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; H'5 Ql ill > A PSYCHO | By SA CHAPTER XI. 0 Continued. Many a brave, kind word was spoken, many a generous act performed in those awful few minutes, and much of the finest, self-sacrificing devotion was displayed, side by side with craven terror and despair of the selfish, abject kind, which is despicable. "They want more hands there to help with the buckets," a brawny working-woman remarked. "If some one would hold my baby?" "Give him to me!" exclaimed a young, genuewuuiinj, susyyius juiward, a delicate looking creature, only half-dressed. "I can't lift a bucket, I'm ashamed to say, but I can mind a baby." "Well done for you, miss!" another woman exclaimed, fervently. "I've got a broken arm, more's the pity, o$ I'd go myself. But my man's there. That's him, that big, fine chap, close up to the fire," she added, with pardonable pride. Just then a lady broke from the group, and rushing up to the captain, seized his arm. "I'll give you twenty ttousand pounds if you'll put me into a boat," she cried. "We'll find a seat for you in one of them, if there's room, by and by," the captain said. "But all the money in the Bank of England wouldn't buy you a boat just now, madam," and he put her aside with more force than feeling. The men raised a derisive cheer. The wretched creature sank on the deck, paralyzed with terror, and the two French sisters, themselves as calm and unruffled as when they sat in the cabin, went forward and charitably lifted her out of the way. "Steady, my men! Quick there with the water!" the captain shouted. "Ay, ay, sir!" was .the cheerful response. "Hold on there! You're too near!" a warning voice exclaimed. "Ah, he's down, poor fellow!" "Drag him out of that; he'll be burned." "He is burned." ' "No, only scorched and suffocated. Lend a hand to drag him abaft the capstan." "It's my man! Ah knowed he'd do his best!" the woman with a broken arm declared, triumphantly. "Eh, ma'am, he has indeed," another woman commented. "Ef he never does a hand's turn again, you'll have your comfort." The woman had brought the poor fellow aft by this time. "He's only fainted," Mrs. Redmond said. She was the gentle little elderly lady whom Gertrude had helped to dress. "He'll recover presently." "Or know no more about it," her 6on observed, in the cheerfullest way. Gertrude was standing beside him; and just at that moment an elderly female, quite mad with terror now, apparently, her eyes flaring, her gray hair streaming, sprang up among them, shrieking, "Fire! fire!" and before any one could prevent her, or even guess her intention, sprang to the gap in the bulwark where the men stood drawing up water, and plunged headlong into the sea. t"That's the first," Arthur Redmond remarked to Gertrude, in his curiously cheerful way. "Oh, can't she be saved?" the latter cried, horror-stricken, as she vainly peered over the vessel's side into the darkness. "Impossible!" was the answer. '"There's too many of you for that. You cheapen yourselves by being so plentiful. Here, madam," he said to a lady, who was beginning to show symptoms of hysterics. "Here's yesterday's paper, and there's plenty of light. Just make yourself agreeable by reading it aloud to us. It will help to beguile the time." Then, turning to Gertrude, he observed, admiringly, "You don't seem to be much in a way about yourself. You're a right one, you are!" "I can't return the compliment," she retorted, severely. "I think you ought to be helping, a great fellow like you. Why, I believe you're enjoying it." "So I am, he said, "so I am; ang I am not idle, either," he proceeded, in a leisurely way. "Look at our hysterical friend with the newspaper. She isn't reading it, but she's as good as gold now. I'll put you in the Times to-morrow," he told her encouragingly. " 'Disastrous fire on board a passenger steamer! Heroic conduct of a lady!' " The other women laughed at this, and the young fellow strayed off again in an apparently purposeless manner, but Gertrude noticed that he lent a hand here and there by the way, and whenever he spoke the flagging spirits of the men revived, and wherever he went he left some sign of his genial influence. "He's always like that," his mother said, fondly?"always doing something for somebody, and, my dear, the (' best and kindest son alive." / "A wise son maketh a glad mother," an elderly working-woman responded, and the familiar cookbook phrase sounded strangely pathetic, as did also the many touching little confidences they made to each other from time to time. Gertrude spoke of her own baby boy, and of the dreadful mystery of her husband's disappearance, and those about her listened, commented, suggested, forgetting their own position for the moment in the curious interest of her story. The two French sisters knelt on the deck and prayed, with serenely beautiful upturned faces, and by degrees many of the other women jojntu mem <iuu grew calm. And ever the terrible fire raged hi.gher and hotter. Gertrude could not pray, but her courage never forsook her. and she noticed everything ?the darkness of the night beyond jtlie blaze, the upheaval of the vessel hf r Self ill i LOGICAL NOVEL. RAH GRAND. J on the waves, the swaying and balancing of the men as they stood with legs apart and feet firm planted on the deck, keeping their places with difficulty, as the vessel rolled in the trough of the sea, or rose to a wave 't and pitched, but working always. And the silence, too, she noticed, and then the constant breaking of the same by an order, a pious ejaculation, or an oath. Seeing every detail of the scene, as she did in her quiet, 1 clear-headed way, made It appear as i if she had been watching It for hours, ' but, in truth, little more than, half of 1 one sufficed to show that the fire 1 would conquer its foes. The handful 1 of brave and reswlut9 men were 1 Konlr hv oton fiffhtinc for 5 M^avcu ua^n obC); ?jj OVVJ/J ? 0 every inch of solid plank, and fighting to the last, even after the most sanguine had ceased to hope. But the struggle wa3 worse than useless?a mere waste of most precious time, as it seemed at last, and now the order came; twenty r.ien, picked out by name, and the two chief officers, to lower away the boats and see the women safe on board thtm, the rest to stick to their posts and fight the fire to the last. The ranks were considerably thinned by the twenty-two men told off for duty with the boats stepping out from them, but the others showed no sign of wavering, beyond the inevitable retreat before the flames, which raged more and more fiercely every minute. "Well clone, my men! " the captain cried. "All the world will be speaking of your pluck by this time to-morrow. And there's a chance for us all yet. "We're making light enough* to be seen ten miles off. There'll be something come to the rescue presently. But off with the women!" The boats were lowered by this time?only three, alas! and one of these a mere dinghy. The sea was rough enough to make even the burn-' ing ship seem safer than those little tossing atoms of wood beside it, and the women held back. The companion ladder had been let' down, but it was difficult to keep a boat alongside it, and a horrible gulf of shining black water continually yawned between. In the little pause that ensued, Gertrude looked round for young Redmond. He was at the other side of the deck, trying to cut a life-belt loose that was fastened by wire to the bulwark, as if, when it was made fast, the end and object of its existence was accomplished, and as he pulled and tugged at it he cheered himself in an absent way by whistling a plaintive tune. When at last he had succeeded in disengaging it, Gertrude was a little anxious to know what he would do with it? wear it himself, she supposed, but somewhat to her surprise, he brought it to her in his leisurely way, remarking, "Mamma looks quite nice in hers, doesn't she?" and he nodded his head over his shoulder toward the little gentlewoman who stood clinging * to the bulwark to steady herself. Her face was very pale, but she was quite calm, and a little smile of motherly pride and affection hovered about her lips as she watched her son, from whom she never moved her eyes. "Chirrupy old girl, ain't she?" that youth went on. "Now you may guess which side of the family I take after. I thought it my duty to fix her up with a life-belt. Duty first, pleasure afterward. Eh? This is for you," and he fastened the belt round Gertrude carefully. But now the moment had come for a move to be made, and the women still hung back from the boats. Gertrude handed Mrs. Redmond the little lame child. "Go first," she said, "to encourage them." "She's right, mamma," her son exclaimed. "Somebody must go first." 44 t3iif vaii mv cnn ^ " i ? J-JV4V JVU, * 1 "O mother! you would not take me away when I'm so useful?" t v A painful spasm contracted her \ placid face for a moment; but in that moment she had made the sacrifice, j and, like a true gentlewoman, she \ made it cheerfully. "God be with you and bless you, my only child," | she said, reaching up to kiss him. j The laughing blue eyes grew deep and tender for an instant. "Into His hands I commend my spirit," the young man answered with a reverent gesture; and so they parted. All the men who were not engaged in getting the women into the boats were still hard at work battling with the fire?not that there was any hope of subduing it, or even of checking it perceptibly now; but the captain saw the wisdom of keeping them to it till the last, in order to divert their atten- \ tion from their own position. The j men were entirely hidden from the ' women, who were now all huddled E about the gangway, by dense volumes < of smoke, which would lift at intervals and clear, allowing them to appear again, looking like'demons, with the red glare of the fire behind them. The captain had stood on the bridge 1 so far, directing them, but now the ' blinding, scorching smoke drove him ? from thence; and his presence would ( have been required on the deck at any ( rate, for ominious looks were being ' cast at the boats, and the natural in- 1 stinct of self-preservation was evi- ' dently threatening to get the better of the discipline which had hitherto ^ been so admirably maintained. Oaths 1 were being freely bandied about, ' shouts and howls would be heard ' above the fire at times, making it 1 seem as if all pandemonium were lei loose on deck, bat insubordination was met at once by the rough-and ready condign punishment of a : knock-down blow, and the captain 1 had leveled his revolver at a fellow who had made a move for the gang- ; way. Eut every moment it became i apparent that a fight for the boats was imminent, and now the word was quietly passed from one to the i other: '"Gentlemen, close up round the gangway," and it was understood at once that the object was to lefend it. There was a confuscd novement among the men. All were n rags alike, with the exception of he ship's officers, who had not ;urned in at all, and some few passengers, who had not dressed, and ;hese were begrimed with smoke and Irenched with water till they looked is bad as the mob of tatterdemalions by whom they were sur rounaea. ino eye couiu uave ioiu i gentleman from a navvy when the arder was given, but during the few seconds of confusion which followed i separation of classes as distinct as first and third took place, and the gentlemen in tatters, with somt few ivho could not have been recognized is gentlemen elsewhere, but who now proved their right to the appellation by being there, had formed i semicircle, within which was the group of frightened women, round the gangway, &nd turned a bold front to the men who had worked with them shoulder to shoulder so gallantly, suffering the torture of scorching fire, and scalding steam, and blinding, suffocating smoke, and the risk of a horrid death for more than in hour, but were now, such is the uncertainty of poor, weak human nature, suddenly transformed into ferocious savages, expressing with threatening gestures their determina:ion to save themselves, no matter svho might perish. And so far as many of them were concerned, a very few minutes decided it. But all that Gertrude knew of it was that on a suqden there arose a great uproar, jnlike anything that had preceded it; then men hurled each other to ihe deck, falling with great thuds, ind lying there while others trampled )ver them and pressed each other sackward into the fire also, andf swarmed up the rigging, and dropped :rom thenc$ again, falling into the slack and shining water like wingess insects, seen for a moment by :he light of the burning ship, and ;hen gone beyond its radius, gone to ;ternity many of them, sacrificed, vith help at hand, to the blind fury )f that senseless panic. A shot or ;wo was fired, the order was given ror the boats to shove off, and then ill at once there seemed to be a great iilence, accentuated, as it were, by he roar of the fire and the crackle >f the spars, as it devoured them. "You'd better step into the water low," young Redmond suggested to Jertrude, politely, at the" same time landing her to the gangway. But ihe hung back with unconquerable tversion. The dark water appalled ier. "Oh, I see," he went on. "You lon't like to leave the ship until ;hey collect the tickets?like to do everything in order, eh? There's he captain, trying to deprive that Sister of Charity of her martyrdom. 3o and take leave of him and thank lim for a pleasant voyage. By Jove" ?in another tone?"if you don't eave the ship, she'll leave you." The vessel had given an unac:ountable lurch. Gertrude looked ound in a frightened way. The two Sisters of Charity were still kneeling in the deck, side by side, in rapt demotion. Every persuasion had failed ;o move them. They were deternined to be martyrs, and were enoying the position thoroughly in ;heir own way. The captain left Iiem now and came to Gertrude. She had refused to take her place in he boats while she had a chance, naking way for more terrified women md staying till the last to encourage he timid; and now there was nothng for it but to take to the water >r go down with the ship. "Come!" the captain and young ledmond both exclaimed in a breath, iach taking a hand. They stood in he breech between the bulwarks for i moment. "A long jump now," said he captain, "and we're clear of the ship. One, two, three " and at he word they jumped, still holding :ach other's hands. The captain let jo as they touched the water, which splashed cold round Gertrude, with i painful shock that made her gasp; )ut she clung convulsively to young Redmond, and did not go under be:ause of the life-belt. They must lave dropped into a strong current, or they immediately swept astern >f the blazing ship, which loomed lp for an instant above them, and hen fell back, as it were, into the light, which it lighted like a beacon. "You are pulling me under!" (5er rude exclaimed. Young Redmond lad been clutching her by the arm. "I beg your pardon," he gasped, >olitely,.at the same loosening his lold. To be Continued. __ "At" and "Across." Dissenting from the opimuu of nost of his fellow-countrymen. Processor John Lester, an English speaker, at a meeting of the Friends' Educational Association, in Philalelphia, declared that the manners >f boys in the United States were setter than those of English lads, rbis he held was due to the influence )f American mothers and woman .eachers in our schools. "The American boy," said Processor Lester, "learns his first lesson n morality at. his mother's knee, rhe English boy generally learns his tcross his father's."?Woman's Home Companion. He Knew. The pretty teacher was trying to ?xplain the difference between good conduct and bad. "Good actions," ;ho ovnlainprl "srp the lovclv flow ;rs. Bad ones are the wee^.s. Now, :an any little boy or girl tell me the lifference between flowers and weeds? What are flowers? What ire weeds?" "Weeds," said Walter, who had been struggling with the sorrel in ais mother's garden, "are the plants that want to grow, and flowers are the ones that don't."?Youth's Companion. An TTnmfntinned Ancestor. Mr. B. is very proud of his ancient lineage and never lets slip an opportunity to boast of it. At a dinner where he had been unusually rampant on this subject a fellow guest quieted him by remarking: "If you climb much further up your family tree you will come face to face with the monkey."?Lippincott'r. England has an organization for the promotion of scat culture. r~wr~ ^unbaii-^cftodf INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR NOVEMBER 15. Subject: The Lord Onr Shepherd, Psalm 23?Golden Text, Ps.23:l ?Commit the Entire PsalmRead John 10:1-18. TIME.?Uncertain. PLACE.?Uncertain. EXPOSITION.?I. Every Want Met, 1-3. The twenty-third Psalm is a great depth, an unfathomable ocean of truth. The foundation thought ol the first four verses, "Jehovah is my Shepherd." The figure stands foi care, protection and provision oe God's part; trust and obedience and following on man's part (Jno. 10:1, 18, 26-29; Gen. 33:13; Lu. 2:8; 5:46; Acts 20:29; Isa. 53:6; Matt, 9:36). It is a shepherd's business to feed the sheep and lambs, and bj making Himself my Shepherd Jehovah has undertaken to make it His business to provide me\ with pasture, to meet every need. Jo David continues, "I shall not want." This anyone who is sure that he is one of Jehovah's sheep can confidently say. Who Jehovah's sheep are Jesus plainly tells us (Jno. 10:3, 4, 5, 27). Jehovah's sheeD will never lack any thing that it is for his real good to have (Ps. 84:11; 34:9, 10; Phil. 4:19; Matt. 6:33; Ro. 8:32; He. 13:5, 6). The Psalm leads on from the general statement to specific wants supplied. In verse 2 we have four wants supplied: rest, food, drink, leading. Literally translated, "He maketh me to lie down in pastures'ot tender grass, He leadeth me beside the waters of rest." There is a twofold rest in this verse: the passive rest of sheep lying down on the soft, young spring grass; the active rest of walking beside the waters of rest. Is there any other grass, food, so easy for a true sheep of Christ to eat, so Juicy, so delicious, so nutritious, as that which we find in the Word of God? There is drink as well as-food. Jehovah leads His sheep right beside "the waters of rest.' What "the waters of rest" are Jesus tells us (Jno. 4:14; 7:37-39). The Holy Spirit is the water we drink (for the appropriateness of "waters of rest" cf. Gal. 5:22). There is guidance also "He leadeth me." Not only are there still waters there, but it is Jehovah Himself who leads along the bank. This leading is continuous and constant. He "leadeth," not driveth. In this and th'e following verses there are four experiences into which, and In which, He leads; "waters of rest:" "paths of righteousness" (a holy walk); into and through darkness, peril and'testing; into His own house forever. In verse 3 we have a fifth want supplied: healing, or reviving, invigorating, "He restoreth (or, reviveth) my soul." . II. Every Fear Banished, 4. The Lord's sheep is now taken into entirely new experiences. No longer pastures of tender grass and waters of rest, but "the valley of the deepest darkness" (that is the force of the Hebrew phrase "shadow of death"). The Psalmist has not merely the experience of literal death in mind, but all experiences where the darkness is thick and profound. God's sheep do nnf olrrove ttt o 1 tr Kn'orKf Tn (JUL aina/o naia IU ui pai.uo. IU the darkest valley Jehovah's sheep have no fears, "I will fear no evil." A true trust in God banishes all fear, under all circumstances, for all time (Isa. 12:2; 26:3; Ps. 3:5, 6; 27:1; 46:1-3; Phil. 4:6, 7; Ro. 8:28-32), And why not fear? "For Thou art with me." Not because there is no danger, but because there is One with us stronger than any possible enemy: m. Every Longing Satisfied, 5, 6. Here the figure changes: Jehovah nc longer appears as a shepherd, but as a bountiful host. "Thou preparest a table before me"?think out all that He has spread before us on this table. No banquet on earth like that. As to the general character of the feast read Ps. 63:5; 81:6. Note where we are feasted, "in the presence of mine enemies." Christ's own have enemies (Jno. 15:19; 2 Ti. 3:12), but our wonderful Host will spread us a banquet in their very presence. That is one of the things that make the world bo angry with the church; they see what a banquet we have, while they are feeding on husks. There is not only a feast; but also an anointing. The oil with which He anoints oui heads is "the oil of gladness," the Holy Spirit (Acts 10:38; He. 1:9; 1 Jno. 2:20, 27, R. V.). He anoints our heads with this oil, it flows down over our whole person (cf. Ps. 133:2, D TT \ Tr* onnionf +itnoe. or* + - iv. y . / xxi auvicui uu auuiuv (ng was a necessary preparation for a feast, and the anointing with the Holy Spirit is a necessary preparation for the Lord's feast. The next step follows naturally, yea, inevitably?"my cup runneth over" (or, is "an abun dant drink"). Do you know the over flowing cup? Now we leave the feas for our earthly pilgrimage (v. |6) But we are not unguarded, "surely goodness and mercy shall follow me,' I wish no better rear-guards, or foot men than those. God's goodness and mercy (loving-kindness) follow our every step. There is no doubt about It, "surely." How well-protected and perfectly secure we are. The Shepherd picking out the path before us, and again close beside us in the dark valley, and His own goodness and mercy following us all the way. Not* hnw lone this will continue. Now we come to the end of our pilgrimage and pass out of time into Eternity, "I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." .New .\osc Grows a Beard. After having delighted its owner for only a few weeks the new nose recently grafted on the face of "Pat" Moran, a well known character in New Orleans, La., lias begun to develop a crop of hair. Some weeks ago Moran was out on a c&Iebration ar.d during the evening's enjoyment lost a good part cf his nasal appendage. He was taken to the Charity Hospital, where the surgeons sueceeded in grafting a new nose. The surgeons took a small piece of skin from the scalp near the forehead. Phis piecs of skin is responsible for Moron's trouble, &nd he is now snort ing a small crop of hah- near the end of his nnse Keport on Bowie's Estate. G. D. Thomas, receiver for the estate of John Alexander Dowie, founder of the religious community at Zion City, 111., Sled a report to the Federal Court showing the assets of the estate tn hp $1 fiTQ Ao?.>incf" thic nrc secured claims of $326,-327 and unsecured claims, including a number still in dispute, of ?!,D02,7?3. Japan's EntertafnnitpiC. Japan planned to make her enter* taining cf the American fleet memorable. . I . ~! I "" - 1 11 A \HELIGIOUS TRUTHSJ From the Writings of Great I ONLY WAIT. BY JOSHUA TAPPMEYEP.. Oft there comes a gentle whisper o'er me stealing, When my trials and my burdens sesm too great; Like the sweet-voiced bells of evening softly pealing, It is saying to my spirit. "Only wait." WheD I cannot understand my Father's leading, And His dealing seems to me but crue! fate. Still I hear that gentle whisper ever plead1 mg? "God is working, God is faithful?Only ! wait." When the promise seema to linger, longdelaying. I And I tremble lest, perhaps, it come toe late. Still I hear that sweet-voiced whisper ever saying, "Thoueh it tarry, it is coming?Only wait." Oh, how little soon will seem our hardest sorrow, And how trifling is our present brief estate; Could we only see the light of Heaven's to-morrow. Ob, how easy it would be for us to wait. I have chosen mv eternal portion yonder, I am pressing hard to reach yon heavenly gate, And tfjouph oft along the way I weep and 1 wonder, Still I hetr that cheering whisper, "Only wait." [ ?Herald and Presbyter. A Good "Word About Prayer. ! How shall we explain the expert ; ences that come with prayer? It is i a fact that prayei makes great changes in the lives of people. It is . a fact that men who are being borne downward by all the currents about ' them and by all the impulses within i them find relief in prayer. The-im pulses against which they struggle i refuse to be strangled , by the will; i they refuse to heed the rebukes of ' conscience; they will hear no argument, heed no remonstrances. Many i a man has found it so, has fought > with all his power, and found himi self fighting a losing battle, finding ' himself borne downward against con! science, against his will, against hia ' own sane judgment, against every i high and sacred interest in his life, > In such a case a man turns to prayi er. He finds it difficult to pray, buf ! feels he must pray. Something ij i the great deep of his spirit helps hinl to pray, and prayer begins to rise ou< i of the depths of his very heart. Ha has a deep instinct that God is in thd ' transaction, is not merely above him, ' but Is moving upward within him, , He has not yet gotten hold of God; i not, at least, in any manner which i satisfies his consciousness. But hia , soul is crying out within him. It ia God, an open and sure alliance with God, that his soul is seeking. From i yet deeper and deeper depths of his nature comes this cry, till the man feels that desire has sounded the ! depths of his spirit. It is his only hope, this cry and the answer to it. i There comes peace, deliverance from fear, assurance, a sense of sanity; the warfare within and without is all over. i What is this? Has there been goi ing on within the man a psychologii cal process by which he has carried i himself cut of one state into another? Or is there really a supernatu* , ral element in it all? If it be the i former, and if prayer.be the pursuit of a delusion, then it is a most won^ derful delusion. It were still well that all men should follow it, for it > means for them sanity, peace, l strength. These are, to be sure, strange fruits of a delusion! But this theory of prayer being a ? delusion is not the theory of those i who pray and get such results out of i prayer. They will tell you that God i helps them. They will tell you that they know no psychological process 1 which can bring such results. They are firmly persuaded, they who pray, i that God moves both within them > and down from above them. Who > that ptw had one sinele exnerience of coming by prayer up out of the uttermost depths of misery and helplessness into clear, open light of assurance and peace, "who that ever had this experience can doubt that God is In it??Western Methodist. God Has Called Us to Greatness. Taken by itself, your life is certainly a very insignificant affair; but placed as you happen to be placed, in the kind of a universe which God has happened to make, your life becomes of infinite importance. For God has chosen to work out His designs, not in spite of you, but through you; and where you fail, He halts. Almighty God needs you. You are not your own, either to be insignifirant nr errant hut vrm aro In thp qpt. vice of that which is greater than yourself, and that service touches your life with its own greatness. It is as though you were a lighthouse keeper set to do your duty on your bare rock. Can any life b9 more unpraised or insignificant? Why sit through the weary nights to : keep your flame alive? Why not ' sleep on, all unobserved, and let your " little light go out? Because it is not ; your light?that is the point. You are not its owner, you are its keepei. Tbat 13 your name. You are a light 1 keeper. You are set there with this 1 as your trust. The great design of 1 the Power you serve takes you thus out of your insignificance.?Francis G. Peabody, in. the Christian Work and Evangelist. Definition of Dnty. Duty is a power which rises -with us in the morning and goes vo rest with us at night. It is coextensive with the action of our intelligence. It is the shadow which cleaves to us, go where we will, and which only leaves us when v/e leave the light of life.?Gladstone. ?? The Boaster. When you find a man who brags of , his heresy you may be sure it would ' not cost much to make him strictly j srthodos. i a Bumblebee Bee. | The ladies met last week and with j the assistance of a number of Cart J WTlgDl men ucaucu luc vai lv>i i^ul Church. Bert Ferrin, of Garrett, papered the walls and oiled the floors and the church looks almost new again. While the ladies washed wini dows the men cleaned out the yard 1 and burned out several bumblebees' I nests.?Tuscola (111.) Review. Curt' For Leprosy. ' ! Doctors in Hawaii reported the sue ' cessful use of the Nastin treatment in ." a case Qi leprosy.* . , THE WARFARE AGAINST DRINK TEMPERANCE BATTLE GATHERS STRENGTH EVERY DAY. The Legalized Outlaw?Saloon Keeping Has No Constitutional Rights ? Important Court Decisions rui iUC lcxupci tuitc VAUSCi 'A Daniel has come to judgment in the person of Judge Samuel R. Artman, of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit of Indiana. The Judge would say, however, that the decisions which he has collected and a mass of testimony which support them are the Daniel whose wisdom and integrity have arisen in appeal to the citizens of the Republic. In Judge Artman's new book, "The Legalized Outlaw," appears the following statements: "No one possesses a constitutional right to keep a saloon for the sale of intoxicating liquor." The above language has been used by the Supreme Court of Indiana in three different opinions; it has been used by the Supreme Court of the United States and by the Supreme Courts of Kansas and Michigan, and possibly others. It is not mere idle expression, it means much. It can hardly be regarded as a casual remark. It is nothing more than fair to presume, from the frequency of its use, that the courts intended the full meaning of the statement. But what is the meaning of the statement? By the method of circumlocution, we may ascertain what the courts have declared to he constitutional rights. Judge Artman then quotes a number of decisions, and concludes: "The concensus of all these statements is that the pursuit of lawful business is more than a mere right; it is property which cannot be taken from one without due process of the law." Hence, when the courts declare that the saloon is not a constitutional right, that is merely another way of saying that the saloon is an unlawful institution; that it is not lawful at common law. And it means also that a business that may be arbitrarily and wholly i prohibited is both unconstitutional and unlawful at common law, and, as the saloon may be absolutely prohibited arbitrarily it is both unconstitutional and unlawful at common law. This is the full meaning of the statement that no one possesses a constitutional right to keep a saloon. What are inalienable rights? The Standard Dictionary says: "Inalienable" means "not transferable: that cannot be rightfully, properly or legally sold,conveyed or takea away." The courts say: "No one possesses an inalienable right to keep a saloon for the sale of intoxicating liquor." Why? The Declaration of Independence says: "All men are created equal: they are endowed by Almighty God with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The United States Supreme Court has said that, among these inalienable rights is the right, of men to pursue any lawful business. Justice Bradley of that court said: "I hold that the liberty of pursuit,the right to follow any of the ordinary callings of life, is one of the privileges of a citizen of the United States, of which he cannot be deprived without invading his right to liberty within the meaning of the Constitution." The saloon is not an inalienable right, therefore, it is not a lawful trade or calling; it is not one of t'ffe civil or equal rights of men. A busi- j ness which can be prohibited entirely ! cannot be an manenaoie rignt. wnen the courts deny that the saloon is an inalienable right, they in effect, de- j clare that it is not conducive to the | happiness of mankind; they affirm j that it is dangerous to and destructive of the'happiness of citizens; and, being so, the saloon is unquestionably unlawful at common law. There is no inherent right in a citizen to thus sell intoxicating liquor. The United States Supreme Court has used this expression no less than twelve different times, and almost every State Supreme Court of the Union has declared that no person has an inherent right to keep a saloon. The cases in which such declarations have been iriade are so numerous that it would be a waste of time, eyes and digests to collect and cite all of them, and to do so woulcJserve no useful purpose. The bake-! shop and. the shoe store are both lawful callings, therefore they are both Inherent rights. The saloon is always and everywhere attended with injury to the safety, health, peace, good or- ; der and morals of the community and Is, for that reason, unlawful, and con- ! Bequently has no inherent right to i exist. The Athlete's Point of View. Edward Payson Weston, pedestrian: "On my long walks during over lorty years in public life experience has taught me that nature should not be outraged by the use of artificial Btimulants. On my walk from Portland, Me., to Chicago, I drank cold tea. On the recent walk from Phila- \ delphia to New York in less than ! twenty-four hours, I drank milk and cold tea. On any of these walks a Bingle glass of wine would have made me fail. I sometimes use whisky on the soles of my feet."?Pioneer. A Great Chemist's Opinion. Earon Liebig, the distinguished chemist: "We can prove it with math- | ematical certainty that so much flour ! as can lie on the point of a table knife ! | is more nutritious than eight quarts j j of the best Bavarian beer. Beer, | j wine, spirits, etc.. furnish no element ! I capable of entering into the composiI ticn of the blood, muscular fibre, or ; any part which is the seat of the vital ; principle." Tempcrancp Notes. I Many a man has taken a "little for I his stomach's sake," only to find later that the "little" had taken the stomach.?Wisconsin Issue. "Born sober" is the happj way that Dr. Palmore, editor of the St. Louis I Christian Advocate (Church South) i describes Oklahoma. The.feeling of well-being which follows the drinking of small doses of alcohol is an illusion. The subjective sensation cf great muscular power is part and parcel of this .feel- i iug of well-being. ! In 1S70 seven per cent, of the popi uiation lived in what is called "tfry j territory." Ten years later it had I grown to nine per cent. Another dec[ ade, thirteen per cent. In the year I 1900 it had reached twenty-five per j cent. Seven years later (1907) it i was over thirty per cent. Subjective sensations of the possession of great strength is not peculiar to alcohol; it is seen with other drags, such as chloroform anu emer. i In anaesthesia by these drugs tlie L patient is under the impression that he is making superhuman exertions, T.-hereas the/ are very ordinary efforts ' indeed. . s ????? ??? The microbe population of a twelve * ounce piece of cheese has been estimated. by scientists to be nearly 5,? 000,00*),000. ' Thp p-rpatpRt heat. Is never found on the equator, but some ten degrees to the north, while more severe cold has been registered in Northern Siberia than has been found near the Pole, Pear shaped balloons are the fashion in Belgium. The point is upward, f. the tase of the balloon is spherical. It is claimed that balloons of this * shape pierce the air vertically with far greater speed than the ordinary spherical balloon. Consequently they are steadier. Metals get tired as well as living things, a scientist declares. Te?graph wires are better conductors on Monday than Saturday on account of their Sunday rest, and a rest of three i weeks adds ten per cent, to the.con^ * ductivity of a wire. Electricity is now being largely used in the bookbinding business for embossing. With the aid of the current it is possible to make 480 Impressions a minute on the electrically heated embossing presses. Electricity also heats the glue pots and the hand tools used in preparing the leather covers. The surface of the earth is under- -A going steady transformation, largely. through the agency of man, but per- ^ haps nowhere, is the plant and animal life of the region being more rapidly supplanted than in New Zealand. The native Polynesian race, crowded by Europeans, is becoming extinct. Many of the imported animals run wild, $ and multiply rapidly at the expanse of the native species, even thestreams being filled with European ,( and American trout, which grow great size. Introduced plants thrivequite as remarkably. New forest# are being created designedly because the native trees, though yielding excellent timber, grow very slowly; and already 11,000,000 larches, oaks, spruces, Dougless firs and eucalyptus. have been planted, while seedlings ' -j from them are being continually added. . : v. :-% >. <: IRELAND NEEDS FORESTS. ' Like the United States, She is latein Waking Up to Her Sins. Ireland has awakened to the national value of her forests, but so late- :) that radical measures will now benecessary to Frake up for past lie- - i gleet. A commission appointed by . $r the Crown to investigate the condition of Ireland's forests and to suggest measures for bettering it has..y;-just made public its report. The comr lssion outlines and vigorously urges the adoption of a large scheme for the State to plant about 700,000 acres with forest trees. This, with the 300,000 acres of existing forest, would give Ireland 1,000,000jprps nf fnrpst land, an area which the commission considers essential for the agricultural and industrial / requirements of the country. About 20,000 acres of this would be purchased by the State in mountainous and rough regions and maniged as State forest, says Harper'e Weekly, while 500,000 acres, chiefly, in small blocks, would be planted b> the State but managed by private Dwners or by county councils. The fact that under the land parchase acts much woodland formerly held in large blocks is being sold ia small parcels and lumbered and that there is now opportunity for the Government to acquire woods and land! suitable for forests make it specially urgent for the State to take immediite action. To show that such a scheme of land acquisition and planting is not impracticable the commission cites fhp rasp of Denmark, an agricultural country half the size of Ireland which . fl since 1881 has increased her forests I -by 175,000 acres. ? ? j H Electric Engines in Mines. 8 The first electric mine locomotive I was built in 1887. It looks as clum- I sy, compared to its modern successor, as the model of the first railway loco- Q motive beside the gigantic machines I turned out from the shop in the year m 1907. " ; Some of t* i early creations, how- I ever, have lasted straight through the jg period of improvement, and are still a in operation. One such was built in 'I 1889. At the time of the Pan-Ameri- |g can Exposition in Buffalo the officials' S whose duty it was to gather exhibits S for the Electrical Euilding decided to obtain this locor ive. I They wrote to the manager of .he jjl mine where it had been used to ask 3 if it could be "resurrected from the jS scrap heap." The manager replied, I with some indignation, that it could not be "resurrected from the scrap heap," being still in operation; but I that it could be loaued, provided a ? new locomotive were to be substitute ffi ed to do the work during its absence. m ?Cassier's Magazine. I Enough to Scare Her. I "Bill" Smith is a Bucks County H storekeeper, and last spring he cam a I down to Philadelphia to purchase his H s-vock of goods for the summer trade. I The goods were shipped immediately I and reached his store before he did. Among the lot cf cases and packages H was a bo; shaped something like a I casket. When Bill's wife saw this H one she uttered a screan and called H for a nammer. me ara^mau, ing her shrill cries, rushed in to see what the trouble was. The wife, pale and faint, pointed to the following inscription on the box: "Bill inside." ? Philadelphia Ledger. In After Tears. Mrs. Gushington?"Do you remember, colonel, the time you proposed to T rpfnspfi VOU?"' I Colonel Courtly?"Madam, it is the lone moment of my life that I remember with the greatest pleasure."? Judge.