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WHAT MAKES
HARD TIMES?
International Bible Lesson for
June 37, '09 (Rom. 13: 3-14).
The most wide
spread, destrnc
tlve antagonism
Christianity htu.
to meet In nil our
land Is the liquor
habit. According
to the recent
census there are
four groggerlcs
in this country to
every church and
six bartenders to
every minis
ter. And thirty
times as much
money Is epent every year In drinking
places as is given to all church and
bi-novolent purposes in this country.
Think of It. Tho annual drink bill of
the United States is over four timet
as much as the value of all the church
property of all denominations. That
Is to Bay, in one year the people of
this country pour down their throats
money enough to build four times nt
many churches of tho samo grade hs
now exists. Statistics prove that It is
the direct cnufte of a yearly output of
100,000 criminals sentenced to prison,
J00.000 to the poor house, 300 mur
ders, 400 suicides, with 500 funerals
a day.
Beer vs. Bread.
Statistics do not mean much, we are
not able to comprehend them. Dut a
comparison may help us to get some
idea of where tho money goes. Sup
poso the liquor bill for ono year was
devoted to tho purchase of flour. It
would buy over 200,000,000 barrels, or
moro than two barrels for every nan,
woman, and child in tho country. Now
suppose that flour loaded on teams of
1-1 barrels each, It would take 20,000.
001) teams to deliver it. Allowing
each team 24 feet of room, it would
form a procession over 90,000 nil lea
long, extending nearly four tlmii
around the globe, or more than one
third the distance from the earth to
the moon. Save that money which is
worse than thrown away and thU
nation would never hear tho moan of
hard times from now on to the mil
Ionium, The Pocket Nerve.
Yon would have more money in
tho bank, better clothes on your
hack, better food on your table,
more leisure, more luxuries, for
yourself and your family. If it
voto not for the demands madu
upon you to provide houses of correc
tion, prisons, almshouses, Insane asy
lums, reformatories, hospitals, Institu
tions of all grades Into which marches
or is carried a long procession of men,
r.-omen and children, the finished pro
duct of the liquor habit. There is
where the money goes. Nine-tenths
of all the poverty and suffering of
this land without question is owing to
sinking the money in this bottomless
pit of intemperance. Save the money
mink in this black abyss annually and
not another woman would shiver in
the cold, not another half-starved
child erjr for bread. Every man who
Is inspired by philanthrophy, patriot
ism or religion ought to be interested
to smaBh the nation's greatest curse.
On the principle of self-defense, pro
tection of our own. interests, as citi
icns and taxpayers, we ouKhi to
arouse ourselves' to this evil, if from
no higher motive.
Precept and Example.
And Judgment must begin at the
house of God. There Is one perfect
ly sure remedy f.r intemperance, and
that is total abstlnc-uce. Let us bring
our children up by our example us
well as by our precept. Let us set in
our household such a blazing light be
fore our children that when they
come into the temptations of great
cities they shall be strong in ad
vance of their period of trial; let us
put the- church on the right side, a
pillar of cloud by day and of fire by
night, a guide to the militant host, a
confusion and destruction to her foes.
When we purge the church we shall
purge the parlor, we shall purge the
press, we shall purge the statute
books, we shall purge the ballot box,
we shall purge the executive, admin
istrative powers of the government,
and we shall thus deliver civilization
from a curse which has gnawed our
vitals more deeply than war, or pesti
lence, or famine.
This is the next step In social re
form. And the fight thickens every
day. The field of conflict extends year
by year. As Lincoln said, "This na
tion cannot endure half - slave, and
half free," so we say, "This nation
cannot endure half drunk and half
sober." One or the other condition
will have to be changed. Constantly
the fact looms up in darker hues and
more fearful proportions that rum is
man's deadliest foe, and we are pressed
to the conclusion that the demon's
reign must end. And stronger grow
the hands, and more hopeful tho
hearts, and more earnest the prayers
of the great niiny arrayed against
this foe of Qod and man, marching on
to Its destruction. Since rum in one
form or another la the main evil and
obstacle In tha pathway of humanity
and religion, It is Inevitable that it
mutt ro.
Notes and
Cooiinriemt
A Of Interest to Women Readers
BEAUTIFUL MURIEL WHITE.
Good Fortune of the Daughter cf
American Ambassador to France.
Just because the father of tho bride-to-be
was soon to retire fiom his post
as United States Ambassador ti
France didn't interfere In the least
with the wedding plans of Miss Muriel
White and Count. Herrmann Scherr
Thoss, offlcer In the Royal Prussian
Cuirassiers.
Miss White, as a Prussian Countess,
won't have to return to tho United
States when her father, Henry White,
so many years In the diplomatic Eur
vice of his country, comes home.
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Muriel White.
All Europe realizes the good for
tune of Miss Muriel White. She be
comes allied to one of the most dis
tinguished families In Europe, posses
sed of estates so large that In com
parison her father's money appears
but a drop In the bucket. As for a
match for money or title It Is not to
be considered.
Miss White has all the social posi
tion that an American could possibly
wish; Count Herrmann Scherr-Thoss
haa all the money he could possibly
need. Neither the American dollar
nor the European title has anything
to do with this engagement. It Is a
love match, pure and simple.
Count Herrmann Scherr-Thoss Is
twenty-nine years old; Miss White is
twenty-five. Count Herrmann is the
eldest of the four sons of the Count
Scherr-ThOBS, and ns such will succeed
to the hereditary Prussian peerage
and great estates in Prussia Silesia,
JOAN OF ARC BEATIFIED
In St. Peter's, Rome, the Beatifica
tion of the Maid of Orleans has taken
place and Canonization will follow.
The French Heroine's character
emerged triumphant and spotless from
the crucible of Merciless examination
of the Roman Catholic authorities.
Butterfly Jewels.
There is a new way of wearing Jew
els which affords delight to the young
woman who likes to be an embodi
ment of glitter and scintillation. This
method is called the butterfly coif.
The basis Is a structure of puffs and
colls arranged In the manner becom
ing to the pretty face beneath it
Scattered over It Is a swarm of Jewel
ed buterflles. There are a hundred
different ways of arranging gorgeous
Infects, almost any of)them likely to
be becoming. The aim is to secure
as brilliant effect as possible. The
general feeling In regard to this fash
ion seems to be that the larger the
butterflies the better, but when they
are made of very rare Jewels their
possessor Is usually content to have
them of moderate size.
The most exquisite of these orna
ments are made of diamonds finely
set In the butterfly's head, the mark
ings upon the delicate wings being
formed by brilliant rubles, emeralds,
and sapphires. Now and then, bow
ever, there Is a butterfly whose beauty
Is dependent upon less costly gems.
A specimen whose counterpart may
be seen any summer's day, poised on
some delicate garden flower, is made
of clear yellow topazes. Dlack pearls
are set at intervals along the wings.
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