than the whisky drinker, who seems to have more elasticity and reserve power. He will even have delirium tremens, but after the fit is gone you will sometimes find good material to work upon. Good management may bring him around- all right. But when a beer drinker gets into trouble it seems almost as if you have to recreate the man before you can do anything for him. "Beer drinkers are peculiarly liable to die of pneumonia. Their vital power, their power of resistance, their 'vis medicatriz naturae,' is so lowered that they are liable to drop off from any form of acute disease, such as fevers, pneumonia, etc. As a rule, when a beer drinker takes pneumonia he-dies. "Beer drinking produces rheumatism by producing clironic congestion ana ultimately degeneration of the liver, thus interfering with its function by which the food is elaborated and fitted for the sustenance of the body, and the refuse materials oxidized and made soluble for elimination by the kidneys, thus forcing the retention "in the. body of the excrementitious and dead matter I have 3poben of. The presence of uric acid and other insoluble effete matters in the blood and tissues is one main cause of rheumatism." Dluiter Canted by Alcohol. "Alcoholism," said .the professor, "is. the most potent factor in propagating tuberculosis. The strongest man, who ha3 once taken to drink, is powerless against it. Time is too short for me now to draw comparisons between the laws in.-force in different countries, those which are proposed, private efforts, associated efforts and temperance societies. But I can say that universal cry of despair rises from the whole universe at the sight of the disasters caused by alcoholism. I will quote but two sets of statistics, but they speak for themselves. Tatham's show that the mean mortality being represented by 100, that caused by tuberculosis is in: . Brewers 148 Sweeps ....141 Hair dressers ...149 Publicans 140 Stroll, music's ..174 Butchers 105 Dock laborers ..176 Coalmen 116 Pedlars 239 Coachmen .. ....124 Barmen 257 "Any measures, State or individual, tending to limit the ravages of alcoholism will be our most precious auxiliaries in the crusade against tuberculosis,, but the question is too large a one to deal with here. Still, I should like to draw attention to a mistake made too easily in the different countries by ministers who have the charge of the financial department of the State. They like to calculate the sum the State gets from the duty on alcohol, but' they should deduct from it the c\jst to the community of the family of the ruined I drunkard, his degenerate, infirm, scrofulous and epileptic children, who must have shelter. "This invasion of alcoholism ought to be I regarded by every one as a public danger, and this principle, the truth of which is J incontestable should be inculcated into i tbe masses, that the future of the world wijl be in the hands cf the temperate." The Drunkard Not the Worst Man. A gentleman stepped into a saloon and J saw a filthy drunkard, once a respectable man, waiting for his liquor. He thus accosted him: "G , why do you make yourself the vilest of men!" "I ain't the vilest of men!" said the drunkard. "Yes, you are!" said the gentleman. "See how you look! Drink that glass and you will in a very short time be in the gutter." "I deny your poz-zi-tion," stammered the drunkai-d. "Who is the vil'e.st, the tempter or the tempted? Who?who was the worst, Satan or Eve?" "Why, Satan," said he. "Well?well, behold the tempter!" said the drunkard, pointing to the bar. The- argument was irresistible. The . barkeeper flew into a passion, and turned the poor fellow out of his house without his aram.?Christian Endeavor World. The Words of a Jndce. Recently at Newry, Ireland, the judgt in sentencing two men who had been drinking together, and who were charged ti-JVn hnirinfr atalpn monev. said: "It was a terrible thing, at recurring sessions, to see magistrates voting for the increase of these plague spots, as if these places did no harm. He only wished that the magistrates would accompany him all through, and hear the cases, both on the criminal and civil side of the couvt. and they would understand, as he now did, that nearly all the crime, and five-sixths of the poverty of the country, was caused by the public house. He tliousht that every man who voted for a public ho*.?se under ordinary circumstances was a criminal himself." Drunkenness In England. The Rev. .T. Q. A. Henry. Superintend ent of the New York Anti-Saloon League, has begun his crusade in England, at the invitation of the Free Churches, holding 1 mooh'nfra 1n I lie iirsu ui mo acvcubiiiiv iiivw?.u? London. The Rev. Mr. Henry thinks there is more drunkenness in England than in the United States, especially among women. He points out that odc- . third of the arrests for drunkenness in that country during the year 1900 were of 1 women. Swedes Tallest in the TVorld. According to statistics just published tht Swedes are the tallest people in the world. The Norwegians were a little taller until some ten years ago, but the Swedes have outgrown them by the fraction of a centimetre. The Swedish conscripts, nged twentyone, average a height of 170.1 centimetres, showing a steady increase since 1S41, when their average stature was 167. This is quite an unparalleled development of the race, and is thought due in no 11 ? /linnimifinrt nf H rn TM*? Small measure in 1.11c uuiuuu>ivu ? enness in Sweden. The Crusade In Brief. It is estimated that the average German consumes the equivalent of live glaeses of spirits a day. Seven hundred and fifty millions of dollars is yearly spent in Germany on intoxicating liquors. The St. Luke's Society, of Chicago, proposes to establish an inebriates' home on the farm where Abraham Lincoln was born, fifty miles south of Louisville, Ky. The farm has been donated to the society. A French physician. Dr. Bourneville, reports that among 2072 bovs and 482 girls suffering from idiocy, imbecility and various paralyses, there were forty per cent, in whose cases alcoholism in one of the parents or both was found. 9 GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPKETS. Poem:.'Sympathy? Hearts "Which Hbt? Been Blended In Affliction Are Illumined by Heavenly Light?The World a Garden Where God Walks. 'As we mourn in our midnight of sorrow, Alone in our crying and fears, A? t~na Zt t. *xo nic ismican itvvc ul LU'lllUilUW Aopalls?with its vista of years. As we shrink from the toil it discloses? The unequal battle alone, The thorns?where we waited for rosea? The music that ended in moan. As e kneel with a heart that is broken: For loneliness, longing and dread, And press in a passion unspoken, The %in3werles8 hps of our dead; The Father in pity surprises Our sight with a luminous star That slowly and sweetly uprises And beacons this hope from afar, That hearts which affliction hath blended, Illumined by heavenly light, Their discord and darkness have ended And brotherhood shineth in might. So even our midnight of sorrow Foretokens a joy from above? A promise of beauty to-morrow, When earth may be lighted by love! ?Erneat Neal Lyon, in the Independent. Th? I7?m rrf RMt. It serves as a restorer of jaded powers. It lifts man out of bis net. out of his narrow interests, and affords him a look over the horizon. The burden is loosened and he stretches himself, and the day of relief crowds other days with more and better work than could have been possible without it. There is a growing recognition of this possibility, and rest is being used in order to do more work. But there is a higher pun)03e that may be served than this?one that has reference to character. All the powers of our lives have a right to cultivate, and some cannot have it without quietude and contemplation. There is no reason why the sensibilities, the imagination and the higher spiritual faculties should be ignored and neglected. We are inclined to regard that as a very poor life that has not developed these. The soul must have a chance, even if the wheels do not turn so fast and the fortune does not heap itself up so high and knowledge does not come in so largely. It was once said very plainly that a man's life does not consist in the abundance of thing3 which he possesseth. A man can make more out of his business than money if he schools himself to feel the higher relation of his lifet> The world is more than a workshop; it is a garden where God walks, a temple where we may worship and commune. But in order to find Him there we must utilize the rest times like the night, when "the silent stars look down," and the rest places, like the quiet aisles of the forest or the secret shrine of the prayer closet.?Christian Intelligencer. Envy. ? - -Li i. t Among cne sins xnat very irequcuu; jn| lure into the perilous paths, prominently stands envy. Out of selfish, unholy pride grows resentment, which too. often bears this poisonous fruit. Yet it seems to change from fruit into a cruel fiend. How it soured the life and marred the character of Voltaire, who displayed it so offensively in his continued effort to detract from the sublimity of Corneille and t,he charm of Racine. The strength and ugliness of envy were manifest in severing the beautiful friendship once existing between those two fathers of Anglo-Saxon poetry, Chaucer and Gower. Controlled by this demon. it is said that Dryden could never speak of Otway, hi9 rival, with kindness, and even the giant minded Leibnitz on all occasions would refer slightingly to Locke's essay, and fiercely strove to overthrow Newton's system. What wonder, then, that lesser minds should be assailed by it. Even Christians indulge it without realizing what it is and how base it may make them. Let us be large enough and sufficiently Christ-like to rejoice with those more highly favored than ourselves. There was not a particle of envv in our Lord. If we would walk with Christ we must give it no place within. , . 8rife at Hnm?. The world never need shed a tear for its> sainted dead. They are safe as the harI viwt ia whpn the farmer has bound it into sheaves and stored it, or as the roses are when the gardener' has wrapped their roots in straw and housed them from the storm. They are safe as larks are that fly singing from the green earth out of reach of the huntsman's snare and the aim of the cruel sportsman. They are safe as warriors are who march beneath worn battle flags no more, but sit down with conqueror to festivals of song and wine. They are safe as young lambs are when shepherds fold them from the blast and carry them over rough places in tender arms. Weep for the living all you choose, yet. your tears be unstayed above the dying bed where your darlings lie like wreaths of fading snow beneath the glance of death; but if you believe in God, and hold any faith in heaven, shed not your tears for the blessed and happy dead. Christianity gives the lie to its belief when it garbs itself in sables and mourns without comfort for those who have exchanged the inn for the palace, the wilderness for the land of peace and plenty. The Mastery of One's Self. A man bought a tract of land in a mountain region. On it was a wild stream which rushed down in a fierce torrent, j through deep chasms and gorges, carrying destruction to the gulfs below. Ihe owner built a flume in the torrent, and now it flowed quietly down the slopes and turned great mills in the valley. Thus the wild stream became a source of useful energy, and its power, no longer destructive, became useful. That is what we should do with a bad temper?tame it, bring it under discipline and compel it to use its energy for good and not for evil. The secret for such a change is in getting the master}* of one's self. We have high authority for saying that "he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city."?Zion'a Watchman. Need of God's Consciousness. This is the truth in the old stofry of the burning bush, and this is the need of the I buman-heart, the consciousness of God.? .Rev. E. Walter Mason. Unitarian, Pitts! burg. Live In Christ's Light., He who does not walk in Christ's light stumbles into darkness and doom.?Rev. Dr. Landrum, Baptist, Atlanta. The Foundations of God. What are the foundations of God? We behold them in His conception and adjustment of this physical world of wonderment and beauty, in the unique gift to man of the processes of thought, reason and judgment.?Rev. Dr. Charles F. Weeden, Congregationalism Lynn, Mass. Christ an Essential of Manhood. The manhood which can save the individual and society is a manhood with conscience and heart as well as intellect, and neither conscience nor heart nor intellect can receive the training it needs except from a knowledge of Christ.?Rev. Dr. Thomas J. Conaty, Catholic, Washington. ITrnTnafnna tn TTilrfppn-Tnch Gum. An inquiry made by the Ordnance Bureau of the Navy Department into the causes of the premature explosions of thirteen-inch shells in guns on the battleships Kearsarge, Kentucky and Alabama, has resulted in a discovery that the explosives were detonated by gases quickly generated from the fuses connecting the firing charges with the projectiles proper. These gases reached the explosives in the projectiles before the projectiles left the stuns and ignited them. The gases escaped into the projectiles through the screw threads with which the fuses were fastened to the projectiles. The defect will be remedied in all these shells by putting caps on the fuses. - '} V '' * '".ril THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR DECEMBER 15. | Subject: The FaMov?r, Ex. xll., 1-17 -? Golden Text, I Cor. v., 7 ? Memory Verges, 12-14 ? Commentary on tb? Day's Lewon. 1. "The Lord spake." The work of redemption, the appointment of. the feast, the change in the calendar, were all divine. The source of all was God, not Mose3. 2. "Tins month." Abib, or Nisan; corresoonding rs nearly as possible to the last half of March and the first half of April. The Jewish months began with the new moon. "Beginning of months." The first not only in order, but in estima> tion. It had formerly been the seventh according to the reckoning of the civil year which bescan in September and which continued unchanged, but from this time Abib was to stand first in the national religious year. 3. "Speak." etc. Through the elders. V. 21. "A lamb for an house." A-kia might be taken. V. 5. The service was to be a domestic one, for the deliverance was to be from an evil threatened to every 1 famiQA in TJTnrtrrvf 4. "If the household be too little." That is, if there be not enough persons in one family to eat a whole lamb, then two families muat join together. The rabbins tell us that there should be at least ten persons to one Daschal lamb, and not more than twenty: "According to the number." . " There may be a want of'oersons to feed upon the lamb, though there can be no / v lack of food for them to feed unon. Every man "according to his eating" may feast to the full upon Christ. 5. "Without blemish." That is. entire, whole, sound, having neither defect nor deformity. This was a type of Christ. See Heb. 7: 20; 1 Pet. I: 19. The Saviour ?the Lamb of God was (I) perfect. (2) innocent and (3) slain as & sacrifice for others. (4) He was offered at the season and at the very hour of the pascal sacrifice. ' (5) Not a bone was broken. (6) He is able to take away our sins. John 1: 29. 6. "Keep it ud." The Hebrew implies that it was to be kept with great care. "Until the fourteenth. It was to be separated from the rest of the flock four days before the time of sacrifice/ "In the evening." Literally, "between the evenings;" that is, from the time the sun begins to decline to that of its-full setting, say, between 3 and 0 o'clock. The rabbins mark four things that were required in the first passover that were never* required afterward: 1. The eating of the lamb in their houses dispersed through Goshen. 2. The taking the lamb on the tenth day. 3. The striking of its blood on the door posts and lintels of their houses. 4. Their eating it . in haste. 7. "Take of the blood." The Jife is in the blood. This typifies the blood of Christ which was shed for the sins of the world. "Strike it." i This was done-by dipping a bunch of hyssop into the blood. V. 22. "Two side posts, etc. This was done as a mark of safety, e token of deliverance, that the destroying angel, when passing through the land to slay the first born of the Egyptians, might see and pass over the houses of the Israelites and spare their families. '< 8. "Eat the flesh." ..-Undoubtedly this feast had a physical purpose. The Israel: ites were to start in the middle of the night on a long and weapBome journey. and it was important that? they should not start fasting: Eating togetner is a symbol of fellowship and a covenant of unity. "Roast with fire." For the sake of expedition; and this difference was always observed between the cooking of the pascal lamb and the other offerings. 2 Chron. 35: 13. "Unleavened bread." This waa also for the sake of dispatch. Deut. 10: 3. There was also a typical meaning attached to the unleavened bread; leaven wast em- * blematical of evil. Luke 12: 1; 1 Cor.'5: 8. "With bitter herbs." This was to remind ' the Hebrews of their great afflictions in Egypt, and also of the trials to which they were subject on account of sin. Our bitter herbs are the remembrance of sins com mitted and the confession of our wrongdoings. The cud of repentance is bitter. 9. "Raw." That is, unfit for use, and therefore unfit for representing spiritual enjoyment. "Sodden.'' Boiled. It must Hot be-deprived of any portion of its savor. "Head with his legs," etc.?See R. V. Not a bone was to be broken. This pointed to Christ. See John 19: 30. L 10. "Let nothing of it Temaiji." The lamb was to be eaten, all eaten,' eaten by all, and eaten ,at once. The Lord Jesus is to be received into the soul as its food, and this is to be done with a whole Christ. by each one of His people, and done just now. The Israelites must not only slay, they must eat. It is not enough that Cnrist has died for us, we must receive , Him into our hearts and lives. "Until the morning." To prevent putrefaction, which would soon take place in a hot country. That which is offered to God must not become corrupt. - 11. "Girded." etc.' Every preparation must be made for an immediate departure. I The long, flowing "robes were girded around tfte loins; snoes, or Bauuuio, uui, ?v.u w , .the house or at meals, were fastened to the feet, and the traveler's staff Was taken in hand These instructions' are understood by -he Jews to apply only to the first passover. "The tora's pasaover." Called by this name because the destroying angel passed over the dwellings of the Israelites, while destroying the Egyptians. 12. "Gods of Egypt." 1. God smote objects of Egyptian worship, in destroying the first born of the king and the animals which were worshiped. 2. This showed the worthlessness of these gods, for they were powerless to save the people. 13. "The blood a token." Or sign. The blood was a sign of God's mercy, love, protection and deliverance: it was also a sign of the obedience and faith of the Israelites. 14. "This day?a memorial." To keep in remembrance God's mercy in bringing them out of Egypt, and His iudurments on their oppressors. "A feast.' It was to be annually observed, and celebrated with 6olemn religious joy as long as they remained a distinct people. "An ordinance." It was an institution of God. and was neither to be .altered nor set aside by any human authority. 15. "Cut off." There are thirty-si* places in which this cutting off is threat- . ened against the Jews for neglect of some nartieular duty. It probably means that j the one thus "cut off" wa3 senaratea .. | "from the rights and privileges of an Israelite." 16. "An holy convocation." The people were called together by the sound of trumpets "to attend the rites and ordinances of divine worship." God is a holy being and must be worshiped in holiness. Psa. 29: 2. 17. "The feast of unleavened bread." This seems to be only another name for the feast of the Passover. Ex. 23: 15. "Bible Clin For the Elite." Well-known young women on the no:th eide of Chicago are experiencing a revival of religion, which has resulted in the establishment of a "Bible Class for the Elite." with William F. Newell, assistant superintendent of the Moody Bible Institute, for a teachcr. This class meets at llj a. m. on Saturday at the hall of the Lincoln Cycling Club. There were present at the last session about fifty women, who represented in the aggregate possibly $50.000,000. Such smart turn-outs, such stylish, hats and rare feathers, such tailor-made; suits and elegant gowns have not been 1 - fnr VMra. ! seen at a j>ime i-juss j To JRaze Mile of Fence. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the application of Jesse D. Carr for an order restraining the United; States Marshal in Oregon from tearing down a stone fence around what is known.' as the Clear Lake Ranch, on the Oregon and California boundary. The ranch comprises 88,000 acres, and the fence which surrounds it is forty-four miles in lenjrth. The Interior Department and the United States Circuit Court previously have ruled! that the 'and is part of the public domain,, and the Marshal will at once destroy tha fence. Jtcnristmn >oience Spread* In England. The cult of the Christian Scientists is spreading so rapidly in the eastern counties of Knrrland that the Dean of Norwich; has found it necessary to announce pub,;"T" lir> intends soon to address him I self in a controversial spirit to the whol? J subject. , *