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