WEARYIN' FOR YOU /as' a-wearvln' for you— Roam's BO lonesome with your ch&tr, All the time a feelin' blue ; F.napty by the llreplace there ; Wiahln' for you—wonderin whea j eg ' cttn 't stand the sight of It! You be oomln home agen, Got doors . rQam bu jou 11 be comln homo . . , . Restless—don't know what to (lo— ® ut t ' lu woods is lonesome, too Jes' a-wearyin' for you ! Jos' a-wearyln' for you ! —Louisville Courier-Journal. I A Business Arrangement. \ There was n dead silence as the lawyer's clear official tones ceased and he glanced round at the company as sembled iu the spacious library—an ominous silence, the calm before the storm; and in another moment the btorm burst. "It is abominable!" cried Lady Ade line Carrnthers, with a tierce energy that accorded ill with her handsome mourning robes. "The will must be contested; Lord Mountathol was cer tainly mad when he made it." "You would find it impossible to prove that assertion, Lady Adeline," said the lawyer coldly. "We will grant that the late Lord Mountathol was eccentric, but he was as sane as yon or I; and as there is no direct heir, he had a perfect right to leave his personal property as he wished." "And he lias left it to his sec retary and his typewriter, on a condi tion that wits doubtless arranged be forehand. A pretty state of affairs!" cried Lady Adeline furiously. A girl neatly but plainly dressed iu black, who had been sitting iu a dis tant corner, listening with a pale, dis tressed face while the curious will was read, started up at these words and i onfronted the irate matron. She was a very pretty girl, evidently a lady. The color had fled from her cheeks and lips, aud ter big gray eyes were full of tears; but she held her slight figure proudly erect and spoke distinctly, though her voice was tremulous with indignation. "You are wrong, Lady Adeline! The condition was not arranged be forehand, and it will never bo ful filled!" "Indeed!" sneered Lady Adeliue, with a glance of withering contempt. "And pray, what does the other inter ested person say? Is Mr. —er Trevelyan also williuij to let thir, su perb lega y lapse to the crowu?" Everyone except the poor agitated girl turned expectantly toward the secretary, Ralph Trevelyan, who stood nenr Mr. Denton, but his line face wore an inscrutable expression. "The terms of the will have sur prised me as much as anyone, but I think it will be better to discuss the matter in private," he said, calmly. "Do you agree with me, Mr. Denton?" "Certainly, certainly," answered the lawyer. 'There is no hurry; yon have six mouths iu which to make up your minds." "Mine is made up," murmured Eva Withers, who was making brave ef forts to restrain her tears. "Mr. Den ton, I don't think my presence in re quired here any longer." Bowing slighth- to the lawyer, aud ignoring Lady Adeline, Eva walked to the door. Ralph Trevelyan sprang forward to op-nit, aud looked at her eagerly, earnestly; but she passed him with averted face. A minute or two afterward Lady Adeliue aud the others departed, the former tossing her head iudiguantly aud enunciating disjointed remarks concerning "scheming upsturts" aud "doting old fools," while the rest of the couxpauy discussed in subdued tones the strange freak that had led the late Lord Mountathol to leave ten thousand a year to his secretary, Ralph Trevelyan, and his typewriter, Eva Withers, on the sole couditiou that they become man aud wife within six months of tho testator's decease. Mr. Denton had a brief consultation with Ralph Trevelyan, and then he sent a message by a servant askiug Miss Withers if she was able to see him. She received him in the pretty sitting rojm that had been hers siuce she entered the service of her late employer. "Dear Mr.Denton, this is terrible," Eva said, as she rose to meet the law yer. "Lord Mountathol was always like a father to me. I'm sure he lovad me as a daughter! What could have induced him to lay this—this humilia tion on me?" "I don't quite see where the humil iation comes in, my dear young lady," responded the lawyer, with a kindly twiukle in his eyes. "If Lord Mount athol loved you as a daughter—and he did—he loved liolph Trevelyan as a son. Latterly it was the dearest wish of his life that you two might be mar ried. Now come, my dear Miss Withers, think it over quietly. I have known Ralph Trevelyan siuce he was a boy, aud know him for a true gen tleman in every sense of the word, a worthy descendant of an ancient and honorable line, a husband any woman might be proud of; while, 011 the other hand—well, I can only say that if I had been Ralph's age I should have envied his fortune—the personal,not tho financial, part of it," he concluded with agallaut little bow. The ghost of a smile flitted over Eva's wan face. "Ah, you would have been differ ent, Mr. Denton," she said gracious ly. "But my mind is made up; I will have nothing to do with this scheme—it is hateful to me." "Well, well," rejoined Denton good liumoredly, "I'm not going to try to influence you in any way; after all, it rests betweeu the two of you. Rut I think you ought to give Mr. ire velyan uu opportunity of—shall we say, statiug his view of the case?" Eva hesitated for a moment and theu answered, "You are right. I will see him now, if you will send him to me. The sooner it is over the bet ter." Left alone, Eva paced the room restlessly. "I will not be bought aud sold like a bale of goods," she murmured pas sionately. "If he had cared for me it would have been so different—but now She paused by the window aud stood looking out with affected nonchalauce as Ralph Trevelyan eutered the room. He advanced as far as the table and then stopped, looking at the slight ligure standing so haughtily aloof,and the defiant poise of the shapely head. "This is a very ridiculous and em barrassing affair," Eva said coldly, findiug that she was expected to speak first; but she did not turn her head, and the remark really might have been addressed to the birds outside. "Embarrassing? Yes," ho assented lamely. "You heard my decision in the li brary just now?" Eva continued, still addressing herself to the wiudowpane. "It is impossible that the condition can be fulfilled." A spasm as of pain crossed his hand some face, but his voice was calm nud steady as he replied: "Yes, it seems rather impossible, but is it not a pity that Lord Mount athol's generous intention should be frustrated—that practically no one should benefit by this magnificent be quest?" Eva turned at last and faced him with flashing eyes. "What do you mean?" she de manded haughtily. He drew a step nearer to her and spoke earnestly and impressively. "Miss Withers, you, like myself, know what poverty is. You have told me what your life was before you ob tained the position our late benefactor offered yon. Are you willing to re turn to that life? To sit at a desk all day and go home at night to a lonely, (•heirless room?—perhaps to want work aud not know where your next meal was to come from? Forgive me if I speak plainly; you know I speak truth," "Yes, I kuow, but I say again I would rather—a thousand times rather —go back to that wretched life. I would rather starve than fulfil tho conditions of this hateful will!" "Rut you forget," he persisted. "You are not the only person con cerned. I am equally interested iu the matter." "Yon!" Most men would have winced under the ecorn, the utter contempt con veyed in the monosyllable, but Halph Tievelyau met her glance steadily. His face was pale and sad, but it ex pressed no shauie. "1 propose that we should fulfill the terms of the will—no, pray hear me out ns a mere business arrange ment. If you will honor me bv going through the marriage ceremony with me I swear to relieve you of my hate ful presence that hour. Instead of earniug a precarious pound a week you will be absolute mistress of five thousand a yen - . Think what that means, Miss Withers, ere you give your decision. Think of the good you can do to others with such niean'.4 at your disposal before you come to a hasty decision. He had touched the right spot. During the last minute or so Eva had beeu sweeping up and down the room with the mien of an outraged queen, endeavoring to master her al most uncontrollable indignation. She paused again at her former post at the window and remained for a minute in silence. "Very well," she said at last, in a hard, cou stained voi e. "1 accept your terms, Mr. Trev. lyau. The de tails can be arranged at leisure, I pre sume? I—l need not detain you any longer." (She bent that haughty little head ever so slightly, and taking this as a si«n of dismissal, he went sadly away, whereupon Eva sank down on the window seat and cried as though hev heart would break. The bnsiuess arrangement was con cluded iu due course at a registrar's office, for both bride and bridegroom tacitly shrauk from the mockery of a religious ceremony. Eva maintained her attitude of proud icserve, and parted from her husbaud—iu nan;e only—without be fraying the slightest emotion. Soon atterward she went abroad under the chaperonage of a widowed gentle woman, a friend of her early poverty stricken days. They traveled on tho continent for some time; then, as th winter <aine 011, they drifted to Ma deira, -i d from thence Eva deoiled to take a trip to the Cape. "And I shall assnmem own name," she said to her comolacent com; anion, to whom her word was law. "If i have to bo Mis. Treielya.i in Europe I shall be Eva Withers in Africa." Of Ralph Trevelyan she had seen nothing since the morning when they parted at the registrar's office. On one delicious evening iu No vember she sat on the veranda of the Grand hotel at Port Elizabeth, gazing wistfully out o\er the sea. She was alo:.e, lor Mrs. Mathieson a- enjoy ing a post prandial nap iu the drawing room. She diil not perceive a tall figure ap proaching her iu the moonlight, and started when the newcomer, Colo el Lennox, a recent arrival at the hotel, had halted beside her chair aud spoke to ber. "A delightful night, isn't it, Misa Withers? I don't know who would win.er iu England when they could come out here to this sort of thing." Eva murihnred something polite and innocent, for the colonel WHS a griz zled old veteran, aud did not interest her particularly. "Thtre's no accouuliug for tastes," continued the colonel cheerfully. "Now, I know a fellow who might have come out with me, but who pre fers to work himself to death in Lon don. Ralph Trevelyau always was au obstinate youug dog." "Ralph Trevolyau!" gasped Eva. "Yes, do you knoiv LiuiV" "I know his name," she murmured. "Ah, pos ibly you have heard the story about him; most ladies love n bit of romance. \o? Well, Balph Tre velyau—may I smoke? Thanks!—as I was saying, Trevelvan—he's the son of my best friend, God bless him; he was shot down by my side at " "Yes, yes," Eva interrupted ur gently; "but what about —oh, you said h? was workiugliimself to death." "Ralph? Well, yes,something like it. You se.\ after he took his degree at Oxford he became secretary to an eccentric old nobleman, who died and left him a pot of money on condition he marri d a little typewriting girl aud shared th_* spoil with her." "Well?" breathed Eva. "The girl hated him, though he's a de.ent lad enough; but lad es —well, well, we wou't go into that—anyhow, Ralph persuaded her togo through a form of marriage, promising to take himself oft'immediately afterward. So tho girl went gayly oft' with her tine income, but Ralph refused to touch a penny of his. He is n w living in wretched looms in a poky street oft' the Strand, 4N tttrad'ord s reef, top floor, poor beggar, trying to keep body aud soul together by doing liter ary work. You see, he acted entirely iu the yirl's iute.'est throughout, and this is where the romantic part conies in—ho was iu love with ber all the time, and is breaking his heart about it. Good heavens! are you ill, Miss Withers?" "N0,,u0, only I—l must go in. It's —it's getting cold." "Well, shall I see you in ihe morn ing to a; range Ihe picnic to Emer ald Hill?" "No. I—l'm afraid I shan't be able to go. We—we start for England to morrow. Good night, Colonel Len nox." And the agitated girl went iu, while the colonel chuckled audibly as he lighted a fresh cigar. "That's the girl, right enough; I felt sure of it. Now I hope the youug fools will leave oft' playing at cross purposes, aud take the goods the gods provide." "Fog aud frost ugh! the regular London Christmas," murmured Ralph Trevelyau with a shiver as he looked at the window, obscured from with out as with a murky yellow curtain, and then, turning to tho table, drew a manuscript wearily toward bitn. "Come iu," he cried, in response to a timid knock. "Well, what is it?" He turned his head aud then started up with a cry. "Eva! No, it cauuot be!" "Yes, yes indeed," murmured the girl, who came toward him with out stretched hands. "It is I. Ralph,dear Ralph, I have been so unhappy. I never knew- I never dreamed until Colonel Lennox told me, and then 1 came to liud you. Ralph, is it true? Do you do you love me?" He took tlie beseeching huuds in his and drew her to him. "I have loved you all the time," be said hoarsely. "And you " "Aud I've loved yon," she sobbed; "only [ thought you didn't care, aud I was so angry, so ashamed " But Ralph stopped the confession in an eminently satisfactory manner. "And we'll go back to the Cape for our honeymoon, and find the dear old colonel au I tell him all a >ont it, wou't we, Ralph?" said Eva some half hour afterward. "So we will, darling; but what about my publisher?" "Ob, bother your publisher; you'll have to cisappoiut him. After all, there's nothing between you but— well, just a business arrangement!" Collateral lor Car Fare. An amusing incident happened on an i ndiaua-avenue street car recently. The car was going south, attached tu the Cottage Grove cable. At Van tlureu street a big, portly uomau go' aboard. On ber arm she carried i large maiket basket that apparently was filled with "bargain" purchase.' from some department store. Tliret minutes after she had sat down anc deposited the basket between her feel on the floor, the conductor came along with the usual cry; "Fare, please!" The old lady opened her purse and 1 egan rummaging through its various pockets for a nickel. Again and again she went through it, but no change was to be found. Tbeu she turned to the conductor aud said: "I was sure I had saved ear fare, but I cannot find it.. I live at the eud of your line, and will pay you then." "That won't do; must have your fare now," said the fare collector. "Well, I ba\eu't the money." "Well, give me something tiie value of a nickel aud you can redeem it at the eud of the line." The old lady hesitated a moment, then put her hand down into the bas ket and drew out a bar of lauudry soap and handed it to him. Everybody in the car laughe \ but the condu -tor took the soap aud raug up her fare. —Chicago News. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. KnHlect: Crailie of nml Stiiiftliina on Tlmt Lowly Hnl—Tho Story of tlie Incarnation Told inn New Way—U se* of the Festival. rCopyright, Lnnls Klop.«cli ISW.I WASHINGTON, D. C.—The storv of the in carnation is here told by Br. Talrunorn in a new way, and practical use Is made or these days of festivity; text. Matthew, i., 17, "So all the fenerations from Abraham to David ore lourteen generations, and from David until the carrvlng away into Babylon are fourteen generations, and from tho carrying awav into Babylon unto Christ lire fourteen generations." From what mmv consider the dullest and most nnlmnortnnt chapter o' the New Testament I take my text and find it full of practical, startling and eternal inter est. Tho chapter is the front door or tho New Testament, through which nil the splendors ot evangelism and apostolleity enter. Three times fourteen (fenerations nre snnlten or In my text— that Is, forty two generations—reaching down to Christ. They al! had relation to Him, and nt least forty-two generations pist affect us. If they wero good, wo feel the result of the goodness, ir thev were bad. wo feel tho result of their wickedness. If some -wore good and some were bad, it is an inter mingling influence that puts Its mighty hand upon us. And as we fool tbeelTect of at least forty-two generations pnst we will in turn influence at least forly-lwo gener ations to coine, if the worl 1 shall last a thousand years. So, vou see, the cradlo is more important than tho grave. I propose to show vou some of the shad ows upon the Chri'tic cradle of Bethlehem and then the sunshine that notire 1 in upon the pillow of straw. Notieo among the sbailows on that Infant's bed that there was here and there a specimen of dissolute ancestry. Beautiful Rath His ancestress? Oh, yes! Devout Asa one of His forefathers? Oh, yes! Honest Joseph His father? Oh, yes! Iloly Mary Ills Mother? Oh, ves! But In that genealogical table were idol atrous and cruel Amnion and oppressive Rehoboam and some men whoso abomina tions may not be particularized. So you seo bad men may have good descendants. One of the most consecrnted men 1 over knew was the son of a man who lived and died a blasphemer. In the line of an op pressive ltehoboam comes a gracious aud merciful and glorious Christ. Great en couragement for those who had In tho forty-two generations that preceded them, however close by or however fur back, some instances or pernicious aud baleful and corrupt ancestry. To my amazement, I found in those parts of Australia to which many years ago fel ons wero transported from England tlint the percentage of crime was less than in those parts or Australia origina'ly settled by honest men and good women. Some who nre now on judiciul benches in Austra lia. and in high governmental positions, and in learned and nseful professions, aud leaders iu social life, are the grandsons and granddaughters of meu and women who wero exiled from Groat Britain to Austra lia for arson and theft and assault and fraud and murder. So you see it is possi ble for the descendants of those who do wrong to do right. Meanwhile keep carefully your family records. The old place for the family record in the Bible, between the Old anil New Testaments, is a most appropriate place. That record, put In such impres sive surroundings of chapter, bounded on one side by the prophecies of Malachl and on the other side by the Gospel of Matthew, will receive strsss and sanctity from its position. That record is appro priately bound up with the eternities. Do not Piuiply say in your family record, "Born at such a time aud died at sneh a time," but if there has been among your aueestors some man or woman especially consecrated and useful make a note of It for the encouragement of the following generations. Two family records or the Bible—the one in Matthew reaching from Abraham to Christ and tho one in Lake beginning with Joseph and reaching back to tho Garden of Eden—with the sublime statement "which was the sou of Adam, which was the Son of God." I charge you to this duty of keeping the family record by tho forty-two generations which are past and tho forty-two generations which are to come. It is a good thing—tho new habit abroad of seeking for one's pedigree. Auother shadow on tho Christie cradle was that it stood under a depraved king. Herod was at that time ruler and the c >tn plete Impersonation of all depravities. It was an unfavorable timo for innocence to expect good treatment. So dark was the shadow dropping on the cradlo from that iniquitous throne that the peasant mother had to lift her babe out of it and make hnstv lllght. Depraved habits of those In authority are apt to be copied by subjects, and Irom the immorals of the Horodic throne I judge ot the immorals of a nation. There was a miliaria of sin lu the air when tlie infant Christ llrst breathed It. Thickest shawl could not keep the Uaho warm when lu that wintry month with ills mother Ho became a fugitive. Historia is say that it was at a time of peace that Christ was born, but His birth aroused ar autagouism of which the Beth lehem massacre was only a feeble expres sion. War of the mightiest nation ot the earth opened against that oradle! The in fluence tbit camo forth that night from that surrounding of camels aud sheep and oxen challenged the iniquities of all the centuries aud will not cease until it has destroyed them. What a prouunciamento went forth from that black and barbariau throne, practically saying, "Slay all tho babes under two years of age, and that wide slaughter will surely include the death of the one child that most threatens my dominion." Awful time It was for the oecupaut oi that cradle! If He escnpe the knife or the assassin, then the wild beast's paw or the baudit's clutch or the midnlgiit chill between Bethlehem ot Judraa and Cairo, Egypt, will secure His destruction All the powers ot earth and ull the demons of hell bombarded that cradle. Another shadow upon that Christie cradle was the obscurity of the place ot birth. Bethlehem was an obscure viilage. David, the shepherd boy, had been born there, but after he became general and king he gave it no tlgnlllcanee, I think never mentioning it but to ask for a drink of water out of the old well to which he used togo in childhood—tho viilage so small aud unimportant that It had to be separated iu miud from auother Bethlehem then existlug, and so was called Bethlehem of Judica. There was a great capltnl of Jerusalem; there wero the fifteen boauti tnl cities on the beach of Galilee, nuy of theni a good place to bo born In; tnere wore great towns famous at that time, but the nativity wo to-day celebrate was in a village which Ohrist intimated had been called by some "the least among the princes ot Juda." Christ Himself was to make the town famous for all time aud all eternity. O men and women or Messianlo oppor tunity, why do you not make the place ot your nativity memorable for your philan thropies— by the churches you build, the free libraries you opeu, the colleges yon endow? Go back to the village where you were burn, as George I'oabody went back to D invers, Mass., and v.'ith your wealth bless the neighborhood where in childhood you played aud near by where your father and mother sleep the lust sleep. 'Jlhere are seores of such villages iu America being generously remembere.i by prosperous men durlug life or helped in tneir last will and testament, r..nl there are a hundred neigh borhoods waiting for such benediction from their prosperous sons. By some such ahurlty invite the Bethlehem angels tc come back ngain and over ihe plain house ot your nativity ring out the old anthem of "Gocd will to men." Christ, born iu an obscure place, m;;de it so widely known b.v His self saorltloes an 1 divine charitv that' all round the oartli the village of Bsthle hem has its name woven In garlands aud chanted in"To Deums" and built in Lousei of prayer. But It is time we see some or the sun sliino breaking through the shadows ot that cradle. For we must have jubilanc« dominate the Christmas festival. That was Walter Scott's opinion when m "Mar raiou" he wrote, A Christmas gambol oTt would cheer A poor man'j heart through half the yo.ir It was while the peasant and his wifo ware on a visit for the purnoses of enrollment that Jesus was born. The Bible translators got tho wrong word when tbev said thai ■Toseph and Mary hal prone to Bethlehem tc be "taxed." People wont no farther then to Ret taxed than they do now. The effort of most people always has been to escape taxation. Besides that, those two humble folk had nothing to tax. The man's tur ban that protected his head from tho sun was not worth taxiug; the woman's sandals which kept her feet fnm being cut by the limestone rock, of which Bethlehem is mostly made up. wero not worth taxing. No; tho fact is that a proclamation had been made by the emperor that all the peo ple between Great Britain aud Purthia and of those lands included should goto soma appointed place and give their names in he registered and announce their loyalty to the [toman emp ror. They had walked oig'ity miles oyer a rough road to give their name< and take the oath of alleglaneo. Would we walk eighty miles to anuouu-e our allegiance to our icing, one Jesus? Ccesar Augustus wanted to know by tho record on which that man ami that woaian wrote their names or had them written, just how many people in Ills empire he could depend on in case of exigency. How many men would unsheathe sword for the Roman eagle and how many women could be depended onto take care ot the wounded ou battlefields? Tho trouble is that in the kiugdom of Christ wo do not kuow how many can be depended on. There are so many meu and women w.;*> never give iu their names. They serve the Lor l on the sly. They do not annouuee their allegiauce to the king who, In tho battles to come, will want all His troops. In all our churches there are so many half an I iia.tr disci ples, so mauv one-third espousers. They rather think the Bible is true, at any rato parts of It, and they hope that some how Christianity will disenthrall the na tions. They stay awav trom church on communion days and hope when they have lived as long as they can in this world they cau somehow sneak into heaven. Oh, givo in your names! Be registered on the church record down here and in tho Lamb's Book of Life up there. Let all the world know whero you stand, if you have togo as fat as Joseph aud Mary walked, if you have to go eighty rail's before you fled just tho right form of worship ami just the right creed. Another gleam of sunshine striking through the shadows above that Christie cradle was the fact of a special ilivine protection. Herod was determine I upon the chilli's dastruotlou. The monster put all his wits together in stratagem for the stopping of that yo'ing life just started. He dramatized piety; lie suddenly got re ligious; he would leave liis palace and take chariot and have steeds whipped up, so that lie could kneel at that cralle. We have to grille at what the imperial villain said when ho ordered, u Go and search diligently for the youug Child, an i when ye have found Him bring me word, that I may go aud worship Him also." Dora's picture of the "Massacre of the lunocents" at Herod's command— a picture full of children hurled over walls and dashed against streets and writhing under assas sin's foot—gives us a liltlo Impression of the manner in which Herod would have treated the real Child if he could have once got Ills hands on It. But Herod could not find that cradle. All the detectives he sent out failed in the search. Yet it had bean pointed out by flashlight from the miduight heaven*. All the neighborhood knew about it. Tho angelic chorus in the cloud had called musical attention to it. No seutinel guarded It with drawn sword, passing up and down by the pillow of that Bethlehem caravansary. Why, then, was it that the cradle was not despoiled of its treasure? Because it was divinely pro tected. There were wings hovering that mortal eye could not see; there were armed immortals whose brandished sword mortal eye could not follow; there were chariots of tho Omnipotent the rumble of whose wheels only supernatural* could hear. God had started through the cradle to save out world, and nothing could stop Him. You cannot reasonably account for that unhurt cradlo except on the theory of a special, ilivlue protection. Aud most cradles are likewise defended. Can you understand why so many children, with all the epidemics that assauft them, and all their climbing to dangerous heights, and all their perilous experiments with explo sives ami their running against horses' hoofs, and daring of troliovs and carts fast drlvou, yet somehow get through, especi ally boys of high spirit and that are going to amount to much? I account for their coming through all right, with only a few wounds and bruises, by ttie fact that they are divinely protected. All your charges of "Dou't do this"and "Don't do that" and "Dou't go there" seem to amount to nothing. They are the same reckless crea tures about whom you are constantly anx ious and wondering what Is the matter now. Divinely protectod! Another gleam of light, scattering some of the gloom of that Christie ptllow in Bethlehem, was the fact that it was the starting place of the most wonderful of all careers. Looking at Christ's life from mere worldly standpoints it was amazing beyond all capacity of pen or tongue or canvas to express. Without taking a year's curriculum in any college or even a day at any school, yet saying things that the mightiest intellects of subsequent days have quoted and tried to expound! Uroat literary works have for the most part been the result of muoli elaboration. Edmun I Burke rewrote th« conclusion of his speech against Warren Hastings sixteen times. I<ord Brougham rewrote his speech in be half of Queen Caroline twenty times, but the sermou on the mount seemed extem poraneous. Christ was eloquent without over having studied one of the laws of ora tory. He was the greatest orator that ever lived. It was not an eloquence Demos thenic or Ciceronio or iiko that of Jean Baptiste Massiilon or like that which Will iam Wirt, hlmsolf a great orator, was over come with In log cabin meeting house of Virgluia, when the blind preacher cried out iu his sermon, "Socrates died like a philosopher, but Jesus Christ died like a Ood." But we must not only look at Him from a worldly standpoint. How lie smote whirl winds into silence, and made the waves of the sea lie down, and opeued the doors of light Into the miduight of thos« who had been born bliud, and turned deaf ears into galleries of music, aud with one touch made the seabs of incurabio leprosy fall off, aud renewed healthy circulation through severest paralysis, aud made the dead girl waken and ask for her mother, aud at His crucifixion pulled down the clouds, until at 12 o'clock at uoonlt was as dark as at -V o'clock at night, and starting an influence that will goon until the last desert will grow roses and the last weal; lung make full inhalation, and the las' case of paresis take healthful brain, and the Inst illness become rublcuud of cheek aud robust of chest aud bounding of foot, and tho last pauper will got his palace, and tho last sinner taken into the warm bosom of a pardoning Godl Where did all this start? In that cradle with sounds o! bleating sheep and bellowing cattle anil amid rough bantering of herdsmen and camel drivers. What a low place to start for suoli great heights! O artists, turn your camera obscurn on that village ol Bethlehem! Take It all In—the wintry skies lowering, the flocks shivering lu the chill nlr, Mary the pale mother, aud Jesus th» Child THE GKEAT DESTROYER, SOME STARTLING FACTS A3 "111 THE VICE OF INTEMPEH AMC2. Oil! For a Washington—-Theatres to Kel i Stop Drunkenness Awe-liis'plrlns rin.rK-Hori lt>le Scenes of I>ruukards' l>ee<ls to Teach Temperance. Oh! for tho patriot's spirit iiov? To battle for the right; Oli! for 11 Washington to load Our armies iu tho light; Oh! Tor u victory over wrong; Oli! for tho time to come When wis shull celebrate the day Our nntlon conquered rum. Novel Means to Combat Hum. Intoxication is so alarmingly on the in crease in Belgium that tho uuthorltlo.4 are at their wits' end to discover some method ef checking Its growth. It is assertod that In Brussels and iu the rural places avery other man is a drunkard. Iu Antwerp al coholism is not so prevalent, but it is l.a l enough even there. It is feared thai the national life Is in danger, aud the Govoru ment Is thoroughly aroused because of tho seriousness of tho situation. The prohibition element, which is very small, Is doing all it can In an evangelical way, but is not especially successful in its labors. Tho latest order of the Govern ment in the matter directs that iu Ant werp, Brussels and in the rural towns the profi-sslonal and amateur theatrical talent are to devote one night a week to plays that toach temperance. All of tho theatres are ordered to reservo one night for preaching from tho stage through tho modlum of a play, and many of the leading playwrights of tho country have been asked to prepare dramas depict ing the fearful curse brought upon the people through alcohol. It is suggested that in the plays pro duced on "Alcohol Nights" there shall be scones Illustrating the degradation and misery resulting from drink; showing homes, wherein lather or mother, or both are drunkards, aud little children are suf fering from thoir drunkou fury and their neglect; delineating tho horrors of de lirium tremens and murders iu the frenzy of intoxication, and to be especially particular to make prominent the offensive and awful side of the use of intoxicants by women and girls. Tho matter has been taken up with en ergy in Brussels, and here the walls aud every possible place where a poster can be placed is adorned with pictures of scenes of horror from the "alcohol" plays. Warn ings in big prints and placards of various kinds are to seen everywhere. Of course, tho unsympathetic scoff at this parental effort of the Government of Belgium to uplift the people and save the uatlon from degeneration. It is too early now to say how much good will come out of this extraordinary war on drink, but the authorities are sanguiue that a great work will be done. Drunkenness. Drunkenness Every where. Iu Princeton Ilonry Cunningham got' Irunk and groped about his house lor his bottle. He overturned a lamp aud was burned to death. Joliu Kane, after swearing solemnly that he would never again touch liquor, drauk himself into convulsions and died, strapped to a cot in Bellevue, with wife and three children walling about him. Mrs. Emilv Bigelow, wearing diamonds snough to fit out a showcase, and with a bank-book showing a balance of 430,000, tried to spend it all for liquor. She was fouad drunk iu the street, crying, "Give me a drink or 1 shall go crazy." Drunkenness, drunkenness, drunkenness svevywhere and on all sides. Tho police itntlons are filled with it, the courts are swamped with it, the country is cursed with it. It seems to be a uatlouat failing without a natiouul cause. Wo are prosperous. Therefore it cannot nave hopelessness for a starter. We are a hard working and wealthy nation. There fore poverty caunot be the goueral incen :ive. Our Puritan ancestors wore not Irunkards. But the strain of drunkenness exists, and, strunge to say, it is regarded by'drinkers themselves not as a habit, but i recreation.—New York Journal. Effects of Social Driiikinc. Teoiilo do not need to become drunkard* '.o do great burin in tills field. After a quarter of a century of industry the family iiscovers many social privileges denied :bem, because the father indulged daily iu i few glasses of beer. But for such prac :lces, how much more widespread would oe the uses and delights of education? The children have been forced to leave school before they otherwise would; they have togo to work before they ure able to appreciate good literature aud tiius its ennobling influences are wholly lost to them. Their minds remain weak utld un stable seek pleasure in light and trifling amusements. The effect of this in arresting development of strength of character can not be doubted. We see traces of it everyday in the faces of hun dreds who have never thomselve-i beeu addicted to the uso of intoxicants. This is one of the most awful charges against in temperance, and it is due more to what are often called temperate habits than to drunkenness. How much of joy andssvoet uess and power is thus denied us! How urgent the demand for total absttneuce! A Great Editor on Drinking. "It would bo well for every Frenchman to rise every morning with the though: that be belongs to the race that oousuiuei the most alcohol. "Alcohol is death to the race. "Alcohol will kill the Europeans as at killed the Indians in North America. "Alcohol means disease, means tubercu losis, means decay, sterility, impotence. "Alcohol is another word for wickedness, cruelty, vice and insanity. "Alcohol means misery, downfall of na tions. "The best way to prove patriotism, and to be useful to one's country is to light agaiust alcoholism."—Editorial in the Par is Fignri, most largely circulated paper iu France. Tlie Uocl of To-day. Lady Somerset, in speaking recently of the $1,150,000,000 of English capital iuvest ed in breweries, said: "The god of to-day is six per cent. To secure the investment of their funds In stocks that will pay high rates, is the solo aim of too many whoso first prayer ought to bo the elevation of their age and race. Under the stimulus of these great companies, which are com posed of such respectable olemeuts, drunk* •uness has increased in many English com munities from twenty-two to thirty-six pe» cent." Making Itlliul l<o.ys Drunk. The managers of the institution for the blind In Columbus, Ohio, are exceedingly troubled over tho fact that tho bovs who are Inmates of thoir institution are being •nticed Into the saloons of Columbus on Sunday when they have been allowed logo outside of tho institution to attend church, and are there being made drunk. The Crusade in Hrief. It is estimated that la England one la Bvery 1000 persons is arrested for drunken ness and ilued and imprisoned. A Good Templar District Lodge has been instituted for Ceylon, where tho order in cludes naval, military, civilian aud native members. The City Council of Itodwood Falls, Minn., has passed an ordinance to remove all screens or other obstructions to tho pub lic view In saloons on Sundays. Theilowa Supremo Court has decide! that any person who obtains liquor for a habitual drunkard is as guilty of violating the law as is a liquor dealer who sells the' ardent to a confirmed inebriate.
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