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CEM1US ?t TLOKSWCS WIunioi. Whit west thcu on yonder desert plain, Large, varue and void? I Me a city hill oi dickering ttreeU; I hear the hum of myriad engine-beats. What lent thou? 1 we i dwert plain. Large, vague and void. .What west thou in yonder human face. Pale, frail and small? I Me a soul by tragedy worn thin; I read a page of poetry, of sin. 1 What seest thou? I see a human face, 1 Pale, frail and small. ! What seest thou at yonder dim cross-road* Beside that shattered inn? Untraveled possibility. The inn of splendid mystery. What seest thou? I seo the dim cross-roads Beside a shattered inn. ?The Criterion. ^w/wwwtfwvwtfwwwa ij A Deserter's ij j i| Fate. ij m;wwwwwwww? KCIL BUTTERWORTH and | / Guy Chad wick had been V?j cbums In college. The acqoslntance formed there vu cemented by time Into * fait friend hip, and when war waa declared against Spain both offered their ser flees to Uncle 8am. Bat this friendship. so strong, was one of diametrically opposite natures. Equal opportunities bad been given the two men to secure shoulder straps. Butterworth Alone took advantage of tbem. "The Government has need of educated men as officers." be said. In accepting a lieutenancy. The sentiment of bis friend was: "If the country has need of my services, I give tbem gladly, but a gun shall rest upon my sboul dm; I care not ror toe notion 01 ?u. For this speech Private Chad wick wns highly esteemed bj hi* comrades In Company B. of the Ninth. Life in the home camp was drudgery to Lleatenn "Mitterworth. Chadwlck. aa eager a. ..uy to strike a blow at them. the "dirty Spaniards," as he termed them, took the matter more philosophically. He submitted to the Inevitable gracefully. When at last the order to break camp was given, there was some regret that the Philippines was the objective point Nevertheless. It was ft Jolly crowd that unpegged their tents and rolled their blankets, preparatory to the departure for the coast The trip across the continent and the life on the transport lessened, in a measure, their eagerness for action. To stand once more on firm, steady land, with no longer the pitching, rolling deck beneath their feet was contentment for a time. Barrack life In Manila was begun- Then a new element came Into the Ures of Lieutenant Butterworth and Private Chadwick. Nina was a Filipino glrL She was the daughter of an Insurgent leader. 1 Lieutenant Butterworth and Private Chadwick had fallen prey to her snapping black eyes and pretty face, smiling coquettlshly beneath a crown of Ink black hair. She fascinated one, charmed the other. Butterworth was head over beels In lote with the girl Chadwlck. less Impetuous, was caught bj her sweet simplicity. Yet their friendship did not suffer: rivalry, rather than jealousy, was the keynote of their relations. "Guy." said the Lieutenant one day. forgetting rank In a burst of confidence. "I can't get away from those black eye#, they follow me everywhere, they are In everything I see; but, some tray, I doubt her sincerity." "I have had my doubts, too," returned Guy. "but knowing how much you care for Nina. I have refrained from mentioning them. I have a fancy myself for the girl Nevertheless. I believe that she Is trying to Inveigle us into Joining the Insurgent cause." "Oh. Guy." exclaimed Cecil. "Nina la too loyal a girl to conspire for our ruin in such a manner. I laud her strong belief in her father's cause, and I say myself, without reserve, that with such leaders as we have, the Insurgents could drlvo us from the Island. But no. not that from little Nina." Private Chadwlck said nothing. He prayed for a call to the field to sever this attachment. His hopes were realised?bot partially. The Ninth wai ordered to Join In the chase of the In argents, but the activity failed to reStore to Lieutenant Butterworth hU equilibrium of mind. Military duties now precluded further intercourse between the two friends. In the excitement of battle Private Chadwlck gave the black eyed Nina but a small place In his thoughts. Private Chadwlck lounged carelessly In front of his tect admirinp the beanties cf the setting sun, which painted ue nonson who Riory. ne wu uudkin* of Manila, and. for the first time since be bad taken the field, of tbe bright-eyed Nina, lie wondered If But terworth had forgotten her. It wai pleasant to recall those happy days. "8-s-s-s-t." Tbe sound Interrupted bis revery A dirty, r&xied Individual stepped from behind the tent. Looking cautlouslj to tbe right snd left be slipped a grimj bit of paper Into Chadwlck's band. Guy hastily tore open the note. He read: "My Dear American Soldier: Prov< to me that you love me. Join us to night Papa will make you a big of fleer. NINA." A pang went to his heart. A smoul derlng fire flamed up. In spite of tbli evidence of her insincerity, Guy no* realised that his feeling for her wai more than mere interest in the girl He was disgusted to discover bli weakness "(Jet out or neiv." be saiu. in a nam voice. "Go tell tbe one who lent jot that my flag Is dearer to me than al tile world and before I leave It I wll die. Go." Tbe effort cost bim pain. He crawta back into bis tent a miserable maa The ran bad set "Private Cbadwtck's sick." com manted bla comrade*. One ran with tbe new* to Lleutenan Bntterwortb'a tent. It was empty. "Tbe Lieutenant went off with < . itrty looking beggar," said tbe guard v "One of his charities, I guoss. Said : he'd be back before Iong." Private Chadwlck knew ot ben rise. He was torn one way by jealously toward his erstwhile friend, another by anger at the girl who bad played him false. He worked himself Into a fever. His comrades attributed It to sorrow for his lost friend, for, after a fruitless search, it was said that Lieutenant Butterworth bad been trapped Into an ambus<rade. In the gray dawn of morning Private Chadwlck paced slowly up and down, with his gun on bis shoulder, doing sentry duty. He was still weak from the fever. A rustle, as of some one moving, caught his attention. "Who goes there?" His challenge went unanswered. He espied a form disappearing Into a clump of bushes. "Bang." He flred?but Into tbe air. i The Corporal of tbe guard came run1 nlng down the line. He received the ! sentry's report: "Marauding party of ? .. M 4.11 - 0 .11 J 'devil*/ " jsui uuy uiu not ieu ui u?? i be saw. Id tbe disappearing form be | recognised bis deserted friend. i With bastj formation Company B, ! was sent forward. Keeping under cover of the trees, they halted on the edge of a clearing. Not more than 1C00 yards away, 000 Filipinos, under the leadership of a young officer in the uniform of the United States Army. ' were stealthily advancing. I "Careful men. Don't fire. Walt for ' orders," cautioned the officers. Without warning and disregarding the orders of his superiors. Private Cbadwlck leaped suddenly forward into tbe open, took careful aim and fired. Tbe leader of the insurgents fell killed by the bullet of his one time friend. As the shot rang out and Lieutenant Butterworth fell, for it was ho, a small figure darted from the now wavering line of Filipinos, with a cry: "Cecil, my American soldier." "Nina." shouted Guy. The American Hoes deployed sna now a volley carried death into the opposing force. The battle rafjctl back and forth. Scattering were the shots which returned the regular Are of the boys In blue. The Insurgents became disorganized. Their retretft became a root The battle was over. The soldiers returned victoriously rejoicing. As they picked their way over the spot of the first encounter, they came upon a sad scene. In the midst of the dead and dying, lay the lifeless body of a pretty black-eyed Filipino girl, beside the dead deserter Lieutenant, and . there, with his head burled in his arms and weeping like a child, was Private Ohadwlck?be mourned the loss of friend and sweetheart?New York Sun. *TJ uptmn a|KirtBiouk u>K>v.. Tbe Increase in slxe and number of apartment bouses in large cities of late has been beyond all precedent. A single apartment bouse is being built In New York City at a coat of $5,000.000, wblcb will eontaln 1800 rooms. It Is possible here to secure rooms | on tbe same plane, suited to every pur- j pose of housekeeping, from a kitchen ! to a ballroom. The various apartments i are so arranged that any number of ! rooms can be thrown Into a single j suite, the position of tbe rooms being 11 left to tbe tenant. The rentals for single apartments , vary from $2000 to $20,000 yearly. 11 Now these rentals are much higher than those of most private houses In ! New York City. The preference of j * data, even at Increased rentals. Is due. j I UonoiieM. lO meir jreaier convtuieatr. | Every feature to be found In the finest dwellings Is duplicated In these apartments with the Important exception of the stairs. The suites vary In site from six to thirty rooms. The 'best apartments contain from two to five bathrooms, with special quarters for servants. The rooms are heated in winter with hot air and cooled In summer with re- i i frlgerated draughts. Hot or cold or : Iced water, each filtered. Is supplied to ! i every room. By living in an up-to-date I > apartment. In short, a housekeeper can : : save everything but money.?New York I Sun. 11 I Prtattas Um Hamban am Baak Netaa. The numbers on bills and bank notes j1 are printed by a very Ingenious mech- . . anism, which makes it impossible to j > commit any fraud by printing two i notes of the same number. The ap- j i paratus consists of a series of brass ; discs, of which the rim Is divided by ! . channels Into projecting compartments, i each containing a figure. The numbers < i 1 to 9 having been printed In the course : . of the revolution of the first disc, tile j . second disc then presents the figure I > 1, which, combining with the 0 of the > > first disc, forms the number 10. The 1 second disc then remains stationary until. In the course of the revolution 1 nf th# Hut illar thp n timber* 1 to 19 i I hare been printed, when it presents j . the figure 2, and does not again more j > until another revolution of the first i . disc completes the numbers 20 to 29. j Thus the two discs proceed until 90 ; i note* hare been numbered, when the j third disc comes Into operation, and. j with the first two, produces 100. Con- j . sequent!?, the first disc performs 100 . i revolutions to 10 of the second and 1 J t of the third. The notes maj be num- ! r bered independently by this process, j without the possibility of error, the ; ? machine meanwhile being its own j check. (I?b1u Afflicted With luaalty. Insanity has occasionally attacked ' great men. Jeao Jaques Rousseau bad during life several attacks of insanity - (Mobius), the poet Cowper suffered { i from melancholia with delusions, the j r physiologist Albrecht von Mailer be- | i came a melanchollac and Johannes . Muller committed suicide; Auguste i Comte was subject to attacks of folie j pertodique, made sucldal attempts and ) was afflicted in bla latter days with 1 erotomania and visual hallucinations. 1 Among musical composers Schumann 1 and Donizetti became Insane. Among painters Landseer and Munkacszy de1 eloped general paralysis of the Insane, l while Wierts and Carlo Dolce were insane. TV1111am Blake, poet and paint er, undoubtedly suffered from insanity with visual hallucinations, and was a t seer of visions; while Swedenborg suffered similarly from the auditory i and visual hallucinations characteristic L of paranoia rellgiosla.?The Hospital, f DR. CHAPMAN'S SERMON A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED PASTOR.EVANCELIST. Two Hundred Falotlac M*oEvtr7 Person li Called Into the Kingdom of God For a Purpose? We Shall Be Made to Aeeaut Por Work Cndono New York Cut.?The following acholarly and readable nermon hat been prepared for the preiw bv the popular pa*torevangelist, the R?v Dr J. Wilbur Chaproan. The nubject of the diacoume i* "Two hundred fainting men," and it was preached from the text. "Tiro hundred abode behind. whi;h were no faint that they could not go over the Brook Bcaor." I. Samuel 30: 10. In iiome respectii we are reminded in this atorv of tbe celebrated charge of the Light Brigade. poMibly because there were 6CC of David's aotdien, and perhaps be cause they fought valiantly ana .. great victory- While the rank and file I would not compete with the men who' fought at Sebastapol or Inkerman, for they had been a discontented lot in their home* and in their service, yet there were some really great soldiers among them, and they were aa ready to die a* were those 600 illustrious men who made the gallant charge not many year* ago. At the time of the text David wm living at Ziklag. and he and hia men had been away in battle. The battle has been waged, the victory has been won and they are homeward bound. They have camped for the l**t nifht. and to morrow morning they will be with their loved ones. The order is given to break camp and forward march, and when they came to the hill where before them they could naturally see Ziklag the first man shades his eyes with his hands and looks. His fnce crows na!e and he begins to shudder, for Ziklag is in ashes, and as they come nearer their wives and children and all their property have been carried away. They are about to turn upon David and stone him. hut when he agrees to go after the enemv they turn away from the ruins of their homes ?j mirauit. Thev reach the *IIU NMIIp im mw. Brook Besor. and then find th.it they have in their company men who nre not able to *o on. some because thev are old., others because they were crippled, and still others because tber were ill. The number comprised 200. Tn order that they might more more rapidly and battle more successfully all the hearv trapning* were left with the 200 at the Brook Besor, and 40.1 men pursued ?he enemy. Thev overtake an Egyptian, who is left by the wayside as good as dead, and when they rive him some refreshments and promise him that thev will not let him faU into the hands of the enemv. neither will they put him to death themselves, he tells them the direction that the enemy has gone, and pursuing after them they come suddenly upon them. They have been intoxicated with their great success, and although the battle was fierce for a little while victory belong* to David and his men. Their wires and children are theirs once more: most valuable treasure also is taken, and thev have turned their faces back to the Brook Besor. Suddenly some one in the company begins to talk of the distribution of the plunder, and they hive about decided that the 200 fainting men shall have nothing when David, with all the kinsliness that it was possible for him to assume, declares "as his part is that goes out to the battle ?o shall his part be that tarries by the -A...*, n... .u-.il ahsr# and ?hare alike." Villus. AUr; and then he turned to the Brook Besor and uluted his men. E?*erv old soldier and every weak man received as much of a reward as if he had been in the front of the fight. There in an impression abroad that the rewards for the Christian arc given to those who have rendered conspicuous service; great preacher*. ?reat philanthropists. great martyrs. This is not so according to the text; neither is it true according to the teaching of the Bible. Rewards are not given for the amount of noise made in the world, nor for the amount of lood which we are supposed to have done. but whether we have worked up to our *-- 1 'l. IUII m pan it. You doubtle?s remember Plato's fable of the spirit* that returned to thi* world each to choose a bodv for its snliere of work. One took the bodr of .1 king, another a poet. Ktill another of a philosopher, and Uljrwes came with great disappointment because all that was worth having was taken, when some one said the beat is left. You mar choose the body of a common man and do a common work and receire a common reward, and this be did. I. Every man is called into the kingdom of God for a purpose. There is no question about this. Just aa in the making of a great locomotive every picce must be constructed by an ernert and every bit of work must be marked with the name of the workman, so that if the engine should break in Jerusalem or China the failure could be traced to the oroner source. Ood expects every man to do his d'ltv, and for erery one in all the kingdom He has a plan of course. We are not all expected to minion. Paul has an illustration of this in First Corinthians, the 12th chapter, where he is describing the body where he says. "Ye cannot aay to the haml. I hare no nee-! of thee, and if the body were an eye where were the hearing, etc.," but each perform* its own mission, the uncome'v pirts receiving the greatest attention from the head. So every one of us has a work to do. If we leave it undone we shall be ca'.Ied to a strict account. There are two kinds of work illu?trated in the atory of these soldiers and the 209 fainting men. One kind is marching forth under the gaze and admiration of the multitude, the other is just taming hy the Brook Besor taking care of the atuff, and yet it has it* reward. II. How often the field to which God calls us seems to us to be exceedingly small. The business man who has ^one to his olee all^ this while, ac-i gotM through the round 01 common iaa*s irom muruiu^ w night, from one week's end to anotner, year in and year out, charting oft time* be cause he is doing ao tittle an i yet forgetting that he can be "nor slotliiul :n business, fervent in spirit serving the Lord." and because he doc* comp.am so much is missing his opportunity t-> do what the Ercacher never could do. The invalid upon er couch racked witu pain and tilled with complaint because her voice u never heard in tne congregations of the people, wandering why she ever lived, and crying out against (iod because she iu? suffered mo intensely, thereby missing iter opportunity to give a testimony watch no one else could give but the invalid. One of our honored old ministers a week ago was ttlunged into grest sorrow by the news of tne death of h;s ?on He had died by his own hand. When the news was brokeu to the father it seined as if he would fall, when suddenly remembering the comfort which he hid ever given to others he cried aload. ' Though He slay me yet will I trust H.m." an! he never through all his ministry preached a better sermon. The mother in her iiome bound to her children, for white the chain may b.silken it is still a chain. charting bccausc she can make her mtluence felt so little in the world, and yet forgets that she is doing what every angel in the ?kies would like to do, having an opportunity placed in her hands to mold a *->ui tor eternity in the direction of the live* <if her boys, ll you tind yourself in a discouraged position do as Paul dnl. make the best of it, for wc remember what he said when lie writes to the Philippiau.o, "but I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me hive fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; so that my bonds in Christ ar.? manifest in all the i>a!ace. and in all other places." Pbilipnians 1: 1213. Tiierf are those who say it I were only in a more enlarged sphere I would be brave and true, but this is not at all certain it you are not brave and true where you stand to-day. "Out yonder, in the broad..full alar* Of many lamps thine own might pale And thy sweet song amid the gear Of many voices slowly tail; While theae thy kindled wandered on Uncheered. un lighted. to the end. Near to tliv hand thy mission lies, Wherever sad hearts ne-d a friend.'* First?Perhaps you are where you ar? becau? you have set filM full tkat dob T*" ? ? T" *r ; tion, and Goa will never call yon to ' higher pi,ice until you have overflowed , where you are. Mourning and fretting he- i cauM you are not where you want to be d->os not make thing* better. The bond* are only tightened by the fretfulnea*. Two bird* in two cage* in a room give an illuatration. One dashing iUelf against the bar* bccau*e it is imprisoned. injuring itself j and "topping it* song: the other singing a* if it would out*ing the lark in the meadow*. and moring thereby it* mtstre** to ooen the cage and set it free. He who doet the beat he can where Clod ha* placed him has put hi* foot on the round of the Udder that lead* up to higher things. Second?Usefulness ia not the prinary object for the Chri*tian. We *ay. "Oh, that we might be more u*eful," hut first rather let n? de*ire to be more holy, for that i? Ood'? will. Thi?re u nothing better for the molt of u* than sorrow or diaanpointment or trial because these thing* hape character. There ia little merit in being good when everything about ua makea u* good, and uiefulneaa ia the result of character, i* to character what the fragrance ia to the ro?e The gardener doea not aim firat for the fragrance, but to make the rose nerfect, and the fragrance take* care of it*elf. If vou study the aermon* of Whitfield. Wealev. 8purgeon and Moody you may wonder whr theae aermon* produced auch mighty effecta. It waa because the power was in the messenger rather than in the message. To be right with God. to be holy, to be like Chriat. ia our firat duty, and through the door of bolinen we pajw to usefulness. In the early painting day* of Weat, Morse, the philoaonher. entered hi* studio. He waa oainting hi* masterpiece of "Chriat Rejected," when he said to his friend, "Let me tie vour hand* and paint them in the picture," and if you have ever *een *L;- * * l?*?a MAM tVia kanrlu rtf 1(119 picturr *UU Iia * c r?vv?i ?uv Morse painted in the stead of Christ. If rou are in bonds for Christ'* take this very thought will take from you the sting of living possibly out of sight and doing only common things aa you hare done in other darn, yet the time will come when yon will be free. Perhaps there ar? thnse here who are in hondace because they hare never yet hecome Christiana. In the old Water street mission there came one day a man bowed down with ain until he stood little more than four feet high, like a veritable dwarf, but when he bowed at the altar and yielded himself to Christ he atood ud aa straight aa an athlete. Perhapa thia is what you need. Sighing for peace, you hare not found it, searching for pleasure it has elnded ita grasp. Oh. come to Christ to-day, for He may set you free. nr. If all these seem like hardahipa to ua and we hare been without comfort, then let ua wait until the day of reward shall come. The mother who baa had a hard time with her children, just wait and do your best. When Charles Wesley comes to judgment, and all the hosts that have been won t' Christ by His power of music come, it will be a great day, and when John Wesley comes to judgment with all the souls of - ??- v:_ :? _:u u. . m.n.Un. JiriUWllMlU WlbU UIUI lb will UC MMB1 sight. but higher than the throne of either Charles Wesley or John will be throne of Susana Wesley, their mother. The old preacher who ha* been discouraged oft times because his church was so small and his work so apparently insignificant, needs only to wait until that great day, and when that old minister who preached in FaUcirk stand* in His presence to say possiblv to Him. "Master, I had but a little field." he will hear Him ?ay. "But you led Robert Moffat to me." and as Joseph Parker said the man who added Robert Moffat to the church added a continent to the kingdom. And when the old English minister whose field was very circumscribed, whose name is not generally knoira, stands in His presence to say, "Master, I did the best I could, but my church was small," He will say to him, "But vou led Charles Sourireon to Christ. and Spurgeon led a multitude." When Henry VTTT. ,iad Anne Bo'.eyn came up the Rirer Thame* they bad a great entrance into the city of London. Fifty barges followed the Lord Mayor. Official* were dressed in scarlet. Musician* chanted upon the banks of the rirer, and she who was to be the queen clad in garment* of beauty, walking upon velvet, entered Westminster Abbey, and the service was a great one. but it is as nothing compared to the end when the rewards are given to those who have simply been faithful. I was sick, He will say, "and ye visited Me." and the young Christian Endeavorer will say, "Bat. Master, when?" and He will answer, "it was when you walked through the wards of the hospital and gave a flower to this one and a cup of cold water to that one." "I was weak and ye helped Me." and this business man will say, "But, Master,when?" and He will answer. "It was the coin you gave to the man in iLi crowded streets of the city vester'1am mL* L>> fc kit A ^ AAin WAIllil VA U4Y, IIIU WUU UUl 1UI Irliau WIU nvum U?fw starved." And to the mother who has cared for her children, and the business man who has faithfully performed the Usk of his business. and the father who has beerl^true in his home He will sajr, "Inasmuch as ye did it unto the least of these ye did it unto Me." That was a wonderful story of how Edward Spencer, the brother of Dr. Spencer, I of the Methodist Church Extenaion Society. saved seveutcen lives in the awful wreck of the Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan in I860. Out of 400 passengers only thirty ; came through the breakers alive, and of i 1 these young Spencer saved seventeen. He ; 1 was never a very strong young man, but he , had been brought up on the banks of the : Mississippi River, and was so skilful a ' swimmer that he was almost as much at ( home in the water as on the land. M ith , 1 a rope tied around his waist in order that his body might be recovered in case he should be killed by the doating wreckage, i ' for six hours he went backward and for- ; ward saving human lives. It was a won- * derful day's work. The last person saved that day was a man who was coming ashore iu a difficult part ot the aurt, where , the bank waa high and precipitous. Any one reaching the ahore there would be pounded to death on the steep bank. Those who canie to this part of the auri were absolutely loat, aa it aeenied more than a man'a lite waa worth to aa\*e taem. J Young Spencer aaw thia man with one : arm clinging to a piece of wreck, and in the other arm what waa supposed to con- ' tain eiiver plate, or a bag ot gold, or aome ; other precioua thing wrapped up in a bit : ot clothing. A sudden lilt of the wave* brought the mau and the bit 01 wreckage . to which he cluug into full view, and there , at reamed out from the bundle the ireaaea ) of a woman's hair. Then S>|>eacer knew ; that the man v.aa attempting to aave hia wife, and although already greatly worn, : lie aaid to tboae about him: "Coat what it . may. I will save thai? man or die in the at- ; tempt." He ran down the beach, Xoilow- j ing the retreating wave knelt down as closely aa posaible to the Hand, and let the | return wave pound him. \> hen next seen he waa far out in the water. He awam tc | the piece of raft to which the two werr ! clinging. W hen within - or eight feet of I meui IUL- mill tncu Mve IU>" WIIC. . Save my wife!" The ~,ruve young awinmer said. "V'm, I will save your wife ami i you. too." Fastening his hand* in their clothing at the back of their neck* he s.iid "1 can sustain you in the water, but you must swim for your lives and mine. \V- i must push up northward to get beyond this dangerous surf if we are to be Hive at all " To the joy of the oniookini: *;>eo : talors he came safely to shore w;tii b->ti | of the unfortunates for whom he had so bravely imperilled his life. The daily patters were full of^lns praise*. The lilus- j trated papers of New York and London ' contained his picturc, but when he was I alone with his brother in their own room [ he fastened his great hungry eyes on him | and said. "Tell me the truth, Wtli: everybody praiaes me. Tell me the truth. I)id I fail to do my best?" He did not ask, "Did I do as well a* somebody else?" That went without asking. He did not a*l: "Did'I do as well a* 200 other*?" He did better than that. He did not ask. "Did 1 do a* well a* any man on earth?" No. no. He remembered the haggard itce* ot th.ne who were lost, whom ue wu not able to nave! The queation that ran through him like a poisoned dagger aa he remembered the 300 and more who lost their li\-e* in sight of laud was "Did I do my best?" I And ao you see it is not at all a question aa to where we have labored or how imil! our experience baa been, but have we done oar bwt. U $o, we aboil receive * reward. THE GBEAT DESTROYED SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT I THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. The Saltoi Is Not the Worklnrr*n'i I Friend. For It Kills More of Them Thaa l>o?* Any Other Killer KnowsHelling Liquid Dtmiutloa. The saloon u the workingman's wont enemy. It u a trap to catcd him oa bii < way to work and on his way home. ] While Mr. St. John wan Governor ot i the State of Kansas a woman made het < appearance in hi* office. With tears run- | ning down her cheeks she besought him to i pardon her husband who had Been convicted and imprisoned lor homicide. She ' stated that the State (before prohibition I was adopted; had given a man the right to start a saloon between her home and i her husband's worlubop. The once sober j .mechanic became a frequent vuitor to that resort, and io a quarrel be killed a man. 'Tbe woman claimed that it was the fault of the State a* well a* of her husband that be and her children were deprived of ber husband'* wages that she so much needed. After thinking the matter carefully over and finding out that the man had sinccreiy repented and was desirous of leading a sober and industrious life, Mr. St. John pardoned him. The toilers of this land hare all they can do to lire in moderate comfort. They should let tbe saloons alone for the sake of their families, if for no other reason. Why swallow the clothes and food of those at home tbat they love? Why make even more bare the cupboards at home? Why create more tears than laughter? Why make still more desolate the Darren rooms that shelter those who are not so well sheltered as some horses are? The workingman works too hard for his pennies to band them over to a bartender for that which makes him less worthy to be loved by his wife and children. The saloon says, "Stay here until early in the morning?home is no place like this." Wife says, "Come home; little Sarah is sick and wants her papa." Which voice is best to listen to and obey? You know. The saloon kills more workmen than any I..11.%. ft C ?I V/WUCl rn.il I EUUWU. A? UftftCS IKUUI bUCUl their manhood. If there it any brutality ' in their make-up it make* them more bru- 1 tal. Men do things when they are drunk that ] they never would think o? doing in their sober senses. To strike a woman?even il she deserves it?is cowardly. Yet men 1 do that thing when drunk and sob bitter ' tears of repentance after having done it. But the tears so shed do not wipe away the wife's recollection of the sot. even if I she forgives him. How many mechanics, just about climbing the ladder that leads to easy street, drink that which makes the ladder totter *nd fall. It is so hard to climb up and so 1 easy to fall down. When you fall down how it harts?wife, children and all. The men who would successfully solve 1 the labor problem must not leave out of ( the question how to exterminate the saloons of the land. If all the trouble connected with the struggle between capital and labor could be properly arranged tonight it would get wrong to-morrow if the present saloon system is permitted to still go on. It is not well that this country Vaould go on half drunk and half sober. Such a , state of affairs means quarrels without number. Capital on a drunk stands for oppression, and is thoughtless as regard* the right* of labor. \\ hen labor is on a drunk the bosses are practically told that they have no right* that workmen are bound to re*pect. Factories, workshops, sehools and churches arc a blessing. Saloon* are hellbreeders and make more devils in a day than all the churchc* can make saint* in a week. What keeps factory district* in poverty i* the pretence of saloons which get possession of the wage* of the employe*. All flesh is fodder with the saloons, and what belongs to the worker* is appropriated by , the saloon keepers. I have not the power to describe what the saloons of America take yearly from the workingmen. If I could you would be startled! The average American toiler is too good a man to be wounded and even killed by the saloons. Re deserve* a better fate. Liquid damnation i* sold by those authorized to do so "for the public good." But it would be "for the public good" if every saloon in this country was closed so tight that dvnamite could not open them. Readers, t am going to keep on asking i the toilers of this country to keep away from the saloon* until I cannot either write or speak. Suppose I ask in vain? I Will that fact hurt me when I have to j live an account of the deed* done in the ! bodsr? The aaloon i* here, but that doe* not make it right. The saloon* ought to go to < where they belong, anil that place id not i heaven.?George R. Scott, in the Witneas. One Mia at* For Braidy. ' In the frightful tunnel disaster which , recently occurred in New York City, on the New York Ceutral Railroad, when nineteen people were killed and forty-one ] were injured, the police and tiremen of j the city engaged in rescuing bodies from j the debri* found a woman pinned under i car seat. Apparently her injuries were ( not great, but as they started to release , her she cried out: "Brandy, give me ( brandy!" . The gallant fellows ceased their effort* just long enough to produce a bottle from \ one man'spocket and give her a swallow i from it. But. oh. the fatal few second*! i Before another hand's turn could be made a ateam pipe bunt beaide the woman, the i hot, blinding, scalding ateam, forcing the j men from the spot. Afterward the woman j was found dead, the d?sh literally cooked i from her face. It was the one minute for i brandy which cau.?cd her horrible death. ? ! How They Make Then. 1 Barrels and Bottles, an influential liquor f jrgan. says: , "The blender who understands his busi- , ncM can very eajily put a compound which j will not cost the retailor more than seventy cents to 91 per ?m< gallon, and will , realize $3.30 per gallon at live cents a | drink. Of course, it's nothing but spirits | of about seventy Drool, smoothed with ] little prune juice, flavored with vanilla, j cinnamon or ber^amoi, colored with vara- , be) and given the sharp and burning taste t some drinkers like by tae addition of y grains of paradise. i "The old soak will swallow anything ( that's cheap and burn* a* it goes down, 1 and the keeper of a fcirre! hous? usually ! takes the ea-tiest way to meet th: old soak's i views." ( Barrels and Botiles ought to b* ?ood authority on what jco-j oa behind the bar or down in the cellar. The Cniiaiir la Brief. The Kokomo woman who spanked hci 1 ro because he h.i I b^n found in a saloon J o.i;ht to have :o:j o: imitators. Mr. de Terra, a railway director in l?u- j ten. Germany. l< now forming i society of , teetotal railway n-.on in Germany. , Pennsylvania iiaa passed a lav prohibit- i ins the sale of beer or other liouors to ( women to be carried home from tho saloon ; in a b?tt!< or other receptacle. I it is stated tint th:r;\*-e:jht of the sev- i enty-seven parishes :n the Island of An* ' c!*sey. off tiie west coast of Wales, with a < j?>l>u!ation of il4. do not cout mi a single * saloon or public house * William D Morris. Mayor o: Ottawa, j Canada, has Keen removed from office for Luying a dnuk of h^uor Jorum hours prohibited by law. A class to prohibition ha< been established by Professor Woodbndge at Tufta i L'olleife in response to a petition of some j of the student* 1 At a recent temperance meeting in Bres- I lau, Germany. the Chairman stated that 1 the military authorities had for a Ion* ' time l?e*n endeavoring to put a stop to ?J excessive drinking of intoxicating liquors. | Dr Laurent, in hi* work on "Inmates of Prisons in Pans." says: "The prisons <>t France are inhabited 10 a great part hv descendants of inebriates and degenerates. A total abstainer among criminal* is D exceoUou to the rule." ? \ THE SABBATH SCHOOL international lesson comments for august ia Sabjact: Ntdkb ud AbIha?T?mparaac* Umoi, Ut. ?., 1-11?Oaldtn Test. I. Tbess., w? ??Wamory Twh, 8-11Coauxmatarr on tha Dtj'i La?on. "N'adab and Abihu." These were the sidest sons of Aaron and nephews of Moms. They were next to Aaron in position and rank. They had jost been in1 iicted into the priestly office, and their lint acts as priests brought them to a most tragic end. "Censer." A small ves<el used for burning incenae. "Incense." ["he sacred perfume offered to God by burning. It was composed of fragrant ipices (Ex. 30: 34-38), and was a symbol of prayer. "Strange fire." Instead of talking ire which the Lord Himself had kindled firhap. 9:24). from off the altar of burntiffering, they took common fire which s-as expressly forbidden. Chap. 16: 12. rheir sin seems to hare consisted, 1. In joing without orders. 2. In taking their iwn censers, instead of using the utensils if the sanctuary. 3. In doing what none but the high priest was allowed to do. I. In that they went together at the same time, whereas the incense was only to be iffered by one. 5. In going at an hour not appointed for this service. 6. In offering ?tnnse fire. It is thought by some that thev even entered into the holy of holies. The whole service on this solemn by of inauguration iru to be performed by Aaron himself, and his sons were only to attend him. These two young priest* irere nresumptuous. rash and irreverent, [t is the prevailing opinion that they were in a state of intoxication when they entered upon their duties (see vs. 8. 9), and that this was the reason they acted so rashly and wickedly. 2. "Fire from the Lord." Fire from the Lord had just consumed the burntoffering and the fat upon the altar (9: 24) in token of divine complacency and sacred nearness and the acceptance of human worship, and that some fire went out from the Lord and consumed the audinous Driest*. The very fire which they hid slighted was now the instrument of their destruction. So God's truth is a navor of life unto life or of death unto death. 2 Cor. 3: 14-16. The Holy Spirit trill cither regenerate (Titus 3: S) and aeal is (Eph. 4: 30), or consume us. Heb. 12: 29. "Died before the Lord." That is, before the veil that covered the mercy-seat. r,od was now teaching His children obedience, as became servants. In this sin was manifested a contemnt for Moses and the divine law, and for God's glory. The punishment was necessary according to the law. 3. "Sanctioned." etc. "I will be made to anpear holy by those who administer in My name." This refers directly to the Driests. They had received solemn warn in?a u to the matiou* and reverent manner of tbeir approach into the divine presence. "Aaron held hi* peace." He rabmitted in ailent resignation to what he u* was "the righteous judgment of God." Far be it from him to honor hia ion* more than God. or wish God's name, or house, or lair, to be exposed to reproach or contempt to preserve his family. 4. ' Out of the camp." The burying place of the Jews was without the camp. 3. "In their coats." Burying them in their priestly robes was a sign of their being polluted bj- the sin of their irreligious wearers. Aaron was not permitted to die in his priestly garments, in order that they might be worn by Eleaxar. Sum. 20 : 26. 6 "Uncover not your heads." They were to use no sign of grief or mourning. !. Because those who were employed in the service of the sanctuary should avoid everything that might unfit them for that service. 2. Because the crime of tbeir brethren was so highly provoking to God. and so fully merited the punishment ?k;?k ka,i inflii-tMl that their mourn in? might he considered u accusing the Divide Justice of undue severity. It was the law that the priest should never leave the altar or go to burials, or interrupt hie ucred ministry by shedding tears. "Whole house of Israel.' All the people were to bewail the burning, not only on account of the loss of their priests, but especially because God bad been displeased. "They must bewail the burning Kindled, that it might burn no further. Aaron and his ions were in danger of being too much effected with the providence, therefore thev are forbiddirn to mourn; the bouse of Israel was in ilanger of being too little effected, and therefore are commanded to lament." ' ?fc 'H-C. 7. "Shall not go out." "They were not to come in contact with secular affairs bv nbandonine the aervice of the tabernacle. "Lcit ye die." Many a Christian minister fus suffered spiritual death by voluntarily going forth from the tabernacle to enter upon secular matters. 8. "Spake unto Aaron." This command aras immediately given to Aaron to encourage him hy such a token of regard: ?1 * ? (K? f/irrl vnuM not have it ippc.ir a* if Moses hnd not sympathiied in his affliction, or bad intended to charge him with criminality in this respect. 9. "Do not drink wine," etc. This itrongly implies that Aaron's sons had tinned through excess of wine, and "bad \ttempted to celebrate tbe divine serriee in a state of inebriation." "Ihis wine is in Hebrew 'yayin,' the most general term For the beverage, especially when it is intoxicating. In seventy-five out of a hundred and thirty-six passages it is spoken )f with condemnation by reason of its disastrous effects. 'Strong drink' is applied to all fermented liquors except wine, ft included beer and cider and the fermented juices of various other fruits and vegetable*." "Lest ye die." God fixes the penalty and gives it as a warning. 10. "May nut difference." "To be able to distinguith between what was sacred ind what was common. Wine draws a ilm ov.t the spiritual eve and confounds | nor.il distinctions/' "This is a strong reason why tn*y snouia arms no muuirating liquor, that their understanding wint: c!eir. and their judgment correct, they mi'.nt be always able to discern between the c!<?an and the unclean and erer ironounce rijhteou* judgment. Tndeed. -oranton *-;n?e itself show* that neither a imnkmi nor a sot should ever be suffered to minister in holy things." 11 "Teach the children." "The priest ras the proper person to teach, and if le were addicted to drunkenness he would ic indee i rery unfit to teach people God's aws or statutes. for two reasons, namely, Ifcrause they who lire after the flesh can lot hare an experimental knowledge of lie thin^ of the Spirit; and because they vou.'d. by their example, destroy all their iwn teaching. Drunkenness is sinful, herefore 11 considered fleshly. Tempertnce is a virtue and does not'unfit one to earn of Chrint and the things of His ungdom." "The law of the Lord u p?rect, conrerting the soul." Machine Tor Larlsg Brick. Commercial Agent F. S. S. Johnson, of Stunbridgc. Canada, reports a recent inrention, which consists of bricklaving by narhir.ery instead ot br hand. He says: 'The machine, worked by two men and a I ad. will lay 4<? to 600 bricks per hour. I >?or and window spaces cause only a slight i lelay. The machine is suited for a!l plan j fork, such .as walls, sheds, mills, factories, - -1 i?: I?| ro\v< oi college#, piers ?u uii<>kv>, ?. >. Considerable pressure is put on the brick*, ind it ii claimed that the work i* tnoro irmly done than by hand. The invention nil do the work of ?ix or ?cven skilled ncklayers, and jt U believed that a machine adapted to build a factory, about > lixty by torty feet could be put on the | narkct for $300. The apparatus can lx? eadily worked after a fortnight'* mutru.;ion." Immigration In lMI-i. - .L- ,I?, immigration uii<? mc VHIK? .7.-.^.. ?. ng the pant risc.il year wan greater th.m in mv previous year except 1882. The ntim [ *?r or iiiimijfranui arriving at the various >orts was 730.798, as against 738,99"J in $H2. the record year. The immigration .wt year was 1(58,930 in excess of the recor?i >t ISW1. The number of steerage immigrants last year wa* 487.91'*. and the num ?r of cabin immigrants 74,930 E vapor?i too of 0??l Sm. The DeaJ Sea evaporatei an average of ,500,000 tons of water daily, that bem* be amount emptied igto it by the Jordan. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN READING FOR THE QUIET HOUR WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF/ Poena: On* Day Wbsa Warn by Toil?44* alratloa Will SfoO later* Saltation? Application la tb? B?*t lvld*Mt atf Appndatloa-Work la Trn* Worship. One day, when worn by toil and lone, And vexed, like Martha, with many a care, I, too, waa foolishly striving to bear. In strength my own. I heard .1 tender voice and low? A voice ot sweet. mysterious power# That came to m; that trying hour So long ago. These words it said: "Cone thou, opprest With present cares and cares to be, Come into a desert apart with Me Awhile and rest." It was my Master s can 10 prayer To a quiet hour with Him aside And in His solitude to bide Unburdened there. My troubled, anxious soul it knew His loving pretence the "Desert" filled. And all it* restlessness waa stilled And a deep peace grew. Deai Lord, I pray for a faith to M Thy tender love in each restraint Around me thrown, that I may acquaint Myself with Thee! '"''I And may mv ear be quick to hear Thy daily call to quiet prayer; In a "desert place" Thy presence share And feel Thee near! ?Emma ^iin Tallman. Hearing and Doing. "And every one that heareth these say* trig* of Mine and doeth them not shall bg likened unto a foolish man which built hi* house upon the sand."?Matt. 7: 36. Salvation comes by faith and faith bf hearing, but there are some very faithfu hearers who will never know salvation; thev hear, but do not heed. The parable of the two builders, on the rock and on tba saud. is the aoplication of the Sermon oa the Mount. It is as though the Maatec can anticipate those people, even of thid day, who are so occupied with admiring that wonderful discourse that they hava no time to Dot it into oractice. Applica tion is the best evidence of appreciation. Admiration will not insure sal ration. There are manv who nay, "All the religioo T need ia in the Sermon on the Mount.** That i? as though one should sar, "All tbg food I n*ed is in the larder," and then the? should lock the door and throw the to* away. No man needs to worry about anW more religion until he has exhausted thai contained in this sermon. But he might mi well hare his religion in the Egyptian Book of the Dead as in this 8ermon on thg Mount if he never takes it out and puts ii into practice. He who builds his hopes q/t his aesthetic capacity for admiring tbe sayinn of Jesus is building them on the sandj What God want! is not men and women who can nod their heads in agreement wit* the preacher's sentiments or sit with g rapt expression of svmputhetic appreciation of the sermon on tbei^ faces and ro home saving. "What a lovely discourse!" He wants men and women who express their appreciation of the beauties of trutV by their application of its duties. , Opeiatiop* count more with God than opinion*. Woric la true worahip. At tbd . l??t you will not he aake<i your estimate of the lojrical. oratorical and sentimental qualities of Christ's great sermon. The greal Architect will not ask your opinion of Hie designs and plans: He will want to see the house you hare built according to thoee plans or otherwise. The man who does no more than admire the plans that God has drawn builds no more than a honae of air on the sand* of his imagination. What hae he to show? It will not do them to say, "Lord, I was alwaya one of the first to aav. Lord. Lord, and to express my admiration of Christ and His teachincs." God will ask for the building erected by yoor obedience. ? Xo man knows what any truth is worth* till he sets it to work. Your doctrine yo? must demonstrate. Prove it by living and the world will take chances on its logic. The truths that Christ anoke are God's design and plan for the edifice of true living. You can bring twenty people to accept these plans by erecting the structure of your own life squaielv and exactly npos \hem fcefore you could make one single io'jI accept them by your admiration and irgumgiu for them. 'Wiy What God wants and this world needs il i Chriatianity that has gFowri un oat of admiration into emulation. A Christianity that does more than sine about love and piety, that shows them; that not only propounds principles, but also practices then. The church has been too long like tfie lad who thinks he has solved the problem of wrpetual motion, too proud of the theory to stoop to prove it: she most build no pore on the sands of sentimental admira:ion of ?nitb. hut on the rock of real appln :ion.?Henry F. Cope, in Ram's Horn. Tfcs An*al-Laddrr. The Rev. F. B. Meyer says: 'Tor each dreamer, of all the young pilgrims acrow the world of time, there waits the angel ladder. Beside each one of us the bush [ in the desert burns with fire. The differ* ; ence between tbose who ?ee and ao not see thaw things lien in their devotion or disobedience to troth, to far u they know it." Rtlld?o of Lot*. Bishop Gore, in addressing a meeting of workinijmen in Birmingham, Mid: "If tb* Christianity of Christ is to make any wajr in the world, it must make it aj the religion of a body of men bonnd together by the name lore and fellowship that binds them to Him." The Devout Kind. M-irtineau says: "No laborious trarela are needed for the devout mind: for it Carrie* w:thm it Alpine heights and starlit kies. which it may reach with a moment'* thought, and fee] at once the lonelinea ot nature and the magnificence of God." Spiritual PoliUr*. Irreverence is the brand of ignorance. To consecrate your money act as God'a ateward. The church that scatter* its money will gather its members. If God chastiseth His chosen what will He do with His foes? If you feel you hare a call to preach to the many, first test it on the few. You cannot increase your bank account in heaven with blood money. It l* easier for God to work a wonder than tor us to comprehend it. When a man denies God in bis heart km will deny humanity in his life. Where God goes in, trouble goes orer. The divine in the Christian is the best demonstration of the divinity of Christ. Though His hand seems to be reached out to smite it is equally ready to save. It 1.1 not enough to make good promim to God, we mu.it make our promise* good. * Kind words draw people nearer to God. but cross words drive many to despair and rum. A sermon on our duty to God trill not ba accepted as a substitute for doing our duty to man. A man'a religion mutt be bankrupt when he can only pay the Lord forty days on th? year.?Ram's Horn. John Smith's Helen Is Over. The new city directory of Bonton ditclone* the astounding fart that the reign of John Smith is over in Boston, and thai John Sullivan has taken his place. This i? one of the wonders of the new century. Bv actual count there are onlv thirty c.ght John Smith* in that city, while ot John Sullivan* there are 111. Boston hat 257,006 [wonni whose name* jfe wortfc recording in the new directory. The num* ber shown an increase of 4?22 over the di? rectory of lut year. About 30.000 of the persons named lire outside the city limit* Vacant Laid la (Jaltatl States, One-third of the United States proper u vacant land ?