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THE COURSE Tom Easy was lazy and shiftless: he pic But never was wholly contented until h His wife and his grimy-faced children w But still they found heart to be thankfi Unburdened with worldly possessions, it On soup-mcat and second-hand clothing, 'At last a Samaritan neighbor declared t The outfit according to statute, and Ton The neighbor recounted the story; the i The Judge thought it over a minute, an Tom Easv slouched out of the court roo: Surrounded by sooty-faced children, unt Tom Easy has clcithing and shelter and Which is better than begging a living fr For begging is not always easy; though Most men are reluctant to share them, a The law has moved swiftly to punish To And, while in the punishing business, is ?James T. Mor n r 2sMI Car Ev KilSa In these progressive days when women are clamoring for careers and are dabbling in everything from politics to art, it is refreshing to remember that the women who are accomplishing the most are saying the least about it. The women who are pursuing vocations that are worth while are the ones who never get their pictures in the papers and have people turn to look after them on the street, inaeea, laey woujq ue astonished if anyone hinted that they were doing anything for their coun- ' try or society at large, and indignantly deny the assertion. They are con- 1 tent to work and live in privacy, as 1 they fondly suppose, not knowing i that they are exerting more influence 1 than many a noisy reformer on the 1 public platform. In a pretentious little city lived a M woman with several children who ' M were always well and neatly dressed, 1 ~ and who looked healthy and happy, < yas did the father and mother. The 1 y neighbors began, a few months after this family moved into the modest lit- 1 tie home they purchased, to say what ' a pity it was that Mrs. A was I content to live such a narrow life. ' She did all her drudgery herself, even to the washing and ironing, and 1 Bhe really was a bright woman. They ] labored with her delicately to show 1 uer tnat ner iamny wouia appreciate her so much more if she took more Interest in society and hired her work pone, but one by one they were forced to retire from the field. She was always pleasant, always ready to pick hp a bit of sewing and chat with a neighbor, always trim and neatly dressed, but she had no time for the various things her new friends urged her to take part in. In short, she was too narrow to help better mankind by doing the things her neighbors thought were uplifting and refining. But in time her Influence began unconsciously to be felt. Her husband's salary was known to all the neighbors, and presently the ladies began to say, 4,How does Mrs. A manage to do so much with so little money?" The home was their own, while most of the people about them rented, but still, "She must be a good manager to accomplish so much." Then they began to note that Mrs. A baked her own wholesome bread and baked her food without depending very much upon the baker and the tin can, and that the doctor was almost a stranger to the cosy lit- 1 tie home; also, that her children were well trained and well bred, and that the whole family seemed to create ( their happiness at home, instead of * rushing here and there in search of . nloacnro Ono n-nmon aftor QTintViDr ^ said, "If Mrs. A can do her own 6ewing and baking and pressing, I can do it, too," so it was not long until that one woman had exerted an influence on the whole neighborhood without trying at all. Now any sane person knows that the woman who makes a happy home is enjoying a career far broader and ' more enduring than that of any other : mortal. And homemaking isn't a thing that every person can do without trying, either. Of course, there are countless places to live all over the land, but the ideal homes are rare. Whenever a man goes wrong someone is sure to ask cynically, "Who is the woman in the case?" And too often the woman in the case is the man's own wife. Whenever a woman knowingly lives beyond her husband's income she is as much of a criminal as is the tempted employe who puts his hand into the cash box to steal. There is no law to send her to prison with her husband, but she is as guilty as he if she is discontented and extravagant and mercenary. This is not saying that men do not waste money at all and the fault lies wholly with the wife, but merely crediting her with her just share of the crime. The cry is always going up that men do not confide in their wives enough, and that is true, but it don't : take much of a scholar to figure 1 things out for herself when her hus- 1 band is on a salary. One -woman whose husband earned $125 per ' month insisted upon living, much 1 against his will, in a $25-a-month 1 residence. This meant that they ' TlTA1l1/1 VlQTTO f A 1 re\rsr^ ? r* t?m* V * V? 1 vvwv*. UUTV, UV_? up WKU iuc pave set by the people about them, and ' they did?until the husband went to ! prison for stealing. In a modest little 1 $10 house in the suburbs, where they J might have had a tiny garden and lived in contentment, the wife could have brought up the children in comfort and saved money, but she scorned such a proposition. In that j town a $10 house meant a modest dwelling of six rooms, with a large 1 yard or garden, or place for pets, and ' sensible, well-bred neighbors, but the ' $25 house boasted eight rooms and 1 "modern conveniences." It is better 1 to live in a dugout and be able to af- ' ford it than to skimp and pinch ?nd 1 cheat people out of their rent of a ' palace, though the latter doctrine is 1 the more popular at present. Living in the fashionable hbuse this couple * had to hire everything done, go into ' society, dress expensivcJMMa^^gjLg their children to dancin^KHn9^^RB (the children of the OF JUSTICE. ked up a job now and then, e had lo6t it again. ent hungry more often than not, il for whatever comfort they got. was easy to move, when they'd spent, the money Tom earned for the rent. hat Tom ought to support 1 had his hour in court. rase was pathetically clear. d sent Tom away for a year. m; his wife sat, bewildered and wan, il she was told to move on. always abundance to eat, om people that pass on the street; comforts in plenty abound. s the wife ana the children have found, m Easy's loose, dissolute life; ; starving his kids and his wife. itague, in New York Evening Journal. bMbtle ccr ?h c Richmond. otherwise give the world, or try to give, the impression that money was plentiful with them. And when the homfi was wrecked" thev were foreot ten in a month and dropped out of sight. In an humble home they might have laid the foundation for future luxury, but they had not the courage to even be honest, and so came to nothing speedily. If there were not so many grownup babies among women the world would reach the millennium a great deal sooner than at its present rate. It sounds absurd to say that women old enough to know better sit down to weep and act like infants, but it is true. Having been spoiled at home, they expect their husbands to continue the spoiling process, and if the men look for common sense and. grown-up traits they are termed brutal at once. One selfish woman quoted her husband's cigars as her sxcuse for wasting money, until even tier relatives were disgusted with her. 'John throws away money on tojacco, so I see no reason why I should skimp and save," she would whine; jut "John's" tobacco was a small item compared with her wastefulness, rhere are more women who will fling down to the store and order expensive things they cannot afford, if they discover their husbands have "wasted" a few dollars, according to ? J Flies Carry Dise? ^ sade Agaii ?? < & Hie most common mod ^ f\ part of the world is ^ R \ method, the infection ^ have come in cont ^ Cholera, typhoid fevi dysentery are the diseases wl ^ conveyed in this way. Most ii tion between flies and typhoid The common house-fly is the A i for it has a far wider range of ; 1 insect, and its presence is not well-conducted household or i ?T>1 1 ' KJL ULJJC1 ? L1C CUJiUUSl need statement. Rapid dispoi and scrupulous care in the exte cially the common house-fly, ^ ordinary rules of household anc $ .heir definition, than this world ireams of. One irate wife discovered :hat her husband had taken a friend ;o an expensive dinner, and she at ?nce proceeded to order a silk dress she did not in the least need. The lusband was one of the most economcal of men, but on that occasion he "elt that he must do something to lonor the man who had done so much 'or him in a business way and who ;vould only be a few hours in the city, ;o he did recklessly squander money )n the dinner. Neither he nor his vife frequented the fashionable and ;xpensive place, but he knew it was i necessity. That kind of childish spirit never exists in an ideal home, jut many husbands could testify, if hey would, to similar happenings. But, thank goodness! there are ivomen in every community who are iurnishing the leaven that is finally ;he leaven the whole lump of society. Without boasting of the superiority )f living within their means or seting their own standards, they simply show by their lives and families that hey are happy and prosperous. They ire proud of their ability to manage :heir homes without help, but they lo not proclaim this pride from the housetops. "I won't make a servant if myself," said a woman lately?a woman who is often in debt to workng people and who scarcely knows ivhat it is to have plenty of good, nourishing food. "I think I owe it to my family to be at my best with .hem." She said this with a superior lir, but a happy, home-loving woman sitting by remarked that the highest privilege in life is to serve others. Some women are so constituted that they cannot believe there is happiness in simnle home life. One home loving woman who ventured to say she enjoyed the hours spent hoeing in her vegetable garden was looked upon as a sort of freak, much to her imuseinent. While her neighbors sat in their best clothe?, playing bridge in a stuffy parlor, she was out in an abbreviated skirt picking peas for' supper, and afterward shelled them under the old apple tree in the back yard, as contented as a queen, with ber litxie ones about her, and in full view of the bridge players. Her husband laughingly accused her of try ing to snocK tne lasnionaoje jaaies, but she pleaded not guilty. After the party the hostess ran over with some af the favors for the "poor children" ind found the family eating a simple meal under the apple tree. The look on her face filled the humble husband and wife with amazement, for it plainly showed what she thought of such informality. And yet her husband was at that very moment on the yerge of bankruptcy, and the people she pitied were worth more financially than many of her guests that ^erjioon. wife's first duty to live, BSNSH'ithin her means, but to save something for the rainy day that ;*< Is bound to come. Of course, where |' the husband is dissipated or other- '< wise incapable of providing for the family conditions are different, but the great majority of wives have the ability to set the pace for the family. Instead of longing for a career outside her home let the wife and mother P set herself diligently to work to give ir her family and herself the best possl- s ble food and clothes and the most en- c< vironment for a given sum and see ^ that a fair share of the income is saved every month. If she can ac- b complish this she is doing far more w for her country and her home and c< her neighborhood than she can ever " estimate. To send out sons and daughters to found other homes where thrift shall prevail and to set an example of right living before her ^ neighbors is a career no woman need s1 despise. It requires more brains and ^ more ability than to "agitate" re- ^ forms and get up petitions, and It p brings better results. The trouble 0 lies in the fact that we do not like ^ to? u Dig and water a little spot, , k That the hurrying world heeds not. ^ We want to be in the public eye ?< and have people notice what we are doing, but the women who are carefully lookine after the "little snota" are the ones who are giving the world 13 its best service. They are sending P out noble men and women to make b all life sweeter and stronger, and they ? are showing to the restless, hurrying, * discontented, foolish women of the e world that real happiness is not found a by frantically rushing hither and ' thither after it. It is only in the n "little kingdom of home" that real 8 joy and bliss are to be found, and it c Is the wife's share in the partnership ^ to make such a home.?Home Herald. PRESERVING A RACE. lt Lapps and Reindeer For Newfound- ^ land. e The "transplanting" of a race to 1 save it from extinction has just been ii successfully Initiated. This is the J si emigration of Lapps from Lapland to j 81 Labrador and Newfoundland. The b first step was the sending from Lap- ci land of domesticated reindeer, with 13 the object of providing an occupation for the Lapps, who are a dying race. 1* The latter are now being sent abroad to look after the deer, and in time it is hoped they will settle down and preserve a race that seemprf rinnmoH i fi The Royal National Mission to si Deep Sea Fishermen?which is carry- ti is c J, ise?Start a Cru- T * ist Them. ^ ? ? <s> : g e of infection by insects in our ^ a undoubtedly by the indirect ^ ti of food stuffs by insects which V act with .infected material. er, tuberculosis, and perhaps lich are probably most often V nportant for us is the connccfever and probably dysentery. a a insect chiefly to be dreaded, v tl activity than has any crawling ^ ii ; regarded as a disgrace to a a u nstitution, as is the presence v s ons are almost too obvious to * c, sal of all infectious material jy irmination of all insects, espe- V K should be among the most ^ 0 i institutional hygiene. ^ s] b |S ing out this remarkable work?first \ T made investigations in Newfoundland ! and Labrador to ascertain if there | o: was food for the reindeer. It discov- nj ered that, though most of the land is S unfertile, there is a vast quantity j fi of the reindeer moss capable of feed- | tl ing an unlimited number of deer. ; B The great want of the people there is ! ^ a SUDDlV of fresh meat and Attioi- "? +> I tv cles of diet, such as cheese, milk and tl butter, three things which the rein- g deer is capable of providing. Hence w Mr. Wood reported the animals will tc not only be invaluable for the purposes of transport, but will also en- j able the people to get better food. The reindeer is one of the most re- I markable of animals. To the Lapp i it is everything. It feeds him, clothes | him and is his beast of burden. Already it appears the reindeer has been ' t? acclimatized in Alaska, and there the tc mails are now carried by reindeer sledges, and in relays of fifty miles ft j ^ is found that the reindeer can trans- ^ port the mails at the rate of 200 miles a day. In Newfoundland the reindeer have already proved their . worth in the lumber camps. * Dr. Grenfell, who has forwarded * to the mission a report as to the Lapps who have been shipped over with the deer, gives a description of ri the strange ways of the strange peoTVw.., ? ~1 J - v w i<jc. j. i?cjr aic ycij euuii ami xneir faces are wizened. Both sexes wea.t deerskin breeches and knee-length Ie coats, and the only thing which dis- 1 m tinguishes women from men is the gi close-fitting hood worn by the women. All the men chew and the ;c women smoke. The moment the deer pj were landed the Lapps were anxious ti: to get to the hills, as they could not ei stand the civilized dwellings, which were "too draughty." They prefer p( tents, which fill with smoke so that their eyes soon get bloodshot. u. The scheme has been carried out w by means of charitable donations. and in this respect may be described as the most extraordinary charitable movement on record.?London Globe. f1 A Plague of Wood Pigeons. 01 Following the example of the Dev- gr onshire farmers, an organized effort j is being made by Hampshire agricul- j turists to reduce the vast number of j wood pigeons in the county, which during the last few weeks have com- r, mitted havnr amnnc crpen rrnns 51 Shoots have been arranged nightly, and as the birds come in to roost large numbers are killed. Great cr numbers of the birds are bred yearly re in the New Forest, and in the winter lit months they are largely increased by H migrants from Scandinavia.?Lon- bi don Evening Standard. nr The Union Steamship Caamanv of th New Zealand is prepared to establish ~ar a service of vessels with a speed of th eighteen knots between Vancouver, of New Zealand and A nstraJian nnrta. ^ y; ^|^H0U5EH0LD^li|J Stewed Sweetbreads. Soak two sweetbreads in salted teid water for an hour, then put them 1 a saute pan with half a pint of ood stock, baste the sweetbreads instantly with gravy to glaze them, /hen they are of a light brown color ley are done. Arrange the sweetreads in a circle, and fill the centre ith a macedoine of vegetables, Doked in some Italian sauce.?Washlgton Star. Popovers. Beat well together one cup fiour lto which a little salt has been tirred, one cup milk and one well eaten egg. Beat very light and ake in heated gem irons or cups, opovers depend for their lightness n the heat of the oven and must be aked quickly, with the greatest heat nderneath to drive them up. If the atter is too thick or they have not een sufficiently mixed they will be Ddden.?New York Telegram. Salmon ,uutiets and sauce. Cut the slices one inch thick, relove the bone, season each slice with epper and salt, wrap in a sheet of uttered paper and boil over a clear re about a quarter of an hour. For he sauce, beat up the yolks of two ggs and add a pinch of salt, pepper nd a tablespoonful of vinegar. When rell mixed stir in a teaspoonful of iade mustard and also add a tea-?' poonful of parsley and a few capers; hop these very small and put into le sauce.?Washington Star. Cods' Roe Cutlets. The roe must be parboiled, so put ; into boiling water Tfrith a little salt nd cook h?r thirty minutes. Put also lto the water a tablespoonful of vin-a. u a gcil . VV lieu IUUACU 1CL it gCL UUiU. 'hen cut into slices about half an ich thick and trim them to a neat hape. Egg and breadcrumb the lices and fry in boiling fat a golden rown. Drain on paper; serve on routons of fried bread, spread lightr with anchovy paste; garnish with led parsley and cut lemon.?Washlgton Star. Crab With Mushrooms. Put into a saucepan a tablespoonill of butter and cook in it a large lice of onion finely chopped. Add a iblespoonful of flour when the onion i transparent, rub smooth and add a upful of cream. Season with salt, aprika and a tablespoonful of lemon nice, then add the mashed yolks ol 570 hard boiled eggs, a pint of crab leat and a can of small button mush, ooms, after cutting each one in two, ut into a pan after stirring all toether, sprinkle with cracker crumb? nd brown in a moderate oven.?Naional Food Magazine. Corn Dodgers. These cakes, made from the earst times by the Indians and negroes., nd baked in leaves or on a hoe in ae not asnes, may De successiuuj nitated by the modern cook in bei p-to-date oven. Scald one pinl outhern cornmeal sifted with one upful of flour and a teaspoonful o 1 lit with two cupfuls of boiling watei r milk in which a-rounded tablepoonful of shortening has beec ielted. This should result in a moisl' ut sufficiently firm batter that wil! eep its place when dropped from a Doon into a well greased baking pain, wo tablespoonfuls will be enough )r each dodger, about three-fourth? f an inch in thickness. The cakej iay be even smaller if preferred. Tc ive them the old-fashioned Southern nish leave the full length imprint oi le finger across the top of each cake, ake in a moderately hot oven hall q hour and eat hot with butter foi reakfast or luncheon. If preferred le dodgers may be baked on a well reased griddle. Cook slowly and hen well browned on one side turn > the other.?Washington Star. A large pinch of salt put in thi ink of a coal oil lamp will cause il ) give a better light. Try a little lemon and salt mixed le next time a price mark sticks to ie bottom of china dishes or bric-arac. Much time is saved if paper linings >r cake1 pans are cut in quantities ad kept ready for instant use in s ust-proof box with tight lid. A little muriatic acid added to the nsing water after a blue and white bre rug is scrubbed with soap and ater will help to restore the color. Instead of adding bluing to' watei i which lace has been rinsed try aking the final rinsing in milk; if ves a lovely creamy tone to the lace. The easiest way to clean a cereal loker is to turn it upside down in a in of boiling water and steam it un1 the sticky mass is soft and loos led from the sides of the pan. If your lamp smokes or gives a )or light it may come from clogged pes. Take the lamp apart, boil the jrner in soda water and pour hot ater through connccting rods and ibes. i Cake pans can be more quickly eased if the pans are first heated, n easy way is to put small lumps of ltter over the lining and stand pan i top of stove for a minute before j treading the grease. fin nnt Tint a tomato asnic to hard- I i in a tin or iron baking pan; the scid the jelly acts on the tin and makes e salad taste, while the black pan ves an unsightly black rim to the ipic. When too many oysters have been earned for filling pates they can be heated the next day by adding a tie more mill: and fresh seasoning, eat in a double boiler or they may irii. A sticky cake or bread pan should it be cleaned with a knife or allying which will scratch the surface urobable THOUGHTSFg^JHfc GOD KEEP YOU. God keep you, dearest, all this lonely night* r The winas are still. d The moon drops down behind the west- t ern hill; f God keep you safely, dearest, till the light. ^ God keep you then, when slumber melta 13 away, f And care and strife y Take up new arms to fret our waking b life; God keep you through the battle of the r day. t God keep you. v Nay, beloved soul, how 0 vain, t How poor is prayer! y I can but say again, and yet again -v God keep you every time and everywhere. ?Mary Ainge de Vere. i a Grief That Ennobles. e A woman, dressed in deepest E mourning, stopped suddenly outside e a house irom which came strains of c music mingled with the happy laugh- S ter of children. i: "Can it be possible," she said 'to c herself, "that Mrs. Weston is giving i a children's party when her little girl t has not been in her grave a month? ^ It is shocking! How can one be so d unfeeling!" t i To confirm her suspicions she t paused to listen a moment longer, t and, if possible, to catch a glimpse of y what was going on inside. Then the k front door opened, and against the f bright background of light two fig- * ures appeared. A mother, with her ^ little girl, was just coming away, t The peering black figure by the steps i instantly recognized the woman as h one of her acquaintances. b "O Mrs. Murray," she began, in c some embarrassment, "is Mrs. Wes- ; t ton really giving a children's party j b to-night, so soon after Nina's death? d Is it possible that she has so little o feeling?" s The street light cast Its revealing c radiance on Mrs. Murray's tear- o stained face. a "Don't say that!" she answered, b cp-ntlv "Vnn don't know her T C | iwu wuiucrii went tiicii wa.?o, t:cu,n felt that she had received a benediction.?Youth's Companion. m The Reason. ai The reason for the existence of the Christian church Is to be found in ; the need of the heathen world. We ! * | are an elect race, not for our own j I pleasure and salvation, but for the i Ci I sake of dying men, who call to us to ! cl I give them the Light of Life. If we j gi ! fail Christ in this, will He not cast bi j us aside, and perform His purpose I th i by others? We are saved to serve; I fr I endued with power to become Hi3 J m witnesses.?Rev. F. B Meyer, i b? Envy. j Envy is incipient murder: no ten- ! dor foolinc r>an dwell in the same i ,l breast with envy. It will drive every i good impulse from the heart, and wel- i come a brood of vipers that will re- ! J" sort to any method to accomplish i 112 their diabolical purpose.?Rev. W. j P. Hines. ! th Riglit and Wrong. | ?* One is all right when he possesses i riches, position, etc.. but when they bi possess him he is all wrong.?Rev. ! as C- W. Webb, bj 250-Year-Old Tree linrned. - st An oak tree at the corner of Fofa he tieth and Walnut streets, Philadel- in phia, which is said to have shaded the pa OCA HAft wn nrrry VvofnVQ Will. i r* iiiUictilb ?'0\) jcaia a^u, i/giuit na?- i m lam Penn came, was burned down be- th cause one of its younger branches I qv rubbed the insulation from an elec- | trie wire, causing the offending j co branch to ignite. An alarm was j pr turned in, and when the firemen ar- i .in rived they1 debated whether the tree ' jit or tlie wirfcs were the more valuable. I A: As the vjires would have to be j st; ^hopped A order to fight the blaze in J Ja only wish that you or I could ever t hope to attain to the height of her a unselfishness or the depth of her love t and faith." t "I am still wearing crape, and my n child died two years ago," the woman G in black replied, in a tone of self-ap- e proval. "Is It really true that Mrs. P Weston is giving a party?" h "Yes, it is true," Mrs. Murray an- c nounced, with a defiant lift to her t' chin. "It was Nina's birthday party, c The child had planned for It months ago. She had made little gifts for j all her friends, and was full of the ! wish to share her happiness wRh _ others. J "Mrs. Weston was simply broken- c hearted when Nina died. You know c it is less than three yeard since she v lost her husband. ' But she has " prayed for strength and guidance, n and she feels that although she can e never again be happy herself, it is j? still her task to help keep things d bright and joyful for other people." 0 "But how can she bear to look at ? other children enjoying themselves? How can she bear to think of what " paople will say?" "Her grief is not like that," Mrs. c< Murray answered, gently. "She doesn't pay any attention to what L people say, for she is not listening to " the tongues of men, but to the voice s of God." 0 The door opened again, and a slen- ? der black figure was silhouetted 1 against the light. 5 "Edith!" a gentle voice called. "0 Edith Murray! You were going away without the little work-bag Nina ?. made for you! I know she wants j :! you to have it." i " "O Mrs. Weston!" the child ex- | ' claimed, dropping her mother's hand, j e "How could I forget it!" and Edith . ran up the steps to receive the outstretched gift. ^ For a moment the light shone on the sad face, worn with weeping, yet smiling, and the sight sent a pang of j remorse, sharp as an arrow, into the j p, worldly, embittered .heart of the j c< woman who had so cruelly misunderstood a fellow sufferer. Impulsively ?. she started forward out of the dark- j ness. "Mrs. Weston," she said, abruptly, ; ? "I have presumed to criticise you. i ( Forgive me. I didn't understand. ? i X. XI. I 01 wnen my cnna aiea i usienea 10 xne i t?ngues of mer., as Mrs. Murray says. ! . You heard the voice of God. That ! is why I am more to be pitied than .r you." .. "We are both to be pitied." said the heart-broken mother. "But wa ^ who understand sorrow can help oth- j t ers to find happiness that survives | loss and death. Q. "Thank God. nothing can kill my j child's love for me or mine for her. a] I have tried to express that love in | a way that I am afraid seemed to you crude and heartless, but Nina knows, | ^ and God understands." j ^ The appealing face was illumin- \ 0] ated by a smile that seemed to shed i eI warmth as well as light. And as the j , ? + 1 t HE TEMPERANCE PROPAGANDA "ONGERTED ATTACK ON DRINK WINNING ALL ALONG LINE. The Modern Way. The modern method of temperance eform takes a better turn. Nobody low goes to hear a temperance lecure. Nobody cares to hear a reormed drunkard picture the deaucheries of his past life; nobody low holds up the brand snatched rom the burning as a pattern to outh. The world has grown into letter sense and better standards of aste. The true temperance reformer low is the employer who makes society at all times a fixed condition >f employment in his business. When he Pennsylvania Railroad a dozen ears back made it a rule that no man srho drank intoxicating liquors on uty or off duty should have a place a its service, it did more for practial temperance than all the Goughs nd Murphys who ever lived. This xample has been followed now by iretty much all the railroad compares in the country, and it has beome the rule of industry everywhere. Something, no doubt, is due to the ntroduction of machinery which alls for clear heads and steady lands, but nerhans more is due to he development of common sense, rhich recognises that no habitual Isunkard is a man safe to be trusted n any relationship. A few years tack half the lawyers and doctors of he country were drinking men. Now our drinking lawyer or doctor is un:nown. Nobody will employ a man or any careful service when it is mown that he is a drinking man. Vith the growth of sentiment along hese lines the whole fashion of life las changed. Twenty years ago men iabitua!ly drank to excess in clubs, arracks, and elsewhere. At any soalled gentlemen's dinner at least wo men out of five grew "happy" efore the evening was over. Now to rink overmuch is the very extreme if bad form. One who goes contantly into the club life of San Franisco, or any other city, will not nee in a year see a man obviously fferted bv drink. Drunkenness has een banished from respectable dries, and is only to be found among he socially disreputable, in the slums nd the gutters. All but universal emperance has come to us, not hrough the grotesque recitals and lelodramatic appeals of John B. roughs, not through the vulgar selfxpositions of reformed Francis Murhys, but through the enforcement of igher standards of personal efficieny in all grades of life, and through be development of a progressive soial refinement.?Argonaut. Alcohol Fiercely Arraigned. Writing to the Medical Record, Dr. . M. W. Kitchen strikes another ruel blow at' the now much perseuted Demon. Admitting, with obious reluctance, that alcohol has its ses in certain conditions of illealth, he insists that, with the presnt knowledge of supporting methods f nourishment, "to talk of race decaence as likely to result from cutting ff intoxicating beverages is absurd, hile he thinks that the world would te well rid of the very few individals whose life, despite intelligent rofltmiint might he sihortened by Dmnlete deorivation of alcohol.* The question now before society, in ir. Kitchen's opinion, is whether it lust suffer the consequences of the rossly ignorant and damaging use f alcohol, in order that tjhose who re only slightly hurt by moderate ldulgence may be allowed the pleasres of that indulgence; whether this gent is to remain in force as one of le influences for ridding the world f those least fit to survive or whether lis substance, so potent because of :s peculiar properties, is to be placed rith things too dangerous for genral use. Those inquiries are sufficiently incresting, but even more so, perhaps, re the following "propositions" hicb Dr. Kitchen suggests for genral discussion, evidently believing, imself, that they sum up the best resent opinion as to the physiologiil effects of alcohol: 1. The habitual use of alcohol in nail quantities which to superficial bservation does no harm, really does hysical damage by inducing a habit f dilatation of the arterioles with jcondary results due to throwing ndue arterial pressure on various rgans. 2. That any individual using alcool even in small doses is in the grasp P the alcohol habit, and is injured i Droportion to the amount ingested art to the regularity of indulgence. 3. Under all ordinary conditions : health any physical advantage due | > the pleasure of indulgence or to ie nutritive effects of alcohol is far utbalanced by its evil effects, which re not nerceived immediately, but re cumulative. 4, That the primary physiological j feet of apparent stimulation is only ie beginning of paralysis, due to i ie coagulative effect of the alcohol j [i cell peripheries, and that deepling of the effect to the cell centres .-duces vital activity in the cell. 5. That so-called moderation rellts in the vast majority of cases in idulgence that is measurably iraoderate, and usually shortens life id weakens self-control. / Sreater Menace Than the Burglar. The drunkard, says a Supreme Durt justice, who has had plenty of lance to make comparisons, is a eater menace to society than the jrglar. And experience also shows I lat if minors could be prevented om acquiring the Ifabit, although any might still drink, there would > very few drunkards. Temperance Notes. Tf there were not so many inns, ere would be less down-and-outs. Local option has lately driven a ewer at Ironton, Ohio, into the mds of a receiver. Orators have blessed Booze with eir sublimest flights and then mumed curses on the monster from the ltter. La Rue County. Kentucky, the rthplace of Abraham Lincoln, voted ;ainst the saloons January 23 last, i ' a majority of 1805. .tsooze is tne most, aemocrauc muuer in the world. It is equally at >me in the darkies' blind tiger and the millionaires' club. It plays its irt in the holiest offices as well as the vilest orgies. Though it is e chief power in Harmony banlets it is a universal cause of strife. Japan and England are roughly mparable in population, and have actically the same poor-laws. Yet pan has only about 24.000 pauts, while England has 1,000.000. ?kt-d for the reason a Japanese itesman replied: We drink tea in .pan; you drink alcohol iri Eng- j ^ j I 6un5aii-^>cncrcT 11 - ,; vl|B m INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- H MENTS FOR MAY 16. H ~Subject: Paul's First Missionary Journey - Iconium and Lystra, Acts 14:1-28?Golden Text; I Fsalm 96:5?Commentary. B TDIE.?46 A. D. PLACE.?Lys- B tra. EXPOSITION.?I. A Cripple from B His Eirth Made Wliole, 8-10. It was a case of real lameness. The man had ^B iicvci Wttincu. liic mac nas ucjuuu man's skill, hopeless. But there are no hopeless cases with Christ. There was no magnetic touch, no treatment, just a look, a word, and then a per^ feet and not an imaginary cure. Paul did not attempt to heal every lame man he met. God directed his attention to this man, and gave him to see that he had faith to be healed. How did he get it? By hearing Paul speak (Ro. 10:17). Something of this kind was needed to gain Paul a hearing in . Antioch. Paul thoroughly studied and understood the case before he spoke the word. He commanded the man to do the naturally impossible, but "all things are possible to him that believeth" (Mk. 9:23). The man proved his faith by obedience. II. Paul and Barnabas Worshiped.^:-' as Gods, 11-18. The people were now ready not only to listen to Patil, but to worship him. The human heart always wants a man to worsnip. jsaeu are always ready to render unto tho instruments God uses the adoration and gratitude that belong only to God Himself. Underneath the heathen .7 idea that the gods visited the earth "in the likeness of men" there was ar . great and glorious truth (Jno. l:14;i Phil. 2:6, 7). The actions of these .. Lystrans seem very -ignorant and y foolish to us, but do not many Chris- tians bow down and lay their offer ings and garlands at the feet of men ' God greatly uses, as if the man wW himself something? Paul and Bar1- fcj nabas quickly showed the stuff they were made-of. As soon as they saw what the people were up to, they re-' fused their proffered homage with mingled horror and sorrow. PattF?^ and Barnabas would permit no mis-"' ' taken notions about themselves. They., would have it clearly understood that they were of the same stuff as other men. "Why do ye these things?" V; These Lycaonians had probably never ' sinned tn ask that Question. They. just did them without asking. It is a great thing to get people to asking - ' themselves why they do the things '<< they do. It is a great thing to get : people to thinking; it leads to re pentance (Ps. 119:59; Luke 15:17, 18). It is, indeed, "good tidings" (v. 1 15, R. V.) to proclaim unto a man that he can turn from idols unto a God who lives, who has a mighty power, and who is ready to hear and help these who trust and serve Him. , The idols of the Lycaonians were x "vain things," because they could not hear, nor act, nor answer, nor help, . nor save (Is. 45:20; 46:7; Jer. 10:5, 14; 14:22). The idols of the world to-day are different in form, bat essentially the same in character. But the God of the Bible is "the living' God." Not the god of the rationalist and deJ.st, a god who once lived and worked, but the God who lives and works to-day; the God who hears and answers prayer, and saves. He "made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is," and therefore, "there is nothing too hard for" Him (Jer. 32:17). Conversion is simply turning "to God from idols to serve the living and true God" (1 Ihess. 1:9). Conversion, therefore, is a very rational thing. God has ever in the darkest heathenism left Himself "without witness" (Ps. 19.v ' I 1 c? Daw 1 Hk /?arp fnr mAn ' in doing them good, and giving rain from heaven, fruitful seasons, filling their hearts "with food and gladness," has borne witness to His fath? arly love and forgiveness (comp. Matt. 5:44, 45; Luke 6:35, 36). Even with these wonderful words Paul round it very difficult to keep them back from their purposed idolatry, and it is hard to keep men and woman from idolatry to-day. III. Paul Stoned by Man, Raised by the Lord, 19-22. How little de-i pendence is to be placed uppn popular favor. ' It worshiped! to-day, stoned to-morrow. It was fortunate for Paul that he was not depending upon man's favor, but God's (1 Cor. 4:3, 4). This was not the only experience of this kind that Paul had (2 Cor. 11:25, 27). This is the sort of treatment all who are loyal to Christ and His truth may expect in this God-hating world (2 Tim. 3:12;| .Tno. 15:18-20). But there are abun dant compensations (2 Tim. 2:12 ;| Rom. 8:18; Matt. 5:10-12). There are some who think that it was while 1 in this~condition of apparent death at Lystra that Paul was "caught up to the third heaven and heard unspeakable words" (2 Cor. 12:2-4). TBT&^ treatment did not stop Paul from preaching. He got up and went back into the city, and then on to Derbe, where he preached the gospfel, and ther- back again to Lystra. Oh, for men of such courage, persistence and ' unquenchable love for Christ and man! Abundant success attended his preaching in Derbe. It is not enough to bring men to Christ; we must strengthen and build up the young converts (v. 22). This is the point of failure in much modern evangelistic work. It Is not enough that men start in the faith; they must "continue in the'faith" (Jno. 8:31, 32; 15:4-6, 9, 10; Col. 1:22, 23; Rev. 2:10). Magnet Draws Needle. At Connellsville, Pa., a giint electro-magnet at the Sligo Iron and Steel mills has been put to successful lurgical use. A piece of needle which \ had become imbedded in the finger of Mrs. Scott Dunn was causing trouble, and an operation was considered imperative. With her physician's approval she went to the mill, placed the inflamed part against the magnet, and almost immediately the needle i appeared at the surface Met Death in Windmill. i^ee ijarreu, ageu iwentjr-iivuyears, who lived with his sister on a farm northwest of Atchison, Kan.? lost his life when his clothing caught in a windmill shaft. Garrett went i out to repair the mill, and the sleeve of a heavy knit jacket he wore( was caught in the shaft. The shaft of the mill had to be removed before the body could be released. Jobs Co Rccffing.l .To!>? liiu !! !:) Sir.Oijfto $2200^fl in \;?:io!::i! Bun-.'iii ?-? Plant In^^H I tlusiry is.'tv.- unm- "Physi^H^H ( 1 ti pusnuou.-; pirifitWnvestirt^B^H :lie o