KANSAS AND MISSOURI. REMARKABLE PROSPERITY PRE VAILS IN THESE TWO STATES. Comparison of Gafn In Wealth Last Year—Higher Values of Live Stock and Crops Great Increase In Bank ' Deposits and In Depositors. Missouri has gained $128,000,000 In wealth under this Republican adminis tration. The State of Kansas has gained almost 9100,000,000 in wealth under this Republican administration. These substantial facts, showing that greater prosperity had visited Missouri and Kansas during the last three years, should not be forgotten by their citizens during the campaign. Tbe Democratic party is notoriously an anti-prosperity party, and the farm ers and wage earners in Kansas and Missouri must not allow themselves to be led away by the f-lse promises and calamity howling of their Demo cratic friends. Our statements are from official figures and show the In crease in wealth In these two States to be as follows: KANSAS. 189(3. 1809. Live stock $80,040,272 $132,709,873 Crops 83,303.684 111.391,831 Bank deposits ... 17,147,160 33.505,101 Total $180,500,116 $277,056,805 Increase in 1899 '87,156,089 MISSOURI. 1896. 1899. Live stock $93,718,709 $113,806,386 Crops 58,219,870 78,411,465 Bank deposits ... 53,921,953 141.726.449 Total $205,860,532 $333,944,300 Increase in 1899 128,083.768 In Kansas it will be noted that the farmers have gained $80,000,000 through the increased value of their live stock and principal crops this year as compared with 1800. In Missouri the farmers have gained $40,000,000 this year alone from the 6ame source. The following detailed statement of values of live stock Is official, being taken from the returns of the Depart ment of Agriculture: T . KANSAS. • Jan. 1. Jan. 1. 1896. 1900. Horses $20,609,057 $26,695,769 Mules 2.845.995 2,827.859 Cows 13.778,371 2:2.999.438 Cattle 33.903.604 62.401.253 Sheep 413,906 835.534 Swine 8.498,279 1 6,000,000 Total $80,049,272 $132,759,873 MISSOURI. Jan. 1. Jnn. 1. 1896. 1900. Horses $23,039,549 $24,891,718 Mules 6.914,427 7.210.321 Cows 17.359,416 18,868.307 Cattle 32,565.492 36.981.329 Sheep 1.475.953 1.854.711 Ewine 12,718,709 24,000,000 Total $93,718,709 8113,806,386 In Kansas the largest gains to farm ers have been in their cattle and hogs. This they well know, because their re turns when selling their live stock have been so much larger this yea:- than tliey were under a Democrat!: administration. The next table shows the Improve ment In the price of the staple crops grown by farmers,which represents an increase of $28,000,000 for Kansas, and over $20,000,000 for Missouii. KANSAS. 1896. 1899. Corn $44,592,121 $59,405,306 Wheat 19.400,505 19,963.353 Oats 3,809.401 8,608.470 Barley 19,065 859,43 a Hay 13,316,122 18.045.678 Potatoes 2,015,803 4.259,860 • Wool 150,667 249,073 Total 883.303.684 $111,391,531 MISSOURI. 1896. 1599. Corn $35,333,730 $48,874,510 Dats 3,374,583 4.871,844 Cotton 747,089 1,324,800 Hay K. 996.275 19.339.902 Potatoes 2.435.869 3.502,903 Wool 311,724 497,342 Total $58,219,870 $78,411,465 Corn, oats, hay and potatoes show the largest gains in both States. While wool is not so much grown here as. in the far Western States, still the in crease under protection in the value of tbe clip has been satisfactory to those farmers who raise sheep. In Missouri tills year's cotton crop was worth al most twice as much as it was in 181)0 under the Democratic administration. Lastly, an examination of the num ber of bank depositors in Kansas and Missouri is full of facts upon which our citizens can congratulate them selves. The figures are taken from tbe last annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency: In the State of Kansas there were £3,151 people who had bank accounts in 1S01; last year there were 100,840 bank accounts in that State. In 1804 the total deposits In Kansas amounted to $17,147,1G0; last year the total amount of the deposits was $33,505,101. There has been an increase of practic ally 100 per cent., both in the number of people who lmd money to deposit in the banks, and in the total amount cf mon««y on deposit in Kansas. In the State of Missouri tnere were 117,367 persons who had bank accounts in 1S04; last year there were 213,000 bank accounts. In 1894 the total amount of deposits in Missouri was $53,021,053. In 1800 the deposits in all the banks of Missouri i.ad increased to $141,720,440. While the number of depositors in Missouri had Increased by 00 per cent., the total amount of money deposited had increased by 103 per cent. These facts and figures do not show the increase in the business done at the stores, mines and factories, nor the larger amount of wages paid to the thousands of people who earn their livelihood in these two States. While the Democratic orators are en larging upon the benefits that will hap pen to the country if a Democratic President and Democratic Congress be elected this year, our citizens should not neglect tiie blessings and prosper ity which they have derived under the Republican administration that is now in power. It is unwise to throw away the substance for the shadow. M'KINLEY'S AMERICANISM. Englishmen I>o Not Entliase Over Dli ltenomlnatlon. A copyrighted Lonoou cablegram to the New York Tribune says if there be any doubt in the United States re specting English opinion of McKin ley and Republican politics, it may be dispelled by the reticence of the Lon don and provincial press respecting the work of the Philadelphia conven tion. There are few comments on it, and such as there are have a perfunc tory sound. These are not eulogies of McKinley,, and the Republican party is not embarrassed by English patron age or flattery. The party platform is described as moderate and the nom inations as good as the circumstauce* permitted. The nearest approach to compliment is the Spectator's remark that McKinley is possibly too much of a politician, but that he has won and receives internationa' respect. The English press Is preoccupied with affairs in Souui Africa and China, and has no space in reserve for a trivial incident in Anglo-Saxon his tory, such as the election of a Presi dent by a nation of eighty millions. Moreover there are no illusions here respecting either President McKinley or the Republican party. Both are known to be downright American, and not in any sense English. President McKinley is not suspected of having ever made an apology for introducing the tariff bill which bore his name, and the party which renom'nated him, so far from repudiating protectionism, has reflirmed it and added to it sub sidles for American shipping. Nobody in England ever speaks c" McKinley as anything but an uncom promising champion of American ideas and policies. Hence his renomination is received here without enthusiasm and with quiet reserve, as possibly not the best choice, but one which divides the Republican party least Career of Roosevelt. Porn in No. 28 East Twentieth street, New York City, on October 27th, ISSB. Eight generations of his father's family lived there. Of mingled Dutch, Scotch, Irish and 1< .ench-Huguenot ancestry. Was graduated from Harvard :n 1880, a leader in college athletics and with a well-trained mind. Studied law and In 1881 was elected to the Assembly. Was re-elected In 1883, 18S4 and 1885. Introduced many reform measures for New York City. Was Republican candidate for Mayor in ISB6 against Hewitt and George. Lost by 22,00«» plurality. Member of United States Civil Strv lce Commission under Cleveland. Resigned in 1895 to become a Police Commissioner of New I'ork. Became Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897. Commanded the Rough Riders in the war with Spain. Was elected Governor of New York in 1898. Will ho elected Vice-President of the United States in 1900. Want Campaign Watchword. The insincerity of the Democratic anti-trust cry may be measured by the fact that the party refused to vote for the anti-trust legislation introduced into the last session of Congress. Had the measure passed they would have been handicapped in the approaching contest, and have demonstrated the fact that they do not hate the trusts enough to sacrifice a good campaign catchword. Had Money to ?pend. In reply to the charge that the Re publican Congress made heavy appro priations, it may be said that they were made from a full treasury, in view of an income that; exceeds ex penditures, while the last Democratic Congress spent far more than was col lected, and even sold bonds to i>ay current expenses in time of peace. Kvldently. The Democratic Governor of Mis souri Las evidently proceeded on the theory that the lawless element en gaged in shooting down innocent ana inoffensive citizens is entitled to his protection under the "government by consent of the governed" clause. Lemt Knocked Out. Representative Lentz received his Waterloo blow right at home. The Ohio Democrats declined to adopt his resolutions on the Idaho mining riots and their platform contains no refer once to the long drawn out effort to manufacture campaign material. MuLea Are Valuable. Mules are not kicking these days. They find they are better appreciated and better tre; *ed because they are worth sl2 a head more to the farmers this year than they were at the be ginning of 1897, before thj Republican administration. Will lie Overruled, Chairman Jones says it will be the policy of the Democrats to plan their campaign so as to carry every State in the Union. Does this moan that they will ask for a new trial in Ore gon? Twaa Eren Tliua. The Ohio Democrats were the first to start the free silver craze. The Ohio Democrats always were political quiters. Two ol a Kind. Philadelphia lias kept all of its con vention pledges. In this respect Phila delphia resembles the Republican party. Their Sonnd Judgment. It appears that the Oregon voters, after due deliberation, decided that the emperor threat was-intended for political suckers only. Procperltr the Advance Agqpt. Turn about is but fair play,and pros perity will attend to the advance wonk for President McKinley tbls year. OUR COAL, IRON AND TIN HOW THESE THREE GREAT INDUS TRIES HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED. Production In the United States, l'nH« a Protective Turin, Hut Far Kxceeried That or Other Couutrle. Acilvltj In Our Factorle*. Three great industries—coal, iron and tin plate—have made especial progress under the development of our manu facturing system, coal production be ing of itself a measure of the develop ment of manufacturing, since coal en ters so largely into that industry. The cool production of the United Kingdom during thirty years, during all of which time that country has been under a low tariff, only increased from 115,000,000 tons to 220,000,000 tons, or a little less than 100 per cent. Germany, which adopted a pro tective tariff about the middle of the period under consideration, has in creased her coal output from 3*5,000,000 tons to 144.000,000 tons—a growth of 300 per cent. France, also a protec tion country,increased her output from 14,097,080 tons in 1868 to 35,784,044 tons in 1898, an increase of 150 per cent. The United States, which has been constantly under a protective tariff law during that period (with the exception of three years), increased her output from 31,048,960 tons in 1808 to 258,539,050 tons in 1899—an increase of over 700 per cent. It must be re membered, in addition to this, that the United States has consumed in her factories, on her railways, and among her people practically all of this enor mous iucrease, our exports of coal averaging less than three per cent, of our total production, while Great Brit ain has been for years a large ex porter of coal. Our production in 1594, the year in which the free trade tariff was en acted, fell to 170,000,000 tons, as against 182.000,000 in the preceding year, and the value of the product fell from $208,000,000 in 1893 to #180,000,- 000 in 1894, a loss in a single year of 522.000.iKX) in this one article in which labor forms so Important a part of its value. In IS9I. under protection nod the ac tivity of the great industries of the country, the average number of days in which the men in the coal mines of the United State; were employed was 232. In 1893, the year in which a low tariff President and Congress came into power, the number of days In which the miners were employed dropped to 201 and in IS:>4 dropped again to ITS; while in 18!>7. the last year of the Wilson tariff, the number was but 179, a reduction of twenty per cent, in the time in which they were employed as compared with 1891. The figures for 1898 show a marked in crease in the number of days employed and an Increase of 38.000 men, as com pared with 1893; while it is apparent that the figures for 1599 will, wl(en completed, show a much larger in crease, since the product in 1899 was 30,000,000 tons greater than in IS9S, and 88,000.000 greater than in 1594, an increase of near; twenty per cent, in production and twenty-live per cent, in value of the product. Pig iron production in the United States has increased from 3:835,191 tons in 1880 to 13,020,703 tons in 1899, which year placed the Lnlted States at the head of the Iron and steel pro ducing nations of the world. The pig iron production of 1592 was 9,157,000 tons. In 1893, the year of the inaugu ration of Democracy and free trade, it fell to 7,124,0 tH) tons; in 1594 to 0..057.000 to \ and In 1890 was but 8,<523.000 tons. The year 1597, 't which protection was again adopted, showed an incre .se to 9,032,080 tons, and In 1891> an increase to 13,020,703 tons. Thus the fall from the last year of President Harrison to 1894, the year in which the Democratic tariff was enacted, was 2,499,622 tons, or twen ty-seven per cent., while the increase of 1899 over 1890, the last full year under the Democratic tariff,was 4,997,- 570 tons, or fifty-seven per cent. The average annual price of steel rails during the period of protection, from 1880 to 1893, fell from $07.50 in 1880, to $28.12 in 1893. In 1594, the year in which the low tariff was adopt ed, there was a fall of $4 per ton, but the price returned to S2B in IS9O, drop ping to $18.75 in 1897, the year : which the protective tariff was again adopted, $17.02 in 1898, and returned in 1899 to $28.12, the figure at which it stood in 1893 and 1890. Under this long period of protection and the development of the manufact uring industries which accompanied it, the imports of iron and steel fell from $71,200,099 to $12,100,400, and the manufacturers, besides supplying the enormous addition to the home market, which this reduced importa tion implies, also increased their ex portation of iron and steel manufact ures from $14,710,524 in 1880 to $93,- 710,031 in 1899. In the year 11)00 the total will amount to $120,000,000, or more than eight times that of ISSO. Kriult of Protection. Democrats used to say that Europe would not buy American goods if barred out European goods by a pro tective tariff. In the 1895 fiscal year, under the Wilson bill, Europe bought from us to the extent of $034,000,000. Last year, under the Dingley protect ive tariff, Europe's purchases amounted to $959,000,000. The balance to tin cred't of the protective tariff was $320,000 000 last year in our trade with Europe aldne. Tli© Golden Field*. The Kansas wheat fields present .1 beautiful golden hue and the harvest ing goes merrily on. They are most unattractive places for free silver ora tors. A Trap Well Set. The New York Journal set the trust trap and caught a fine batch of Demo cratic office holders. It was baited witb ice Instead of cheese. DR. TALMAGE'3 SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE B/THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject : The of Clirlnt Tl«w Divine Power Will Ileal tlie Wnrlil— Jesus tlie Surgeon Wliu Will Extir pate tlie Dlseoae of Sin. [Copyright lwu.l WASHINGTON. 1). C.—ln this discourse Dr. Talmaze puts in nn unusual light the mission of Christ, and shows how divine power will vet make the illnesses of tlie world fall back: text, Matthew si. 5, "The blind receive their sight, and the lame ivalk.the lepers are cleansed and the deaf liear." "Doctor," I slid to a distinguished sur geon. "do you not get worn out with con stantly seeing so many wounds and bro ken bones and distortions of the human body?" "Oh. no," he answered; "all that is overcome by my joy in curing them." A sublimer and more merciful art never same down from heaven than that of sur gery. Catastrophe and disease entered the earth so early that one of the first wants of the world was a doctor. Our crippled and agonized human race called for surgeon and family phvsician for many rears before they came. The first surgeons who answered this call were ministers of religion—namely, the Kgvptian priests. And what a grand thing if all clergymen prere also doctors, all D. D.'s were M. D.'s, 'or there are so many cases where body ind soul need treatment at the same time, consolation and medicine, theology and therapeutics. As the first surgeons of the ivorld were also ministers of religion, may these two professions always he in full sympathy! But under what disadvanta les the early surgeons worked, from tlie fact that dissection of the human body tvas forbidden, first by the pagans and then by the earlv Christians! Apes being the brutes most like the human race, were dissected, but no human body might be infolded for physiological and anatomical Exploration, and the surgeons had to guess tvnat was inside the temple by looking at the outside of it. If they failed in any surgical oneration, they were persecuted md driven out of the city, as was Archa tathus because of his bold but unsuccess !ul attempt to save a patient. But the world from the very beginning kept calling for surgeons, and their first ikill is spoken of in Genesis, where they ;mployed their art for the incisions of a lacred rite, God making surgery the prede ;essor of baptism, and we see it again in II Kings, where Ahaziali, the monarch, Itepped on some cracked latticework in !he palace, and it broke, and he fell from '.he upper to the lower floor. nnil he was so liurt that he sent to the village of Ekron for aid, and Aesculapius, who wrought such wonders of surgery that he was dei fied and temples were built for his wor ihip at Per it run os; and Epidaurus and I'odelirius introduced for the relief of the ivorld phlebotomy, and Damocedea cured the dislocated ankle of King Darius and the cancer of his queen, and Hippocrates ,iut successful hand on fractures and intro duced amputation, and Praxagoras re moved obstructions, and Herophilus began dissection, and Krasistratus removed tu mors, and Celsus, the Roman surgeon, re moved cataract from the eye and used the Spanish fly; anu Heliodorus arrested dis ease of the throat, and Alexander of Trnlles treated the eye, and Rhazas cauterized for the prevention of hydrophobia, and Perci ral Pott came to combat diseases of the spine, and in our own century we have had, among others, a Roux and a Lnrray in r ranee, an Astlev Cooper and an' Abcrnethv in Great Britain and a Valen tine Mott and Willard Parker and Samuel D. Gross in America, and a galaxy of liv ing surtreons as brilliant as their predeces sors. What mighty progress in the baf fling of disease since the crippled and sick nf ancient cities were laid along the streets, that people who had ever been hurt or disordered in the same way might suggest what had better be done for the patients! But notwithstanding all the surgical and medical skill of the world, with what ten acity the old diseases hang onto the hu man race, and most of' them are thou sands of years old, and in our Bibles we read of them—the carbuncles of Job and Hezekiali, the palpitation of the heart spo ken of in Deuteronomy, the sunstroke of a child carried from the fields of Shunem, rrying, "My head! my head!" King Asa's disease of the feet, which was nothing but gout; defection of teeth, that called for uental surgery, the skill of which, almost equal to anything modern, is still seen in the filled molars of the unrolled Egyptian mummies; the ophthalmia caused by the juice of the newly ripe fig, leaving the peo ple blind by the roadside; epilepsy, as in the case of the young man often falling into the fire and oft into the water; hy pochondria, as of Nebuchadnezzar, who imagined himself an ox and going out to the fields to pasture; the withered hand, which in Bible times, as now. came from the destruction of the main artery or from paralysis of the chief nerve; the *ounds of the man whom the thieves left for dead on the road to Jericho, and whom the good Samaritan nursed, pouring in oil and wine—wine to cleanse the wound and oil to soothe it. Thank Ciod for what sur gery has done for the alleviation and cure of human suffering! But the world wants a surgery without pain. Dre. Parre and Hickman and Simp son and Warner and Jackson, with their amazing genius, came forward, and with their anaesthetics benumbed the patient with narcotics and ethers as the ancients, did with hasheesh and mandrake, and quieted him for awhile, but at the return of consciousness distress returned. The world has never seen but one surgeon who could straighten the crooked limb, cure the blind eye or reconstruct the drum of a soundless ear or reduce a dropsy without pain, and that surgeon was Jesus Christ, the mightiest, grandest, gentlest and most sympathetic surgeon the world ever saw or ever will see, and He deserves the confi dence and love and worship and hosanna of all the earth and halleluiahs of all heaven. "'The blind receive their sight and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear." I notice this surgeon had a fondness for chronic eases. Many a surgeon, when he has had a patient brought to him, has said: "Why was not this attended to five years ago? You bring him to me after aIJ power of recuperation is gone. You have waited until there is a complete contrac tion of the muscles, and false ligatures are formed, and ossification has taken place. Jt ought to have been attended to long ago." But Christ the Surgeon seemed to prefer inveterate cases. One was a hemorrhage of twelve years, and He stopped it. Another was a curvature of eighteen years, and He straightened it. Another was a cripple of thirty-eight years, and he walked out well. The eighteen-year pa tient was a woman bent almost double. If you could call a convention of all the surgeons of all the centuries, their com bined skill could not cure that body so drawn out of shape. Perhaps they might stop it from getting any worse, perhaps they might contrive braces by which she might be made more comfortable, but it is, humbly speaking, incurable. Yet this di vine surgeon put both His hands on her, and froni that doubled up posture she be gan to take on a healthier hue, and the muscles began to relax from their rigidity, and the spinal column began to adjust it self, and the cords of the neck began to be more supple, and the eyes, that could see only the ground before, now looked into the face of Christ with gratitude and up toward heaven in transport. Straight! After eighteen weary and exhausting years, straight! The poise, the gracefulness, the beauty of healthy womanhood reinstated. The thirty-eight years'" case was a man who lay on a mattress near the mineral baths at There were five apartments where lame people were brought, so that thev could get the advan tage of these mineral baths. The stone basin of the hath is still visible, although the waters have d'sappeared. probably through some convulsion of nature. The buth. 120 feet long, forty feet wide and eight feet deep. Ah. poor man. if you have hen lame and helpless thirty-eight years, that mineral hath cannot restore yiu. Why. twpntv-eight vears is more than the average human life. Nothing hut the grave will cure you. But Christ the burgeon walks along those baths, and I hive no doubt passes by some patients who have been only six months disordered or a year or five years, and comes to the mattress of the man who had been nearly four decades helpless, and to this thirtv eight years' invalid said, "Wilt thou be made whole?" The mielitiest scientists have put their skill to its retuning. and sometimes they stop the progress of its decadence or re move temporary obstructions, but not more than one really deaf ear out of 100,- 000 is ever cured. Tt took a God to make ♦hft car. and it takes a (Sod to mend it. That makes me curious to see how Christ the Surgeon suc ceeds as an aurist. We. are told of only two cases He oper ated on as an ear surgeon. His friend Peter, naturally high tempered, saw Christ insulted hv a man by tlie name of Man chus, and Peter let his sword fly. aiming at the man's head, but the sword clipped and hewed off the outside car, and our Surgeon touched the laceration and an other ear hloomed in the place of the one that had been slashed away. But it is not the outside ear that hears. That i.s only a funnel for gathering sound and pouring it into the hidden and more elab orate ear. On the beach of Lake Galilee our Surgeon found a man deaf and dumb. The patient dwelt in perpetual silence and was sneechless. He could not hear a note of music or a clap of thunder. He could not call father or mother or wife or children by name. What power can waken that dull tympanum or reach that chain of small bones or revive that auditory nerve or open the gate between the brain and the outside world? The Surgeon put, His fingers in the deaf ears and agitated them, and kept on agitating them until the vibration cave vital energv to all the dead parts, and thev responded, and when our Surgeon withdrew His fingers from the ears the two tunnels of sound were e'ear for all sweet voices of music and friendship. For the first time in his life he heard the dash of the waves of Galilee. Through the desert of nainlul silence had been built a king's highway of resonance and acclama tion. But yet he was dumb. No word bad ever leaned from his lip. Speech was chained under his tongue. Vocalization and accentuation were to him an impossi bility. He could express neither love not indignation nor worship. Our Surgeon, having unbarred his ear. will now unloose the shack'e of his tongue. The Surgeon will ut-e the same liniment or salve that He used on two occasions for the cure ol blind people namely, the rrtoisture oj Hi« own mouth. The application is made, and 10. the rigidity of the dumb toneue is relaxed, and between the tongue and teeth was born a whoV vocabulary ami words flew into expression. He not onlv heard, hut he talked. One gate of his body swung into let sound enter, and the other gate swiAig out to let sound depart. Whv is it that, while other used knives and forceps and probes and stethoscopes, this Sun-eon i"=ed only the ointment-of His own lips? To show that all th° curative power we ever feel comes straight from Christ. A"d if He touches i's not we shall lie deaf as a rock and dumb as a tomb. Oh. Thou greatest of all artists, compel us to hear and help us to speak! But what were the Surgeon's fees for all these cures of eyes and ears and tongues and withered hands and crooked hacks? The skill and the painlessness of the op erations were worth hundreds and thou sands of dollars. Do Tint think that the case* HP tool: were all moneyless. Did He not treat the nobleman's son? Did He not doctor the ruler's daughter? Did He not effect a cur* in the house of a centurian of great wealth who had out of his own pocket built a synagogue? They would have paid Him large fee«. .and there were hundreds of wealthy people in Jerusalem and among the merchant castles along Lake Tilierias who would have given this Surgeon houses and land* and all they had for such cures as lie could effect. For critical cases In our time great sur geons have received SIOOO, SSOOO, and in one case I know of $50,000, but the Sur geon of whom 1 speak received not a shekel, not a penny, not a farthing. In His whole earthly life we know of His having had but 62V. cents. When Hit taxes were due, bv His omniscience H» knew of a fish in the sea which had swal lowed a piece of silver money, as fish ar« apt to swallow anything bright, and He sent I'eter with a nook which brought up that fish, and from its mouth was ex tracted a Roman stater, or 62'/£> cents, the only money He ever had, and that He paid out for taxes. This greatest Surgeon of all the centu ries gave all His services then and offers all His services now free of all charge. "Without money and without price" you mav spiritually have blind eyes opened ami your dumb ears unbarred, and your dumb tongues loosened, atid your wounds healed, and your soul saved. If Christian people get hurt of body, mind or soul, let them remember that surgery is apt to hurt, but it cures, and you can afford present pain for future glory. Heeides that, there are powerful anaes thetics in the divine promises that Boothe and alleviate. No ether or chloroform or coeoaine ever made one so superior to dis tress as a few drops of that magnificent anodyne: "All things work together for good to those who love God." "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comet h in the morning." What a grand thing for our poor hu man race when this Surgeon shall have completed the treatment of the world's wounds! The day will come when there will be no more hospitals, for there will he no more sick, and no more eye and ear infirmaries, for there will be no more blind or deaf, and no more deserts, for the round earth shall be brought under arboriculture, and no more blizzards or sunstrokes, for the atmosphere will be expurgated of scorch arid chill, and no more war. for the swords shall come out of the foundry bent into pruning hooks, while in the heavenly country we shall see the victims of acci dent or malformation or hereditary ills on earth become the athletes in Elysian fields. Who is that man with such brilliant eyes close before the throne? Why. that is the man who, near Jericho, was blind and our Surgeon cured his ophthalmia! Who is that ereet and graceful and queenly wom an before the throne? That was the one whom our Surgeon found bent almost dou ble and could in nowise lift up herself, and He made her straight. Who is that listening with such rapture to the music of heaven, solo melting into chorus, cym bal responding to trumpet, and then him self joining in the anthem? Why, that is the man whom our Surgeon found deaf and dumb on the beach of Galilee, and by touches opened ear gate and mouth gate. Who is that around whom the crowds are gathering with admiring looks and thanks giving and cries of "Oh. what He did for me! Oh, what He did for mv family! Oh, what Ha did for the world!*' That is the Surgeon of all the centuries, the oculist, the aurist, the emancipator, the Saviour. So pay He took on earth. Come, now, and let all heaven pay Hjm with worship that shall never end and a love that shall never die. On His head be all the cmwns, in His hands be all the scepters an J at Ilia feet be all the worlds! THE GREAT DESTBOYEB. SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Che Pulpit ami the Pew—Why "Big Joe,'* the Miner, Relused to Drink With Bis Comr«(lci«A Memento of His Lit tle Girl His Safeguard Against Evil. From the pulpit and the pew, where the Christian peoples meet, Comes a call to me and ycuthat we must heed: "Lo! they perish in their sin Whom the Saviour died to win, For the Church of Chiist has failed them in their need! The Devil's Doors are open, when the Gates of God are shut, And the arms of hell their victimo fast enfold, Drag them in and hurl them down, In each Licensed-Liquor town, Where the souls *f men weigh lighter far than gold! - Let the steeples loud proclaim To the peoples, in His Name— In the name of Christ the Crucified wh® suffered cruel shame— 13y His death upon the Cross To redeem the world from loss— "Rise and smite the Liquor Traffic, in Hia Name!" To the pulpit and the pew comes the les son of it all— In the hearts of good and true it must be heard: "That the Cross of Christ may win, Ye must close the ways of sin, And must walk the narrow pathway of His Word! The Gutes of God must open, the Devil's l»oors be shut, By the hands of Christian Patriots at the polls; For the sake of Him who died Must your gteed be crucified, Ye must prove that goid is lighter far than souls." —A. A. Hopkins, in the New Voice. His Shield and Buckler. Many a rough-looking man carries in his pocket, safe Irom all eves but his own, some memento or relie that is to him as a shield and buckler against the powers of evil. A story is told of a big, bui-lv miner who steadily refused to join his comrades in their drinking boufs, or in any of their revels in which evil was done. He was not surly *nd morose, but he steadfastly de clined nil invitations to take part in his companions' carousals. He was jeered at and subjected to all sorts of annoyances, but yield he would not. One night, when the revelry ran high, and many of the men were half drunk, they declared that "Big Joe," as he was called, simply "had to drink with them." "I will not, boys," he said firmly. They declared that if he did not they would force liquor down his throat, and then run him out of the camp. "You ain't no better than the rest of us!" said one man angrily. "Well, why can't you join us and be friendly and sociable like, when we're try ing to have a good time? Ain't signed the pledge, have you?" with a sneer. "No, I have not signed any pledge, boys. "Well, boys. I'll tell you," he said. "It's something 1 don't like to talk about, but I'll tell you, and perhaps you'll not expect nor want me to drink with you when I've told you the truth." He thrust his hand down into an inside pocket in his gray flannel shirt, and drew forth something '.vrapped in an old silk handkerchief. Inside the handkerchief was a WTuppinc of tissue fofper, at.-\ (n the paper was a little shining curl of liair. Big Joe held the curl up between hia thumb and finger and said: "Boys, I've got a little motherless girl nearly 2000 miles from here, and that curl came from her head. I used to drink a lot—enough to ruin my wife's happiness, and when she was dying I promised her that I'd never drink another drop, and that for our little girl's sake I'd be a bet ter man, and when I left my little one with her grandmother, I promised them both what I'd promised my wife, and my little girl cut this curl from her head and gave it to me to 'remember her bv,' and she said 'Maybe it will help you to keep vour promise, papa.' It has helped me. I've worn it next my heart night and day, and I'll never, never drink a drop, nor do anything she would be sorry to have me do"while it is there. Now do you want me to drink with you, boys?" The man who had threatened to have whisky poured down Big Joe's throat wai the first to say "No." and from that time forward he was never asked to break his promise. His little girl's curl of shining yellow hair was his shield and buckler, and with God's help, it was to him a sure defense.—J. L. Harbour. Beer and Health. No less an authority than the Scientific News alleges that the use of beer is found to produce a species of degeneration of all the organs. Profound ana deceptive fatty deposits, diminished circulation, condi tions of congestion and perversion of functional activities, local inflammation of both the liver and the kidneys are constantly present. Intellectually, a stu por amounting almost to paralysis arrests the reason, cnanging all higher fatuities into a mere animalism, sensual, selfish, sluggish, varied only with paroxysms of anger that are senseless and brutal. In appearance the beer drinker may be the p»eturc of health, but in reality he is most incapable of resisting disease. A slight in jury, a severe cold, or a shock \o the body or * mind, will commonly provoke acute disease, ending fatally. Compared with inebriate* who use different kinds of alco hol, he is more incurable and more gener ally diseased. The constant use of beer even"day gives the system no recuperation, but eteaclily lowers the vital forces. It is our observation that beer-drinking in this country produces the very lowest kind of inebriety, closely allied to criminal insan ity. The most dangerous class of ruffians in our large cities pre beer-drinkers. Re course to beer as a substitute for other forms of alcohol merely increase the dan cer and fatalitv. —From the Good Temylar Record and Prohibition Advocate, Eng land. A Sew Point ot View. Questioning the wisdom of Boston's ent system of punishing drunkards as crim inals a correspondent of the Record writes: "If the city will, through its licensed agents, help rob a man or woman of their scantv savings, as well as their brains for the time being, then the city ought, out of the license money received, provide a home and care for them until they recover their senses again. Don't throw a man into a criminal institution for drinking what the j citizens of Boston vote to sell publicly. Let people who sell rum and who vote to sell rum be consistent." The Crutade In Brief. Liquor and lawlessness are closely akin. From the ranks of the moderate drinker is the great army of drunkards recruited, pose of drowniug their troubles generally wind up by drowning their reason. If we take the mass of evidence we can come to only one conclusion from the scien tific point of view—that total abstinence must be our course if we are to follow the dictates of reason and common sense. People who begin to drink for the pur- Young women have a t>iliv prejudice against joining temperance societies. We were going to use a stronger word than "silly, but that will do for the present.
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