BREAKINC THE JAM. The cant-dogs clank, and the axes gleam, And the bus hen arc black by tho swollen stream ; The ice swings ilown to the tumbled dam. The planking sags, and the si ringers reuiL The great logs jostle and grind and jam They've locked tho channel behind "tho bend." "Now whore is the man who will corao with mo To worry the logs and chop tho key?" Tho boss looks round at his sturdy crew. -Mid "Singing Dob" steps up with a smile— "l'm 'most as sure on my feet as you, -*a' I guess wo can hustle tho thing in style!" With ;i\o and peevy they run across. Tho little waterspouts leap and toss ; j Old Fransway's Hate, j i Hii counter With the lof I Half-breed Indian guides are popu lar in the Maine woods. They must be as useful as the white kind one would say who saw the daily embark ation of well-equipped "sports"— every city man in the woods is called a "sport"—who take to the road with one of these dark and unknowable off spring of the lumber camps. Perhaps the general idea is that a little Indian blood in a man meaus so much true hunter, or maybe the Indian will go for a little less thau the whites in the business. However these things are, the would-be hunter should pause to consider the significance of this tale, remembering that. Indians never change, and that back somewhere in the sixties lived one lone Indian, a mere remuant, who fought controls and tho vested interests of great "par lies" from the outside, because of an idea. The game was his; uo white man should have of it or come to spoil it; not even the logging crew, who did not come to kill. "Au Indian 'll never show you the game; not if lie can help it." I had picked my guide, Snow, for his age and experience. He was a friend of tho late Jock Darling, that famous character and once sinful dog ger of deer, and the things he said about the woods went. Still, as lie made this remark, I was considering Ihe natural results of competition. Snow met my doifbting look with the lirm-jawed, solid conteinptuotisuess of his kind; tut on this occasion he con descended to speak out. We sat in the public room of tho road "hotel" that surmounted a bared and windy ridge. Fate ha 1 shoved us in here on the way to our projected camp,between au inexorable round, red, scorching stove and the depth of an open window. And the weather was cold hunting weather, when the deer would be out of their safe swamps and feed ing—at their peril—along the ridges. "Hack in the sixties," said Snow. "I was u withy young fellow, and I've lived round logging camps ever since 1 could remember anything. I believe 1 use.l a baby axe. After a while I had my spell at swampin' roads— swampin's tho only work that's con sidered tit for youngsters nudgrcen horns,"because, then, it's no matter how the trees fall—and I'd become a regular chopper. And when, on top of this, I say I worked th'ee seasons at river drivin'.and kept hearty,you'll realize that I must have been a wtll uiusoled young chap for my years. "Now, besides this natural educa tion, as yon might say,l'd had a little schoolin' through an uuelo of mine at Honfton, so that when the time came that a big new lumber company wanted to put a surveyor in the woods for cm, 1. about filled the bill. That was a good job in those days, when the business was new, though I didn't do what you're tliinkin' of. I didn't, lay down lines, but 1 just walked straight into the woods aid looked over the standin' timber, and I took it in as straight as I could with my eye, saw what the trees would amount to, saw liow many pair horses and how many men could get the logs to water, and then I wrote down my ideas and my figgers to the company that was wait iu' to begin work on what 1 said. This was the practical side, and it was easy lamiu' the headwork, but. I must say by the end of the second winter I'd had enough. A man gets used to being by himself in the woods,though I've heard regular old sports, who'd been down hero huntiu' fall after fall, tell of nigh lusiu' their wits at the chance, as it seemed,they'd be obliged to sleep out alone away from camp.l had my little grub outfit and a blanket, aud, of course, I knew how to make mysolf snug in all kinds of weather.so that I novcr had a thought that warn't pleasant till the day 1 met up with Franswav. It was a funny thing I hadn't soeii Franswav before, as I'd been workiu' more or less right in the country where he putin his time. Frausway was a character, a big In dian, the bi.rge.-t. I ever saw, a mighty man with a chest like a pork barrel, though he must have been old then, and with a bad, squinting eye. He used to bo a chief, the story was, but the rest of his tribe were dead. Well, tho day 1 saw him he never looked in my direction at all, just kept right along on his suowshoes --it was in January -and got out of sight, I thought, in a hurry. After that hard ly a week passed but, what Frausway showed up somewhere to flic east, west, north or south of me and my work, never coining decently near, however. I held onto my blanket in case he was looking for a chance to steal that, but afier he'd been follow in' me round a spell longer I made out his business was something different. If it was anything to do with me, why couldn't lie come straight up ami spit it out? "I brffifui to think some tho >. I'd no sooner get fixed for the night in some nice hollow with soiao boughs The little sticks twirl and tho big sticks grind. And] Job, as he runs, begins to sing. With never a glance at his chums behind, Tho key is found and the axes swin;£. I'unk punk—punk punk—despite the roar The chant of the axes beats to shore. The choppers' arms have a rhythmic lift— Fearless, as tho' they did not know That tho river is mad, and the logs are drift, And tho twisting currents snarl below. The deed is done! With u plunging leap Tho torn logs start from their angered sleep, Across the tumult of maddened things ]sob and the boss come sprinting back, As if their cowhide boots had wings. Or a running jam were a cinder-track. —Theodore Itoberts. in Youth's Companion. butted up against the biggest atul most conifortrtblest hemlock of the lot when I'd begin to look lor Frausway. You'll hear plenty of noises in the woods so long as the sun is shining, but take it at night and I can't, think of any place so still. Maybe I'd have au owl for company perched up on some tree opposite, stat in' at me, and mad clean through at the sight of my lire. 1 never noticed owls before,but I began to get lonesome, and, well, that Indian got on my nerves. "'.Veil, one day, toward sundown 1 happened to see a big doe up with her flag not a dozen yards off, and I heard a shot, and there was Fran sway fol lowiu' her into the brush. He'd been right onto me, and lie didn't mind letting me know, or else he wauted that meat pretty bad. I swore some theu. I made it a practice not to bring a gnu into the woods with me. There was enough stuff to tote with out that. Hut J wished then 1 could try a little bird shot, lired off at ran dom, you know, just to show I wasn't wantiu' company. "Well, about two hours after that, when I hadn't half got over beiu' mad lmt was foolin' with mv grult appara tus in u slam-bang sort of way over ii smoking tiie of halt' greeu stuff, Frausway came out of the dark and walked straight up to me pointing his gun. " 'Now, Charley Know,' he said, 'me shout you.' "He'd picked up my name in some loggin' camp,l suppose.and I thought he meant business. The lire was be tween us, and I stood up and looked at him and his dirty gun, which was no kind of a weapon (iod ever made, [ suppose, though I knew it could do for me. I looked him straight in tho eye, and 1 talked fast. What was he going to kill me for, I said. " 'Yon come here and spoil mv game. Me shoot you.' "I told him I didn'twant his game, and 1 ask oil him what he'd been fol lowin' me 'round for if he couldn't see I hat. '* 'No, but yo'u briug men here and cut down all my trees and spoil my game. Now, me shoot you.' 'That. Indian had it in for me; his face was just loaded down with spite: he'd been savin' it tip all these weeks. 1 kept talking, and Frausway said: 'My game, my game,' and meanwhile 1 tried edging round the lire a little. I mistrusted his eyesight wasn't good. Then the smoke from my lire whirled round the way it will in the woods whei e there's never any steady place for the wind to blow, but just a sort of corkscrew current, and the smoke took him right in tlie face, and I jumped for him. We both went down, and Fransway's suowshoes held him so that L got away and grabbed up his gun. I was tickled, you bet, and said: 'Now, Frausway, me shoot you.' Frausway worked himself to his feet sulkily, and thou stood still, with out saying anything. " 'S'pose we let you go,Franswav,' I said, 'will you promise not to bother me again; keep away from me—under stand?' "Frausway thought a long time. Then he said: " 'Me not shoot you now. Yon come back next year and me shoot you.' And that was all I could get out of him, and as thero wasn't any thing else 1 could do without going to an everlasting heap of trouble, T gave him his gun and let him go, and fol lowed htm, quartering down the ridge to see him steering for a cedar bog he'd have to cross to get out of mv neighborhood. "Well, before winter they'd run a 'tole toad all through that country a 'tole road's used for haitliu' supplies to loggin' camps, and it has to oe a little better than the ordinary kind in those woods—and my parties had be gun to log all over the place where Frausway >aid the game was his. I thought he must have taken a (it and kicked the bucket, but it wasn't long before I saw him right after me, ap parently not a bit discouraged. There was a pond between us, anil I made for the new road house,where I struck tip with a crowd, and we waited to see what he'd do. Pretty soon he came right in and squinted round tho room, trying to pick me out. He was a bigger man than auv of us, but all drawn down with old age, an 1 his heart was broken. Quick as a wink the boss had him a good hot supper ready. I don't think there was a ma) in the place—and they were a ham lot, too —but was sorry for Franswav. I slapped him on the back and led him up to his treat. Frausway never made a sign; he saw that the crowd was 100 much for him. The next month a party of sports found him dead in a cedar swamp. "Sow, I never forget that business with Frausway. There's uothin' in the world so jealous as an Indian when lie thinks you're gettin' a deer. Every old trapper will toll von so " SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY- Cats nre known sometimes to have tuberculosis, unci that tliey have in many cases been carriers of diphthe ria aud other of the ordinary infeo tions directly ntul indirectly, is more than suspected. The advantages of cordite, the new explosive, were recently shown in Kng lnnd, where the factory manufactur ing it was burned to the ground. Tho lire, which was supposed-io be of in cendiary origin, totally destroyed the works, and but one man was injured, no serious explosion resulting, us would have been the case iu the man ufacture of gunpowder. •'lleat. accumulators" are claimed to save 15 to 120 per cent, m tho fuel consumption of locomotives on a Rus sian railway, while the weight of trains has been increased by a similar percentage. A water-filled steel res ervoir of about 330 gallons is placed over the boiler, and is heated by tho stemn not used to drive Ihe engine. All feed-water passes through it. The terrible explosion that occurred some months ago in a chlorate of pot ash factory nt St. Helens, England, has beeu a subject of careful investi gation. No previous explosion of chlorate of potash could be found on record, but experiment proves that the salt is liable to explode when the tem perature is raised very rapidly, aud sndden heat is the only probable cause suggested for the St. Helens disaster. For many yoars efforts have been .nade from time to time to measure the lieat radiated from some of tho brightest stars. The most successful attempt appears to be that of Professor Nichols at the Yerkes observatory. With the aid of au apparatus recalling the principle of tho Crookes radi ometer, he has ascertained that the star Vega, which shines very bril liantly near the zenith in midsummer evenings, sends to the earth an amount of heat equal to th-it of an ordinary candle ti miles distant. A returns, the star celebrated by .lob, and which has a somewhat fiery color, radiates about twice ns much heat as S ega. Perhaps the most remarkable fea tures in the Kiwi region in Central Africa are the volcanoes, which lie around it nt some little distance to the north. Hi.sing from tiie lofty plateau here there seeins ti be three main vol canic mountains, on one of which are two craters, both in a state of ijreatei or less activity. One of these craters is distinctly aitive, and according to native report there was n violent erup tion some three years ago. However this may be, the whole country is cov ered with lava, and has beeu described as a most horrible aud impassable country a combination of brokeu-up lava of impracticable hills, and of im penetrable bush, the latter swarming with elephants which it is impossible to get at. OUR GREAT FARMING INDUSTRY- WlG,nni),ool>,o9!> Capital leveled and K,40ti,:M13 Worker* Kiigaged. Professor .folin F. Crowell o.' New York testified reiently before the in dustrial commission, Washington, on the general subject of agriculture and the distribution of agricultural prod ucts. Ilia review of agricultural con ditions in the United .States lie cited the Dutch farmer of southern Penn sylvania as a striking example of the successful small operator. He held that the Scandinavian immigrant was more successful than his American confrere because of instinctive frugal ity and farm economy bred in his bones, aud said that training schools intended to develop untrained und un skilled youth into farmers on a small scale were of an unappreciated value to the state. Of wages and living conditions among various industries, Professor Crowell said: "We want to know why it is that the returns of the various industries are so unequal. I have taken a few figures from the census of 1890. The amount of canital invested in agriculture was $1t>,000,000,000, and 8,4(56,3(55 workers were engaged. The value of the combined properties was $2,460,000,000, and the product per capita was $290. ]n manufactures the product per capita was $893. Iu mining it was $740. These figures in the eyes of the farmer's boy are de cisive argument in favor of abandon ing the farm for the factory. The farmer lias to adjust himself to pre vailing prices. A proper distributing system is his urgent need today. This cau be effective only through the Eu ropean murkets. The productiveness of the fnrm is limited. But the manu facturer can govern his supply as mar ket quotations may indicate. These difficulties are increased by too large a burden of taxation." Tlie Behemoth WAR Not Frenli. The waiter iu a San Francisco grill room will admit to nothing that he does not keep in stock. If it be a re quest for a slice off tlie moon lie will s.iy "Yes, sir," and goto letch it, re turning with the information that un fortunately lie is "jus l out." Robert Louis Stevenson one day was explain ing this trait to a fi ieud at dinner,and to illustrate it called the waiter. "A double order of broiled behemoth." he said. "Ves, sir," replied the waiter, "will you have it rare or well done?" "Well doue," said Steveu sou. Pretty soon the waiter returned. "I am very sorry, but we are just out," he repotted. "What! no more behemoth?" asked the novelist, in feigned astonishment. The waiter, lowered his voice. "We have some more, sir," he whispered confiden tially, "but the truth is, 1 would not bring it to you, as it is not quite fresh."—Kansas Citv Independent DR. TALMAGES SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. ■'»lil).lec't: Tl»e Wonder* of tlm Human Hand—Our Physical Structure Froof of Divine Wisdom—The Kxtelliteit Hand tlie Symbol of Infinite Mercy. (Oopyrtatit, I.mils Klopsch, limii.l WASHINGTON, D. C.—The discourse of Dr. Tulmage is a lesson of gratitude for that which noun of us fully appreciate aud .shows the Divine meaning In our physical structure; text, I Corinthians xll., 21, "The eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee." These words suggest Hint some time two very important parts of tho human body got into controversy, and tho eye became inso lent and full of braggadocio and said: "I inn an independent part of the human sys tem. How far I can see, taking iu spring morning and midnight aurora! Compared with myself what nn insignificant tiling is tile human hand! I look down upon it. I'hore it hangs, swinging at the side, a clump of muscles and nerves, and it can not see au inch either way. It lias uo lus ter compared with that whleli I beam forth." "What senseless talk," responds the hnnd. "You, the eyo, would have been put out long ago but tor ine. Without tlio food I have earned you would have been sightless and starved to death years ago. You cannot do without me any better than I can do without you." At this part of the disputation Paul of ray text breaks in aud ends the controversy by declaring, "The eye cannot sav uuto tho hand, I have no need of thee." Fourteen hundred nud thirty-three times, as nearly ns I can count by aid of concordance, dons tho Bible speak of tho human hand. Wo are all familiar with the hand, but the man has yet to be born who can fully understand this wondrous instru ment. Sir Charles Bell, tho English sur geon, came homo from the battlelleld of Waterloo, where be had been amputating limbs und biuding up gunshot tractures, mid wrote a book entitled "Tho Hand: Its Mechanism und Vital Endowments as Evi dencing Design."' But it Is so profound a book that only a scientist who Is familiar with the technicalities of anatomy aud physiology can understand it. So wo are all going on opening and shut ting this divinely constructed instrument, tho hand, ignorant of in noli of the revela tion it was intended to make of the wis dom and goodness of God. You can see t:y their structure that shoulder aud elbow and forearm are getting ready for the cul mination iu the hand. There is your wrist, with Its eight bonus and their liga ments in two rows. Thut wrist, with its bands of llbres ami its hinged joiut and turning ou two axes—on the larger axis moving bin'kward ami forward and on the smaller nxis tnruing nearly around. And there is the palm of your baud, with its live bones, each Jiuviug a shaft aud two terminations. There are the fingers of thut hand, with fourteen bones, each fin ger witli its curiously wrought tendons, five of the bones with eudiug roughened for the lodgment of tho nulls. There is tho thumb, coming from opposite direc tion to meet tho lingers, so thut in con junction they may clasp and hold fast that which you desire to take. There are the long nerves ruuumg from the armpit to the forty-six muscles, so that all are under mastery. The whole anatomy of your hand as complex, as intricate, ns symmetrical, us useful, as Ood could make It. What can it uot do? It enn climb, it can lift, It can push, it can repel, it can menace, it cau elueh, it cau deny, it can alTlrm, it cau ex tend, it can weave, it can bathe, it can smite, it cun humble, it can exalt, It enn soothe, it. can throw, it can defy, it can wove, it can imprecate, It can pray. A skeleton of the hnnd traced ou black board or unrolled in diagram or hung In medical museum is mightily illustrative of the Divine wisdom and goodness, but how much more pleasing when In living action all its nerves aud muscles aud boues and tendons and tissues and phalanges display what God Invented when Ho invented the human hund! Two specimens of it we curry at our side from the lime when in infancy we open them to take a toy till iu the last hour of a long life wo extend tbeui in bitter farewell. With the Divlue help I shall speak of the hand as the chief executive officer of the soul, whether lifted for defense, or ex tended for help, or Uusied In the arts, or offered in salutation, or wrung iu despair, or spread abroad in benediction. God evi dently intended nil the lower order of liv ing beings should have weapons of defense, and hence the elephant's tusk, and the horse's hoof, and the cow's lioru. and tho lion's tooth, and the insect's sting. Having given weapons of defenso to the lower orders of living beings, of course lie would uot leave man, the highest order of living beings on earth, ilelenseless and at tho mercy of brutal or rufllan attack. The right— yen. the duty—of self defense is so evident It needs no argumentation. The hand Is the Divinely fashioned weupon of defense. We may seldom have to uso it lor such purposes, but the Tact tlint we are equipped insures safety. Tho hand is a weapon sooner loaded than any gun, sooner drawn than any sword. Irs lingers bent into tho palm, it becomes a bolt of demolition. What a defense it is against accident! There have been times in nil our experi ences when we have with tho baud warded oft something that would have extinguished our eyesight or brokeu the skull or crippled ns for a lifetime. While the eye has dis covered tho approaching peril the baud has beaten it back or struck it down or disarmed it. Every day thank God for your right hand, aud If you want to heur Us eulogy ask him who in swift revolution of machinery has had it crushed or at Cbapultepec or South Mountain or San Juan Hill or Sedan lost it. And iu passing lot me say that lie who hus the weapon of the hand uninjured aud in full use needs no other. You cowards who walk with sword cane or carry a pis tol in your hip pocket had better lay aside your deadly weapon. At the frontier or in barbarous lauds or as an officer of tho law about to make 1111 arrest such arming may be necessary, but no citizen moving lii these civilized regions needs such rein forcement. If you are afraid togo down these streets or along ihese country roads without dagger or firearms, better ask your grandmother togo with vou armed with scissors und knitting needle. What cowards, if not what intruded murderers, uselessly to carry weapons of de-itb! In our two builds God gave us all the weapons we need to carry. Again, the hand is the chief executive of ficer or the soul for affording help, .fust see how that hand Is constructed! How easily you can lower it to raise the fallen! How easily it is extended to reel the In valid's pulse, or gently wipe away the tear of orphanage, or contribute alms, or smooth the excited brow, or beckon into safety! Oh, the helping hands! There are hundreds of thousands of tliein, and the world wants at least 1,000,000.000 of,them. Hands to bless others, hands to rescue others, hands to save others. Whut nre all these schools and churches and asylums of mercy? Outstretched bunds. What are nil those hands distributing tracts uud car rying medicines and trying to euro blind eyes uud deaf ears anil" brokeu bones aud disordered Intellects and wayward sons? Helping hands. Let each one of us add to that number. If wo have two, or if through casualty only one add that one. If these hands which wo have so long kept thrust into pockets through lndoleuce or folded In indifference or employed in writing wrong thiugs or doing mean things or heaving up obstacles iu the wnv of righte ous progress might from tills hour be con secrated to helping others out rind up and ou, they would be hands worth being raised on tho resurrection morn and worth clapping tn eternal gladness over a world redeemed. The great artists or the ages—Raphael a lid Leonardo deVluel nud Quentln Mutsvs uud Item brand t and Albert Duror aud Ti tian—luivo done tlielr boat to picturing tho face of Christ, but none except Ary Schof fer HHornsto bare put inucli stress upon the hand of (Jbrlst. Indeed, the inercv or that hand, the gentleness of that Imnd, Is be yond all artistiu portrayal. Homo of His miracles He performed by word of inouth arid without touching the subject before Hlin, but most of tliem He performed through the band. Was the dead damsel to be raised to life? "He took her by the band." Was the blind man to have optic nerve restored? "He took him by the hand," Was tlio demon to be e» orcifed from a suffering man? "He took him by the hand." The people saw tills and be sought Him to put His band upon tlielr af llloted ones. His own hands free, see how the Lord sympathized with the man who bad lost the use of bis liund. It was u case of atrophy, a wasting away until the arm and liund bad been reduced in size beyond any medical or surgical restoration. More over, it was bis right band, the most Im portant of the two, for the left side in all its parts Is weaker than the right side, and wo involuntarily in any exigency put out the right band because we Icuow it Is the best hand. So that poor man had lost more tliau half of ills physical armament. It would uot liavu been so bud if it had been the left hand. Hut Christ looked at that shriveled up right hand dangling uselessly at the man's side ami then cried out with a voice that had omnipotence In It, "Stretch forth thy band." and the record is, "He stretched it forth whole as the other." The blood rushed through the shrunken veins, and the shortened muscles lengthened, and tint dead nerves thrilled, aud the lifeless lingers tingled with resumed circulation, and the restored man held up in the presence of the skep tical Pharisees one of Jehovah's master pieces, a perfect hand. No wonder that story is put three times in the lilblc, so that if a sailor were cast away on a barren Island or a soldier's New Testament got mutilated iu battle and whole pages are destroyed the shipwrecked or wounded man in hospitul would probably have at least one of those three radiant stories of what Christ thought of the hnmau hand. llow often has the hand decided a des tiny! Mary, Queen of Scots, was escaping from imprisonment nt Loclilever In the dross of a laundress aud had her face thickly veiled. When a boatman attempted to remove the veil, she put up her hand to defend it aud so revealed the white and fair hand of a queen, and so the boatman took her back to captivity. Again and again it has been demonstrated that the hand hntli a language as certainly as tlio mouth. Palmistry, or the science by which character aud destiny are read in the lines of the hand, is yot crude and uncer tain and unsatisfactory, but as astrology was the mother of astronomy and alchemy was the mother of client-try it may be that palmistry will result in a science yet to be born. Again, as the chief executive officer ol the soul, behold the hand busy in theurtsl What a comparatively dull place this world would be without pictures, without statuary, without music, without architec ture! Have you over realized what lifty seeming miracles are in the live minutes' lingering of piano or harp or flute? Who but the eternal God could make a hand capable of that swift sweep of the keys or that <|Ulck feeling of the pulses of n tlute or the twirl of the fingers amid ttie strings of the liarp? All the composers of music who dreamed out the oratorios and the cantatas of the ages would huve hail their work dropped flat and useless but for the translations of the hand. Under the daft lingers of the performer what cavalries gallop aud what batteries boom and what birds carol and what tempests march and what oceans billow! The great architects of the earth might have thought out tlio Alhambras aud the Parthfnous and the St. Sophias and the Tnj Mahals, but all those visions would nave vanished had it not been for tlio hand on hammer, on plummet, on trowel, on wall, ou arch, on pillar, on stairs, on dome. Iu two discourses, one concerning the car anil the other concerning the eye, 1 spoke from the potent text iu Iho Psalms, "He that planted the ear, shall Ho not hear?" and"He that formed the eye, shall He not see?" but what use in the eye and what use Iu the ear if the hand hail not been strung with all its nerves ami moved with all its muscles and reticulated with all its joints anil strengthened witli all its bones and contrived with all its ingenui ties! The hand hath forwarded all the arts and tunneled the mountnins through which the rail train thunders ami launched all tho shipping aud fought all the battles and built uli the temples and swung all the cables under the sea as well as lifted to midair the wire tracks on which whole trains of thought rush across the con tinents and built all the cities and hoisted the pyramids. Do not eulogize the eve aud ear at the expeuso of tho hand, for tho eye may be blottod out, as in the case of Milton, and yet his liund writes a "Paradise Lost'' or a "Samson Agonistes;" us in the case of Will lam H. Prosnott, aud yet his hand may write the enchautlug "Conquest of Peru." Or the ear may be silenced forever, us in the case of lieethoven. and yet Ills hind may put into immortal cadences the "Ninth Symphony." Oh, the band! The God fashioned hand! The triumphant hand! It Is au open Bible of Divine revelation, and the live lingers are the Isaiah and the Eze kiel and the Dnvld and the Mlcuh and the Pun I of that almighty inspiration. A pastor in his sermon told how a little child appreciated the value of his hand when lie was told that on the morrow It must be amputated in order to suve his life. Hearing that, he went to a quiet place and prayed that God would spare his hand. The surgeon, coining the next day to do Ills work, found the hnnd so much better that ampututiou was post poned, aud the huml got wall. The pastor, telling of this In a seruio i, concluded by holding up his liund nud tayiug, "That is the very huml that was spared in an swer to prayer, and I hold It up, a monu ment of Divine mercy.'' Again, the hand In the chief executive of ficer of the soul when wrung iu ugouv. Tears of relief are sometimes denied to trouble. The eyelids ;it such time are as hot and parched aud burning as the brow. At such time even tho voice is suppressed, and there is no sob or outcry. Then the wringing of the hand tells tile story. At the close of a life wasted In sin sometimes comes that expression of tho twisted fingers—the memory of years that will never return, of opportunities the like of which will never again occur, and con science in Its wrntli pouncing upon the soul, and all tlio past a horror, only to be surpassed by theupproaehiug horror. So a mail wrings his hands over the casket of a dead wife whom be has cruelly treated. So it mun wrings his hands at tlie futo of sous anil duughters whose prospects have heeu ruined by his inebriety and neglect and depravity. So the slnuer wrings his bands when, after a life full of offers of pardon and peace and heaven, ho dies without hope. When there are sorrows too poignant for lamentation on the lip nud too hot for the tear glands to write in let ters of crystal on the cheek, the hand re cites tho tragedy with more emphasis than anything in "Macbeth" nud "King Lear." Hut it Is not always iu suoli gliul greeting that we can employ our right hand. Alas that so often we have to employ the hand in farewell salutation! If your right hand retained some impress of all such use.?, it would be a volume of bereavements. Ob, the goodbys In which your right hand has participated! Goodby at tho steamboat wharf. Goodby at tho rail train window. Ooodby before tho opening of the battle. Goodby at the dying pillow. We all needed grace for sucli handshakings, though om band wus strong aud their hand was weak, aud we will need grace for the coming goodbvs, and that grace wo bad better seek while amid the felicities of health and homes unbroken. Tliunk God there wi l ' be uo goodby In heavenl TIE GREAT DESTROYER. SOME STARTLING FACTS ABCUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. IVhen lie Is Gone—Alcohol Is \«l Nutria tioux— North field Committee Combats I lie Statements of PrulflAKOr At water on Tills Subject—Denied by Scktithti. "When I am gone,'' lie sighed, "the sua Will slilue oil iu the sky; The tinkling rivulets will run. Ami (lowers will bud and die! Whou 1 am gone the bruer.o will blow Across the meadow still. And Irees will bloom and grain will grow Upon the distant hill! Wiiou I tun gone the Waves will break. Upon the sloping strain!, And happy children still will make Their castles In the sand! When I am gone the birds will sing As blithely as to-day, And men and maidens, in the Spring Will live to love away!" "When you are gone,'' she said, "the ros» Will blow itself iu .Tune; The winding brooklet, as it flows, Will sing the same old tune! When yon are gone the ducks will quack •lust as they quack to-day, And every planet, in its track, Will swing through space away! When you are gone the bumble bee Will bumble as betore, And sails will gleam upon the sea, And waves will shake the shore! When you are gone, the gentle breeze Will blow as now it blows, liu., oh, my friend, some breweries May bo compelled to close!" —S. K. liiser, in Chicago Tlmes-HeralJ. Alcohol in Not u Food. The committee appointed at tlie North field (Mass.) Summer Conference of Chris tian Workers, August 11, 181)9, to investi gate the statements of Professor At water, nf Wcsleyan University, on the nutritive value of alcohol, hns made an exhaustive report iu a sixteen page pamphlet entitled "An Appeal to Truth." This committee acted in co-operation with the Advisory Board of the National lernperauce Societies, the Presbyterian Woman's Temperance Association,the Per manent Committee on Temperance of the lleucral Conference of tlie Methodist Epls iropal Church, the Permanent Committee iu Temperance of the Presbyterian Church, the National Woman's Christian Temper ance Union, the Massachusetts Total Absti nence Society, tile National Department of Solentille Instruction and the Non-Parti san National Woman's Christian Temper ance Uniou. Under those auspices the data furnished t y Professor Atwater as the result of ills experiments at Middletowu were subjected to a searching analysis by leading experts in physiological chemistry, aud the follow ing deductions are made: First—Professor Atwater says his experi ments proved that alcohol is oxidized in I lie body. This is not denied, but it Is deuled that Professor Atwa'er's claim proved alcohol to be a lood. Many poisons besides alcohol are oxidized iu the body. The Middletowu experiments are said to prove that alcohol iu be.ng oxidized in the body furnishes heat and energy. This, again, is not denie.i. But the assertion is made that the claim proves nothing In lavor of alcohol, because its injurious ac tion at the same time far outweighs the value of the beat and energy it liberates, is is the case with other poisons oxidize I n the body. Second—Professor Atwater in his experi ments proved that alcohol protects the materials of the body from consumption jilst as effectively as corresponding imounts of sugar, starch and fat. But eminent sclentlilc authorities testify that these statements are not supported by his own llgures In the tables of Ills llrst official data, bulletins, published by tile Depart ment of Agriculture in 1S9!». This is the :ostimouy of professors occupying the iiiairs of pathological chemistry in the Jniversity and Bellevuo Hospital Medical Society, New York; of physiology iu the Medical School of Northwe-tern University, I'hicago; of hygiene in the Medloo-Chir irglcal College, of Philadelphia, and of a former professor in the Philadelphia Poly clinic and College for Graduates. Third—Those scientists, after careful study of Professor At water's report, came ;o the same conclusion, viz., that Ills taoles lo not show that alcohol protected Hie liody material, tint show, on the contrary, i distinct loss of nitrogenous material when alcohol was administered. The en tire testimony iu an "Appeal to Truth" .locs show that, according to his own til des, Professor At water's costly experi ments have produced no evidence to sus tain his charge of error against the present temperance teaching that alcohol is not a , r ood, but a poison. Fourth—The report says of Professor At watcr's unpublished experiments: "If they •show the same loss of nitrogen in the man who took alcohol as do bulletin No. Ctf, •■ucli unanimity would by so much refute the statemeut that alcohol protects the materials of the body for the consumption. If they should vary, that variation would prove such data inadequate, for to be worth anything for generalization there • bould be uniformity in the results of such i limited number of tests made under the •outlltions so unusual to everyday experi ance." An EngH*H Soldier's Testimony. An English soldier recently returned from ludia, aud at a temperance meeting he attended said that he had only been home a few hours but was proud to bear testimony in favor of total abstinence. He had been In engagements on the frontier, marched under the burning rays of nil In dian sun, camped aud lived on the Hima layas where the snow was ever present, represented Ills country ki swimming, ■Ticket and football matches, and amidst it all enjoyed good health and had not tasted a drop of intoxicating liquor. Driuk was the greatest enemy a young soldier had to contend with iu India. It uulitted him for action, rendered him more liable to fall Into vicious habits, and was most dan gerous to heultli. As Secretary of the Army Temperance Association in his regiment, he had carefully compiled the returns of crime, sickness, etc., and but for the drink, crime would almost be unknown and the hospital cases reduced more than oue-hulf. The teetotal soldier was mote to be de pended upon when dangerous work had to bedoue, and his superior officers used to select inen from the members of the A. T. A. ou sucn occasions, aud these meu were not ashamed to be known us •'Havelock's Saints." New Method of Temperance Work. Tills has beeu started by the Illinois Christian Citizenship League. It consists of a series of meetings, at least four, aud a children's meetlug. At these meetings tno peo;;lo are asked to come forward and sigu a pledge to the effect that they will do ail iu their power to prevent the sale of In toxicating aud malt liquors in their owu town, except It be for medicinal and chemi cal purposes. On each siguer a bit of red ribbon is pinned: also 011 the children tit their meetings, when they promise to help The Crusade in Brief. 'I( you wish to keep out of deb!, keep out rf the saloon. The way to prevent drunkenness is to de stroy the cause. Drink revenue is wet with tears aud stuined with blood. A good example I? set by the Boston Fir« Department, in that auv member of the force is subject to dismissal who enters » saloon while In uniform. A woman was the llrst person to oausi the arrest and conviction of a saloon keepci at Bluffton, Ind., for keeping his drunkard lactoiy open ou Sunday. 1
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