THE ASH-CAN BIBLE A Brigl.t Sermon For Sunday Bj Rev. John Balcom Shaw, D. 0. History ol i Volants of Holy Wilt That It Unique la Cbarcb History. ' VW YoBK ClTT. The following splen did ermon vu preached Sunday morning by the Kev. John Relcom Shew. It ie en. titled "The Ash-Can Bible." His text waa: The word of Ood which liveth and abideth forever I Peter 1:23. , . , Thie book, rather than the word I have read from it, ie my text. Not the Bible in general a a theme to be discussed, but thil particular Bible consisting of paper, print tng and binding, aa an object lesson to be taught. This Bible haa a history. It wa a gift to the church under the uniqueat condi tions. Indeed I doubt if there ia another church in the whole world that came by ita pulpit Bible in the aame or in anything like a aimilar way. Thie ia ita history. One morning last spring a woman, a pewholder, but not a member of this church, came into the min iater'a office, where 1 waa keeping the pas toral hour, and handing ine a package neatly wrapped and tied, asked me if I could make use of ita contents in any way. Opening the package and finding thia beau tifully b ound Bjble inaidc, I, of course, an swered affirmatively, and suggested that I hand it on to aome mission church or poer, struggling congregation, for use aa a pulpit Bible. tine then told me ita atory. That morn ing upon coming out of the apartment where she lived she spied nn elegantly bound book on the top of the a.h-cm that stood awaiting the coining of thy garbage cart. Feeling it was a shame to allow so fine a book to.be disposed of in that way, she went to the ash-can and turned ita title round toward her. What was her amaze ment, her horror, her sense of desecration, to hud it waa a copy of the Holy Bible! She opened it and found that several leavea between the Old Testament and the New had been, cut out, and the explanation came to her at once, an explanation which the janitor afterward fully confirmed. It aeems that a family, apparently re spectable and well disposed, had moved away from the apartment house the day before, and desiring to throw away every thing for which they had no use and which increased the bulk of their effects, had seized upon the family Bible which had been in their home for years, aa a thing that could be a easily got along withont as anything else, had cut out the family record that it might not be lost, and sent the book down to the janitor as rubbish to be thrown away. He, either because he had failed to recognize it or because he had a low estimate of the Bible's vahie, had deposited it in the ash-can, and was looking for the city's cart to come at any moment and take it away. A new interest immediately attached it elf to the Bible. I put it into the minis ter's room to await some providential op portunity to dispose of it. That opportu nity was not long in coming. When this new pulpit was set in place upon my re turn it was fonnd that not one of the three pulpit Bibles that had been previous ly presented to the church would fit its book board. I then went to the minister's room and brought out this ash-can Bible. It was just the thing. Besides being of the right size, its gold edges and richly em bossed covers made it peculiarly suitable to mount this pulpit, and here it will stand as itself a memorial the pulpit a memorial to a family who loved the Bible, guided their Uvea for fifty years in thia commu nity by its counsels, and sent forth into it stream' of Christian influence that will never run dry; the Bible Which resta upon this pulpit speaking to us of a family who flitted into this neighborhood, and after a restless sojourn of a few months, more probabl of not moro than a few weeks, Bitted out again without having done any thing to help it, and who thought so littlo of God and goodness, desired so faintly, not only to light the road heavenward for others, but to have it lighted for them selves, that they threw away their family Bible and moved on to drag down the re ligious tone and temperature of some other Community. Robert Browning, in his great poem, "The King and the Book," tells the story of finding a rare book at a stall in the Square of Florence, and, after reporting its contents, he gives rein to his poetic mus ings upon the life, character and history of the persons figuring within ita narrative, punctuating with murks of exquisite strength and beauty the lessons of their lives. Thia strangely discovered book starts no poetic strains within me I have no such strings to vibrate but it does set my soul to musing, and those musings aeem to me to take the path of likeliest fact and truth. They carry me back over the earlier his tory of this book. It may have been, it doubtless was, a wedding present, given probably by a pious father and mother long since among the sainted dead. It had been in the borne through all the yeara of their family history, and had become a familiar an object as the silver on their table or the picture upon their wall. Again and again they had gone to it through the passing yean to inscribe with in it aaered pages the record of their home. With the daintiest touch they had put in their own name while the honey moon wa still on. Later when that lit tle life came to them, their first born, and the glow of parenthood flushed their souls as .with a baptism from heaven, they dipped the pen aa if into some love fluid and wrote out with pride the dear little one's newly chosen name. A few year passed and the angel came and took the aweet soul away. The fun eral over, the father one evening when they were alone and the house was silent, went through into the parlor, unknown to ni wife, and put in the retard, leaning over the open book till the tears began to oil the page, and then turning over a few page into the book that adjoined the rec ord, he read over and over again those dear and holy words, "Suffer little chil dren to come unto Me, and forbid them . not, for of such ia the kingdom of heaven," ana those other word so inseparably asso ciated with them, "Their angel do alway behold the face of My Father.", It wa the Bible, too, out of which the minis ter had read at the little one' funeral, and in thia and a hundred other way it had taken on a ballowcdnes and built it self into the whole life of the home: But five year ago the family moved into New York, and the decay of their home life began. Sentiment, association, mem ory, though sacred and tender, could not run a race with the evanescent, migratory life of the metropolis. They had moved often, and every time thoy moved they bad left something of their home life be hind them. Age ceased to give anything it value; it wa the ease with which it could be transported which determined that. Their religious life had deelined, and they never opened the Bible of late. They had even neglected to record the last death that had token place in the family. Ihey had been weaned from the church through frequent removals, and religious thought and feeling had become itranger to their heart. Their conscience had been dulled, and what had once seemed impossible to them was now second nature. They used to think they could never allow the Sunday paper in their home, but now tbey read it themselves and allowed their children to read it without the least qualm of con acience. To stay away from church once Ja a few year ago an act of backsliding, cut they had not long been in New Yorl Wre whole month passed without then Groaning the (acred threshold, aud yet M gave them no compunction whatever, Tim was, and not long since, when they were most punctilious about sending their chil dren to Hnnday-ochool. The wildest wind and th foulest weather would not past with them a an excuse for allowing th boys and girl to stay at home. There wa no such strictness these laat years, but weeks of Sabbath went by and failed to ' record a lingl present mark for any of the children on the roll of the Sunday-ecbool. Therefore, sentiment gone, association and memory having loosened their grasp, their religious life having become a thing of the past, and their conscience having grown )iiii;ish, thev had no more us for the Old Monk. It was too bulky to move; thry. would keen, the furuihv. rc:onL buLtt sacred pages'Snd-covers" which" had gfveTT it its inclosure and setting, they would throw away. Were there ever a sadder story? It makes one ween to think of it. And yet it is the story of a thousand homes in this community, of a hundred thousand home jn this city. It is what some of you are coming to, dear friends, unless you take warning. Let this Bible give you such a warning to-night. Mny it ever be a warn ing to every family of this church. A often aa the eyes of those worshiping here shall rest upon it, may it speak to them its .solemn message with a voice that cannot be drowned let not the fire burn low on your hearthstone, but keep up the fireside glow. See that your home is in touch with the church. Suffer not your famHy nltar to become a ruin. Have a family Bible and use it. Take care that mildew spots, like those which I find here that are always signs of disuse, are not al lowed -to mar it. Rend the Old Book to your children. Read it to your own soul. Without it your home life will grow hol low and unholy, your children will deter iorate, your own oul shrivel up and die. Thus this Bible shall stand as a memo rial to a typically deteriorated New York home, and as a warning to the families that have not likewise deteriorated, but shall it not also be at the same time a memorial to something higher and more inspiring to the glorious character and ministry of the word of God aa an abiding and ever expanding power among men? Here is a fountain that was long sealed, but it has begun to flow, and its streams shall water not one home but a thousand. This hook so seldom used before shall be opened with every recurring service within this house of prayer, to be rend, expound ed and applied to the multiplying hun dreds that shall worship here. This Bible was disowned, desecrated, cast out as rub bish into the street, only to be recovered, honored, set in a high place, elevated to a public throne from which it will issue a verdict of condemnation upon this home and every home in this city that has turned God from its door, but will speak comfort, hope aad strength to those with in which the word of God dwells and exer cises its heavenly dominion. While this book shall utter its admonition, then, let it also speak forth ita word of encourage ment and triumph, telling all who shall henceforth behold it that the word of God liveth and abrdeth forever; that however much men may attack it and seek to de stroy it, it shall come out of every battle a thousand fold stronger than before, and light a circle that extends far beyond its former perimeter of influence. "A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic as the sun: It gives a light to every age; It giveth, but borrows none." Alone With Ood. This is the quiet hour in which I sit alono with God, writes Charlea Edward Martin, in the New York Observer. Ho hears my whispered plaints and listens to my love. He maketh me happy in my love, which ever goeth out to Him as quietly and constantly a the river flows or the tar shines. This is the hour that I talk with the lov ing Father about myself, of victories won in the open field, when He was my deliv erer and my strength, and of the sorry failures and defeats which were mine when I sought safety within unstrength ened ramparts of my own construction. I icknon ledge His marvelous strength and own my own wavering weakness. I was too impetuous, too impatient. I would rush headlong and heedless, follow ing my own plans to my own shame and dishonor. It would seem that I could not wait. But I will now learn the value of time the wisdom of taking time to do all things in obedience to His plans, and to do :hem well. In this quiet hour I will tell Him all. But I will not speak of my plans. Alas tor me! I have too many plana! I will limply and humbly ask for His love and guidance just for to-day. To-morrow I may be with Him in paradise. I will say: "All-wise One, all-loving One, Thou who makest and warmest the affections of the human heart, I submit myself to Thee. By Thy grace I live, ond by Thy inyster iou quickening will -I ply my task with, oving faithfulness and care. Let Thy (ove. and if eo lie, Thy approval, be my re ward. O, teach me to understand Thy ove! Make me to love Thee more and xiore. Make me as Thou wouldat hava ne, dear Father, and I shall be satisfied, rhy ways shall be my ways. Widen my narrow thought. Unchain the self-made fetters that cramp and fret my heart. Teach me that true and lasting happiness ;ometh only with those things which are pleasing unto Thee. Lead me in those holy footstep that bear the print of the nail!" . . What the ttibla I. Some writer give the following analysis il the "Book of books," the Bible: It is a book of laws, to show the right from the wrong. It ia a book of wisdom, that makes the 'oolish wise. It is a book of truth, which detects all 'lunian errors. It ia a book of life, and show how to ivoid everlasting death. It is the most authentic and entertain-. i.:-. 1.1: -l I Jig umu-ry ever )juuiibiicu. It contains the most remote antiquities, the most remarkable events and wonderful xcurrences. It is a complete eode of laws. It is a perfect body of divinity. It is an unequaled narrative. It is a book of biography. It is a, book of travels. It is the best covenant ever made, the jest deed ever written. It is th best will ever excuted, the beat testament ever signed. It is the learned man's masterpiece. It is the young man's best companion. It is tho schoolboy's best instructor. It is the ignorant man's dictionary and ivery man' directory. It promise an eternal reward to the aithful and believing. But that which crowns all is the Author. Ie is without partiality and without hy oensy, with .whom there is no variable less. neither shadow of turning. Religious Intelligencer. Th Way of Peace. In DroDortion a the perfect obedience o! the lite of Ohrist comes, through humility ind prayer and thought, to be the constant lira of all our efforts; in proportion as wo try. God helping us, to think and speak and act as He did, and through all the means of grace to sanctify Him' in our hearts, we shall, with growing hope and with a wonder that is ever lost in grati tude, know that even our live are not withu.it the earnest, of their rest in an eternal harmony; that through them there is sounding r.-ore and more the echo of faultless inu. , and that He who love that concord, 1 1 e who alone can ever make us whut He b. Is us be. will silence in os every harsh c.id jarring note: that our ser vice, too, may blend with the consenting praise of all His saints' and angels -Frauds Paget. Timely and Appropriate. 8. 8. Brown, owner of Broomstick, the hone that wrested the ' laurels from Irish Lad In the Brighton Handi cap,' was congratulated after the race by a friend. "If I'm not inquisitive," said bis friend, "why did you give your horse such a name?" "Nanted It after my cook," answer ed Mr. Brown. "Why?" was the query, "Because," replied Mr. Browne, "It Isn't the first time a broomstick beat aa Irish Lad." New York Times. Princess Has Many Godfathers. probably no person In the world had as many godfathers aa did Princess Irene of Prussia, wife of Prince Hen ry. When she was born ber father re quested the members of. the Hessian regiments forming a portion of his cavalry brigade to be sponsors for the baby. When she was christoned about 4,000 soldiers stood for her as sponsors.. ... THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS " FOR SEPTEMBER 29. Review or the Twelv Lessons of tho Third Quarter Kead Psshn 103, 1-19 Golden Teat, Psalm 103, 8 Bammary and Topics. Lesson I. Topic! Rehoboam's answer to the ten tribes and their revolt. I'lace: The assembly wa held at Shechem. After Solomon' death the people assembled at Shechem to choose a new King. Solo mon's son, Rehoboam, was heir to the throne; he was young and tender heart ed, but vain and wicked; the people asked to be relieved of excessive taxation; Re hoboam counseled with the people as to what answer he should give; he forsook the counsel of the oid men and listened to the counsel of the young men; he re turned a stern reply and said that he would be more severe than even his father Solomon had been- ten of the twelve tribes then revolted and chose Jeroboam as Kins. II. Topic: Jeroboam's effort to estab lish himself in his kingdom. Place: The northern part of Palestine. As soon as .Jeroboam was declared King of the ten tribes, he took measures to establish him self in his kingdom; there were bright prospects before him; he enlarged and fortified Several cities; he then took steps to keep his people from going to .Jerusa lem to worship, fearing that if thev did their hearts would become attached to Re hoboam and that they would kill him; he made two calves of gold and set one up in Bethel and the other in Dan, urging the people to worship in these cities instead nf going to Jerusalem. This became a sin, for the people soon fell into idolatrv. III. Topic: Juduh's prosperity and vic tory. Place: Judah, Asa's kingdom. Af ter the death of Rehoboam, Abijah, his son, reigned in his stead; his reign was short, and at his death, Asa. his son, reigned in Judah forty-one years; Asa was a good King and did that which was right in the sight of the Lord; he removed the altars of the strange gods whieh had been set up in the kingdom, and broke down the images which had been erected to idols; he commanded his people to seek the Lord and to obev the law: lie fnrtiHed the cities nr Judah; the land had rest from war many years; Asa raised an army to meet the Ethiopians who came against him; the battle was set in arroy; Asa cried unto the Lord; the Lord caused the Ethiopians to flee. IV. Topic: Jehosaphat establishing a judiciary. Place: Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. At the death of Asa. Jehoshaphat, his son, reigned in his stead for twenty-five years. Jehoshapbat was a good King and trusted God; he thorough ly cleansed the land of idolatry, but he committed a great error in joining him self to Ahab; he went with Ahab to fight against Ben-hahad, King of Syria; the prophet of the Lord warned him not to 5o, but he did and Ahab was slain. Then chu, the prophet, reproved Jehoshophat for helping the ungodly. V. Topic: The idolatry of Israel's kings. Place: Omri and Ahab reigned over the ten tribes. Omri and Ahab were both very wicked kings; they led the people into the worship of ido!s and fully estab lished Baal worship in the land; the pro phets of God were slain and His worship forbidden; Omri founded the city of Sa maria and made it his capital; at his death Ahub, his son, reigned in his stead; Ahab was worse than any of the kings that had preceded, for he married Jezebel, a heathen woman; he built a house in honor of Baal in Samaria and set up im ages to the heathen god; the judgments of the Lord fell upon Ahab, and he was slain in battle. VI. Topic: Elijah's obedience and faith. Places: Samaria, Bro.ok Cherith-, and Zare phath. Klijah the prophet appeared to Ahab and told him that there would be a great dought and famine in the land which would continue three years; the Lord se:.t Klijah to the brook Cherith; the ravens fed nim there: the brook dried up; Klijah was sent to Zarephath; a wid ow woman was commanded to feed Klijah; he asked her for a little water; told her to bring him a morsel of bread; she said she had but little; Elijah encouraged her and asked her to bring him a cake first; he said they would ail be supplied. VII. Topic: Klijah meets Obadiah and Ahub. I'lace: Somewhere in Ahab's kingdom. The famine had lasted three years and six months; the supplies were exhausted; the Lord told Klijah to show himself to Alub; Obadiah and Ahab were seeking grass; suddenly Elijah appeared to Ohidinh and asked him to tell Ahab that Klijah was there; Obadiah feared and said that if he should tell Ahab that Kli jah was here, and then the prophet did not appear to Ahab, he would be slain; Elijah said that ne would certainly appear. VIII. Topic: Klijah. convincing Israel that Jehovah is the true God. Places: Mount Curmel and JesJreel. A test was proposed by Klijnh in order to prove that he was the true God; Baal's prophets pre pared their sacrifice' and-called upon their god to send fire; no answer; Elijah pre pared his offering; dug a trench; covered the offering and the altar and filled the trench with water; Elijah then called upon God and tire fell from heaven; the sacrifice and the wood and the stone were consumed, and the water , in the trench waa licked up; the people said, "Jehovah ia God." The 450 prophets of Baal were lain. IX. . Topie: Elijah' flight. Places: Jez reel, Beer-sheba and Horeb. Ahab told Jezebel all Klijah had done; Jezebel sent a messenger warning Elijah that he would be killed; Elijah tied for his life; dismissed his sen-ant; went a day's journey into the wilderness; sent angel to care tor him. X. Topic: God's manner of dealing with Klijah. Place: Horeb the mount of God. Klijah was at Horeb or Sinai in a cave. God asked Klijah why he was there; Kli jah told the Lord how zealous he had been, and how they had sought his lite; God caused a great wind to rend the mountain and break the rocks, and after the wind an earthquake, and alter the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not revealing Himself in these; following these manifestations the Lord spoke in a still small voice. XI. Topic: The parting of Klijah and Llisha. Places: Gilgal, Bethel, Jericho, and the place where Khjuh was translat ed; Klijah made a farewell, vi.it to the schools of the prophets; Klijah ssRed Kli sha what he should do for him; Klislia said, "Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me." Elijah went up by a whirl wind into heaven. XII. Topic: Israel reproved and exhort ed to seek God: Places: Amos was a na tive of Tekoa, but prophesied at Bethel. Jeroboam II. was King of Israel; the kingdom was prosperous and rich; ths people were very wicked and were wor shiping idols; because of their siir Amos tells them that they would be carried into captivity. Seagull a Good Barometer. The seagull makes a splendid living barometer. If a covey of seagulls fly seaward early In the morning sailors and fishermen know that the day will be fine and the wind fair, but If the birds keep Inland seafaring peoplo know that the elements will be un fa vol able. Of weatherwlse fish the dolphin Is the most remarkable. Dur ing a fierce gale or a storm at sea the mariner knows that the end of It Is near If be can see a dolphin, or a number of that fish, sporting on th hlih sea waves. Fish Longevity. According to a recent writer then Is now In the Imperial aquarium of St. Petersburg a pike that first sa '.he light at the close of the flfteentl :entury. He still appears to be qulti t young fellow, notwithstanding hit centuries and his long activity, Th rrlter aays that there Is nothing very txtraordinary in this case, aad b men .tons several fishes In the same aquar in that are more than 160 yeara old SEPTEMBER TWENTY-FIFTH. "Cheering Facts About Missions In Japan snd Korea." Zech, 14:3-9, 20. Scripture Verses. Isa. 42:6; 49:6; 60:3; Luke 2:30-32; Acts 13; 46, 47; Isa. 35:10; Rev. 5:9, 10; 13:3, 4; 21: 23:26; 22:62. Lesson Thoughts, There Is one undertaking In this life that has the promise of sure suc cess the cause of missions: "The Lord shall be king over all the "iarth." Missionary work Is the changing of darkness Into light; fear, superstl tlon, crime, become confidence, wor ship, righteousness, under the Influ ence of Him who came to be the Light of the world. Selections. A little more than a century ago the women of Japan had no hope of the future unless, by great merit, tbey could be reborn as men. The soul must go through thousands and thous ands of forms, each worse than tho first, before an opportunity would be given to begin again. Today these helpless women are learning that they can "be born again of the spirit." Japanese Protestant converts, dur ing a single year, gave for missions $27,000, and this with the average wages at 25 cents a day. A people who can change their whole manner of life for the sake of a great principle and for the good of the Btate, must be able to change their religion as well for a greater principle and for a greater Kingdom. Dearlng. There are more than 40,000 Chris tians in the Japanese Empire, with as many more adherents who are not church members. "Among Korea's twelve million people, 141 missionaries are at work. "Permanent missionary work in Korea began as late as 1884, but al ready the native Christians number more than 8.0O0. Endeavorer's Dally Companion. We have striven to make every Korean realize that the gospel has been given to him not for himself alone, but In order that, he may carry It to his neighbor. Underwood. EPiRTH LEAGUE LESSONS SEPTEMBER TWENTY-FIFTH. City Evangelization and Home Mis sions. Acts 8. 4-8. In our lesson we learn that "Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ unto them." To use a commercial phrase, he had an eye to business, the business of his Master. Where was Simon the sorcerer? Evidently Philip took little notice of him. This is where he displayed his wisdom. Some there are who contend that we should send out stroug men to argue down the Infidels. Had Philip adopted that plan, think you that the people with one accord would have given heed to him? He took a direct course to the heart, and there by superseded the sorcerer. The sun gives us each day one big object les son. It does not argue with artificial light anywhere. It Just shines. ThaT is all. To Its own mission oi sninmg It gives itself and wastes no energy in trying to convince others of its high superiority. So completely does ft flood the world with its brilliant beams that men turn out the gas, say ing there Is no further need of you now. We have the sun. So with the Christian. It is his shining, the giv ing himself wholly to his mission, that counts for most. Let your light so shine. True living Is the unanswer able argument. At the toundatlon of all city evan gelization there must be love of God and love of men. Love for one's country Is richest when it springs from loVe of the peo ple who inhabit It. Patriotism Is love of country in action, bent on defending and build ing its Invisible walls of purity and power. Everything that Christ did had in It 'the sacrificial element. For the ex ercise of this quality with the same spirit our cities afford a fruitful field. Work for the salvation o! men and women In our cities .Is apprenticeship for a higher Ufework In that city whose Builder and Maker is God. - In the city, side by side, are seen the foulest iniquities and the most heavenly deeds of charity. Such ex tremes are common there. The or ganized advance of our Home Mission ary Society Is very effective. Legacies of conquest they protect. Christ they labor to enthrone. The support of every Christian loudly .Imperative. Besides thl'i organ'ted effort there Is also for each we .an individual and personal work Jor each one to do. Each Is to build over against his own home. Miser's Trap for Burglar. In West Philadelphia lives an old man who Is reputed to be a miser an the hoarder of vast sums in his Ilttlt house, where he lives alone with spinster daughter. The old fellow has been visited bj, Lurgiars four times in the last coupls of years, but, on each occasion the in truders have been frightened oft with out securing any plunder. Dlsgustei with the failure of the police to catci the men who have visited hlBhousi jo often, the West Phlladelphlan hai set a neat little trap of his own Every night before going to bed hi leaves a decanter half filled with win and several, glasses upon the dlnlnf room table. The gas Is left burning so that the wine will not be over looked. The old fellow has carefullj ..lugged the wine with a quick-work tng opiate and is anxiously awalUn mother burglarious visit. . English Legal Technicalities. In English courts the solicitors must always appear In their robes. A London newspaper of recent date con lains the following: "'I can nelthei see you nor hear you,' said Judge Edge to Mr. Turner, a solicitor al Clerkenwell county court, when thai gentleman, who was unrobed, rose tt oppose a barrister's application tc have a case adjourned. Mr. Turnei began to put on bis robe, but Judgt Edge luterposod. 'Now, that will do, he said. 'I wilt not have this court made a robing rbom of. Next case. Mr. Turner protested that It was an Injustice to his client, but the judge ordered him to ba silent." ire&JilbSl TcJMe 1'rosperitr and Joy. Massing by a busy corner upon Stat, street the other day we were attracted by a din of pounding which made the other noises of the city seem soft and unobtru sue, says a writer in Chicago Interior. I recently we discovered that this furious uproar was caused by the rapid strokes of an automatic hammer with which th workmen were riveting together the im mense iron beams of a new skyscraper now in process of erection. The work was ac complished with marvelous swiftness and dexterity that many paused a moment to ndinne the operation of this comparatively new device, a device by which a cold, stiff iron holt was, as it were, melted right down to and pressed close ug.iinst the Bat juriace through which it had been thrtnt. hen we went on we pitied our ancestor and envied them. For, afier all, it matter less how long it takes to erect a mansion than what kind of a life is lived beneath its roof, and busi ness as well as pleasure may be set a pace that kills. Our numbers, our inventions, our productions, make the davs of our forefathers ecm strangely childish, but is the kingdom any nearer the world to-day than it was when thev, in cities less con gested, lived their sunnier lives? That is worth asking ourseives when we write that our population is now upward of 8H.0O0,!00 souls, and our annual output estimated at a valuation of Sl,40D,0tH),i0. A nation may be numerous and it mav be rich, and still it may miss all that is worth living fur. The truth is that the old-time prophet, Isaiah, knew everything about sociolngy except its name when he foretold as the distinguishing characteristic of the Mes sianic kingdom that in it a nation might be increased in numbers, wealth and pow er, and yet increased in jov, for that ia the correct rendering of Isaiah 0:3, as our re vipers all agree. In religion vc have the only solvent of irrcnoncilahles, the one element which thrown into the bubbling pot sweetens the bitterness of the draught and makes the whole wholesome. Civilization is depend ent upon numbers, hut at war with joy, un less indeed in that civilization the moral element predominates and controls the ma terial prosperity. Bit of Finn l'hllosnphr. "Why do you not go away oftener for rest and change?" asked one friend of an other, feeling a little anxious over the crowded days that seemed too busv and burdened. "Don't you care to go?" she questioned further. ' Don't you like to visit about and take diverting little jour neys?" "Oh, yes, I like it," was the answer in a tone both brisk and blithe, "but you see I don't have to go looking about for what I like, because I always like just what I have." Could there he finer philosophy of aweet conteut and resolute cheertulness than this? It came warm from a trusting heart. It was the outcome and expression in speech of a devoted life and loving spirit. To have what we like, though we spend unmeasured time in groping ami grasping after it, may be among the impossibilities, but to like what we have is among the at tainables, else why the command: " lie eon tent with such things as ye have." The truest, happiest contentment cann t fill the heart if there is a constant revulsion against life's conditions and a loathing of what is outwardly borne with submission, says Young People. There must be some liking of what we have if we are going to "walk worthy of our vocation" and "unto all pleasing.' To like what we have, we must guard against too constant compari son with what we have not. Then if the work set for our doing is not in itself the pleasantest or most congenial, let us get the joy out of the doing of it. The con sciousness of doing our best is enough to give a certain buoyancy and brightness to lite, eveu if the task is not what might lie chonen. The delight of accomplishing is in itself a reward, and this m.ike it easier to like what is done. The search for what we like my be a fruitless quest and a waste of time, but liking w hat we have conserves our store of happiness and is the safer and surer way. Gems nf Thought. An ounce of originality is worth a ton of imitation. United Presbyterian. The man who stands tor something has a place and a force in the world. Ham's Horn. Gratitude is the himage the heart ren ders to God for ills goodness; Christian cheerfulness is the external manifestation of the homage. Christian Work. Childhood is the time of danger as well as the time of hope. The corn tiiat is frost-smitten in the spring brings no gold en cars to the day of the ingathering. United Presbyterian. The judgment of Jesus U simply showing a man what he is in the light ol what he ought to be. The outer darkness is the shadow love easts when one refuses to let it slime through him. William De Witt Hyde. When I found that it was Christ's nature to lift men out of weakness to strength, out of impurity to goodness, out of every-" thing low and debasing to superiority, I felt that I hnd indeed found a God. Henry Ward Heecher. There is no mystery whatever about hap piness. Put in the right ingredients and it must come out. "He that uhidclh in Me bringeth forth much fruit." and bringing forth much fruit is happiness. The infullible recipe for happiness, then, m to do good, and the infallible recipe fot doing good is to abide in Chnt. Drum mond. 8lea Better Than Assault. A pastor whose church has recently been blessed with large accessions said the other day that he hud learned that sometimes the largest results come from giving per sons time to think over leisurely and quiet ly their persona! responsibility for con fessing Christ before men, says the Con gregatiouulisi. As he has met individuals, or written letters, or talked with groups of Sunday-school scholars, he has sought simply to press home the duty of keeping the great question in Hand, He has not pushed hard for immediate or hasty deci sions, hut, having planted the seed of hi own great desire, has given it time to grow in its own way. Sometimes we are in too great a hurry to get our friend over the line. The human soul is so delicately organized we must give it time to find and express itself, never relaxing, to be sure,' our own tactful pressure, but leaving the field clear for the Spirit of God to work, too. Home-Mart Impossibilities. Many impossibilities are home made. Cowardice turns thenr out in seemingly sufficient quantities to block the way to every path leading to success. Laziness is responsible for almost aa many more. What one man calls an impossibility, an other hails as an opportunity. God does not put insurmountable obstacle in our way, but we make them for ourselves. No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure and good without the world being better for it, with out somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. Phillips Drooiu. Lawsuit Ovar Dog's Costume. ' A case was decided In the Paris courts' recently of a well-known women's tailor who sued one of his clients for the cost of an outfit for ber dug. The figure he claimed ran well Into the thousands. It Is fash lonable In , European capitals to-day to have the dog dressed In clothes to harmonize with those of the mistress and the mad freaks of dog fashions ar6 as startling to the mere man as those which the dog's 'jwner displays. I THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. The Pnhjeet of Saloon Compensation What the linlted aisles Supreme Court Has Declared The Opinion or a Distinguished Jurist of Ohio. . In some States where the destruction of the saloon is sought by legislation, defend ers of the saloon advocate compensating sa loonkeepers for the loss of their business. But those friends seem to have overlooked the fact that the saloonkeeper has engaged in a business which he knew, or might have known, was liable to bo outlawed at any time. The United States Supreme Court declared: "Hy the general concurrence of opinion of every civilized and Christian commu nity there are few sources of crime and misery to society equal to the dramshop where intoxicating liquors in small quanti ties to be drunk at the time are sold in discriminately to nil parties applying. The statistics of every State show a greater amount of crime attributable to this than from any other source. The sale of liquor in this way has therefore been at all times considered the proper subject of legislative regulation. Kor that matter, the sale by the glass may be absolutely prohibited. It is a question of public expediency and pub lic morality and not of Federal laws. There is no inherent right of a citizen to sell in toxicating liquors by retail. It is not a privilege of a citizen of the State or of a citizen of the United States." Justice Field. For I'nited States Supremo Court, November, 1890, in Christiansen Case. According to this decision a saloonkeep er has no vested right of selling liquor, and when he starts in the business he takes all the risks. In discussing this matter a distinguished junt of Ohio has nptly said: "There is no valid reason why compensa tion should be made. God never gave the devil any compensation for curtailing him in the exercise of any of his assumed priv ileges, because the devil never hnd any right to take the privileges in the first place. The law of God nowhere recognizes the principle that a man committing, or about to commit, an injitrv to the public health, public peace or public morals, must be compensated if lie is prevented from committing the injury; and if no such principle is acknowledged in the moral law w-hy should it be recognized in human laws? Do you pay the thief for what yoi deprive him of when you drive him from your house and thus thwart his crimina' purposes? Have you not a right to pre vent an injury without compensation tc the one intending to do the injury? Must men be compensated for the surrender ol anv evil practice?" Vhy not require the saloonkeeper t? compensate the members of these men's families for all the woe, poverty and dis grace he has caused by his death-dealing ousiuess? The National Advocate. Alcoholism snd Heredity. fn a well-known but slightly sensational medical journal, The London Lancet, a rather surprising opinion is advanced bj G. Arehdall Hcid. He is satisfied that a predisposition to drinking is not inherited from intemperate parents. He argues ic this fashion: If offspring are affected, then, in time, the race grows degenerate and finally becomes extinct. On the othet hand, if they are not, then the power ol resistance becomes developed and strength ened, and later generations crave liquoi less than did their ancestors. The lattei rule explains to Mr. lieid the present ex istence of old races like the Jews, Greeks and the nations of Southern Europe, whe for ages have bad alcoholic beverages. Younger stock, like that of Northern Ku rope, having had less time in which to ac quire resisting powers, might, on the othet hand, show a greater susceptibility, in other words, he holds that alcohol, as well as disease, is the cause of an innate immu Ii it y against itself. lo this doctrine much dissent has been expressed. A resident of lliiltalo. Law rence Irwell, declares that if n distinct craving for drink is not transmitted to children, there is at least an inherent sus ceptibility. A writer in The Medical l!ec ord denies that the people of Southern Eu rope are today nhstemious. He then re marks: "Mr. Ileid cannot prove tii.it tire children ol habitual drunkard nre nor mally developed both mentally and physi cally. When drink is indulged in to e.xce.-f through successive generations it results in insanity, paralysis, idiocy or cerebral delect of some kind. The theory that in a drinking nation the unlit are weeded out and that among the survivors a consider able degree of immunity to alcohol is es tablished is plausible and probable. Tha craving for drink miv not be directly transmitted, but the children oi d'unken Jiarents or one drunken parent will in al! ikelihood inherit some physical or mental defect or both, which may m' a certainty be put down to the drinking habits of their progenitors." Pay-Ony snd Drinkln;. The Massachusetts Rurcau of Labor sta tistics has published a report on the hiss ol time due to drunkenness in which there is shown a great decrease in the proportion of absences of work immediately following pay day. The special agents visited 41:1 es tablishnients and found absent on Monday but 511 of 39,701 males over sixteen year of age employed on the previous Saturday. The per cent, is 1.29. The employers whe have changed the pay day from Saturday to the middle of the week report a great improvement in this respect. The man who knows that his position depends on his reporting for work on the morning int. mediately following pay day appears tar more likely to ktep sober than when a lull day or a day and a half intervene. Hmn Frniirlst-o's Sulnnns. San Francisco has the terrible fact t face that there are over His") saloons with in her city limits one saloon to every 12' of her population and, what is the worst feature, many of the saloons have grocery stores in front, and children who go for home supplies are only separated front the evils of the saloon by a swinging door, and learn all manner of wickedness I rum their earliest youth. Recently the commission ers of the city have decided there shall ho no further increase in the saloons, and also that if any saloon goes out of existence no other can resume business on that site. Through these laws San Francisco hopes to have less than 30,000 arrest yearly, over half of which are directly accountable to the liquor traffic. Alcoholism In Bussls. The consumption of alcohol is increasing fit an enormous rate in the Province ol Moscow, the revenue having increased nearly 200 per cent, during the year. Ths province contains a population of 2,50U,tHNi, and the consumption of vodka during the year amounted to 8.9.0,UOu gallons. Th Crnsad In Ilrlef. In the State of Virginia during the last few months the Anti-Saloon League has closed no less than 90U saloons. In Maine, Kansas and North Dakota they have prohibition by State law; in thirty-eight other States tbey have it by local option. It is recognised that the hope of the na tion he in perventing the formation oi drinking habits through education of the rising generation. The action of alcohol on the nervous sys tem ia one of its most important and most unfortunate characteristic. It is thia ac t-ojL hlfl.!els to the "craving" for drink. 'i iie United States drink enough liquoi each year to Host all ber battleship. Tluro aie ti.VJ town and citie in tin Slate oi Hlin us in winch nrohibition hat Ken enacted into law. All the State o Iowa but twcniy tiv citie is still prohibi tion. 1. is strange that professedly religious bmi.is ol men can see uo wrong in manu facturing liquors which have been proved to be the grrut-.it enemies to humanity worn:.y, socially, physically and spirit ual'v. - The amount the liquor business iwi from legitimate trade, 'if spent in dry good::, grocery, hardware and furniture stores, won I J require t,OJIO,noo more o lw material for manuiat'tjiriug, aud giv employment to l,2jO,ooo tutu. fWVN l HOUSEHOLD 999 k 9 MATTERS SWAVAVtVWWWsV To Clean Mattresses.V If the mattress Is stained put in th sun and cover the spots with a thick paste made by wetting laundry starcli with cold water. Leave for an hour or two and then rub it off. If not pe foctly clean repeat. 'f To Make Liquid nine. To make liquid glue fill a glass Jat with broken up glue of best quality, then llll It with strong vinegar. Keen) It In a pot of hot wnter for a fesr hours, until the glue is all melted, and you will have an excellent f,'m always rcudy. ' Storing Plated Ware. When storing plated goods, thor oughty wash all the silver, and theur clean with powder In the usuul way. Wrnp each piece In silver pnpr audi plu'je in an airtight box with a large plci?o of camphor. Plated good will always tarnish If stored In a .arupi place. I!e very careful to dry tli in shir of i:th tea aud coffee pots beiorg polii.iln. '1. fiond t'lant Holders. The possibilities of common gtngeg Jars as flowor vases and plant holders are well known. Thry are made twlcsj as attractive by woven covers of raffia, cit ber in the uncolored or the tlntej varieties, says the Chicago News. When the jar shows splashes of blue, green or red at the top of the glase, It is well to repeat the tone on tht raffia. I. . Linoleum Polish. This polish for linoleums Is easily made, and produces u very Rood result without much labor. Take four ounces) of beeswux, two ounces of white waxv and two ounces of Castile soap. Scraps nil fine, and pour over It one pint of boiling water. When dissolved, let if boll again. Take it off the fire and add one pint of turpentine. Stir until quite, cold. Use as you would beeswax turpentine. ., Cold Wllhoot Ice. "A few years ago," writes one cor respondent, "ice being expensive, my, husband thought of a way to keen things cold without lee," says the Ladles' Home Journal. "In the cellar floor he dug a hole three feet wide, four feet long and two and one-half feet deep. He masoned It with brick at the sides and cemented the bottom. This made it dry and easy to wash! and keep clean. He then fitted ou a snug cover with nn air pipe running through it. In this box we have kepH tilings cold and sweet nil summit" without any expense whatever. , ' t Watch the Horner. The burner of a lamp should be es pecially looked after, but this is thej part most often neglected. The fine holes In it, or tho "gauze" through; which air is admitted to the flames, should be kept entirely free from ollf and dust. The little machinery which moves the wick up and down must also be cleaned out when necessary. If the lamp Is u la rife brass lamp with, a tube for ventilation running clear through the fount of the burner, so that air nscend-s to tho wh k from be neath, bo careful to examine t Ilia space, for It Is likely to become choked with dust and burned-oil par-, tides of tiie wick. For Porch Chairs. An economical, as well as perma nent, method of reseating porch chairs that must withstand more or less ex posure to ralu is to take stout drill-, in;? or ticking and cut it leugthwlsre into two-Inch strips. Double these, turning in raw edges, und either.; "overcast" closely or stitch on ma-, chine. Next fill In the vacancy wltht pieces, ranged side by side. Across these draw others in nn opposite di rection, much after the principle of stocking darning, securing all tightly at the ends, so that they will not slip. This will be found more comfortable1 and resist wear and tear much better; than If one straight piece of goods I used for the purpose. , 1 t?K W - -s. Egg Lemonade One egg: one or two tahlcs;ooiis sugar: Juice of half to one lemon; one cup of milk. Kent egg till' lemon colored and thick; add sugar1 and beat again. Pour Into delicate' glass, grate nutmeg over the top and serve. If the stomach is very delicate use the white of the egg only. Kndlre Salad Arrange a bpad ' of well-washed endive in a salad bowl,' adding five radishes that have been' pared and cut Into d!co, and four hard cooked eggs that have been cut length wise Into quarters. Just before serving mix half a teaspoon of salt, a half tea-', spoon of paprika and six tablespoons of olive oil; when thoroughly blended,, add a flavoring of tarragon vinegar; pour over the salad and toss lightly with a silver fork. Garnish with whole radishes cut to resemble flowers. Cauliflower and Beet Salad-Boll ft head of cauliflower in a piece of fine cheesecloth, until tender. Remove from the fire and break into flowerets, sprinkling with a tablespoon of lemon Juice. When cold arrange neatly in ft dish, adding two tablespoons of cold boiled beets cut into dice, a table spoon of chopped parsley and a tea spoon of finely minced wild sorrel. Mix them lightly with a French dress ing, and garnish the base of the salad with a border of boiled carrots and beets, cut Into fancy shapes. Uuckleburry Loaf CakeSift two cupfuls of flour with two heaping tea spoonfuls of baking powder and ft quarter teaspootiful of salt Cream cupful of butler with two cupful of powdered sugar, stir In the beaten yolks of four eggs, a half pint of sweet milk, a half teaspoonfut each of powdered nut id eg and cluuamou, and the stiffened whites of the four egg added alternately with the sifted flour. Last of 'all stir In lightly la quart of huckleberries thickly dredged with flour. Turn into a greased mold ,wlta funnel la tht centre and bake.
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