A bird Is working all day long Beside my window In the tree, And, toiling, sings a hnppy song— A song that has a note for mt?! The wind and rain at night destroy Xiie work of yesterday, but joy Is in the work the builder sings While setting matters straight- It does not Idly fold its wings, And mourn its dismal fate. | My Fight With "Jacko" The Ape,"] 4 BY SAM BOLTON. fr < * > 4| The Author is an Officer of a Weil-Known Canadian Liner. | iThe Adventure Took Place Nine Year.* Ago. TWVVV WW WW WVVV V V W V V VVVW I -was only an apprentice boy at the time and was just 16 years old. I was j not very big nor exceptionally strong, . but just about the right size and suffi- | cientlv strong to make a fairly even j match for "Jacko," au Indian ape, in the terrible fight we had, some eight ! years ago, one moonlight night in the middle of the Bay of Bengal. Jacko, a fine specimeu of the larger ! species of brown-haired Indian ape, ; had been presented to our skipper in j Calcutta by a friend of his. Our ship j was the Queen of England,a fine full rigged steel vessel of 2070 tons, then sailing between Liverpool and Cal- ' cntta. When standing upon his hind feet the ape's height must have been about | 3 feet 6 inches. Not very tall, you | might say; but anyone who knows the , extraordinary strength of. these crea- j tares and their wonderful agility will kuow that he was quite tall enough to j be a formidable creati"-". lor a lti-year- J old boy to encounter siugle-handed. ] Somehow Jacko, who was docile enough with any of tho other men, j seemed to have taken an especial dis- ; like to me.and I could never pass him j without being treated to a vicious "coo-eli," and a succession of wild leaps, any of which would have lifted him right upou me but for the sudden tautening of his chain, which, tugging at his neck, invariably "finished up" | his leap in a disgraceful way, as it twisted him suddenly round and brought him sprawling ignominiously on the deck. He was, during tho fine weather, usually tethered to a ring- j bolt at the fore end of the No. 3 hatch. Between this hatch and the main life- j rail was a goodly spaco of open deck, 1 where was no other obstruction but the main deck capstan—a high "patent purchase" affair, with a double top— ' which stood amidships. On the night of my set-to with j Jacko we were somewhere about the middle of the Bay of Bengal. A light monsoon just contrived to belly out; each sail aud heel our ship over about live degrees or so. A fine,clear night it was, with a bright full moon above aud a mill-pond ripple ou the sea around. The watch on deck had coiled them selves —as is the general custom in fine weather—along the deck to the lee side of the house, where, handy for ouy call,they snored in their sleep, i The only hands aboard with their eyes open were the lookout man, away for'ard iu the eyes of the ship on tho fo'c's'le head; the second mate, upon ' the weather side of the poop, and my- i self, ou the lee side. At about five bells (10.30 p. m) the second sent me for'ard to examine the aide lights and report upon them. He then went aft, I where, leaning over tho taffrail, he gave himself up sailor fashion to his wakeful dreams. I went for'ard, passing Jacko, who iras asleep. I then mounted the fo'c's'le head, yarned awhile with the lookout, examined the side lights, and finding them burning satisfactorily,proceeded leisurely aft along the weather side, j Arriving at the main fiferail I turned togo to leeward,und utterly forgetful of tho presence of Jacko, walked \ sleepily past tho capstan. The ape . awoke, perceived me, gave his usual vicious "coo-cli" and sprang into the j air towards me. Accustomed to these impotent leaps, 1 stood motionless, hands iu pockets, awaiting the usual absurd ending of the performance. This time, however, tho chain j snapped close to his neck, and almost before I was aware of the fact, the ; brute's form, dark and shadow-like, came flying through the air, and he was upon me. He alighted fairly upon my shoul- I ders; 1 staggered to leeward under the sudden weight and fell into the scup- ' pers, at the samo time wardiug off j with my arm his ugly face from mine. ' Brute-like, lie seized that part of my I body nearest his jaws and bit, fiercely, deep into my left shoulder; then, springing suddenly from ine,he leapecl into the main rigging, swarmed aloft, aud stopped, a dozen ratlins high, to grin and "coo-ch" at me. During the whole time of the extraordinary strng- j gle which followed I made no sound j with my lips—why, Ido not know, j And yet I was mightily scared of the I ape. I fancy it was the suddeuness of the attack, which gave me no time even to think of calling for help and awakening my shipmates. Jumping to my feet excitedly, I stood npou the deck, with fists doubled np and in a boxing attitude, awaiting Jacko's next spring. Except for the ape's low chuckling "coo-ch," we made no sound. I was barefooted, so that even my footfalls were noiseless. Had I run, Jncko in all probability -would have left me alone, but see ng me standing somewhat defiantly iu his accustomed place, he accepted my at titude as a challenge. He came stealthily aud cautiously down the rigging to the top-gallant rail, watched me awhile from there, and then swarmed ihe royal back stay to a height of about l. r > feet— never taking lii 3 eyes off me all the time. Here hu stopped and com THE MESSACE. Shall he thai hns a soul sit down, When all his labor Is upset; And he must bother all the town With chiding and with vain regret? The structure that is wrecked may t* llebuililed and made fair to see. And God upon his throne may know That from the joyous bird The message that he sends below Has happily been heard! —B. E. Riser. menced to shake the backstay violent ly. But apparently seeing the use lessness of wasting his strength in this way, he presently stopped, then leaped into the air, and I saw his shapeless body, extended arms and doubled np legs outlined in the moon light as he deeended towards me. (stepping aside to avoid him, I hit him as he fell somewhere about the chest with my clinched tist. The blow changed the course of his flight, and his body struck with a thud against i the corner of tho hatch. Thinking I ( now had him at my mercy, I sprang upon him and seized him by the slack j skin at his throat. I had reckoned, however, without a knowledge of the brute's astonishing strength. He put out his arms and clasped the back of my neck,and with all his strougth en- I deavored to force me to him, gripping my waist at the same time with his i powerful hand-like feet. With Jacko <liuging to me I fell i heavily to the deck. For some mo- j ments we lay there panting, but mo- ' tionloss. His strength was such that my anus fairly ached with the effort to keep his formidable jaws from me as ' I lay there watching his hideous face ! and teeth. His nails dug deep into my neck; his teeth gave vicious snaps ■ in the air; I could hear his breath I forcing its way through his throat, ! which J had tried to grip as I held on to the skin around it. We must have : lain there some three or four minutes ! when Jacko suddenly threw himself j backward, wrenched his throat from my hand, and leaped upon the capstan to consider the next round. Without giving me time to rise,how ever, he sprang at me again and seized my left arm with his hands and teeth, j Usually when a monkey bites he gives a quick snap, and springs away frightened at his deed, for the average simian is au arraut coward. Jncko, however, departed from this custom, for ho buried his teeth deep in my left forearm and, with the tenacity of a bulldog, kept them there. I beat his face with my freo hand and banged his head on the deck, but all to no purpose. I had no waistcoat or jacket on, and my shirt sleeves were rolled up, so that he had the bare fiesli to work upon. I staggered with him to my feet, and actually car rid him to tho hatch where, forcing him upon his back, I beat his body frantically with my free fist. So close, however, did he cling to me with his feet that my blows told with little ef fect. Seeing this, T raised the big ape be fore me, aud holding my left arm with my right hand,rushed toward the cap stan, and with all the woight of my body behind the blow crushed his head against its iron rim. Then, though apparently not in the least stunned, Jack > let go and rau a little distance from me. Jacko, stan ling upon the capstan— where he had jumped alter letting go my arm—seemed for a moment to pon der tho situation. Then, judging from his subsequent actious, he appeared to have resolved to "board ino from behind." First ho sprang from the capstan to the hatch; then, swift as lightning, he turned and leaped back again —a leap of some 14 feet from a hatch at least two feet lower than tho capstan itself. From the capstan he jumped to tho main tiferail, thence across the deck to the lee rigging aud, j lastly, back to the capstan again. I followed his every movement, de | termined not to let him get behind ; me. Apparently perceiving this, the ape changed his tactics. He came leisurely down from the capstan and I crawled slowly and deliberately aloug j the deck towards me, until at length jhe stopped within a fathom's length of my feet. j Then lie bounded upward and again ' landed fairly upon me. He gripped j my throat in a manner that was almost human ill style and intention. He clasped his strong hind legs around my waist, aud made a vicious snap at my fa e with his awful jaws. I ducked my head, barely in time to save my features, and his teeth snapped iu my ! hair, some of which was torn out. ! Fearful for my face, I put up my right I hand to grasp his throat, my left arm j having by this time become some what : numbed from the effects of his savage II ites. My hand strayed, however, as ; he dodged it, and it went between his j teeth. He bit cruelly, and one of his j molars went clean through, opening a vein from which the blood commenced to spout in au alarming manner. The fight now became a wrestling match, while no other souud came from either of tis save the hiss of our panting breath and the patter of my bare feet. We struggled frantically to and fro upon the deck. The blood spontiug from my hand spread over Jacko's hairy head, neck and face, until be became a ghastly sight. I felt myself growing weaker from the loss of blood, while my powerful enemy appeared to be growing rapidly stronger. We staggered against tho main fl'erail. With my growing weak ; ness fear came npou mo—fear of the horrible distfenremeut hit features would forever show should I become too weak to keep the ape's jaws from off niv face. Now the fiferail was studded with iron belaying pins, placed there for the purpose of belaying the crossjack braces. One of these, luckily, was iree. I put up my left arm and with it forced Jacko's head agaiust tho wooden rtfl; then seizing the iron be laying pA with my free hand, I raised it aloft and brought it down upon Jacko's brow with all the strength I could muster. The second mate, wondering why I had not returned to report upon the side lights, and thinkiug I had prob ably eat down somewhere and gone to sleep, came down the poop ladder bringing with him one of the poop buckets; these, by the way, were al ways kept hung up at the fore part of 'the poop,and iu hot weather were kept tilled with water to prevent the wood from becoming too dry. It was the i mate's unkind intention to rouse me I in the time-honored fashion by drench- j ing me with its contents. Creeping stealthily along the deck, he came to tho main fiferail, where he saw in the moonlight a sight which caused him to change his intention. He told me afterwards he could never forget the sight even if he lived to bo a hundred. Jncko was lying stretched across the coil of the weather crossjack brace, my body being face downward, stretched across Jacko's, and a pool of blood marring the ; whiteness of the deck and making i ghastly tho sight of our two apparent- j ly inanimate forms. Jacko recovered from the effects of } the blow I gave him. He was pre- j sented, I believe, to the Palace menag erie at New Brighton, where, for all I know to the contrary, he is to this ; day. As for me, I bear the marks of ' his teeth upon me yet, and shall be j glad to show them to such Wide World readers as care to call upon me be tween voyatres at my home, near Man chester. They are rather fniut upon my shoulders, but on my hand is a scar three-fourths of an inch long and j one-fourth of an inch broad. Two of , the scars upon my left forearm each ; measure half an inch in length, and the distance between t'.iem is two and a quarter inches—a striking proof ul the size of Jacko's jaws. Thinking that Wide World readers would like to know what became ot Jacko, we instructed Mr. Frederick Koltou, the author's father, to make inquiries about the ape at the Palace, , New Brighton. We append Mr. Bol ton's report: "I made my wny there and found j the place closed during the daytime, : it being the off season, but I hunted up the caretaker. 1 explained to him what I was after. "His reply was: 'I should think 1 ; do remember the brute. Yon see that linger?' he weut on, showing me a \ mutilated finger—the middle tinger of his right hand. 'I was goi"ug my rounds one day and was tr.viug the j gate of his cage when he sprang nt me like lightning aud hnd my tinger in j his ugly mouth like a vise before I knew what he was up to. You can see for yourself,sir, the me<s he made of it. Another time,' continued the caretaker, 'the brute got out of his cage, and it took nil the fellows about the place to cage him ngain. When he lirst came they put liim iu with tho other monkeys, but he killed a number of them, so lie was placed iu a special cage by himself. About 12 mouths ago he got so lull of rheumatism that they drowned him.' " 'How high did he stand?' I asked. " 'Well, sir,' replied my informant, 'you seldom saw him stretched full length, but ho was,l should say. from three feet to three feet six inches.' ' —Wide World Magazine. "SHOOTING STARS" A MISNOMER. But Lovers May Still BH !llin<l to "Me- Iror'n" < laiin«. Tt is hardly necessary to say that the shooting stars are uot stars at all, as the name seems to indicate, aud as people sometimes think, writes Pro lessor Young iu the New Lippincott. This was the mistake of a sailor on n British naval vessel who had beeu set ou watch during the star shower of 1806 to count all the meteors he conld see in a given fifteen minutes. Whon his time was up he begged to be al lowed a minute longer, "because," he said, "i has my eye on a star that i wiggles awful and can't hold on much longer." i bliooting stars are only little masses of matter —bits of rock or metal oi 1 cloudlets of d.ist and gas—which art flying unresisted through space just as planets aud comets do, in paths which, within the limits o.' our solat system are controlled by the attrac tiou of the sun. They move with speed of several miles a second, fai exceeding that of any military pro i iectile, but are too small to be seen bj I us except when they enter our ntmos* phere, and, becoming intensely beatec by the resistance they encounter light up and burn for a moment; foi 1 to use Lord Kelvin's expression, ; body rushing thiough the air at sucl ! an enormous velocity is during itf , flight viitually "immersed iu a blow : pipe flame, "having a temperature com j parable with that of an electric arc. Ai a rule they aie completely consumec i in the upper air, so that nothiiif reaches the surface of the earth except perhaps, a little ash, settling .slowlj as au imperceptible "smoko." Occa sionally, however, some mass largei thnu usual survives in part the tier; j ordeal an<l its fragmeuts fall to tin ground au specimens of the mnterii' of "other worlds thau ours. ' Violent Supposition. "What made that horse tear up tin avenue so?" | "I suppose lie had a permit frorr the superintendent of streets to dc ! iu" —Boston Commercial Bulletin. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: Evil Companion*—TClndty Ad vice to Yoiinc Men—Avoiil Kutl Coin pan]-. Especially Skeptic* and Idler* —Slum Those Wlio Seek Only 112 leasure. [Copyright ISMHI.] WASHINGTON, D. C. —In this discourse Pr. Tiilinitge speaks oil a theme which ull nen. young nnd old, will bo Rind to Bee 'ltscussed, and the kindly warning will no .lonbt in many cases be taken; text, Pro verbs sill., 20, "A companion of fools shall oe destroyed." "May It please the court," said a con victed "criminal when asked by the judge what he had to say why senteueo of death should not be pronounced upon him, "may It please the court, bad company has been ray destruction. I received the blessing of good parents and iu return therefor prom ised to avoid all evil afsociates. Had I kept my promise I should have avoided this shame and the burden of guilt which, like a vulture, threatens to drag me to justice for my many crimes. Although I once moved in high circles and was enter rained by distinguished men, I nm lost. Bad company did the work for me." Only one out of a thousand illustrations was that of the fact that "n companion of fools slinll be destroyed." It Is au invariable rule. Here is a hospital with a hundred men down with the ship fever. Here is a healthy man who goes into it. lie does not so cer tainly catch the disease as a gcod man will catch moral distemper If he consents to be shut up with the vicious and the abandoned. Iu the prisons of the olden time it was the custom to put prisoners In a cell together, and I am sorry to say It Is the custom still In some of our prisons; so that when the day of liberation comes the men, Instead of being reformed, are turned out brutes, not men, each one having learned the vices of all the rest. We may In our worldly occupation be obliged to talk to and commingle with bad people, but he who voluntarily chooses that kind of association is carrying on a courtship with a Delilah which will shear the locks of his strength, and be will be tripped into perdition. Look over all the millions of the race, and you cannot show me a single instance where a man volun larllv associated with the bad for one year and maintained his Integrity. Sin is catch ing; It is infectious; it is epidemic. A young man wakes up In one of our great cities knowing only the gentlemen of the Arm Into whoso service lie has en tered. In the morning he enters the store, nnd all the clerks mark him, measure him, discuss him. Tho bad clerks of that estab lishment, the good clerks of that estab llshimnt stand In some relation to him. The good clerks will wish him well, but they will wait for a formal introduction, and even after they have had the intro duction they are very cautious as to whether they shall call him Into their asso ciation before thev know him very wolJ. Cut the bad young men In that estab lishment all gather around him. They patronize him, they offer to show him everything that there Is In the city on one sondltlon—tl'at he will pay the oxpenses, for it always happens so when a good young man and a bad young mango to gether to a place of evil putertalnment— the good young man always has to pay the charges. " Just at the time the ticket Is to be paid for or the champagne bill Is to be settled the bnd young man will effect em barrassment and feel around In his pockets and say, "Well, well, really I have for gotten my pocketbook." In forty-eight hours after this Innocent young man has entered the store the bad young men will gather around him, slap him on tho shoulder with familiarity, and, if he is stupid In not being able to take rortalu nllusions, will say, "Ah. ray youug friend, you will have to bo broken in." And forthwith they goto work to "break him In." Oh, young man, let no fallen young man slap you on the shoulder familiarly! Turn arouiid and give a withering glance that will make tho wretch cower in your pres ence. There is no monstrosity of wicked ness that can stand berore the glance of purity nnd honor, flod keeps tho light nings of heaven in His own scabbard, and 110 human may reach them, but God gives to every youug man a lightning which he may u=e, and that Is the lightning of an honest eye. Anybody that understands the temptations of our great, cities knows the use of one sermon like this, in which I try to enforce tho thought that a "companion of fools shall bo destroyed." Aud, first, I charge vou, avoid the skeptic —that Is, the young man who puts his thumb in his v'est and swaggers about, scofllng at your old fnshloued religion, then taking out the Bible and turning over to some mysterious passage aud saying: "Explain that, my friend, explain thut. I used to thin'.: just as you do. My father and mother used to think justa9 you do. <But you can't scaro me about tho iuture. I used to believe In tlioso things but I've got ovor It " Yes, lie has got over it, and you will get over It If you stay In his compan ionship much longer. For awhile he may not bring one argumeut against cur holy Christianity. He will Ly scoffs and jeers and caricnturos destroy your faith in that religion which was tho comfort of your father in ills declining years and the pillow on which your old mother lay a-dying. That brilliant youug skeptic will after awhife have to die, aud his dlnmond will flash no splendor Into the «yo of death. His hair will lie uncombed on the pillow. Death will como up, aud this skeptic will say to him: "I cannot die. I cannot die." Death will say. "You must die. You have but ten seconds more to live. Your soul—givo It to me right away. Yoursoul!" "Oh, nol" says the skeptic. "Do not breathe that cold air into my face. You I crowd me too hard. It is getting dark iu the room. Here—take mv rings and lako all the pictures iu tho room, but let me off." "No,"' says Death, Your soull Your soul!" Then tlio dying skeptic beglus to say, "OGodl" Death says, "You declared there was no God." Then the dying skep i tic says, 'Tray for me," aud Deuth says: j "It is too late to pray; you have only three i seconds more to live, aud I will count them off—one, two, ltree. Gone!" Where? Where? Curry him out and lay htm down beslilo his old father and mother, who died under the delusions of the Chrlstluii religion singing the songs of viatory. Again, avoid the idlers—that is, those people who gather around the store or the shop or tho factory and trv to seduce you away from your regular calling nnd iu your fjuslneSs hours try *o seduce you away. There is nothing that would please them e>o well as to have you give up your em ployment nnd consort with them. These ldlersyou will find standing around the engine houses or stnudlng at noonday or about noon on the steps of some hotel or Tashlonablo restaurant. They have not dined there. Thev never dined there. They never will dine there. Betore you Invite a young man Into your association ask him plainly, "What do you do for a living?" If lie says, "Nothing; lam a gentleman," look out for liim I earn not how soft his hand or how elegant his apparel or how high sounding his family name, his touch Is death. These peoplo who have nothing to do will come nround you lu your busy hours, nnd they will ask vou to ride with them to Chevy Chn9e or to Central Park, and they will tell you of some excursion that you must make, of some wine that you must drink, of some beautiful dancer that you must see. They will try to take you away from your regular work. Associate with these men, and, first of all, you will be come ashamed of your apparel; the.) you will lose your place, tiieu you Will lose your respectability, then you will lose your •on I. Idleness is the next door to villainy. When the police goto find criminals, Where do thev goto linJ them? Xhev llud them among the Idle—those who bnv» nothing to do, or, having something to do, refuse to engage in their dully work. Some one enme to good old Ashbel Green nnd nsked him why ho worked nt eighty years of ago when It was time for blra to rest. "Oh," be replied, "I work to koop out of mischief!" And no man can afford to bo idle. I care not how strong his moral character, he cannot afford to be tdlo. But you say: "A great many people ar» suffering from enforced idleness. During the hard times tbero were a great many people out of employment." I know it, but the times of dullness iu business arc tho times when men ought to be thor oughly engaged in Improving their minds nnd enlarging their hearts. Tho fortunes to be made twonty years from now will be made by tho young "men w!;« In the times wlieu business was dull cultivated their minds and improved their hearts. The? will get the fortunes after awhile, while those men who hang nround their stores, never engaging in Buy useful occupation, will be as poor thou as they are now. It is nbsurd for a Christian man to say he has nothing to do. I weut Into a store in Now York whero there were live Christian men, aud they said they had nothing to do. Tho whole world lying in sin. Poverty to bo com forted, sickuo6s to be alleviated, a. Bible lit tho back office, evory opportunity of men tal culture, spiritual culture; every In ducement to work, yet a Christian mail, sworn before high heaven to consocr.ite his whoie life to usefulness, lias nothing to do! If you have not any business for this world, my Christian frioud, then you ought to be doing for eternity. Again, I counsel you, avoid the pleasure seeker, tho man whose entiro business it is to seek for recreation und amusemont. I believe in the amusements of tho world so far as thoy aro inuocont. I could not llvo without them. Any man of sanguine tem perament must have recreation or die. And yet tho amusements aud recreations of life must administer to hard work. They are only preparative for the occupation to which God has called us. God would not have given us tho capac ity to laugh if He did not sometimes intend us to indulge it. God hath hung in sky anil set in wave aud printed on grass many a roundelay. But ull tho music aud tho brightness of the natural world weie merely Intended to fit us for the earnest work of life. The thundercloud has edges exquisitely purpled, but It jars the moun tniu as It says,"l como down to water the fields." The flowers standing uudor the fence look gay and beautiful, but thoy say, "Wo stand hero to rofrosh tho husband men at the nooning." Tho brook frolics and sparkles and foams, but it says,"l go to baptize tho moss; I goto slako the thirst of the bird; I turn tho wheel of tho mill; in my crystal cradlo I rock muck slmw aud wat«r Illy; I play, but I work." Look out f>r tho man who plays and never works. Look out for that mau whose entire business is to play ball or sail a yacht o: engage In any kind of mer riment. Those things are all beautiful and grand in their places, but when they be come the chief work of life thoy become mnn's destruction. Georgo Brummel was admired of all Cnglaud. He danced with peoresess nnd wont a round of mirth and folly until after a while, exhausted of purso, ruined of reputation, blasted of soui, ho beggod a crust from a grocer, de claring as his deliberate opinion that he though that a dog's life was better than u man's. Those more pleas'' : 'ists will come around you while you are engaged In your work, and they will try • ~ tako you nway. They have lost their places. Why not you 1030 your place? Thou you will be one of them. Oil, my friends, before you go with these pleasure seekers, these men whoso entiro life Is fun aud amusement and recreation, remombor while after a man has lived a life of integrity and Christian consecra tion, kind to the poor and elevating to the world's condition, when he comes to die he has a glorious reinintecenco lying on his death pillow, tho mere pleasurist has noth ing by way of review but u torn playbill, a ticket for tho race, au empty tankard or the cost out rinds of a carousal. Aud as in delirium of his awful death ho dutches the goblet and presses It to Ills lips, the dregs falling on his tongue will begin to uncoil and hiss with tho adders ot an eternal poi son. Again, beware of Sabbath breakers. Toll mo how « young man spends Ills Sabbath, and I will tell you what are his prospects in business, and I will tell you what nro his prospects for tho eternal world. God has thrust Into our busy life a sacred day when we aro to look after our souls. Is it exorbitant aftor giving six days to tho feeding and the clothing of those perish able bodies that God should dumaud oue day for the feeding and the clothing ot tho immortal soul? Otir bodies are seven day clocks, nnd they need to bo wound up, und if thoy are uot wonnd up they run down Into tho grave. No man can continuously break the Sab bath and keep his physical aud mantnl health. Ask tlioso aged men, and they will tell you they never know men who con tinuously broke tho Sabbath who did not fail either in mind, body or moral prin ciple. A manufacturer gave this as his ex perience. Ho said: "I owned a factory on the Lehigh. Everything prospered. I kept tho Sabbath, and everything wont on well. But oue Sabbath morniug I be thought myself of a new shuttle, aud 1 thought I would invent that shuttle before sunset, and 1 refused all food und drink until I hnd comploted that shuttle. ])vsun down I had completed it. The next day, Monday, I showed to my workmen atul friends this new shuttle. They all con gratulated me on my great success. I put that shuttle into play. I enlarged my business; but, sir, that Sunday's work cost mo £30,000. From that day everything went wrong. I failed iu business, aud I lost my mill. Oh, my friends, keep tho Lord's day. You may think it old logy ad vice, but I givo it to you nor. "lleraembei the Sabbath day, koop It holy. Six days shall thou labor aud do all thy work, but the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; iu it thou Shalt uot do any work." A man said that ho would prove that nil this was a fallacy, und so he said, "I shall raise a Sunday crop." Aud he plowed tho field on tho Sabbath, aud theL lie putin the seed on tho Sabbath and cul tivated the ground on tho SibbuMi. When tho harvest was ripo, he reaped It on the Sabbath, and ho carried it into tin; mow on the Sabbath, ami then he stood out delimit to his Christian neighbors and said, "There, that is my Sunday crop, and It is all garnered." After awhile a storm camo up aud a great darkness, and the light nings of heaven struck the barn, nnd away went his Sunday crop. Leware, young mau, of all Sabbath breakers. Again. I charge you, bewnro of associa tion with the dissipated. Go with thorn and you will in time adopt their habits. Who Is thut man fallen against tho curb stone, covered with bruises and beastli ness? He was as bright a lad as evei looked up from your nursery. His mother rocked him, prayed for htm, fondled him, would not lot the nlgbt air touch his otieek nnd neld liiin up und looked down Into his loving eyes and wondered for what high position he was being fitted. Ho en tered lite with bright hopes. The world beckoned 'him, friends cheered him but the archers shot at him; vile men set traps for him, bad habits hooked fast to lilm with their iron grapples; tils feet slipped oil tho way, and there he lies. Who would think that that uncombed hair was once toyed witu by a lather's Augers? Would you think that those bloated cheeks woro ever kissed by n mother's lips? Would you guess that that thick tongue ouco made u household glad with Its innocent prattle? Utter no harsh words ir, his oar. Help him up. Put tho hat ovor that once manly brow. Brush the dust from that coat that once covered a generous heart Show blm tl.e way to tho home that ouco rejoiced ut the souu » of his footstep and with gentle words tell his children to stand buck us you help him through the hull. THE GREAT DESTROYER. 50ME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. (Yliat Have You I>one To-Day?—Brandy Should Never Be Used as a ri|>ecll'.c For the Cure or Nerviiui Debility—lt Af ford* Sham Relief* [ saw a farmer when the <lny was (lone; The setting sun hud sought its crimson bed, And the mild stars came (orwurd one by i one; I saw the sturdy farmer, and I said: "What have you done to-day? G, farmer, say." •'Oh, I have sown the wheat In yonder field, And pruned my orchard, to increase the yield. And turned the furrow for a patch of corn— This have I done since morn." [ saw a blacksmith in his smithy door. When the day had vanished and the ivnst grew red. And all the merry strife und noise were o'er; I saw the kindly blacksmith, and I said: "What have you done to-duy? O, blacksmith Hay." '' "Ob, I have mude two plowshares ail complete. And nailed the shoes on many a horse's feet; And—O, my friend, I cannot tell you half," The man of muscle answered with a laugh. 1 saw a miller when the day was done, And all the sunshine from the hills had lied, And tender shadows crept ucro3s the lawn; I saw a dusky miller, ami I said: "What have you done to-day? O, miller, gruy." "Oh, I huvo watched my mill from morn till night; Did you ever see flour so snowy white? And mauv are the mouths to-day I've fed." And merry miller laughed as this ho said. I saw another when the night drew nigh. And turned each daily toiler fro.u liis task, When gold and crimson cloudlets decked the sky. "What have ycu done to-day? Dram-seller, say." But the drink-seller turned, with drooping head, ; And not a single word in answer said. ; Waut had he done? Ills work, he ka377 full Well, j Was plunging souls !u deepest hell! : A.I as I drink-seller, on that awful day When death shall call you, and your race is run, ! How can you answer? Wiiat can you say When God shall question you, "Wtia have you done?" How can you meet tho eye Of the Most High? 1 When night approaches, and the day grows late, I Think you to find your way to heaven's r»ute? T.iinlf you to dweUwith tha souls of right eous men? Tulnk you to enter in? If not, what then? —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Popular Fallacy. The Idea of using braudy as a specific for the cure of nervous debility (in caused by overwork, mental worry, ot>:.) Is only another form of the popular fallacy which mistakes a process of irritation for a pro cess of luvigoratlou. "Alcohol Is neither a food nor a gener ator of forco in the human body," says Dr. N. 8. Davis, ex-President of tho American Me Ileal Association, "though like ether and chloroform. Its presence diminishes | the sensibility of the nervous system and brain, thereby rondering the Individual 1 less conscious of all outward Impressions. This diminution of sensibility may be seen in all Its stuges from slmplo weight, ex hibited by ease, buoyaucy, hilarity, to that of complete unconsciousness a id loss of muscular power. It has long boon one of | the noted paradoxes of human physiology, ! that the same individual would resort to ! the same ulcoholle drink to warm him in winter and protect from heat in sum mer, to strength when weak and weary, uid soothe and calm when afflicted In body or mind. The fact is that alcohol achieves those effects simply by lessening our consciousness of impressions. But while Its presence diminishes the sensibil ity of the nervous system, it also injures the functional efficiency of the orgauisiu and tends to retard the proco33 of nutri tion and elimination." It might be added that oven that sham relief is confined t j the brief initial pjrio I of the poison-fever, and that the net result of the experiment never falls to aggravate tho symptoms of whatever distress may have tempted tho sufferer to Invo'ce the treacherous aid of alcohol. One great temptation In the practice of physicians privately opposed to the use ot alcohol in any fonn, is the promptness ot that apparent relief effected by large doses of alcoholic stimulants. The patient applies for a remedy,not for a lecture on the phys iological effects or his unsanitary habits, and perhaps even believes in the existence of miraculous specifics that would enable him to recouclle those habits with the eu joymunt of permanent benith. It would be difficult to convince him that total absti nence from stimulants, combined with fru gality und outdoor exorcise, would ulti -1 mutely effect a far moro thorough euro; he l demands moro direct results, and believes 1 to have got his mouey's worth in tho form of a prescription by which those results have boon apparently accomplished, lie deludes himself with tho hope that the momentary feeling of relief might bo ac cepted as nsyinptom of permanent im provement. But is it not, on tho othor hand, more than probable that the inevitable disap pointment of that hope has done much tc weaken tho confidence in tho trustworthi ness of medical prescrfptlons in general/ Here as elsewhere, absolute honesty might after all, prove the wisest plan. An Insidious Kvil, Tho persistency with which tho dally papers continue to inform us that the drink habit is growning among women is alarming. If it be true, ns a leading New York paper asserts upon tho authority ot "ono of the 4')0," that Delraonlco's and the Waldorf-Astoria aro tho scenes o! drunkon debauchery upon the part o! women of the most exclusive circles o! New York society, and that lady members of leading aristocratic families go about the streets of New York, in public place' and in the homes of their friends, wltfc their breath reeking with the fu nes o: liquor, a new and specially dangerou.* phase of the liquor problem confronts us. There Is nothing incredible in the reports. The morality of the women of a natioc seldom remains for a great leogth of time at a higher grado than the mornlity oi the men.—The New Voice. The Crnsade in Ilrinf. There are 250,000 ulac-js whero liquor is sold in this country. Why should nnv man who sells iiqnoi havo anything to do with tho governing of the public schools? When tho liquor dealer gets rich enough to build u brown stone front ho has u right to call it "Tho house that 'jag' built.'' Switzerland has three Institutions for the euro of drunkards, which record penna lient cures in one-half of the cases treated. At the annual meeting of the Massachu setts Totnl Abstineuco Society Secretary ot tho Navy JoU:» D. Long was olected Presi dent.
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