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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.
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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."
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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.
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^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.
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\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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.