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TBE USE OF BALLOONS FOR THE PBE-J> VENTION OF HAIL, ! t Bv the Berlin correspondent of the Scten \ tific American. Because of the terrible damage wrought by hail in some parts of Eu- , rope, scientists have directed their attention to designing a means by , which the outbreak of hail could be . prevented, and some success has been obtained by the use of hail guns, firing a shot of either gunpowder or acetylene against the hail cloud and thus dispersing it. ' Though a number of societies for the installation of these guns have i i been founded, both in Southern | I France and Italy, their usefulness is 1 I a ~T"^ Ao Experimental Balloon With a Basket For Recording Instruments. not universally accepted. Other ex- t perimenters have tried rockets, and t these have been adopted at some i: places. b Now, it would probably be more d efficient to attack-the cloud as it were n from itstvery seat, than to act upon i; it from the ground. In fact, as far c back as 1S4 7 Arago and Dupuis-Bel- ~ court suggested the use of a small captive balloon made entirely of copper, bo as to be impervious, and the surface of which would be covered with sharp points. The suggestion was not tried. The same idea nas now Deen mseu up by two Belgian aeronauts, Captain Marga and Mr. Adhemar de la Hault, who, however, use a free balloon, carrying some powerful explosive, such as dynamite or guncotton, which ' Is ignited by some attachment as soon as the balloon has penetrated into the hail-carrying clouds. The balloon used by the experimenters is pearshaped and of three cubic metres capacity. When filled with hydrogen gas it has an -ascensional force of more than four pounds. Five hundred grammes of an explosive, with a nitro-cellulose basis, designed by _ Captain Marga. are carried, together p with a slow match. i Experimental ascents have proved i successful, and show that in the case t of a gathering storm-cloud, it will be n possible to so time a charge and tl direct a balloon as to obtain an ex- f{ THE GUILT J. ^ w ysiRffyjaS '^i>giT8^^?^^>^WB^fijMBfgS^W*9^ |r" p _j :.^^Kr ' ' JllPBF rMT1' TTWTlMSW'frlT ' '?> ?pn^ W . " '- ' ; vV-:rv:-'"v^ :./ .;/-:--v'iV :X L , - * "Bother this apple business! Firs trouble over them."?Sketch. IN THE PUBLIC EYE. P I ^ E'Y- ' ' 3'" . . ;.r: ' ij | UUVJbKlNUK A. ti. U IIjLSU.N, , Of Kentucky, Chief Executive who has taken active measures to stamp out Night ] Riding. Governoi- Willson is a law-; i C?l05i0n in a favorable position for iispersing the clouds. The explosive, suspended at some distance below ;he balloon, does not injure it, and :he latter may be recovered and used igain. Some more extensive experiments * ^ - l- ~ ~ ? * Vi svill snortl.v oe unuenaKt-n ai iuc meteorological station at Mogimont, ivhich has been recently installed by Mr. de la Hault, especially for the mrposes of investigating the behavio: if thunder storms and hail. Cot and Bath Combined. . The ITnited States is regarded as ihe leader in the matter of inven:ions, but occasionally v>e get some irery striking novelties from the coun Dispatching an Experimental Balloon Loaded With a Nltro-Cellulose E1JIIU3JVC. ries over the sea. The one shown lerewilh comes from England. It s called the bahfkot, because it comines the nursery bed and bath. It Is esigned especially to meet the demands of the summer-time, when It 5 desired to take the baby to the ountry or shore without all the para Ingenioue Nursery Device. ihernalia of the nursery. When not n use it packs in a flat package, and t is made at a convenient height, so hat there is not the backache which lother or nurse finds incidental to le ordinary method of bathing an inint.?Philadelphia Record. Y ONE. -mmm p t it's Adam, then it's me gets into ,-er and was an attorney for the trust it one time. Intelligence of Bees. Mons. G. Bonnier has informed the ^rench Academy of Sciences of some xperiments, recently tried by him, vhich, he thinks, demonstrate that jees possess a kind of collective inelligence. One of his most interestng experiments was this: He placed i lump of hard sugar witnin reacn )f some bees, and near it a basin of vater. The bees, finding that their nandibles were incapable of breakng the sugar, organized a sort of Ducket brigade to carry water from lie basin to the sugar. Having reluced it to a sirupy state, they had io farther difficulty. But Monsieur Bonnier noticed, in all his experi x- nirifrlA KoiiCJ (TQlfO T\ ^ Cliph lie Ills, HJctL SliloJW uvtc M|.VM ndications of intelligence. Their uinds seemed to wake up only when :hey were acting in company. The average annual cost for each pupil for public school education in Giermany is $12.SO. THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON B\ DR. WILLIAM J. THOMPSON. ! Subject: The Ascension, Brooklyn, N. Y.?In the Simpsor M. E. Church Sunday morning, the pastor, the Rev. Dr. William J Thompson, preached on "The Ascension." The text was from Lake 24:51: "And it came to pass, while i He blessed them. He was parted from | them and carried up to heaven.". Dr, j Thompson said: Concerning the crucifixion the ' Scripture gives month, day, hour, participants?much minutiae. Concerning the resurrection no mention is made of the first heart-beat, only the fact of the empty tomb and the risen Saviour. Still meagre is the account of the ascension. The length of these narratives indicates our limited knowledge. Death so common wouia nave iuii^si mention. The resurrection, contrary to all experience, would admit simply the fact supported by "infallible signs." The ascension, contrary to the one law we believe to prevail throughout the universe?gravitation ?and the entrances Jnto the spirit realm which baffles the imagination of embodied spirits, would call for the least mention. Their importance, however, is inversely as the length of the narrative. Death in itself is failure, the resurrection declares Jesus to be the Son of God with power. The ascen' sion to the right hand of God proclaims Him the ever-reigning supreme sovereign. The eagle-winged tyrant, death, spreads over the whole earth, palls God's, last and best creation in his insatiable conquest; wrenches from the human soul the organ of all its I intelligent and spiritual expressions ?the body, and dooms it with "dust to dust." Jesus Christ, the mighty Prince of Life, conquered this conqueror! Our loudest Easter hosannas are I to His praise for this unrivaled j achievement. This triumph, however, mighty as it is, is but a part I nf HIq Hfp I.ikA tho figures nf arit.h I metic, depending for^ their richness on what follows, so "the glories of Easter depend on what follows in the life of Christ. Napoleon Bonaparte used Marengo, Austerli'tz and other victories as ! stepping stones' to reach the dizzy heights of military power; where he swayed the sceptre from the Baltic to Southern Italy, and allied contiguous nations as vassals or dependent states. He stood with his armies upon the Alps and exclaimed: "Hannibal is surpassed!" He led these soldiers beneath the pyramids with j "Forty centuries look down upon i you." France saluted him with: "Sire, your greatness is like that of the universe." If Napoleon had died before June 18, 1815, a glamor of glory would have encircled his whole career. But his life after this, with the defeat Qf Waterloo and five and one-half years in exile, leveled the summit of his greatness. We are not without concern for our ex-presidents, lest some ill deed militate against their record in the high office. Some grains of comfort are extracted from our three martyred presidents, all of whom were snatched from us in the zenith of their fame, a fact which shed glory over their whole lives. Jesus Christ disarmed death of its mortal sting and led the powers of darkness captive. Yet some subsequent event could detract from the glory of this high triumph. So the setting of Christ in our faith hinges upon what follows His death and resurrection. If Jesus had remained in Jerusalem, as His disciples hoped for, ves seis irom.me iour enas 01 tjnristenj dom would have congested the ports | nearest that city with deputations to j visit Jesus as judge, divider, benefacj tor, thereby weakening their faith j and enervating them in working out I their own salvation. The most stalwart fibre in Christian manhood comes from largest faith and zeal in | self-culture, and this could not be ' favorably produced everywhere with | Jesus localized. Men everywhere ; should have equal divine assistance in having right hearts, speaking acceptable words, and doing justly. To I this end Jesus must be spiritually ! present in the world and consequent| ly bodily withdraw. While the lus tre of Jesus would have shone undiminished had He remained on earth, yet to reach His maximum effulgence it was expedient that He go away. Man's complete salvation and the glory of Christ concurred in this departure. Oar faith is vitally involved in His destination. His departure. The farewell address of George Washington was important in his estimation as well as in that of his soldiers and posterity. A farewell address would be valuable and fitting for all our presidents to close their administration. Our farewells are the utterances of our best selves. This is foreshadowed by its typical formulas. "Fare-yewell." "God be with you," abbreviMr*J u,r ?? rrv.~ r^ii Af ticeu tu uuuu-vjy. ijuc laicwcn ui I .Tesus has the same relative importance. He takes leave of the world that clamored for His blood and had glee over its shedding. Mark you. "He lifted up His hands and blessed them." Thus His valedictory is in the same exalted level as all that precedes and our faith holds high in the I risen and departed Christ. He departs not in darkness but in the light of-day; not in the valley but from Olivet's top; not alone but in the view of His disciples. He had withdrawn many times before, this time He ascends. "While He blessed them, He was parted from them and carried up into heaven." Shortly after Stephen, the first martyr, looked up and said: "Behold, I see the heavI ens opened and the Son of Man at | the right hand of God." Some time after Paul had a vision of Jesus in heaven; likewise did John. Satan, the defiler, was hurled headlong from heaven. Nothing that defileth entereth therein. Elijah, a pattern of piety, whose mantle holy men covetI ed, the chariot of the Lord carried j thither, and Enoch, who walked with I God, was taken there. Jesus ascendJ ed to heaven, the abode of the good for all ages. Furthermore, the whole company j of prophets, sages, kings and mighty I men of God, are in that great comi pany whose number no man can numj ber, yet Christ sits at the right hand I with a name above every name and ! all powers and principalities at His I feet. This exaltation ? His through ! all time?enriches all His past, makes ! th? land on which He lived to us I holy, His precepts priceless and gives thp lartrpsf cnticfo^f inn .*nrl fullest ' fruition to our faith. The ascension of Christ pays honor to the hody. The third article of our religion is "Christ did truly rise again from the dead and took again His body, with all things appertain1 I ing to the perfection of man's na. * ture, wherewith He ascended Into heaven and there sitteth until He return to judge all men at the last day." Pestilences are not from Him. Disease, making the body, as Pope declares his, an "apparatus of torture," Is no more from God than the disease of the soul. Jesus cured both and inflicted neither. The body designed to be an instrument of ngnteousness must ue suung. 10 be strong it must be nourished by 1 pure air, pure water, pure food. Even ! if these be secured by legislation, the legislation should compass the ' hygiene of homes, offices and facto! ries, the prohibition both of overtax ing hours for women and the slaying 1 of childhood upon Mammon's altar. The wounded are to be healed. More, the road between Jerusalenf and Jeri! cho so patrolled as to make wounds from robbers impossible. Not only ' is disease to be cured, but the cause J is to be removed. Christ's ascension confirms our ! hopes of immortality. We have a ! twofold origin. First, the physical, from Adam. Like myriads of his de' scendants who have lived before us, 1 we see how our bodies will dissolve ' into the dust. Our spiritual commu' nion with God the Father, our passing from death to life in love for the ' brethren. This is our creation anew 1 in the second Adam, Christ Jesus. ! As that which bore the image of the 1 first Adam follows Him, so that in us which bore the image of the sec; ond Adam will follow Him. If there were no continuation of this life after death, Christ says: "I would have told you so." No provisos concerning its terribleness?"I would have told you so." "I go to prepare a place for you: tljat where I am, there ye may be also." Christ's ascension describes our pathway beyond the grave, and where H^ is. all the spirits of just men made perfect will be also. The ascension of Christ 1 gives most emphatic confirmation of 1 our hope of the life beyond. Joy from the ascension of Christ. mi. ? ,1 IV< nl.l 1 UtJht; ilitJIl iidU pal LCU II uill LUCil teacher, the prince among teachers, the friend of friends. His hands would no more be laid upon them in 1 benediction. No more would His voice be heard. They were the suf1 ferers of the most irreparable loss. Thus bereft, their task was to dis ciple all nations composed of hostile : peoples, eager to persecute them with death torture. Oh, the agony of | their despair! Yet they "returned to Jerusalem with great joy." Abun1 dant must have been their ascension joy to have absorbed their grief. His words to them were "all power is given to me." Wickedness would be annihilated by His omnipotent grace. The assurance of the fruition of your supreme desire gives great joy. The supreme desire of these who were trained by Him who is full 1 of grace and truth would be the de' struction of eMl and the enthrone1 ment of good. The assurance of this consummation by Him of almighty power filled them with joy. Joy comes from power. Government is said to have its origin in man's desire to govern rather than to be governed. The successful can 'uuaie uusaea wim puwer is juyiui. All the power of our ancestors meets in us and must obey our bebest which may be "thus far.". The Dark Ages said this and arrested progress, or if further, .which we of the twentieth century say, the labors of the race are transmitted to ,the enrichment of posterity. These disciples tense with the power of Him by which they can do all things, were joyful. But when it is from the power that turns carnal kingdoms into those of eternal love. Its intensity and duration is fullest. This was the source of the disciples' joy. They "continually praised and blessed God." / ' We may be the depository of the spiritual power of twenty Christian centuries. We may exercise it to make the world purer, juster, holier. The pathway of the ascended Christ may be the trial of our own spirits to ineffable glory. Under the dominion of these convictions as it is our privilege and duty to be, we experience with the disciples the great ascension joy and will like .them "continually praise and bless God." Broken Things. The flower that is crushed and broken oft exhales the sweetest perfume. The shafts of sunlight broken reTTOQl nrofinnc hnw in thp r.lmid. The little clinging tendrils are broken, but the branch yields richer fruit. The precious alabaster box was broken, but Christ was honored. The threads of the loom are broken, that the pattern may be complete. Tiny broken bits of glass in the hancjs of a master artist make a grand cathedral window. Broken notes of music combine to make a perfect chord. 1 The broken bread tells the Christian of a Body broken for his sake.. The broken words of a firstbreathed prayer brought blessing to those who heard. What of the broken plans, the broken ambitions, the sufferings and losses and crosses of a broken life? In. the hands of the Divine Artist they shall mean rarest fragrance? buds of promise, richer fruit, honor to the King of kings, a perfect pattern. "Unto them that are or a broken heart the Lord is nigh." Surrender Before Peace. A French officer, whose ship had been captured by Nelson, was brought on board the latter's flagship. He walked up to the great admiral and offered him his hand "No," said Nelson. "Your sword first, if you please." There are people to-day who would take Christ's hand. They say: "Jesus is such a noble character; we are enamored of Him; we will be friends of His." Nay, nay, not so fast. Your sword first; give up your rebellious will; confess your guilt; then Christ will take your hand with a grip that He will never relinquish. You cannot have Him as a friend until you own Him your Saviour. A Noble Man's Testimony. T>?r?ic> tho yroatoct nnu;or in the* world?it keeps us near to God. My own prayers have been the most weak, wavering, inconstant, but it has been the best thing I ever did. [ think this is a universal truth?1 what comfort is there except in the broadest truth??General S. C. Armstrong. Spring of Power. 'God v/orking mightily in the human heart is the spring of all abiding spiritual power: and it is only as men follow out the sublime promptings of the inward spiritual life that they do great things for God.?David Living sion. Ileal Prayer. In souls filled with love the ambition to please God is real prayer. O}, - "lib THE WARFARE AGAINST DRINK TEMPERANCE BATTLE GATHERS STRENGTH EVERY DAY. j The Public House and the Saloon? Singular Aspect of the New Campaign Against Liquor SellingCosts More Than It Comes To. , Temperance ana tne use or aicoj hoi have passed through many phases , and fortunes. In China more 'than j a thousand years ago total abstinence i became the universal rule. The He; brews more than two thousand years : ago studied the subject and estabi lished habits which have made them ' a temperate, but not a total abstain| ing, race. The Western nations have | BW*ung back and forth, sometimes I breaking out in ruinous excesses and i then, for a time, making of temperI ance a moral issue and setting up j social and legal restraints which have I served a temporary purpose. In > 1842 the Washingtonian temperance | revival, started by Mr. Hawkins, of ! Baltimore, swept over the country J with effects similar to those of the great religious revival of '57, which affected the moral fortunes of two continents. The moral and religious arguments for temperance have always abounded and have never yet been'thoroughly effective. The reason for this is evident enough. The majority of the men, at least, and probably we may safely say the women in any community, do not order their common lives accordingly to the highest ideals of morality and religion. They are prone to accept the syllogism devised by Dr. Crothers; namely, "I like to do right. I do what I like. Therefore I do right." Now total abstinence, the regulation j of the liquor traffic, and prohibition in any community must be measured not by local statutes, by the standards of the moral leaders of the community, but by the average sentiments and purposes of the people. ( What the people want to do and intend to do they will find a way to do in spite of scruples and laws. There have been numerous crusades in the name and interest of temperance. Often for a winter whole communities have been greatly exercised and keyed up to a point of self-denial and intense reprobation of tho use and sale of alcohol. Something is left after such periods of excitement, but always the tendency is to sink back again to the former level. In England and America th^ crui sade against the saloon, as we call | it, and the public house as the En?| lish call it, has now all at once taken on a new form and is waged with different arguments and motives. It has now been discovered by hard-headed men of affairs that the i saloon, and the evil things that cluster about it, costs more than, it comes to. The waste of human life and energy, the lessening of the producI tive power of the people who patronj lze these .places, and the expense j thrown upon the community in taxaI tion and the support of hospitals and | poorhouses, which can distinctly be traced to the influence of the public " house or the saloon, now cause busi1 ness men to decide that on business : principles, and for the industrial i welfare of the community, these sources of extravagance and waste must be abolished. The most singular aspect of the new campaign against the saloon is the entire absence of all prejudice against liquors, either fermented or distilled, for their own sake. The new ally of the temperance movej ment is the belief of the business men ' that the business of the world will I be more economically conducted, and ! with better results, if the time, the money, and the strength wasted in the 6aloons can be put to use, and the capital employed and wasted in the traffic be invested in productive enterprises. ( In England, where the breweries ! have been sources of vast wealth, as I Dr. Johnson said, of "wealth beyond I the dreams of avarice," and the rich brewers have always been successful candidates for the honors of knighthood, and even higher rank, the sud| den Revulsion of public feeling has I been' something astonishing, and so i alarming that after the subject was brought up for discussion in Parliament brewery stock shrank in value at the rate of one hundred million dollars a week.?Christian Register. "We Need the Money." "We need the mdney. but so far as l am concerned, we uon t neeu il bad enough to hold up that poor fellow and say he shall furnish It. We need the money, but we don't need It bad enough to snatch /the bread from the women and children of the poor fellow who is so unfortunate as to have the drink habit. We need the money, but we don't need it bad enough to sen,d the poor woman over the steaming washtub, to wash dirty clothes to buy food for her children. We need the money, but we don't need it bad enough to take the shoes off the feet of children born in drunkards' homes. I want to say that you j must take Into consideration when | ycra say 'we need the money'?you must take into consideration where the money comes from."?The Rev. I Grant A. Robbins, Marysville, Mo. A Liquor Lamentation. All praise to the Governor of Colorado and the women of that State. A report for a leading liquor journal says: "The Legislature has passed a local option law, permitting any voting district or precinct to vote | upon and decide the liquor question. I We (the liquor interests) tried our best to defeat this measure, but wer? handicapped by having a Methodist preacher for Governor, backed up by woman suffrage." Temperance Notes. You can lead a dog to whisky, but you cannot make him drink. Yet i when you find a man there, it's hard i to make him think. | In Vermont, only twenty-six cities and towns have taken advantage of j the local option law, and the rest of the State is as dry as Sahara. The sale and manufacture of absinthe has recently been prohibited in Switzerland by a vote of the national council, which acted in harmony with a popular initiative of * 168,000 citizens. A recent act of the Ohio Legislature prohibiting the feeding of slops f.?om breweries to cows will go far toward insuring the -State a purt milk supply. HTViz* "Rnvnrion rnUrnn/1 nffioorc havn I * ? ? I passed a strict rule against bringing alcohol into the cars or upon the engine for personal use during ser- | vice. Alcohol is king in the slums; it has its hands on the throat of the hopeless, half-fed, overworked victims of poverty, and it has its hand also at the throat of the overfed, too rich, idle and self-indulgent victim of inherited wealth. ^ ' I ' CUIICURA CURED FOUR. Southern Woman Suffered With Itching, Burning Rash?TWee Little Babies Had Sfcin Trouble.**?Calls Cuticnra Her Old Stand-by. "My baby bad a running sore bis neclr and nothing that 1 did for it took effect until 1 used Cuticura. My face was nearly full of tetter or some similar skin disease. It would itch and burn so that 1 could hardly stand it". Two cakes of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment cured me. Two years after it broke out on my hands and wrist. Sometimes I would go nearly crazy for it itched so badly. I went back to my old stand-by, tbixt had never failed me? one set of Cuticura Remedies did the work. One set also cured my uncle's baby, whose head was a cake jf sores, and another baby who was in the Bame fix. Mrs. Lillie, Wilcher, 770 Eleventh St., Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 16, '07." EUROPE GROWS COLDER. Temperature of the Continent Constantly Becoming Lower. Some months ago there appeared In these columns some tables worked up by Camille Flammarion to show changes of a meteorological character which seem to have taken place In Europe. Writing again, he states that from actual figures obtained within the past few years he has become certain that the temperature of Europe nas been failing. France nas been suffering for a long time from an excess of cold weather, the thermometrical readings at Paris having been one degree below the normal height. Oth6r readings show even less favorable results. The fall is more noticeable during the spring than during other perlods.;of the year. Similar phenomena ar,e recorded in Great Britain, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Austria and Germany. In the days of Philip Auguste, in the thirteenth century, the wines of Etampes and Beauvals were the favorite beverages at court. Henry IV., a pronounced bon vlvant,, frequently expressed, his fondness for the product of the Suresnes grape. At the present day there is not a vineyard of importance north of Paris, and as for the petit vin now made at Suresnes, it has become the drink only of the poorer classes. In the middle of the sixteenth century Macon was celebrated for its muscated wines, whereas the muscatel grape at this moment can scarcely be made to thrive there. Ancient chronicles mention the cultivation of the vine in Northern Brittany, where now even apples are not plentiful. Again, it is to be remarked that trees which once flourished in the north of France are at present found in the extreme south,-and a considerable number have disappeared altogether. 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