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THE COLUMBUS STATUE
AT WASHINGTON
Foreigners have often commented
on the absence from Washington City,
where statues of heroes and near (
heroes occupy almost every available;
space, of ajty monument to Columbus j
?throughout the entire United States j
of Columbus, like those of a certain
ancient Roman, are conspicuous by!
their absence. On the other hand, J
throughout Latin America statues of i
Columbus in bronze and marble are j
numerous and of great beauty.
At last, however, the great discoverer
is to be honored, an Act of Congress
approved March 4, 1907, providing
for the erection of a statue
in a suitable location, one hundred
thousand dollars having been appropriated
for the purpose, and a committee
named to select the design.
At the time the bill was enacted,
President Taft was Secretary of War
and chairman of the committee.
It has been decided that this memorial
shall be placed in the plaza
of the new Union Depot. This building.
which cost eleven million dollars,
A MODEL OF THE COLUMBUS STAT
TO STAND IN THE P
UNION DEPQTVAT
is regarded as the finest structure of
its kind in the world. It is not inappropriate
that the statue should stand
at this noble gateway to the national
capital.
In response to the invitation of the
-committee, twenty-one models were
submitted by sculptors of international
reputation, though only two or
three were submitted by foreigners.
So uniformly high was the merit of
these designs that the work of selection
was extremely difficult; but the
design finally chosen, the work of
Lorado Taft, of Chicago, meets with
general approval. It was selected on
account of its simplicity, combined
with an effective harmonization with
its setting in front of the great station
building. The model shows a grasp
of the architectural problems in.
volved, and besides presents a fine
characterization of Columbus himself,
.fiirho, incidentally a sailor and soldier,
was primarily a great thinker. Mr.
< Taft will receive the contract for
-erecting the statue, which is to form
part of the scheme for a central fountain
dominating the plaza and facing
the Capitol Building.
Other designs of especial merit
were submitted by Philip Martiny, of
New York, who received a prize of
five hundred dollars; Augustin Querol,
of Madrid, Spain, who was given
third honors and a prize of five hundred
dollars; Henry Hering, of New
York; T. Otto Schweiger, of Phila-1
delphia; Louis Weingartner, of |
Bromsgrove, England; and Pierre I
Feitu, of New York. ? Harper's |
TVeekly.
Novel Clothespin.
Now the #old-fashioned wooden
clothespin that has done its humble
work so well for many, many years
may have to go. It has a rival, decerned
bv a Texas man. which is I
much more artistic and is said to be
cleaner. The new clothespin is made
of wire, galvanized Iron or aluminum
wire of good quality, and is guaranteed
not to soil the clothes. The
NEW DETENTION HOME AND JLTV?%
Showing the possibilities in a city tb
fully. This building is to
Efficient Can Opener.
Every housewife would undoubtedly
welcome the invention of a
, ^ ; |
Cuts Top or Side of Can.
L ' ?
whole device shown in the illustration
is made of one piece of wire,
twisted and intertwisted to form pin
and chain. The wavy pieces of iron
shown form a sort of serine. The
piu is hooked over a garment between
the outward flaring end of the
loop and the lower part of the spring
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UE BY LOR ADO HAFT, WHICH IS
LAZA OF THE NEW
WASHINGTON.
section. By the depending chain the
pin is then given a downward tug and
the resistance of the spring and the
spring coils at the top holds the whole
firmly on the clothesline, which fits
into the concave part of the spring
end. There is mo danger of such a
pin coming loose and allowing the
clothes to drop.?Washington Star.
The Least Shrinking "of Living Ladies.
Mrs. Herbert Henry Asquith, wife
of the British Prime Minister, stands
for that type of female character
which is antithetical to the reserved
-T J 1 cj
ana ueiuuie iiiugusu wuuiau ui tua
Victorian period. Chatty, self-possessed
and daring, Mrs. Asquith, in
her personal qualities, incarnates the
new Englishwoman.
ILE COURT BMDING, MILWAUKEE.
iat is willing to meet the situation
cost $80,000.?The Survey.
really simple and substantial can
opener, one that she could operate
without danger of cutting her hands.
Simplicity and efficiency seem to be
the keynote of the one shown in the
illustration below, designed and invented
by a Detroit man. In opening
a can the point at the end is thrust
into the central portion of the top of
the can and the bar brought so that
it lies parallel with Che top of the can.
, The cutter is then regulated on the
toothed bar so that it will cut either
the top of the can or the side. With
a firm pull on the handle the tin can
be easily severed. It will be noticed
that there are practically two cutters,
one for cutting the top of the can and
another for cutting the side of the
can. This will be found convenient
when it is desired to remove the contents
without disarranging them.?
Boston Post.
A motor boat invented by a Wisconsin
man, and found practicable, is
mounted, catamaran fashion, in two
narrow hulls, which are kept filled
w!tlx air.
|^Ar?s
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Good Roads and Their Value.
At the conventions of the Carriage
: Builders' National Association held 1
i in New York Henry F. Keachline, of
j Philadelphia, chairman of the com- ;
mittee on good roads, read the fol- : ;
I lowing interesting paper: j
I "Nothing is more essential to our i ,
! local and national development than % ]
j good roads. This subject has been^ 1
I one practically ignored by our Gov- j *
! ernment until the various agitations j i
covering a few recent years, and yet j ,
I we style ourselves as one of the most i (
' progressive governments. The Ro- j ^
! mans*were undoubtedly the greatest . ]
j road builderG. Their roads were ! <
built with funds from the imperial i
exchequer. Napoleon was the road ; 1
builder of France, and constantly ad- j j
vocated the construction of govern- I *
ment highways. England's good j
roads are famous to-day, but were j {
not so less than a century-ago; it j (
? s_v* "o;/! nnt until ToJfnrri and ! c
Llllglil UC OCliU, av?
Macadam agitated for roads, and by |
Parliamentary appropriation; they j
predicted the beneficent result sure |
to follow the construction of better i
roads. / I
"The United States must be' made |
to recognize the importance of this !
artery of its commerce, its legislators \
must be made to understand that
good roads are not only of benefit to
the farmers, who, in fact, are less dependent
than the millions of people i
who live in our cities and towns. The
most casual investigation will show j
that the consumer, after all> pays the
j freight. j
"We are only too prone to believe 1
that the railroads carry the most j
freight and may have decreased the J
exigency of good roads; the figures at j
hand, however, do not bear out this j
assumption, .bast year ic cusi *j.,- , i
850,000,000 to transport the products j '
of the country over the dirt roads to : j
nearer shipping points, while the j j
gross receipts of all -he railroads was : (
considerably less, and when the as- ! (
tonishing figures are considered, the ! (
j saving that could be effected through I I
good roads is both startling and tenor- t
mous. Why, then, is it not made 1
fully apparent to the State and Na- J
tional Government? *
"The following table will show the j r
I difference in cost of transportation by j
horse power, electric power, steam 1 ,
cars and steamships: 11
Per Ton. j 1
Horse power, 5 miles $1.25 ! i
Electric power, 25 miles 1.25 jt
Steam cars, 250 miles 1.25 j,t
Steamship on lakes, 1000 miles. 1.25 ! (
"Thus it is found that it costs M
twenty-five cents to transport every j J
ton of freight over our poor roads, (
while in European States it is less 1
than ten cents a mile. Good roads , \
would, therefore, efTect a Saving of ! 1
over $1,000,000,000 yearly.
"It seems almost absurd to think I j
so little attention has been given good IJ
roads, which are so essential to the i j
welfare of all classes of people, espe- ! ,
cially when reminded that the Gov- ! j
ernment spends annually about $100,- ! c
000,000 for the navy, and that thus I I
far over $500,000,000 have been ; '
spent for river and harbor improve- j'
ment, and it is firmly believed thai | j
no one of those three improvements , j
is more important i lan the other. It j
has been comparatively easy to get . (
an appropriation ior a reuerai siruv i
ture of some kind for your locality, j
but in more than fifty years not one
dollar for good roads."
Good Roads. I
Ohio has been experimenting with ;
preparations for preventing dust and
for binding the surface of macadam
roads. It has built an experimental
road, giving each of the ipaterials i
tested a section of 400 feet ih length j
with a roadway sixteen feet wide, the j
sections being connected and forming !
a continuous road, all parts receiving !
very nearly the same amount ot tra- \
vel. It was Ohio's Highway Depart- j
ment which is thus testing the com- [
parative value of various road-bind- j
ing materials. !
In the good old days of horses the
broken stone road seemed to give sat- !
isfaction. With the advent of the au- !
tomobile the surface of the macadam
road proved not so satisfactory as formerly.
The flue binding material
loosened, loose stones cropped up,
ruts were made. The suction of the
soft tire lifted off the binding surface
of the fine particles of stone and
scattered them. This removed the cementing
power, and left the larger
stones to be scattered.
In the Paris congress of the roadbuilders
of the world It was agreed
thiit the water-bound macadam road <
could not resist the destruction
caused by automobile travel, and that J
if the use of this class of roads was to
be continued some method of binding I !
these roads other than the cementing ,
power of the stone dust must be used.
The opinion was expressed that this ]
probably would be effected by the use 1
of tar or asnhalt incorporated with
the stone or applied on the surface.?
Collier's Weekly.
What is Inevitable.
In view of the increased agitation
of good roads everywhere in our broad
land, it will not be long before it will
be considered a crime, rather than indifference,
for any locality to remain \
satisfied with bad roads ? a crimd 1
against the horse, a crime against I
everybody using the highways, a !
I crime against the Government, both i
| national and local.
? I
Fruits of t ivn service.
Fourth class postoffiCes seem to at- I
j tract some second class men under
' the civil service system, which, morej
over, brings relief to pestered Con!
gressmen. There is hope, therefore,
| for its extension.?Boston Transcript.
-To permit a motorist to explore
I dark corners of his car with a light
! and yet leave his hands free there
| has been invented an incandescent
I lamp and reflector to fasten to the
j forehead and take current frora the
I car's batteries through a cord.
I
THE PULPIT"
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A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. W. L. DAVISON
Theme: Christ's Way.
Brooklyn, N. Y.?Sunday morning
the n?.w pastor of the Fleet Street M.
E. O^arch, the Rev. Dr. William L.
Davi#-?, began his ministry there.
He was appointed from' Jamaica to
replace the Rev. E. G. Richardson,
who went to Bristol, Conn. He was
cordially received. The subject of
his germon was "Christ's Way." The
text was taken from John 14:6: "I
im the way, the truth and the life."
Dr. Davison said:
These words were spoken to
rhomas. This man stands in the
?yes of many as the New Testament
type of the honest doubter. As to
his doubt or his real desire to be
sure?that is a matter of viewpoint
ind interpretation. This, however, is
true?he was not of that Old Testament
type represented as the fool,
?aying: "There is no God!" There is
i vast difference between the man
iVi-io. in his heart, eives utterance to
such blasphemy and the man who
lesires to have unimpeachable eviience.
The one would be glad to
lave Deity blotted out;. The existence
)f a holy God who cannot look upon
ivil with any degrei of allowance is
i constant reproach no his evil heart
ind way, and a menace to his manler
of life. ' He, therefore, would
shout for joy if omnipotent justice
:ould be obliterated. ,
Thomas, on the other hand, represents
that resplendent type of intelectual
manhood that really desires
;o find solution for the fonde3t wish
)f his heart. Therefore, when he
;omes to Jesus with his questionings
le comes as the type of questioner
vho really wishes a solution of his
ntell'ectual and spiritual problem.
\nd so I bring this text as an answer
;o the man who is a seeker of the
rue wav of life?as to the axiom of
;ruth and as to the solution of any
life's problems that may confront
lis progress.
Now, we are perfectly familiar
vith what Jesus meant when He said:
'I am the life " We may not understand
precisely the process of that
ife that comes from Him; it in the
nystery of masteries; it is the entire
mtgiving of the regenerating life of
3od, and who can enter into the
leeper counsels of the Most High?
^icodemus desired to know how these
;hings could be?he a master in Israel
and leader of the Jewish faith?
fet Jesus Christ gave him no Batisaction.
Perhaps it was because of
he limitation and poverty of the hunan
intellect.
We know something of what Jesus
neant when He said,"lam the truth."
rhere must be some standard, some
nfallible court of appealu by which
nen may judge the varying hypoheses
that have been exploited by
he human intellect. When we come
;o Jesus, Christ we realize that He
himself is the last solution of the
rexing and changing problems of all
.ime. So I say, we have some con:eption
of this aspect of the text.
But what did the Christ mean
vhen He said "I am the way?" It is
lere that we must recall those unranslatable
terms of Scripture, terms
hat baffle the student of language as
le attempts to bring over' the full
neaning of one language to another.
?or example, the Scriptures contain
vords that cannot be perfectly renlered
in our English tongue. When,
>n the morning of the resurrection,
Tesus said to Mary Magdalene. "Rab)oni,"
we must understand its hlsorical
setting in order to even faintly
;rasp its meaning, and the translators
jring over the word bodily inte our
Snglish' version.
When Jesus, in the garden, uttered
hat word "Abba," the nearest approach
we have to its pathon of meanng
is our tender expression "papa,"
ind here again we have the word in
:he original. The same is true of
;hat form of divine despair, "Eloi,
31oi, lama sabachthani." One of the
;reat works on the third person of
;he blessed Trinity is entitled the
'Paracleto," and so in this category
we place this word "the way" and
night show, by numerous Scriptural
stations that it is not our English
:erm of the manner or direction of
>ne's going.
In our ordinary life we say of a
nan his way is attractive or repulsive.
We cannot further define this
ittraction or repulsion. It is simply
:hat there is a somewhat about his
personality that is either good or evil
n our sight. It is not what we do, it
s not what we say, it is what we are
:hat counts mightily in our relation
:o mankind. In our religious life we
ire coming to the place where the
phraseology of religious expression
:s a matter of very small moment; it
s not creed but character that counts.
Indeed, I believe that this is but a
reversion of type, for the early Chris
nans, me primitive iuiiuweis ui
Christ, were known as "those of the
tvay," and Scripture gives us numerous
expressions that might shed some
light on certain aspects of the irapor:ant
truth contained in this term.
For example, "There is a way that
3eemeth right unto a man." It is
possible for us, though we may not
Cully portray the majesty of meaniug
contained in this title word to emphasize
certain aspects and ideals
of Him who said, "I am the way."
Thu:3 by studying the Christ we nay
affirm that Christ's way is a pleasant
way. I shrink not from saying that
the fundamental craving of the human
heart is for pleasure. Not that
pleasure that tendeth unto vice.
Christ's way, if it tfe God'ji way, must
be a way (hat is pleasant. It is true
that He was a man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief, but this is
only the :aalf truth, and the other
aspect of this way is recorded in
that Scripture, "In Tty presence is
fullness of joy, at Thy right hand are
pleasures for evermore." We may
havs much tribulation, we may be
born to trouble, we may confront antagonism
and temptations severe, but
underneath all and above all is that
consciousness, that serenity of spirit,
that will glory in tribulation aud
count it all joy when we are led into
divers temptations.
Did not our Saviour say in that
matchless allegory of the vine, "These
things have 1 spoken unto you that
My joy might remain in you and that
your joy might be full?" It is perfectly
apparent also that this way is
an attractive one. All the virtues of
human experience are here found.
The blossoms aad perfumes of the
best life here abound. The glorious
foliage of human heroism and kindness
that make beautiful the histcrj
of the race is here discovered in profusion.
Here are the philanthropies,
here are the deeds of service and sacrifice,
that gladden the heart of man
and relieve it from selfish paganism
so that eyen a follower of Charles
Darwin, because of intellectual difficulties
cf creedal statement upoe
leaving the organize/! institutions ol
Christianity, said: "I am sorry to go '*
Wherever this way is paramount,
the deserts of human baseness speedily
blossom as the r.ose.
We also say that this way is a wa?
of solid, satisfaction. There are no
dissatisfied ones here. Any man who
looks and listens will discover a great
deal of dissatisfaction in this world.
The numberless suicides, the thwarted
ambitions, the shattered hop<?s,
reiterate the experience of one of old,
"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''
But. on the other hand, the devout
follower of the Christ utters no wail
of complaint. He exclaims in a shout
of triumph. "The path of the just is
a shining light that shineth more and
more unto the perfect day."
Once again, let me say that this
way of our Christ is a reasonable
way. It is not true that we must bid
farewell to reason and violate the hu
man intellect wiieii we uecuuie iuilowers
of the Christ. Ever since the
Wise Men of old brought the gifts of
gold and frankincense and myrrh to
the feet of the infant Christ, the intellectual
aristocracy of the centuries
has been bringing its choicest productions
into His service. The intellect
may be transcended. It is never
transgressed. We oftentimes come to
the border land where reason ends
and faith takes the torch to its ultimate
goal; but never is it necessary
to violate the God-given blessing of
the human mind in order to become
a consistent follower of the Man of
Galilee.
And now I might emphasize other
aspects of this way in that it is the
way of safety for the individual as
well as for organized society. If we
are standing upon the immutable
truths of the Christ, we may exclaim:
"The eternal God is our refuge and
underneath us are the everlasting
Arms!" It is the way of life and not
the way of death, and blessed be
God, this way of pleasure and attractiveness
and satisfaction and reason
and safety and life is accessible?not
upon the ground of any patent of human
nobility, not upon the basis of
material possession, but ^upon the
broad and gracious invitation of Himwho
not only said: "I am the way."
but who also said: "Come unto Me
all ye that labor and are heavy laden
and I will give you rest."
And so we bring our questioning,
with Thomas, to the Christ and find
in Him a solution and an answer,
and we get some faint conception of
the commanding spiritual eminence
occupied by St. Paul when he said:
"For me to live is Christ."
When the Mists Have Rolled Away.
Once I was visiting a friend near
the foot of the Southern Catskills.
When I retired he told me there was
a beautiful view from my room window.
So in the morning I awoke
early, expecting to enjoy it. But as
I looked out I saw nothing save the
ordinary landscape of that section, of
fields, rocks and trees, and a long,
narrow strip of water they called
"the lake," over which hung a heavy
mist. During the course of the day,
however, the mist lifted and floated
away, and then I saw what my friend
meant. There rose the beautiful
mountains, clothed in the many-hued
foliage of autumn, rising on hill,
thousands of feet above us, and
crowned with gold and purple in the
afternoon sun.
It is often so with the Word. We
see only very ordinary things in it because
the mists have not been dispersed
from our minds and hearts. |
When the Spirit drives the mists
away, then will we see the grand
mountains of God's eternal truth and
i- it - T -..J T?U^
D0 giau in toe juuru. mc pi eav;iit;i t
the Sabbath-school teacher, all students
of the Word, should pray for
the Holy Spirit's presence when they
would receive the Word for their own
life or enforce it upon others. To
have the Word bring forth its full
and proper fruit in our own hearts,
or from our speaking of it to our fellow-man,
it is necessary "to be filled
with the Spirit."?Rev. C. P. Detmars.
The Last Five Minutes.
The highest interest of any meeting
should be reached at the close,
and every part of the program up to
that point should be planned so as to
lead up to the last five minutes as the
climax of the hour's thought and
feeling.
That can be done most appropriately
in this meeting, if the suggestions
for the leader are followed
carefully. Then, when the hour is
almost ended, let song and testimony
and spoken prayer all cease. Call
every one to silent prayer, a prayer
of praise for those gifts of God that
are too sacred and too near the very
soul of the soul to be spoken of to
others. And then let the sacrifice of
praise break forth in short but profoundly
earnest and definite prayers
of personal dedication. Invite espertlollir
4-Mc enrt nf nrftVAT those who
have praised God but little in their
lives, though they know they owe
Him much. So let the hour close in
a united expression of purpose to
praise God continually by consecrated i
and holy lives.
Bits of Quotable Wisdom.
Praise consists in the love of God,
in wonder at the goodness of God, in
recognition of the gifts of God, in
seeing God in all things He gives us,
aye, and even in the things that He
refuses to us; so as to see our whole
life in the light of God; and, seeing
this, to bless Him, adore Him and
glorify Him.?Manning.
When thou receivest praise, take
it indifferently, and return it-to God.
the giver of the gift, or blesser of the
action.?Jeremy Taylor.
Do not fancy, as too many do, that
thou canst praise God. by singing
hymns to Him in church onre a week,
and disobeying Him all the week
long. He asks of thee works as well
as words; .and, more. He asks of thee
works tirst and words after.?Charles
Kingsley.
I
Keeping the Soul on Top.
It is related of a small boy who
heard a sermon from the text, "I
keep my body under," that on his return
homo, when asked to repeat the
text, he sitid: "The text was, 'I keep j
my soul on top.' " That is the only |
proper place for souls. Paracelsus I
(Browning) went "to his soul." That
is what every ruan must do, whether I
he will or not. None needs to fear j
the proving, for God will certainly
give victory to the valiant knight.
Read "Sir Launfal."?R. B. Kester.
Prayer in the Meeting.
Make much of prayer that is pure
praise. Do not try to keep from askiug
for new blessings, but put the
. emphasis on glorifying God through
Jesus Christ for old blessings. Get
the spirit of exultation. Remember
t the things that make rejoicing possible.
Seek the mood of the psalmist.
; by reading some of the great psalms
- of praise and applying them to your
i own case.
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BHHHHBHI
THE WARFARE AGAINST DRINK
TEMPERANCE BATTLE GATHERS
STRENGTH EVERY DAY.
Labor and the Saloons.
The old idea that the saloon in ita
function of "the poor man's club" is
an economic necessity in large centres
of population, especially manufacturing
cities, is getting hard jolts nowadays.
A few days ago at a mass
meeting in Toronto addresses denouncing
the saloon and the liquor
business in general were made by
such influential and clear-thinking
labor leaders as John Mitchell and
John B. Lennon, respectively vicepresident
and treasurer of the American
Federation of Labor, and by
President Lewis, of the United MinG
Workers. Mr. Lennon said that the
liquor business lowers the efficiency
of the working man and prophesied
that the .time would come when labor
as a unit would be arrayed against
the saloon. Mr. Lewis declared that
the United Mine Workers have already
prohibited the sale of liquor
by their members, even at picnics,
and Mr. Mitchell expressed similar
views.
Even more significant is the decision
recently made by the United
States Steel Corporation to control
as far as possible the liquor business
in Fayette County, Pennsylvania,
where it has 25,000 employes. It is
declared that the Steel Corporation
estimates that at least three per cent,
better returns can be made on the
millions it has invested there by regulating
the drinking of the coke workers?that
is, permitting them to
drink, but stipulating jvhere and
when they shall drink.
"For more than a year," says the
dispatch, "figures have been gathered
on drinking among coke workers, and
It found that for seventy-two hours
after each payday the coke ovens run
at only twb-thirds of their capacity;
and on nearly every payday hundreds
of tons of coke are ruined by inability
to get sober men to care for it in the
ovens." Nine breweries are now run+V?a
n/Minltr on/1 f V> Q Qfool
U11I5 1U kUC LUUULj auu tuv mwww
poration intends to buy them out.
Everybody who has followed the
progress of the present temperance
movement must have noted an important
difference between the methods
adopted by its promoters ani
those used in such movements in the
past. There is less appeal to sentiment
and sympathy and more to the
pocketbook. The prohibition worksrs
are trying?and with astonishing
success?to show the country that the
liquor traffic produces an economic
loss which it simply cannot afford to
stand. The man who drinks thereby
iowers his efficiency, reduces his proiuctive
capacity, impairs his value to
bis employer and to himself, and
aventually lowers his earning capacity.
This means that the industrial
world is deprived of the services of a
man who otherwise would hfre had
i definite value as a producer of
wealth, and when the case is carried
to an extreme it means that the drinker
becomes an actual source of expense
to the State by reason of crime
>r destitution.
In matters of business the directors
of the United States Steel Corporation
cannot be accused of sentiment.
When they indulge in philanthropy
they do so as individuals, but
in the conduct of their business every
proposition that comes before them
aiust stand the acid test of "will it
pay?" They probably do not care
two straws whether their thousands
)f employes use liquor or not, so long
is the question of efficiency does no^t
enter into the case. But when they
and their coke ovens running on two
.birds time tor tnree aays auer every
payday and a part of thplr product
ruined, all because the employes are
all on a big drunk, It becomes a matter
of dollars and cents, and the anjwer
is easy.
Every employer in the land, big
and little, is coming more and more
co take this view of the liquor question.
A Quid Pro Quo.
The Western Christian Advocate
publishes the following:
Passengers coming into Seattle
from the north are laughing at the
wit of a Government employe who
has turned Into a joke the wreck of
the old steamship Colorado, whose
tiulk is now bleaching at the northern
and of the Wrangel Narrows. Tho
Colorado went down in 1902,
bound north with a full cargo. Her
hull's prominence caught the eye of
tbe itinerant advertising artist, and,
one day, mariners passing by saw on
It the iengend, "Drink. 's Rye
and 's Whisky." About the
time they had become used to the
sign the glaring "ad" was suddenly
changed. A man employed by tho
Government to paint the buoys along
the coast added alongside the advertisement
the following paragraph:
"I did, and I am a wreck."
Much Lunacy in Liqaor.
The On-the-Water-Wagon Colony
Is coming. Dr. Ferris, president of
the New York State Lunacy commission,
said in regard to the Grady-Lee
bill to provide a hospital ani industrial
colony for inebriates in this city:
''In the State of New York 2S.9
per cent, of the male patients in
asylums owe their insanity to alcohol.
In the N'orristown Hospital, Pennsylvania,
forty-six per cent, of 520 male
patients owe their insanity to alcohol
alone or in combination with othei
causes."
Members of the On-the-WaterWagon-Colony
would be assured that
in their new heme no jolt could turn*
ble them off.
No Confiscation.
The Detroit News takes very little
stock in the cry of the liquor men
that the closing of the saloons under
local option and prohibition laws
amounts to confiscation of property.
The News says: "The liquor business
has no standing before the law.
It has no rights. It is merely tol
erated by license. A license is noi
property. It is not negotiable. When
it expires that is the end of the State's
special obligation; the contract has
been fulfilled and is dead."
The Greatest Problem.
The happiness, the security and thn
progress of the Nation depend more
upon the solution of the liquor problem
than upon the disposition of any
other question confronting the people
of our country. The Government
must soon take cognizance of the
great evil to society that has grown
out of the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors, and it cannon
long afford to continue its partnership
with the liquor interests by accepting
revenues from, and issuing
licenses to a traffic which is eating
at the very vitals of the Nation.?*,
John Mitchell.
I Religious Truths|
From the Writings of Great
Preachers* ; ' |
THE KINGDOM OP THE MEEK. J
BT PR1SOILLA. LEONARD. ^
Kings choose their soldiers from the strong ^
and sound,
And hurl them forth to battle at com- [tn
,mand.
Across the centuries, o'er pea and land, ffi
Age after age, the shouts of war resound: ' ' )
Yet/ at the end, the whole wide world
around,
Each empty empire once so proudly ?
planned,
Melts through Time's fingers like the
dropping sand. . ' - "\ ;?0
But once, a King?despised, forsaken,
crowned
Only with thorns?chose in the face of lpbi ' j
Earth's poor, her weak, her outcast; gave i
them love,
And sent them forth to conquer ia Hi*
name.
The world that crucified Him, and pro .73
claim
His empire. Lo! pride's vanished thrones , $3j
Above,
Behold the enduring banner of the Cross!
?Priscilia Leonard. ;
The Fire of Jesus.
We have it on very good authority t ,*
that lukewarm Christians nausdate ?to|
the Lord. And a very slight contem- ':T$
plation of His own burning zeal con- -J&1
vinces us that.it could not be otherwise.
He was red-hot.
It comes out in His fierce attack
upon those who were desecrating Hto
Father's house. He charged on them
with such fire that they were instaiitly
scattered, and His disciples looking |
were pungently reminded of His paB- *
sage in the psalm which said, "The
zeal of thine house hath eaten me
He.was consumed with an oT^r-V';*^
whelming eagerness to completer HI*
great work, and fhe time in which.to .
do it was vegc short. The compeiMdg
"must" was ever on His lips, beginning
with that eatty time in the Tern- x
pie when He lost thought of every-.
thing else but the discussion of great
problems of religion which He found-;- J
of absorbing interest, and said to Hi? ;.. ;
wohdering mother, "Knew ye not that ,
I must be in the things of My Fa- J
"I must preach the Qospel of the
Kingdom," He said, "I must go to
Jerusalem." He was straightened,
compressed, constrained, impelled; .?$3
until His full baptism with suffering ,
was accomplished. There could be no .
delay. Everything must .be brought
into requisition. There was scarcely
time to eat. His friends thought that '
He was bordering on insanity, that' M;
He was beside Himself. His enemies
said, "He hath a devil, and is mad."
It is the way all religious enthus- ?
lasm looks to the people of this.
world. It was the way Paul appeared / ;
to Festus, for the great apostle
deemed it "good to be zealously
fected in a good thing." It was com- :<
mon with Jesus to spend an entire
night under the stars in prayer, pour- $fm
Ing out His soul to God. It was Hia
justom to be intense. aaa
His flaming and blazing word# &
made some gnash upon Him with
their teeth, while others were ready
to lay do\*n their lives at His feet.
His apostles were positive men, real- . \1(
ots, inflammable, sons of thunder, '
full of flre. It was because of Hia 'A
own hot soul that He attracted such: ../V*;
He had a glowing heart. There
excitement wherever He went. : <
"'Driven" Himself by the Spirit intiT : ^
the wilderness, so urgent was It that
He settle His course, He came forth* ^
to do much driving, expelling demon?,
and causing'a panic among wrongdoers.
He had a sensitive, finely organised .'%
nature. He saw c|early the majesty .f?
and holiness of God, the needs and
sinfulness of humanity. Hence He ' v|
could not be neutral or unconcerned. S
He had to throw Himself wholeheartedly
into the terrific conflict be- *
tween light and darkness. It was. a
crisis hour in the history of the universe.
Is it not a crisis still? - Is <there $
not urgency upon us now? Does not ?
the Master call upon us to participate
In His enthusiasm for humanity and'
for the kingdom of righteousness?
Should not our tpngue be touched ' v
anew with pentecostal. flame? Noth- ' 2jfi
Ing but the flre of Jesus, of one who *
moves in the presence Of the Eternal i
and has a single object in view, will '!
* A1 J +1*1* /Jnt? To m fia' ;!"1
I metll me ueuiauub ui mc uaj. uautcB
Mudge, in Epworth Herald.
The Central Power Station. |j
One morning I entered the car J
shops of a great railroad In the Cen- i
tral West. It was at sir-thirty
o'clock, and a great cloud of black ?;
smoke was pouring from the huge .J
smokestack.. I went with my friend
into the work rooms, where for long
distances stretched a tangle of belts, *
shafts, pulleys, till one was almost .:
lost in wonder at the complications.
But there was no motion. All the
possibilities of the shop were hushed
in inaction. My guide said: "It will
look different here in a few moments."
* ^
We then went into the engine j
room, where an eight-hundred horse- ^
power engine was being oiled. At
seven o'clock the whistle blew, and i
the great machine became a thing of
life. The arms began to move, and .)
in my admiration of the greatness of
the engine I forgot the machine shop. n
Presently my friend said: "Now, look
yonder into the shops." As I looked
I saw every shaft and belt moving,
and the men taking their places at
their machines, and soon the whole
place was humming with life. The
power had been turned on. The
Spirit is the power we all need to
make our work a living, glorious.
jubilant thing.?J. W. Holland.
_______
Trust and Walt.
God has promised to satisfy?but
He did not promise when. God has
time enough, and so ha\e you. God ^
has boundless resources, and His re- .
sources are yours. Can you not trust
Him? Trust and wait. He knows
what is best for you, He has reasons
for denying you now, but in the end
i He will satisfy.?Maltbie D. Babcock,
j D. D.
I ^
JLJie &ecus nnu me niunsi,
Out of dark affliction comes a (Spiritual
light.?John Bunyan.
Children Chased by a Snake.
The screams of a half dozen ch.il;
dren who were playing in a field at
; Brownsville, Pa., attracted the attenj
tion of Miss Sarah Walsh, who hurj
ried to their rescue and found a large
I copperhead snake chasing the little
j ones. Miss Walsh procured an axe
from a woodpile near by and killed
the snake, which measured five feet
two inches in length and six Inches .
in circumference.
Gift to Princeton. "r"~ '
Isaac C. Wynan left $10,000,000!
' tor Princeton University, _