THE PULPIT. AN FLCOUENT SUNDAY SERMON 8Y DR WILLIAM J. THOMPSON. Subject: Tile Ascension. I His body, with all things appertaln I ng to the perfection of man's na ture, wherewith He ascended Into I heaven and there sltteth until He return to judge all men at the last I lay " Pestllenres are not from Hltn. ' Disease, making the body, as Hope i lerlares his, an "apparatus of tor ture. Is no more from God than I he disease of the soul. Jesus cured I ioth and inflicted neither. The body lesigned to be an instrument of -iKhteousnegs must be strong. To e strong It must be nourished by mre air, pure water, pure food Kven f these be secured by legislation, he legislation should compass the lyglene of homes, offices and facto I bT CHfllSTIANENOEAVORNOTES 1 1 gx.niXK-gcnpoi INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- mknts for tVlX 20. Brooklyn, N. Y. In the Simpson M. E Church Sunday morning, the pastor, the Rev. Dr. William J. Thompson, preached on "The Ascen sion " The text was from Luke H. blessed them. He was parted frorr t Prohibition both of overtax- I I ii r.' f i' u,i in i m'ii in l iiv Hir them and carried up t.i hcsFen. Dr Thompson said Concerning the crucifixion the Scripture gives month, day. hour, participants much minutiae. Con cerning the resurrection no mention is made of the first heart-beat, only the fact of the empty tomb and the risen Saviour. Still meagre Is the account of the Roeenalon, The length of these narratives in dicate our limited knowledge. Death o common would have fullest men tion. The resurrection, contrary to alt experience, would admi' (Booty the fact supported by 1 infallible i(n(." The ascension, contrary to the one law we believe to prevail throughout the universe gravitation and the entrances Into the spirit realm which baffles the Imagination of embodied spirits, would call for the least mention. Their Importance however. Is in versely as the length of the narra tive. Death In Itself Is failure, the resurrection declares Jesus to be the Son of Ood with power. The ascen sion to the right hand of God pro claims Him the ever-reigning su preme sovereign. The eagle-winged tyrant, death, fireads over the whole earth. pnllB f " id's Inst and best rreation In his i- atirJile conquest; wrenches from O h'iman soul the organ of all its in: "lucent and spiritual expressions th body, and dooms it with "dust to d;ist." Jesus Christ, the mighty Prince of Life, conquered this conqueror! Our loudest Easter hosannas nre to His praise for this unrivaled achievement. This triumph, how ever, mighty as It I?. is but a pgr! of His life. Like the figures of arlth- i metir. depending for their richness ! on what follows, so the glories of i Easter depend on what follows In the life of Christ. Napoleon Bonarnrte and Maren go, AasttrUtl and other victories as stepping stones to reach the dizzy ; heights of military power; where he ! swayed the sceptre from the Baltic to Southern Italy, and allied rontlg BO 11 1 nations as vassals or dependent . states. He stood with his armies upon the Alps and exclaimed: "Han nibal is surpassed!" He lei these ! soldiers beneath the pyramids with "Forty centuries look down unon yon." Franco saluted him with: j "Sire, your greatness is like that of ' the universe." If Napoleon had died ! before June IS, 181"), a glamor of j glory would have encircled his whole career. Rut his life after this, with the defeat of Waterloo and five and j one-hslf years In exile, leveled the summit of his greatness. We are not without concern for j our cx-presldonts. leBt som? ill deed militate against their record in the i high office. Some grains of comfort are euracted from our three mar tyred presidents, all of whom were Batched from us in th zenith of thf Ir fame, a fact which shed glory ng hours for women and the slaving I )f childhood upon Mammon's altar. I The wounded are to be healed. More, '.he road between Jerusalem and Jeri 1 -ho go patrolled ns to make wounds ' 'rom robbers impossible. Not only s disease to be cured, but the cause 8 to be removed. Christ's ascension confirms our topes of immortality. We have a I wofold origin. First, the Dbytlml, 'rom Adam. Like myriads of his de fendants who have lived before us, i sre see how our bodies will dl'solvo nto the dust. Our spiritual commu ilon with Cod the Father, our pass I ng from death to lire In love for the ' brethren This Is our creation anew j In the second Adam. Christ Jesus. As that which bore the Image of the I first Adam follows Him. so that in us which bore the Image of tho sec- ind Adam will follow Htm i If there were no continuation of , this life after death, Christ says: "I would have tol l vou so." No pro visos concerning its terrlbleness "I would have told you so." "I go to prepare a place for you: that where I am. there ye may be also." Christ's ascension describes our pathwav be yond the grave, and where tie Is. nil the spirits of lust men made perfect will be also. The ascension of Christ gives most emuhatlc confirmation of our hope of the life bevond. Joy from the ascension of Christ, i These men had parted from their : teacher, the prince among teachera. ', the friend of friends. His hands would no more bo laid upon them In : benediction. No more would His I voice be heard. They were the snf ! ferers of the most irreparable loss. ' Thus bereft, their task was to dis ciple all nations composed of hostile peoples, eager to persecute tiiem with ; death torture. Oh, the agony of their despair! Yet their "returned to Jerusalemr with great Joy." Abun iant must have been their ascension ! loy to hav absorbed their grief. His words to them were "all power I Is given to me." Wickedness would ; be annihilated by His omnipotent grace. The assurance of the fruition of your supreme desire gives great Joy. The supreme desire of these who were ttcined by Him who is full if grace and truth would lie the de struction of evil and the enthrone. ment of good. The assurance of this . consummation by Him of almighty power filled them with Joy. j Joy comes from power. Oovern I ment Is said to have its origin In I man's desire to govern rather than to be governed. The successful can I dilate flushed with power Is joyful. I All the power of our ancestors meets in us and must obey our be hest which may lie "thus far." The j Dark Ages said this and arrested pro ! gress. or if further, which we of the ! twentieth century say, the labors of j the race are transmitted to the n I richment of posterity. These dls I rdples tense with tho power of Him I by which they can do all things, were loylul. But when it is from the disarmed dea.h of Its mortal sting ; Sto hoT."of Mtf to. Us n n and led the powers of darkness rap- 'itv .,, (llP!1.lnn , ,' , five let some subsequent event could detract from th glory of tbll high triumph. So the setting of Christ in our faith hinges upon What follows His death and resurrection. If Jesus had remained in Jerusa lem, as His disciples hoped for, ves- s Is from the four ends of Obrittea- de"i would have congested the ports j d rest that city with deputations to I Visit Jer.us as Judee. divider, benefac ! tor. thereby weakening their faith j and enervating them in winking out , their own salvation. The nn st Stat- I wart fibre In Christian manhood Comes from largns faith nnd 7.eal In self-culture, and this could not h." favorably produced "veryw'rere with Jesus localized. Men everywhere should have equal divine afotttage in having right !isrn, speaking ac ceptable words, ami doing Justly. To this end Jesus must be Spiritually present In the world and consequent ly boilllv withdraw While the l is , dty aid duration is fullest. Ml the source of the dlscitileg' They "continually praised and blessed dot.." Ve mav be the depo3itorv of tho l plr tim! power of twenty Christian I centuries. V may exercise it to ':ak the world purer, juater. holler. The pathwav of the ascended ChrlHt I aiay be the trial of our own spirits to Ineffable glory. Under the do minion of these convictions as it Is jur privilege and uuiy to be. we ec perieaes with the disciples the great ascension Joy and will like them coutl .ually praise and bless Ood " Broken Thing-.. The flower that is crushed and rokjn oft exhales the sweetest jier .'utne. The shafts of sunlight broken re veal Cad's precious bow in the cloud. The little clinging tendrils are tre of .lesus would have shone un- ' ul tuo u",m:a -V,U,UB The diminished had He remain d on ' eatth. yet to reach His maximum i effulgence It was expedient that Hj gO away. Man's complete salvation I and the glory of Christ concurred 1 r. this departure. Our faith U vitally i involved in Hit de-iUnatlon. His departure. The farewell ad- dress of Oenrge Washington was ini- I porta nt in his ootlmatlei as m -il as j in that of his soldiers and posterity ! A farewell address would i valu- ! able and fitting for all our presidents 1 pr -cious alabaster bo was broken, but Christ was honored. The threads of the loom a: iroken, that the pattern may be com plete. Tiny broken bits of glass in the hands of a .master artist make u (rand cathedral window. Broken notes of music combine to ntake a perfect chord. The broken bread tells the Qhrlf .iau of a Body brok -n for his sake. The broken words of a first- rtZl:?.an, ! wreathed prayer brought blessing to best selves. This Is foreshadowed ! by Its typical formula, "Fare-ye- j well." "fiod be with you." abbrevl- ated to "C,ood-by." The farowell of ! Jems has the game relative impor- I tauce. Ha takes leave of the world ! that clamored for His blood and had , glee over Its shedding. Mark you, ' He lifted up His hands and blessed them " Thus His valedictory Is in ' the same exulted levsl as all that pre- cedes and our faith holds high in the tlsen and departed Christ. He departs not in darkness but in the light of day; not in the valley but from Olivet's top, not alone but in the view of His disciples. He had withdrawn many times before, this time He ascends. "While He blessed them. He was parted from them and carried up io'to heaven." Shortly after Stephen, the first martyr, looked up and sajd: "Behold, I Bee the heav 1 ens opened and the Son of Man at ' the right hand of Uod." Some tim after Paul had a vision of Jesus, in heaven; likewise did John. Satan the denier, was hurled headlong from heaven. Nothing that deflleth en tereth therein. Elijah, a pattern ol prety, whose mantle holy mon covet ed, the charloi of the Lord carried thither, and Enoch, who walked wltt Cod, was taken there. Jesus ascend ed to heaven, the abode of the good for all ages. Furthermore, the whole compsnj of prophet!, sages, kings and mighty men of Ood, are in that great com- pany whose number no man can num- . oer. yet Cbrlst sits at the right hand with a nams above every name and all powers aod principalities at His feet. This exaltation His through , all time enriches all His past, mskes the land on which Ho lived to us boh ills precepts priceless and gives ' the largest satisfaction and fullest trultlou to our faith. The ascension of Christ pays honor to the body. The third article of our religion la "Cbrlst did truly rise tgalo from thj dead and took ajaln .hose who beard What of the brok el plans, the troketl nmbitloiis, the sufferings and osses and crosses of a broken life" In the hands of the Divine Artist they shall mean rarest fragrance iuds of promise, richer fruit, honor to the King of kings, a perfect pat tern. "Unto them that are of a broken heart the Lord is nigh." Spring of Power. Cod working mightily In the hu man heart is tho spring of ail abiding spiritual power; and it is only as men follow out the sublime promptings of the inward spiritual life that they do great things for Uod. David Living ston. Ptolemaic Astronomy. According to the Ptolemaic the 3ry, the earth was the centre of the universe, and was motionless The lurrounding ethural region was com posed of eleven skies, or fl,raments, which revolved around the earth as a common centre. All the celestial Uodies moved around the earth. This tystem lasted for more than eleven hundred years, from about 100 B. C. to the time of Copernicus. Monism. Monism Is the doctrine of the one neat of all things. Mind and matter, Ood and the creation aro one and the tame thing. There It no supernatu ral "All are but parts of one stu pendout whole," the varlout phenom ena being merely incidental to the great unity. Daily Thought. Nor love thy life, nor hate, but what thou llveat live well; how long or short permit to heaven. Milton. Subject: Snul Dejected by the Irl, t Samuel I.! Golden Text, Josh. 21:24 Commit Verne 22 Head Chapters IS, 14 ' 'nninn-iitnry- TIMK. A. D 1091 B C PLACE. Ollgal. EXPOSITION.- I. Samuel Itebiikes King Snul, 1.1-19. Ood had revealed His purpose to make Saul king first to Samuel, and to Samuel Ood first revealed His purpose to depos- Saul because of his disobedience. There was no other man In nil Israel whom Uod could so trust ami of whom He could mak" inch a confidant. Samuel grieved greatly over Jehovah's re action of Ban), he spent the whole night in tears and prayer (v. 11). but hd iota enrly to perform the duly that Ood had put Upon him, unwel come as it was. He will deliver Uod's message and deliver It at once. 8iul greets Samuel with a great parade of piety. A guilty conscience often leads men to louder hallelujahs. Saul ut tered a hare-faced lie, but It Is not likely thai he admitted even to him self that It was a lie. Many a man fancies that he is sincere when he says, "I have performed the com mandment of the LORD." though in his inmost heart he knows thai he has done nothing of the kind. Samuel was not in the least deceived by Saul's loud professions. It is impossible to deceive the mun who Is In Ood's con fidence. Furthermore, the bleating of the Hheep and the lowing of the oxen betrayed Saul's falsehood. There is no use trying to hide our sins (Prov. 28:13; Ntt. :t2:23). The only way to get our sins covered out of the sight of man is to open them to the gaze of Ood (Ps. 32:1. f. ; 1 .Ino. 1:9). In all that had to do with obedience Saul says "I" and "we," in all that had to do with disobedi ence Saul says "they" and "the peo ple." It. is always the other fellow that is to blame, but If It is a question of credit, that belongs to us. The basest sinner can always invent n good construction of his vilest deeds. Saul would make an act of grossest disobedience to be an act of devotion. It Is not uncommon for rebels against the holy will of God to decorate the gratification of their lust with the pretense of religion. Why Saul and the people really spared the cattle Is evident (vs. 9 and 19). To give a part of one's Ill-gotten wealth to the service of Ood will not set one's diso bedience right with Ood (vs. 22. 23). Samuel did not venture to tell Saul what he thought of his actions. He did something Inilnitely better, he told him what God Himtell had said. Saul listened. Samuel always com manded respectful attention, because men hud learned that he spoke not his own mind but the mind Of God. Samuel first recalls to Saul's mind tht wonderful grace of God towards htm. The Bible constantly enforces o.u duty towards God and our guilt In disobeying God by bringing to our at tention God's goodness towards us It was when Saul was hu.nblo. when he was little In his own eyes, that Uod exalted him (Lu. 14:11). Je hovah had appointed him to the very first place, and he had repaid God by gross disobedience. What Ingrati tude! But not so great as ours when we disobey the God who has made us His own heirs. Saul's commission was lo destroy the Amalekltes "ut terly. ' The Amalekltes were a type of the flesh, and God will have no mercy on the fieBh. It must be put U death, the death of the cross tGal r : 2 4 ; of. 3:13). Many professed Christian! deal With the flesh jusl u Saul dealt wlih Amnlek. Uod sets them aside just as He set Saul aside aaniuel sweeps away all Saul's soph Istrles with a slngl" question, "Why didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD?" No possible reasoning can escuse disobedience to God. II. Saul's Worthless BxCUSe, -() 211. Saul put on a very bold fare and stoutly asserted that he had "obeyed the voice of the LORD." He hoped to lie himself out or his difficulty, but he failed lamentably. He has man) imitators, but none ever succeed. Be fore Uod got through witli Saul he was forced to say "I have sinned" (v 80). Every sinner has to come U this point sooner or later. The soonei he comes to it the better. One should never disobey Ood; but if one doe? disobey, the thing to do is to make cleun breast of It at once. Saul ad mils that the sheep and the oxen should have been utterly destroyed but again says that It was the peopl that had spared "the chief" of them and that too with a good purpose "to sacrifice unto the LORD." Then he adds, with the vaiu hope of con ciliating Samuel, "thy Ood.' If Saul had been as cunning as some of oui modern scholars who find something inconvenient in the word of Uod, In would have told Samuel, "I do not believe In a deadly literalism In inter preting the word of Uod. I have kept the spirit of Ood's command, even if not the very letter." Many lu oui own day are seeeking to subsf.ute sacrifices and services of their owu invention for simple obedlenco to the plain commandi of Uod. Uod doer not ask us to invent, but to hearken and obey. Witchcraft (in all It forms) and "Idolatry and Teraphlm' are exceedingly hateful to Uod, but "rebellion" and "stubbornness" art just as hateful. All disobedience to what Ood has said is "rebellion" aod "stubbornness." There was Just out cause of Saul's ruin, he had "rejected the wora or me L,ora. MWrlilef in Comic Pictures. A small boy of mv aenuaintunca ha. j f ume highly interested not long ago j In the adventures of a naughty youth, I presented In the comic supplement of j a well-known newspaper. The youth ! in the newspaper shampooed bis sts- I ter't hair and anointed the poodle with a mixture of ink, glue and the family hair tonic, leaving tho remaln- aer or the compound in the bottle for the use of hit father and mother. The it-suits at plctoilally tet forth were to intensely amusing that the small observer immediately took steps to repeat them in real life. Much mlt chlef is suggested in such wayt at this, and the tuggettloni come from artists who have little sympathy with children. "Child Lover," In the New York Timet. ADDINO IN8ULT TO INJURY. "Now, don't deny It, Rote, you wore my thoet?" "Only once my feet hurt me so, and I wanted something comforta ble." Meggendorfer Blaetter, JULY TWENTY SIXTH. Home Missions: The Home-Mission School House, and What It Does. II Chron. 17: 1-9. The value of early education. Prov. 22: 1-G. The value of the teacher. Ex. 18: 19-21 . Personal contact. Prov. 18: 20, 26. 29. Faithful teachers. Col. Il 2.1-26. The school nf the doctors. Luke 2: 42-nO. Mchools of prophets. 2 Kings 2: 3-S. If children walk In the ways of their most godly ancestors, the nation Is safe; and this Is the work of educa Hon to bring about. "The doings of Israel." the ways of the world, are a snnre In every com monlty. Mission schools teach the wnys of the Kingdom of righteous ness. The Bible Is the foundation of mis slon schools ;lhe best education comes from It. There Is no agrlcnliure and no com merce equal to this, that Christian education be planted everywhere. Home Mission Schools. Christianity grows as the knowledge and love of the Bible grow. But what If the converts cannot road? This Is the fundamental necessity for the mis slon school. Christianity grows with self-respect, prosperity and influence nmong men. These are impossible tt the Illiterate. Hence another necessity for the mis sion school. The mission school has led the way for the senile r school, and has prov ed whnt can be done with such male rial as the negroes, (he Indians, the Chinese. Mission schools are practical. They do not lift their pupils above their normal work, but teach them how to farm, build houses and labor in kitch ens In the best way. Mission schools, believing In the people for whom they are at work, are all the time making discoveries of ex ceptional ability, and giving It the op portunity to rise above the humbler tasks Into the largest service. At one time the moderator of the great. Synod of Ohio. Introducing to the Synod a teacher in a home mis sion school, announced himBelf as the product of that school. Some of the strongest preachers, of many races, have come out of them. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, JULY 26. The Fact of Conversion (Rom. 7. 7 12; 8. 1-4.) Btlnl Paul has been proving that we are saved mil by the works of the law but by faith In Christ. He has shown that l:w. Instead of saving ns. only reveals to us our slate of sin "I hud nol known sin, except through the law.' The question arises then. "Is. the law n bad thing?" Not at all. Tho law. like the diagnosis of a doc tor, shows us uur disease, though It does not BUre It The law reveals the slnfuliiHHs of our nature. It shows sin to be "exceeding sinful" I verse IS.) Paul luid kept the com mandmentt In an external way. The lusl, "Tlu.ii lhalt not covet (lust)," had shown hltn thai ihe command mentt could be broken In the heart wtthOUl nny external crime. Christ had taught thai lascivious thought Is the germ of adultery, and hatred In plplenl murder. Tims ihe law. spiritually lnterpre ted. was inexorable In its demands As a great searchlight it exposed the foulness of :he Interior nature. He lug unable lo cure what It reveals, the law brings despair. Hear the cry ol tho convicted: "O wretched man Ibal I am! Who shall deliver me?" Hoar the shout of the redeemed: "I I hank God. 1 shall be rescued through .lesus Christ our lord!" (Verse 25.) Rom. 8. 1-1. The law condemns; Cbrltl forgives. To those having faith In Christ there is no condemna tion. Christ rescues us from the sway of sinfulness and lifts us up lo a hlghei law. "the law of the Spir it of life in Christ Jesus." Christ cun do what Moses cannot. Moses can give us a painful view or our proclivity to tin, but cannot over tome If, The law Is too weak on account Of our curnallty. (The term "flesh" In Saint Paul's writings does DO) mean the body, but the sinful, un regenerate nature.) Law can pass judgment. It can tlty the sinner. It cannot rescue or regenerate, Christ con do this through his atonement. He changes the center of life from "flesh" to splr It, rrom lust to love, from carnality to Chrigt. Union with Christ meant rescue from sin and death. VHE CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK PKOt.HKNS MA DM ISV CHAMPIONS J KICiHTIXd TDK HI M DKMOX. Spread of Prohibition Lenders De-j dure That Cotinly Option Hills i Will Be Adopted in Kleven Slates in the Next Two Years. Seven States, nearly Itflu counties, Mmost 10,000 towns and townships and 136 cities, with it population of ."ilto to 150,0011. have adopted local option or prohibitory laws In sup pression of the liquor traffic in the I'nlted State. . There are eleven i-ltles, each having a population or more than 60,000-, lhat are dry. and ninete?n whose pop ulation Is between 20,000 and 50,000. Many of Die Stntes have been swept close to prohibitory laws by the spread of local option sentiment: one half of Nebraska is without saloons: of the 241 counties In Texas 152 are dry: twenty-nine of the fltty-flve counties In West Virginia have shut out the saloons: itxty-tlx of the 100 COUnttet of Virginia have adopted local option: seventv-five of the 11". BOUIItlej of tfhMOnrl are In ihe ltiral option column; in Ohio three counties and 102 1 townships gild small towns have voted nsalnst liquor, while in Minnesota 1811 townships and vil lages are dry. Oeorgia'8 prohibition law went Into e,"feet on January 1 of this year; Ala bama will go under constitutional prohibition January I next; Missis sippi will begin the enforcement of its prohibitory staiute ou tho same date; Kansas has been a prohibition State since 1S80; Maine since 1S55; North Dakota since 1SD9. and Okln iioma rani:! into the I'nion WlthCMt legalized saloons In 1907. So persistent have the Massachu setts anil-saloon campaigners waged their war that seventy-six per cent, of the territory. of the State is under prohibitory law; seventy-five per cent, of Minnesota Is dry. while Ken tucky, the home of moonshine whisky since the Revolution, now has but four counties wholly wet. Even the Mormons have caught the fever, and It Is confidently ass vi.ed that Claii will before long twlng In with the local option column. Pennsylvania and Now Jersey are admiltcd to be the hardest nuts to cruck in the matter of getting laws that will permit the voters to say whether or not they wish to keep the saloon In the townships, counties and cities of the Commonwealth. it is asserted by the otiicers of tne National Ant l-Balooh League that In two years eleven more States will en uct constitui ional prohibitory laws, and that in thirteen others similar stntu?3 will b debated in tho Legisla tures, with every indication of speedy adoption. With the came confidence It Is de clared by ihe leaders in the temper ance movement that county option bills will be adopted In eleven States in the next two years, and that not only w-ill Pennsylvania and New Jer sey lie well speckled with dry terri tory by that time, but that great in vasion of the wet territory west of the Mississippi will be made by the local option revolution. Arizona, California, Oregon. Colorado, Mon tana, Idaho and Washington have local opiion laws, and the ouly Stales in the West completely under-llcense rule are New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and Wyoming. The battle has been delayed In the latter territory, it is stated, becr.uso of the comparatively small population in that great section. While the buttle of the bottle has been Waged at the ballotbox and In legislative halls, war huH been eon ducted With equal vigor in the en forcement of tiu license laws !n many of the large cities, so thai Sunday closing of the saloons is in full force In nearly all of the lurge cities of the Union. The chief exceptions are New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Milwaukee. Philadelphia Lodger. RETAKING THE HAND. rORX-FED CATTLE FU0M ;R1NIH!THVKST Neils F. Hansen to Saek u Pro. teld That Will Thrive in Cli-mnt--Tsnfold Increase In Uir Stook. Recently M. J. Thovert reported to the French Academy of Scieuces the results of experiments made to de termine the possibility of reducing the heat evolved by nltro-explosives to such a degree as to prevent the combustion of the carbon monoxide abounding in the air of many mines. It was found that the addition of al kaline salts had this most desirable effect. The detonation of the explo sives thus treated was not accompa nied by Inflammation of the sur rounding atmospheric gases. Thu Musk Dew of TJhet A number of Til, .un traders who visited Calcutta in March, 1'JOS. brought with them among other articles a large quantity of musk which is held In high esteem by the the high-caste Indians. The little deer from which the musk la ob tained ranges lu trie Himalayas and Tibetan Mountains, B000 feet abovo tea level. Tho male deer yielde the finest and greatest quantity of musk. The deer are shy and alert and diffi cult of capture. Automobiles Prohibited in Bermuda. Consul W. Maxwell Oreene, ol Hamilton, reports that the act problb ting the use of ail motor cart In the1 :o!ony of Bermuda, and to be in! force Indefinitely, patted both houses f the Legislature, and on May 11 it! received the signature of the Govern or and therefore became a law. Josh Wise Philosophizes. I "A gal don't generally think a man It tn love with her uniest he threat ens C commit tulolde if eh refuse The Cost. Secretary Vredsrlcki, of the k-.i-komo llnd.) Steel and Iron Com pany, in tile ludiarmpolis News, de clared that the saloons near their factory eo3t their company $75,001) u year, "if hol more." "Let us have a law," he declared, "prohibiting un der tho severest penally a saloon in the lactory districts." And as repre sentative of hundreds of other tdwOl everywhere, the News correspondent concludes with this statement: "Ko- komo lias thirty talooni thnt pay about 17600 into the city treasurr annually. The manufacturing Intel- ests of KokomO are damaged more mail 7S,00Q every year by tee lalotni interests." A Drunkard's Picture (..illrrj. Fond du Lac. Wis., mu, a unique ordinance requiring the photograph! or habitual drungardt to be placed 111 all the naioons in the city, with a uotic-' forbidding saloonkeepers to sell liquor (0 them on penally ol losing their llceutes. This new son or rogues' gallery is growing rapidly under the tottering cure or toe police courts, but one addition to It was made voluntarily, in it is iho pho tograph of one poor fellow who begged to nave It placed ihere wlm tho others, us his only chance ot freedom troni the t runny of ttrons drink. Msny systems new and old Throng the Mind's door dny by day, Every one with truth of gold Which should not be thrust uwoy. But. O needy human heart! If thou knowent whnt is bet. Never with thy childhood part, Faith alone ce.n give thee rust. Let Ihe hungry intellect Search the great philosophies; Should not Mind the mind inspect? See how marvellous it is? But when bnifled is the brain. And life's mystery deeper grows, Put thy hand in Uod's again; There alone i thy ftpOss! Charlotte Kiske Rates, in the Christian Begiater. iSrrrrthlae, Supplied in Christ. Soul, dost thou desire eternal life? Is there within thy spirit a hunger ing and a thirsting after such things as may satisfy thy spirit and make thee live forever? Then hearken while the Mnstor'3 Servant gives thee the invitation: ' Corfu-, for all things are ready " all, not some, but nil. There Is nothing that thou canst need between her? and Heaven but what Is provided in Jesus Christ, in His person and In His work. All things are ready, life for thy death, forgiveness for thy sin, cleans ing for thy filth, clothing for thy nakedness, Joy for thy sorrow, strength for thy weakness, yes, more than all that In the boundless nature and work of Christ. Thou must not nay, "I cannot come because I hr.ve not this, or have not that." Art thou to prepare the feast? Art thou to provide anything? Art thou the purveyor of even so much as the salt or the water? Thou know est not thy true condition, or thou wonldst not dream of such a thing. The great Householder HimseK hath provided the whole of the fens;, thou hast nothing to do with the provision but to partake of It. If thou lackett, come and take what thou lackest; the greater thy need the grenter reason why thou sbouldst come where all things that toy need can possibly want will lie at onee supplied. It thou be so needy that thou has noth ing good at all about thee, all things aro ready. What WOUldlt thou provide more when Uod has provided all things? Superfluity of naughtiness would it be if thou wert to think of nddlng to ills "all things." It would be but a presumptuous competing with the provision of the great King, and this He will not endure. All that thou wantest I can but repeat the words between the gates of Hell, where thou noiv llest, and the gates of Heaven, to which grace will bring thee If thou btUtvetf all ic provided and prepared in Jeeui Christ, ihe Sav iour. C. H, Spurgeou. Teaching Nuggets Faith knows no la3t farewell. Every lire hus limits until death breaks down the walli. It Is easy to allow our brief lo3s to hide Ills bitter cross. He ascended from the few that He mighiTdescend on the many. They who will not be convinced by truth will be convicted by it. It's hard believing in the Holy Spirit whom you will not receive. II Is better to know that Cod Is for us than to see that Ho is with us. It makes nil the difference whether you aro facing death or looking to larger life. It Is worth while to lose the Christ you can see to gain the Christ who can be 3cen In you. If we really believe the things we sing of heaven, our mourning is cith er selfishness or hypocrisy. It makes all the difference whether truth is a way along which we are led or a predigeslod food with which we are fed. Henry F. Cope, lu the Sunduy-school Times. Preparing For Hcnven. The good are preparing for heav en. No one goes home on earth who cares nothing for home, takes uo thought for it. does not plan with ar dent longing for the homo coming The very life good people live on earth is a preparation for heaven and an unfitting of them for any other future. Each soul will go "to his own place.'' There Is a legend of an Indian chieftain who, migrating with his tribe, journeyed over the high mountains and through dismal swamps, and at last, having reached a valley fair to behold and good to dwell In, throw down his burdens, exclaiming, "Alabama!" meaning "Here we rest." The true Christian is Journeying toward the real "Ala bama." the valley home of the re deemed, where they lay down their burdens and rest. "They rest from their labors, and their works do fol low them." There is such a "home of the soul." The Rev. O. B. F. Hal lock, D. D. Atlantic City in l,hic. An active campaign against Sun duy liquor selling In Atlantic City, N. J., has been Inaugurated by the ministers and the lleform League Public sentiment, lu ihut city is thor oughly aroused to tho necessity ol having the law enforced. Not "only has the liquor been sold ou Sunday, but It has been distributed amung minors. Nearly fifty offenders against the statute have boon already cited. Highest Knowledge of All. The more sincerely and faithfully we deal with our own minds, the more I believe we shall discover that the highest knowledge of all does not comu at once, and never comes In phrases and abstractions. If man is capable of knowing Uod, it must be because there is that in him, that In every part of his being, which re sponds to something iu Ood. Fred erick D. Maurice. Sympathy's Power. A gentleman once seeing a poor man under the influence of liquor, ' stopped, and laying his hand on tbs man's shoulder, spoko to him In kiud- , uess and gentleness. "John." It was only a woid, but It saved a soul from death, and John 11. Uougli I preached tcmperaucj for years und I saved many u man and wotuuu from u : drunkard's grave. Only a word! Who can lot speak I it? A word iu season how good it is, and It may bear fruit, even a hun. I dredfold. The Universal Longing. It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true thlugs, aud vin dicate himself under Uod's heaven, as a Uod-mudu man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of dolug that, aud the dullest day-drudge kludles into a hero. Thomas Carlyie. New York Shous Fljtlu. Prohibitionists of New York City nuiiuwu me news mat tho liquor in- i terests are going to eater actlvoly in to tho Presidential campaign. Chair man Oar diner says: "For years we MV been trying to make a Prou)- 1)1 lion it: .i, i. ml Low mil- ,'iif 1 1 . i i . i . I come iu aud do it for us." About the poorest tlioke of busi ness 111 tho tn'oaanl I !,.(.. j " - --. j ,a uviug UOIIS 1 " by those brewers and distillers who ptomaine poisoning? Be a Soul Winner. It is easier to preach publicly to a great congregation than to win one soul by private means. NOTHING IN IT. He (anxiously) "I understand your- father speaks very highly of me?" She "Yet; but he doetn't mean a word ot It." He "Are you sure of that?" She "Certainly. He does it Just to torment mother." Chicago News. CALLED IT COLIC. Knicker "How did Jones escane To Increase the supply of beef and thereby lessen Its cost to the Ameri can householder la nne ,tf tim i.t-ln.!- i pal objects underlying the efforts of the Department of Agriculture to se curo a proteld that will thnlve In the eml-arld regions of the N'orl'nwest. Beef and beef products have reached i the highest prices recorded in twenty years, and the dealers say thnt this U due to scarcity of cattle. The beef market at present Is be ing supplied by corn-fed cattle, which always bring the highest prieeg. Urass-fed cattle are not u& good In quality as those fed on corn The beef MOUred from the cattle having proteld foods Included In their fare Is considered the best, and despite the contentions of vegetarians It Is generally conceded that the human body must receive its muscle mak ing food from meat containing pro teld. It Is to Increase the supply of t ii i kind of beet by Increasing the proteld belt In the West thnt the Department of Agriculture has again seut Nells F. Hansen, of Brookings, S. D., to make a thorough Investlgni Ion of the plant life or Northern Russia and Si beria. Professor Hansen is a pioneer worker for the improvement of the plant life of this country and is con sidered as great an authority on tii plant life of northern regions as Is Luther Burbank on tropical plant? and fruits. Profegtor Hansen will visit the sec tions of Northern Europe and Asia, where climatic conditions are similar to those of the semi-arid lands ot Wyoming. Colorado. Montana and the Dnkotas. In these sections an attempt was made to raise alfalfa, which has been so successfully culti vated In the more Southern States. After some time these efforts an peured to be successful, and prospect ive settlers soon filled this new gruz ing country, but in the last two years the crops have been poor and formers have begun to leave these semi-arid sections, where cattleare fed on grass that withstands the cold, snowies-' winters and dry, hot summers that prevail there. If nn alfalfa or clover can be found which will withstand the?e climatic conditions a hundred head of cattle ?ould be grazed on the land now re quired by jjen. The cattle raised in this section are now sent lo Illinois, Indiana and other Eastern States to be fed on corn before being ready for market. On his previous expeditions Pro. ressor Hansen found fields of alfalfa on the steppes of Russia, thriving In a climate that corresponds with thnt of the Western lands, which It la hoped will be reclaimed through his efforts. He has found that, these fields of alfalfa are hundreds of yearn old. and that the individual planis, Instead of biennial, live for a genera, tlon or more. One of the most im portant results of the successful in troduction of this northern nlfalfo would be the fertilization of the soil, which would make possible the rais ing of wheat and other crop3 whew little of value can now be grown. Secretary Wilson first sent Profes sor Hansen on nn expedition for tht Department of Agriculture in 1 897. Since then he has made trips trleti niolly for the department, and ns s result of one of these Introduced for the first time into this country the Turkesian alfalfa, which forms n of the principal crops in the Statsf DOraering the 100th meridian. Punishing His Donkey. Not very long ago there iived near Halifax an old man who always rode on a doukey to his daily work, and j tethered him while he labored on the j roads or wherever elBe he might be ! It had been pretty plainly hinted to j blm by one of the local Iandowtieri that he wus suspected of putting It In the fields to graze at other people'!.; ! expense. I "Eh. squoire, Aw cttdna do sich 1 j 1 thing, fer my donkey weau't ait' (eat) "owl hud nettles an' thistles.' ' One day the gentleman was ridini 1 j along the road, when he saw the oU j fellow at work and the doukey up to j Its knees in one of .his clover Deldi j I feeding luxuriously. "Halloa, John!" said he. "I un derstood you to say your donkey : would cat nothing but nettles and I thistles?" "Aye," said John, "but hc' bin misbehavin' hissen, sir. He nearly kicked me I' th' chest just now, sol Aw put him theer to punish him! " , Tli lCxtrn ordinary Lightning Stroke. Professor A. Herschel, in the Quar terly Journal of the Royal Meteoro logical Society for October last, de scribes the extraordinary effects pro duced by lightning in the midst of I an open moor In Northumberland. A hole four or five feet iu diameter wsl made lu the flat, peaty ground, and from this half a dozen furrows ex tended ou all sides. Pieces of turf were thrown In various diredloul, one three feet iu diameter und a foot thick having fallen seventy-eigsl feet from the hole. Invest Igatios j showed that in addition to the effect j visible on the surface, small ho' had been bored In the earth radiutl from the largo excavation. are opposing prohibition. V .1 nil I uiu are positive it will increase the de mand for liquor. Booker "Didn't know how to ,. re nounce It." New York Sun. Property Rights. Private property, in the shape I which we know It to-day, wus clilW formed by the gradual disentaiif1 ment of the separate rights of moi-j viduals from the blended rights of community. There Is every reasos for believing that property once br loliffnd not in InrilvMnala or even tni isolated families, but to the patriarch al society as a whole. In other word, property was at flrtt comimmlsW rather than personal. The Ameri can. At late at 1818 the British Et India Company decided that u with Japan was not worth coltiw"! UK
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