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*. A WINTER DAYBREAK* The cock crows in the windy winter morn Then must I rise and fling the curtail by, All dark I but for a strip of fiery sky Behind the ragged mountains, peaked anc torn. One planet glitters in the icy cold, Poised like a hawk above the frozen peaks; And now again the wild nor'-westei speaks, And bends the cypress, shuddering, tc his fold, .While every timber, every casement creaks But still the skylarks sing aloud and bold; The wooded hills arise; the white cascade Shakes with wild laughter all the silent shadowy glade. ?=/ >3^ iSJ A RECENT news item to the effect that several students were expelled from one of the ? minor colleges of Ohio for prar-ks on Hallowe'en night is of more <har. passing interest to all who are } Struggling -with the great problem of ^ eduration. One naturally Infers that these students had not done anything hopelessly bad or criminal. The country is not ftgitdted over the details of their oranks. They possibly broke the college rules and were in disgrace with the faculty to be so arbitrarily ejected, but there is a confession of weakness in the government of the college dictators who could not enforce their own rules. Men of experience and authority who send boy culprits home for discipline which was lacking within the college "walls are exploiting the in adequacy of tfieir own eaucauonai methods. Where werethe professors on witches' night, when the spirits of mischief are abroad and license is permitted for pranks? Why were they not larking with the hoys, renewing their own youth and keeping the father of the man within bounds? The revivalist's method of salvation Instruction for the "overflow" would be good for some of our educational institutious. Develop them into semi-savagery by hazing and football; goad them through their classics with whip and spur, bur have pity on them when they overflow the rigid bounds prescribed by ethical laws, and think twice before you cast a boy loose on the world. History repeats itself. Here Is a true Btory that fits this occasion. It happened a dozen years ago: The family of Hiram Lenox. Presi^ dent of the Home National Bank, VicePresident of the Pennsylvania Natural Gas Company, sat at breakfast waiting for the head of the house to ask a blessing on tlie food before they ven^ tured to eat. His domestic'laws, like those of the Medes and Persians, were observed by his family as a matter of personal safety, for that good man could make it exceedingly uncomfortable for them if they transgressed. Therefore the oatmeal and coffee grew Cold waiting and the newspaper folded ' n Jft? I / r HIRAM LEXOX. at his plate was unread. Mr. Lenox liked his morning paper at first hand. On this morning his selfishness was a kindness to them since they could not know the news that awaited theln. The family consisted of two young daughters and Mrs. Lenox, a nervous, fretful-looking woman, who had learned the lessons of life from a hard master. There was a boy who was at college, who had the distinction of being the "son of Dombey" Lenox. Much was expected of him as sole heir to the honors of his house. He had seen his mother bullied and his sisters browbeaten all his young life, and he had his own ideas of life and liberty. "Where was father last night that he should be so late at breakfast?" asked one of the girls. "He attended a meeting of the Fellowcraft Club and gave a talk on *De^ velopment by Grace' last night, and naturally, is tired this morning," said the mother, fretfully adding: "I wish he would be more punctual." I "Do say grace, mother, and let us eat. I shall be ferociously wicked all day if I have to wait another moment," this from the youngest daughter, a merry maiden of fourteen. He came in at that moment with a churlish "good morning," and the vigor with which he pulled out his chair and dumped himself into it savored strongly of ill temper. "For what we are about to receive," was delivered in the same "wax spirit, anil was followed by a grumbling complaint because the breakfast was cold. This Incident being disposed by a new supply of hot food there was the usual breakfast chorus of rattling dishes and spoons, and as Mr. Lenox fed himself with one hand he turned his paper with the other. Suddenly he gave a savage exclamation, and, pushing the table from him, nearly overset it, when the front door opened quickly and a tall youth entered hastily in outing costume, carrying a valise in his hand. He did not look at the women of the family, but (Walked directly to Mr. Lenox. "Father," he spoke in a manly way. but with a strained, harsh voice, "1 have been expelled. It wasn't anjthing bad?only some foolish tricks ,we played on the professors. There ."were five others?I was not the onlj One. I asked their pardon, and it wili just be suspension, but I am as sorrj as I can be. but it was not meant foi harm?nothing but a little fun." His mother had risen quickly witl the single word, "David!" -One of his Bisters took his valise from his tremb ling hand. The other gave him i fchalr. The father alone relaxed not i muscle. "So this comes of all we have dom ifor you? A disgrace that will follow '?/ / you to the end of your days! It is writ ten here?here where all may read and know what mv son has achieved!" 1 ~ The human document before the angry man seemed to shrivel as the cold, sarcastic tones and the scathing words fell on the air. ; "Forgive me this time, father. I am not a thief or a murderer. I have not , hurt any one?only played a foolish trick that night?I helped to hoist a calf to the lecture room of the college, We did not hurt the dumb brute?we . tied the dinner bell to Its neck. I dare ; say the professors themselves cut up such capers when they were young? and homesick?tired of being men when they were only boys. Forget it, father, and forgive me?I'll ask?God?to?forgive me?too!" "That will do." The cold, cutting tones struck like a knife to the boy's soul. "I have this to say, and then I am done with the whole disgraceful , subject. I shall not forgive you if I live a hundred years. It is not the first of your misdemeanors, and it will not be the last. But-you shall not drag me down. From now on you have no home under this roof. You can make , your own way in the world, hut expect no help from me. Go! Let me never see your face again!" But the mother in Mrs. Lenox was awakened now. She sprang to her feet. "Hiram! How dare you disown your own flesh and blood? If David goes, theu you cast us out together, for I go with him!" "Mother, dearest, don't plead for me ?l am not worth It. He can never take back what he has said. He is right. I am not his flesh and blood any longer?I am like him now. iron and steel! Let me go! And may God deal with him when his time comes for asking mercy as he has dealt with me!" The door closed after him. without a word?a trood-bye?he was gone, leaving a stem and upright judge and those frightened, weeping women. This was the boy who had been named David because David was a man after God's own heart. Did they never remember tri?? T c-r?r? rvl clnnnr1 nr*A LUiU 1/UVlUi X\1U5 VI. iOiau. ciuutu uLiu went astray? Far off in the Indian Territory lives an outlaw of civilization. He is a fearless shot, a train robber, a leader of hold-up men. He is known as Daredevil Dick Fargo?yes, it is be?but his real name has never been known. He stops short of murder in his criminal career, and has the reputation of being "soft" to women and children. And he never was known to oppress the unfortunate. The human document is marred now with hard lines. Sin has indented that once plastic surface where God's message of love should have been written. And it dated from the boyish pranks of one Walpurgis night.?Mrs. M. L. Rayne, in the Chicago Record-Herald. Suicide in England. During the last fifty years the sun cidal tendency in England has grown into a formidable disease. The growth, too, has been continuous. Suicide has steadily increased 200 per cent. Unhappily, too, the growth has been most rapid in recent years. This is learned from the verdicts of coroners' juries?a test which does not exaggerate, but allows a percentage of wastage. And especially is this increase remarkable when the attempts to commit suicide?so far as they are known to the police?are examined. For. while in the decade from 1876 to 1886 the attempts rose .from 818 to 1116? an increase of thirty-six per cent.?between 1886 and 1896 the percentage increased as much as fifty-six per cent. During the last twenty-five years they have increased in all 152 per cent. By examining the latest statistics I have discovered the most suicidal localities in England. And curiously, perhaps, the highest percentages?!. e., per 100,000 of populationare reached by provincial towns. As the sites of actual suicides, Norwich, Blackburn, Newcastle, Oldham and Leeds, in the order named, achieve a dismal pre-eminence. For attempted suicide, Liverpool, London, Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle head the list. Of the thirty-one largest towns in the country. Swansea and. next to it, Derby and Birkenhead showed the least tendency to suicide.? London Mail. Careless 8nnke Used No Tooth Brush. Dr. Calmette, director of the Pasteur Institute at Lille, France, who was bitten by a most poisonous snake recently. tells the following story of the! occurrence: "I was handling the snake when one] of his fangs touched the third finger of my right hand. I felt nothing at first, but presently found blood began to flow. It was easy to understand what had happened. I ran and placed my finger under a tap. Without delay one of my asistants inoculated me under the skin of the stomach with an injection of serum, and in less than fivo minntoc nnmhnacc on/1 tlia pain had ceased. "A day or two later, finding that the wound did not heal, a surgical operation was performed. This had nothing to do with the snake venom, which had been completely eliminated from the wound. Necrosis had set in from Infection of the open wound, and the doctor said with a laugh: '? suppose the reptile had forgotten to wash his mouth.'" American Securities Abroad. It is the practice of the great banks of Europe, particularly of Germany. . to take charge of the securities owned | by a vast clientage of investors. When . in the Imperial Reichsbank and in the . Deutsche Bank in Berlin, I was taken: i into great vaults whose walls and' floors were covered with cases like-; an immense library, containing stocks and bonds belonging to clients of the! . banks and held there for the collec-j ? .. -i ?i. : ? ~ T ? < UUU UUU 1UI > each of the banks there were securities' > representing some 2,000,000,000 marks. [ It was interesting to be shown great r shelves which had formerly been set) apart for American securities, and1' which now held only here and there i scattered packages. This was the visi3 ble evidence of what an examination . of investors' strong boxes would show t in all those European countries which t have in years past found in America; the most profitable field for invest> rnent.? Frank A. Vanderlip, in Scribr uer's. f-v-; : . > DYING JUDGE CONVICTED - " " " n i floyes liuiity in tne raining- rrauu. Cases at Nome. He is Fined, and the United States Dig* trict Attorney and His Assistant Are Sentenced to Jail. San Francisco, Cal. ? The Federal officials at Xome, who conspired with Alexander McKenzJc to take possession of the most valuable mines in the new Arctic camp, and who refused to obey the summons of the Federal court, received sentence in the United States Court of Appeals. The court fined Judge Noyes $1000 for contempt, and United States District Attorney Joseph E. Wood and ' ' * ? *- /"* A ?? mAftn OAn. ins assisiam, vj. a. o. rtusi, wac ocutenced to four months and one year respectively. The court holds that evidence does not establish the charge against Thomas J. Geary. ( The decision of Judge Gilbert and Judge Morrow declares flatly that conspiracy was established between Judge Noyes and the other-officials, but that the accused could be punished only on contempt charges. Judge Ross, in a minority opinion, says that the evidence shows that the purposes of the defendants were far graver than is indicated in the opinion of the court, and that the punishment awarded is wholly inadequate. He declares that Judge Noyes should be imprisoned for eighteen months. Frost for fifteen months and Wood for ten months. The case will be appealed in Frost's behalf. Judge Noyes is lying critically ill of hemorrhage of the lungs in this city, and the chances of his recovery are slender. This decision will be read with much satisfaction in Nome, where Noyes and MS gang were dictators ror several months, and carried things with a high hand. Washington. D. C. ? Attorney-General Knox received unofficial information of the action of the Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in imposing a fine of $1000 on Judge Noyes, of the District Court of Alaska, and sentencing other officials of the court to jail. He said that the charges now on file against Judge Noyes in the Department of .Justice would be considered without reference to the judgment of the Circuit Court.. It is certain that Judge Noyes will be relieved from the Alaska bench, but whether he will be summarily removed or allowed to resign has not been determined. Strong representations have recently been made to the Department of Justice to the effect that the people of Northwestern Alaska are unanimous in their condemnation of the Judge, and the influential friends of Noyes in Minnesota, from which State he was appointed, have been told that it is impracticable to allow him to return to his post at Nome. CARNEGIE'S GIFT TO EDUCATION. Corporation to Act as Trustee of the 810,. 000,000 Fand Formed. Washington, D. C. ? Secretary Hay and a number of others interested in the Carnegie project of a national university have met at the State Department and formed a corporation known as the Carnegie Institution. It is understood that Mr. Carnegie has removed the obstacles that* existed to the acceptance of his $10,000,000 gift to the .cause of education, and this action was the first step toward giving legal form and substance to the proposition. . Besides Secretary Hay. the incorporators are Edwin D. White, Justice of the Supreme Court; D. C. Gilman, exPresident of Johns Hopkins University; Charles D. Walcott, Superintendent of the Geological Survey; John S. Billings, ex-Surgeon General of the Navy, and Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor. le anicies or incorporation or tne Carnegie Institution fix the name and title of the institution as "The Carnegie Institution." and show that it is organized "for a perpetual term." Its objects are the promotion of study and research, the power to acquire, hold and convey real estate and other property, and to establish general and special funds; to assist investigations in science or art; to co-operate with governments, universities, colleges, technical schools, learned societies and individuals; to appoint committees of experts to direct special lines of research, publish and distribute documents, conduct lectures and hold meetings, acquire and maintain a library, and in general to do and perform all things necessary to promote the objects of said institution. DROUGHT KILLING ANIMALS. Horses and Cows Being Put to Death lb Texas to Stop Their Sufferings. San Antonio, Texas.?Within the last sixty days more than 100 head of horses nnrl cows have been killed in San Antonio by their owners or by police officers at the request of owners to prevent them from dying of starvation. The drought which has been prevailing in Southwest Texas for many months has resulted in an almost total failure of grass and that, coupled with the high price of feed stuffs here, makes it impossible for the poorer people who own animals, to provide food for them. The cows and horse3 of these have become so weak from want of proper food that they are worthless, and are killed dally to save them from death by starvation. Kentucky Car Shortage Ended. The car shortage in the Kentucky coal district has been ended. Bank Fatida S35.000 Short. Harry H. Townsend, cashier of thb Bristol County National Bank at Taunton, Mass., is reported to be $35,000 short in his accounts, the deficit having been found by a bank examiner. The breach of trust Is said to have been due to speculation in cotton futures. rr,,~ ? To*v.?lo?? ranal QitnoHan auo AStUiiuau vmwm* No definite action on ibe isthmian oaiiiil question is expected at the pressent session of Congress, and the final selection of the Panama route Is predicted in Washington. Labor World. There is a lack of competent electrical engineers. There has never existed a greater demand for skilled mechanics than exists to-day. About 2500 metal mechanics and iron workers are still fighting for the ninehour workday in strides at San Francisco and other cities on the Pacific coast. M. C. D. Borden, the Jt'all River cotton manufacturer, lias granted a ten per cent, increase in vages for six weeks as a Christmas present to Ills employes. DARING BANK ROBBERS Capture Troasure of East Si Louis Stock Yards Institution. Work at Leisnre, With Rough Hide. Watchman and Two Others Gagged, Bound and Well Guarded. St. Louis. Mo.?Six masked men entered the National Stock Yards Bank north of East St. Louis. 111., and, after capturing and gagging the twe night watchmen and firemen at th( plant and blowing open the vault? with dynamite, obtained ?5000 in coir and currency, with which tney fled They were at work on the vaults foi nine hours without being interfered with, from early in the evening until early in the morning. The police of St. Louis have obtained no clue. The men are supposed to have escaped on horseback. Lee Pliilpot, of Kentucky, one of the watchmen, a Rough Rider friend of Prpsidpnt Roosevelt, was the first to meet with the robbers. He was standing In the stock yards near the Exchange Building, in which the bank is located, when three men Sprang out of a fence corner with revolvers in their hands. They said: "We want you, Philpot," and with that overpowered him before he could reach his revolver. The. three robbers took Philpot to the composing room of the Daily National Stock Yards Reporter, near by. and laid him on the floor. He was bound hand and foot and gagged with towels. While lying there three other men came in. Philpot heard the leader of the robbers say: "Let's kill him." This the others objected to. according to Philpot. One of the six men was sent out with injunctions to hold up the other guard. Albert Estep. another bank watchmau, was caught on the stairs of the Exchange Building. The robber went up to Estep and addressed him by name. Thinking it was a friend, Estep Was taken unawares. A revolver was thrust into his face, and under the, threat of death he was forced to go to the composing i*oom, where he aiso was bound and gagged. Piroman T, w ("Hark was taken unawares in the steam plant of the Exchange Building. He resisted and was badly oeaten before he was subdued. He was also taken to the composing room and left bound and gagged with nis two companions. About midnight one of the robbers was left to guard the three captives, while the other five went to the bank, which is located on the first floor of the Exchange Building, near the centre. The robbers blew open the steel doors of the vault with nitroglycerine. The double steel doors were shattered, and the bank's books and papers destroyed. Entering the vault, the quadruple plate doors of the big steel safe were drilled, and a charge of the nitroglycerine blew them open. They took ' all the currency and other coin, amounting to about $5000, as nearly as the bank's officers can estimate. The five men left the bank?and signaled to the one guarding the cantlve watchmen and firemen to join them. Five minutes after the robber guard feft the composing room Estep worked loose and released Clark and Philpot. In addition to the S5000 the robbers secured $530 left with the bank by Assistant Postmaster Bushell, of the stock yards. This is the bank whose officers recently swore out a warrant charging the assistant cashier with em^ bezziing $12,000. JEAN DE BLOCH 13 DEAD. flls Book, "The War of the Future" Attracted a Great Deal of Atlentlon. London.?Private telegrams received from Warsaw announce the death of Jean de Bloch, Russian Councillor of State, political economist, railroad expert, and author of "The War of the Future." M. de Bloch's book "The War of the Future." was published about three years ago. In it he discussed what he regarded as certain to happen in a conflict in which modern arms and other inventions were used, and his theories attracted a great Aes\I of attention throughout Europe. A good many of M. de Bloch's theories. ,in the opinion of military experts, have, however. beeu disproved by the war in South Africa. One contention of M. de Bloch was that the increasing cost of war would ultimately render it impossible, and this theory is regarded as being of more weight than some of his other assertions. He was a favorite with the Russian royal famil}\ and It is said that It was largely owing to his representations that Emperor Nicholas took the steps which resulted in the Peace Conference at The Hague and the resulting international Arbitration Court. Flans For the Philippines. Congressman Cooper, of Wisconsin, Chairman of the House Committee on Insular- Affairs, at Washington, has introduced a bill giving a complete form of civil government for the Philippines, to begin January 1, 1904, with a Governor appointed by the President, a Legislature of two houses, and with two Philippine Commissioners to represent the Filipino people at Washington. Franking Privilege For Mrs. McKlnley. A bill granting to Mrs. McKinley the postal franking privilege for all her correspondence was favorably reported to the House of Representatives, at Washington. Similar privileges bnve heretofore been granted to Mrs. Tyier, Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. LogaD. Schley Sees the President, By appointment Rear-Admiral Soiilej called at thr. White House, at Washinton, and in an interview lasting forty-five minutes presented to President Roosevelt his side of the naval controversy. British Losses in War. The total reduction of Great Britain's military forces in South Africa from the beginning of the war to the end of December, including deaths from disease, men reported missing, etc., amounts to 124,280 men. Indemnity For Lenz's Murder. The $7500 indemnity due the parents of Frank G. Leuz, of Pittsburg. Penu., who was murdered and robbed in Asiatic Turkey while making a bicy cle tour around the world in isim, was paid. It was part of the settlement Minister Leishinan forced from the Ottoman Empire. KubbImuh and Americana Fight. The Navy Department, at Washington, was informed of serious lighting, betwen sailors from the gunboat Vitksburg and Itussiau soldiers ai .W.yObwaucr China '* **'* *V'* ; ' ? : DR, TALMAGFS SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTEC DIVINE. Aubject: Grasp Present Opportunities ? A Prediction That the New Year Will Be One'of the Greatest of All Time ? Prepare For the Fntnre. tt7 a r? r> t? Tol UABninUiUli, X/. v. ah kuio, i/i. AU. mage's first discourse for the new year h< speaks words of encouragement 19 all the timid and doubting. The text is Exodtif xii, 2, "This month shall be unto you th< beginning of months; it shall be the firsl month of the year to you." The last month of the old year has passed out of sight, and the first month oi the new years hew arrived. The midnighl gate last Wednesday opened and January entered. She deserves a better name, foi she is called after Janus, the heather deity who, they supposed, presided ovei doors, and so might be ekpected to preside at the opening of the year. This month was of old called the wolf month because, through the severity of its weather, the hungry wolves came down seeking food and devouring human life. In the missals of the middle ages January was represent ed as attired in white, suggestive of the *now, ana blowing the fingers, as though suffering from the cold, and having a bun die of wood under the arm', suggestive oi the warmth that must be kindled. Yes, January is the open door of the year, and through that door will come what long processions, some of them bear ing paim leaves aiiu ouuie myj^rc, utu?i with garlands of wheat and others with cypress and mistletoe. They are coming, and nothing can keep them back?the events of a twelvemonth. It will, I think, be one of the greatest years of all time, It will abound with blessing and disaster' National and international controversies of momentous import will be settled. Yeai of coronation and dethronement, year thai will settle Cuban and Porto Rican and Philippine and South African and Chinese destinies. The tamest year for many a decade past has dug its millions- of gravee and reared its millions of marriage altars We can expect greater events in thit year than ever before, for the world'? pop ulation has so vastly increased there are so many more than in any other year tc laugh and weep and triumph and perish, The mightier wheels of mechanism have such wider sweep. The fires are kindled in furnaces not seven times but seventy times heated. The velocities whirlini through the air and sailing the seas anc tunneling the mountains will iftake unpre cedented demonstration. Would to God that before the now open ing year has closed the earth might cease to tremble with the last cannonade and the heavens cease to be lighted up with anj more conflagration of homesteads and the foundries that make swords be turned into blacksmith shops for making plow' shares. The front door of a stupendous year hat opened. _ Before many of you there will be twelve months of opportunity for making the world better or worse, happier or more miserable. Let us pray that'it may be a year that will indicate the speedy redemption of the hemisphere. Would to God that this might be the year in which the three great instruments now chiefly used for secular purposes might be put to theii mightiest use in the' world's evangelization ? the telescraph, the telephone, the phonograph. Electricity has such potent tongue, such strong arm, such swift wing, such lightning foot, that it occurs to me that it may be the angel fhat St. John saw and heard in apocalyptic vision when he started back and crifed out, "I saw another angel flying in the midst ofyheaven having the everlasting gospel to preach untc them that dwell on tne earth and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people." They were tongues of fire that sat or tl)e heads of the aisciples at the Pentecost, and why not the world called to God by tongue of electric fire? Prepare your batteries and make ready to put upon the wires the world wide message of "whosoever will." Furthermore, this bionth of January has the greatest height and depth of cola The rivers are bound in crystal chains, The fountains that made highest leap in the summer parks now toss -not one jet, for every drop would be a frozen tear, The sleds craunch through the hard snow, Warmest attire the wardrobe can afford is put on that we may defend ourselves against the fury of the elements. Hardest of all the months for the poor, let it be the season of greatest generosity on the part of the prosperous. How much a scuttle of coal or a pair of shoes or a coat or a okonrl marr /1a in nacilflfypmPnt-. rtf BllffpMnO between the 1st of January and the 1st ol February God only knows. Seated by oui warm registers or wrapped in furs which make us independent of the cutting Janu ary blast, let us not forget the fireless hearth and the thin garments t and the hacking cough and the rheumatic twinge of those who through destitution find life in winter an agony. Suppose each one'oi us talce under charge one poverty-stricken household or one disabled ma*n or one in valided woman. On our way home fron such a charity, though the wind may b< howling and the night tempestuous, ] should not wonder if we could hear a voice that was heard on Galilee and at the gate: .of Nam and by the pool of BethesoJa say ing, "Inasmuch as ye did it to them, ye did it to Me." Oh, the might of the cold! The arctie and antarctic invading the temperate zone! The victories 01 tne irost?as wnen in? Thames in 1205 became firm as any bridg< and the inhabitants crossed and recrossec on the ice and booths and places of tem porary amusement were built on the hard ened surface: as when many years age New York Harbor was paved with ice s< that the people passed on foot to the ad joining islaiias. cut the full story of th< cold will never be known. The lips whicl would have told it were frozen and th< fingers that would have written it wer< benumbed. Only here and there a fact ap pears. In 1691 the cold was so terrific thai the wolves entered Vienna. In 1488 it wai bo cold that wine was cut with Ijatcheti and distributed among the soldiers. It 1234 a whole forest was killed by the colc at Ravenna. In 703 the Black Sea wai frozen over.' As we go further back th< frosts are mightier, but as we come fur ther down the frosts lessen. The worst severities have been halted ond the snows have lost their depths, anc the thermometers announce less terrifii falls of temoerature, and the time wil come when the year will be one long sum mer o? foliace and bloom. While th< world's normal condition will be reformed the wor3t clim&tes will be corrected. Yoi could not have a millennium with a Jan -u.? uai j uiasw yuooiuic. Do not read your almanac backward Do not go out and ask the trees hung witl icicles by. January storm whether tnej will ever again blossom in May and lea in June. vVe are moving toward thi world's redemption. The frozen tears wil melt, the river of gladness will resume it: flow, the crocus will come up at the edgi of the snowbank, the morning star wU open the door for the day, and the armiei of the world will "ground arms" all arount the world. The January of frost will be abolished and. the balm and radiance of a divine at mosphere will nil the nations. If you d< not see it and hear it for yourself I thinl at the utmost your grandchildren wiil sei and hear it. The heavens will take par in the conflict between righteousness an< sin. and that will settle it, and settle i aright, and settle it forever. In this very month of January, 1643, tw< months after a great battle had beei fought between the army of the king an< the army of Parliament, shepherds an< travelers between 12 and 1 o'clock a night heard the battle repeated in thi skies?the sound of drums, the clash o arms, the groans of dying men and thei the withdrawal of the scene into complefc silence. These shepherds and traveler repeated in the neighboring towns wha they heard, and large numbers of people expecting that all was a deception, wen out on the following night, and they heari the same uproar and tumult in the heav ens?the two armies in battle. The king hearing of this seeming combat in th heavens, sent embassadors to inquire inti the .mystery. In the night they also heavi the conflict and came back to the kin: and took solemn oath as to this my6teriou occurrence. Whether those shepherds and traveler and embassadors of the king were in dc lusion I cannot say, but this I know?tha . . .-.'v. "VV-VA ^ ' /; >-W f-'v ? the forces of God and the forces of Sataa are now in combat, the heavens as well ai the earth in struggle as to who shall wis this world for blessedness or woe, and, ai > the armies of God are mightier than th< armies diabolic, we know who will triumph, a^id we have a right to shout th* victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Tlio TCinrp n( TTinrra fVid Tvirri Af "RTnaf.?. ^ *5 V* VUV ? V* [ the God of Joshua and Havelock, leads in the conflict. I have no fear about the tremendous issue. My only fear is that we will not be found in the ranks and fully - armed to do our part in this campaign^ of > the eternities. Again, I remark that the month of Jan? uary has seen many of the most 8ropen? dous events in the world's history and a t rocking of cradles and the digging of graves that have affected nation^ In this i month American independence ;was det clared, followed by Lexington and Bunker ; Hill and Monmouth and Valley Forge and ' Yorktown. January saw the proclamation flint-. nhnlialnprt Amprinan alaverv. Thoncrh l at the time there were two mighty opin* ions and they were exactly opposed?those ; who liked the document and those who dist liked it?there is but one opinion now, and , if it were put to vote in all the States of s the South, "Shall slavery be reinstated?" . I there would be an overwhelming vote of i "No!" The pen with which the document was signed and the inkstand thaf con! tained the ink are relics as sacred and vall uable as the original Declaration of Indefjendence, with all its erasures and interineations. The institution which for seventy or eighty years kept the 'nation in ! angry controversy has disappeared, and ! nothing is left to fight about. The, North and the South to-day are in as complete i accord as ever were flute and cornet in the i same orchestra. , The North has built its factories on the ! hanks of the Chattahoochee and the Boa, noke, and the South has sent many of its . ables 'attorneys into our northern court. houses, its most skilful physicians into our i sick rooms, its wisest bankers into our exchanges, its most consecrated ministers ; into our pulpits?all this the result of the 1 proclamation of January 1, 1883. s Furthermore, I notice that January has l been honored with the nativity of some i of the greatest among the nations. Ed, mund Burke was born this month, the i marvel and glory of the legal world; Fene Ion of the religious world, Benjamin Frank; f lin of the philosophic world, William H. i Prescott of the historic world, -Sir John . Moore of the military world, Bobert Burns i of the poetic world, Polycarp of the inar1 tyr world, Peter the Great of the kingly ' world, Chrysostom of the sacred rhetoric : world, Daniel Webster of the statesman I world. In this month, at Hampton Court, 1604, a new translation of the Holy Bible' was | ordered. There were Bibles of, all kinds | abroad, some of them translations from ' J Hebrew and Greek by incompetent men, | and the church and the world cried out for | a Bible translated by a group of the good 1 and the learned. King James disliked the ' Bibles abroad and appointed a commission of fifty-four men, afterward reduced to | fortv-seven. Those men presented the ; world with a Bible that held mighty sw^y | among the nations for more than 250 years, ! the revision of the Bible thirty years ago J being founded on that revision, which began under King James of 1804. The old [ translation, made more than two and a j half centuries ago; sustained the martyrs , in the fire, illumined the homesteads of many generations, was the book that was, read aloud at the embarkation of the fore-;. ! fathers from Delft Haven, cheered th? weary voyagers on the Mayflower, com; forted them in the wilds of America, was ; the book on which the first American , Congress, as well as the last, took the oath J ?:j.V ?1-!A '.11 J.L? T>? , ana witii which mi me jti^oiucubo vi vuv . United States. have solemnized their en, trance into office, is the book that has ad, vanced the world's civilization as no other v influence ever could, and "which now lies on the table of more homes than any book ! that was ever printed since Johann Gutenberg borrowed money of Martin Breth! er find John Faust to complete the art of . printing. What 9 January in the world's . history?the January that gave the ages a ! book like that! ' But I cannot read the epitaphs of one oat of a hundred illustrious graves in this first month of the year. Many of those well ' known gained half their renown and did [ half their work through the help of'those of whom we know little or nothing. Lord ' Herschel is Renown all the world'over and [ will be known, through all time, but little [ is said of her ,who was born tlys first , month of the year, and without Whoae : Help he never could have been what he . was?his sister, Caroline Lucretia Augusi ta. She helped him hunt the wortds. She repaired and adjusted his telescopes. 1 She ciphered out his astronomical prob: lems. She was his amanuensis. She I planned for him his work. She discovered seven .comets and made "A Catalogue of t Nebulae and Star Clusters." The month of Januarv introduced her to the observa-. , tones, bat she has never been properly in? troduced to the world. Cultivate faith in God and the feeling' > that He will do for you-that which is best, I and you will be ready for-either sunshine i or shadow. The-other eleven'months of . the year 1902 will not all be made up of , gladness or of grief. The cup that is all > made up of sweetness is insipid. [ Between these just opened gates of the ? year and the closing , of those gates there j will be many times when you will want . God. You will have questions to decide > which will need supernatural impulse. There may be illnesses of the body or per* > plexities of mind or spiritual exhaustions i to be healed and comforted and strength* > ened. During the remaining twentv-sjx > days of this month lay in a supply of faith [ and hope and courage for all the days of . the eleven months. Start right, and you . will be apt to keep right. > Before the ship captain gets out of the > New York Narrows he makes up_his mind - what sea route he will take. While you ? are in the narrows of this month make up j your mind which way. you will sail ana ? unroll your chart and set your compass ? and have the lifeboats well placed on the - davits and be ready for smooth voyage all t the way across or the swoop of a Carib3 bean whirlwind. . ! > Rev. Solomon Spaulding was for some | i time in poor health, and to whil&jway the 1 time he wrote a preposterous rafgious ro3 mance. One Joseph Smith somehow got > hold of that book before it was printed - and published it as a revelation of heaven, calling it the "Book of Mormon," ana , from that publication came Mormonism, i the monster abomination of the earth. : Rev. Solomon Spaulding might have been 1 better engaged than writing that book of - falsehoods. However much time we have, ; we never have time to do wrong. Harness , January for usefulness, and it will take the i following months in its train. Oh, how much you may do for God between now and the 31st of next December! The beautiful - "weeping willow" tree l was introduced by Alexander Pope into : England from a twig which the poet found f inva Turkish basket of figs. He planted t that twig, and'ffrom it came all the weep-. 1 ing willows of England and America, and 3 your smallest planting of good many ynb der God become an influence continental I and international. ' Now that the train of months hag 1 started, let it pass, January followed by February, with longer days, and March, ? with its fierce winds; and April, with its sudden showers; and Maj', with its Dios* soming orchards; and June, with its fcarv nival of flowers; and July, with its haj; vests; and August, with its sweltering 5 heats; and September, with its drifting J leaves; and October, with its frosts; ana c November, with its Thanksgiving scenes; and December, with its Christmas hilari3 ties. March on, 0 battalion of months, } in the regiments of the years and the bri] gades of the centuries! March on and j* join the months and years and centuries 1 already passed until all the rivers of time 5 have emptied into the ocean of eternity, but none of all of the host ought to rendec 1 higher thanks to God or take larger come fort or make more magnificent resolve than ? this the first month of the new year. c But what fleet foot hath the months and years! People lightly talk about how they 5 kill time. Alas, it dies soon enough with? 3 out killing. And the longer we live tha av?;ffor it. troes. William C. Brvasaid an old friend of his declared that the e going of time is like the drumming of th? 2 partridge or muffled grouse in the woods, I falling slow and distinct at first and then B following each other more and more rapid3 ly till thev end at last in a whirring sound. But Dr. Young, speaking of the value oi ? time, startlingty exclaimed, "Ask deathi beds!" II rCoDyrifht, 19u^ J,. Klopsch.l - : j . .. '..5. t /: -v ' THE GREAT, DESTROYER VsM SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. fhefUtter Fallacy From a Practical 8t?nA? point of the Proposition to Sunday Saloon Opening In ^Tew York . City?Deluding the Feople. It would seem that a few minutes' seraifale consideration ought to show any reasonable man- the otter, fallacy, from * - iffim practical standpoint, ot til&proposi tion to r :'A legalize the opening\ of the'llew ]f?k ?- y loons on Sunday. The Dropo?ition u made y on the ground that if tne opening for certain hours be legalized, law-breaking upon . : '-A the part of the saloonkeepers will cease. ' This contains two fallacies: First, not the mere fact of law-breaking, but the result* of the act unlawfully perfonned are to be considered. Legalized robbery, legalized arson, legalized murder, would stiff haVe , the same pernicious effects upon publie interests that those deeds have "when done unlawfully. The same is true of drink sell inc. The nnblic has held that the sale 'i-oS of drink upon the day known a? the Sabbath is prejudicial to public interest. Of course it is somewhat inconsistent to hold this in view of the fact that its sale upon other \dayH has been legalized. But it is . .- .-r' true, none the legs, and.our laws are m&dfr to guard public interests against the evil* that would arise from such. sale. When it .afifSH is discovered that certain mfcn refuse-to . obey these laws, public interests are no . more^served b.v ^hanging thelaw to le^| to larceny,7 highly8 robbery,' arqpn^jud murder to prevent law-breaking upon the <' part of peopde who insist upon doing those by tfie advocates of Sunday opentag is ?- , . >'??$ perficial to the last degree, and would be v. disgraceful to the statesmen of the Sttm# It would be an insult to the of the leading advocates of Sunday operk'' . ing to suppose that they do not re6ggni&f. ' these facts. They recognize them, and > the fallacy of every argument they ad- ' vance is perfectly clear to them., The ; ';?v people who are deluded are the good pep- o pie who fail to see that the whole move- iff ment is merely an attempt to get tlie nose of the liquor camel inside-, the tent.?The New Voice, # S?a. Vantci For Inebriety. ^'746^8 At the last meeting of the Society fof the Study of Inebriety, Dr. Wynn West; cott read a paper in which he pave expression to certain views in regard to the use of sea voyages in the treatment of inebriety which should be carefully consid- 'T'/i ered Dy all phyBjcians who may feel in- 7 clined, as no doubt many do at times feel inclined to advise a reformed drinker to take a sea voyage as a means of establish- ing -his health before returning again to hia ordinary mode of life. Dr. Wynn Westcott said that he had formed s decided opinion on the subject. The sort of cases which would be likely to be sent would be those in which it was de- 3 sirable to re-establish the gem?*! health, and it was to be remembered' tjttt under ; /' the most favorable cire&matancCa life at sea was not all rest and comfort, and that the nursing, dieting and quietude irhicb were essential for -patients with perhaps fatty heart , dr liver,- were very .seldom to be obtained. Few cases, indeed, of advanced disease of any kind seemed to hum cmit-nVtlo for sea life, even at its best. There was no doubt, moreover, $hat the f dulness and monotony of the life, and other causes, tended to produce thiratiness. Often a good deal was drunk just before reaching the home port in conse- ^ auence of the people on board being in a . ... disturbed, excite^ state, and again, tne period of nervous irritability, depression and praecordial distress to which the dipsomaniac was subject were likely to be more freauent on board ship than ashore. Therefore, if a dipsomaniac really wanted . . ' - /*? to get well, he should be discouraged > from taking a sea voyage.. The ideal rtiip * for a patient who wished to travel1 in this , manner would be a sailing ship, which l was commissioned on teetotal jinnciples, ' /' with a teetotal captain and 'crew, ana which touched at scarcely a single, port en route. Such a ship, however,, wonld be orenerallv difficult to find. In any case. no reformed drunkard should be truste* on a sea voyage alone.?The Hospital. ' v * Production of Idiota. ' > When we are brought face to face witftt an undesirable feature the problem of it* removal is simplified if we know its cause. Idiocy and imbecility should certainly be eliminated from human society if possible; it therefore is important to hear what Dr. ' Robinovitch says in the Journal of Mental Pathology. ? If acute contagious and infectious diseases during childhood leave the child an. idiot or an imbecile, that child's heredity must be well scrutinized, as the latter is most certainly the underlyiag^oause. Alcoholism of the parents is'the-major cause v responsible for the birth of idiot and imbe- .r? cile. children. Alcoholism rfot only causes idtocy and imbecility of the offsjjrins;, but also, acts as a strong t factor in reducing birth rate and increasing death rate. . (3 Children of alcoholic parents, if not idiots or imbeciles, are apt to be invalid in many other ways, and are prone to die in infancy of meningitis. It should be borne in mind that the U?ofA??inA 1 ofofomonfo Boovc arc uuo tuc uiowiiv?t wmv^v^w ? rid uneducated fanatics, but the result of - % clinic observation and experiment on a number of cases. At a Disadvantage. ''1 It is an old story that there is less v toxication in all grades of society than for merly; that it is recognized that the man - ; who drinks to excess is at a disadvantage in business and in his social relations,, and that men' generally use more discretion in Jf: drinking, so that while more drink may be consumed than formerly, the individual average of consumption is far less. ; * ~-.fi The Crusarin In Brief. Arrests for drunkenness in 129 cities at A. " TT- 'l.J Ol.i . J OOMJIM+A. cue unueu Okitlca SIC eaiv^ IU oggivQatm 312,000 during the last fiscal year. Mrs. Mary Garrison, of. Sioux Falls, 8. . D.. has commenced suit against three saloonkeepers for selling liauor to her has- ] ' . band, resulting in his death. In connection with the English Wesley- . an Methodists there are 4804 Bands of Hope, with 427,188 members; 1785 temper* ance societies, with 99,406 members. The Borough of Grimsby, like the city of Liverpool, has a large district entirely free from public houses, thanks to the wisdom of the ground landlord, Lord Heneage. ' * yueen Wiifteimina or tne isetnenanas is said to be the only European sovereign living?the Sultan excepted?who is a total abstainer from the drinking of intoxicants. The Appellate Court at Ottawa, 111., has decided that a wife and mother is entitled to damages from a saloonkeeper who caused a husband and father to Decome idle and worthless. When the use of alcohol is followed by , sense perversions, particularly of sight and hearing, a dangerous form of insanity is impending. Soon ideas of persecution r .' will follow with acts of violence. TL? t mnotrnmo ?U cohol and its effect should be; extravagant and not represent the real facts is hard to explain, and does not appear ia other matters or question* of reform. ; u-iif to > \ ' V? r**< > > ' r~ i*