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I A Fortune Fished * A great many boys and girl3 think 1 ^#iat history is a dreadfully dull sub- j ;Ject, and it is no wonder that they do j 'because most of the persons who ! Trrite histories for children seem to ; try to make them as uninteresting as; possible. But it sometimes happens i that history is just like a fairy tale, j and this story is going to be one of the fairy tales of history. It happened in the most unlikely place in the world, in stern Puritan New England, where the children never heard any fairy tales, but had to listen to long sermons instead, with a terrible ogre of a man going about to see that they didn't fall asleep, and prodding them with a pole if they did. Here on February 2. 1651, in a small settlement in Maine, was born a boy who was named Willlam Phipps. He had twenty brothers and five sisters, and so his parents could not have given him very much care, even if they had both lived. But his father died when iie was quite young, leaving tne moiuer <tuu j children to struggle alone with the wilderness and the Indians. William was put to tending sheep, and grew up without even learning to read. But he was of an adventurous disposition and could not content himself with keeping sheep. So when he was eighteen he left home and learned to be a ship carpenter. Then he taught himself to read and write, and when he\ was twenty-two he married a widow with a considerable fortune. "With her help he went into business ! lor himself, but his usual good luck j failed him and he lost all his wife's money and became a poor man again. But still he was not discouraged. He was sure fortune would yet smile on him, and He tried to console nis wire by telling her that he would yet be the owner of a "fair brick house in the Green Lane of Boston." That "fair brick house" was rather slow in coming. Ten years later It was just about as far away as ever, and William was tired waiting for it. Something had to be done; so he thought out a get-rich-quick scheme which no sensible person j could have been expected to approve of. At this ume the Spaniards had been growing enormously rich on the wealth of South America, and it happened sometimes that their treasure ships were wrecked. So people used to talk a great deal about the wonderful wealth that might be scooped up from the floor of the ocean if one only knew just where to look for it. William Phipps began to dream of this wealth, and at last went in search I of it. He found a Spanish wreck off the Bahamas, but the amount of gold and silver he rescued from the waves was not enough to pay his expenses. But he heard of another ship, much more richly laden, which had been wrecked among the West Indies fifty years before, and he determined to look for it. Not having money enough to pay the expenses of the expedition, he went to England and told the | Kins'. .Tames IT., about the wrecked I treasure ship. The King, too, thought it would be nice to get some of the ! gold and silver which had lain so j long at the bottom of the s?a, so he j gave William Phipps a man-of-war, THE TRAVELER Joke Two Drummers PI Listeners at Some years ago I was sitting at dinner in the large dining hall of the Kerby House, in Brantford. At the same table two well known travelers were afterwards seated. The first comer had his first course before him when the other sat down, and looking for the salt espied it on the opposite side of the table, out of his reach. Politely and smilingly he said to his vis-a-vis: Will rAti noec calf nloQco'" IT ill vu buv. out v j I supposed the other man was deaf, for he paid no attention to the polite request; but I was soon disabused of that idea by his ready reply to a remark made to hini by a friend at another table. Again traveler No. 1 asked him to "Please pass the salt!" "Are you speaking to r_j?" asked No. 2. "I certainly am," was the reply. "I have tried, as politely as I know how, to ask for the salt." "If you want anything you see on t the table, why don't you ask the waiter to bunch 'em around your plate? Don't mistake me for the waiter, sir." And the salt calmly reposed at his elbow. "Oh, I beg your pardon. I mistook you for a gentleman. You see you are dressed like one and my mistake was quite natural. You'll excuse me, I won't you?" sweetly. faI sat down at this table expecting Abating a Nuisance. The Langworths lived in a corner house so easily accessible from the street that they were constantly annoyed by persons ringing to ask where other possible inhabitants of that block were to be found. Finally, goaded to desperation by these interruptions. the family boy attempted to put a stop to the nuisance. "I guess." said he, complacently, *'there won't be any more folks asking if the Browns, the Biddies or the Hansons live in this house. I've fixed ! 'em." "What have you done?" queried Mrs. Langworth. "Hung out a sign." "And what did you print on it, i laddie?" "Just five words." replied Harold j proudly: " 'Nobody lives Hero but us." "?Lippincott's. Cure For Love. MI rememoer once," says Professor Grange, "hearing two very ordinary men, a bricklayer and a plumber, discuss love in a smoking car. *' 'I hold,' said the bricklayer, 'that If you are terribly in love, the way to cure yourself is to run away.' "The plumber shook his head aud ' sneered. " 'That will cure you.' he said, 'pro-1 rided you run away with the girl.' " j ?-Tatler. ! Out of the Sea. j * * the Rose Algier, and told liim to go ! and look for the wreck. For two years the Rose Algier j cruised about the West Indies, but i no treasure could be found. The i crew grew weary of the search. It j would have been simpler, they : thought, to rob opanish vessels afloat I than to hunt for them at the bottom j of the sea. And when they could not ; ^ make the captain see the superior ad- i vantage of this plan they laid a plot ; to take possession of the ship and j leave him to perish on a barren key. i The plot did not succeed, but Phipps ; ^ knew it would not lie safe to remain | longer afloat with a mutinous crew, i so he sailed at once for Jamaica, ! ^ . where he discharged most of the men. j . Continuing the search with a smaller j crew, he found an old Spaniard who , jjj showed him the exact reef of rocks ; where the treasure ship had been | . wrecked. Phipps went to the place j and examined it carefully, but- found j nothing. And by this time his vessel : was so badlv out of repair that he had .. J-r-. , J I tha to return to England. ! ^ Wo rae anviotis to so back at once ' to the West Indies, but the King re- : UCI fused to give him another ship. The j Duke of Albemkrle and some other j ^ noblemen came to the rescue, how- j j? ever, and fitted out a vessel for him ; J* on condition that they should have . the lion's share of the treasure. This j time the search was successful. Great 1 . ? lumps of gold and silver were found, t g^o with bags of coin and precious stones : that had lain so long in the water i that they were encased in a stony ; covering, which had to be broken j f with iron instruments. There was enough to make Phipps a rich man, j . even after he had paid over to his j ^ employers the part they claimed and j had liberally rewarded the crew. To : this the King added a title, and so j the poor boy who used to keep shop i . n in the backwoods of Maine returned to Boston as Sir William Phipps. He ' ^ built the "fair brick house" in the Green Lane?now called Charter . . street?which he had promised his j wife so long ago, and there he gave a fine entertainment for all the ships' j carpenters of Boston. > Having now, as he said, "no need j ^ to look after any further advantages and for himself," he devoted the rest ot j his life to the public service.' It was ! n under his command that Acadia was ( . taken from the French, and through rpbe his efforts William and Mary were in- 1 gam duced to restore the charter of Massa- ^0Q( chusetts which James II. had taken tgre away. That is why the name of the are Green Lane was changed to Charter j . street. At the same time that the j f charter was granted Sir William was j made Governor of Massachusetts, but ^ he found that being a Governor was ( a much more difficult business than hunting for Spanish treasure. He ' gQW got into all sorts of trouble, and not gea? being a very patient man, he so far i forgot himself on two occasions as to ' use his cane over the head of his ene rr?l ~ ~ ^ ?nnm nlninoH of rr my. jl i?u uicii w*. . i him to the King, and he was sum- to i moned to England to explain. But bill, before the trial came off he caught j H a fever and died in the forty-fifth how year of his age, which is a rather sad nize ending for a fairy tale.?New York the Tribune. on AS A "KIDDER" ayed on Unsuspecting : the Table. to mind my own business," roared | No. 2. "I shall expect you to do the ! same, or I shall appeal to the pro- j prietor to throw you out." "My error iu judgment seems to j have been exceedingly bad. I mis- j took you for a gentleman; now I dis- j cover that you are a coward?a cow- I ard, sir; do you understand me? Why i don't you throw me out? You are i bigger than I am. you big fathead!" j "Gentlemen," said No. 2, turning : to the others at the table, "I appeal to j you. Do I deserve all this abuse?" "Certainly not," they chorused in : unison. "I'd fire the blasted salt at i his head," said one, bolder than the i rest. "He's a brute." said another. | By this time No. 1 had finished his j meal. Leisurely drying his moist- j ened lips and fingers on his serviette, j he smiled upon those who were berating him, and bowing like a Ches- , terfleld to those at the table, left the j dining room. Close after him fol- ^ lowed No. 2. The others hurriedly ^ swallowed their dessert and hastened i from the room "to see the fun," for Fig. they felt certain of a lively set-to be- j tween the strangers. They found ! them at the cigar stand selecting in The the friendliest manner an after-dinner *or cigar and laughing uproariously at ! ^ the joke they had played on the un- 1 day suspecting and indignant listeuers at ldr= the table.?New England Grocer. I ou{;' . | buri Perfect Confidence. : . ; troi A physician was summoned to a | free very sick man. who was very much . q preoccupied with troubles of his own. J a^0 On arriving at the sick man's bed, he jn e said to his wife: "Your husband is ! in the last throes. Every movement j a^0 shows that the end is nearing." At i this moment the sick man's head fell j over the pillow, when the doctor said: [ ^ "The end has come, your husband is ' , , j i cteal dead. In a shrill, thin voice the sick man > said: I "Tain't so. Maria." j ....... . - rr At once tne wire laid lier nana on | * his head and remarked: "Don't dis- fan turb yourself, Rufus?the doctor ; pou knows best."?Harper's Monthlv. 1 cier i A Life cn the Farm. I l*ze ; larg Real life on the "arm means corn i in abundance, hogs a-plenty, cows j enough to keep every vessel on the j place overflowing with milk, horses ; I for every member of the family, 1 6ic chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, fruit wo in season and out of season, babies j ch( and good cheer all the year round.? j he Houston (Tex.) Post. | for yoi The Facts. pia It is amusing to be told that Arncr- 1 ho1 ican giris are making English girls j the mannish in viev? of the fact that Eng- i ma land is the home of the suffragette. Eta ?Chicago News. j Re POllfRf ? aJLTORE. ? MBER OF HENS IN A FLOCK, ; Subject Discussed From the Sin- pj, gle Point of Utility. ou By M. Ray Dawley. m, There is considerable controversy re' r the subject of the size of the 110 k. In the Australian laying con- ?r t six hens are kept together. Some in eders even keep hens in individual is. Lading aside the matter of ?' eding and considering only the ity points, we want to know what > a flock should be to make the *7' st profit. Sometimes thirty h?ns ? I lay as many eggs as fifty hens in same pen. The reason for this is m( t, with fifty in the flock they were ^ crowded. By reducing the numwe better the conditions. Sup- * ing a house eight by ten t< 3t to * large enough for twenty heus, we s each hen the privilege of eighty are feet of floor space, whue if 1 house were built sixteen by twen- 1 feet, each hen would have 320 un Amr rtr frmr 0U CXI C ICCl LU Il/UUl .WW. es the room. The latter house e uld be large enough for eighty a ' s. The forper house would cost ^ ut $25 and the latter one some i. That is to say, it costs $1.25 to c :se a hen in the small flocks, while the large flocks $1 pays for the an ' tha lo we have a double advantage for "J hen by building the house large. reover, the sunlight and ventila- ' l in the large house are better; m* ce, it is easier to keep dry and Ithy. ba i factor of as much importance as above is the amount of labor re- ?ei red. In having only one water be to fill, one place to feed, one 80 :e to gather eggs and one roost to ?pi in, instead of four roosts, the k can be done in much less time, ?n therefore the profits are more the cost of equipment less. >n the other hand, a large house 3U not be drawn about like a colony ru se. It has to stay in one place, i hens have to come out on the ? 1 ie ground, and so find less green 1 and forage than the hens scat- rei id about in small flocks. Diseases very contagious, and so the risk reater in the large house. have had splendid results keeptwo hundred hens in one flock in I ( ouse sixteen by fifty feet with a i i. 100 by 300 feet. Part of the i is in sod and part is plowed and j ed to oats or wheat twice each ' ion. The Best Water Vessel, he poultry-man has some trouble j get a drinking vessel to fill the ' [ere is our favorite. You can see J| handy it is. It is made of galvad iron, and three gallons is about proper size, though suit yourself th< that. Our first one cost $1.50. be _ru-_ 136 I.rr?To Carry and Fill. Fig. II. ' P!> ?In Position For Service. e?! th? home tinner made us one dozen ing $6?$12 saved. da; dvantages.?Need not fill every hei ; easily filled and carried; holds nol ;e quantity water; does not slop hei ; keeps clean and sweet; cannot tin st from freezing; chickens can- a 1: drown in it; water runs into nei igh only as used and does not hal ze so quickly. thi aution.?Do not use acid prepar- wa ns iu metal vessels. Serve them th? earthenware. Clean and disinfect thr i one of the many coal tar prepar-1 W. ns.?Weekly Witness. j in Poultry Yard Notes. ! mo harcoal is essential to the good vei Ith of the chickens. i 1 'low at least par*, of the chicken < twi I up, spread a little lime over it sow thickly with clover seed. | rac he bulk of poultry comes from the , S?< n and not the fancier, but the best j ltry usually conies from the fan-. ' or small fariper. i ne^ ? house Sxl2 is a. very convenient ( or for a small flock of fowls. If a j cai ;e flock is to be housed two or, tin Wagner to the Musicians. -lis little admonition to tlie mu , di lans was most cuaracteristic and ^ rthy to be noted by many an or re ?stra of the day. "Gentlemen,' said, "I beg of you not to take mj k, tissimo too seriously! Wher< m 1 see 'ff make a \fp* of it, and foi RJ no play pianissimo. Remembei it tv many of you there arc dowr to re against the one poor single hu n throat up here alone on th? j ge."?From Neumann's "Personal ... collections." c 4JIKETING CHICKEN FEATHEC3 j *y Pick and Save the Feathers Until ! You Have Enough to SeU. Tons of feathers are probably lost I ch year in small amounts because j rmers and poultrymen do not think j worth while to save the few ounceB J ucked from birds used at home and j r local market. Another reason j obably is that the prices are ' gu ought to be too small to make sav- i g these few feathers seem worth lile. If a few minutes be taken when i ucking iu done to separate the vari- ; s grades and to practice the best ' Jei jthods of curing them, there is no i a'son why a nice little sum could j t be saved in each case, and the ag- j gr! egate make a considerable advance 8jj* the annual returns from poultry. I ^ Chicken and duck, as well as goose j ens athers, are always in demand, and otl ould be saved, but ought to be kept ! sh< parate, and the larger feathers ?P( iced by themselves. In no case j ould chicken and turkey feathers j ^ scalded, because the hot water re- \ -ph )ves the animal oil and reduces the ! tea ade very7 greatly. Such feathers J (l ilded command only a fraction of ; th( e price paid for dry picked ones, to lother good ppint is to keep the Spi lite separate from the colored feath- a.rt s, because white stocjc brings a ^ gher price than dark. After pluck- otj. ?, the feathers should be spread out wil til the moisture is thoroughly dried cip t. During this time they should tea turned daily if they are spread at wll . thickly. Turkey body feathers, sel lile too large as they come from the rd, are often chopped and used in tai] eap pillows. i pe, A leading dealer writes that hen the d turkey body feathers have only wa ving value when dry picked, says ma e Orange Judd Farmer. They ould be laid out on the floor and rked over daily, and should be in a irketable condition in thrse days, aQ( len they can be shipped in burlap a]0 gs. These grades are worth In ma d-a\itumn between four and five uh ats a pound. Chicken quills should da: thrown away, never mixed with wh fter body feathers, because they r"a Ml the grade. Turkey quills should ^Qu graded; the long tails placed in e box, those from the first two thi nts of the wings in another, those sar )m the last joint in a third. The 46 orter quills and those from the ho1 mp, ranging from five to eight ?ss :hes, placed in a burlap bag. After ^ :horough airing theymay be packed ine r shipment. Moisture allowed to qq main in them rots the quills quick- noi and thus reduces the grade. ,9). 1 Df ! ant Coop and Scratching Shed. etr This form of chicken house is used Irie ;ood deal in the South, but is well ^or res apted to the North, particularly if jjas 3 lower part of the scratching shed gjjj made of glass. No nests should me placed in a house of this kind, as 23 is useful mainly for confining am wis in bad weather. bir i lea ? ? ! tor j-eeamg r or j&ggs. ue To produce a number of eggs in tll nter I feed the fowls at daylight a ter ht feed of mixed grains, about foui arts to each 100 fowls. As soon as jni jy have their first meal the vessels js 2 filled with warm water, and these the ssels should be kept free from ice wi] adding boiling water when neces- A y during the coldest weather. ^h At 9 in the morning the fowls ^ auld be given all they will eat of a tJn irm mash that has been steamed au er night in a covered mixing box. kir e last feed should be given them at me j'clock in the afternoon, and made Ch of mixed grain thrown in the lit- dei . To increase the egg production pr< cut of raw fresh bone and meat J'?1 Juld be given, the fowls twice a arf ek during cold weather. ? A. C. gn wkins, Worcester County, Mass,, ho1 Cultivator. us / i Is coi Set Eight at n Time. agj !t is best to set at least eight hens lite a time. Start them on china eggs, i if they settle down well put in *ai 3d eggs the next night. When sup'ing the eggs dust the hens and ;s with Insect powder and apply > powder twice again before hatch- jai Test the eggs about the eighth cai 7, put the good eggs under fewer ne1 is, and reset the other hens. Do ma t be discouraged if some of the ^ as leave the eggs many hours at a ^ le. The eggs will hatch, although ittle later than If they had not been g^, ?lected. Sometimes eggs will th< tch when left without the hen for th< rty-six hours If the weather is Ha rm. Fifteen chickens is the limit it one hen should care for. More c^' in that will not do so well.?Mrs. . P?: H. Marsh, Tolland County, Conn., : to, American Cultivator. > i ??jj | ?re small ones would be better than 1 v larte houses. j One rooster is sufficient for ten or Cr elve hens or pullets. : at t>el Tf you force your utility hens to ; ^ iult early, you will be sure of a j ini >d supply of eggs in the winter ful en prices are high. t sts The incubator is always on the job, j ^ i-er has to leave the eggs for feed ! ~ water, and requires less time and oli e than the average busy old sit- j g hen. j be Husband Owns Wife's Dresses. j Gr The queston of who owns th? , an esses of a wife came up in the ; en rompton county court of Maryland ' ^ .'cently and the judge decided that j ie husband is the owner. The man jld that he had given the wife tho oney to buy the dresses in dispute, id, although they were not paid for, Ai V?O1ati o-ar? I was ueuiueu unaL mcj' ? ? ? i him. I ^ rne population of Dublin, Ireland, 1901 was 447,266, and tba popula ! )n of Belfast 343,935. I Et 1 jjfe TERNATIONAL LESSON COMMEXTS FOR JUNE 0. bject: The Power of the Tongue, James 3:1-12 ? Golden Text, Prov. 21:23?Commit Verses 810?Commentary on Lesson. TIME.-?A. D. 60. PLACE.? rusalem. EXPOSITION.?I. Be Not Many ! achers, 1-5. James does not say it no Christian should be a teach- I but that the body of believers J 3uld not be a multitude of teach- ! i, eyery one desiring to teach oth- I > and no one willing to learn from ' ie?-s. On the contrary every man I auld be swift to hear, slow to ?ak (ch. 1:19). God sets teachers j tho ( "\ C*r\-r 1 9 9 Q \ vuw vuu* vu \ j. vui a u . u j . i cauu* j i are oae of the gifts of the ascend- j Christ to His church (Eph. 4:11). j e Holy Spirit bestows the gift, ol j tching upon whomsoever He will i Cor. 12:8-11). The position oi j i teacher is one no man has a right ! take upon himself. If the Holj ! Irit bestows that gift upon us wa s to exercise it, but even then In humilLty, and be more swift to rn from others than to instruct j lers. The true church of Christ I 11 be a multitude of learners (dis- j les) rather than a multitude of ' .chers, ready, It is true, to share 1 :h others what they have them- j ves been taught of God, but even . re eager in all teachableness to j rn from others- what God has ight them (Phil. 2:3). There was haps never a day in the history of i church when this word of James s more needed than to-day. This ,n, accprding to tradition, was one o? spent so much time in prayer it his knees were found to be cal>aed lilfp .thnao of a oamol hir Vile ich kneeling, yet this God-taught | i holy man puts himself right i ngside the rest of us and says, "In ; ,ny things we all stumble." How j like the utterances of many to- I / who call themselves "holy," but j o, white .they are quite ready ta | .intain that the most of believers : mble grievously, are not willing ' confess that they themselves stum- j in anything much less "in many j ngs." They do stumble all the j ne?"we all" do (cf. 1 Kings 8: ; Rom. 3:10; 1 John 2:10). This, j fvever, is not 3aying that it is nec- j ary for us to go on day after day J ning, in the sense of consciously j ng that which we know when do- i ; it to be contrary to the will of | d. This none of us need do and le born of God will do (1 John 3: j The tongue is the hardest part j the body to bring under control ! 1 the last to yield to the con- i aining grace of God. When that j mber Is brought into complete ac- i d with the will of God we m?v I t assured that the grace of God ! i finished its work. A man's j rds, not merely his set speeches, j t his unpremeditated utterances as 11, show what he is in his inmost ; il (Matt. 12:34). [I. The Tongue is a Fire, a World ' Iniquity, 6-12. The tongue is in- ; id a fire. It inflames anger, and . nilies and societies and nations are in a conflagration in consequence an untimely word (see Pro v. 15: \ Judges 12:1-6; 2 Sam. 19:43; 20: > 2 Chron. 10:13-16; cf. 13:17). j e tongue inflames lust and withers > purity of the maiden and con- ; nes the strong man physically, \ ntally and morally (Prov. 7:21- | ). The tongue inflames jealousy j 3 destroys the beautiful tie that ; ids together man and wife and j ves the home in ruins. ^?he IrlnHloa -t - uauciiCi V Ait. 1.11, , n. 3:1-6), and thus burns away ' i foundations of individual charac- ! , of commercial integrity, of social I rity and of national security. The igue indeed is a fire, "a world of I quity among our members." There j nothing mischievous and vile that i tongue cannot do. A little fire ; 11 kindle a vast amount of wood. | little fire in a broken lamp set all 1 icago ablaze and left it in ruins. ' little word has set many a home, ' y and nation ablaze, and often- i les that fire will burn on through i eternity. The fires of hell are I idled by the idle words that set I n thinking wrong about God and rlat and sin and the Bible. The itructive critics to-day by their )fessealy scholarly but really per- ! se and subversive words are kindg fires of unbelief and sin. Men i > usually careful how they handle j, but most of us are careless about w we use our tongues. James tells plainly the origin of this fire. It i set "on fire of hell." Whence lie the words that inflame the Imination and passions, from French | ;rature? No, hell. Whence come > words that are undermining the th in the credibility of the Bible rratives, of those who do rot think themselves, but bow at the shrine culture, from German scholarship? , hell. If any one questions mes' statement that the "tongue i no man tame," he has evidently yer tried it himself. But while no .n can tame the tongue, God can. e best thing any of us can do with ; own tongue is to bring it to God i surrender its control to Him. iw James heaps up illustrations to 3w the mischief-working power of i tongue (v. 8, R. V.). But is jre any. doubt that he is right? .s not a sharp tongue poisoned the e of many a husband, wife or lid? Has not the obscene tonguo Isoned the imagination of many a y and man? Has not the infidel igue po'Boned the waters of life? k. defiletfc the whole body." Rofl Cross* New Stamp. So successful was the sale of Red 05S Christmas stamps last wintei Washington. D. C., the proceeds ng used in aiding a crusade agains* aerculosis, that artists have beer ated to enter into competition foi rnishlne a design for the 15)09 imp. The background will be lite and the emblem of tlie Red oss will be prominent, in the de;n. A Religious JJoycott. . valitrimic linVPOl t hfl? rciliaiAauig en started in Jerusalem. All the eek churches in the city are closed d none of the native adherents will ter one of the edifices. The troue grew out of the natives demandg a voice in the affairs of the uxch. American Migration. In less than six years, 3SS.000 nerican farmers' have pulled up ikes in "the States" and moved to se homesteads in the Canadian )rthw?st. cotton ?xant I'aper. A mill to make paper from cotton alks is to be erected at Cordele. Ga. / OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN. REPORTS OF PROGRESS OF THE BATTLE AGAINST RUM. The Saloon. \SteaI3 brains and good money. Assists mightily in filling penetentia? ries and asylums. Leaves thousands of widows and orphans yearly. Opens the door to anarchy. Overpowers and destroys the will of men. I Nurses terrible crimes behind Its doors. I Sends many souls to perdition. # What Are the Liquor Laws and HowAre They Enforced? Every State has, of course, its own liquor laws. But in by far the greater number the rule has been to grant some form of license for the i sale of intoxicants. In all cases this sale Is acknowledged to be attended with grave dangers and many evil effects, and the idea of licensing"sa- ' loons is partly to bring them under certain restrictions and thus minimize the evils of the traffic,, and partly to make use of the saloon in the collection of revenue. In some places one idea is paramount and in other , places the other idea. Some hate ' the saloon but think that the license system is the most effective means of checking the evils arising from the saloon. Others think almost exclusively of how saloon licenses lighten their own taxation,, and are quite willing to have the saloons continue because nearly everyone is wijling that they should be heavily taixed. The- same sort of reason has been given for shunning national legislation against the liquor traffic. Where would the country get its revenues ; without the aid of the liquor traffic?' In Great Britain especially, where so large part of the revenue is derived from the tax on alcoholic beverages, the fear of not being able otherwise to raise enough money for govern- j ment purposes, has hindered the > growth of temperance sentiment p among the ruling classes. We have seen towns in our own j country grant licenses principally on ' the ground that if they did. not do | so, the commercial traveler and the j tourist would shun them. The mot*al question involved was put quite out j of sight in order that the business j opportunities of the townspeople , might not be lessened. Of t course, many made the excuse to themselves that they believed the liquor traffic might be regulated to advantage but could not be suppressed. Now the young people of our society should grow up with a clear understanding of what is right in this ! matter and with a definite conviction | that no individual or community can I afford to doWrong however profitable I wrongdoing may be for a time, so j that when it comes to be their turn 1 to decide such questions they will set j principle before policy without any mixing up of motives. No man can serve at the same time both God and mammon. Our liquor laws serve for the protection of the liquor traffic rather i than for the protection of the pub- \ lie. And the chief way we should j concern ourselves with them is in get- j ting rid of the whole complex, ill- J working lot of them and substituting , a simple, straightforward law of pro- , hibition. The saloon is a curse to- the coun- | try and not in any sense a necessity; i it should be outlawed everywhere, : for the sake of the community, for j the sake of the poor drunkards, and i for the sake of the poor saloon-keep- [ erg and bartenders themselves. As a rule, liquor laws have not been enforced; the reason being that the political bosses are commonly in ! . ?:4V Kmm-r colldr.Q asraillSt I league wim lug uu.uv> the laws. The politicians nullify the , laws by not enforcing them and then j cry out against the enactment of i such laws on the ground that they { cannot be enforced. Of late, how- \ ever, public sentiment on the subject | Is becoming too strong to be flouted ! in this impudent way and liquor laws j are beginning to mean something. If ; it had not been for the subserviency ; of the great majority of voters to the bosses who control the machineryof their respective parties, we might have had effective prohibition over ? lnnc I a large portion oi mis WUUUj ivus I ago. The campaign against the saloons , which has already accomplished so i much, and in which new victories are ! being won every week?in some part J of the country, should be pushed with j increasing ardor. There should be ! no halt till the victory is complete. j | CTiinrncey Depew oi? Drink. In a great birthday address at'the; Montauk banquet, Chauncey Depew, j ! among other things, said: I "When I graduated and began the study of the law, bigotry prevailed : j all over the country on all contro- ! versial questions. Religious sects ! were more engrossed in fighting each | | other than the common enemy, j There was an almost frantic fear le3t i i science and research should impair I i the Bible, and scientists were de- . nounced as infidels. Not to drink i was singular, and not to accept a j ; treat or to treat in return a breach of : 1 good manners. Naturally drunken- ! 1 ness, either in public or in private* ! j was a forgivable weakness. Now the j ! Bible student hails science and criti- J j cism as buttresses of the sacred book, ! and there is happy and hopeful unity ! among the churches. Cre<*3s have i lost their power, but faith is firmer i . in higher thinking and broader . ! speech. The progress of temperance 1 ! has brought incalculable blessirigs to i the home society and citizenship.*" j j I Temperance Note?. A man drunk on the egotism of Ig> norance should not add thereto the J intoxication of drink. "We have had prohibition so long in North Carolina," said Governor ! Burke, "that in some counties there are no jails. There is not much j crime in the State." Think of so-called Catholic papers j innoaiinsr }n the name of l clUU ItTtlUCio t4|/ /?.??* , i virtue for the extension of the clos- , I ing time of saloons from It i>. m. to ! midnight!?Catholic Abstainer. I St. John's is said to be the only place in Newfoundland where the sa- | loon survives. I Since Philadelphia Freemasons : j have shut out intoxicants from their j I hall and banquets, why should or- j ( ganizations claiming higher purposes j i hold back? Professor Lombroso, the Italian ! ! criminologist, calls attention to the I remarkable freedom from drunken! ness found in the Jewish race. In j the ordinary insane asylum, he says, j fifty-five per cent, of the inmates owe I Mieir condition to alcoholism, while I In the Jewish asylum at Amsterdam 1 I ho could not find on.e case q? such ovU ' sin- ! Religious Reading FOB THE QUIET IIOUB* W 3 ; THE WAY OF LIFE. J I used to think in yotrthful days, That I could plan aright my waya, And never error make; # > My hopes were high, my motives pore. And. youthful like, I was most sure I knew the way to take. So thus I lived?I left out God, And sought to carry all my load, And all my footsteps guide; He sent His arrows from above. To pierce my soul in tenderest love, And show me all my pride. And then He told me of His grace. That brought salvation to our race, And mates the vilest clean; New life I got, my heart was won, And now I live in Christ alone? Tis on my King I lean. I still do all' I did before. And gladly spend my earthly store,. And live my very best;: For me to live, for me to die,. Is God, not self, to glorify,. Until I gain mv rest. ?E. D. N., Nvnaanamm,. Sweden,, in' Loor* don Christian;. " "We Esteemed Him Not," It is a sad story. The holiest, th? purest, the best,, thfr most useful man. th$t ever lived in. the world waa misunderstood and condemned. Thegood and beautiful are not always appreciated. Which one of the prophets was not persecuted? Which' one of the apostles escaped torture and imprisonment? Great and ' ^ good' men have been regarded as enemies by those for whose good' they; gave their lives. Socrates was- condemned to drink noison. Galileo was cast into prison, and Columbus suffered similar Ignominy. Savonarola was burned at the stake. Wash- '/ ington, who had come to be the idol of Americans, was regarded by some ( of his contemporaries as a, weak man and by others " dangerous to ' ' 1 the liberties of the people. Jesus, ' the greatest and' best of all, waa called by some a winebibber and* others said, "He hath a devil." The reasons for this low estimate of Jesus are not far to seek. Some esteemed Him lightly because in- outward appearance He was a common man. There are those who will for* give anything sooner than commonplace things and non people. They have an eye for the splendor and pomp of the world. Jesus< was a commonplace babe In a very commonplace cradle. We can imagine the conversation of the guests at the inn at Bethlehem. Some of them' were travelers, some merchants, and' some politicians. All the conversation turned on trade, politics, and the state of the country. Not one of them dreamed tnat tne glory 01 weaven was shining round about the place where they were staying. Pej-hapa they were told of the peasant mother with her new-born babe, compelled r ? to accept such accommodations as were afforded to the beasts of the , stall, but they did not know that the most distinguished visitor that had ever come to this planet was in that manger. He must be very common or He would have a better place. Wa . .5 can imagine we see the men with' whom He labored, and for whom He toiled at the carpenter's bench in Nazareth. They saw nothing extrar '. ordinary in Him. He was just a com U1UU lilclllf WU1'JDl1U5 CL\j Cfc VULUU1UU trade, living in a common house in a common village. When He began to assert His claims and proclaim His doctrines they were offended, because He was only a common man. They despised Him and esteemed Him not. They hid their faces from Him. Another reason why He was lightly esteemed was the judgment of those who condemned Him was perverted. They had erroneous ideas of goodness and greatness. Selfishness, hypocrisy and wickedness blinded their eyes to true merit and goodness. One can- ? not appreciate music unless he has music in his soul. One who has no 4 taste for culture cannot understand culture. The people esteemed Jesus lightly because their tastes and ideas were all wrong. Another reason was that they did' not feel their need of Him. Jesus came to give sight to the blind, but they thought their sight was good enough. He came to make men free, but they declared that they had never been in bondage. He came to> savemen from their sins, and they boasted of their righteousness. What need had they of such a Saviour? He was the light of the world, but they loved darkness rather than light. What do we think of Jesus?' Do e 1 nf trim 9 Tin VA' wo ieei uui uccu ui _ x feel the burJen and' peril of sin? Do we think we are good enough* holy enough, freo enough without Him? If we can .appreciate R.m we will look upon Him, not as a root out of dry ground", but as the lily of the val- . ley, the bright and morning star, the fairest among ten thousand, and the One altogether lovely.?Christian Advocate. Just One Day. ' '? It ought not to be har^. to lire well one day. Anyone should be able to carry his burden, or fight his battle, or endure his sorrow, or stand at his post, or do his work, for just one day. Anyone should be able to remember God and keep his heart open toward heaven, and' to remember others in need and suffering about him, and keep his hand stretched out in helpfulness for just one day. Yet that is . all there it to do. We never havemore than one day to live. We have no to-morrows. God never gives us years, or even weeks; He gives us only days. If we live each day well' all our life will, in the end, be radiant and beautiful. War on Man's Inhumanity. . We must fight the Inhumanity man to man, fight it in the faith that some day it will cease to be, and to invoke in our battle the dear and sublime humanity of Jesus Christ, and through Him the loving humanity of nod.?Rev. George A. Gordon. Raining Characters. Authority has ruined as znanj characters as neglect; there is no development of any value without re? sponsibllity.?Her. FrauJr Crane. Thinness Saved Sad Boy. Max Saltman. seventeen years old, decided he would rather die than see his father and mother go to the poorhouse because he was out of work, and therefore he attempted to end iiis life under the wheels of a crowded L train in Brooklyn, X. Y. He would have succeeded had he not been so thin. As it was he slipped between the ties of the track into the drippan and escaped with only a scratch OU his fnrfjhpud ClntT m Gcronimo's I'lace. At Lawton, Okla., Asa, son of Whoa, was elected chief of tfce Anache Indians, to succeed Geronimo, ??