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THE BLACKBERRY PATCH. 11 "" f ^ The biackberr, patch near the garden fenc?? What marvels it* depths may hold! 1 And far in its jungle what strange events j i Await, to challenge the bold! ! , What cosy corners which none can see Who chances to know them not' And oft from the cares of the day I dee 1 To v-.iit the friendly spot < And lo! when I gaze at the tangled rows Where a thousand times I've been. A queer little boy. with freckled do*, Appears and leads mc in. < Together ire crawl on hands and knees Through a barbed and winding way. And here, in the mid.?t of the ants and bees, To our hearts' delight we play 1 He shows me hii treasures, one by one: The next of the old black hen; I fTn- L *? * ?nirl.?r art tin IDC WCU UT kUC WUiitMviM t?, I , , The terrible bandit's den; The cunning retreat where Towner hide* When be wants enjoy a bone; And miny a curious thing besides. Confided to me, a kmc. Hare you guessed the secret* Why. don't you know? That queer little boy is I! And be takes me into the Long Ago. Where the realms of Childhood He. We play at the wonderful make-brl.eve We often have played before. Till the dawn arrives, and from morn till eve 1 am only a man once more. ?Edwin L. Sabin, in Puck. THE CRIMINAL AND THE PHILANTHROPIST. ' i___J p ^ /-^r ttOU really are that cele- t \/ brated?I should say no- li J torioua ? criminal. Louis t Parraffe?" asked the phll- t ikamiai itnnhtfnllT b "Certainly," naid the big mao la the d easy cbalr. He looked good-natured and at tbe same time rather tired and o contemptuous. He bad been through f It all; tbe accepted ideas and the usual h people did not matter much; but there s was no reason to be angry with them t or anything else. s "I was extremely glad that our mu- v tual friend, Mr. Tim m Ins, was able to f Induce you to come and pay me a visit. I need not assure you of our good faith. You hare nothing to fear." _ A smile nasneu over me kuuum. ? face; tbe philanthropist went on rapIdly t "We are not In with the police. I n on't saj we oppose them?that would Q be Ulega^-bat we are not in sympathy ^ with them. Now. before we begin to c talk, what may I offer you? A cup of tea**?valiantly outing with his proof c that he was no fanatic?"a whisky and c oda? And what about a cigarette?" d "Thanks." said tbe criminal; "I never ( drink at three in tbe afternoon. For t that matter. I never drink tea or wbis- ' key at any time: tbey undoubtedly spoil tbe nerve, f or me Mine ic??uu I prefer my pipe. If you don't mind?' "By nil meant. I'm afraid I smoke four of these every day of my life, and sometimes It runs to five or sis? t! mere habit Now, my views are pretty ^ well known, and It would interest me p extremely to have tbe views of a great ?I should perhaps say remarkable? b criminal upon tbem. I bold that tbe (i prison ruins tbe body, lowers tbe in- h tellect and destroys the soul." The ^ last phrase came pat and mechanical. b The philanthropist bad used it on many platforms. b "Undoubtedly," said the criminal. "But what else can yon expect?" ? "Surely in this twentieth century." the philanthropist began, and stopped blankly. "Briefly, there are more stupm ana Ignorant people than clever and well t( informed people. Oir method of treat- 11 Ins criminal* please* the stupid and ig- ^ norant majority." "You're quite right," said the phil- * anthropist, eagerly. "That majority J must be educated. Already there has been some advance. Look at the sen- P tences that nsed to be carried out less than a hundred years ago: they would not be tolerated now. But there 1* r murh to be learned. Now I see the v prison of the future as a handsome. 0 well-lighted, airy place, with a fine 1 garden attached, and a swimming u bath, and?er?a gymnasium and 11- r brary. and?er?everything of that sort. n There would be comfortable recrea- a tlon-rooms; bagatelle ? perhaps billiards. Gambling and bad language*. a of course, prohibited. There would be an employment bureau, which would r look after every man when he had 1 finished his term. There would lie a * ay*tem of rewards for good conduct, and there would be a good deal of mu- j* lc?we should believe in a refining . process " The philanthropist was conscious that he had pat It better on platforms. There was something in the criminal's good-natured and contemptuous eye that disconcerted him. "How does It strike you?" be asked. When the criminal was able to speak (or laughing. be said: "Excuse me?it's rubbish, of course!" "You don't think that as a method of reclamation " Again the philanthropist stopped blankly. "No criminal Is ever reclaimed. Peo- I pie who are not criminals, but have < made mistakes, may see the advantage t Of not making any more?that happens t sometimes. But the natural criminal i remains the natural criminal, just as i the natural genius remains a genius, i and for Just the same reasons. Ea- j Ironment and circumstance may make I the occasional criminal, but the real < thing?that is inborn, that is the man : ? himself." i "Oh. but I can't hold with you there." i aid the philanthropist, plucking up i heart "That is a desperate doctrine, i And the facts are all against you. Do < ?nn know th? work that the Salvation 1 Army is doing?" I "Certainly. It is well meant. And i you may depend upon a religious orgy I to produce in some people n kind of i hypnatic state under which suggestion I acts very strongly on them. That is i found in all religion*. The perrna- 1 nence of the conversion in the real < criminal depends on the hypnotic con- ! ditiou and the suggestion being fre- I quently renewed. Take these away i and the roan goes back again; be lis i Bo more reclaimed than I am." I "That's not my version of It at all,"' < fadl the philanthropist < , -Nor"And look here. Ton think the pres- < nt penal system all wrong. You < teem to have so faith in wide-minded religion! and philanthropic endeavor# 1 What Ih left?" "Science. The study of the correla-1 tion of mental and physical abnor , mailt lex is In its infancy: on the moral .*ide the map of the brain is very in oraplete. There are some splendid things in their narly stapes. If we gel >n as fast this century as we did last Id our itudy of the human double lumping we shall have practically let tied the criminal question by the ?nd of It." "It's awful?this idea of that irreiponsibillty of the criminal." "On the contrary, it's most hope- I ul." I "And how is the brain of the criminal o be altered?" "How should I know? I'm not a loctor. By altering the character of j he blood supplied to It. I suppose, j ?osslbly by operation?the tendency : lowadays seems to be toward more 1 cnlfe and leas pill-box. Of course. 1 rhere nothing rise can be done the 1 riminal will be killed. I personally ?ugbt to be killed, and should be If I ! rere In a civilized country. I am ! be real thing. But we hang only | uurderers. who nearly always are use- ; ul people, and ought not to be killed i it all. It's a funny world. But I am I ifraid I shall never make you see j hese things my way. In any case I j oust be off. I am going to?I shall j >e rather busy to-night and I want. If | can. to get a few hours' sleep first. [ ?ood-by. Charmed to have met you." He shook hands warmly with the I ihilanthroplst and left quickly. "Extraordinary case." the philanhroplst thought to himself. "Must iave had some smattering of educa- j ion. Well dressed, too. Wonder if j h?>r<? l? anv Hme to make a nete of It i lefore I so to dress for the annual ! Jnner." And then bo noticed that a !ktle bit f bis watch chain was hanging loose rom his buttonhole. The rent of It tad gone. So also had the very bandome gold watch presented to him by he committee, with the pretty incription about "twenty years of deoied and voluntary service."?Barry 'aln. NEW IN STREET CAR TRAVEL. lado Merchant* Prorld* a Pmmbcm Station to Help Their Trad*. One of the novelties of stTeet railway ravel In this country Is a passenger tatloo provided rent free by the merbants of a certain street in Toledo. It iaj a newsstand in it and a parcel heck room adjoining. Through tbl? particular street five ar lines run. and they bring to the Ity on an average 5000 passengers a aw The nwrohanti dolnir business In' be street, realizing the advantage to bemselves of having these passengers light there wanted the railway comanles to establish the station. The companies didn't see why they j honld. So the merchants have done j t for themselves. They have rented a large store for hree years and provided it with [ enches and lockers. Any citizen may ent a locker for five cents a day and ave packages sent there, to be put in is box. Then when the time comes or him to go home be can start with is purchases without having bad all be trouble of lugging them about with lm all day. The experiment, though a new one. as been so successful already that it i likely to be Imitated elsewher.*.lew York Sun. Why H? Taratd Pal*. At a shooting range there is usually a riepbone from the marksman's stand a toe target, me marker is mus iu . ommunlcation with the shooter, and ' -nkre Is used Is is no danger. Oceaionally, however, accidents happen ke the following, which the Hon. T. \ Freetnantle tells In bis recently ubllsbed volume. "The Book of the LI fle." Sir Henry Ilalford was shoot ng at a ! ange of a thousand yards. Ihe day ; ras not clear, and It wus im|?ossible t such a distance to see surely, even brough a glass, the movements of the larker. Thinking the marker must be eady for bim to begin. Sir Henry sked through the telephone. "Are you , 11 right?" The marker replied. "All right, sir. in ' , minute." Unluckily. Sir Henry caught the "All | ight. sir." but missed tbe last part of ! he gentmre by removing the telephone ! oo soon from bis ear. He lay down and tired a shot. On j ooking through his telescope, he was ! lorrifled to see the marker with a per- j ectly white face staggering tovard lis shelter. Ringing him np on the telephone. Hi? lenry crltd. "What has happened? i {r? vnn lifiillr "So, sir, I'm not hurt." came the *eply, "but I hail a bucket of whitewash between nay legs, painting the arget. and you put a bullet into It ind splashed it all over my face." Dlvarftlon I* Bast. That physical rest may bo obtained >y bringing into play a different sot >f muscles from those previously in j ise is illustrated in the old story of | be pugmill mule that was found to itep off briskly In the afternoon it illowed to reverse the motion of the nllL The child who produces incipient giddiness by twistiug up a swing, >ring? the unequal congestion of the centres of equilibrium to a balance by i ran'd untwisting motion. Absolute vat of mind or body scarcely exists, J relative test or modification o* the j node of activity gives a sensation of ; rest at any rate. After a long day cf j -lose visual application, when tbe J Minds press tbe tired eyes (although j ibis particular mode of stimulating j risual sensation may be harmful). Jow delightful to many persons are the subjective sensations of color?the kaleidoscopic effects that come and go n-ith slight variations in pressure. The braiu finds rest in au objectless play )f color; so the tired mind seeks rest From the stress of routine duties, cot in tha nnrnnsrImisii^ss of but in the frolicsome vaudeville, or tbe perusal of light literature or tbe newspaper. Perhaps this explains to sotie fxtent the wonderful demand for books of Action and magazines, as well as for the plotless stage performance so characteristic of these days of strenuous Intellectual life.?American Med I* cine. DR. CHAPMAN'S SERMON A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED PASTOR.EVANCELIST. A Sortl Kw?-S<lf the Greatest Katmj of Most Men?Two fl ?jn Into Hrtren?TTralth and Power Will Not Anil tbe Slaaer oa Jadpaeat Uajr. New Yobk ClTT?The Rev. J. Wilbur ChADman. the popular pnntor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, whose reputation as an evangelist is second to none, has prepared an interesting sermon upon the subject, "A Novel Race." which is preached from the text, Proverbs 14: 12, "There is a way which scemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways of death." Some time during last summer the Rev. Joseph Parker, the pastor of the City Temple in Boston, was asked to take the editor's chair of the London Sun. He was given full liberty to print just what he wished in the paper or to keep out of the columns what in his judgment was not conducive to make an ideal paper. One dajr in the place of the racing news which the readers of the Sun had been accustomed to peruse he printed under the caption of "A Novel Race Record" a description of the race of life, and for each point made emphatic in the lives of those who frequent the race course and follow racing as a business he presented a passage of Scripture. This was. to say the least, startling. One of our Mew xoric paper*, quoting from hi* uttering* in the London Sun, printed the following: A NOVEL RACE RECORD. London.?The Rtr. Joseph Parker print* in the Sun to-day in place of the usual racing column what he calls a correctcd race record, as follows: The Eternitr Stakes. The Start?Born in sin. etc. Psalm LI.: 5. The Race?All gone out of the way, etc. Romans III.: 12. The Finish?After death the judgment, etc. Hebrews IX.: 27. The Weighing Room?Thou are weighed in the balances and art found wanting. Daniel V.: 27. Settling Day?For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own sot)T Mark VIII.: 36. This outline for a sermon ha* been in pur mind sincc first tiv eyes lighted upon it, and to the great London preacher I am indebted for tbe suggestions of this sermon, and yet I am quite free to confess that the only reason I hare chosen the outline, and indeed the only reason I preach the sermon is that I hare a great desire that those of you who are running the race of life should lay hold upon eternal life. It is a great mistake "for men to preach without giving their hearers an op nortunitv to confess Christ. When Mr. Moody firat began his public ministry in Chicago he went through & course of sermons on the life of Christ, and camc at last to the crucifixion, when the most profound impression had been made. }][e felt as if he ought to give an invitation, but neglected to do so. The audience was dismissed never to come together again, for that night the great conflagration in Chicago was upon the city, and many of his hearers were quickly ushered into eternity, and so while 1 present this novel race record I present it only that you may run the race with Christ. If I had the time in this connection 1 might say some words concerning the book in which the text is found. It has been said by some one that there is no part of the Bible which more thoroughly proves the inspiration of the Scriptures, for no mere man could have written these wise sayings; another has suggested that the thirty-one chapters in the book contain a lesson for each dy of the month, and no man would lind himself failing m frequently if be should imbibe the wisdom of these ; i. nnt , rendition of life that is not met by tbe wisdom of the writer of this book. I might also suggest the different figure* which are u*r*d in the Bible which describe a human life. It is spoken of under the figure of a voyage with it* day* of calm and nights of storm, it* south winds blowing deceitfully against us. and telling of prosperity that never come* and it* hurricane which almost drires us against the rock* and to death, but one of the be?t figures is that of a race for no man walks when he races, but runs. He must be desperately in earnest, and no one really makes a success of his life without this same thing is true of him. There is little place for the laggard in human life to-day. We must run if we would win. and no race is permitted without contestants. In this race of human life which we atart there are three contestants which strive earnestly to defeat us. The first is elf?the greatest ene:ty that the mo*t of u* have is self. Other men fight battle* and rest when the victory is won. but no man has ever ret been able to rest in the straggle with himself. The Bib!e is true. "Greater is he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city." and many a man has been a hero in the battlefield and made a miserable failure with hi* struggle with himself. The world is generally against us. "Woe be unto you when ail men speak well of you," and if no one opposes you it is well to stop and see wherein ycu may be wrong, but possiblv the greatest adversary of all is the devil, the thin! one of this trinity of contestants, for an/1 /Iaooi (kn strongest character i* made weak and the purest soul tainted; but I am not so much concerned about the running of the race just at thli* time as the preparation for the end. The text i? a striking one. "There is a way which seemcth right unto a man: but the end thereof are the ways ot death." "There in a way that seemeth right." I take it that none of u? have determined deliberately to be lo3t. Our mother's memory is too aacred and our father's example tso powerful to permit us deliberately to choose death inslendof life. '.Ve are merely procrastinating. We have chosen a little more of the world's pleasure. faUely so-called, ami determine to have a little more of the world's honor, and the way seemeth right, for some day we may be saved, and yet no one has a certain prospect of salvation if he neglects Christ to-day. for he h>i* made no provi ?ion for the morrow. The er.d baffles description. There is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, and 1 present thin outline in order that we may know that wc cannot ;ifford to run the racc alone. I. The start. Psalm 51: 5, "Ikhold. I wa> shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me." This is a Bible statement, but experience proves the truth of it and history emphasises it in every particular. However men may rebel against the doctrine of original <in, and speak of it as an injustice and all ?f that, nevertheless, thi* we know to be true that we are born with n bias to sin. vnd also that if we were to apeak honestly we would say that from the very first it lias been easier for us to do wrong than to do right. We have been in a great company in this experience, for even the great apostle said, "\Vhen 1 would do good evil is present with me." I do not for a moment imagine that we are guilty, any of us. of great sins, but the existence of little iins will prove the existence of a sinful A famoiM ruby was offered for sale to the English Government. The report of the crown, jeweler was that it was tin; finest he hail ever seen or heard of, but that one of the "facet*," one of the little jutting* of the face, was ?lightly fracture*?. The result was that that almost invisible (law reduced iU value by thousands of pounds, and it was rejected from the regalia of England. Again, when Conova was about to commence his famous statue >f the great Xapoleon, his keenly observant I . _A_ i _ I i: : eve aeitciea a uny reu un?? running through the upper portion of the splendid Mock that at infinite cost had been fetched from l'aros, and he refused to lay chi*cl up. it. Once more, in the story of [ the early struggle* of the e!der Herschel. while he was working out the problem ot gigantic telescopic specula, you will find that he made wore* upon scores before he got one to satisfy him. A scr.itch like a finder thread caused one to lie rejected, although it had co?t him weeks of toil. \V? certainly must all of us plead guilty to the little flaws, the line of defect, and the scratch uf?on the character is there, :iuy as a spider's web. II. The race. Romans 3: 12. "They are all jone out of the way. they are together be?me unoroti table; there is none that doetb rood, no, not one." If wt object to t&e first statement, which, nerertaeleas, ex perience proves to be true, wa certainly cannot resist the power of the second ' statement, for the apostle writes that we hare all gone away from God. When there came a time in our live* when it wu possible for us to choose cither the right I or the wrong we well remember th?t the tendency all along has been to choose the wrong, or at lea*: to permit it, and when we remember that it is the wrong in Hu judgment that we are responsible for the message ia a solemn one that we have to do | with who taught the commandments and ; made the look of lust idolatry, and the feeling of murder against a brother mur- ! der. There are two ways in which men j might get into heaven; one is the way that ; is marked with blood, "And though your ; ains be as scarlet they shall be as white as ! snow," and the other is the keeping of the i whole law. If wc could do that God will accept us, but we cannot, and we certainly know wc have not. "He that offends in one point is guilty of all," not that he hai broken all, but in the single offense he ha* broken away from God. But from the standpoint of the unregencrate man at least this statement is true, and I speak now in the language of the unregenerate. You are not lost Because of Adam's tin, or an inherited tendency to evil, but rather because you have rejected Christ for yourself. Let us imagine a case. You luve consumption, and it has come to you front a long line ot ancestry. ana i went 10 you and know a cure for consumption, and if you will but take it you may be whole again, and I recite to you the instances of hundreds of people who have been sick and now are well, but you refuse the cure and die, not because you were a consumptive with an inherited tendency to this disease, but because you have rejected the cure, and men are lost because they have rejected Christ. Ill The finish. Hebrews 9: 27, "And aa it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment." I never speak the word judgment that I am not startled, not for myself, and when I say that I do not mean to exhibit the spirit that I am holier than thou, but startled because of the unsaved m.tn who is in danger of the judgment, for God has distinctly said conccrning the saved, "There is therefore now no judgment to them that are in Christ Jesus." This is a personal matter. No one can appear in judgment fvr us. We must stand there for ourselves, and the thought of the judgment will make us think when evcryching else has been banished from our minds. It u a place of meeting; min will meet his conscience, and that will be all that is necessary. "All I know of the future judgment (V trhata/wM-or if mar h* That to standalone with my conscience, Will be judgment enough for me." And he will meet his record. It will not be necessary that the book shall be opened. The book of one's own record will condemn; that sin of last night which no one know* but vou and God is against you; that sin in London which no one dreanu of but yourself and your Maker has made its record, and the things that we hare forgotten are standing against us. God pity us if we do not make ready for that day, and we cannot make ready except by faith in Christ and we can meet God. We have sinned against Him, we hare trampled His lore under our feet, we hare rejected His Son. and in that day we shall me^t Him and n-ho shall be able to stand? IV. The weighing room. Daniel 5: 27, 'Thou art weighed in the balanced, and art found wanting." There is a machine m the Bank of England that in a very wonderful way sifts the sovereign*. You could hardly believe it. There is a whole ca*e of sovereigns there by the man, who. like an ordinary miller at an ordinary mill tokei his scoop and shovels up these sovereign) that men have tumbled the one over the other to get hold of. and he put* them in his machine. He feeds his mill the ?imc way as the old farmer feeds his threshing machine, and it takes hold of the coins and Vests them. It weighs and poises each, throwing the light ones to one side, and allowing those that are good and solid and up to the mark la flow into another receptacle. It is a marvelous bit of human ingenuity, but its testing aualitie* are nothing beside the bar of tne judgment of God; nothing to the final assize, when the dead, small and K;at, shall stand before (Jod. You had tter put it right. The Spirit says you are a happy man if you realize your shortcomings in time and get it covered. When that day comes He shall weigh our motives. It is not what we have done, but the motive thut prompted the doing, and He shall test our acts. It is not the good to others which we have accomplished that shall count for us, but that which baa been for His glory; and He shall *?ek out our thoughts, and woe be unto that man wliose motives and acta and thought* arc against Him. "Weighed and found wanting." That was a solemn scene in the Book of Daniel where Belshazzer and his guett* forgot the splendor of the room in which they feasted, the brilliant lights, the beautiful women, the sweet music and see only the fingers of a j man's hands writing on the plaster of the j wall. "Weighed and found wanting," and , a more striking scene than that snail be our ciperience it we ncglect Christ. V The settling day. Mark 8: 3G. "For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the i whole world and lose his own soul." It u ! a possible thing for one to almost win the j world. We can have its music and its art i and its honor and its pleasure, and in a ' sense its wealth, but what shall it profit us. j A great Illinois farmer who years ago j took Mf. Moody over his Urn; said to him ; with pride. "All this is mir.-e, Mr. Moody," and then took him to the cupola of nil I iioujc and showed him the extent of his > possessions. He point*. J out the land I fence in the distance, and the W?e in an- j other direction, and the grove in still an other direction, and said. "All this if ! mine," and Mr. Moody said, "It is a great | farm, hut how much have you up yonder?" pointing heavenward. "Alas," said the man. "I have been so busy here that I j have made no provision for the country there." In one of Tolstoi's books there is an illustration of that part of Russia where it is said in the story a Russian peasant can have all the territory he can measure out from sunrise to sunset, and Tolstoi tells of a peasant who started in the morning at the break of day and ran with all speed ; to mark out his possessions. He sees the waving trees in the distance and determines they shall lie his. and the lake beyond him. and he says that shall be mine, and the splendid p'.ain, and runs to take it in, and lifts his eyes to tind that the sun is beyond the meridian. Then he bends every energy to reach the starting point, and'just as the sun goes down he reaches it, falls upou his face from sheer weakness, and the land is all his, but Tolstoi savi they stooped down to pek him up am! he is dead. He ha* Rained it all and lost his soul. This is a picture of many a man striving for honor and for pleasure and far power. What shall it all profit in that sreat day? What We Ml*.. What wc just miss is often a lisappoink mcnt to us which we think of and wcrry about. This is the ease when it wis a thing of pleasure or profit that w.? missed Hut we are r.ot always grateful enough on account of the evils or penis that we hard ly es-aped. Dangers that we were soared from bv moving a little earlier or later, and temptations that we 'esisted. rr that failed to lead us awa> because of other inducements. of which we thought little at itint.- ivfn> of more inmortance to u# than we sufficiently ronsider. The love I th.it is over us at all times. guiding an J ?hielding u.4 by day and l>y night. when we are in dangers seen and unseen, is greater than we ever think of or imagine. Our Father never forget* us. even though we so often forget Him. What a Father is ours??Sunday-School Times. Arbitrariness of Christiana. The arbitrariness of Christians drives many seekers away. It was the aim of the Master to bring in all the doubting Thomases While it is of prime importance that we should know that God is our Father, it is not these mere revelation that is important, but the character of the Father. TEE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. A Scottish Kiywt l>ji The! tht Eimi In Cm of Alcoholic 9iimal*i>t* Cihm Cadao Amount of Moatal Miiiii Muiartdarlac focUl Bardoas. William P. Spratliog, M. D., Superintendent of the Craig Colony for Epileptics, i writes m follows: In the eighty-eighth annual report of the Roya! Marningside A?y- 1 lutn at Edinburgh, Dr. T. S. Clous ton, the very distinguished and able Superintendent of the institution, says about alcohol a* a cause of insanity: "I cannot mya?lf get over the conclusion that the excessive use of alcoholic stimulants during times of brisk trade and high wages has to a large extent been the cause 1 of the undue amount of mental disease which we have been called on to treat thij year. We had, as a matter of face, 115 1 cases, or about a quarter of our whole number of admissions, in whom drink was assigned as either the sole or as a contributory cause of the disease. If the admission 1 f men alone are looked at, eighty-one. or about one-third of them, were alcoholic ' cases. I have never had experience of nnything approaching this beforo, and I should fail in my duty it, seeing more of the terri Die enecis OI excessive aiconouc uriiikuiit in destroying honor and reason and selfcontrol than almost anything else in Scot- 1 land, I did not strongly draw attention to a fact to disgraceful to us as a community. 1 The mental doctor sees the very worst that alcohol can do. 1 "No bodily disease, no familv ruin, no social catastrophe is so bad as the destruc- ! tion of mind. It is certain that for every j man in whom excessive drinking causes absolute insanity there are twenty in whom it injure* the brain, blunts the moral sen?e and lessens the capacity for work in lesser degrees. The brain generailv. and especially its mental functions, suffer first, and suffer most from alcohol in cxcess. Ignorance of this fact, thoughtlessness. present enjoyment of its effects, the temptation* or the possession of money, bad environment*, dangerous social customs and hereditary brain instability are the chief determining factors why men drink to such excc?s that they become insane. When in any commu- ' nity there is a large class to whom prosperity always means excessive indulgence in drink and defiance of natural and moral law. it means that a higher sort of education is needed or that degeneration has set in. Mental inhibition is the very highfest | and mixt important brain quality, the salt without which social decay u inevitable. Without m average natural endowment of this quality a man thereby exhibit* a moral imbecility. Excessive ujc oT alcoholic or other brain stimulant* Much a man is especially prone to, and it soon finishes off his usefulness, so that he becomes a criminal, a loafer or a lunatic. Henceforth he is a burden or a curse to the community. "Or if we take the man who originally 1 had an average inhibitory power, but who has deliberately thrown it away by the excessive use of alcohol, he too soon becomes a social burden and nuisance. Has society ' no remedy in the way of prevention of such causes of insanity? I can imagine a politician or lawyer of the doctrinaire sort saying that a true conception of liberty necessarily implies the liberty for a man to drink himself to death if he can afford' to do so at his own expense. But it IooIm 1 to even a plain man an irrational applica- j tion of the doctrine of liberty to say that every man has the inalienable right to ren* | J aer aim?c:i >\ Durucn uu umcr |n.u^*cv anu a source of degradation and danger to the ' community by any means whatever. Many people state very confidently that no legit- 1 lative or State means can possibly dimin- 1 ish the injurious drinking ot alcohol. Such persons cannot have seriously looked at the effects of the recent laws in regard to drink in Norway and Sweden, and other facts set out in that mine of facts on the subject ? Messrs. Rowntrec and SherweH's book. Our recent 'Inebriates' Act' is al- 1 most a dead letter, and Lord Peel's report ' remains as yet an interesting subject of academic discussion. The two authors mentioned have flooded us with authenti- , cated statistics, yet nothing is seriously tried legislatively to stop the hundreds of ' thousands of people who thus poison their brains. Convictions for bcinj; drunk and 1 incapable steadily increase in Scotland; my alcoholic lunatics have risen from an 1 average of fifteen and a half per cent, in ! the years 1874*88 to twenty-one and a half 1 per cent, in 1889-98. to twenty-two and a naif per cent, in 1899. and now to twenty- ' four and a half in 1900, all this apparency resulting from the prosperity of the country, ana yet the politician cries, non pos- ' sumus. "Our profession of medicine is unani- j nous in demanding some effective le^isla- J tion on the matter. ' Drink and Crime. CmifK an nitKnriir on I if&l ? bU|(CUV k'Uli?Mf ?M Criminal statistic-!, in a paper recently | read before the National Prisons' Asiocia- i tion at Cleveland, presented an array of figures! that should certainly arrest the at- I tention of every sincere patriot. He declared the first cost of crime in ! taxes upon city, town and county for mere policing criminals is about $100,000,000 annually in this country. Add to this the i cost of professionals in crime with their average yearly gaiti. and there is a tetal i loss per year of $600,000,000, exceeding the i entire value of the cotton or wheat crop i of the United States. Now add to this the further loss by arson and of goods stolen, not returned, or if recovered are de- i preciated fully one-half, and we have a I sum that is bewildering to the mind to cantemplate. The State Board of Charities in Massachusetts, in their report for 1869. said: "The proportion of crime traceable to this great vice must be set down, as heretofore, at not less than four-fifths." Dr. Elisha Harris, long Corresponding Secretary of the Prison Association of the State of New York, states: "That fully eighty-five per cent, of all convicts give evidence of having in some larger degree been prepared or enticed to f Ko wlif jirvil UU IT1UUU4I av-u uvvauw ??? ?uv and distracting effect* produced upon the human organism by alcohol." He also state* that "of seventeen caws of murder examined by him separately, fourteen were instigated by intoxicating drinks." Astounding Facts. Mr. Nelson, the most distinguished ot English actuaries, after long and careful investigations and comparisons, ascertained by actual experience the following astounding facts: Between the ages of fifteen and twenty, where ten total abstainers die, eighteen moderate drinkers die. Between the ages of twenty and thirty, where ten total abstainers die, thirty-one moderate drinkers die. Between the ajje* of thirty and forty, I where ten total abstainers die, forty mod- | crate drinkers die. A Harmful Eiample. Very few moderate drinker* keep theit moderation within *u<h bounds that they are not damaged in their health and tnati- i lilies, and that there are Mtill fewer who fail to exert a harmful example upo.i r!? ? young men with whom they come in r. tact. i Canird a Deerea** In Crime. In the seventeen largest towns of Scot land during the first three year* oj the Forbes MacKenzie act. c'twinic the on the Sibbath. there was a de?-rea?e :n the ea?es of crime, combined with drunk cuqcsj. to the extent of -P.Ik)J. How Far Heredity Act*. HiranT A. Wright asserts >n the Philadelphia Medical Journal iii.it heredity is a powerful factor in determining the quali tic* oi the phvucal body, and environment w of minor importance, while, as to the mental and moral trait* manifested, environment i* the powerful factor, and heredity i? entirely inoperative. Mentally and morally we are the architect* of our own destiny, and we are neither blessed nor cursed by heredity. TMrlT Loh From Insect*. Mr. B. D. WaUb, one of the bent entomologist* of hu day. in 1867 estimated the total yearly Ion* in th^> United State* from in*ect* to be from $?>3,000,000 to |400,000f000. THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUGUST 3. Tba T?b?rn?cl?. Ex. *1.. 1 -38? Golden Text, Pm. 4 ? Memory Vtrm, 1-3?CoinmentArr o? the Ifmy's Ijim. Introduction.?As soon as the U* *u jiven the religious worship of the nation was organized. The plan of the tabernacle and its holy service was given to Moses during the forty days that he was nth the Lord in the mount. Chape. 2511. The tabernacle was God's dwelling. 2. "First day." The 1st day of Abib oi N*isan. nearly a year from the time they had left Egypt, and more than eight months since the worship of the golden :alf. 3. "Ark of the testimony." This was in oblong chest made of accacia wood, overlaid within and without with gold. It was three and three-quarter feet in length and two and a quarter feet in width and depth. Its lid was called the "mercy cat" and was orerlaid with gold, with a joldcn rim around it. There were two I'herubim above the mercy seat, one at ach end. "Cover the ark." This veil or curtain hung between the holy of holies and the holy place, suspended from four pillars. The most holy place was. completely dark, and no one was allowed to Ui?l? neiM^ AnM V'MP ?n the annual day of atonement, the 10th ' of Tishri (October). 4. "The table." Thia occupied a place on the north aide of the sanctuary. It waa made of acacia wood, overlaid with Dure gold, and had a rim of gold around it. It waa three feet in length, one and a half in breadth and two and a quarter in height. '"The things?upon it." The table was provided with dmhes and spoons for the frankincense, and with flagons and bowls. Upon it were laid each week twelve loaves of bread, representing the twelve tribes of Israel. The loaves were arranged in two rows of six loaves each, and when removed were eaten by the priests in the sanctuary. 5. "The irolden altar" (R. V.) This ?raa set in the sanctuary ju*t before the "screen" which separated it from the *rk of the covenant. It wa* square, being one and a half feet in length and breadth ami three feet in height. It wa* made of acacia wood, overlaid with pure gold, and had four horns of gold, one at each corner, and a rim of gold around its sides. 6. "Altar of the burnt offering." This sat in the centre of the open court in * a! T? n*ia aAt'*?n anil IIVIIV VI llic vauviuavic. *v ~ i.n ????. l half feet in length and breadth and four and a half in height. It wa* made of acacia wood covered with bras*, was without steps and had four horns, one at each corner. It had pan*, hovel*, basins, fleshhook* and firepans, for removing a?he*, receiving the blood of victims, adjusting the pieces of flesh and carrying coals of are. 27: 14. 7. "The laver." This was put between the tabernacle and the altar of burnt offering. It was made of bras* with a pedestal of brass and was filled with water. Here the priests washed their hands and feet when preparing themselves to enter upon their holy work. 30: 17-21. It was also used for washing certain parts of the victims. Lev. 1: 9. K. "Set up the court." The hangings, or screens, which were to serve as a fence about the court were attached by silver hooks to pillars of brass resting in sockets of brass. There were to be twenty of these pillars on the north and south sides wd ten on the east and west sides. 9. "The anointing oil." This was a particular oil compounded for the pur: poses here stated and for no other. The Lord hid given Moses careful directions both as to the oil and the manner in "hich it was to be used. 30: 22-33. It was not to be used upon foreigners, or for the purpose of anointing the flesh, but it was to be holy. "And anoint the tabernacle," etc. "The ceremony of anointing with oil denoted the setting apart and consecration if an office to a holy use." 12. "Wash tbem with water." Thev were to be clean before thev ministered before the Lord. This washing symbolized the putting away the "fil thine** of the flesh and spirit" which is urged upon i is by the apo*tle in 2 Cor. 7: 1. 13. "The holy garments." The attire if the Driest*. an<f especially of the high priest, *11 very elaborate, and ia minute- I Iv described in chapter 28. The sacred : lre*s of the priest consisted of short linen | drawers, a tunic of fine linen reaching to ! the feet, a linen girdle, a linen bonnet or turban, and also a linen ephod which is ascribed to them in 1 Sam. 22: 18. In addition to this the high priest wore "an outer tunic, called the robe of the ephod. Toven entire, blue, with an ornamental border around the neck, and a fringe at | the bottom made up of pomegranates and tolden bells; an ephod of blue and purple ind scarlet and fine linen, with golden threads interwoven, covering the body from the neck to the thigh*; a breastplate attached at its four corner* to the ephod, ! and bearing the names of the twelve tribe* of Israel on twelve precious stones; j and the mitre, a high and ornamental tur- , ban. having on the front a gold plate with | the inscription. 'Holiness to the Lord.' The priests did not wear their sacred dresses outside of the temple." 15. "Everlasting priesthood." To be perpetual "throughout their generations" [ until auper*eded by the office and work , of the priest "after the order of Melchize- j iek." 18. "Set up the boards." The tabernacle proper was fortv-five feet in leneth. fifteen in width and fifteen in height. The two aide* on the north and south were | paoh cotnpo*ed of twenty board* of acacia wood, overlaid with gold. each board being fifteen feet long and two and a quarter feet wide. These board* wore placed on end side by side. Eight such boards were u*ed in the construction of the west end, which included two corner boards. 26: 15-29. 10. "Spread?the tent." "The tent here ; refer* to the curtain* of goats' hair which. I in chap. 7. are called a covering upon i the Uliernac'e." They were probably thrown over the board structure and fastened on the out*ide. 20. "Put the te?timony into the ark." Tlx* two table* of stone on which God^ had written the ten commandments. Tho?e ; written first were broken, but afterward thev were again written. 27. "Burnt sweet im-ense." This was m.ide according to specific directions from the Lord. 20- 34-3$. 28. "Hanging at the door." See 26: 36. 37. '29. "Burnt offering." The whole burnt offering _wa* wholly burnL_ 32. "They washed." idi* wis an emblematical washing. and as the hands and feet arc oarticulariy mentioned, it must refer to tbe purity of their whole conduct. 34. "A cloud covered." etc. Thus did God approve of the work and the divine Klon' filled the place so that Moses was not able to enter. Hicbt to S??rrh Bmbssd'i Pockats. Judge Sidener. of the First District Police Court, in St. Louis, Mo., has rendered a decision, to the effect that a wife has a rijilit to ? > through her husband's pocket*. The decision was rendered in the case ot Henry Shiuer, who gave as an excuse lor ibi:?i:;* hi* wife. Clara, that she had Kearched hi? pockets. Mrs. Shauer said her husband sometimes drank too much, and t!ien spent all his money In order to keep the i^rler supplied, she said, it sometime* wrs nccei<ary to go through his pockets ....I utrfp ...? Olllior *ml hi? wife had no buune** in in* pockets, and th.it caused the trouble. Judge 5?idcner mid Mm. .Shatter |HTfectly justified in doing as *he did. and *<4tf?<cd a fine of i~> against her hinband on the charge of disturbing hit wite's peace. Husband and \X\T* For 78 Year*. In a basement humbly but eozily Furnished. in Chicago. Mr*. Walenty Orlick, lt)"> jears old. the other day received neighbors and triend* \\ ho had visited jer trying to cor.role her lor the death of tier husband, who hail ju.*t been buried, ifter having reached the a.v oi 1?>4 years. 'It doe* not neent possible that lie is lead," said Mrs. Orlick. "\\*e have lived :ogether so long tliat I really cannot beieve that I Khali not see him again. I feel as if he is only gone on a visit, and verv little while when the door open* I hink perhaps it is he who is coming back .0 me. ' TEE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS AtOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. A ScoMtoh Ki part laji That tb? Ixcm It* C m of Aleofcolle MaaUati C?om a Uado* Amount af MaataX PUeaao ? Maaafactnrloff facial Bnrdaaa. William P. Spratling, M. D., Superintendent of the Craig Colony for Epilcptk% writes u follows: In the eighty-eigiitli ao> nual report of the Royal Mornmgside Asylum at Edinburgh, Dr. T. S. Clouston. the tery distinguished and able Superintendent of the institution, says about alcohol u a cause of insanity; "I cannot myself get over the conclusion that the excessive use of alcoholic stimulants during times of brisk trade and high wages his to a larg* extent been the cause of the undue Amount of mental disease which we have been called on to treat thia year. We had, as a matter of fact, 115 cases, or about a quarter of our whole number of admissions, in whom drink was assigned as either * he sole or as a contributor* mux nf flip .iiuiif. If th* admission of men alone are looked at, eighty-one, or abou* one-third of them, were alcoholie case*. I have never had experience of anything approaching thin before, and I should fail in my duty it, seeing more of the terrible effect^ of escesuve alcoholic drinking in destroying honor and reason and elfcontrol than almost anything else in Scotland, I did not strongly, draw attention to a fact so disgraceful to us as a community. The mental doctor sees the very worst that alcohol can do. "So bodily disease, no family ruin, no social catastrophe is so bad as the destruction of mind. It is certain that for every man in whom excessive drinking causes absolute insanity there are twenty in whom it injures the Drain, blunts the moral sen* lAtaonfl tka rarmK' fnr u-Mflr in lo?anr drprre*. The brain generally, and especially iti mental functions, auffer first, and nuffcr most from alcohol in excess. Ignorance of this fact, thoughtlessness, present enjoyment of its effects, the temptations of the possession of money, bad environments, dangerous social customs and hereditary brain instability are the chief determining factors why men drink to sach excess that they become insane. When in any community there is a large class to irhora prosperity always means excessive indulgence in drink and defiance of natural and moral law, it means that a higher sort of education is needed or that degeneration has set in. Mental inhibition m the very highest and most important brain quality, the salt without which social decay is inevitable. Without an average natural endowment of this quality a man thereby exhibits a moral imbecility. Excessive use of alcoholic or other brain stimulants such a man is eepe? dally prone to, and it soon finishes off nis usefulness, so that he becomes a criminal, a loafer or a lunatic. Henceforth be is a burden or a curse to the community. "Or if we take the man who originally naa an average mniouory power, uui woo has deliberately thrown it away oy the excessive uae of alcohol, he too aoon become* a social burden and nuisance. Han society no remedy in the way of prevention of such causes of insanity? I can imagine a politician or lawyer of the doctnn ure sort saying that a true conception of liberty necessarily implies the liberty for a man to drink himself to death if he can afford to do so at his own expend. But it looks to even a plain man an irrational application of the doctrine of liberty to lay that every man has the inalienable right to render himself a burden on other people, and a source of degradation and danger to tho community by any means whatever. Many, people state very confidently that no legislative or State means can poisibly dimmish the injurious drinking of alcohol. 8uch persons cannot have seriously looked at the effects of the recent laws in regard to drink in Norway and Sweden, and other facta et out in that mine of facts on the subject ? Messrs. Rowntree and SherweU'a book. Our recent 'Inebriates' Act' is almost a dead letter, and Lord Peel's report remains as yet an interesting subject of acadcmic discussion. The two authors mentioned have flooded us with authenticated statistics, yet nothing is seriously tried legislatively to stop the hundreds of thousands of people who thus poison their brains. Convictions for being drunk and incapable steadily increase in Scotland; my alcoholic lunatics have risen from an " 1 - I It Average ot mieen ana a mu per nut. iu the yean 1874-88 to twenty-one and a half per cent, in 1889-98. to twenty-two and half per cent, in 1899. and now to twentyfour and a halt in 1900, all this apparently resulting from the prosperity of the country. and yet the politician cries, non pos umui. "Oar profession of medicine is un*ni< nous in demanding some effective legialntion on the matter.' Drlak and CriaM. Mr. Eugene Smith, an authority oft criminal statistics, in a paper recently read before the National Prisons' Association at Cleveland, presented an array of figures that should certainly arrest the attention of every sincere patriot. He declared the first cost of crime in taxes upon city, town and county for men " ' 5- -i nnn nnn policing criminals m iuom ?nw,vw,uw ? ?nuaiiy in this country. Add to this the cost of professionals in crime with their average yearly gam, and there is total ? loss per year of $600,000,000, exceeding the entire value of the cotton or wheat crop of the United States. Now add to thie the further loss by ar?on and of goods stolen, not returned, or if recovered ere depreciated fully one-half, and we have a sum that is bewildering to the mind to contemplate. The State Board of Charities in Mmchmett*. in their report for 1949, said: "The proportion of crimc traceable to this great nee must be set down, as hereto lot e, at not less than four-fifths." Dr. Kluha Harris, long Corresponding Secretary of the Fn?on Association of the State of New York, states: "That fully eighty-five per cent, of all convicts give evidence of having in some larger degree been prepared or enticed to -l_ -?? - I ???< Ixniiii* nf the nhvsicel UU V.I luiiuai uv?? f # and dutrading effects produced upon the human organism bv alcohol." He also states that "of seventeen casee of murder examined by him separately, fourteen were instigated by intoxicating drinks."' Astounding Facta. Mr. Nelson, the mo*t distinguished ol /English actuaries, after long and careful investigations and comparisons, ascertained by actual experience the following astounding facts: Between the ages of fifteen and twenty, where ten total abstainers die, eighteen moderate drinkers die. Between the ages of twenty and thirty, where ten total abstainers die, thirty-one moderate drinkers die. Between the ages of thirty an>' forty, where ten total abstainers die, forty mod* crate drinkers die. A Harmful Example. Very few moderate drinkers keep theif moderation within such bound* that th?y are not damaged in their health and manliness. and that there are still fewer who fail to exert a harmful example upon the \oun^ mou with whom they come 1.1 contact. Canted a Decrrai* In Crime. In the seventeen largest town* ox Sco*? land during the first three years of tha Forbes Mackenzie act. closing the saloon* on the .Sabbath, there was a decrease in the cases ?>: crime, combined with drunkcunt's?, to the extent of The Man Who Mnececds. rnder the -.uspicrs of the ministerial Association ot -Joliet. 111., a notable temperance mas? meeting was held recently. 1'iic speakers were bankers, judges, merchants, teachers, railway managers, editors and workinsmen. All bore te?rimony - -L- 1 . ...i i... io lur iicrru ui icui .? uiuuvu^. 4. ? iu. niau who succeeds in life. Socrca of Kacc I)ej:e3cr3ll<*n. Pr. F>!k. in a work on "Cr.miial France." uyi: "Alcoholism i? cne of tLo mojt patent cju*v* ot race defeneration. Inmi', which n the n??*t powerful factor * of aicoho!:?n>. never leaver the famliy or ItvuJua) Liim- truiuUrc integrity." -