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It- // KEt DfL TALHAGE. BAOOKLYN DIVINE’S SON JI»AY SERMON. dat^ject: “Our Fo—e—ionu” Preached in Ijondon. Text: **AU are j/oure.”—I Corinthians ML, 2*. The. impression is abroad that reiigion S ts a man cn short allowance; that when • ship sailing bearenwari comes to the shining wharf it will bo found out that all the passengers had the hardest kind of sea fare; that the soldiers in Christ’s army inarch most of the time with an empty hav ersack; in a word, that only those peop e hare a good time in this world who take upon themselves no religious obligation. I want to-day to find out woether this is -so. and I am going to take account of stock; I am going to show what are the Christian’s liabilities, and what is his income,and what •are his warrantee deeds, aud what ara his bonds and mortgages, and I shall find on: before I finish just now much he is worth, •and I shall spread before you the balance sheet in time to warn you ail against the re ligion of Jesus Christ if indeed it be a fail ure, and in time for you oil to accept it if indeed it be a success. 1 turn first to the -assets, and I find there what seems to be a roll of Government securities—the empire of heaven promising all things to the possessor. The three small words of ray text are a war rantee deed to the whole universe when it says “All are yours.” In making an inventory of the Christian’s possessions I remark in the first place that be owns this world. My text implies it and the preceding verse asserts it—“whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world.'’ Now it would be an absurd thing to sup pose that God would give to strangers privileges and advantages which He would deny His own children. If you have a large park, a grand mansion, beautiful fountains, stalking deer and statuary, to whom will you give the first right to all these posses sions? To outsiders? No, to your own children. You will say, “It will bo very well for outsiders to come in aud walk these paths and enjoy this landscape, but the first right to my house, aud the first right to my statuary, the first right to my gardens shall be in the possession of my owu children. Now this world is God’s park, and whila He allows those who are not His children, .and who refuse His authority, tho privilege walking through the gardens, the possession of all this grandeur of park aud mansion is in the right of the Christiau—the flowers, the diamonds, the silver, the gold, the morn ing brightness and the evening shadow. The Christian may net have the title deed to one acre of land as recorded in the clerk’s office, he may never have paid one dollar of taxes, but he can go up on a mountain and look off upon fifty miles of gram field and say, “Ail this ia mine; my Father gave it to me.” “Ail are yours.” A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has a good right to an estate puts tho papers in bis hands, and the lawyer goes into the publio records and finds everything right for three or four or five years back; but after awhile he comes to a break in the title, to a deficit, to a diversion of the property; so he finds out that the man who supposed he owned it owns not au acre of the ground, while somebody else has the full right to the entire estate. Now I examine the title to all earthly possessions. I eo ’ back a little way, and I find that men of the world-—bad men, selfish men, wicked men— think they have a right to all these possessions; but I go further back, and I trace the title from year to year and from century to century, until I find the whole right vested in God. Now to whom did He give it? To His own children 1 “All are yours.” The simple fact is, that in the last days of the world all the architecture, all the cities, all the mountains, all the villages will be in the possession of the church of Christ. “The meek shall iuherit the earth.” Ships of Tarshish shall bring presents. “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.” “All are yours.” “But," you say, “what satis faction is there in that when l haven’t pos session of them?” These things will come ^be Supreme Judge of the universe l will regulate the title, and He will fisgFStjoatter* fipbn the ^ropesty-tbstr ^ does not belong to them, and it shall be found that “All are yours.” So, again, the refinements of life are the Christian’s right. He has a right to as good apparel, to as beautiful adornments, to as commodious a residence as the worldling. Show me any passage in the Bible that tells the people of the world they have privil eges, they have glittering spheres, they have befitting apparel that are denied the Chris tian. There is no one who has so much a right to laugh, none so much a right to everything that is beautiful aud grand and sublime in life as the Christian. “All ara yours." Can it be possible that one who is reckless and sinful and has no treasures laid up in heaven is to be allowed pleasures which the sons and daughters of God, the owners of the whole universe, are denied? So I remark that all the sweet sounds of the world are in the Christian’s right. There are people who have an idea that instru ments of music are inappropriate for the Christian’s parlor. When did the house of sin or the bacchanal get tne right to music? They have no right to it. God, in my text^ makes over to Christian people all the pi anos, all the harps, all the drums, all the cornets, all the flutes, all the organs. Peo ple of the world may borrow them, but they only borrow them; they have no right or title to them. God gave them to Christian people in my text, wueu He said, “AU ara yours,” David no more certainly owned the harp with which he thrummed the praise of God than the church of Christ owns now all chants, all anthems, all ivory keyboards, all organ diapasons, and God will gather up these sweet sounds after awhile, aud He will mingle them in one great harmony, aud the Mendelsshoos and the Beethovens aud the Mozarts of earth will join their voices and their musical instruments, the soft south wind and the loud-lunged euroclydon will sweep the great organ pipes, and you shall see Clod’s baud striking the keys and God’* foot tramping the pedals in the great ora torio of the ages I fcfo all artistic aud literary advantages are in the Christian’s right. I do not care on whose wall the picture hangs, or on whose pedestal the sculpture stands, it belongs to Christians. The Bierstadts an i the churches are all working for us. ’’All are yours.” The Luxembourgs, the Louvre, all the gal leries of Naples and Rome and Venice—they are all to come into the possession of the church of Jesus Christ. We may not now have them ou our walls, but the time will come when the writ of ejectment will be served and the church will possess every - thing. All parks, all fishponds, all colors, all harvests—all, “all are yours.” Secondly, I remark that the right to full temporal support is in the Christian’s name. It is a great affair to feed the world. Just think of the fact that this morning sixteen hundred millions of our race breakfasted at God’s table l The commissary department of ahundrei thousand man in any army will engage scores of people, but just think of the commissary department o* a world! Think of the gathering up from the rice swamps, and the tea fields, and the orchards, and the fisheries 1 No one but God could tell how many bushels it would take to feed five continents. Then, to clothe all these people, how mauy furs must be captured and how much flax broken and how much cotton picked. Just think o: the infinite wardrobe where sixteen hundred millions of people get their clothes’. God spreads the table first of all for His chil dren. Of course that wou d be a very sel fish man who would not allow other people to come and sit at the table sometimes; but first of all, the right is given to Christian people, and therefore it is extreme folly for them ever to fret about food or raiment. Who fed the whales sporting off Cape Hatteras this morning? Out of whose hand did the cormorant pick its food? Whose loom wove the butterfly’s wing? Who hears the hawk’s cry? If God takes care of a wal rus, and a Siberian dog. and a wasp, will He not take care of you? Will a father have more regard for reptdes than for his sons and daughters? If God clothes the grizzly bear, and the panther, and the hyena, will He not clothe His own children? Come. then, this morning, and get the key of the infinite storehouse. Come and get the key of the in finite wardrobe. Here they are—all the keys. “All are yours." So all the vicissitudes of this Ufa, so far as they have any religious profit, are in the right of the Christian. If you should stand among the Alleghany Mountains, especially near what is called the “Horseshoe,” you would find a train of oars almost doubling on itself, and sitting ia the book oar yon see a locomotive coming as you look oat of the window, and you think it is another train when it is only the front of the train in which you are riding; and sometimes you can hardly tell whether the train is going toward Pittsburg or toward Philadelphia, but it is on the track, and it will reach the depot for which it started, and aU the pas sengers will be discharged at the right place. Now there are a great many sharp carves in life. Sometimes we seem to be going this way and sometimes we seem to be going ttusl way, but if we are Christians we are on the right track and we are going to come out at the right place. Do not get worried, then, about the sharp curve. A filing vessel starts from New York for Glasgow. Does it go in a straight Uri6?” Oh. no. It changes its track every little while. Now you say, “This vawel, instead of going to Glasgow, must be going to Havre, or it is going to Hamburg,or it is go ing to Marseilles.” No, no It is going to Glasgow. And in this voyage of life we often have to change our tack. One storm blows us this way, and another storm blows us that way; but He who holds the winds in His fist will bring us iuto a haven of ever lasting rest just at the right time. Do not worry, then, if you have to change tack. One of the beet things that ever happened to Paul was being thrown off his horse. One of the best things that ever happened to Joseph was being thrown into the pit. The losing of his physical eyesight helped John Milton to see the battle of the angels. One of the best things that ever happened to Ignatius was being thrown to the wild beasts ia the Coliseum, and while eighty thousand people were jeering at his religion he walked up to cue nercast oi an tue nous and looked him in the eye, as much as to say. “Here I am, ready to be dovoui-ed for Christ's sake.” All things work together for your good. If you walk the desert, the manna will fall and the sea will part. If the feverish torch of sickness is kindled over your pillow, by its light you caa read the promises. If the waves of trouble dash high above your girdle, across the blast and across the surge you can hear the promise, “When thou pass- eth through the waters I will be with thee.” You never owned a glove, or a shoe, or a hat, or a a coat more certainly than you own all the frets and annoyances and exaspera tions of this life, and they are bound to work out your present and your eternal good. They are the saws, the hammers, the files by which you are to be hewn and cut and smoothed for your eternal well being. Hers is a vessel that goes along the coast; it hugs the coast. The captain of that vessel seems chiefly anxious to keep the paiut on his ship from being marred or the sails from being torn. When that vessel comes to port, nobody looks on it with any interest. But here is a vessel that went across the sea with vast product and comes in with vast importation—sails patched, masts spliced, pumps all working to keep out the water: it has come through the hurricane which has sunk twenty steamers. The bronzed men are cheering among the rigging. Now the men-of-war anchored in the harbor boom forth their welcome through the portholes. So there are some Christians who are hav ing au easy tiC.e. It seems to them smooth sailing all t^/s way. When they get into heaven thereVwill be no excitement, there will be very'few people who will ever find out they are there; but those Christians who have gone through a hundred midnight hur ricanes—storm to the right of them, storm to the left of them, storm all the way—when they come up the harbor of heaven, all the redeemed will turn out to greet them, and bid them hail and welcome. I go further, and tell you that the Christian owns not only this world, but he owns the next world. No chasm to be leaped, no desert to be crossed. There is the wall; there is the gate of heaven. He owns all ou this side. Now, I am going to show you that he owns all on the other side Death is not a ruffian that comes down to burn us out of bouse and home, destroying the bouse of the tabernacle, so that we should be homeless forever. Oh, no I He is only a black messenger who comes to tell us it is time t o move, to tell us to get out of this hut and go up into the palace. ^ The Christian owns all heaven. “All are yours.” Its palaces of beauty, its towers of strength, its castles of love. He will not walk in the eternal oity as a foreigner in a strange city, but as a farmer walks over his owu premises. “All are yours.” All the rrtarisious yours. Angels ydur companions. Trees of life your shade. H ills of glory your lookout. 'thrones of heaven the place where you will shout the triumph. Jesus is yours. God is yours. You look up into the face of God and say, “My Father." You look up into the face of Jesus aud say, “My brother.” Walk out upon the battlements of heaven and look off upon the city of the sun. No tears. No sorrow. No death. No smoke of toil ing warehouse curling on the air. No voice of blasphemy thrilling through that bright, clear Sabbath morning. No din of strife jar ring the air. Then take out your deed and remember that from throne to throne, and from wall to wall, and from horizon to hori- son “All are yours." Then get up into the temple of the sun, worshipers in white, each with a palm branch, and from high gallery of that tem ple look down the thousands of thousands, and the ten thousand times ten thousand, and the one hundred and forty and four thousand, and the great “multitude that no man can number,” and louder than the rush of the wheels, louder than She tramp of the redeemed, hear a voice saying, “All are yours!” See the great procession marching around the throne of God. Martyrs who went up on wtugs of flame. Invalids who went up from couches of distress. Toilers who went up from the workhouse, and the factory, and the mine. All the suffering and the bruised children of God. See tne cnanots ot salvation; in them those who were more t-h«n conquerors. See them marching around about the throne of God forever aud for ever, and know that “all are yours!" O ye who have pains of body that exhaust f our strength and wear out your patience hold before you this morning the laud of eternal health and of imperishable beauty, and “all is yours!” O ye who have hard work to get your daily bread, hard work to shelter your children from the storm, I lift before you the vision of that land where they never hunger, and they never thirst, and God feeds them, and robes cover them, and tba warmth of eternal love fills them, and all that is yours! Oh. if there be any present who are yet enemies of the Cross of Christ, I beseech them at once to be reconciled to God 1 Re member if you are not found among that white robed army who follow the Saviour in His victorious march, your part must be with those concerning whom it is said, “The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven in flaming fire, taking vengeance on those that know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the pres ence of the Lord and from the glory of His power when He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe.” PAYS TO BE A PROPHET. Young Sitting Bull’s Rich Haul iu the Indian Territory. Sitting Bull. Jr., of the Cheyenne tribe in Northern Dakota, who went among the In dians of the Indian Territory a year ago as the prophet of the coming Messiah, has just left the Comancue tribe to return to his Northern home. The Cornancaes gave a trioe dance in his honor before ue ie:t. Young Bull has round tne propnec busi ness very profitable, ne was presented with 100 horses, OOU head of cattle and nearly a ear.oad o: blankets aud costly trinkets. He married two of the Comanche girls,although already having tour wives in North Dakota. STORM IN SOUTH DAKOTA. Three Persons Fatally Hurt ami Crops and Buildings Destroyed. A severe wind aud electric storm swept over South Dakota, doing great damage to crops an 1 property. The town of Gettys burg, the county seat of Potter County; was almost destroyed. Twenty houses aud the Methodist and Bap tist churches were blown down. A Mrs. Herron was killed and throe persons were fatally hurt. Elevators and warehouses and many dwell ings at points on the Chicago and North western and Great Northern railways were destroyed. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LRSSON FOR AUGUST T. Le<*»on Text: “The Apostle*’ Confi dence in God,” Acts »▼., 19-31— Golden Text: Acts iv., 31— Commentary. IS. “But Peter and Joan answered and said unto them, whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God. judge ye.” Remember that these are two Galilean fishermen, unlearned and ignorant men (verse IJi, standing in the S resence of the greatest dignitu-ies of the ews’ religion, even in the presence of at least two of the very men who had Jesas put to death (verse 6), but they have no tear. They are like the friends of Daniel in the presence of the kin? of Babylon and see only one thing to do (Dan. iii., 16-18), and are ready to do it. The presence of Jesus is more to them than the presence of any or all of these men. and by His grace they will do right in His sight. 20. “For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” When Jeremiah was reproached for the Word of God be said hastily that he would speak it no more, but it was a fire in his bones, and he could not keep quiet (Jer. xx . 8,!)). So it was with these men and with Paul (I Jotrai., 1-3; Acts xxi?., 15). If then we can easily keep quiet, the question is have we seen in Jesus nothing wortn mentioning? If so, bow different trom that man of Gadera, woo published through the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him (Luke viii., 31). 21. “feio when they had further threatened them they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the peo ple—for all men glorified God for that which was done.” How often the people are ready to believe but are kept back by tbe rulers. There would be many more be lievers in a full Gospel to-dav if they were not kept back by the blindness and false teachings of many preachers. As in Jer emiah’s day the prophets lied in the name of the Lord and perverted His words, so it is now (Jer. xxiii., 16. 21, 35, 36). And like those rulers they would fain shut up these who speaK the whole truth. 22. “For the man was above forty years old on whom this miracle o£ healing was shewed.” Jesus healed people who had been affl'cted twelve, eighteen and thirty-eight years (Luke viii., 43; xiii., 16; John v„ 5), but this notable case He lett for Peter and John; a handful on purpose for these glean ers in His field (Ruth ii., Ifi). There is noth ing too hard for the Lord (Jer. xxxii., 17), and when we meet a special difficulty let us see in it a great opportunity for God to work and glorify Himself. 33. “And being let go they want to their owu company, and reported all that the chief priests and ciders had said unto them.” They knew just whera to find their friends, and without hesitation they seek those who were gathered in Jesus’s name,and who were perhaps praying for the prisoners. Think of Jesus at the age of twelve, not found with the other boys, but with the learned men in the temple, and probably asking some wonderful questions (Luke ii., 46). 34. “Aud when they heard that thev lifted up ttoeir voice to God with one accorii and said. Lord, Thou art God, which hast made heaven and earth and the sea, and all tnat in them is.” They think at once of their great and faithful Creator to whom Peter in one of his epistles teaches us to commit our souls (I Peter iv , 16».Compare Isa. xxxvii., 16; xl., 36; xdi., 5, 6; Jer. xxxii., 17. They evidently oelieved that their Cod had power to d» as He pleased both in heaven and on earth (Dan iv., 35). 25. “Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said. Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?" Ob serve that it was David’s mouth but not David’s words. The words were the words of God. Compare Ex. iv., 12; II Sam. xxiii., 2; Jer. i., 2; John xii., 49, and be foolish enough in the eyes of earth’s wise men to believe in verbal in spiration. 36. “The kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ.” See in the third verse of this second psalm from which we are quoting how He that sitteth ip the heavens laughs at all man’s vain aud puny efforts against Him. Coaip&ra Isa. ▼iii., 9, 10; xxxvii., 33-35; Ex. xiv., 3L When will men learn that all thoughts against God are vain thoughts and must perish? Surely it is very evident “the carnal mind is enmity against God” (Rom viii., 7). 27. “For a truth against Thy holy child, Jesus, whom Thou bast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together.” There was a fulfillment of part of Ps. ii. in the treatment of Jesus by Jews and Gentiles at His crucifixion. So surely shau verse 6 be fulfilled when Jesus shall sit ou David’s throne at Jerusalem (Luke i., 32, 33<, and verses 8, 9 shall also be fulfilled when He comes iu glory, bringing all His saints with Him (Rev. ii., 26, 27). 28. “For to do whatsoever Thy hand and Thy counsel determined before to be done.” “God declares the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, anck I will do all my pleasure”(Isa. xlvi., 10). And yet men are free to accept or refuse His gracious invitations of mercy (John v., 40; Luke xiv., 18; John iii. 16). As surely as Christ suffered, so surely shall He reign, but only such as suffer with Him shall reign with Him (II Tim. ii. Id. 29. “And now. Lord, behold their threat enings, aud grant unto Thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak Thy word!” It is the Word of the Lord that shall do the work, for it is the same wore that made the heavens (Ps. xxxiii., 6). Tho Word of Godin the power of the Spirit is the Fire and Hammer that breaks the rock in pieces (Jer. xxiii., ^9/. As to all threat ening words or letters, we have only to say. Lord, behold them: Just spread them be fore Him, and let Him see to it (Isa. xxxvii., 14; Ps. xxxvii5). 30. “By stretching forth Thine hand to heai; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of Thy Holy Child Jesus.” They remembered His prom iso concerning signs and wonders in Mark xvi., 17, 18. 31. "And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together, aud they were all tilled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of Goo with boldness.” An immediate answer to their prayer, as in the case of Daniel and Elijah (Dan. ix., 21; I Kings xviii., 37.38). The topic upon waich they spake is given iu verse 33, and makes us long to know Him and the power of His resurrection. Out it cannot be apart from the fellowship of His sufferings (Phil. iii-. 19). Yet tremble not at the thought, for tbe glory will far exceed the sufferings (Rom. viii., 18), and where His love leadetii we surely cannot fear to follow.—Lesson Helper. RIVALS FOR THE BAR-ROOMS. A glance at the bar-rooms of the great hotels of tae city will convince the most skeptical that the saloon of to-day spares no pains or exoense in catering to the finer tastes of its patrons, say* H 9V - , Thomas Dixon, Jr., in Frank Leslie’s Weekly. Men become drunkards often under protest. Thousands of young men go to the devil be cause there seems to be nowhere else to go. Suppose the ten thofisan i saloons in New York were opposed by five thousand coffee houses on the stylo of the English establish ments. Suppose they were fitted up as handsomely and situated as well, and filled with good cheer, would not drinking be re duce! to a minimum'' I do not mean so many dingy stores where coffee and other temperance drinks, creams, and the like, are serve). What I mean is that they should be fitted in handsome style as social centres, wita free reading rooms, lunch rooms, smoking rooms ani assembly rooms. In other words, only supoose we snould put fortn tne same labor and outlay toward sav ing and elevating men as is now put forth to'damn them with alcohol. It would be a big job I grant. The decorations alone in fitting up of the Vendooie barroom cost about $40,900. There are single paintings am on' the rich treasures of art that adorn the Hoffman House bar valued as high as $60 000. I*have yet to hear of theevery-iay young Tnqn who buys a keg of beer or whisky, takes it up to his cheerless room, sits down over it, aud drinks merely for the sake of drinking- The recent census of the tene ment bouse population of New York taken the Board of Health shows that 1,230,000 of our 1,600,000 inhabitants live in second and third class tenements—that is, they are homeless. Ia it not time that we recognize the fact that the saloon has built itself into taa sociM structure of modern life, and that we must seek here for one of the most im portant secrets of its power? TEMPERANCE. IT'S my treat. Three young men were walking along on the street; “Come, fellows!” said Tom with the best of intent, “Let’s all have a drink—if s my pleasure to treat;” And into a bar-room they merrily went— For sons will treat and mothers must weep And habits be sown that will misery reap At the gilded bar a-groaning. Three young mun whose thirst had been quenched by one glass And wanted no more linger ad still at the bar; “Now take one with me," exclaimed Dick, for, alas. He thought it tbe way to keep honor at par— For men will treat for no reason at all Except from a fear to look stingy or smalt At the tempting bar a-moaoing. Three young men who hated the liquor they quaffed Stood yet at the bar though they wanted to go; “It’s my turn to treat,” “fill ’em up,” Harry laughed And down their throats slid the demon of woe— For men will treat ani be treated until They love what at first was a nauseating ill At the deadly bar a-groaning. If young men would sensibly sit down aud think How foolish this custom of treating be comes And how it induces the habit of drink That ruins their lives and destroys their sweet homes. Wives, mothers and sisters no longer would weep, For those, bsyng tempted, long agonies reap At the hear tlesf bar a-moaning. Or, if from good nature, young persons must treat Then let them give what will be good to the end, A book or a paper or something to eat Will neither be harmful to thjui or a friend— For long as men treat fellow-men to the worst Themselves aud their dear ones will ever be cursed At the devil’s bar a-groaning. —H. C. Dodge, in Chicago Sun. oatmeal vs. beer. Beer as a sustaining beverage for work men has received a severe blow from oat meal water. Five thousand men employed in reducing 200 miles of English broad- guage track to narrow guage were given oatmeal water only to quench their thirst, and the work was completed in thirty-four hours. It was thought impossible to ac complish the feat without giving the men their regular allowance of beer. SOME UQUOR STATISTICS. The “drink question” is a huge one, and it confronts every Nation. In Germany it is discussed under the title of “Die Deutsche Alcohole Frage,” and the Englishman who knows no language can make a pretty good guess at what the German words mean. The discussion of the question has brought out some statistics which are altogether startling and depressin^^ “^‘ne quarter of the pro ductive energ^Btf the country is devoted to making some^nnd of intoxicated drink. That is one fa^K,Another is that the pro duction of rna^B: ! manufactured into beer, wine and sp^H in Germany occupied in 1889-90 just a|^V. one-fifteenth oi the culti vated land of tVountry. As a consequence “bread riots” out occasionally, and the “food question®) seen to be intimately re lated to the H^ink question,” and both to the stability o^Vle Government aud good order through.® the Empire. The Sunc cent valuable View of Tota “To-day itj ger in wine i of food and I invite to exc<| user is exp indulge in bis appetite control. As a I it is mauifestl drinking thaf involves. Nc temptation orl for if he will' TEMPERANCE YEWS ANT) NOTES. Nine counties of California are success fully enforcing prohibitory and restrictive ordinances against the liquor traffic. The Joliet (III.) Woman s Christian Tem perance Union distributed 1590 bouquets at the penitentiary ou flower mission day. The trust distilleries of Illinois are short ening their output of whisky, but they say it is uot to shorten the supply, and that prices will not be affected. John E. Thornton, sixty-five years old. was hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., recently for the murder of his dau ghcer, wnile drunk. Before his execution he appealed to the spectators to abstain from the use of liquor. The Louisiana Women’s C hristian Tem oer ance L nion has had a successful year and is enlarging its borders in every direction. Strong and earnest workers have been en gaged ani wili spare no p>ains to advance white-riboon interests in New Orleans and the State generally. The Secretary of the Navy has approve*! the finding of tae court martial, which re cently tried Chief Engineer Burdette C. Gowing, at New Yorx, upon tae charge of drunkuess whils ou duty. Tbe court found him guilty and imposed a sentence of two years’ suspension rrom duty. A Deer saloon on wheels is the latest in vention in Portland. Me. A hack stands by the curb, as it waiting for a passenger. A man who is in the secret, gets in, and the back starts on a trip around the block. The- occupant lifts tbe front seat, finds a bottle and a glass, takes a drink, and puts tbe money in a box and closes the trap. When the vehicle gets back at tbe starting place the men gets out, and the hack is ready for the next customer. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. IE TO ABSTAIN. :hqol Times concludes a re- ;ile, entitled “A Sensible ttinence,” as follows: ivient that there is a dan- ikig. Unlike other articles •in alcoholic beverages so ■fcr;their very use that their peculiar temptation to L-oro and more freely, until lopeiessiy subject to their [ter of prudence, therefore, ’£r to abstain from wine run the special risks that it ibn can say that he is above |oq4 peril in this matter; .top and look at the facts in the case, h.Mvll see that men fully his equal iu int^Lptual power, in personal character, i^® e ;rength of will, in social standing, ai® m spiritual attainments, have alread^MMCCuoibed to the tempta tion to to excess, while no meu who wa^^B)tal abstainer ever became a drunkard.^^®’eover, in view of the dan gers to oth^^^Hbo are under the influence of his exam^^Vn his family or in the out side eommu^® r , the man who can abstain from wine i^^King ought to do it for the sake of those^Bbo Took to him for wise lead ing. Granted .for example, in another sphere, that there be no sin in the thing itself, in the making of oiye’s home, with one’s*fami- ly, in a house whei-e poisonous sewer gases find their way through the drain pipes into the living roo a*; ( granted, also, that some dwellers in that house have remaiued alive, while others had ' died from the poisonous laden atmosphere, would it be wise or right to seek a home there for one’s self, or one’s loved one’s, with tie risk involved, while another house, of i ze advantages, and of no higher cost, that 'S wholly free irom such perils, is open to his cnoice 1 ’ “In short, even though the Bible does not explicitly command total abstinence as the duty of every child of God, the Bible evi dently leaves it free to every child of God to be a total abstainer if he wishes to be; and therefore it is for the Christiau believer to do, and to deem it his duty to do, that which, in tbe light of all that he sees and knows, is the best and safest thing to do. Looking around him every man sees tim better men than himself have become drunkards through attempting to be mod erate drinkers; and he knows that there is uo certainty t,.at he wili uot drink to excess if he drinks at all, while be is perfectly safe so long as he remains a total abstainer—as he is privileged to remain. Every man sees, moreover, that his example in this matter is sure to influence some who are obviously weaker than himself, therefore that, if De drinks at all, he may lead these persons to drink to excess. Having the choice between drinking and abstaining, and knowing that by drinking ha imperils himself and imperils others, while by abstaining he secure safety for himself and for others, how can he choose drinking without sinning?” The Missouri. FVn«n and Texas Railroad Company offend a reward of *0,000 for the capture of tbe Dalton robbers who held up an express train ia tbe Indian Territory. Appreciation waite on contrast. Hope mast find root in s moderate degree of expectation. Friends are not subject to barter, transference or exchange. In its gentle service for civilization tbe heart hat done more than tbe bead. The morbid mind is general y one wdich lacks e. good memory for for getfulness. There are only two beautiful things ia the world, women and roses; aud only two sweet things, women aud melon. One can, to an almost laughable degree, infer what a man’s wife is like from his opinion about women in general. Chieftainship, the divine right of kings, which had its very natural or igin in the superiority of the few, will as naturally disappear with the growing equality of the many. The divine right of beauty is the only divine right a man can acknowl edge, and a pretty woman the only tyrant he is not authorized to resist. A noted thinker once made the statement that “culture does not al ways cultivate,” and when we look about ua in the world we arc forced to believe that his statement, paradox though it is, ia true. The gardener may mellow the soil, fertilize the ground and make every needful, fundamental preparation, but if he sows no seet^lhat has within it ihe embryo of usefulness, weeds will grow up all the more plentifully. A Curious 1'elejthone Line, A curious telephone line has been working for the last ihree years be tween two private houses in the sub urbs of London, England. Tho Treed By an Elephant. “Having iu my younger days,” said a traveler at the Auditorium,“ac- * quired a taste for country sports I j carried this with me to India, where i field recreations, in the way of extir pating wild animals, were of a more serious kind than [ had been accus tomed to. Not at all daunted, I be came expert at hunting the jackal, the leopard and the tiger. I had fre quently heard of elephant catching, and resolved to enjoy that noble sport also. Having obtained the confidence of Tagore, one of the most expert ele phant hunters in the country, I soon had opportunity to gratify my wishes in this respect. When the day ar rived I was assigned to a female ele phant, and when tho parly reached a grove Tagore called my attention to a tremendous elephant, which we im mediately attempted to capture. Care fully approaching and allowing our trained elephants to attract the savage monster’s attention, Tagore fastened a rope around the beast’s leg and to a large neighboring tree, when we re treated to the rear. Our tremendous captive struggled with great violence and bellowed like thunder. “Well, to make a long story short, he broke away aud made for us. I climbed into the nearest tree, and my heart nearly leaped from ray breast as the monster stood bellowing and look ing at me; then as if studying re venge, he surveyed the body of the tree, and, like a battering ram, drove his immense weight against the trunk with such repeated violence, that I was nearly shaken from my hold. He paused, and then commenced tearing the earth from the roots of the tree with such vehemence that I saw no possibility of esenpe when the tree should fall. My fortitude seemed to forsake me, and I contemplated cast- ing„myself to tho ground, that my u .ery might not be protracted. Meanwhile ihe monster pursued his attack, alternately tearing away the earth and straining his head against the tree. Heavens I what [felt as it yielded to the pressure! Tho tree felt! But, from the eagerness of the exer tion, in a slanting direction, and its topmost branches became entangled with the lower limbs of a much larger adjoining tree. I gained it with in credible rapidity as my former perch fell to the ground. “I was saved, and after a night of horrors was rescued by Tagore and his friccds. I have not cared to hunt elephants since.”—[Chicago Mail. singular point about the line consists in ihe use of an electric light circuit for telephonic communications and electric light purposes, either inde pendently or simultaneously. The interference when the two lines are working is so slight as to be barely noticeable, and a novice would never guess from the slight rustling hea d when the engine is running that a ten or twelve ampere current was passing along the line, and that tho vocal sounds were being produced by a slight variation caused by the respec tive telephone transmitters at either end of the line. The length of the line is comparatively short, as the houses between which it runs are only a quarter of a mile apart. 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