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New York City.?The rompers that
are made with sleeves in one with the
body portion are the latest and the
newest. These are practical and attractive
in effect and altogether desirable
The back portions of the
drawers are attached to the belt and
consequently are easily buttoned in
the place. The little garment can be
worn over a frock or In place of one,
as liked. All the simple washable
materials are appropriate, gingham,
-chambray, linen, percale, galatea and
the like, and there are a great many
of the inexpensive printed wash
fabrics that serve such purpose admirably
well. The rompers illustrated
are made of blue chambray trimmed
with the same material in blue and
white plaid. At the front the body
and leg portions are in one, but at
back they are separate.
The rompers consist of the fronts,
which are cut with waist and drawers
in one, the backs of the body portion
and the back portions of the drawers.
The neck can be finished with either
a square or 4 round outline, and there
is a patch pocket arranged over the
left front. The back portions of the
drawers ^re attached to the belt and
buttoned at tne sides, wnne tne Deic
also is byttoned into place at the
back and held by a button and buttonhole
at the front, so that the garment
is kept securely in place, yet is
very easily slipped on and off.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size (four years) is
three and five-eighth yards twentylour
or twenty-seven, three and one
Sailor Suit For Misses and Small
Women?Consisting of blouse and
seven gored pleated skirt that can be
made with or without yoke. The
sailor suit is always a favorite one.
It"is eminently to be desired for outings
and for school and for general
use and it is always pretty and always
attractive. The suit consists of blouse
and skirt. The blouse is made with
fronts and back and is finished with
1 hems at the front edges.
A Button Revival.
Seek out vour old polished steel
buttons and bring them to the front;
they are an evidence of the last style
in costuming the lady beautiful.
They belong to the shepherd's plaid
suit, to the navy blue serge or to the
mulberry linen. Any shape will do;
the ball button is much sought for,
but there is also the big flat one the
size of a dime, a nickel or a quarter.
Use metai polish to restore them, and
give them a rub with !eath2r before
you put them on. The stores will
yield up nothing better nan the button
bag.
New Slippers. '
One of the smart shops is showing
slippers with vamps of colored leather
and the rest of the slipper and the
heel of white kid. These slippers are
quite smart when worn with dainty
lace-trimmed lingerie frocks to complete
a color scheme. They are to be
had with vamps of green, blue pink,
lavender and red. Colored ^ilk stockings
are worn to match the color of
the vamp.
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' half thirty-two, or one and seveneighth
yards forty-four inches wide, i
with one-half yard twenty-seven .
inches wide for trimming.
Nine Gored Skirt For Misses and ;
Small Women,
The skirt that is cut in narrow !
gores with a pleat over each seam is |
one that gives long, slender llnea,
while providing comfortable width at
the lower edge. This ono is designed
for young girls and for small women,
and is adapted to all seasonable materials
and to the coat suit, to the odd
skirt and to the dress. In the illus
tration one of the new linens in diag- | ?
onal weaves is finished with simple
stitching, but such a skirt can be made
from lighter weight washable material
and from wool, from pongee
and the like with equal success. The
pleats are stitched weil below the hips,
giving the fashionable close effect,
and are pressed flat below the j
stitchings so that the effect of the
skirt is a narrow one while at the '
same time it is comfortable to wear.
ine smri is cui m ume guics. xuc i
pleats are laid on indicated lines and
effectually conceal the seams. Those
at the back meet at the centre and
the closing is made invisibly.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size (sixteen years)
is seven yards twenty-four or twentysaven,
five and three-fourth yards
thirty-two, or three and five-eighth
yards forty-four inches wide.
Tuck Trimmings.
As a trimming to outer garments
tucks afford the best method for ornamenting
a blouse which is intended
to be for morning wear. They take
away from its plainness without making
it elaborate. Not that they are
confined to blouses?Indeed, tucks
trim every sort of garment from the
plainest to the richest.
Seml-Prlncesse Costume ? Semiprincesse
gowns will be extensively
worn throughout the season, and thia
one is charmingly attractive at the
same time that it is simple and consequently
well adapted to foulards and
other silks of the sort* to lingerie ma
terials and the like. In the illustration,
of the new mousselines, is
trimmed with lace banding and combined
with tucking and white chiffon
sleeve puffs.
Traveling Bags Lined With Pongee.
The handsomely fitted leather trav- [
eling bag may be lined to match one's
traveling coat if desired. Many of
the new bags, instead of satin or
leather linings, are finished inside
with daintly colored pongee, and the
fittings are of the new imitation ivory
substance that is especially practical
for traveling use, since it is so easily
kept clean. In addition to her brush,
comb, mirror and various manicure
and other toilet implements, milady's
dressing bag must contain a dainty
flask of stimulant in case of sudden
indisposition, and a complete cosmetic
outfit. All these articles are
sicwea away arouna me smes or me
bag in shirred pockets and understraps,
leaving space in the centre
for lingerie and fresh blouses.
Materials For Mourning.
Some of the materials worn in
mourning are silk and wool, or allwool
crepe cloth, imperial serge,
voile, tamise, soleil, cheviot and diagonal
serge. Silk-warp materials are
lighter and shake the dust beautifully.
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I POETRY WORTH [
? MEMORIZING. | '
THE BOY WHO FORGETS.
[ l?ve him, the boy who forgets!
Does it seem such a queer thing to say?
Can't help it; he's one of my pets; ^
Delighted at work cr at play. ,
t'd trust him with all that 1 own,
And know neither worries nor frets; ]
But the secret of this lies alone . J
In the things that the laddie forgets. '
He always forgets to pay back (
The boy who has done him an ill; {
Forgets that a grudge he owes Jack,
And smiles at him pleasantly still.
He always forget? 'tis his turn
To choose what the others shall play; 1
Forgets about others to learn 1
The gossippy things .that "they say." s
tie forgets to look sulky or cross
When things are not going his way;
Forgets some one's gain is his lo^s;
Forgets, in his worttirae, his play. 1
So this is why I take his part;
Why 1 say he is one of my pets; !
[ repeat it with all my heart; (
I love him for what he forgets! i
?Pauline Frances Camp, in St. Nicholas,
A RICH MAN'S PRAYER.
Lord, give me strength and give me health, ]
And make me wiser day by day; }
Let me keep adding to my wealtii, j
And guard me from my foes, I pray.
Lord, let the ones who wish me ill | j
Bv kinder feelinas be imbued, | .
And let the skies above me still 1
Ee ever soft and rosy hued.
Lord, let my daughter be as pure
As are the snow-flakes when they fall;
Let all the joys she has endure,
And let her bear no ills at all.
Lord, let my wife have faith in me,
Faith that will not be undermined,
From all suspicion keep her free,
And also just a little blind. /
Lord, cause my son to hope to rise.
To wish to gam proud eminence;
Let him succeed in all he tries,
And kindly give him common sense.
Lord, finally 1 humbly pray
That he may chun the dizzy whirl
Instead of waking up some day
The husband of a chorus girl.
?rChicago Record-Herald.
LITTLE JOHNNY-JUMP-UP.
When little Johnny-jump-up poked his
head above the ground,
Be winked his saucy yellow eyes and then
ho looked around,
And saw the sunshine all about and blue
sky overhead;
"I'm glad 1 blossomed out in such a pretty
world!" he said.
'I'm glad the grass is all so green, the
earth so warm and brown!
I'm glad I have a yellow hat and such a
pretty gown!
And 1 shall stand here all day long and
say to everything
That looks into my happy face, 'It'p
spring, you know! It's spring!' "
?Julia Grace Gilbert, in St. Nicholas, j
A LAY TO THE HEN. |
I sing the hen, that noble bird
With shiny yellow legs,
Who, when she feeleth so disposed
Supplieth us with eggs; Whose
gentle, soothing "Cutter-quaw!" j
Cheers up our spirits some,
Since we're reminded by the sound
That gentle spring has come.,
I sing the h'jn! The Plymouth Rock,
Rhode Isliind or Shanghai,
Or any other brand men think
The only kind to buy.
Long may she "Cut-ca-dah-cut!"
In the good old-fashioned way, I
And may this little lay to her ?
Inspire her to lay. j
?Somerville Journal, k
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ELOPING UP TO DATE. j
rhe coatlesfi man puts a careless arm |
'Round the waist of the hatless girl.
While over the dustless, mudless roads I
T? ? UftiwiAlAan tttK irl ' ?
jlLi a uuiocicao vug; "??** I
jike a leadless bullet from hammerless gun j j
By smokeless powder driven, j g
rhey fly to taste the speechless joy3 !
By endless union given.
rhe only luncheon his coialess purse
Affords to them the means *
[3 a tasteless meal of boneljr's cod, ! c
With a dish of stringless beans. | t
Ee smokes his old tobaccoless pipe
And laughs a mirthless laugh I j.
When papa tries to coax her back ^
By wireless telegraph. . , *
?Motor Record, j ?
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BARTER OF HEARTS. |
When mighty Jove a-wooing went I j
Of Danae, ttoe fair, j ^
They say a shower of gold he sent? ^
The maid said yes?right there. ! 1
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But now the maids on marriage bent 1 s
Reverse the old-time tale, j t
And when the bags of cold are sent, ' j j
The gallant knight's "for sale." j a
?Stella Leerburger, in Gunters. 1 t
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A MATTER OF CHOICE.
The dancing seasons never stop*; 1
Some of us dance through all. . r
The frog prefers a summer hop, I ?
The moth a camphor ball.
?Sam S. Stinson, in Woman's Home Com- j '
panion. j ?
THE GIFTS. ' 1 3
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rwo Guts there are of value far j
Beyond great wealth or lands.
rhe Gifts are these: The Eye that Sees, *
The Heart that Understands. '
?William Patterson White, in Woman's s
Home Companion. fc
rHE sacrfcd burden* OF life. \
\ sacred burden is the life ye bear; t
Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, t
Stand up beneath it steadfastly, o
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin.
But onwaid, upward, till the goal ye win. .
?Ivemble. ,
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THE BETTER WAY. ^
"In time of peace prepare for war"? p
The ancient rule they wish to bar. a
Why should the nations seek-for gore?
A better way we find to-day? ,
In time of peace prepare for more.
?Chicago Daily News. t
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Smoking For French Yonth..
It is curious that while in this j
country a child is not allowed to B
smoke cigarettes but may consume }<
chocolate imitations to its heart's d
content, in France the case is ex- a
actly reversed. Boys may smoke as h
much tobacco as they like, but any ^
one serving them with chocolate "cig- ?
arettes" would be liable to heavy
punishment, and a lady in Paris has v
recently been fined for this offense. j;
It appears that an article of the i
French Code passed in 1S35 prohibits rf
the sale of spurious tobacco, and was t
intended to prevent competition with f
the State monopoly.?London Globe. 1
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College Debating. t
"What's the trouble with your <3
mock Legislature?"
"It is claimed that one student r
bought his seat." t
"Go slow, boys. That is carrying 1
realism too far."?Louisville Gour- t
ier-Journal. v
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Once. f
Stranger?"Did vou ever reveal a
your fishing hole to a friend?" t
Angler?"Once I did to a friend v
cn his deathbed."?Brooklyn Life. f
THE ,PULPIT.
V SCHOLARLY SUNOAY SERMON BY
THE REV. ARTHUR MERCER.
Theme: Fear in Religion.
Brooklyn, N. Y.?In the Church of ;
Lhe New Jerusalem, the Rev. Arthur
VIercer, pastor, preached Sunday
morning on "Fear as a Religious
factor." He said:
Two scenes, widely separated in
:Ime and space, one from the Old, the
)ther from the New Testament, both
ittended by circumstances of Bpecta- ,
:ular splendor, present two manifes- :
Nations of God to men, and Illustrate
;wo widely contrasting ideas concernng
Him. The physical settings have
some points of resemblance. It is in
jach case a noble mountain. In both
;he spectators are rough, uncultured
men; in the one a great multitude; (
n the other, a small number.
In the first scene, the mountain is
Sinai, in the rugged cluster of Horeb,
iown in the little wedge between two
irms of the Red Sea. In the level
/alley at the foot are encamped the
3 ost of Israel, escaped from Egyptian
Dondage. All around them are the
majestic hills, wild, unadorned by
verdure, but ruggedly sublime ai?d
jorgeous with the varied hues of the
ocks and earths of that region. Over
:hem arches the blue of the still, Ara3ian
sky, and here, out of the awe- (
some solitude, a thick smoke goes up |
"rem the mountain like the smoke of
i furnace, with lurid flames palpltat- :
ng in the pall, betokening the pres3i.ee
of Jehovah in the cloud, and
:ne wnoie mountain snaKes ana
writhes In the spasm of an earthluake.
And all the people in the
:amp tremble.
This is the prelude to the giving
)f the Ten Commandments to Moses,
like a scene from a thrilling drama,
skillfully devised to impress upon
;he spectators an adequate estimate
)f the might, the majesty and the ter-or
of God's law.
The mountain of the second con:rasting
incident was probably Hermon,
or some point on the lofty
ilope of that monarch of the noble
ange at the north of Palestine. Cen;uries
have waxed and waned since ,
;he scene in the wilderness, and a
greater than Moses has appeared
imong the J.ews. The great drama
)f Redemption has reached a climax,
10 surprising, so startling, and yet !
so wonderful and beautiful as to send
i thrill to the heart. God has again
evealed,Himself to His children, but
n3tead of the accompaniments of
jverwhelming splendor that flashed
'rom Sinai, He comes now in humble
juise, a Galilean workman who walks
n lowly ways, with lowly disciples,
>n errand of human service, yet Im- ,
nanuel, God with us. He has "bowed
he heavens and come down." He
las clothed Himself in our infirm hu- !
nanity, has immersed Himself in all
ne woes ana an me evn? ui our aui'ering
flesh?God seeking us and savng
us. He is now to show that back
)f and. within that lowly exterior is
he glory of the fullness of the Godlead,
and a new version of the old
icene on the mountain is to be enactid
for the behoof of all susequent
tges of men. In the place of the
rreat multitude there are now but
hree fishermen, but these go up with :
he Lord into the mountain. As of
>ld, Moses is present, emerging from
he mystery of the spirit world to
end His authority to the scene, and i
is of old the cloud overhangs the ;
nountain. But Lt is now transparent,
uminous. Instead of the black pall (
if smoke that went up from Sinai,
lssured by glleams of hidden flame, |
he mountain' is bathed in light, for !
o! the face'tif the Man of Sorrows did
ihine as the sun, and His raiment- 1
vas white as light.
The one scene was the revealing of ,
he Law, and the other the revealing .
>f the Life. For Jesus had come to
>e the fulfilling of the law, to show
ts true, nature to. us, to strip away
he misconceptions of the centuries,
he wrath and the terror, and to
ihow that its true nature was the tenteres-f
love. . '
And so we have the two concepions
of God, the God of wrath and
he God of love, and the two atitudos
oward God, the fear and the love. 1
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UC UUU KJ. TVlUVll, Xiio Ji^iK.uiuoo iui- *
ninate at frequent intervals. And
he passages are there for a permatently
beautiful purpose. They are
(specially useful in the teaching cJ
he young. The heart of the boy is
ull of the tendencies to sin, in which
ire the seeds of his possible destrucion,
and he cannot begin his career
?ith too many and too greai deterrent 1
ears. And so it is written, "The t
JUL ICt US UUb LUUU LUC DtL"
>n.d was intended to supersede and
lupplant the first. Let us see if It
>e not rather the truth that the two
de^s really supplement each other, i
ind that both are needed to develop
he truest <tnd the noblest human
haracter.
It is the tendency of modern re- 1
igion to greatly minimize, if it does
lot wholly abrogate, the element of
he fear of God, to lay a one-sided ;
(mphasis upon love. According to
ome of the newest philosophies, ,
hese is no such ^hing as evil and no ,
uch thing as wrath, and thus no ocasion
for fear. The cloud and the ,
larkness on the mountain, and the
hundering and threatening of Sinai
vere the misconceptions of primitive
tages of spiritual unintelligence and ,
>enightedness.
But evil remains a terrible fact. ,
Ve cannot abrogate the fact, nor the ,
error of the outraged Majesty, nor
he black cloud fulminating wrath (
kjd punishment overhanging the vio- j
ated law. All that we can succeed .
n doing is to confuse, and finally to
lestroy our power to properly distin- ,
;uish between the good and the evil. ]
f we say there is no evil, and no God ]
describing the good and warning
.gainst the evil, the latter does not <
hereby cease to exist. We merely af- ]
irm that evil is not evil, and en- :
hrone our own unregulated appetite ]
.3 the final arbiter of what we shall
egard a:3 good. The human mind
las no power to determine the absoute
character of anything. Our judgaents
are merely relative. We can
:now light only by its contrast with
larkness. We can know good only
,s set over against that which men
lave come to recognize as not good.
Lnd the recognition of this by huoanity
has been, throughout its hisory,
always connected with the obervable
penalties attaching to the
iolations of law. The law of God
s the law of love when operating in
ts normal channels, but it becomes a
actor of destruction in the life of
hose who disobey. As the electric
[uid, though a beneficent energy in
tself, becomes a disruptive violence
yhen its current is obstructed. Or
.s the life-giving heat of the sun is
urned into decay when it flows into
lead organic matter on the ground. i
The Bible, especially the Old Testa- i
nent, is regnant with the presence of j
V? a a? n? r?o f V? T~I i a H rrV* f n i n <ro f ''i 1 _ /
fear of. the Lord is the beginning of
wisdom."
There Is, or was, in the city of
Denver, a judge who attained to national
celebrity by reason of his wonderful
success in dealing with youthful
criminals. And that success was
due, to an unusual degree, of the
quality we call love In his heart. Boys
of various ages, caught in all kinds
of lawbreaking, were brought before
him, and instead of thundering sentences
at them from the bench and
sending them to Jail, he got down on
the seat beside them and talked to
them like a father {n earnest appeals
to their better natures. The method
was successful in redeeming a large
number of youthful malefactors from
their evil ways, who, had thejr been
sent to Jail, would probably have
been confirmed In a life of crime.
But what was the explanation of
this extraordinary influence? You
and I could not have affected tt. The
Judge could not,' in an official capacity.
His benevolent control over !
those boys was due to a combination
of his philanthropy and his Judgeship.
They knew that back of the
love and pardon there loomed the
power and the will, if they were impenitent,
to punish. They responded
to the human friendship and sympathy
of the man, because back of him
there stood forth in their imaglna- I
tion the awful majesty and the
threatening arm of the law.
We should not, therefore, atempt
to dissipate the element of fear in.
religion on the ground that It Implies
a deroeatory estimate of God. It ]
does not do that, and the fear is nueded
as the background of the deepest
religious experience. We cannot
rightly estimate the brightness and
glory of the Mount of Transfiguration
except as it stands out against
the dark background of the thunderclap
of Sinai. The gentleness, the
sympathy and love of Jesus can be
rightly measured only as we know |
that behind that lowly demeanor j
there towers the overwhelming might
and majesty of the Godhead. "Think- j
est thou not that I cannot now pray ]
to my Father, and He shall presently
give me more than twelve legions of |
angels?"
Thus In the combination of the two :
Ideas, and not In either by itself, we j
have the complete and highest con- |
ception of the Deity. The noblest dig- j
nity of the soul Is in Its reverence. I
The tempest's blast, the destroying !
flood, the sky reverberating thunder j
and river by the lightning, were in- j
tAnriari to lnsnire that sense of the I
awful power of the Creator before !
which the soul cringes. And no one
who has none of this holy fear In
him can truly appreciate the majesty
of these things. A soul without fear i
Is a soul without sublimity. To rob j
religion of its fear is to emasculate,
to enfeeble, to degrade it.
Yet we will close with our backs
turned upon Sinai, and our faces set !
toward the Mount of Transfiguration, j
Though wisddta begins in fear, it
Bhould end in love. We need not hesi- j
tate to start our children on the jour- i
ney deeply impressed with the fear j
ot God. The fear will duly ripen into j
love, and the love will be all the
truer because it began in fear. They |
will come to understand that God is '
indeed a being of undiluted love who j
punishes no one, the only punishment 1
for sin being the injury wrought!
upon our own characters. And that, ,
though that punishment is terrible, !
yet the wrath and the fury of the Dl- !
rino 'Rplne' ars hnf. an annearance. !
existing for us only in the realms of
violated law, and that, as Btep by
step we desist from the evil, we coma
Into the region of the eternally real,
coming to know God as He is in His |
Inmost essence, a God of the most
ihangeless pity, ever seeking the re- |
demption of the most fallen of His i
children, always hungering to fold
them forever to His breast of Love.
To that end may we come to know
the majesty of the law, the penalties
attaching to its violation, and to have
the faith and the strength to walk
patiently in the way of Its obedience.
All Needs Supplied.
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall
Dot want.
1. I shall not want food. "I am
the bread of life. He that cometh to
Me shall never hunger."
2. I shall not want drink. "If any
man thirsteth let him come unto Me
and drink."
3. I shall not want rest. "Come
unto Me all ye that labor and are j
heavy laden, and I will give you rest." I
4. I shall not want guidance. "I j
am the way; no man cometh unto the I
Father but by M^."
5. I shall not want companionship, i
"I have oalled you friends." "Lo, I
am with you always."
6. I shall not want joy. "These
things have I spoken unto you that ;
My joy might remain in you, and that i
your joy might be full."
7. I shall not want honor. "If any 1
man serve Me, him will My Father j
honor."
8. I shall not want comfort. "Let !
not your hearts be troubled." "He 1
shall give you another comforter, that |
He may abide with you forever."
9. I shall not want any good thing.
"If ye shall ask anything in My name
[ will do it." "No good thing will He
withhold from them that walk uprightly."
10. I shall not want life. "I am
iome that they might have life, and
that they might have it more abundantly."
11. I shall not want power over
ieath. "Whosoever llveth and believeth
in Me shall never die. Be[ievest
thou this?"
12. I shall hot want life eternal*
'I go to prepare a place lor you, I j
Myself; that where I am, there you
nay be also." "Forever with the j
Lord."?The Interior.
Where Victory Must Be "Won.
One of the chief dangers of life is j
irusting occasions. We think that
lonspicuous events, striking experiences,
exalted moments have most to
io with our character and capacity. .
We are wrong. Common days, moaotonous
hours, wearisome paths,
slain old tools, and everyday clothes
ell the real story.
Good habits are not made on birthlays,
nor Christian character at the
lew year. The vision may dawn, the
iream may waken, the heart may leap
vith a new inspiration on some moun:ain
top, but the test, the triumph,
s at the foot of the mountain, on the
evel plain.?Maltbie D. Ba'jcock.
The Unseen Guest.
Many of us are familiar with a eer:ain
motto-card which gives us the
if n fr?V* nr r\fA o c 9 Tk of 1 fi hnmo Tt
mnounces that "Christ is the Master
>f this house;" that lie is "the un;een
Guest at every meal," "the silent
listener to every conversation." i
rhese words only state facts, perfecty
certain, pressingly important, and
iltogether practical. Precisely in
proportion as they are taken seriously,
and lived out with purpose and
ittention, the sanctification of that
aome has begun and is developing
:very day.?The Bishop of Durham.
OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN," "
REPORTS OP PROGRESS OP TllH
BATTLE AGAINST RUM. .
A Story of Profit and Loss.
How the enforcement oL prohibition
ruins business will- be appreciated
by business men who will recognize
Its practical workings in trie
following bit of commercial history:
Prior to the prohibition enactment
Walruff's brewery In Lawrence, Kan.,
was a prosperous business, employing
about ten men, besides the proprietor.
Suppose the average wage of brewery
employes is $12 per .week, the ten
men would earn a total of $120 per
week to be expended in groceries,
dry goods, shoes, boots, rent, books,
music and other commodities.
On the adoption of prohibition the
brewery closed. The employes were
thrown out of work, .ind the dealers
were the losers of their trade, at least
until such time as new positions could
be secured by them. The brewer sold
his property, and, very probably,
moved away, taking his capital with i
him, to find some more congenial
slime for the prosecution of his enterprise.
The commercial loss sustained
was: . .
Loss of wages, $120 per week.
The lo3s of capital* say, $18,000.
The loss of a leading industry, and
its neaa. j
The loss of money flowing into the
town as a result of that industry.
The brewer sold his plant?buildings,
engines, ground?to a shoe and
ooot manufacturer. The factory gave
employment to over 100 men. Suppose
the average weekly wage of shoe
speratives is $9 per week. The weekly
payroll will be $900, the amount
to be expended with the merchants,
mechanics and tradespeople of the
town. This shows a net gain (after
ieducting the losses shown above), of
Weekly wages, $780, or 658 per
:ent.
Ninety families to feed, clothe and
house.
Increase in flow of money to the
town as result of the new industry.
This showing is direct and tangible.
But,, in addition, while the sa*
toons were in town there-was some
percentage of the wages of the general
wage-earner, and some percentage
of the money paid to .the farmer
that went into the till of the salooni
keeper, and there was some ratio of
the industry, honesty and productivity
of the drinking men destroyed by the
drink. And there waa some percentage
of the crime and pauperism with
u- ' 4-U sx aa??%
its aiieuuauL wpcuac iu iuc turn' :
munity traceable to the beer made in !
the brewery. j
Not so with the shoes and boots. ;
N'ot in the whole history of the manufacture
of footwear has a man been
known to go home under the influence
of indulgence in patent leathers 01
stogies to brain his wife with a bootjack
or chase his children into the
freezing night with the blackingbrush.
No town board, moved with J
compassion for suffering womanhood !
and starving childhood, has evei
found it necessary to ordain that the
shoe shops must close at 11 p. m.
There is not a row, not a riot, nol
a murder, not a shooting, not a fistfight
in a carload of footwear.
Thoughtful business men, even
though they have no care for .the
higher purposes of life, will recognize
that it makes a colossal commercial
difference to a town whether industry
produces shoes and boots, or bcoze
and shoots.?Northwestern Patriot.
A Liquor Dealer's Want Ad.
Wanted?One hundred boys foi '
new customers. Most of our old customers
are rapidly dropping out.
Ten committed suicide last week.
TnrAnfv ora r?r>txt in iail onH oiP'll4
are In the chain gang. '
Fifteen were sent to the poor- ] I
house; one was hanged.
Three were sent to the insane asy- ,
lum.
Most of the balance ain't worth ;
fooling with?they've got no money. '
We are just obliged to have new <
customers?fresh, young blood. '
Or we will have to shut up shop. 1
Don't make any difference whose i
boys you are?we need you. You ]
Will be welcome.
If once you get started with us we i
guarantee to hold you. Our goods | <
are sure. >
Come early aifd stay late.?T!:e 1
People.
A Forceful Indictment. I ;
Dr. Howard A. Kelley, of Johns j
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, at the '
Washington meeting of the American !
Society for the Study of Alcohol and j
Other Drug Habits, speaking as a I
physician with thirty-two years'-experience,
said: "I began my practice !
in private life by prescribing alcohol j
In its various forms as an easily diffusible
stimulant in cases of periodic
weakness, in low fevers and exhaustion,
in accordance with the common
custom of a generation ago. My experience
has told me that the effect is
temporary, evanescent; that the drug
(for such it is) does no real good;
and that a dangerous habit is thus
easily endangered which may be most
difficult to eradicate, a habit that mov
utterly ruin the patient's body, mil
orirl eniHt "
Drunkenness in Canada.
Nowhere in the world whsr1
liquor traffic exists is it under beuer
"regulation" than in the Dominion of ;
Canada, and nowhere is law, even re- |
garding the saloon, better enforced |
than in that country. Yet, according
to Canada's new report of criminal
statistics, arrests for drunkenness
have increased from 11,090 in 1S99
to 31,089 in 1908.
Bad For the Beast.
The passenger inside ihe cab suddenly
put his head out of the window
and exclaimed to the driver: "Get
on, man! Get on! Wake up your
nag." "Shure, sor. I 'aven't the 'eart
to bate 'im." "What's the matter
with him? Is he sick?" "No, sor,
'e's not sick, but it's unlucky 'e is,
sor. unlucky. You see, sor, every
morning, afore I put 'im in the cab, I
tosses 'im whether 'e'll 'ave a feed of
?ats or I'll 'ave a dhrink of whisky,
an' the poor baste 'as lost live morn- ;
ings running.''
A Famine Facer.
"That hurricane in Cuba has wrecked
the tobacco plantations," says the ;
junior partner of the cigar firm. "This
looks serious for us."
"It is more serious than you think,
Harold,'* replies the senior partner.
"The sudden cold wave has frosted
tie cabbage plantation in Illinois.
Chicago Evening Post.
A cork carried 200 feet below the
surface o' the water will not rise
again. ;
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\relibious Tmths\
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From the Writings of Great
Preachers* j
WHAT IS PRAYER?
Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
The falling of a tear,
The upward glancing of an eye,
When none but God is near.
' '/
Prayer is the simplest form of speech
That infant lips can try; '
Praver the sublimest strains-that reach
The Majesty on high.
Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice
Returning from his ways;
While angels in their songs rejoice.
And cry, "behold, he prays!
Prayer is the Christian's vital breath
The Christians native air,
His watchword at the gates of death;
lie enters Heaven with prayer.
0 Thou by whom we come to God,
The Life, the Truth, the Way!
The path of prayer Thyself hast trod;
Lord! teach us how to pray.
?Sabbath Reading.
Family Worship.
It matters not what societies and
organizations there may be for the
aurture and development of Christian
ife, there Is nothing to take the place , ~
)f the Christian home, and there la
lothlng in the home to take the place
)f family worship. Other things beng
equal, there Is most of piety and 1 ;1
itrnnor nhgraotop tn ha ovnontoH frrtm
;hat home In which God's word is < Ij
'ead daily and prayer offered to God i
jy the united household. Out of such J
lomes go men and women to walk
everently and obediently before God.
o do His will, and to serve Him is
heir generation.
A community can be no better thaa ' ^
ts homes, and a church often lacks %
spirituality because its homes are de- 4
icient in divine grace. Where parents '
ead their children to a'erve God, the J
jastor can lead the community to folow
Him. But, however good and '-J
)ious the pastor may be, he is sure to
)e weak if the parents are not up- ,2
lolding his hands by piety, in the
lome, as Aaron and Hur upheld the v
lands of Moses.
If the people of this age want a >
eal revival let them commence work- ;aj
ng for it and praying for it at home,
vith their children gathered about
hem in the exercises of famllr
)rayer. God blessed the house of ^
)bededom while the ark of the cov?<
snant abode under their roof, and Her >
vill still bless the homes where He is ;
J A 1~ J mi,. Ta?I>I> ' . 358!
uveu auu uuuuxcu* xuc ocwiau ta- .1
hers were to hold the Passover s^rrice
in their homes and they were to -jra
ixplain to their children what they. .y^
neant by the service, and out of that, ijw
act grew up a whole nation that was n
cnit .together as one great homogeleous
people.
Many' fathers excuse themselves ??
Torn holding family worship by say- V
ng that they are so hurried that they -f
lo not have time. There is certainly '
>ome time during the whole twenty*'our
hours of each day when .tho en:ire
family could be gathered to;ether
for five, or ten minutes. Pre- wg
sumably it is just before breakfast or
lust after the evening meal. Let all
assemble gravely for a little time. ' ^
Let a passage of Scripture b* read r g
iloud by the father, and then, kneel- ?
Ing down, let a short prayer be adJressed
to God, thanking Him for 3
His mercies and beseeching Him for '%
continued protection, forgiveness,
guidance and grace.
Such scenes as this made Scotland :
great as a God-fearing people, or oc- y
curred because her people were and ?
have been God-fearing. We must "1
make a new effort to establish, or re- jg
establish, family worship in all oar '
families. We cannot afford to do Is
without it in one single Christian
home.?Herald and Presbyter.
What United Effort Can Accomplish. t
A bad situation was pecullarily 3|
and successfully met by brains and v
energy. The Newfoundland sealing
steamer Viking ran on a sand bar
one night recently. The Taking's 3
master is Captain Bartletfc, falser of
the commander of the Arctic steamer ;j
Roosevelt. He floated his at by |
a unique method. At high water
during the night he massed his crew
of 190 on one side of the ship and
directed them to rush in a body to
the other side; then back again, and ;
bo on. This maneuver caused the 'Tj
steamer to roll violently and she
finally worked off the sand bank and
proceeded to St. Johns, Newfound- 1
land, apparently uninjured.
Complete co-operation develops a
force in every sphere of mental or $
physical action. If ninety-five of the
men had run one way and at the |
same time the other ninety-five had
run the other way, there would have
been equilibrium, and if 125 of them
had run one way and the others had x ,
run in the opposite direction at the "1
same time, it is improbable that the
ship would have floated.
Many a church is in the condition
oi numDers running m uppusui; uiievtions,
but .no church will fail if all,
with one accord and all their ener- ,
gie3, endeavor to save it'and promote
its real interests.?Christian Advo*
cate.
The Christian at Home.
The chief duty of a Christian lies i
in the quiet, unseen life of his own j
home, and if he does not learn there
to practice that noble virtue of unselfishness?that
highest type of char,
ity which consists in daily and hourly
considerateness for the feelings of
others?he will have lost one of the
strongest resources and one of the
most healing memories for all his
future life.?F. W. Farrar.
How the World Must See Us.
The world must not see us staggering
under our crosses. It must not
see us broken-hearted, weak and
weary. It must see that we are ia
the "fellowship of His sufferings,"
and that we are supported in that
fellowship by a supernatural power.
?IV T?nhp>rt.son Nieoll.
Acquainted With God.
In order to do great things for God
we must be conversant with what
great things He has done for us.?
Watson.
Enrl Grey to Canoe 600 Miles.
Earl Grey left Ottawa for Winnipeg,
Ontario. He proposed to leave
that city for Port Nelson on Hudson
hay via the Hayes river. The 600mile
trip down the river will be made
by canoe. t
Ginger a Favorite Hero.
Americans consume half a million
pounds of preserved ginger every
year, and practically all of it comes
from China, saye Vice Consul General
Fuller at Hongkong. *