LIEUTENANT BOWMAN. i' IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS PE-RU-Nfl CURED HIM. Cold Affected Head and Throat Attack Was Severe. Chas. W. Bowman. 1st Lieut. and Adjt. 4th M. S. M. C'av. Vols., writ from Lan ham. Mil., as follows: "Though somewhat morse to patent medicines, anil still more averse to be coming a professional artidnvit man. it seems only a plain duty in the present in stance to aila my experience to the col limns already written concerning the cura tive powers of Veruna. "lhavr been pa rtlcala rl i benefited by Uh ur far raid In the heed aud throat. I ha ve fcppn ablr to 'nil u rare MMn at a mosf eeeere attark In fort itrlght tones hyttH umt arrordlnft todirrvtlouH. I uht It uh a arvvrntlrt whenever thrraienrd trtth an attack. "Members of iny family also use it for like ailments. We are recommending it tc our frienda." Chas. W. Bowman. ,1s. lour IfrngglDt fnr five I'erun . thnanac far .'?. Lightning t lashes. Lightning flashes In a storm are fonnd by an English observer to bp much less Irregular In period than they appear. Such storms have usu ally two fori sometimes three from which the flashes radiate, and the discharges from each come at regulai intervals. The apii'nrent Ir regularity Is due to the varying rates of the different centers. In a storm of .fuly. 1905. the two foci were about a mile and a half apart, and in an knr the northern center omitted :!n flashes nt intervals of 15, .1". S So and 9o seconds, and the southern center guvo 16 flashes at Intervals of IT. SI and 31 seconds. Anotner un explained observation Is that Just be fore each great flash there Is a mo mentary falat lighting up of the sky in the storm region. (ioldsinlth's Resurrection. A company was playing "She , Stoops to Conquer" In a small provln j c!al town last summer, when a man I without any money, wishing to gee , the show, stepped up to the box j office and said : "Pass me In, please." The box-office man gave a loud harsh laugh. "Pass you in what for?" he j asked. The applicant drew himself up and ! answered haughtily: What for? Why; beearse I am ; Oliver Cioldsmlth, author of the play." "Oh. I beg your pardon, sir," re plied the other. In a shocked voice. ! as he hurriedly wrote out an order 1 for a box. Pick Me l'p. Remarkable Herd Test. Herd tests at the Montana Station how that of two cows that produced within sixty-five cents of each other one coat t.66 more to keep, making the real difference $7.20. There was m great difference In the length of time the cows were dry, ranging from 137 to 24 days, which suggest another point to be watched In de termining the profit makers. To Get Rid of Stumps. Tho easiest way to get rid of stumps In Held or meadow Is to burn them out. Dig a trench around the tump about two Teet wide and two to three feet deep; cut off all pro jecting roots quite close and remove the soli as much as possible Then leave the stump for a few days to dry. Gather up a lot of dry sticks nnd brush and till up the trench all around and on top of stump and set it on fire. The stump will be con sumed In a day Of two. Even green stumps may be burned out in this way, although It may require a sec ond or third supply of dry sticks on tile fire to accomplish It. The Eplto-mist. From Miliaria. One day a man. apparently white, came Into the best resta'irant in Atlanta. The head waiter looked htm over and thought he had negro blood tn htm In fact, he was a very light quadroon). "Here, you," the head waiter said, "you are colored!" "Oh. no. I ain't," the man replied. "Not in the sense you mean." "But you are mighty dark." "I know I am. but that Is because I am a Malay." The head waiter was nonplussed He looked again, and then asked, suspiciously: "What tg a Malay? Where Is he from?" "Why," said the man, easily, "Ma lays are from Malaria.'' San Fran cisco Argonaut. Rig-Hend in Horses. Tf applied as directed, the follow ing remedy for big-head In horses will effect a permanent cure without leaving any bad effects: One pint of alcohol, one gill spirits of turpen tine, one ounce corrosive sublimate, one ounce gum camphor and one ounce oil of spike, to be well mixed together and applied externally to the psrt twice a day; when used up. a cure will be effected. It will take a long time for the disease to entire ly disappear and the hair will come off slightly, but it will grow again and there will be no scars. The compound is poison and should be plainly labeled and kept out of the teach of children The Epltomlst. Xo Wonder. Into her beautiful azure eyes. As he kissed and called her "dear," There appeared a look of surprise For they had been married a year. Chicago News. Raw's This T We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward to ssy oe of Catarrh tuat cannot be cured a I. all's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cbexiy A Co., Toledo, 0. e, the midersliftifd, hav known If 1 t hsnsy for the laat 16 years, and bellevortlrn I ertectly nonorabia In all business transac lionaand fluanclally able to carry out aoy obligation! made by their tlrm. Wsst A raoAX, Wholesale Druggist To ledo, U. viauhxo, KiNitAS A Maims, Whoie.aU Druggist, 'ioiedo, U. Hall's cacarrn Uoreta r u al v.araally, Hi. IiHidlreotlyuponthaulo . 1 m l :n'touou i ir jaeea oi thBy.tnm. 'lc-tlmoutala ieue (rs. rrtas, ?4d. pur dottle, r-oidoy an Druggists. J aks hail V r'.imii .- Pin- or orutlpntloo. The Man Who Coached Kipling. Kudyard Kipling spent a wintei u Washington some year;, ago. One day he was found peering around In the corridors of the State, War, and Navy Building. "What is it, Mr. Kipling?" a man who knew him asked. "I want to find the person here who knows most about steam engi neering." They referred him to Chief Engi aeei Melville, the great steam ex pert. "What is it?:' asked Melville, after Kipling hud been Introduced "I want to find the man who knows most about steam engineer ing." "Jim Perry's your man," said Mel ville, and he gave Kipling a card to Perry. Kipling went down to see Perry, talked to him for half a day, and then wrote his story. "Between the Devil and the Deep Sea." -Saturday Evening Post. FITS,St. Vitns'Dftuce :Nervons Diseases per maumitly cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. H trial Imttle and treatise free. Dr. H. R. Kline. Ld.'-WI Arch St., Phil,, Pa. The Decline of Mirth. The explanation that laughter Is disappearing on account of the sad ness of the modern view of life is dls- I carded by Slgnor F. Franceschlnl. an , Italian psychologist. He concludes I that mirth, like poetry, depends upon imagination, and that the develop l men! of the reasoning powers has tetided to banish the distortion that makes things seem funny. The more the imagination Is brought under the control of logic the less do we laugh. Education is now scientific and prac tical, and to more than smile is be comlng a characteristic of a simpler and more natural culture, where Im agination still holds sway and people have not forgotten how to laugh. Average Spede Of Clouds. I A member of the staff of the Blue Hill Observatory, near Boston, has reported that the average speed with I which clouds, between 8,000 and I 9,000 feet high, move Is 60 miles an hour In midsummer and 110 miles an hour in midwinter. The swiftest flight of a cloud yet measured was 2:10 miles an hour. Mix.d. Teacher--What is a coal magnate: To mule 7 Tommle -1 don't know, mu'am; I only thought those things come In cheese Yonkers Statesman. amcmy Mini. j "Million's new chauffeur Is a cheap swindle." ' Then Million Is to be congratu lated. Mine's an expensive one." Cleveland Press. Shelter For Hogs. If one be crowded for hog-house ' room, but have a straw stack he can utilize it for the shelter of his pigs ! in the following manner. By using I a straw knife gouge out a large clr- 1 Olla,. f.0,'1,,. ,1-nll In.r. ,Un l ....... , ... hum uiiu i iit- wvira C Ul the stack; it will ba necessary to Vt iip cut down the full depth of the stack. When the loose straw haB all been j removed it should be saved for use set two posts in tho front of the cavity and nail on boards; use boards or looBa straw for the roof. We have made this kind of shelter several times for shoats following grain fed cattle; we have found It warm at.d satisfactory. It should look something like this. George P. Will iams, Radnor, Ohio. THE DISCOVERER Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the Great Woman's Remedy for Woman's Ills. Ovcrfnt Hens. During the winter months the fowls, not having the same amount of exercise as they get at other sea sons of the year, show a disposition at times, particularly in the case of the heavier breeds?, to become too fat. Nature provides that the wild birds, such as partridge, quail, etc., put on flesh and fat in the fall, so that if food is scarce they will have a reserve to draw upon. Fowls, being of the same great feathered family, also in a measure show this disposition, and, If fed too heavily, later on in the winter will tend to accumulate too much fat. The fat In an overfat hen Is not, in most cases, distributed evenly, but occurs in bunches, preventing the laying of eggs, tending to produce sickness, and at the same time mak ing her poor for eating purposes, from the fact that the fat does not run evenly throughout the flesh. aB does that of the bird in Just right condition. Wheat, wheat screenings, boiled or steamed oats, cracked corn in place of whole corn, and with the other grains predominating over that of corn, scattered in litter, so that the hens will have to work to get them, will be found good grains to feed when a flock Is showing a ten dency to put on too much fat H. E. Ilaydock, In the Tribune Farmer. LYDIA E. PINKHAM" ride- No other medicine for Woman's ills in the world has received such spread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has sueii a record of eur -s of female illnesses or suoh hosts of grateful friends as has Lydia K. i'inkhiiin's Vegetable Compound. For more than 30 years it has been curing' all forms of Female Complaints, Inflammation and Ulceration, and consequent Spinal Weakness. It has cured more esses of backache and Local Weaknesses than any other one remedy. It dissolves and expels tumors in an early stage of development. Irregularities and periodical pains, Weakness of the Stomach, Indigestion, Bloating. Nervous Prostration. Headache, Genera. Debil'ty quickly yield toil; also dersugex) organs, causing pain, dragging sensations and backache. Under all circumstances it acts In haruony wtth the female system. It removes that wearing feeling, extreme lassitude, "don't care" and " want-to-b left aloue" fueling, excltabi'ity, Irritability, nervousness, diz ziness, faintness, sleeplessness, flatulency, melancholy or the "blues". These us-e indications of Female Weakness or mum derangement of the organs, which this medicine cures as wull as Chronlo Kidney Complaints and Backache, of either sex. Those women who refuse to ancept anything else are rewarded a hundred thousand times, for they get what tbey want a cure. Sold by Druggists everywhere Refuse all substitutes. Alfnlfa For Hog Cholera. A few years ago farmers were almost afraid to raise hogs on ac count of the prevalence of cholera. Once that disease got a start In a herd it generally succeeded in prac tically destroying it. Not only the old stock but the pigs were also affected. Hog cholera remedies were sometimes used to good advantage, then again they proved ineffectual in stopping the ravages of the i,lane j Since the farmers have taken to raising airaita extensively as a field forage plant for hogs, however, the situation is changed. Now hog cholera, in sections where swine are pastured on alfalfa, Is rare and the loss by the disease has been reduced to a mere fraction of that of former times. Farmers everywhere attrlb-. ute the change to the wonderful plant, alfaBa, and they are doubt less correct In their conclusions. The difference in the health of hogs (hat have been kept in fal lota and fed grain and dry reeds is pronounced and particularly so with regard to young pigs. Sucklings that have alfaifa-fed mothers are far more rugged and healthy than those whose uncestrul dam can be traced to the pig sty. Sows that forage on alfalfa raise lusty, hearty pigs that seldom fall victims to cholera, while the mothers that are kept on either feedB and not permitted tb freedom of the alfalfa fields are generally in clined to be sickly. Kansas has mace great utrldoa In growing alfalfa the past five or six years and those sec tions of the State where it is raised most extensively tle turning out the cleanest hogs and the farmers rom plaln less of the prevalence ot cholera. If there In anything that will solve the hog cholera problem which has always been a great loss to farmers it Is alfalfa. The time will come when etery hog feeder and grower will plant alfalfa for no other purpose than grazing hogs. It is not likely that the mlllentum is very near, but when the universal alfalfa time comes It will not be surprising to find hog cholera on the shelf as a back number, while the swine of that day will not know what sickness it. The Bpltomlst. THE YDUDIUX OR "HOODOO" i EPWGRTH LHEliE LESSiS Fattening Pigs In the Wood. Recently we visited a farmer friend who Is known for his thrift and up-to-date farm methods. He has Ideas of his own which he put Into successful practice. One of these is seen In the manner in which he fattens his hogs for market. He al lows them to have free range of a large wood lot In which a pig house has been built, In the upper part of this building he has placed a store of corn which he feeds to the animals when they appear to be hungry. In this his methods differ from many farmers we know of who keep their pigs closed up in a narrow pen and give them more corn than they can eat at one time, in fact surfeit them. Of course the friend In question gives plenty of drink In the way of sepa rated milk and enough water to hie pigs to satisfy thnlr thirst. We have always believed that If pigs are al lowed to run In tho woods or fields, during fattening season, although the fattening process is not quite so rapid as when housed up, the meat after slaughter is of a better tex ture and a finer flavor than that ol the closely confined animals. Prac tical experience has proven this tc be the case. One thing noticeable, about thi pigs belonging to our friend, was the clean, healthy appearance of thi wholw lot. Plenty of etercise In open air, a good crop of beech nuts ai their command, plenty of drink and just the right amount of corn at a feeding, combine to make these pigi a course of pleasure and profit tc their owner. Indiana Farmer. Shelter and Wnrmtli. Shelter is a valuable adjunct to the food. As heat is produced from the food, It is well known that the warmer the animal Is kept in wintei th less food Is required to supply Us wants. The winter is an excel lent time for fattening stock, owing to the outdoor work being then part ly suspended, and there Is no better assistant for that purpose than dry quarters. Before the animal can lay on fat the ordinary demands for the heat of the body must be provided, and during very severe and cold sea sons the animals cannot even appro priate sufficient food to create the necessary heat to sustain life when they are exposed without shelter. Every pound of flesh lost must be renewed, and every day that an ani mal is fed without gaining in flesh Is so much time lost that cannot be regained. Shelter, then, is econom ical In enabling the animals to not only supply themselves with heat, but also to store on fat, and it rep resents just so much grain or hay. The more complete the building for the purposes intended the better, and the more comfortable the animals the faster they will increase In weight. One should never waif until the sea son becomes cold before erecting the akcvtr, as a good start in the fall will materially assist the animals to enter the winter full of vigor and well prepared to endure the cold, provided they are properly cared for. As the hogs will gain from good shel ter, so will the cattle and sheep, which also should be kept warm. Even the poultry will lay in winter if kept warm and comfortable and fed as regularly as the larger stock. Farm Topics. Avoid getting hens over fat for egg farm. The busy hen is the laying hen. Keep them busy. Hens over two years old are of very little use for eggs. One breed, and the best, should be every poultry man's motto. When a swarm Is put into a new hive, their first care is . build comb. We should not expect e.t.v chick to be a prlxe winner. One per cent, is not a bad showing. If trusts are responsible for the high price of poultry, farmers will rejoice to see them continue to flourish. . It is poor policy to try to beat a colt into doing anything. Patience and gentleness will Induce him to da unj thing that will not hurt him. No farm is complete without a good flock of good fowlB. Farmers themselves should give more atten tion to the poultry, for it brings tn a steady income. It you want to bring brightness and joy into the hen house try a cab bage head hung Just so the chicks will have to jump for it. It will keep them busy and healthy, too. Burdocks around the fence cor ners can be killed by pouring a little strong sulphuric acid into the centra of each plant. Persistent hoeing off below the crown will also kiy them. No matter what you are offered for them, save sonic of the best ewe .noli, fur your own flock. Take those,, from the middle-aged, thrifty mothers. They will raise larger and belter lambs themselves. The planting of a tree, whether for fruit, timber or ornament, increases the uiiid of the land. The value of many farms could be almost doubled In a few years, at least In a genera tlon, by Judicious tree planting. Bays ex-Uovernor Hoard: "I would not keep u cow on ciy farm that would not earn me $50 a year with butier at twenty cents a pound. Some of my cows the past year kava earned $60 at the creamery." - The Vaudaux Is an African -cult, imported by the negroes Into Amer ica. It is known In Haytl and the West Indies as Vaudaux and in the United Stat.-., as Voodoo, while by the more Ignorant colored people in the latter it Is spoken of with fear as Hoo-doo. The term itself signifies an all-powerful being, incarnate in the form of a snake, and the cult may be defined as sorcery based on a belief tn evil spirits. Vaudaux is. In a very gross form, also a worship of sen suality, having a striking losemblancs to that of Satkl. "the power of energy of the divine nature In action," whose votaries in India adore a woman. At in the rites of the Saktl. those of th Vaudaux usually end In an orgy. Voodoolsm has a great number ol deities, rhlefest among them being Hougoun Badagrl. the snake, which, as a rule, is an ordinary viper. Thlt reptile, however, does not derive great pleasure from Its elevation to divin ity. It is placed In a box and left there until It is starved to deal h. To gether with the snake the Darotala I. c., the thunder stone, is the object of the highest veneration. This, however, is In practice anything but n thunder stone or meteor stone, only a very nicely polished stone ax of the times of the Carlbbees. The Haytlan? sometimes find such a stone in the forests, cannot account for Its origin, and. believing It to be heaven sent, take It for the thunder stone, to which divine adoration must be paid. It rests upon a plate, and communi cates its will by rattling, which Is in terpreted to the faithful by the high priest or high priestess. Every Fri day it is given a hath in olive oil. The principal other gods are Loco, the Rtrawberry tree, generally found at the entrance of their temples: the twin gods Sango and Bado, represent ing the lightning and wind: Attas hollo, the universal spirit, and Agaou Kata Balayi, the lord of the chaos. There Is also Opete, the divine tur key; Cinibi Klta, the lord of hell, rep resented by a blood-stained hatchet, with his subordinate devils, and At lagra Vadra, the god who knows alt. Twins, Mara a are always wor shiped, whether they be men or ani mals. Their birth is celebrated by feasts, with strange ceremonies. At the head of a Vaudaux com munity stands a high priest, the Papalols, and a high priestess, the MamalolB, both names being Creole corruptions of Papa Roy and Mamma Roy I. e., father king and mother queen. The inferior priests vary both in name and functions In the different parts of Haytl. There is the howgan, the medicine man, or phy sician, tho craftiest man In the tribe, peddling "wanges, amulets (bags filled with little shehs and stones) of various virtue. Other priests are railed Djions, Anlublndlgues or Du gaons. They are In the service ot the chief devil, Cimbi Kita. and his subordinates, Azillt and Doux Pedre. Theso gentlemen profess to be able to kill the believer's enemies by "robbing them of their souls" that is, they hang the enemy's wax Image In the temple and throw a spell upon it. This superstition . . by no means as harmless as one might imagine, for the faithful think nothing of re curring to some Blow poison to kill also the body which has no soul. The ceremonies of the worship are always held at night, are secret, and are characterized by prayer to the snake, which is exhibited during vne rite by hysterical manifestations ot the priest and priestess in an Adamite costume, less the fig leaf, and by a wild dance for the initiation of novices, which is marked by the wild est debn.ichery and lnd3cency, and especially by the sacrifice and eating of a human being. The victim sacri ficed Is spoken of as the cabrlt sans cornes, "tho goat without horns." Sometimes It is an adult, but most frequently a child of ten to twelve years. The priestess throttles It, the priest cuts its head off. The corpse is cut into pieces, roasted, and the hair-raw flesh Is eaten with avidity. Then starts the fanatical "Doux Pedre," the devil dance, In which they tear the rags from their bodies, distort their limbs, bite each other and themselves, while the Papalols besprinkles them with the Bacrlflclal blood and the priestess swlngB the snake above their heads. Gradually the dance turns into the most revolt '"' orgy. New York Tribune. SUNDAY, JANUARY 20. Our Heavenly Father's Consideration. Luke 11. 5-11. Passages for reference; 2 Chron. 18. ; Pbb. 34. 15. 17: John 10. 23. 24. Phil. 4. 19. An earthly parent will not mock the hunger of his own boy by giving him a stone instead of bread, a set pent Instead of fish, or a scorpion in stead of an egg. Can we Imagine that the alt-perfect Father would do less than the earthly parent? Nay. will he not glve in even a wiser wny and bestow thp best or all gifts as In cluding every lesser one? Our heav enly Father's greatest concern for us Is that we shonld have the Holy Spirit. Chronicles assures us that Ood does not even wait to hv called before he Is at had ready to relieve. "The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong In the behalf uf them whose heart is perfect toward him." Where' i his people go. there he is watching for an opportunity to help. The psalmist found that not only were the lord's eyes open to see the righteous, but his eats werg likewise open to hear their cry, and for hltn to hear Is also to help. In John we ate assured that In these days of the Spirit's Influence whatever we ask In the name of Jesus trusting In him as mediator, we shall receive. Whoever Is a friend of Jesus Is ulso a friend of the Father and re ceives Ms consideration. Phil. 4. 19 Is commended to your careful and prolonged consideration In the won derful sweep of its provision. Does Ood care for me? Let the leader of the meeting lay stress on this question. The basts of all true prayer is that Ood does care, and yet we often net as If we thought he had no concern. Many a boy has been stirred to do something for himself because some one showed him that he cared whether he got along or not. "No man cares for me" has brought many a person to the depths of de spair: many step.) pointing toward the suicide's grave have been turned when the men found Ooa cared for then). We may get beyond the reach of earthly aid. but never beyond our heavenly Father's reach. "I know not where his Islands lift Their fronded palms In air; 1 only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care." THk 'PULPIT. A BRILLIANT 8UN0AY SERMON BY THE REV n AIM UNDO DE OVIE8. ' Thirty on the Wire. The origin of the word "thirty," used in newspaper and telegraph of fices to designate the close of report for the day, has never been satisfac torily explained, although it has been used as long as newspaper men can remember. There are several inter. esting verslous of the original source oi this symbol, a few of which are here given: A compositor of some no toriety in his locality droppd dead while seated at his case. The last types he had set were the figures "30." A correspondent in Brooklyn for a New York city uewBpaper In the time before tho telegraph or tele phone was in use had a contract to furnish a certain amount of copy dally, which he sent across the river by ferry. To let the editor know when his report had onded for the day the correspondent aa-rasd to fur. nlBh thirty sheets of copy each twen- D-iour Hours. An old editor In New York named O. W. Thurtee for yeara always marked his tlual sheet before going to press with his name "Thir tee." From this, it Is said, evolved '80," which has Bine been universal ly employed, Kansas City Star. Hints to Smokers, Time is a keynote of successful pipe smoking and another is gentle ness. Take It easy. Don't crowd the pipe to the top of the bowl. Never get a pipe hot. Keep cool, and keep your pipe cool. You can relight a pipe, and if you are an old smoker you will ba all the better for It. When you have finished do not refill a heated pipe. Canadian Clgai and Tobacco Journal. The tallest trees in tho world are tn a eucalyptus grove not far from Melbourne. Australia. Many of them are about 301) feet hlgH. JANUARY TWENTIETH "More Than Conquerors." The Vic tory Over Temptation. Gen. 3: 4-6; Matt. 26: 41; Rom. 8:37. I heard the other day of a silly young niaft who was taking a little of all kinds of alcoholic drinks so that he might know their taste and avobj the, "knowing good and evil." No one can look long upon any temptation without coming to the con clusion that the thing Is desirable. If you would be safe, arrange your life, not for the willing spirit, but for the weak flesh. Probably no man ever tested Christ more (hoioughly than Paul did; and Christ never failed him. Suggestions. A conqueror subdues his foes; more than u conquerer transforms them In to friends and helpers. A conqueror gains the victory over what Is outside him; more than a conqueror subdtiej what Is inside him. We can be more than conquerors only us first we are conquered by Christ. We are more than conquerors "through Him that loved us." "Per fect love custeth out fear"--fear of sin, as well as of everything else. Illustrations. The man who lifted a calf every day was able to lift a cow at Ian. Sub due the little temptations. "My sword is short," said the knight, "but 1 add a step to It." A little natural ability, plus a determined will, can conquer any temptation. The fly that doesn't taste of the fly paper won't get stuck on it. The watchmaker must not handle bricks: nor must the man who would keep a sensitive conscience handle sin. To Think About. Am 1 trying to see how near I can go to' sin without sinning? Do I love my temptations, or do. I loathe them? Am 1 trying to conquer slit In my own strength, or In Christ's? HANDLING A TIGER. "In a cuge nearthe room in whlchl lived while in Khiva," says Mr. Lang don Warner In the Century Magazine, "was a tiger from the Oxus swamps. He had taken a dislike to me, and every time 1 passed his cage he got up and paced angrily toward me, snarling. "Into the cage of this beast, at the command of the prince, a Turkoman stepped, armed with a short stick as big round as his wrist. With thle stick he struck the tiger's nose as. he made, for him, and then, with palma out and eyes fixed, he walked slowly up to the shrinking beust and stroked his face and flank. "The tiger snarled and took the man's hand in his opou mouth. I held my. breath and looked for the bleeding stump to fall away. But keeping that hand perfectly still, with the other he tickled .he tiger's jowl and scratched his ear, till with a yawn and a big snarl the big cat rolled oyer on his back to have his belly scratched. "The man then sank to his knees, always keeping his hands In motion over tho glossy fur, and with bis foot drew toward hliu a collar at tached to a chain This he snapped round the beast's nei k and, rising to his feet, laid hold of the chain and dragged the tiger out. "This was only the second time that the cage had been entered. As soon as the tiger was outside ha espied the watching party and started for them, but came up short on the collar. If he had chosen to use his weight and strength no four of them could have held his tether, hut us It was the Turkoman found little dlffl culty with him, aud held hltn, .-nail-lug, while a camera was snapped." Subject: The True Religion. Birmingham, Ala. The following Impressive discourse entitled "The True Religion" was preached In St. Andrew's Sunday morning by the Rev. Ralmundo de Ovlea. Hts text was: St. Luke xxl.. 3: "Of a truth I say unto you that this poor widow hath cast In more than tbey all." Mr. de Ovles said: BeeauBe relig ion Is a feeling, an Intuition, an emo tion, many well meaning people mis take other emotions and feelings for this one "divine stirring ot the heart." There are some minds that can never be led to believe that religion must become an ordinary, common place and everyday matter with the true Christian. They look for some remarkable display of feeling, some thing beyond and above the dally and hourly emotions of life, in order that they may feel certain of "having re ligion." In other words, they look for romance, not commonplace. "What!" we can hear them cry. "do you mean to say that when some powerful and eloquent preacher haa I stirred our hearts and made us real- lze the depth of degradation in which we have been living, until we turn with disgust from our past life, make uunumbered good resolutions and feel good all over, that we have not got religion? What more would you command? There Is only one thing which we could ask, and yet what a difficult test, "keep the feeling alive." No man Is a Christian who must be converted nnd baptized once .a year. Religion is for a lifetime, not a day, or a week, or even a month or two. There is nothing more decep tive than the enthusiasm resulting from magnetic, eloquent preaching. The politician, the lawyer, even the Infidel, all exercise this compelling power over an audience, and In no case does It give religion. Religion corner Into the heart from no man, !t comes from Ood Himself. It Is true, Indeed, that Ood uses human means, but when a soul Is truly con verted religious enthusiasm wells from the heart In a deep, quiet 8treim, not In the bubbling, efferves cent spring of some momentary exal tation. Such periods of excitement do seem to lift us outside the ordinary routine of life, and they have In them a touch of the romantic. But what really 13 romance, after all? It is merely the commonplace viewed from a distance. If any incident which excites our fancy and appears to be romantic were taken from the pages of one of our thrilling novels and introduced into our own lives we should look upon It as trouble, and what a deal of grumbling there would be. Don't you see that this Is true, and Is not a romantic novel, simply the story of difficulties and trials overcome? There is this difference between a book and life: in a book petty details are left out and the ex citing events crowded together, one upon another. In life the petty de tails are all retained, and (in many cases) the thrlhing passages omitted. When some of us sigh in our youth for stirring scenes aud a part to play on life's stage, which shall be full of ' thrilling adventures, such as we have read about in our favorite books, do we ever think about disaster to our selves, and does the story not end happily? Yes, we all desire romance, but no trouble or hardship ever en ters Into the bargain. They are in separable in tho real business of life. So we see that Christianity is ro mantic only In the true sense. It means trials and obstacles to be over come. The very first requirement of ro mance is courage, and here romance and Christianity agree. No coward was ever a Christian. There Is no greater mistake In the world than to suppose that a Chj-lstian must be a milksop, a poor, meek, wishy-washy creature, without stamina and with out manhood. Among the heroes of history none were greater, none more glorious and godlike than the Chris tian martyrs. They were not sup ported by ambition, by the praise of men, nor the fear of ridicule, but calmly and with eyes that saw. with out flinching, their doom, died for a feeling, that mysterious thing, faith. Pause a little, you who look with contempt upon the Christian life, and think which is the braver course, to float easily with the stream, to give unbridled way to base passions and weaknesses in our human hearts, to avoid tho finger of scorn by joining the swelling ranks of the scoffers and' the degraded, or that other path, to tajte the side ot the minority, to bat tle against sin. to acknowledge the standard of honor and freedom of conscience? Whoever conquers his besetting sin is man Indeed. True religion, then, Is brave as well as steadfast, but above all It is steadfast. It does not demand great sermons, It finds "sermons In stones." It does not ask for great deeds to do, It 1b contented with Its opportunities. Who shall say what things are small? Newton saw gravitation In the falling of an apple, and Galileo, watching the lamp of a great cathedral vibrating from the movements of passing vehl- gave to the world the division of time by means of the pendulum. Greatness lay Ip the minds of those two men who could grasp opportull nlty. So It Is not the outward circum stance but the heart which makes things great or small. There are abundant opportunities for our be coming heroic Christians, oh, it we would only grasp them. We miss so much lu this life, romance and beauty, and all because we lack cour age to do our duty. Duty is an ugly word at first, yet within it lie all the bast things ot life. It Is under the spell of that wicked fairy, the world, but It be comes beautiful if we embrace it. Recall that story ot your childhood, "Beauty aud the Beast." You re member how ugly the beast appeared to poor beauty. Still, for the sake of her father's life she embraced It, when, lo, a miracle, before her stands a handsome prince. So It la with life, duty, the dally task, the com monplace routine, when undertaken In the spirit of Christian raith takes the form of that dear dream thai'- lies In the heurt ot us all. Who would imagine anything he roic In the act of i hat poor widow when she cast into an aJmabox her two mites of copper? It took tho gracious mind or Christ Jesus to point out to the vorld the beauty of thai iBSlgliilic ant deed Yes, aud as long as the world, shall Inst and while the gospel Is preached to erring man kind, the gruatnsas of n pour woman's i,e; 1 1 shull point out to the world a lesson of beauty and heroism tint shall never die.
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