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rTHE OLD TATTOO. < AH the glorr of heaven ia excluded by gold J coin* held too cloae to the eyed. Bat none i? deceived, save the gaxer?thc 1 lord of a tool'* naradue; I With the wide world inviting to action, , with humanity yearning tor light. He can w but the gold that uilds f ishion, ' and. beyond, all la swallowed in I niffKr , O Urge are toe fields and fertile! O broad is tbe fathomless msin! Like the mountains, they're calling for ( manhood, but too often they summon in rain: While mund on tbe fair, young flowers, < and the bees that within them lurk, i Repeat, in their endless endeavor. "All , the joy oi the world springs from work! l JLneo, on: now ran you wui~*uip ncMi.1, ( when a monarch of money appears, 'As the hoofs of his steeds o'er you tram- ' pie, the dust that is wet with your 1 Ah. brothers of mind and mu?c!e?ah. staters of deftness and skillBe yourselves kings aid queens of high 1 purpose! Be earth's monarch*!? ; you can. if you will. ( ?Robert Macluy. in Success. 5ths first (i; j BLU? PUCK i jj RAtLROAPjj | XSTHEN th3 announcement ^ / A. Atl?. Wcaiuc (ruui autu J1IUI Ci, then with James J. Hill. ' that a branch of the Manitoba Railroad -would be built into Bine Duck there were many of the town who felt that this accession would ' prove to be an Injury and not a bless- | \ag to the community. The time is less < than a hundred years distant when the i citizens of Elgin rose en masse and pro- < tested against the building of what Is nnw th? Phirncft ami Northwestern l Hallway. They said it would destroy i the inns and the plank road*. Blue i Duckians held that their cattle would i be run down and the town become but i the way station of a trunk line. Blue 1 Duck without a railroad was out of ] the world In one sense, a trading com- i munity with an identity; with a rail- i road it became a spot on a map. a prey to rapid transit and competition. Accordingly the message traveled southward to Mr. Manvel: I "Blue Dock don't want your road to j come this way. Go to Hamar. but leave , us alone." ( Mr. Manrel kept that message, signed , by all the traders, merchants and cow- j men of the town, for many years, and nerer looked at U without a hearty ( laugh. But he did not change his plans , nor these of Mr. Hill to make Blue , Duck a railway point. , Thr? graders and the iron men kept on ( nils drew nearer to Blue Duck, uhtll , they were scarcely ten cuil?>8 away. The night the weary trackmen quit at } this distance from the town Gentleman Ed. who was an inveterate foe of rail- , ways, acted. His brief message of the ( afternoon sent by couriers to every ( cowboy in ftie region. "Come to town." brought ready response. A hundred sat their saddles when by the town ( pump be seriously announced that no i*Atlan?M #KA nlana luia w?? uiu0i cuiu iuc i'ww. When a little later be mounted his own black tnare and gave tbe signal for s start all of tbe male population of Bine Duck was with blm. He rode straight for tbe camp,of the builders. ' descending on tbelr tents and boarding cars liko a whirlwind. The devastation ' be and bit men wrought in one nbort * hour was s wonder. Tbe workmen fled * to tbe tall grasses and bid. When they 1 came back they were homeless. Tbe.v 1 rnirsed a little, then sat down and wait- 1 ed for orders from ;be higher powers. While they were waiting t myste- ' rloua prairie fire favored by a strong wind, came up through tbe grasses and 1 drove them with their horses and mules miles southward. The beat warped the 1 rails already laid: cattle were driven over the new dump or grade until It was almost worthless. In two days < Blue Duck bad stopped the northward < progress of more than a hundred millions of capital, and as tbi* was in a ' land where courts and lawyers were scarce, where the people of a community willed for themselves what should i or should not be. this capital was staggered. As a preliminary to recovering from tbe shock it sent out an emissary. < It was his misfortune that be wore a ilk bat. I "Py gracious." said Halverson. when be saw the bat and knew to whom it belonged, "he vas born to be hung. Me ; tlnk a pioog bat and a ricked heart go , together. Yump. you sucker!" he ex- ( claimed and bis lively handling of bis pistol sent tbe emissary into tbe air , two or three feet. *Yump again!" he shouted, and the unfortunate visitor did as be was told. Unfortunately bis bat wobbled this , time and almost rolled from his bead. , Hair a dozen pistol* spoKe ou me instant. and the silk crown was riddled. The emissary fell to the ground screaming: "Spare me, gentlemen; spare me. 1 am your friend." "Veil." ?aid Halverson. "You may be. but you don't look it. You vast not dressed *hoost like a friend. You go avay and tick It over and you may , sbange your mind. Go far aray." After this the railroad company made another effort to resume track laying, but another wild ride of the cowboys ended that effort and made every trackman afraid of his life. Not that any one wa? hurt, but the cowboys were lively and practical joker* and a grading Sang wan huge enjoyment for them. When the fireman of the iron gang drew a gun on them they roped it out of his hand, roped him. dragged him Into a slough. soused him thoroughly, and then not him free a sorry sight. He offered no more resistance. The next more was an act of diplomacy on the part of the corporation. Geutleiiiaii Ed received through the mails an annual pa?s. He tore It up. Halrerson received one and kept it until he fully understood Its nature. .When told that it permitted him to ride over more than 1000 miles of country b? grinned. When Ed urged him to tar the temptation up he grinned again. "Py gracious," said he, "a railroad tnay not be shoost so bad. Ed." That was the rift in the lute. Hal erson thought a long while, and one y.,.... wmngm laj boldly announced that be was for [be coming of tbe road. Immediately tialf a dozen other prominent ciltrens tut bad received pannes, but kept quiet shout it, naid they were with Halverion. It came to such a point that Gen* tit-man Ed wa* left alone in his opposition to the road, and that settled tbe matter. Auotber mestiage went forward to Mr. Manvel. which told of the surrender of Blue Duck. A few days afterward the track gang resumed labor, ind tbe rails came awlftly toward tbe town. Tbe day tbey entered and ttopped at the depot .site Halverson, Anderson, all of Blue Duck but Gentleman Ed. turned out with shouts and rheem. The workmen were given a funnt nml there trna no aim of tbe past conflict. But Gentleman Ed. prince of gamblers. prince of good fellows, rode far away into the long grasses, where he coold be alone with the cattle. He journeyed so far he could Just look back and see the thin curl of smoke routing from the stack of the locomo tlve of the work train. It seemed tc mock him. to say that the frontier so far as Blue Duck was concerned had rome to an end. He faced the problem of steam and electricity, ana line moustands of pioneers before bim was con tjoered. "It's no nse." be said to an old bnll feeding near bim. "to bock tbe cars. The engine'U get you yet. old boy. It sends roe away from here forever: 11 will kill you. No more freedom foi Bine Duck?I'm done." He rode back to the town, and withIn an hour bad sold all bis holdings. re* reived his money and wound up bis affairs. Halverson and tbe rest plead with bim. but be would not listen. "Tbe tinhorns will come now." be told them, and turned his horse's head toward tbe West Some of tbe men rode with bim for miles, but be bad nothing to say. He gave them a clasp of the hand at parting, bnt he did not look hack. He and bis black mare kept steadily on toward tbe faraway mountains, leaving Blue Duck, tbe railroad and all that It meant.?Chicago Record-Herald. Mil Mors Sarloaa. Every one who has tried to hire an apartment In tbe city has encountered ibe stern question, "Have you any .-blldren?" If one is forced to own to that blessing, be is too often coldly informed that tbe house is not for bim. One prospective tenant, when tbe question was put to bim. looked at bis ivife, and his wife looked at him. They teemed to scent a Joke in the sltua uon. "Yes." Mid the man. "we have three :hlldren." "Then I ain't let you have the flat," ionouQce/<*the ageut. "But there are extenuating circumstances." "In the real estate and renting buslless." said the agent, "there are no extenuating circumstances In regard :o children. We simply cannot admit :hem." "But our children don't live with as." "Don't live with you?" "No." "But they come to see you?" "Oh yes, frequently." "Worse and worse!" asserted the igent "When children merely come "> thar ana lutrnilttMl tn fPilP things loose. We have discovered by experience that when parents see their :hildren only occasionally, they are ten times aa indulgent. The romping they'd do In a three days' visit would ruin the reputation of the building." Again the prospective tenants looked it each other and laughed. "Our children won't romp." said the man. "Children are all alike," returned the agent. "Bui our children are married." "Oho, married! That alters It." And the agent prepared to go to work on the lease. "Yes. married." repeated the man, 'and have children of their own.** The agent dropped his pen. "Grandparents!" he cried. "The most Indulgent creatures on earth! i'our children bring their children with them, and you have family gatherings. and all tbat What an cscape! In another minute you'd have had the flat!**?Youth's Companion. Birds T*. Tiib. A curious controversy has arisen lt? Scotland with reference to the legality uf the destruction of wild fowl which destroy llsli. W. U. Rawlinson. Hope Lodge. Sutherlaudshire. bad HUggcsted to proprietors and tenants along our nortueru coast 10 com nine aua uestroy the cormorants and shags, as these birds, in his oplulou, were in a great measure responsible for the decrease iu the number of sen tish round our shores. Replying to the suggestion. R. H. Belts, chief inspector of the { S. P. C. .V.. writes that XV. (i. Rawlin son. in suggesting to proprietors ami tenants the destruction of sltag? and, cormorants, in inciting them to nn unlawful act. viz.. the contravention of the wild birds' protection act. 1830 till | 18SHJ. There Is something like a moral { dilemma involved in the question thus raised. The wild birds' protection act arose out of the humanitarian feeling of the nation, yet here It Is seen to operate in something like a contrary direction to its object.?London Daily News. A Remarkable Locomotive. According to the London Collier> Guardian, one of George Stephenson's locomotives, which was placed in commission in on a railway running from the Uellar colliery. Durham, to the wear, a distance of eight miles, is still in daily use. Very little of the original engine, of course, remains. but worn parts have always been replaced i>y uupiica'es. iw iwo ; cylinder* are place?l vertically on tii?> top of the boiler, one above the front pair of wheels and one above the nfter pair. The piston rods point upward, and have cross arms from which four long connecting rods convey the power to the four wheels. "In 1822." says the writer, "the engine could draw about sixty-four tons at four miles an hour on the level. Today it can haul 120 tons at seventy miles an hour. One may bt> excused for asking if this is also 'on the level?' V MITCHELL STATES HIS CASE The Mine Workers' Answer to the Coal Operators. AN APPEAL FOR ARBITRATION nu Striker*' L??dir DmIum the Worb U T?ry Duimu tb? Pay Too smill ad tho System of W?l?hla| Unjuu Tha Lomii lanirrad IIim thm K*cla< lif of Ux ftrlkt. Wilkesbarre. Pa.?An appeal to the American people has been Issued bj President Mitchell in behalf of the anthracite mine workers who are on strike. He pictures In a conservative statement the condition nnder "which the miners work; declares they earn less on an average than $300 a year; that (or every day worked two of their number are killed and five injured; that since the Increase of ten per cent In 1000 they have been compelled tc pay thirty to forty per cent, more foi provisions; that the operators make larger profits than appear upon theli books, and tells how well the strikers have behaved themselves. In conclusion he declares emphatically that even though the strikers are defeated and the United Mine Workers crushed, the fight for higher wagec and better conditions will not cease, and in the end he reiterates his offer of arbitration, stating thrft it is time to seriously consider this, as the contemplated strike of all the miners threatens the commercial supremacy of the country. The document Is President Mitchell's formal answer to the letters of the coal * ? 1 aiihrntttiul #! opera curs wunu ncic suwuiikiw President Roosevelt through Labor Commissioner Wright Lomm br tli* Coal Strike. Wilkesbarre, Pa.?At the end of the sixth week of the strike the estimated losses were as follows: Loss to operators In price of coal (normal* $13,520,000 Loss to mine workers in wages 7,770,000 Loss to employes other than miners made idle by strike 1,020.000 Loss to the business men of coal region 5,200,000 Loss to business men outside coal region 3,000,000 3ost or maintaining coal and Iron police 400,000 Cost of maintaining non-union workers 85,000 Estimated damage to mines and machinery 1,500.000 Total $35,393,000 BRITISH REMOUNTS POISONEO. rboowod* Bald to Han B*?a K 111*41 by Boer Sympathizer*. New Orleans, La.?Thousands of bead of horses and mules shipped from New Orleans to the British Army in South Africa during the past two yean are said to hnve died ns the result of poison administered by Boer sympathizers. A representative of the Boers In this city is authority for the ?tory. Boor sympathizers obtained employment as drivers and muleteers aud used hypodermic syringes to Inject the virus Into the mules and horses. This virus came from Philadelphia. They poisoned the feed also. They were aided by disgruntled muleteers who shipped again only out of revenge. The transport Milwaukee, which carried 1100 mules on one trip, was said to have lost over half that number on the way over. Surviving animals landed In South Africa causcd the spread of an epizootic to such an extent that the British Government became alarmed and Instituted an investigation. with the result that they discovered the genesis of the trouble and took iteps to prevent further contamination. HAS HAD NO RAIN IN THREE YEARS. IcrrtbU Suffering la Drought -Striekca Ttsu County. Corpus Christ!, Texas.?County Judge Sbeehan, of Zapata County, has issued jlu appeal, stating that the drouth situ, ition In Zapata Couuty grows steadily worse, ami thousands of people down there are suffering for food. No rain has fa lieu in many parts of Zapata County for orer three years. All lire stock is dead, and all people who could have left the county. Those who remained here for months past subsisted entirely upon charity from people in other pans of the State. Zapata was formerly a rich stock raising county. Men who were wealthy a few years ago are now lagging for a handful of corn to keep life within their bodies. The situation is simply appalling. STRIKERS KILL FIVE MINERS fhey Threw Dynamite Into a Shaft Whan Worker* Were. Roanoke, Va.?The bodies oI Henry liars ton und I'eter Ilarston, two miner*, reached here from Williamstown, W. Va., where they were killed by an explosion of dynamite In a mine. About twenty-tire miners were at work in the mine, when a crowd entered with rides. demautliug that they should eouie out. On the miners' refusal to obey their commands the strikers threw a quantity of dynamite into the shaft, which exploded, killing live of the men. As soon as the survivors came out of the shaft the strikers tired on them, injuring several, but none was thought to be fatally shot. 8?crot Society Control* Election. Candidates put forward by the Cam urru. iuv uuiunuu9 bvltci ouuci), wirrt elected all along the line iu the uiuulcipal election* held Iu Naples. Italy. It Ls expected that tlie Uuveruiuent will dissolve the Municipal Council. K*pp?l? StBttiNd to Aiksn. Edward W. Kappele. Insurance ageut. found guilty of obtaining a $4iJ00 mortgage by false repreweuia tiou at LockjK?rt, N Y.. has been sen teuced to dve years and six uiontbs imprisonment iu Auburn. Carried Ml Block* la a ??w?r Flood. Nicholas Carr. fourteen years old, and Sidney Travers, also fourteen, were caught iu a rush ot water iu tin Bush street newer ut Baltimore, Md., aud were swept underground Tor sii blocks, down to the Patapsco Uivcr ai spring Gardens. Young Traver* ?*ize<j a floating log and held ou to it uutil be waa rescued. iiis companion was drowned. Frtach Victory la tha Soadaa. A French force has defeated a trilx of Tuareg* in tne Soudan with great Laughter. \ ' " :f " ry-'-v.-",1- ' -7 j-tt.-tre-';*-^ : IINOB EVENTSOf THE WEEK WAKMINSTOIV ITEMS. ' Some Senators expressed the bellot tbut the Senate will bo called together In extra session in November to consider a reciprocity treaty with Cuba. The failure of President Roosevelt's 1 reciprocity policy was not expected to cause trouble with the Cuban Government. 1 War Department officials expressed I gratification at the progress made by , Governor Taft in his negotiations with the Vatican. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Captain William Crosier to be Chief ? of Ordnance of the Army, with the rank ( of Brigadier-General. President Roosevelt nominated Cap- i tains Yates Sterling and William C. j 1 Wise to be Rear-Admirals. Secretary Moody announced that i many junior officers of the Nary on i shore doty will be sent to sea and replaced In present offices by civilians. UliR A WC 1 Mk-MJ ?OU?U?VOt General Callles. at Manila, said that > be was willing to testify to conditions > in Tabayas Province prior to his sur. render. Captain Wild was sentenced :o repri- J mand for the burning of n cockpit bei longing to Filipinos who bad tried to kill two of bis men. | Great changes were made in the po' sltlons held by Filipinos in public ser- , i vice; nearly 4000 now in office. 1 Senor Vlllegas. formerly President of ; Santo Tomas. P. I., was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for violating In several Instances bis oatb of al* legtance to the United States. DOMESTIC. i The unarmored cr Denver, th* j I torpedo boat destrojer Hull and tbe , steamer Finland were launched. ? - _ 1 A# ' f orest ares araitvjvn umuviu ot standing lumber on tbe line between British Columbia and Washington. Mayor Albert A. Amos, of Minneapolis. Minn., pleaded not guilty to an Indictment charging him with attempted bribery. Captain John L. Hines. quarternas1 ter of the Twenty-third United States Infantry, was acquitted by a general 1 court-martial at Plattsburg. N. Y.. of ordering Private Penlow. of his cox1 pany. strung up by the thumbs to make him confess his accomplices la a rob> bery In tbe Philippines. John K. Messersmith. a member of 1 the New York Cotton Exchange. charged with obtaining &&.000 under 1 false pretences from tbe Merchants' National Bank, at Baltimore, Md.. was 1 convicted. John H. Hartinnn. a city fireman, cf 1 Omaha, Neb., resigned, bade his mate* goad-bye, put a bullet through bis head 1 and died an hour later. Hartman hau told his companions be had been disappointed In love. , I William J. Bryan gave out a stat<?I nmnt lviftorlv ?lnnniinr(ri!? former Presi UIVUl 1/1 ( t v i i j MVMW?_ _ lent Cleveland, and declaring there ould be no harmony between men Ilkliini and those who believe in Democratic principles. Coal operators charged President Mitchell with inaccuracies in his statement. uud refused even to consider bis irbltratlon demand. Consternation among rich citizens cf Pittsburg. Pa., wag caused l?.v a yellow Manx cat which escaped from a house | where smallpox prevailed. i Three laborers were smothered to death by a cave-in at the uew rifle range at Sea fJirt, N. J. General Speni cer and Lieutenant-Colonel Heading bad narrow escapes. Five persons were killed and twenty1 nine Injured In a railway collision near Staples. Minn., between two passenger i trains. Valet Charles F. Jones, Patrick's acin !?? mnrrlpr of Millionaire I l.UUI III %U(. ?- ? Rice at. New York City, was released in $1000 ball. Several policemen and a pcore of locked out silk mill operatives were injured in a riot at Union Hill. N. J. In Paterson Mayor Hincbllffe suspended Chief of Police Grnul, and a meeting of Italian Anarchists in a cemetery was dispersed. , Frank Jones and John Johnson, negro murderers of Israel Radetsky, a peddler, were hanged in the Jail yard at Ellicott City. Md. Uttlng his bed sheet. Joseph Hoggatt, child murderer, hanged himself in a i cell at Salem. Ind. John G. McCullotigb was nominated i by the Republicans for Governor of , Vermont FOKEIOX. King \lberfs remains were burled at Dresden. Kaiser William and the Emperor of Austria being present at the funeral. Emperor William accepted the resignation of Herr von Thielen. Minister of Public Works, whom he decorated with the Order of the Black Eagle, and appoiuted General Budde to be bis sue Ct?880r. ' The officer* of the United States cruiser Albany were entertained by the American officiate and residents at Lis1 bon. Portugal. Bolivia notiUeil Brazil that she will, if the latter Government insist*, revoke the concession of the Acre territory to the A njjlo-American syndicate. The Duke of Manchester took his seat In the House of I^ords. bis financial difficulties buving been removed. | The Lloyds medal for meritorious service was presented to Captain Freeman, of the Roddam. for getting his steamship safely away from St Pierre. Martinique, when that city was destroyed. The street railway strike in Toronto, Dot., was semen, after tue nrnvui ui the military on the scene, by a com pro> inlse between employers and employed. At AlX-la Chapelle the Kaiser made an address on the necessity of religion I for the people. and at Krefeld insisted on the advantage* of a strong navy. An electric railway accident near Milau caused Injuries to forty-nine perI' son*. A Paris physician bad himself inoculated with diseased matter from a cow ir order to disprove Dr. Koch's tuberculosis theory. The introduction of a Joker iuto the French deck of playiug curds was authorized. Twj unknown men threw themselvcf 1 from the railroad bridge at Ottawa, Ont.. Uito the Ottawa Klver, and wert ! drowned. There was a decrease of teu per cent, [ in the beet root acreage in Germany I this year. , Venezuelan revolutionists wun several more important towns from President Castro. The Borough Council of Poplar. Lon don. accepted an offer from Andrew t Curnegie of $73.U00 for the establish meat of free libraries in the borough. f GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. Foam: A Drop of Bnfea'i Dew ?Th? Hktartol Sacuu Which Lmtui. Km m Spiritual Bankrupt?Tba 81a of 8l?rtlai tha Soul?Oar Korml Nacaaaltlaa. gome time between the dawn and dark. Go thou, O friend, apart. That a cool drop of heaven'* dew May fall into thy heart. Thus with a spirit soothed aid ccrcd Of restlesnnesa and F*in, Thou mayeiit, nerved with force divine, 'lake up thy work again. ?Rain's Iiora. The Fallara of flaceaaa. Pride, plenty and prosperity Jpve often produced the worst kind of poverty. When a man baa reached these he feel* that he has planted hi* feet firmly on the pinnacle of success. whereas he has really begun already?it these are on his heartto slip down the dismal slope of faijure. We pity often the man when he is climbing up, in the midst of his struggles, toiling, pinching, saving, denying himaelf; bnt really he does not need our prayers one-half as much as the man who is rejoicing to think that 9II those things are behind, that he can now say, "Soul, thou hast much goods bid up for many days; take thine ease." Tne nam times, tne uma uut wuik eternal hardship and Ion often begin at just the point where we feel that the g<x>d timea have come. The days of prosperity lare the daya of danger. Nations rise to greatness through times of struggle and aink to shame and death in their daya of japlendor. Pride and luxury eat out the heart of a people made strong by trial*. They fail from the height. Ana the course of man is aimilar. We hare watched him in hia struggle against tremendous odds, watched ana admired; and now he hns wou, he comca forth with success on his brow, and we look for further greatness. But no; the heart shrinks, the moral qualities decline and, with all his wealth and fame, he goea down to the darkest failure. The pnde of proaperity is the dangerous element. The succeaaful man usually thinks he is sell-made and he is apt to be | inordinately proud of his work; he has | done so good a job that he feels independ* | ent of tne Almighty; in fact, he thinks j that he ia almighty himself in hia own world. Hia material needs met he forgets I hi* moral necessities. Money talks, ar.d he j believes that it can be heard in heaven? if he ever thinks of that place?as well as ! ? u- that lInA will rnnm. ! UL'I C. 11C <Wuiuhi v>w ? Q tulate Himself on getting auch a bright, I energetic, successful man in heaven, j though the man may find it a little dull ; up there. To this man the only ain is poverty and the only righteouaneas ia to be rich. He feck that religion may be a good thing for the poor, the lower rlassea; but the cultured and respectable do not need it. And he knowa that be ia aa poor and naked in God'a eight aa the worst tramp and outcast ia in his. He knows not that God sees clear through his brown-stone front, the thin veneer of his culture and j respectability, the tine feathers of his fam- ! ily and i? weighing his soul, the onlv I measure of true success in the eternal balance*. lie has forgotten that the worst j failure would be to make a magnificent I success of building and burnishing a fine j house while you allowed its inmates to < starve to death. It ia not a ain to be rich; it is not a sin | to be poor; but it i* a sin to atarve the soul for the *ake of getting the style or ! securing a success in this poor world. Such - lom-.-Ht th* mail eternally bank rupt, an everlasting failure.?Ram i Ilora. , The Duty of Tolerance. Intolerance carries with it a lack of be- j lief in the sincerity of others, and a lack | of respect for the opinion of others. The j chances arc that the man who differs from us in some question oi belief has thought it over as carefully as we have and is as sii.cere in his conclusions as we are. Tolerance u an obligation upon us because it shows respect for the others. Tolerance as a duty is a hard thing to maintain. It need* constant watching and prayerful care. For as soon as a man begina to grant that another who differs from him mav be right, he is in danger of f losing somewhat of the positivenes* of his own conviction. It is not always easy to tell where tolcrance ends and weakness begins. For there must be no such thing as the tolerance of error. It takes a very I strong character, fortified by prayer and watchfulness, to tolerate the opinions of others and not yield to their errors. Yet j the same Paul who said, "Let us not judge *t?? A "tr ( h. 0K1C anoiucr 411/ mute, *** ....m stood Peter to the face, because he was to be blamed."?Boston Congregationalism 8?alng the Good. Why is it that the bad aide of life jeems so much more conspicuous than the good? Ia it becatue predominance of evil make* it more common, or that we being evil nee it more readily, or that the abnoraml, by its nature, utands out excres- j cent and disfiguring? Whatever the an- j xwer, it should be the ambition of every ; lover of goodness to sound its praises, to ; flavor his words with appreciation. Part ; of hating evil is ignoring it, neglecting it. j Thinking of things of good report and . apeaking of them otrenginens good. Shut- i ting our mouths as well as our ears ara'nst . the fruit of evil, in the scorn of silence, weakens its hold upon us. What the redeemed of the Lord say should strengthen ' the side of the Lord redeemed.?M. D i Babojck, D.D. R?U(lan Practicable. For all the vocations to-dav in onr in- 1 - :?ui. I dustml world re>>pon is pnuunuir, aim the Lord Jesus Christ can be served ac- j ceptabiy by all the people, all the week { and at all times.?The Kev. W G. Pirtridge, Cincinnati Jean* Hartd. Jesus dare?i to be Himself, original, spo**? taneous. independent. His face was set apiinst the proud, the fa)?e. th? arvogant i He loved common men and women a '.d believed in them.?The Rev. W. 1? Thy *> Chicago. Ppetr Point*. Secret prayer brings open power. GosjH simplicity ;s tranpareni irceri t. i A pure heart u worth ucrc than ulUM wealth. Do not think to bes^n ta live, when t!nu art ready to die. The aoul that pursues a sin u sure to overtake a sorrow. Jesus i? not a subject of study; lie u a revelation to the soul. Good men an-i women are the lest iu'.icators of God's omnipresence. Try each day to bring some so-il nearer to the goal you are trying yourself to reach. God hath so suited our duty to our interest, that obedience to His will u La^piness to ourselves. It takes only one volcano in the earth to show that the heart of the earth is iire, and that some day it may burst throi:i;h the thickest cnnt. * " " idii m >r; tragedy of our single sins. # Do?n the crack which tome one transgression nakes in the fair face of a smooth and blooming life, we can see waiting for <iod'.s fu lgment won! the tire before which that life shall be at hst consumed with fcrv.mf beat.?Ram's Uoro An Aatomallr Dstlni Stomp. Thomas II. Post has patented an automatic dating machine. Its principal advantage u a detachable ugnature die that can W removed and any other signature substituted in its place. By this arrangement in a business house where several :ir?> i-inrilovcil everv man can carry in his pocket th? die for his own signature and J insert it into the machine in a second when he want* to use the machine. In thin way ever* receipt that is given may he traced back to the man that gives it. The placing of dates is simplified, and there is an automatic self-inking attack merit, fiesh ink being applied to the riblion every time the machine i? u*ed. Thert is five-aixths less ribbon ined than is other machines, and the ribbon revolvef eniuUntlv in on a dirMtina. 1 THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 13. iiijtrt! Ih# T?b CeumsadaMats. D?Hh to Ood, Ex. xx., Ml-OoMw Text, Imko x., IT>Mmorj Tirm. 3-11? CoaouaUry or, the Itay'i Limm. 1. "And God pake." After the gloriout and tremendous display of the special pre#oft/St af fLvI nn Ulnnnf ttiMat koil >a1a?mn. "MW Vk V?VVi WU MVWU* utunt IMU tuiciuuited the mind* of the people and excited their awful expectation*, ft may be suppoeed that the sound of the trumpet ceased, and Jehovah Himaelf immediately pake in a voice loud enough to be distinctly heard by the immeeae assembled multitude. Afterward God wrote the law with Hi* own finger on two table* of atoue, and to-day He write* it on the "fleahly table* of our heart*." "These word*." The word* spoken are generally called the ten commandment*; although sometimes they are called the moral Uw, "because they lay. lown rule* for the conduct of men." They are alto called the decalogue. In the Old Testament they are called a covenant (Dent. 4: 13) or testimony. They are the simple word* of God's loving covenant to Hi* people, and not arbitrary commandments to His subject*. They bind God and Hii people in mutual affection. 2. "I am the Lord thy God." "Jehovah, *elf-exi*tent, independent, eternal, the fountain of all being and power. He tba? dives being may oive law, therefore He is able to reward obedience and punish dis obedience. Though all the people are here included in this address it ku intended for them individually, that each might feel that he was bound for himself to bear and obey all these word*." "Which have brought thee." Therefore thev were bound in gratitude to obey Him. They had been c?ye-witnesse* of the great things God had done for their deliverance. They were now enjoying the fruits of their deliverance and in expectation of a speedy settlement in Canaan. By redeeming them He acquired .1 further right to rule them. They owed their service to Him to whom they owed their freedom and vfhose they were by purchase. The First Commandment. 3. "Thou." fn the singular, and personal, because each individual most obey for himself. "Shalt have." The commandmenu arc given with authority. They are definite and positive. "No other gods before Me." I alone must he your God. I must hare the whole heart. This is reasonable. 1. Because there is no nhcr true God. 2. He is our Creator. 3. We are entirely dependent on Him. 4. He is a holy being, and His nature is worthy of our supreme affection. 5. By loving Him we receive the greatest good and the nignest happiness tnat can possiDiy come to us in this world. 8. To love Him ia the Foundation of all true religion. 7. Because apart from Him there ia no true happineaa. It is not necessary to actually bow down before dumb idola to be apiritual idolatora. Whatever we hold tint in our affections is our God. It may be ourselves, or our pos* lessions, or the honora and delights of this world, or it may be our Heaveiuv Father. The Second Commandment. Vs. 4-6. 4. "Any graven image." Nothing shall be made to represent God. or as a means of worshiping God. We have included here evrry species of idolatry known to have been practiced among the Egyptians. Advocates of idol worship doclare that the material images are merely to call up the mental idea of God, but this is positively -forbidden by this commandment. Those who worship Jehovah "muat not have any image before them, to direct, excite or assist their devotion. Though the worship was designed to terminate in God, it would not please Him if it came to Him through an image. "That ia in heaven." The ibis. ?tnrk_ cm Tin and hawk wore objects of Egyptian idolatry. "In the earth bentath." The ox, heifer, crocodile, serpent and beetle were also object* of Egyptian idolatry. "In the water." All fish were considered sacred among the Egyptian*. 3. "A jealous God.' God is not willing that any other should occupy the first place in the affections of Hi* people. "Visiting the iniquity," etc. Wji^e this is not intended to tjgach that the punishment of the personal t>jps of the parents will be in[ ratca on the children (Ezek. 18: 20), and while it is true that we will not be con* ; uemned by divine justice (or crimes ofl which we were never guilty, yet the law of ' heredity is such that even "remote dc! scendants inherit the consequences of their father*' sin* in disease, poverty and captiv' itv. with all the influences of bad example | and evil communications, but such suffer! tng must always be free from the sting of conaciencc. ? I 6. "Shewing mercy." Mercy is God's delight. He shows His favor and kindness to thousands of generations, while His judgments reach only to the third or fourth. "Keep My commandments." By I keeping His commandments we will show our love and put ourselves in a position to receive His mercy. The Third Commandment. 7. "The name." Bv the name of God we art to understand His titles by which He mxketh Himself known to us. "In vain." EithAby false oaths, common swearing, or light and irreverent mention of God. "Guiltless." The Lord will not treat him as innocent and allow him to go unpunished. The Fourth Commandment. Vs. 8-11. 8. "Remember." This was not enacting a new law. but reviving an old one. It may have been forgotten by the Hebrews, or po**tb;y denied to tbem wniie in r^ypi. "The isabbnth day." Sabbath means rest, and this day was to be a real day. "To keep it holy.'' The Sabbath must be kept, (1) As a day of rest from worldly biuinerfj. (2) As a day to be spent in holy cxerei?c. God, by ble?*ing it, had made it holy and they, by solemnly bleuinjr Him, miut keep it holy. It was not merely to be a day of rest from labor, but it was to be a day s;t apart for divine worahip. i). "Shalt thou labor." "Labor is a duty as well as a necessity." "Here is a positive commandment, as explicit as that wbi' h OMiAir.a At rMt " CllJ'':itn kuc i?iivu??ii v% t w?. 10. "The seventh day." Ever)' seventh day. One seventh of our time should ho given to God. "Not do any work." From this it is evident that the commandment wa? understood as forbidding all sort* of ordinary work, and was to lie applied to the cattle, that is. to the beasts of burden. It was also applied to the stranger, or foreigner. who settled in any ot the cities of Israel. 11. "For in six days." etc. God's rest at the ."lose of the creative week Ik made a reason for the sanctity of the sevaath day. In the new dispensation we have Hio Christian Sabbath which is observed on the first day of the week, called the Lord's day, because on that day Christ rose from the tomb bringing new hope and life to the worid. The God who bad the authority to institute the Sabbath in honor of the work of creation, bad authority to change the &iobath in honor of a still greater work, the work of human redemption. The Christian church has always observed the tint <iay of the week as(the Christian Sabhatb A Novel Lawn Mowtr. A Canadian has applied the old principles of the revolving knife-wheel to the lawn mower. His machine looks like an enlarged pair of hair-clippers, but is not of th.s same mechanism. The stationary guides, made in the shape of a fork, run through the grass and hold it in pla^e while the revolving wheels cut it off. The operating mechanism is so simple ?L.. I-w nnt lilrt'lv to get mill l UC iftff u luunvi iff J - ? out of order, and may be bought reasonably. The power required to push the machine will be less than in one which , has more friction to overcome. Memento** of De?<l <]a*?n. Lord Roberts records the fact in the Official Gazette that in April, l&X), Queen Victoria intrusted him with four woolen scarfs. worked bv herself, which 'she desired distributed to four distinguished private soldiers of the colonial contingents of Canada. Australia. New Zealand and South Africa. Tin- Canadian searf Eo?*s to Private (now Lieutenant) Rowind Thompson, of the Royal Canadian Regiment, for t>er*oual gallantry in the field. Basalt of Kite Kxperiments. ? - ?:.L I.;.? Keoent CXpvrimem* Wiin tun n.??t ?li?wti that electricity is usually noticed on t!ic wire controller when the kite exceed* .in ultituJe of 17'W feet. By tiving kite* from veneN at sea. it is <uid. xudden squall* can be foretold even when the barometer faiii to indicate their accroach. in ii nrjypynTTfuiTjTiwi I^I'H ' i mi J THE GREAT DESTBOYEB SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. r?MU Going Dow* tk? Htll-Utiw>W mm* In Q?mu r?BOJOOOJOO, DoUM tbo C?tt of Arm j mad fmrj, Iffit bdl Iw-IurMM la CrlaM ud Insaaity. A rear ago his eyes were clear. He had a cheerful way. But deep despair was in bis air When I met him yesterday. He tried at first to smile and jest, To keep it,from me, atili Hi* manner piainly showed that he Was going down the hill. Through tear* he told his bitter talc; The story's tirrte and old; A itumble, and the utart was oade; He'd lojt his slender hold! "And, oh!" he cried in bitterness. "It takes a mighty will To put the brake on when yoa'vc once Got started down the hili! "I see the ones I love distressed, ^ I hear them cry for bread, ^ i'Jiu wncn me mccu uic * vu. uuur Her eye* an* wet and red. I've tried to change the course of tlunga, I've prayed for succor, till There seem* to be no stopping when You've atarted down the hill!" He shambled on with bead Ijt7 borrcJ. He that a year ago Could overlook tbe surging crowd. Now piteous and low! I watch him stumble through a deer? Alas, aa weaklings will? And lean against a gilded bar That tilted down the hill. -6. Z. Kiser. Csrmaay as4 tbs Drink Qssstlss. A resolution haa been proposed and adopted without oppoaition in tbs Prussia* Diet requesting the Ministry to prepare bill to impose more rigid restrictions on tbs liquor traffic. The resolution was intrw duced by Count Douglaa, who stated thai ? < r?n >kti]in?r nimvU. hilt (Kit hs was deeplv impressed with the injury is* flicted in Germany by excessive indulgence in drink. The Germans, he added, spend 3.000,000,000 mark* (9750,000,000) a year ia drink, twice the amount of the army and navy budget*, and 180,000 persona were brought before the courts through drink. The number of criminals was increasing 10,000 annually, and the number of coo* vie ted persons had increased from 299,140 in 1882, to 478,139 in 1899. In the insane asylums intemperance furnished thirty pec cent, of the inmates, and eighty per ccai. of Germany's idiots were the children of intemperate people. The loss to industry through excessive drinking was incalcula* ble. Germany, while leading the world in so* cial reform legislation, had done practically nothing against drinking. The United States was oy far more advanced than Get* many in this respect. He condemned tb? drinking cult in the universities, aaying it was a jolly life while it lasted, but it bad many tragical sequels. Two practicing physicians followed withi statements drawn from their own exp#> rience. Dr. Endemann asserted that alcoholists succumbed to the tubercle bacilus much easier tnan omers, ana ur. jncricw aid the mortality in all diseases was three or four times greater in the caae of alcoholista than among abstainer*, comparing pennon* of equal physical strength. Just how the Prussian Government wiD meet the problem remains to be seen. The question is of world-wide interest, and every experiment in the regulation and restriction of drinking adds something to the rum of human knowledge and will be aidful to legislators who may hare to deal with the same subject. While the cultivation of good habits and deportment is more par* ticularly a matter of moral*, and sobriety cannot be enforced by acts of Parliament, still the mandate of the law may usefully '9 supplement the jwrsuajions of morality. Barnlng Words of Advle*. r T. V. Powderly, former head of the Knights of Labor, in an address, gave these burning words of advice: Had I 10,000,000 tongues and a throat for each tongue. I would say to every man, woman and child here to-night: Throw strona drink aside as you would an ounce of liquia hell. It sears the conscience, it destron everything it touches. It reaches into tne family circle and takes the wife you had sworn to protect, and drags ber down from ber uurity into that house from which no decent woman ever goes alive. It induces the father to take the furniture I rum uij uuuic, it iui muKj m the pawnshop, aha spend the proceeds in rum. It damn* everything it touch*. I have Men it in every city east of the Mia* sissippi River, and I know that the nod damning cur*e to the laborer ia that which Burgled from the neck of the bottle. I had rather be at the head of an organization having 100,000 temperate, nonost, earnest men than at the head of an or* ionization of 12,000.000 drinker*, whether moderate or any other kind. Every dim* ppent in the rumsbop furnishes a paving stone for hell. In one Pennsylvania county in a single year $17,000,01)0 was spent for liquor, and it was estimated that $11,000,000 of the amount came from workingmen. A Double Knock. "In knocking down his wife the man knocked me out of the liquor trade." Ia these words F. N. (Harrington, so well known in connection with religious and temperance work in East London, close* his account of the way in which he was led to never hu connection with the great brewing tirm of Cbarrington, Head & Co.. of which be was a partner. The man in aOMtion wan drinking in a public home which Mr. ("harrington happened to be pasting. His wife just at that moment pushed open the door, and anpealed.to her husband for money to buy bread to feed their starring children. By way of answer ber husband felled her to the ground. Mr. Charrington noticed that the signboard bore the name of his tirm. He reflected that this particular house probably furnished many such cases, and that the same was true of hundreds of other houses owned by the company. The responsibility was more than he could bear, and from that hour he resolved to give up his partnership, worth a'jout $100,000 a year. Alcoholic Htrrdilj. Dr. T. D. Crothers. editor of the Amert* can quarterly journal 01 incurwijr, but* on this subject: "In .1 report which I mad* before the American Society for the Study of Inebriety where the histories of 1744 inebriates were studied. liWO had .1 distinct historv of heredity. Many of these case* were direct heredities, the impulse to drink passi-jg down from father to child with great exactness. Usually the transmission of a <w ink imoulse ends in extinction of the race after the second generation, not always bv inebriety or drug taking, but by other diseases which are encouraged by the ijw vitality of the victim " The Crnads In Brief. France is greatly alarmed over the & create of inebriety. Mn?e. Marie Rose declares that nothing it mi injurious to the voice of a singer a* wine. Habitual drunkenness is a direct cause f.?r absolute divorce 111 thirtv-five States of .1.- 1 C'hevenne. Wyoming, has been pnt on practically a prohibition basia by th* cloon;' (?f twenty-live *a!oons. \Vhi.?ky ilix** it* work *o well, it unread* ?o far over the country, that no child can fail direct ie or in<i:reet'.y to be acquainted with it* effect*. r.v vote of the National Council of th# Km/bt? of l 'olumbu*. in anr.'ia! ?e*Aton at New Haven. Conn., no more death benefit# will I* paid to member* who are liquor iteaier*. It plain that the thought* of the Swell:*.1! people were early tunie.l to th<* <lanjter of ?trong <:rmk. lor in the "K?Ma." a Imik of ancient nivthoi'v.rii-aS ii.tem*. !?rjb ably onziti-itin^ in the oigiuh or ninth century. warning may be ivund u^ain?t ?trong drink. The (ierman navy eo?t< each inhabitant of the empire W* than two and a bill mark* a year, wink* the amount spent each for *lcoh >. and tobacco in tiveaty fouf time* a? much The -mount apent a ytar for \ ?er. wine. wb??!ry and tub?OM M 3.'.W.OJO.<J<? marks.