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' A POOR MAN'S PRAYER.
Protprt -me. Lord, from those. Thv saints.
The sanctimonious few;
O. save me from their clutches
When my mortgages come due
O. lead me not into their hands,
These brethren, long and pale.
[Who call this earth "A Yale of Tears,"'
(And promptly seize the "Vale.")
O, put me not into their power,
Ihese too uncommon good,
"Who teach us what we shouldn't do
And preach us what we should.
These saints who squeeze a shilling twice,
And wear cheap aureoles;
Who take our children's bread and then
Attempt to save our souls.
Give me instead a human man.
With some few human stains
That show he has the common blood
Of manhood in his veins,
And heart that overflows sometimes
To overthrow constraints;
But id my need, protect me. Lord,
From these, Thv hungry saints.
?Erflanuel Elzas, in The Argonaut.
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/o??\K9 9fi??oe?a?e*e?oo9*
? Dy Albert W. Tolman. ?
"Look sharp!"
"It'was 5 o'clock in the morning.
Captain Ben Treat stood in dripping
oilskins by the windlass of the Gloucester
schooner Emeline, riding out
the wild February gale that had
roared down all night over Georges.
As he heard this warning shout Srorn
Sam Lombard, who was holding by
the throat-halyards on the fore-gaff
ten feet above deck, he hugged his
~>left arm tightly round the bitts, and
strengthened his grasp on the ax that
lay over his right shoulder.
A huge green roller reared its crest
in front of the bowsprit. The schooner
rose abruptly, and surged back from
the assault of the sea. The nineInch
Manila cable twanged like a big
violin-string, and in the lantern-ngnt
from the fore-rigging dwindled a
third under the tremendous strain.
The windlass shrieked as the leather
shield ground into the whelps.
Over the bow burst a foaming
-deluge. Captain Ben, buried deep,
hung on for dear life, while the torrent
swept sternward and # out
through the shattered bulwarks.
Then he pulled himself together and
relaxed histoid. It was perhaps his
hundredth experience of the sort in
the last seven hours.
"Light on the starboard bow!"
Although he was only ten feet
#way, Lombard's hoarse voice sounded
faintly in the roaring gale. The
captain glanced to the right with eyes
aching and sleet-dimmed. A gray unsubstantial
wraith, the smothered
star between her fore peak-halyards
dimly revealing rope and spar, flitted
by at a ten-knot gait, and was1 lost in
the gloom astern. Thirty .such specters,
some running before the wind
' with the peak of a three-reefed fore^?n<1
Vir?*?A
caii. d^uuuiu5 uuuci uaic puica,
had passed to port and starboard
since 3 o'clock, their cables parted
by ress of storm or cut in fear of
collision, strewing the sea bottom
^ith thousands of dollars in good
hemp and anchors.
At sunset one hundred and twenty
sail had lain moored on the Banks
in a five-mile circle. The Emeline
was near the southern circumference,
60 that, when the northeast gale burst
at 9 o'clock, the greater part of the
fleet lay to windward of her. She
was directly in the path of drifting or
running vessels.
As the violence of wind and sea
steadily increased, the captain set a
double watch, and stationed himself
by he windlass with a sharp ax,
ready to cut his cable at short notice.
There he had stood for hours,
ihis face stung by level sleet, hearing
the blast whistling through the
. shrouds and the halyards slapping the
masts, while the schooner plunged
heavily from crest to trough and
labored up from trough to crest. The
breaking seas drenched him with
brine; rffeain and again the cablesnub
almost threw him off his feet.
* At 4 in the morning-it was blowing
a hurricane; the vessels to windward
that had held on all night began to
part and cut their cables and drift
down on the Emeline.
"A schooner, broadside on, a little
to port!"
Captain Ben strained his eyes
- through the smother, and grasped his
ax more tightly. Heaved on an immense
billow and blowing down
upon him, he saw another Banker.
The stranger was coming at a sixknot
rate, absolutely helpless. The
crew lined her rail. To cut would
mean that he must lose several hundred
dollars in cable and anchor, be
blown miles to leeward off the fishing-grounds,
and run to Gloucester
to refit. If he did not cut and a collision
resulted, thirty lives and more
than twenty ^thousand dollars would
be sacrificed. In such a disaster both
vessels generally go down with every
m5Jr? nr* hnnrH
The captain hesitated, weighing
the chances. Nearer drifted the
schooner. Now she was only thirty
feet from the end of his bowsprit. A
great waves lifted her so that he
could almost look under her keel.
"Cut, cap'n, cut!" shouted Lombard,
in alarm. But still the captain
waited. His experienced eye saw
that the drifting hull would not touch
his vessel. But the long main-boom,
* extending twenty feet beyond the
other's stern, was almost sure to rake
his rigging. It was a question which
would yield first?spruce or hemp.
* The craft were now close together.
He swung the ax above his head. One
blow, and the humming cable would
' spring asunder.
"Cut! Cut!" yelled Lombard
again. But Captain Ben had decided
to match his foreshrouds aeainst the
dancing spar.
Down past the Emeline's bowsprit
Bwept the newcomer, her boom-tip
gyrating wildly. The captain held
Ihis breath, almost regretting his de'
dsion.
Four feet from the end the boon:
struck against the shrouds. Th?
, stout ropes buckled, but held. Witt
a sharp erackins the stick broke shorl
off in the slings about twenty feel
from its tip, dropped down and swung
against the stranger's quarter, sus
pended by the topping-lift and swash
ing sail. A moment later she wa:
swallowed by the darkness.
Captain Ben had little time to con
gratulate himself on his escape. As
be and Lombard peered after the
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'vanishing schooner, a big roMer,
sweeping down unperceived, broke
over the bow. The captain turned
just ia time to see it hanging over his
head. Diopping the ax, he clutchei
at the bitts with both hands; cut the
briny deluge struck him in the breast,
and rolled him over and over down
the passage between the "gurry-kids"
and the starboard rail.
He brought up against the break,
in the "slaughter-house," as it is
termed by fishermen. After some
scramDiing, nt: wauugcu lu
main part of the fore-sheet, which
hung coiled over the bitts of the fiferail
round the mainmast. The water
streamed off through the splintered
bulwarks. The captain caught his
breath and rubbed his eyes clear. A
hoarse yell came from the lookout:
"Schooner dead ahead!"
Out of the blackness beyond the
bowsprit lurched another Georgesman.
The instant Treat set eyes on
her he knew that the crisis had come.
She was drifting broadside on, with
no possibility of passing to port or
starboard. Tho cable must be cut at
once. Every second was precious.
| Letting go the fore-sheet, he started
to run forward. Again a monster
sea was upon him before he realized
! it. He made one vain grab at the
' rail. The next second his legs were
knocked from under him, and he was
swept down a second time into the
slaughter-house.
i In a moment he had regained his
feet. His head was whirling from a
violent thump upon the deck; but he
was fully alive to the situation. He
must recover his ax and cut the cable
immediately. As the sea rolled off,
he staggered forward along the slippery
planks.
i The Emeline pitched into the
trough. It was an easy matter tor
him to dart down the sloping deck to
the windlass. To his horror the ax
had vanished from the spot where he
had dropped it. He shot a quick
glance about; it was nowhere to be
seen. The sea had washed it down
the deck, and possibly overboard!
The schooner rose to meet the com- s
ing billow. As it struck the bow, the j
taut cable dwindled and sang out. B
Beyond its curling crest rose the bare t
poles of the stranger. The next wave r
would hurl her on top of the Emeline. d
From the fore-gaff Lombard had f
helplessly watched his commander p
searching for the ax. He was too
experienced a Georgesman not to ;
realize the catastrophe that impend- i
ed. Painfully he scanned the wet e
planks, which sparkled in the dim lan- ?
tern-light. Half-way down to the E
bres.k his eye detected the glitter of J
steel. It was the ax, lying close to a j
stanchion, and all but swept over- c
board by the last sea. t
The lookout's cry rose above the c
tempest. ?
"There, cap, there!" he screamed. P
Captain Ben's eyes followed the f
pointing band. In less than five sec- .
onds his fingers were locked round t
the helve. He turned, and darted j
fntforr? tliQ trJnHlocc k
The Emeline was tugging at her
cable in the trough, headed straight
for the drifting schooner, ,which
seemed to the captain's horrified gaze
to be hanging right over him.
; The sea hurled the stranger forward.
The bowsprit of the Emeline
rose. Its tip was not ten feet from
the other hull. A moment more, and
the crash would come; and both
would go down together.
Just then the captain swung the
ax aloft. Down hurtled the keen
blade through the hempen strands,
| where they ground on the whelps of
the windlass!
j The cable parted. Its short end
i whipped the deck; the other whisked
through the hawse-pipe quicker than
, eye could follow. The vessel, freed
: at last from the bond at which she
j had tugged all night, shot back a full
; hundred feet as the heavy sea struck
her bow, flinging Captain Ben on his
face, while the stranger settled harmlessly
into the place she had left!
After her first wild lean the Emeline
swung broadside to the gale, and
as she was more lightly loaded than
i the other, gradually drifted out of J
sight oI her. The crew, who all night '
in forecastle and cabin had been {
ready for a sudden call, soon hoisted
a two-reefed foresail. In a few min|
utes they got steerage way, scudded
I thirty miles off the Banks, and hove
j to. The next day, when the storm
j abated, they ran for Gloucester to
refit.?Youth's Companion.
The Useful Cow.
I Milk, the first, and often the last
. food of man, while the most ancient,
! is yet the most modern of foods. It i
; is as old as the Bible, but some of its
products are almost as new as ra- (
dium. It is certain that the cow was
not the original milk producer, which
honor belongs to the goat or the
sheep, and it is probable that the
j 8000 or 9000 pounds per annum
thoroughbred of to-day would not
recognize its ancestor, the little wild
animal of the jungle, whose period
of lactation was short and yield correspondingly
light. Among some superstitious
people the cow is held in
the highest veneration, and it is considered
sacreligious to treat her unkindly.
If some American farmers
had a little of this superstition they
would get more milk.
Hatred of Cats.
Napoleon Bonaparte showed a morbid
horror of cats. The night before
the Battle of Waterloo a black cat
passed near him, and at the sight the
great warrior was completely unnerved.
He saw an omen of defeat.
; Henry III. of France swooned when
ever ne saw a cai, auu out: 01 me r <rr- i
dinands of Germany would tremble
In his boots if a harmless tabby got
in the line of hi? ision.
j Among the Romans the cat was a
symbol of liberty. The Egyptians
held the animal in veneration under
the name of Aelrus, a deity with a
human body and a cat's head. Whoj
ever killed a cat, even by accident,
^ was put to death. Diana assumed the
form of a cat and excited the fury of
r the giants.?London Mirror.
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The body of George Penn, a Lon3
don dog fancier, was followed to the
grave by four fine bull terriers. They
. wore black coats, on which were the
3 words, in white letters: "Following
) Qur master to his last resting place*"
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Subject?The
Brooklyn, N. Y.?Preaching at i
'he Irving Square Presbyterian i
Church on the theme "The Ten <
Words," the Rev. Ira Wemmell Hen- <
lerson, pastor, took as his text Exo- i
ius 20:1-17. He said: <
Whatever may be our personal and i
irivate convictions as to the manner \
>f God's revelation of Himself to
VIoses; however much we may differ j
is to the exact form in which the <
aw-giver of Israel received the mes- i
;age of Divinity; however much we .
nay be at variance as to the exact- l
less of the Bible story in its por- i
raiture of the scene when Moses met i
rehovah on Sinai; no matter what ]
nay be our belief concerning the late
and the authorship of the book <
)f the Exodus, the simple fact is (
hat the ten commandments are the ]
sxpression of fundamental truths <
hat God has revealed to man. Be- j
lind all human law and jurispru- ]
lence lies the code of Moses. These i
en stern, terse negative commands i
hat Moses got from God are at the ]
)asis of all legal theory and practice. (
The decalog is the codification of y
he divine will for the guidance and (
:ontrol of human action. The ten j
vords are the rules of the Almighty (
'or the regulation .of man's rela- (
ions with humanity and his Maker. (
Take them, merely, if you will, as t
he human recognition of man's ob- <
igations toward God and society and (
itill the commandments are of God. \
Vhether we reach the conclusion by ]
he tiresome philosophy of the Mid- <
He Ages, or by the simple reason- {
ng of the earliest minds of Israel, {
>r by the scientific discriminative (
>rocesses of modern thought, the 1
act is that all truth is from God. j
'Thus saith the Lord" is the source ,
if life's verities. It is God who in- ,
pires us, God who gives ua knowl- (
idge and understanding and wis- (
lom; God it is who sends us onward (
md upward. He it was who put t
nto the hearts of Moses and eft Is- T
ael the love of His laws and the ?
lesire to do His will. And to-day <
le strives with us as really as He t
ver endeavored with the generations }
hat are dead. t
The question is not whether or no j
Jod gave Moses tablets of stone; the ,
ssue is not whether or .no Moses \
yrote the story of the scene on the t
nount, as it is preserved to us; the ?
loint to be decided is whether or no ]
loses spoke God-given truth. It all (
tinges not on the manner of the e
lelivery of the commandments but
ipon the nature and divineness of ^
he matter revealed. Do Moses' }
vords bear the marks of a heaven- j
torn gift, are they fraught with the t
tower and the wisdom of Jehovah
limself? Are they stamped with *
i celestial brand and do they ex- ?
iress everlasting verities? Are J;
hey just to men and are they (
worthy of the King? Do they meet ,
he needs of men? Are they in- {
pirational? These are the tests of ,
he usefulness and the worthiness of j
he commandments. These are 'the }
[ualities that must inhere in them j
re they can command the respect t
if humanity and evidence God's orig- t
nation. ?
By these standards the ten com- j
nandments are divinely inspired. A j
;lance at them discovers to us the E
eal of the Eternal. Experience of t
heir value in the midst of the ac- t
ivities of this world's life proves T
heir worth to mankind. Analysis ,
tf their content and their aim leads
is to declare them worthy of Je- (
lovah. With all that inquiry asks .
ind criticism demands the ten words j
ire at one. j
Consider the commandments sepa- ]
ately and you will grant I speak the ,
ruth. The call of God for undivided "
oyalty to Himself is but the voice (
if reason. No man can serve two j
nasters. And it is a certainty that
east of all can he serve two masters
vhose interests are diametrically op- ,
josed. We cannot serve righteous- j
less and sin at the same time. God 1
leserves the full devotion of every .
luman heart. To worship an idol ,
s to lose the consciousness of the ,
iniritualitv of Divinity; to mistake '
neans for the end, material mani- ^
testations for the unseen dynast. To ,
play fast and loose with God's name ]
s an insult to the Father. The self- (
respect of God requires human self- .
pontrol. Profanity is indecent and ;
legrading to mind and soul. The :
need and the preciousness of a Sab- (
bath's rest is too apparent to warrant
comment. Common courtesy .
accords respect to our earthly parents,
especially when they are worthy
af respect. Strict obedience to the
command "thou shalt not kill"
would spoil the business of the executioners;
stop war at once.
The fruits of adultery are all too
distressingly visible. The jails are
full of thieves and would be overcrowded
were the Mosaic code rigidly
applied and enforced. Lying is
mean, unmanly, despicable, disrerxntohlfl
H nvi H c Vi QotiofQAtinn nHth
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a fair share of this world's goods
is better than covetousness.
The decalog meets humanity at
vital points and helps mankind
ahead. Although included in the
law of love laid down by Christ it
is by no means abrogated. The ten
commandments bind us as well as
Moses. The words of Christ emphasize
their demands. The laws of
Moses are not defeasible or defunct.
They will always be obligating. No
statement of our Lord and no bit
of New Testament wisdom legislates
them out of existence or countermands
them. * They still bind ub.
The eleventh command merely supports,
supplements and reinforces
the other ten.
Love God and you won't serve
Mammon and the no-gods of the
aliens. Much less will you take His
name in vain. Love God and you
will treat His children well. Love
the brethren and you will labor to
make their lives joyous. The words
of Christ serve most to imbed the
laws of Moses deeper In the minds
of Christians who are honest.
Now It is very generally supposed
that the laws of the ten tablets are
of merely negative force. Explicitly,
I presume, that is so. On the face
of things the element of prohibition
enters, largest, into the commands.
But every explicit prohibition and
negation impliedly asserts a corresponding
and correlated affirmation
and positive admonition. "Thou
shalt not," says the law, explicitly.
An n H" nnon Vi a rn vm a 1 n ttf 4
iuuu suau aa?s inc same law implicitly.
The law against murder
implies the right of life. The discountenancing
of falsehood puts a
premium on truth. To smash our
idols is the first step toward wholespirlted
service of the alone t#ue
God. The command to stop work
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"HE: FAMOUS DIVINEi*.
Ten Words.
and shut up shop Implies that a day's
rest is necessary and that God receive
specific recognition from 'His
ihildren once a week at least. These '
and the rest of the commands indicate
to the man with the open
mind that the ten words are something
more than a series of "don'ts."
Talk about avoiding prohibitions
is not well balanced. It is impossible
for the thinking man to escape
them. The positive commands of
Jesus suggests innumerable prohibitions.
The mere "thou shalt" intimates
that there is something we
must not do. Men tell us that prohibitions
cause men to desire to do
wrong, that commands not to do
jvil impel men to sin just because
JL LI UlllCLLllLJ O OI1CC1 (/CI TCI OCUCOO.
But sin comes from the wilfulness
3f the sinner and not because of
my law, negative or positive. Jesus
iromulgated the most extensive as
veil as the most statesmanlike positive
law that the world has ever
tnown; but we know that even many
)f His followers fail to obey it, as
veil as the multitude of those who
lefiantly deny Him. Despite Christ's
Dositive example and His positive
leclarations and demands men still
:ontinue to run after sin. The shrine
)f Mammon is jammed With votaries.
The streets resound with
:urses. The harlots and the men
>f unclean life still strike unholy
bargains. Homes are shattered and
lives are blighted by the lying tongue,
rhe cells in "murderers' row" are
iver full. The nations maintain
irmed camps. Legislators spend
heir time trying to devise ways and
neans to de-Christianize our Sab)ath.
I had almost said, legislators
vaste their time; for their plans
vill never be crowned with success
ixcept America as Ephraim "Is a
:ake not turned." Everywhere an<
ivery moment mefi are sinning, and
hat in the face of the positive comnand
of Christ that they should deilre
and strive for the best. But no
me is foolish enough to say that
he affirmative demand of Jesus that
lumanity do and be good impels
nankind to disobedience. Likewise
t ought to be patent that men sin
tgainst negative laws not because of
he laws but in spite of them. The
en commandments are no more reiponsible
for sin than is the eleventh.
Vnd the man who says that law exited
him to sin invents a lame and
i thin excuse to say the \^ost for it.
A due and proper regard for t.'.ie
en commandments not only wMl
ead men to cease from doing the
nterdicted sins but also will inspire
hem to do good. The implicit "thou
ihalt" is just as mandatory as the
fxplicit "thou shalt not." "Thou
ihalt not covet," for you will have
>nough to do and will secure suffi'
:ient of this world's stores if you
vill attend strictly tc- your own af'airs.
"Thou sliaK not bear false
vitness," for your own reputation
or veracity is lost with the lie. And
10 matter how well you may lie or
low smooth and slick you may be
;he odds are against you, for the
;ruth must win and it will win.
'Thou shalt not commit adultery,"
because the perpetuity of the race
3 dependent on its purity. "Thou
ihalt not kill" because God has given
.he other man the inalienable right
:o life. "Honor thy father and thy
nother" and let them precipitate
my troubles if any there are to be,
lot you. "Remember the Cabbath
lay" and make it a true rest-day.
'Thou shalt not take the name of ,
:he Lord thy God in vain," and yet
- ' ? m I
l nave neciru nicmy a mau. iaivc mux o
iberties with the name of God than
iOu would allow any man to take
ivith yours. Thou shalt not bow
lown to images or serve other gods,
for the Lord is a spirit and a unity;
in idol is a delusion and a snare.
Let us put aside all quibbling and
splitting of hairs and admit the
right of the ten words to rule as
the laws of our, lives. Let us acknowledge
their divine inspiration
and their worthiness. Let us not
seek to escape either their commands
or their implicates. If we cannot
live under the laws of God with peace
and quietude of mind then let us
:hange not the laws but our mode
of living. The fault is not with God's
regulations but with our society and
Its forms. God giveth and possesseth
wisdom. Humanity has a monopoly
of the wiseacres.
The statement that the ten commandments
are of no use to-day and
that we have outgrown tnem is a
bit of fiction. No man is old enough
to outgrow essential truth, nor is
any people wise enough and strong
enough to get along without the ten
commandments. So long as men
have minds they must recognize the
force ot "thou shalt not" as the
decalog presents it. The new commandment
may sum up all the wisdom
of the old ones, but the truth
that swayed our fathers' fathers
must still command allegiance and
respect.
Character Creates Atmosphere.
It is a marvelous thing to see how
a pure and innocent heart purifies all
that it approaches. The most ferocious
natures are soothed and tamed
by Innocence, and so with human beings;
there ia a delicacy so pure thai
vicious men in its presence become
almost pure; all of purity which is
in them is brought out; like attaches
itself to like.
Thn mire heart becomes a centre
of attraction, round which similar
atoms gather, and from which dissimilar
ones are repelled. A corrupt
heart elicits In an hour all that i(
bad in us; a spiritual one brings oul
and draws to itself all that is best
and purest.
Such was Christ. He stood in tht
world, the Light of the world; tc
which all sparks of light graduall5
gathered. He stood in the presence
of impurity and men became pure.?
F. W. Robertson.
Where to Put Your Trnst.
My trust is not that I am holy, but
that, being unholy, Christ died fo^
me. My rest is here, not in wnat \
am or shall be, or feel or know, but
In what Christ is and must be?ic
what Christ did and is still doing a*
He stands before yonder throne ol
glory.?C. H. Spurgeon.
The Royal Road.
It Is not he who reads most, but
he who meditates most on divine
truth, that will prove the choicest,
wisest, strongest Christian.?Bishoj
Hall.
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THE GREAT DESTROYED
SOMI5 STARTLING FACTS AHOUJ
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
What a Man is Worth?Estimating
the Damaje Done to the Indus
trialism of tlie Country by th<
Liquor Traffic.
The money value of a man indus
irially has often been the subject ol
'liscussion. It comes up when a mai
is killed by a railroad. We believe
iiie damages awarded average abon
$5000. It is often an element, ii
damage cases against the liquoi
traffic.
Particularly is it a matter of in
terest in estimating the damage don<
by the liquor traffic to the industrial
ism of the country. Liquor kills
many an able-bodied laborer. Hov
much does it damage the values o
the country thereby? Many a law
yer, physician or merchant is dam
aged by strong drink destroying hi!
efficiency, perhaps terminating hi!
omerwise usemi nit;. now muuu an
the assets of the community, consid
ered in dollars and cents, hurt there
by?
We have some approximation to ai
answer in certain papers and discus
sions recently presented at a sessioi
of the American Medical Associatioi
in Boston. The utterances of this as
sociation help in reducing the wortl
of human life to dollars and cents
A press dispatch from Boston says:
The opthalmology section of th(
American Medical Association dis
cussed to-day a man's worth in dol
lars and cents, and whether or no
flesh and blood can be reduced t<
figures with the dollar sign befori
them- Dr. Erastus Holt, of Portland
Me., showed by a table that a man'i
value could actually be determined
by taking into consideration his oc
cupation and age. Dr. Holt reaffirme<
the famous Dr. Osier theory, and, b:
a table, indicated that the economii
value of a. laboring man began to de
crease after his twenty-fifth year
and that the economic value of a pro
fessional man began to decrease afte;
bis fortieth year.
By Dr. Holt's table rates a boy o
ten years is shown to be wortl
$2601.62; at fifteen years he ii
worth $4623.66; at twenty-five he ii
worth, if he is a laborer, $5448.30
and from that time on his value de
creases until at seventy years he ii
worth only $17.13, and at eight:
years he is a drawback on the com
mnnitv to the extent of $S72.S4.
"A professional man at twenty-fiv<
years has an economic value of $25,
808.94, and his highest value is a
forty years, when he is worth $29,
344.68."
By taking these figures as at leas
approximately correct, and then raul
tiplying them by the number o
known deaths from alcoholism in an;
community, readers of an inquirinj
mind can figure how. much any com
munity has been damaged in its
money making power by strong drink
The worth of a man in dollars ant
cents can be estimated by many i
village, as having been lost to i
through a man killed ty whisky, tha
would far outweigh all the revenue;
of the saloons.?American Issue.
Kentucky's Drouth Spreads.
The drouth in Kentucky continue!
to spread, and there are now ninety
four totally "dry" counties, out o
the total of 119. Two months ag(
there were eighty-two dry counties
but since then many precinct ant
county elections have been held hen
to vote whether liquor should be solt
or not. In these twelve counties hav<
gone dry, and the only victory gainet
by the "wets" was to carry the towi
of Cloverport, in Breckinridge Qoun
ty.
The remarkable spread of temper
ance in the Bourbon Commonwealtl
has been more strikingly evidence*
in the past ten clays tnan ever Be
fore. In that time eight countie
went dry?Ballard, Logan, Pulaski
Lewis, Greenup, Pendleton, Whitle:
and Todd. The "drys" met with on
disappointment. Middlesborongh, th
county seat of Bell, is the only we
spot in the Eleventh Congressiona
District. This district includes th
mountain counties of Eastern Ken
tucky, where "moonshine" trickles i:
a continuous stream. There isn't i
county in Kentucky that is totall;
wet.
To Stamp Out Tippling.
According to the Hamilton Herald
the police commissioners of that cit;
have determined to stamp out tipplinj
amongst the police officers. There I
a rule that says that any officer, ij
or out of uniform, who is caugh
drinking or playing cards in a hote
or licensed shop is unfit for the forc?
and liable to dismissal. The commis
sioners told Chief Smith to enforc
that rule, and they promised to stan<
by him. It seems that there has beei
some trouble on account of officer
drinking, and the commissioners' ac
tion is the result.
America's Greatest Menace.
Dr. Madison Peters, pastor of th
Baptist Church of the Epiphanj
says: "The drink habit among wome:
is the greatest evil that menace
America." Dr. Peters' church is i:
the heart of the fashionable Madiso
avenue residence district and its pas
tor has unsurpassed facilities for ob
serving the doings of the peopl
about him. In an interview for th
Lincoln Magazine this down-tow
pastor described how Sunday has be
come largely a day for mere socia
conviviality in that neighborhood
and remarked jocularly, "I am a
apostle to the genteels and I don'
like it."
Lesson Learned by Japan.
The relation of pauperism to ic
temperance seems very plain to th
people of Japan. In Great Brltai
there are 1,000,000 paupers, whil
Japan has only 25,000. When som
one expressed surprise at the grea
disparity and wondered why in Japa
thopp so small an element of pau
perism in proportion to populatioi
the reply of a Japanese statesma
was: "That is because while the Jaj
anese drink tea the British peopl
drink alcohol."
Prohibition Doesn't Kill.
The North Carolina Baptist says
"There is now on deposit in the bank
of Fayetteville $937,000?nearly
million dollars. Five years ago ther
was only $275,000. There has bee
a gain ef nearly 400 per cent, in fiv
years. This shows the prosperit
side of the old town. Say, how abou
prohibition killing a town?"
Colonel John Temple Grave
proudly boasts that not one of th
106 persons employed on the A1
tanta Georgian premises is an inteir
perate person.
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? S'JT.EXGZH OUT OF WEAKNESS
liol wucn, wan seit aissausncu,,
O i<ord, 1 lowly lie,
E So much 1 need Th.v grace to guide,
I And Thy reproving eye?
[ A* when the sound of human praise
Grows pleasant to my ear,
, And in its sight my broken ways
l" Fair and complete appear.
By failure and defeat made wise,
? W'c come to know at length
What strength within our weakness lies;
3 What weakness in our strength.
' What inward peace is born of strife,
1 What power, of being spent;
What wings unto our upward life
.Is noble discontent.
3 O Lord, we need Thy shaming look
? That burns all low desire;
* The discipline of Thy rebuke
Shall be refining tire!
* ?Frederick L. Hosmer.
1 "Walking With God.
j And Enoch walked with God; and
j he was not; for God took him.?Genesis,
v., 24.
l The Bible is the book of God. Id
this book one may breathe the atmosphere
of God and walk with God. Ie
? the holy volume man and God are
1 brought face to face.
In this wonderful book we have a
t record of the first great sorrow that
} fell upon the hearts of parents; of
3 the first foul murder and its dire consequences.
Sin. brought forth death.
s In the fifth chapter of Genesis tne
1 dull monotony of names is broken by
a marvellous statement. The advent
j of Enoch was like a gleam of light in
f a dark night. All about him wps
2 black and foul with sin, but "Enoch
walked with God."
So far as we can determine the age
I in which this good man lived was an
r age of intelligence. Then was the
beginning of things?music, art* arf
chitecture, city building, culture, but
! men's minds were away from God.
3 Incidental references are made to
3 Enoch in the epistles to the Hebrews
and of Jude, and from these we learn
that it.was not easy then to walk
3 with God any more than it Is to-day
j in New York.
It means a struggle in this age to
be honest, sincere, upright and faith?
ful in business, at home and in public
I matters. The downward path is easy,
t The upward way means climbing.
But what does it mean to walk
with God? That we are God's
t friends, that' He is our friend. We
. walk with friends, not enemies,
f We walk with God when we go Id
y the same direction, travel His path;
way, submit our plans to Him and
I hold our lives open to His inspection.
s When we are on intimate terms with
, ' the Infinite One we walk with God.
i Are tnere any sausiauiurj evmca^
i by which it is possible to determine
t whether or not we are walking with
t God? Yes. What? To use a musi?
cal phrase, we walk with God wheD
our souls are in tune with the Infinite.
The skilful musician quickly
detects when the musical instruments
are out of tune. There is discord,
5 heartrending discord, to his trained
ear. When we are not in tune with
f God there is sure to be lack of har5
mony ? discord ? in our souls and
lives. When the human will is in
j harmony with the divine will peace
3 results.
j When any person is. ready to give
8 up what is displeasing to God it is
j good evidence that he is in the right
a way and is walking with God.
And the end of it all? God took
Enoch home because all through life
they were friends. This pleasure
~ awaits us if we love God and are
j loyal to Him all our lives?hojne at
last! Did not the Great Master say,
g "I go to prepare mansions for you?"
If we walk with God through our
' lives at the close God will take ns, as
v he took Enoch, to be with Him forever.
This means a blessed immor?
tality of companionship, work and
. worship. ? David G. Wylie, Scotch
Presbyterian Church, in the New York
0 Sunday Herald.
U Service.
v The disciples had to come down
from the mount and do Christ's work,
and so have we. Believe me, oae
word of warning spoken to help a
little child out of sin?one crust 01
bread given to a beggar because he is
y your brother, for -whom Christ died;
? one angry word checked on your lips
| for the sake of Him who was meek
a and lowly of heart; and the smallest
t endeavor to lessen the amount of
,j evil which is in yourselves and those
j around you?is worth all the specula''
tions and raptures, and visions, and
' dreams, and feeling in the world; for
d these are the good fruits of fa..h
Q whereby alone the tree shall b?
a known, whether it be good or evil.?
Ram's Horn.
The Strength of the Word.
A man was compelled one night tc
cross a wide, frozen river. Notwith
e standing the assurances of those who
r were thoroughly familiar with thf
q region and repeatedly crossed on ttu
s solid ice, the traveler feared to under
take the trip, but finally began tc
a crawl his way over, wnen near iut
(. middle of. the frozen stream he was
startled by a sound in the distance
e and caught sight of a negro driving
e a heavy team of horses pulling ?
D great load of pig-iron; yet there was
not the least sign of a crack in tht
[l ice. What a foolish thing to fear and
i( crawl like that! Will the Word oi
n' God hold? Some fear to trust it
t Why, man, it can't fail. ? Ram's
Horn.
Keeping Silence Before God.
Do you know what Luther said'
i- Suffer and be still, and tell no mar
e thy sorrow. Trust iu God; His helj
n will not fail thee. This is whai
e Scripture calls keeping silence befort
e God. To talk much of one's sorrow*
X makes one weak, but to tell one's
jj sorrows to Him ''who heareth in secret"
makes one strong and calm.?
Tholuck.
"
? Many a man's religion would grow
e all right if be would let its roots
alone.
Giant Granite Block.
. , The largest and heaviest single
a block of granite ever sent into Canada
from the United States has just
been shipped from a Barre (Vt.)
_ quarry to Cote des Neiges, P. Q., a
Q suburb of Montreal. The huge stone
is three and a quarter feet square
^ and thirty-two feet long and weighs
t&irty-iwo ions. it was tuuaisucu
to J. Brunet, the sculptor.
Big Lobster Output.
Just 8,579,S12 lobsters caught in
H Maine last year, according to Commissioner
NicSerson.
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. f
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
i?jk.vis run i?LiKtn .> JO a
THE REV.I. W.HENDERSON.
Subject: Abraham Pleading For
Sodom, Gen. 18:16-33?Golde*
Text, Lnke 18:1 ? MemoryVerses,
23-26.
Abram is now Abraham. And he
Is still a familiar friend of God. God ,
yet appears to him and converses
with him, giving him comfort, inspiration,
advice. God is his coun- ;
selor, and his joy Is in Him.
This lesson presents for our consideration
four matters of importance,
i. e., God's confidence in Abraham;
the consequences of communal
sin; the loving sympathy of Abraham
with the sinners of a sinning community;
the mercy and justice of
God.
God had confidence in Abraham.
He had delegated to him a work that
was to have its influence upon all
time. And having summoned him,
God doesn't forget that Abraham is
in His confidence. Abram had been
selected by Him, and he had fulfilled
with fidelity the obligations that God
had laid upon him. Abram had been
faithful to his Divine commission.
Therefore God had confidence in him;
therefore God recognized Abraham's
right to know the Divine will and
to receive information of the Divine
intentions. The proof of this lies in
the question of Jehovah, "Shall I hide
from Abraham that which I do?"
Here God recognizes that Abraham
was called of Himself, that he was
trustworthy, that he had a claim
upon the* Divine favor.
The lesson shows us also the consequences
of communal sin. It de- .
scribes to us the end of social iniquity.
It is, in a way, a parallel to
the stories concerning the consequences
of sin that we have had already.
Sodom was so wicked that, to
paraphrase verses 20 and 21, we may
say that the very walls cried out to
Heaven. It was sunk in sin-, dead
with depravity to all sense of decency,
its shame smelled to Heaven,
its iniquity was grievous. And God
stood it as long as His integrity
would permit and then He visited a
righteous judgment upon it. He re- \
moved its inhabitants from any part
in this world's affairs, He totally an- * W
nihilated ?ts earthly power for cor
ruption, He wipea tne piace on me
map. But in Lot wds a remnant of
manhood left, and only a remnant at - X'j
that. God saved the remnant.
Abraham's "peradventure" prayer ' .
Is remarkable for many things. It '
Indicates to us that prayer has a
proper place in the life of the man
who lives near to God, that Abraham *
had no proper conception of the full- *
ness of the character of God, that implicitly
he attributed to Jehovah a
hardness that was unreal, that he felt ?that
he was on such terms of intimacy
with Divinity that he could secure
favor for others beside himself.
These things are perfectly clear as ^
we read the text and they need no enlarging.
The most remarkable thing
about the prayer is this, that Abraham . jfs
had a love for sinners who were not
related to him by blood, as woll as affection
for his own kin. It is evident,
of course,, that with righteous
Lot as the price he hoped to strike a
sharp bargain with Jehovah.. But
^)ack of that there lies an appreciation
of the love that good men should '
have for sinners outside of their personal
acquaintanceship. , ) ^
The justice and mercy of God are
here revealed. Abraham eould not
ask more than God was ready to
erant. For the sake of ten decent
citizens He stood ready to let mercy
take the place of exact justice *.and
give the city another chance to reieem
itself. That struck even 'Abraham
as a fair proposition. It was all
that he dared to ask. Evidently the
ten couldn't be found. God's mercy
was valueless. The city is lost. But
with an exact justice that humanity " J
has not yet learned to administer,
Lot and his family are spared. His
wife disobeyed commands and she
was turned to salt. Lot and his
daughters just escaped to the hills
and that was all. And a study of the
precious trio will make one wonder
how even they escaped.
The immediate lessons are these:
We may all enjoy God's favor and
enter into a knowledge of His mind,
as it is continuously revealed, if we
will obey Him. Except this land is
to follow after Sodom and the empires
that are dead, we must comport
ourselves in righteousness. Some of
the sin of America smells to Heaven #
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as badly as soaom s ever an?. uur
social iniquities, glossed with the refinements
of an unprecedented civilization
and protected by the seal of
legality, are simply ungodly. We who
are striving to do God's will in the
midst of such conditions should pray
God's patience with those who defy
Him. And however hard it may be
for us to understand, sometimes, the
mysterious way of God with His
world we must always remember
that He is juster than humanity and
more merciful than are we. $
These notes may assist: ->j
Vs. IS. "Blessed." Cf. Gen. 12:3.
Vs. 20. "Cry." The cities are
spoken of as crying out to Heaven because
of the wickedness within their
walls. "Sin." Cf. Gen. 19.
Vs. 21. "Go?see." Notice the
anthropomorphic language.
Vs. 23. "Consume." "The older
Israelite philosophy held that a man's
fortunes were always exactly proportioned
to his conduct, so that if a man
suffered it was a clear proof that he
had sinned." This is what worries
Abraham. For Lot was measurably,
in his time, a good man.
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mercies.
British Versus American Flonr.
Consul F. W. Mahin writes from
Nottingham on the decreased use of
American flour in Great Britain. He
interviewed one of the wholesale bakers,
who formerly bought from $30,000
to $40,000 yearly of American
flour, who now does not buy $500
worth. This Nottingham baker says
that he believes the superiority of the
British flour is due to the different
treatment of the grain in the mills.
He believes that British mills as now.
i equipped can and do take American
wheat s.nd make better flour from it
than American mills do. He admits
that the American flour will make
more loaves of bread per sack, but ,
adds that he would gain less from
this advantage than he would lose in
trade by using American flour.
Oklahoma's 6000 Miles of Railroads.
When the new State of Oklahoma
Is admitted into the United States 4
next May it is estimated that it will
have 6000 miles of railroad in operation.
It has 3000 miles now, and
3000 miles more are expected to bo
completed by June 1, 1907. It is believed
that no other State ever came
into the Union with such extensive
transportation facilities.
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