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New York City.?Here is a dress which is perfectly simple and easy to make, yet which is given a dainty and attractive effect by the judicious *,iae of trimming. In the illustration it is made of checked linen and is Ntrknmed with ribbon, but any seasonable material is appropriate for the dress, and if ribbon is not liked bands of insertion or contrasting ma lerial could be arranged under the tabs and stitched into place; or the apace under the tabs could be left .plain. The ribbon, however, is designed to be tacked to position only *ud consequently can be removed quite easily when cleansing becomes necessary. The straight skirt is box pleated and the dress is so simple that it can be laundered with perfect ease and success. It is closed invisibly all the way down the back, so that it can be opened out flat if required. phalli a anri pashmprfl will be pretty so made with trimming portions of silk, either plaid, cr of plain color. Among washable materials are to be remembered batistes and lawns, chambrays and the like, and also the lovely cotton voiles that are so durable and so dainty. The dress consists of body portion and skirt. The body portion is made with front and backs that are tucked over the shoulders and again at the centre-back. The trimming is arranged over the neck edge and centrefront The sleeves are simple onepiece full ones, finished with straight bands.; The skirt is straight and box pleated. It can be made with full length closing or with regulation placket, as liked. The quantity of material required for the medium size (twelve years) is six and s&ven-eighth yards twenty pf MW k ' Over Blouse?Tn aeroplane style, to !?e worn over any gulmpe. The over blouse that is cut with the back portions extended to form a belt, in what ia known as aeroplane style, is a fimart yet simple one that is greatly in vogue. It requires scarcely appreciable time for the Making, yet it makes a most attractive effect. The Bathing Cap. The very popular bathing cap of to u?y uu uc cttoiij nicivi'- uj uuj ..vni an. One style of cap consists of an oval-shaped piece of material shirred about the face by means of a drawstring run through a pocket on the wrong side of the fabric's outer edge. The turban cap fs cut in circular shape and gathered on a wide ribbon with long ends which, by passing behind the ears, hold the headgear firmly iu place. A Parasol to Match the Gown. Not every woman knows that it is possible to have a parasol built from her frock material at a very reasonable cost. It is often well nigh im, possible to match certain frocks with parasols in just the right shade, but most of the big shops will 5 ave a parasol built on a handle whicn one may selart one's self for from three to five dollars. The parasol is so important an adjunct in the complete harmony of the toilet that it should be carefully se'scted?quite as carefully as the hat. In fa-ct. $ " xrm&s, I four or twenty-seven, five and one- ( fourth yards thirty-two, or four and one-fnurth yards forty-four inches wide, with or.e and three-fourth yards of ribbon four inches wide. Girl's Dress. Such a little dress as this one can ! be made simple, adapted to morning j wear, or dressy and suited to after- [ noon occasions, as one material or tho j other is utilized. A simple washabia j material in blue makes the^one illustrated, and the yoke, belt and sleevebands are of white. A more elaborate effect could be obtained, however, by making the dress of white linen or white lawn and the yoke and trimming portions of embroidery or of the i material embroidered or braided by hand. A dainty dress could be made by using Dresden dimity or lawn with the trimming portions of the same or of white as preferred, and the jl mouei win ue iouuu jusl a? outwiav tory for one style as for another. | The skirt is straight, consequently j laundering is a simple matter. The dress is made with body and j skirt portions. The body portion is tucked over the shoulders and to give a box pleat effect at front and back. The skirt is straight and laid in backward-turning pleats. The two are j joined and the closing is made for the entire length at the back. The yoke is a prettily shaped one and can be finished either with or without the | standing collar. The sleeves are in ! one piece each, gathered intu bands. ! The quantity of material required for the medium size (eight years) is , five and three-fourth yards twenty- | four, four and one-half yards twenty- \ seven, four yards thirty-two, ar three | yards forty-four inches wide, with j three-fourth yard twenty-seven for i trimming portions. Combinations of Crepe. Delightful combinations of crepes, j mousselines and laces with sable, ermine. caracul and other furs will appear as evening gowns as the season advances. i i "" One-Piece Blouse, to Be Made With High, Collarless or Round Neck? The simple one-piece blouse made in Oriental or peasant style, that is with the sleeves and body portion iu one, is a pronounced favorite of the season. This one is simplicity itself. There are only the under-arm seams, that are extended into the sleeve I luting Huts. Smart-looking outing hats -with large round crowns and medium wide ' brims, the latter slightly turned np an i inch all the way around, are of nat- I ural color shantung, the material laid ! on smoothly, the edge bound with I black velvet. The trimmings ara scarfs of Persian silk, soft and full, 1..S.1 toMu or-J ?,,! . mivn I j Mill III U VTCT^J I'/iUO UiUUMU 111V/ V.IUHH, I and finished with twists at the left , side, held in [dace with Egyptian ornaments. I*rvtf y Accessories. A special emphasis is being laid | upon accessories. New ideas in shoes and hosiery, especially, are being launched by enterprising makers, and the delightful sets of evening slippers ami stockings to match are being supplied to all well dressed women. While satin slippers covered with black Chantilly lace are used with Louis XV styles, jeweled buttons and buckles, of course, are in evidence. With these are worn fine silk stockings with medallions of Chantilly iace inset oa the insteu. The fashion for red barns is dying Out in the country districts. The camel is in general use as a carrier in South Australia. At the approaching French maneuvres a severe test is to be made of the value o dogs as carriers. A bill granting the taxpaying women of Princess Anne County the right to vote at town elections has passed the Maryland Senate. Liverpool's chief constable says fhat owing to the religious feuds the rest of policing the city last year was inrrpaseri bv more than $50,000. Though blessed with the most ferfile soil and most favorable climate in the world, the United States produces less wheat an acre planted than England, Germany or Holland. In England one clockmaker in a hundred has the haziest notion of what an electric clock is.-whereae in Switzerland it has been an active part of their profession for a generation or two. London is now considering a Rcherne for the better drainage of its streets that was first propounded by Benjamin Franklin 150 years ago? the idea of a single gutter in the middle of the thoroughfare. Leeches are enumerated by the Bureau of Statistics under its general head of animals imported, the total value of the imports of this species in 1908 having been $5341; in 1907, $6992; in 1906, $4494; in 1905, $3802; in 1904, $3589; in 1903, $3240, and in 1902, $2412. Rembrandt etchings fetched high prices at the sale of the Theobald collection at Gutekunst's art room in Stuttgart. One, "Rembrandt in the Act of Drawing," was bought by a Berlin dealer for $8250. This is a proof from the unfinished plate, and the only other one known to exist is in the British Museum. The recent discovery of practical methods of converting crude cocoanut oil into a palatable and satisfactory vegetable butter has given great extension to this business in Germany. Seven companies are now crushing the copra, and refining the oil for edible use. The importations of rawcopra have more than doubled wit.hin (.bree years. The King of the Belgians, the King of Portugal and the Czar of Bulgaria are distantly related to the English royal family, and the Queen of Holland is the niece of the Duchess of Albany, and. therefore, first cousin of Princess Alexander of Teck. Only the Emperor of Austria, the King of Italy, the King of Servia and the Prince of Montenegro are without family connections with King George. An exciting music hall "turn," which will be known as the "human cup and ball," was rehearsed in a shed at the outskirts of Paris. A woman is shut inside a huge wicker ball, which is then rolled down a steep inclined plane, terminating in an upward bend. The ball shoots with lightning speed down the slide and is hurled up into space and caught by an elevated bowl shaped receptacle twenty-five feet away. EARLIEST "DRY FARMERS." Row Navajo Indians Cultivated Scant Patches in tiie Desert. Physically, morally and intellectually the Navajo is superior to other nomadic tribes, such as the Utes, Apaches, Comanches, Sioux and Cheyennes. He has always been self-supporting, receiving no rations or other assistance from the Government. When there is work to be had within their capacity the men labor willingly and efficiently, grading on the railroads, constructing irrigation reservoirs and ditches and weeding or harvesting sugar beeta in the beet fields of Colorado. They cultivate their scanty patcnes of corn and beans on thousands of places in the desert, having been real "dry farmers" centuries before the Campbell system was born of the brain of the Nebraska experimenter or the Dry Farming Congress that meets in October in Billings, Mont., conceived of. They build their humble hogans of stone or of timber banked up with'clay, wherever there happens to be water for their flocks and herds. They are neither nomads, like the wandering tribes of the plains, nor settled agriculturists, like the Pueblos. but rather Bedouins of the American desert, moving when necessary to secure better pasturage or a more abundant supply of water for their live stock. Their blankets, woven exclusively by their squaws, have made their tribal name a household word wherever barbaric beauty or next to everlasting durability is prized.?Los Angeles Times. Few Mosquitoes at Panama. Dr Claude Pierce, of the United States quarantine service at Colon, arrived in New York City on the steamship Santa Marta. "'Colon, Cristobal and Panama." he said, "are more healthy places of residence than New York City, because of the great precaution in the Canal Zone. All open pools and cisterns have been done away with entirely in the fight to exterminate the mosquitoes that carry yellow fever and malaria germs. The elimination of mosquitoes is the greatest thing done in the Panama Canal Zone outside of building the a.nal itself." THE PULPITT A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON B THE REV. JOHN E. ADAMS. Theme: Hoj)e. Brooklyn, N. Y.?Sunday nigh the Rev. .Tohn Erskine Adams, pas lor of the Ross Street Presbyteria Church, preached the second serrao in a series of three on I. Corinthian 13:IS: "Now abideth Faith. Hop< Love, these three, but the greatest c these is Love." The subject las ! ni?ht was "Hone." Mr. Adams said The man who wrote these word practiced what he preached. Tt wa he who said: "Brethren, be ye fo! i lowers together of me." Wheneve j he pointed up the steep slopes o | duty he was ready to jumn into th ! lead and show the way. He was th first to lay himself upon the alta when he enjoined unon others th duty of sacrifice. He never slum bered while others were on th bridge; he never stopped, to res wnne otners were on me marcr Men had not only the en lighten men of his counsel, they had the energ of his conduct; not only the ilium ination of exegesis. hut the inspira tion of example. Great as was hi preaching, the practical illustratioi In his own Ufa of the?things he uree upon others is still greater. Unlik the modern general who, from th distance of miles, perhaps upon som eminence, from which he surveys th entire field of battle, mobilizes an moves bis men by semaphore, aide o telephone: himself far removed frou danger of shrapnel or Mauser. Pan never sounded the charge that he dii not plunee into the thickest of th fight. Did he preach Christ as th ultimate ideal and goal for whic men should strive? Of himself h 3ays: "Not as though I had alread > attained . . . But one thing j do?T press toward the mark for th I prize." We are not surprised, then, t j find in him the apostle of hope i When he places it among the graces i le does so beoause it had graced hi ! own life. He can urge upon other ! the dutv and nrivilege of optimisE j oecause he knows what it ig to glor j !n his own infirmities, and count al j tvorldy losses as gains. He eve I walks with buoyant and spring : ;tep. With him the shadows neve engthen and the night never deen *ns, it is always day. He walks ii J :he light: he is a child of light: h j "ejoices in tribulation, and tbrougl .ts leaden skies the star of hope eve ihines. j Hope is defined as the desire o ; lome good, accompanied with an ex i jectation of attaining it. or a belie i hat it is obtainable. It is more thai ! in emotion, therefore, or a wish, or i j leaire: it Is a confidence, an expecta ion; it almost reaches the stage o j :onviction. It. is the philosophy c I jptimlsm, and as such it abides am leserves to abide. We are told ths. ravelers in tbe Alps, standing upoi .he "middle ground." see. beneatl hem. the shadows and valleys am { larklv fiowin? river, and above then j ;he snow-clad heights on which th< i :un rests long after the valley be j leath is in the grip of the night. A ! >ne time, then, it Is possible to lool j town into the shadows or up into th< j :unshinc. Pessimism is the philoso jhy of the downward look: hope lift .ts eyes unto the hills from wheno rometh man's help: aud believes tha he best and not the worst is yet t( ??-?m o I David was an optimist. In th< i Torty-second Psalm he is facing I | crisis. He cannot stand upon middl rround. He must either deafcend o isccnd; it is the abyss or the raoun ! .ain top. And so, he lays hold upoi l he one refuge from pessimism am i lespair, and calls upon his soul t i lope. "Why art thou cast down. ( j ny souj? And why art thou dis i juieted within me? Hope thou ii 1 Jod. for I shall yet praise Him fo j .he health of His countenance." ' Hope abides because it is the sur i 'iva! of the fittest. Despondency un j Us. humbles, dethrones. It saps th rcry strength from manhood. Fran ies H. Burnett in "The Shuttle.' ;ives us the picture of the Englisl ord, sitting hour aft^ hour, hold ,ng the wasted hand of one of hi | ;ommon laborers, who is strickei j *ith typhoid fever, and calling bad I .lirough the power of hope the lif I that had almost pone out in despaii I The great specialist, who has bee: 1 :allcd in in the hour of crisis, whe [ ihe faces of the watchers are pals I ?nd fear has frozen the vqry foun ! ;ains of life and energy, gives th J verdict of "Hope," and instantly tn | oody straightens, tho back stiffens | the blood courses through the veins Hope is energy. The provision , nave failed: the boat leaks, the sea j rise, strength is g?nc, and intolerabl thirst alone remains. But, upon th I lorizon there rise the masts and the I the hull of the liner. Hotfc at one | energizes. With the vestige of rc j maining strength, the distress signs !s hoisted, it is seen; it is answered the steamer's course is changed, an rescue is at hand. Hope is the gran Itic element of uature. Of Samuf Adams, Dancroft says: "Diflicultie j could not discourse his decision, no I dnnpers appall his fortitude. Of des I pendency ho knew nothing; trial i only nerved him for superior strug ! gles. His sublime and unfalterin I hope had a cast of solemnity, an was as much a part of his nature a if his confidence sprung from insigli into the divine decrees, and -was a firm as a sincere Calvinist's assui ance of his election." Ilope is life's song. Once Elija lost it, and life was paralyzed. Ha^ ing seen hope slip away from him, h was ready to die. The wilderness i about him and within him. The bes tiling God can give liim is uie grav< And this man is not a coward. H lias fought to death, on Carme Baal's priests. He has won man other battles, but now he is in th grip of despondency, and his impei ial spirit is broken. But God call liirn up from the depths, and whe nature's elementary forces, when fn and wi:id and earthquake fail t . rouse liis slumbering roul, (ho stil small voice of God sings to him th song cf Hope, a ad the prophet j J strengthened. The worst thing that has ever bee I thought of hell is that in its ficr j dtptlis all hope is abandoned. S ; long as the man waits, through tli loner hours, lor t.no uawn, aim su iu.i as lie believe? that the dawn wi come, liell is not ready for him, tii celestial gates are still swung wid open. If hope is all this, thou wo do we r.o cultivate it, to cherish it, at a hazards. Better part with auvthin than it. Better .qive up your frieiu I than your hopes. Better 11art wit your money. The only nun withoi God in the world is the man withoi hope. We need to cherish it, fc ourselves and for others. The moi selfish life in the work! is thq liopi loss life "Xttblesse ohlics." It . v * J our duty to help and not to hinder; to lift up and not cast down; to be sign posts along the way, rather than Y stumbling blocks in the way. There is no influence more blighting in all the world than that of u man who sedulously cultivates the philosophy ; of despair. He is nothing but a nuis- i ance, and an infernal one at that, because his philosophy is hell-born. He ! I becomes a hinderer rather than a ^ | helper. He is deliberately withhold- i s. ing from others, in their cares and 'n burdens and sorrows, that cheer and n courage which God hag meant him to g impart. If that alone were true, it ; would be bad enough, but other things are true. He is not only withholding; he is infecting, he is po'soning. He is offending one of God's g little ones. He pretends to be youi g friend, but he is drilling holes below !_ the water line. He is pulling out the r bricks from the wall and the rivets from the bolts. He is undermining e the moral constitution of every one e he meets. He is damping men's arr dor. he is chilling their enthusiasms, e he is putting clouds into clear skies, Viopqiiqo ho is rtisrnnntinsr hnnp Thf? e further such a man keeps away from his fellow men the better for them, j He has no business with them. The t only proper place for Elijah was the y wilderness and the juniper tree when he had ceased to hope. And the j only proper place for him when new 3 hope and joy had been born within n his soul was back among the sons of s men. When our Lord's soul was e troubled He was alone, the shades of e night were about Him, His disciples e slept. When He spoke to other than If u/oa fha mocsn fre rtf hflTIP* I e ** ? -j Come unto Me, all ye that labor r and are heavy laden and I will give n you rest." There is only one heart ] strong enough to bear the weight of j a hopeless soul and that is the heart e of God. He alone is the "joy of the e comfortless, light of the straying, j h hope of the penitent, fadeless and j e pure." v The world has no time and no use ! 1 for the man who has no time and no j e use for hope. A gentleman on be- ! ing asked to contribute to the ereco tion of a monument replied: "Not a .. dollar. I am ready to contribute to(> ward building monuments to those 3 who make us hope, but I will not give s a dollar to help perpetuate the mema ory and influence of those who live v to make us despair." The men who [I find the world waiting for them, rer sponsive to them, grateful for them, y are the men who bring into its darkr ness something of light and into its i. sufferings and sins, the aleviation n and stimulus of hope. e A singer sang a song of tears, and the great I ti world heard and wept; r For he sang of the sorrows of fleeting ! years, and the hopes which the dead j f pas', kept; And souU in anguish their burdens bore, " and the world was sadder than before. ' J i a A singer sang a song of cheer, and the great world listened and smiled, f For he sang of the love of a Father dear, f {ind the trust of a little child: j And souls that before had forgotten to a " pray looked up and went singing along the way. * Perhaps, after all, to those who j , are listening to-night, it is not neces- I sary to say all this. You know it j already. If you don't, it is because j _< you have never yet entered into the j T joy of your Lord, which is not re- J served, simply for the life to come, , _ but is imparted to His followers in j the life that now is. It is a joy that j " no man taketh away. For it is the ; joy that comes from the knowledge | t not only that in the hiding of God r there is safety, but that in the hands 1 of God all things are made to work together for our good. It is the joy of the consciousness that the bars and bolts that once held us in the | prison have been withdrawn, and the door has swung open, and we ~ have passed put into the light. And it is the joy that, having passed out ^ into the light there is given to us not | j only freedom from bondage, but af- : filiation, the privilege of partnership ~ with God; the power to do and to ! become. And if we still feel our- j selves hedged about by unpropitious i circumstance, and assailed by the I ^ temptation of that illicit self which , " still clamors for recognition and claims enthronement, there is born within us the hope that out of strugu gle and defeat, out of strivings and 1 groanings, out of bondage and im- i ~ prisonment, we are at last to come I ofT more than conquerors through j ^ Him who has loved us and redeemed ! us by His blood. When we receive j . Christ, who is our Hope, the Bright i ' and Morning Star of Life, we enter | into privilege and possession. All | , things are ours; the world about us, , l the skies above us; the heritage of j g soil and the heritage ef souls; the j deep happiness of proprietorship in i the thines of the life that now is and : !' the fadeless hope bf the life everlast'* ing: All things ars ours, for we are. g Christ's and Christ is God. What e place is there for doubt, or despair in e such a life? Why should we not, if n we believe in Him, who, though une seen, is ever with us, rejoice, with joy unspeakable and full of glory?' [j What matters it that the sorrows ot I the present seem not joyous, but d' grievous? They are the light afflic- | tions which are but for the moment, ! and which work out for us the far j g more exceeding and eternal weight | j. of glory. While we look at the . ... things which are seen, while the i g shock of the storm is upon us, the j cathode rays of hope reveal beneath i ' the deep calm the unseen things I j which are eternal. s Now abideth hope; its fingers point I upward and onward?and God is at I 3 the end. Unfading hope! When life's last embers : burn, When soul to soul and dust to dust return | " [ Heaven to thy charge resigns the awful | r~ hour! e Oh, then Thy kingdom comes! Immortal is Power! it }. Drippings From the Sanctuary. e He who is stayed on God does not stand still. y The love of the Father makes the, e life of a brother. !*" No man knows how to live so as to Is /lio 7-icrht whn has not learned how to n die so as to live right. e People who can describe the will of 1 .? God are often the last to do it. Walking with God is always a good | e deal more than a dress parade. IS So long as the collection is more I than the election, the church will be | n, a negligible quantity in civic affairs. ! Sermons that have lived are the ' 0 ones that make lives. I '? If you are walking with God you : lj are not climbing over men. Manufacturing heresy is the mod- j e *rn way of hunting martyrdom. j I Bunyan's (ireat Help. 11 John Bnnyan tells us that his j H great guilt immensely helped him to\j Is read iiis Bible aright. The Bibte ; h was written for the salvation ot it guilty sinners alone, and no man, it learned nor simple, has ever read the >r Bible aright, or ever will read it st aright, unless he always comes* to it s- as a guilty sinner. ? Alexander is Whyte. f THE TEMPERANCE PROPAGANDA I 1 CONCERTED ATTACK ON DRINK WINNING ALL ALONG LINE. I Evil of Intoxicants. Hugh F. Fox'need not apologize for asking for space in which to present the liquor dealers' side of the anti-saloon controversy, nor should any newspaper hesitate to grant any reasonable request of that kind from advocates of either side, for there is no question now before the people which is attracting greater attention the country over than the problem of how best to reduce to a minimum the evils of excessive use of intoxicants without unduly infringing on personal liberty. In a business trip through Georgia extending over ten weeks, which has taken me into all of the larger cities and into most of the smaller ones, I have studied with a great deal of interest the experiment they are trying nere. Not being a partisan on ?ither side. I have observed, I believe, with an impartial eye. If anything, I was rather prejudiced against prohibition as the best method, especially for the cities. Ignoring statistics, which are easily mo ninula tori a n ri r.snnllv [ will only say .that in these ten weeks I have only seen seven men at all under the influence of intoxicants, and none of them was seriously so. One :an see that many in ten minutes on the streets of any city in New Jersey almost any day or night. The small amount of drunkenness in the cities Df Georgia has been very surprising to me, as I have read so much about how prohibition does not prohibit. In cities of other States, where my business takes me from time to time, it is so common as to attract no attention. There is a great deal of "near beer" sold in some of the larger cities, and much pf it is very "near" the real thing, but stronger drink is harder to obtain except in the clubs. There its use is restricted to those not likely to abuse the privilege. The net result is that any one who behaves himself need not be consumed with thirst, , while those who are likely to give their neighbors or the police trouble find it very difficult to get into a troublesome condition. Everybody seems to be satisfied except "the trade," and I have been unable to discover any sentiment among the solid busi- ; nckac* olamonl i r* fo vAr nf roafrtrine* f ho old wide-open order, such as we have ia the North: On the contrary, the tendency seems to be toward more stringent laws and better enforcement ( of those they have. Prohibition is evidently not injur- : ing Georgia commercially. . Its prosperity and development are simply i marvelous. No unbiased observer can travel through the State without being impressed with its wonderful growth and prosperity, and the orderly government of its cities, so different from the wide-open condition o! cities of the same size in other State? 1 which have even a smaller proportion of population easily made disorderly. The experiment in Georgia is well I worth watching.?M. A. Nupatree, i Atlanta, in the New York Times.- i The Other Side. I It is admitted by everybody that the saloons make a town lively. They keep police courts busy, supply occu- i pants for jails and prisons and contribute sensational incidents for news- ( paners; but heretofore little has been sai? about the moral benefits exerted by -them. In the campaign coming on, this moral issue should be kept to the fore by the saloon orators and organs. ' They should prove that towns are made morally better by the presence in them of a large number of saloons. It should be shown' that the presence of several saloons in each block downtown improves the i | appearance of business streets, and a sentiment of pride in the existence of saloons and a desire to see their number increase would be a natural corollary following a demonstration of 1 i meir morai ueneuis.?r iuw uc Rockford Republican. Saloojis in Chicago. To every church in Chicago there are ten saloons, and the drinking places outnumber the police two to one, according to a report of the Juvenile Protective Association. There are 7155 saloons in the city. "A conservative estimate of the cost of maintaining the average saloon," says the report, "is $1000 for license, $1000 for salary of bartenders and $500 for rent a year, making a total of $2500.- If we multiply the 7155 saloons by this amount we have a 1 total of $17,887,500. Now, if we take the population of Chicago as 2,000,000 (including every man, woman and child), then it is easy to be seen that the cost per capita at this conservative estimate, which does not include any profit whatsoever, is $8.94." Use of Liquor Waning. . ! ! Americans have lessened consump- ! tion of alcoholic beverages during the past two years by $110,185,600, according to the American Grocer.' The figures say that during 1909 the consumption was: Whisky, $5 66,- i 913,331; beer, $879,872,542; wines, ( $107,219,990; total, $1,554,005,863. For 1907 the estimated total retail cost of liquors was $i.t>04,j.:f 1,100. According to the Government Bureau of Statistics, during the same period the population incased 2.749,963. ' The per capit?. use of spirits is the | smallest since 1000, and of beer since I 1905. Last year's consumption of} tea, coffee and cocoa was tiio largest i since 1905. Temperance Notes. in Florida eighty per cent, of the territory is "dry," there being only 340 saloons left in the State. The smaller the drink, the clearei the head and the cooler the blood which are great benefits in tempei and business.?William Penn. The Supreme Court of Kansas has decided that a saloonkeeper who is mobbed, and gets hurt, cau only recover nominal damages. His business being illegal is without the pale of the law's protection. Kansas is simply protecting its people from the arch enemy of human happiness. Prohibition has simply j muzzled ihe brute lhat is 10,000 times more destructive than a mad dog It has established a quarantine against a plague more destructive \ Ml an clioiera ? uovemor ouiuus ui Kansas. In one of our Cleveland missions an old man of seventy-four, a recent | convert, spoke and said it. was the , second Sunday in his working life that he had not spent behind the bar of a saloon. "I have one foot in the grave," he said, "'but f thank Ucd that my hand is on the doorknob of heaven." ;? " \Religious Truth$\ From the Writings of Great! Preachers. i A NEW BEGINNING. He came to my desk with trembling lips; The ltoson wras done; "Will you give me a new leaf, dear teach* er?" he said, "I have spoiled this one." So I took his leaf, all blurred and blotted( And gave him a new one, all unspotted, And into his sad eyes smiled: "Do better now, my child." I came to the throne with trembling heart} The past was done; "Will you give me a new leaf, dear F? ther?" I said. "I have spoiled this one." So He took my leaf, all blurred and blotted^ And gave me a new one, all unspotted, And into my sad eyes smiled: "Do better now, My child." , . ' : J A Bothersome ^Something." In the journal of George Fox, the consecrated Quaker, is found," this < confession: "I knew Jesus, and He was very jneciuus cu mj auui, uut j found something in me which would not keep patient and k nd. I did what I could to keep it down, but it was there. I besought Jesus to do : something for me, and when I gave Him my will. He came into my heart, and cast out all that would not be sweet,- all that would not be kind, all ? that would not be patient, and then He shut the door." Blessed George Pox. To have the . door of the heart shut on all that would not be sweet, kind or patient was to find a blessing worthy of what Charles Wesley called "the second rest." And are there not many professed Christians who are bothered with this mysterious "something" which will not keep patient and kind? Is it not characteristic of many a religions life to be petulant, irritable, vindictive and resentful? Irofeot qatck.and cutting retorts mar the conversation of many domestic circles and other close associations? Are there not many- .;tjj cheeks mantling with shame or anger because qf these sudden, fool* ish and useless outbursts oI ill temper and unsanctified passion? ' What such persons need is a sap- . . render of the rebellious will to God, and an earnest beseeching of the :': v; Saviour to cast out all these unto- '.'Sj ward and distressing sediments of the unregenerate life. Be assured that of yourself yo? : will never. be able to "keep them ' $ down." As long as they are rooted in the -heart, they will grow and ^ flourish. Get them "cast out," and ra the door closed after them; then shall you find sweetness, patience and klndnesB ruling your spirlt.-Mlichi- y* gan Christian Advocate. I Will Not Leave Yon Comfortless. . ** '-J, Hear the pledge of Jesus Christ:\i?q "I will not leave you comfortless; 1 ?. will come unto you. Lo! I am with ;f you alway, even unto the end of th? ^*2 world." As long as God lives and our bouIs live, so long does this pledge* stand. It is true, we cannot always ? feel this presence. But we can al- ^"5 ways know that it is there, always ^jj think of it, so long as thought endures, always rest upon it forever and forever; and .the reason why this promise is given is that we may hold. fast to this truth. There may be -j a moment in the very depth of sor- .' row and anguish when the presence is hidden from us. But is it because we are stunned, unconscious? It is like passing through a eurglcjfl or constitutive elements in God's beautiful and good plan for you and as such to be accepted with a smile. Trust Clod, have an implicit faith in God, and these very things will impart the highest zest to life.?Horace y ]3usiiuell. Hon Rival to Chameleon. Mrs. Henry Farnum, of Lanesboro, Mass., has a black Minorca hen which she says is fifteen years old and has changed its color four times. As a pullet the hen was black, later she becamo speckled black and white, then changed to black and is now pure white. The Minorcan still sings :iud lays. L,, ;.Vj A Noiseless Fourth. Mayor Gaynor delivered a patriotic address as part of the noiseless Fourth cebebrayoa in New York CItj> operation. The .time cornea lor xne ordeal. The anaeBthetitt is ready. You stretch out your ha*d to your friend, "Don't leave me, don't forsake me." The last thing you feel is the clasp of that hand, the last thing you ' see is the face of that friend. Then a moment of darkness, a blank?and the first thing you see is the face of love again. So the angel of God's face stands by us, bends above us, and we may knowthat He will be theire even when all else fails. * * Amid the mists that shroud the great ocean beyond the verge of mortal life, there is one Eweet, mighty voice that says: "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. In all thy afflictions I will be with thee, and the angel of My face shall save thee."?Henry van Dyke, / D. D. A Meditation. God knows me better than I know myself. He knows my weakness? what I can do and cannet do. So I desire to be led, to follow Him, and I am quite sure that He will thus enable me to do a great deal more in ways which seem to me almost a waste in lifo advancing His cause, ' v than I could in any other way; I am sure of that. Intellectually I am weak; in scholarship, nothing; in a thousand things a baby. He knows this, and so He has led me and greatly blessed me, who am nobody, to be t of some use to my church and fellow-men. How lcind^how good, how compas Bionate art Tdou, o God! u my rather, Iceep me humble! Help me to have respect to my fellow-men, to recognize these sevoral gifts as from , Thee. Deliver me from the diabolical sins of malice, enmity, or jealousy, and give mo a hearty joy in my brother's good, in his work, in bis gifts and talents; and may I be truly glad iu bis superiority to myself if God be glorified. Root out weak vanity, all devilish pride, all that is abhorrent to the mind of Christ. God hear my prayer! Grant me the wondrous joy of humiliation, which is seeing Thee as all in all.?Norman Maclcod's Diary. Get Good Out of Evil. Whatever obscurity, darkness, trial, suffering falls upon you; your defeats, losses, injuries; your outward state, employment, relations; what seems hard, unaccountable, severe, or as nature might say, vexations?all these you will see as parts