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THE BLACKBERRY PATCH. 11
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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. '
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^ /-^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
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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
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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."
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