BURIED THOUGHTS.
Sow often does the chopper of soma
stone.
While toiling at his task of heave and
shock,
Find in the heart-space of a severed
rock
The impress of some fern that once had
grown,
Full of aspirins life and color-tone,
Deep in the forest where the shadows
flock,
Till, caught witliia the adamantine
block,
It lny for ages hidden and unknown!
So 'nany a beautious thought lilooms in
the miud,
But, unexpressed, droops down into the
soul
And lies unuttered in the silence there
Until some opener of the soul shall find
That fern-like, fossiled dream, complete
and whole.
And marvel at its beauty past compare!
—Alfred S. Donaldson in the Outlook.
B QUARREL. |
auiUer-Couch. <j>
Bob Jamieson stamped around his
room, dropped his favorite pipe, said
something untranslatable, and picked
up his cap.
He paused for want of breath, his
eyes flashing, his nostrils dilating—
with calm contempt, it Is to be sup
posed.
"No, my dear Dolly, I daresay you
will be expecting me to come and apol
ogize, and implore you to come out on
the river with me, but you'll have to
6end for me first."
With which noblo display of inde
pendence Robert Jamieson flung out
of his room and down to the river,
metaphorically patting himself on the
way, and all the time dreading the
blank in his life which he would feel
as soon as his rage should cool down.
Dolly Parsons put on her prettiest
wh'te frock and a picturesque sun
hat. "If Mr. Jamieson calls, tell him I
am out," she said to the maid. "I am
going on the river."
She told herself this last piece of in
formation was for the benefit of the
servant, in case she required to know.
"When he comes and finds me gone,
he will be furious. I wnl take my ca
noe and stay out till quite late. I'd
love to frighten him thoroughly."
Miss Parsons' bright brown eyes
Hashed a little. A faint flush appeared
on her pretty cheeks —it was a flush
of anger, but it was eminently be
coming. She looked maddeningly pret
ty as she sat in her canoe and paddled
away up stream. It was a glorious af
ternoon, and the river was looking its
best; but Dolly Parsons' eyes were
not filled with appreciation of the
beauty around her. She repeated to
bertelf again said again the horrid
things Bob had Maid.
"No, she woubi not forgive him for
a. long time; it would not do; the cir
cumstances were' too aggravated. He
would be coming back expecting lios*
to forgive everything—some girls
might be so silly, but he would find
she was made of different stuff."
And all the time she knew that she
dared not let her anger cool, for a
horrid, absorbing pain would fill her
heart at once, and a wretched feeling
of loneliness and depression, and she
hated to be unhappy.
She paddled on and on, until the oth
er boats wen all left behind. She was
very tired, but she would not stop. Her
mind was made up on one point: she
would frighten Bob Jamieson into a-i
appreciation of her worth.
It was almost twilight when she
turned togo home; the river seemed t>
her to have suddenly become lonely
and depressing; the sun had gono
down and a chill wind had sprung up.
Dolly paddled fast and splashed the
water over her pretty frock, and grew
cross nnd miserable. She had quite ex
pected Hob would have followed her
to "make it up"; she had decided how
long she wouid keep him in suspense,
and how. at last, to forgive him.
A clock in the' distance struck 7.
Dolly paddled faster and faster, though
she was so tired she hardly knew how
togo on. She looked anxiously alone,
when swiftly around the bend she had
lust cleared shot another boat, close
In her wake. It rame so swiftly it was
almost on her before the sound of th"
oars made her glance tip; It came so
close that her cry to "look ahead!"
came too late.
She screamed with alarm and missed
her stroke. The man in the other boat
looked around with annoyance written
on every feature, anil then, before he
could back water, the impetus of his
last stroke brought the none of his
boat with a crash into the stern of her
canoe, which filled and sank instantly.
"Bob! Bob! Bob! Help!" But before
the cry was past her lips Dolly had
gono under.
"Great Scott! It's Dolly!"
In a second Bob hail sprung lnt6 the
water after her. A stupefii d face rose
above the surface and two bauds strug
gling wildly to clutch something; then
she sank again. In desperation Bob
made n wild plunge at the spot where
she had gone down, and this time
caught a bit of her sleeve. It was
barely euough to suptiort her by, but
having got a hold he made the most of
It, ami umnugod to keep h«r up until
lie could grasp her firmly, then by de
green he drew her to the bank, and i'i
time managed to lift her Into lilh boat,
which fortunately had drifted to the
bank. She wa.< conscious again by that
time, and he laid her lit the boat and
wrapped his coat about her. .She wis
not really hurt, only overcome with
the shock and weurineiut: hut »h •
looked a very piteous and 112 irlorn Hi
ll* cnaluru as ulie lay vtiiveriUK io
I the bow while Bob pulled as quickly
as he could to the boathouse. In spite,
though, of her plight, her spoiled
clothes and general discomfort, she did
not feel as depressed as she had done
before the plunge, nor did the world
seem so utterly devoid of happiness.
"Bob," she said, after silently
watching him for some moments,
"Bob —why were you up the river &o
late?"
"Why were you?" answered Bob, not
without embarrassment.
"Will you tell me if I tell you?"
"Yes," he said, his color heighten
ing.
"Well, I was angry with you, and I
wanted to—frighten you." .
"You carried your scheme to perfec
tion. dear."
"But Bob, I didn't —oh, Bob," In a
great state of consternation, "you
can't think I fell in on purpose?"
"No, dear; I am quite convinced of
that."
Dolly looked at him thoughtfully for
a moment.
"Bob," she said severely, "what do
you mean?"
"Well," he answered with convic
tion. "young women don't put on their
prettiest dress when they contemplate
a dive."
Dolly had the grace to blush. "My
poor dress!" she said dolefully; "and
I was looking so nice when I started,"
she added regretfully. "I must be a
fearful fright, now, though," with sud
den consciousness. "Am I, Bob? Do
I look very dreadful?"
"I have seen you looking better,
darling."
Dolly's brow puckered again.
"Now tell me why you were up here
so late."
Bob did not answer; he seemed
deeply intereseted in something on the
banlc. —American Queen.
THE TIME-HONORED BUCKWHEAT.
Passing; of the Favorite Cake by Iteuson
of Adulterated Flour.
"The time-honored and historic
buckwheat cake is not what it used
to be, and each year the demand for
the cake of our dacftlies is growing
less," said the manager of one of
Washington's busy lunch rooms to a
Star reporter.
"Most of the orders we receive for
cakes are for wheat cakes. Once
upon a time it was the buckwheat
cake that had the call ten to one.
Now the expressive order of 'one up'
means three circular layers of wheat
batter on the griddle. If the batter is
to come out of the buckwheat pitcher
it's 'one buckwheat.'
"And it's going out of family use,
too, very extensively. Why? Because
of the discovery by unscrupulous mill
ers that bran and the by-products of
the mill, which are practically com
mercially worthless as copipared with
the genuine flour make a good 'tiller'
and are rapid money makers to the
dealers who practice the deception.
"The result is that there is com
paratively little genuine buckwheat
flour sold! that is, absolutely pure, be
cause it is so very easy to adulterate
without detection. The public, how
ever, after years of submission, found
that there was something wrong with
its buckwheat cakes as to the taste,
and, once the discovery was made, the
flour was gradually discarded as a
product of regular use. The demand
falling off, the farmer lessened his
acreage, the miller increased his pro
portion of bran and the man who used
to cat buckwheat cakes every morning
for breakfast spread Ills maple syrup
upon the baked surface of some other
kind of flour.
"My observations on the adultera
tion of buckwheat flour are called up
by reason of the fight The Star has
made in Washington for pure foods
and breadstuffs. The public, in pay
ing full price demanded by producers,
is entitled to purchase precisely what
it asks for. Of course, all dealers are
not dishonest, but in the case in point
if one miller in 10 adulterates his flour
all of his patrons are the sufferers.
"It is but eouitable that stringent
laws he passed for the preservation of
the purity of what we eat. and these
acts should be as strictly enforced and
the guilty made to make amends.
There was a time when nearly every
farmer had his patch of buckwheat,
but one rarely sees now fields of the
beautiful white blossoms which this
wheat produces when in flower. Pure
buckwheat flour made into cakes has
a peculiar and attractive flavor, which
is destroyed by the addition of cheap,
non-nutritive, tasteless bran."
The First Chinese Keg intent.
The Ist Chinese regiment Is doing
well at Wel-Hai-Wel under Colonel
Bow ?r. There are now some 360 re
cruits v.lth the colors, and their pro
gress in drill and discipline is emi
nently satisfactory.
Til y had their first sham fight a
week or two ago against marines and
bluejui kets, and surprised everybody
by their steadiness.
The chief difficulties hitherto have
been those of desertion and language.
The p.ty is remarkably liberal for Chi
na IS a tnonlh and as < very cent is
paid punctually without abatement (an
unheard of thing In the Chinese mili
tary service! recruits have been so
iihiiuduiit that Hit officers wore able
to exercise rigid selection. The phy
sique of the liaiiaiion is coimequi ntly
very fine.
4 liifllv t lii litipi!"-* lli«* Kxlifliliura,
hli Have you any strawberries?
Dealn Ves'ci. Here they are, $1 V)
per bo*.
HI floodi'ci, ' They're ml lafde
looking, and so gt een.
Dealer I know, ma'atu. but there
ain't enough in a Imii i > do you any
baa ui.~l'lillstltd|ihla I'iti-s.
NINETEENTH CENTURY EPITOMIZED.
What the Lait Hundred Years Kecelvcd
and Uetiiiealhed.
We received the horse anil ox; we
bequeath the locomotive, the automo
bile and the bicycle.
We received the goose quill; we be
queath the fountain pen and type
writer.
We received the scythe; we be
queath the mowing machine.
We received the sickle; we be
queath the harvester.
We received the sewing and knit
ting needle; we bequeath the sewing
and knitting machines.
We received the hand printing
press; we bequeath the cycllnder
press. * 112
We received the typesetter; we be
quath the linotype.
We received the sledge; we be
queath the steam drill and hammer.
We received the flintlock musket;
we bequeath automatic Maxims.
We received the sail ship, six weeks
to Europe; we bequeath the steam
ship, six days to Europe.
We received gunpowder: we be
queath nitro-glycerin.
We received the hand loom; we be
queath the cotton gin and woolen
mill.
We received the leather fire bucket;
we bequeath the steam fire engine.
We received wood and stone struc
tures; we bequeath 20-storied steel
structures.
We received Johnson's dictionary
with 20,000 words; we bequeath the
modern dictionary with 240,000 words.
We received the staircase; we be
queath the elevator.
We received 22,000.000 speaking the
English language; we bequeath 116,-
000,000.
We received the painter's brush and
easel; we bequeath lithography and
photography.
We received the lodestone; we be
queath the electro-magnet.
We received ihe glass electric ijia
chine; we bequeath the dynamo.
We received the tallow dip; we be
queath the arc light and the incandes
cent.
We received. the four-inch achro
matic telescope; we bequeath the
four-foot lens.
We received two dozen members
of the solar system; we bequeath 500.
We received a million stars; we be
queath 100,000,000.
We received the tinder box; we be
queath the friction match.
We received ordinary light; we be
queath Roentgen rays.
We received the beacon signal fires;
Vve bequeath the telegraph, the tele
phone and wireless telegraphy.
We received the weather unan
nounced; we bequeath the weather
bureau.
We received less than 20 known ele
ments; we bequeath 80.
TVs received the products of utt,-
tant countries as rarities; we be
queath them as bountiful as homo
productions.
We received history as events re
membered and recorded; we bequeath
the kinetoscope.
We received the past as silent; we
bequeath the phonograph, and the
voices of the dead may again bo
heard.
We received pain as an allotment to
man; we bequeath ether, chloroform
and cocaine.
We received gangrene; we be
queath antiseptic surgery.
We received the old oaken bucket;
we bequeath the driven well and the
water tower.
We received decomposition helpless
ly; we bequeath cold storage.
We received foods for immediate
consumption; we bequeath the can
ning industry.
We received butter solely from
milk; we bequeath oieogargarine.
We received the pontoon; we be
queath the Brooklyn bridge.
We received the hedgerow and the
rail fence; we bequeath the barbed
wire fence.
We received cement stpel; we be
queath Bessemer steel.
We received unlimited dependence
upon muscles; we bequeath automatic
mechanism.
Success of tlln fiprmiin Ch<*inUt.
One reason why German manufac
turers are doing so well nowadays is i
their thorough knowledge of ehemis- |
try.
One Gorman firm, having headquar- '
ters in Baden, has a staff of 80 chem
ists. Each works alone in a little
cell. He does not know what his day's
work will be until he reaches the of
fice.
On his desk he finds a written order
front the chief chemist, and a sample
of the substance to be analyzed. At
night he turns in his report. He does
not know what use is to be made of
his work, what firm has asked for it,
where It will be applied. There are
!!7 chemical dve factories in Germany
that do original experimental work.
We buy over $10,000,000 .vorth of Ger
man chemical dyes every year.
l>l<lit't *ln»w Off l'ro|»«*rly.
There is a man who fancies he is the
head of his house. This particular man
has several si all children and it
pleases hint to discourse u great deal |
un the training of children. A few
day# ago he had friends visiting him
Ills two little boys began to play about
noisily. It is one of his theories that
children should obey Implicitly. lie
wanted to let his friends see how lie
carried it out in the training of his
ov»n children. "Johnny," ho said
M<miy. "atop that nolxe Instantly.")
Johnny looked up in », ih> i '
grinned a little. "Oh. Kr« ddl».-," he
said to his brother an they went on
with the noise, "Juht h :ti papa try*
In* to talk like mamma "- Milwaukee
WUiousin.
DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
■object: Welfare of the Body—Simple
lilfe Conduces to Longevity Religion
the Great Kenewer Worry Hastens
the Advance of Age.
[Copj-rUrht 1901.1
WASHINGTON, D. C.—ln this discourse
Dr. Talmage shows how any one can con
quer the effect of years and grow younger
in spirit; text, Psalms ciii, 5, "So that thy
youth is renewed like the eagle's."
There flies out from my text the most
majestic of all the feathered creation—an
eagle. Other birds have more beauty of
plume and more sweetness of voice, but
none of them has such power of beak,
such clutch of claw, sucn expansion of
wing, such height of soarine, such wide
ness of dominion. Its appetite rejects the
carrion that invites the vulture, and in
most cases its food is fresh and clean.
Leveling its neck for flight, in spiral
curve, it swings itself toward the noonday
sun. It has been known to iive a hun
dred years. What concentration of all
that is sublime in the golden eagle, the
creasted eagle, the imperinl eagle, the
martial eagle, the booted eagle, the Jean
Ie Blanc eagle! But after awhile in its
life comes the molting process, and it
looks ragged and worn and unattractive,
and feels like moping in its nest on the
high crags. But weeks go by and the old
feathers are gone and new ornithological
attire is put on. nnd its beak, which was
overgrown, has the surplus of bone beaten
off against the rocks, and it gets baelt its
old capacity for food, nnd again it mounts
the heavens in unchallenged and bound
less kingdoms of air and light. David,
the author of the text, had watched these
monarchs of the sky, and knew their hab
its, and one day, exulting in his own phy
sical and spiritual rejuvenescence, he says
to his own soul: "You are getting younger
all the time. You make me think of an
eagle which I saw yesterday, just after its
molting season, swinging through the val
ley of .Tehoshanhat and then circling
around the head of Mount Olivet. Omy
soul, 'thy youth is renewed like the
eagle's.' "
The fact is that people get old too fast.
They allow the years to run away with
them. The almanac and the family record
discourage them. Some of you are older
than you have any business to be. You
ought to realize that as the body gets old
er the soul ought to get younger. Coming
on toward old age you" are only in the
molting season, and after that you will
have better wings, take higher flight and
reign in clearer atmosphere. Our religion
bids us to look after the welfare of the
body a.* well as of the soul, and the first
part as well as the latter part of my sub
ject is appropriate for the pulpit.
Many might turn the years backward
and get younger by changing their physi
cal habits, llie simpler life one lives "the
longer he lives. Thomas Parr, of Shrop
shire, England, was a plain man and
worked on a farm for a livelihood. At 120
years of age he was at his daily toil. He
lived under nine kings of Eagland. When
152 years of age he was heard of in Lon
don. The king desired to see him, and or
dered him to the palace, where he was so
richly and royally treated thaf- it de
stroyed his health, and he died .at 152
years and nine months of age.
When Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of the
circulation of the blood, made post mor
tem examination of Thomas Parr, he de
clared there were no. signs of senile decay
in the body. The man must have re
newed his youth, like the eagle, again and
again.
All occupations nnd professions have
afforded illustrations of rejuvenescence.
. l li«>fiier« , e» ihe of medicine, lived
109 years, and among those eminent in the
medical profession who became septuage
narians and octogenarians and nonagena
rians were Darwin, Gall, Boerhaave, Jen
ner and Ruysch, observing themselves the
laws of health that they taught their pa
tients.
In art and literature and science among
those who lived into the eighties were
Plato and Franklin and Carlyle and
Goethe and Buffon and llallcy. Sopho
cles reached the nineties.
You cannot tell how old a man is from
the number of years he has lived. I have
known people actually boyish in their dis-
Eositions at eighty years of age, while
louis 11., King of Hungary, died of old
age at twenty.
Haydn's oratoria. "The Creation." was
composed at seventy years of age. Hum
boldt wrote his immortal work, "The Cos
mos," at seventy-five. William Cullen
Bryant, at eighty-two years of age. in my
house, read without spectacles "Thanatop
sis," which he had composed when eigh
teen years of age. Isocrates did illustrious
work at ninety-four.
Liontinus Gorgias was busy when death
came to him at 107 years of nge. Herschel
at eighty years of age was hard at work
in stellar exploration. Masinissa, king of
Numidia, at ninety years of age, led a vic
torious cavalry charge against the Cartha
genians.
Titian was engaged on his greatest
painting when he died in his one hun
dredth year. How often they must have
renewed their youth!
But the average longevity of those in
private life, and with lrss mental strain
and no conspicuous success, is much larger
than the average longevity of the re
nowned. There are hundreds of thou
sands of men and women now renewing
their youth like the eagle's, so that the
possibility of such a turning back of the
years is all around us being demonstrated.
Bismarck, the greatest of German states
men, a long vwiile before his decease,
passetl his eightieth milestone. When
Gladstone was eighty-three years of age, 1
ran with him up r.ud down the hills of Ma
warden. We started for a walk, but it
got to be a run. All those men again and
again renewed their youth.
Some one writes me, "Is not threescore
nnd ten the bound of human life, accord
ing to the Bible?" My repiy is that Moses
(not David), who wrote that psalm, wus
giving a statistic of his own day.
Through better understanding of the
laws of health and advancement of mcd:>
cal science ine statistics of longevity have
mightily changed since the time of Muses,
ana the day is coining when a nonagena
rian will no longer be a wonder. Phlebot
omy shortened the life of whole genera
tions, and the lancet that liled tor every
thing is now rarely taken from the doc
tor's pocket.
Dentstry has given power of hralthy
mastication to the human race, aud thus
added greatly to the prolongation of life.
Klectric lights have improved human
sight, which used to lie strained by the
dim tallow candle. The dire diseases
which under other names did their fatal
work, and were considered almost incura
ble now in a mujority of rases are con
quered .
Vaccination, which has saved million*
of lives uud balked the greatest scourge
of nations, and surgery, which has ad
vanced more than any other science, huve
done more than can lie told for the prolon
gation ot human life.
The X ray has tinned the human body,
which uas opaque into a lighted castle.
It is easier in this age to renew oue's I
youth than n any other age.
But the body is the smallest and least
important part of you. It is your soul
that most needs rejuvenation, but that
will also h«lp bodily viviliettion In order
to do thu I advise yuu to baiiuh as (at as
possible ail iretluiiuti out of v.iur life.
The doing of that will mal.e vou ti n yt us
younger I know many good. ( hristisit
propwk* ir>- worrying tkemselvas out
in managing the atlairs of the univeise.
They haw undertaken too l> g a job Thev
ars trying to drive too long and tlery a
Usui, ifasy U*v« all lbs allaus vl tkuuh
and atate on band, and they fret abouf
this and fret about that ana frdt about
the other thing. They fear that 'China
will be divided up among the nations and
there will be an entanglement causing
wars such as we have never heard of.
They fear that Edward VII. will not be
as wise a king as his mother was a queen.
They are appalled at the accumulated na
tional debt. They fear society is going to
pieces by reason of immoralities. They
apprehend that America will be over
crowded with foreigners. They say ths
newspapers are getting so bad that this
country is going to be utterlv demoralized.
They are all the time apprehensive of so
cial and religious and political calamines,
and it is telling on their mental health,
depressing their physical health, and, in
stead of renewing their youth like the
eagle's, they are imitating the eagle who
would sit in his nest of sticks lined with
grass on the rock, mourning about the
woes of the ornithological world, the lone
liness of the pelican, the filthincss of tho
vulture, the croak of the raven, the reck
less of the albatross. Would that improve
things? No. It would be a molting pro
cess for that eagle which would never
close, and it would only get thinner and
more gloomy and less able to gain food for
its young and less able to enjoy a land
scape as it appears under a twenty-milo
flight on a summer morning under the
blue heavens.
I do not advise you to be indifferent to
these great questions that pertain to
church and state and nations, hut not to
fret about them. Realize that it is not an
anarchy that has charge of affairs in this
world, hut a divine government. At tho
head of this universe is a King whose eye
is omniscience and whose heart is infinite
love. His covernnient is not going to be
a failure. He cannot be defeated. Better
trust Ilim in the management of this
world and of all worlds. All you and I
have to do is to accomplish the work that
is putin our hands. That is all we hav.
to be responsible for. In a well managed
orchestra the players upon stringed and
wind instruments do not v/at.oh each other
The cornetist does not look to see how
the violinist is drnwin® the bow over tho
strings, nor does the flute player scrutin
ize the drum. They all watch the baton
of the leader. And we are all carryinu
our part, however insignificant it may be.
in the great harmony.
My text suggests that heaven is an eter
nal youth. A cycle of years will not leave
any mark upon the immortal nature.
Eternity will not work upon the soul iq
heaven anv change unless it be more ra
diance and more wisdom and more rap
ture. A rolling on from g'.'Ty to glory!
In anticipation of that some of the hap
Jiiest people on earth are aged Christians
The mightiest testimonies have been (riven
by the veterans in the gosuel army. Whil*
some of the aged have allowed themselves
to become morose and cynical and impa.
tient with youth and pessimistic about th;
world and have become possessed with
the spirit of scold and fault finding. ami
are fearful of being crowded out of theii
sphere many of the aged have been glad
to step aside that others mav have *
chance and are hopeful about the world
expecting its redemption instead of itj
demolition, and they are inspiration anc
comfort and helpfulness to the household
and to the neighborhood and to the
church. The children hail the good old
man as he comes down the road. His
smile, his words, his manner, his whole
life, make the world think better of reli
gion.
What a good thing it is, all ye agod
Christians, that you can soon get rid of
dulled ear and sight that requires strong
ejVffMsses and infirmities which make you
ho!a onto the banister, leaviug you pant
ing at the head of the stairs, and euter a
land of eternal health, where the most ru
bicund cheek of robust life on earth
would be emaciation compared with the
vigor of the immortals. What - u. good
thing to get beyond being misunderstood
and blamed for what you could not help,
and picked at by a hard world, and then
pass into a keavenlv society where all
think well of each other, and friendships
are eternal, depreciation and slander and
backbiting unknown, for the gate of heav
en was shut against them in the state
ment, "Without are dogs." What a good
thing to have satisfying and glorious ex
planation of things that puzzled you
twenty or forty or eighty years, to have
the interrogation point abolished and all
mystery solved and God's government vin-
and you will sec why He allowed
sin and sorrow to come into the world,
and why the bad were permitted to live
so long and the good were cut of! in the
time ot their greatest usefulness, and why
so laany of the consecrated find life a
struggle, v.-hile many of the infamous ride
prosperously, princes afoot and beggars
a horseback, and the last honest question
shall have been answered.
Gibbon in his history says that Moham
med had a dream in which he thought
that, mounted on the horse Borak, he as
cended the seven heavens and approached
within two bow shots of the throne and
felt a cold that pierced him to the heart
when his shoulder was touched by the
hand of God. That might do for Moham
med's heaven, but not for a Christian
heaven. No cold hand put upon your
shoulder there, no cold hand of repulse or
doubt, but the warm hand of welcome, the
warm hand of saintly communion, the
warm hand of God.
I congratulate nil Christians who are in
the eventide. Good cheer to all of you.
Your best davs ure yet to come. You are
yet to hear the best souys, see the grand
est sights, take the most delightful jour
neys, form the moat elevating friendships,
and after 10,000 years of transport vou
will be no nearer the lnat rapture than
when vou were thrilled with the first.
In heaven you will have what most
pleases you. Archbishop l,eighton's de
sire for heaven wus a desire for Christ and
purity and love, and lie has found there
what he wanted. John Foster rejoiced at
the thought of heaven, because there ha
could study the secrets of the universa
without restraint, and he has been legal
nig himself in that search. Southey
thought of heaven as a plaoe where ho
would meet with the lctimed and the
great—Chaucer and Dante and Shakes
peare. He no doubt has found that stvlo
of commuuion. That great aud good Dr.
Dick wus fond of mathematics, and he said
he thought much of the time in heaven
would lie given to that study, nnd t have
no doubt that since ascension he has made
advancement in that science. The "twelve
manner of fruits" spoken of in Revela
tion means all kinds of enjoyment in heav
en, for twelve maimer of fruits includes
all the chief fruits that are grown on
trees. I nuppose there will be us many
kinds of enjoyment as there will be in
habitants.
Vou will have in heaven just what you
want. Are you tired' Then heaven will
be test. Are you passionately fond of
sweet sounds* Then it will be music. Are
vou stirred by pictures* There will be all
the color* on the new heavens, on the j.is
per tea, and the walls imbedded with what
splendors! Are you fond of great archi
tecture? There you will find the temple
•>f Dud ami the Lamb and the uplifted
thrones. Are you longing to get back to
vour loved ones who have ascended? Then
it will be reunion. Are you • home body?
'1 hen it will lie home. I It-re and there in
this world you will tirnl Home one who now
lives where he was born, and three or
four generations may have dwelt in the
same house, but most people have had
several homes the home of childhood, th#
hoine they buiU or tented for their early
manhood, the home of it|«r and more
prosperous years, lint all homes put to*
■ether, praoinu* as they are in rum
luauce, or from pr««-iit on upaiicy, can
not equal the h .ivi'ily home in tin* house
of many niausifil. N«» • t i kni«* will ever
come tin re.for it is promised lucre shall
i*> lie more pitta. ' So psrtiug at the
front door, no last louk at fact* never to
lie <ll-11 again but home with tied, Uutue
with ink utln-r, TUUTE, IUIIKI,
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
What Can a Boy Do? The Economlo
Side of the Drink Question Shown In
a Way to Convince the Moat Skeptical
of Its Evil Influence.
Oh, think, what can a boy do?
What use am I at all?
A noisy boy from morn till night!
Yet even I can help the right,
And make some other pathway bright.
Although I'm only small.
Oh. think, what can a boy do?
Well, now, I'll try to tell—
If but a humble task be mine,
In household labor to combine,
The boots and shoes to black and shine,
I'll clean them, oh, so well!
Oh, think, what can a boy do?
Now don't despise a boy,
He'll clean the knives and windows, 100.
Your errands he will run for you,
With willing feet and spirit true,
He's mother's pride and joy!
Oh, think, what can a boy do?
Here in the temperance band.
To help the free to tight the foe,
To lay the cruel tyrant low.
And Freedom's banner far to show,
A soldier he can stand!
Oh, think, what can a boy do?
When tempted, even I,
By Heaven's help, can still refuse
The drons of fire and woe to use,
And sparkling water I can choose,
With purpose brave and high.
Oh, think, what can a boy do? .
Life's battle he can win;
For Jesus, once a boy below,
Will help us one and all we know,
The powers of wrong to overthrow,
And conquer self and sin.
—M. S. H., in the Temperance Banner.
In a Nutshell.
Suppose four farmers came into town,
each with S3O in his pocket. One goes to
a dry goods store, one to a hardware store,
one to a boot and shoe store, and the
other to a saloon, and each spends hi*
money in the place he visits.
After two weeks I come to you and say:
"Let us go and see those producers; see
what they have received for the money
they gave those non-producers." Wo
drive to the home of the man who spent
his ironey at the dry goods store. "What
did you get?" "Do you see that dres#
which Neilie is wearing and the coat that
Tom has on? Well, I gave the merchant
¥3O, and he gave me in exchange these
things. He is better off; we are beUei
off." Exchange of value; both are bene
fited.
We goto the man who traded at the
hardware store, and we say: "What did
you receive?" "Do you see the stove, and
the axe, and those kettles?" "Yes."
"Well, 1 gave him S3O, he gave me these,
We are better off; he is better off."
We goto the man who spfcnt his money
at the boot and shoe store. "What did
you receive for the money you paid?''
You see these boots which I am wearing
and the shoes Nellie has on, and the boot*
that Will, Dick and Harry and the res|
are wearing? I gave that merchant ?3C
for them. We needed the boots and
shoes, he needed the money, so we
traded." An exchange of value; both are
benefited.
Now we goto the man who spent th«
S3O in the saloon and say to him: "Sir.
you paid that non-producer S3O. What did
you get bafck?" "Come hecv and 112 wil.
show you." Will he say that? No; h«
will hang his head and say: "I got this
flaming nose, these bleared eyes, and
have been sick ever since."
"My farmer friend, would you not liavs
been better off if you had put the S3O iq
the fire and burned it, and never had gon«
to the drinking place at all? Yes, becaust
you would have had a clear head, hard
muscles, and could have gone to work al
once and produced more wealth to lak<
| the place of that destroyed. The liquoi
j dealers took your money and unfitted
your brain and muscles for the productioß
of more wealth."
How to Stop Urinkinff.
• William l'enn's keen understanding rraj
I often directed toward drunkenness. "Al|
I excess is ill," he wrote, "but drunkenness
I is of the worst sort. In fine, he that is
drunk is not a man, because he is so long
I void of reason, that distinguishes a man
l from a beast."
But if Penn was the living spirit ol
! aphorism he also knew when and liovv tq
j apply his maxims. Given a drunkard, h<
I could treat his case in a characteristic yei
j plain ancWreasoiiable way.
He was once advising a man to leave ofl
I his habit of drinking intoxicating liquors.
| "Can you tell rue how to do it?" said
I the slave of the appetite.
| "Yes." answered l'enn. "It is just a»
j easy as to open thy hand, friend."
"Convince me of that, and 1 will pronv
ise upon my honor to do as you tell me."
"Well, my friend," said the great Qua
ker, "when thou findest any vessel of im
toxicating liquor in thy hand, open the
hand that grasps it befora it reaches thy
j mouth, and thou wilt never be drunk
again."—Short Stories.
Self-Control.
A man who lately came over from Amer
ica told the writer that on board the
steamer one of the passengers went up to
t another in the smoking room and asked
! him to have a drink with hiin. The man
i thus invited continued reading a news
paper anil made no reply. The other man
again asked him to drink with him. No
answer again. A third invitation was then
given in these words: "Sir, I have asked
you in as friendly a way as possible to
drink with me, and each time you went
on with your reading, and had' not the
civility to answer me. Now 1 ask you for
the third time if you will drink wine,
whisky or anything el* with me?" The
man then put aside his paper and an
swered very quietly: "Do you see that
glass, sir? Well, if 1 were to take even a
quarter of it, I could not leave off until I
had drunk all the liquor on board. This is
why 1 would not drink with you." All
present admired the ruau's self-control,
and learned a striking lesson on the dan
ger of putting temptation in a brother's
way. Tne Quiver.
A Successful bis pertinent.
The good condition and good behavior
of the troops hi South Africa is recog
nized as largely due to the fact that they
have had no strong drink. General Kelly,
L. A. U , said lately lo a newspaper cor
respondent: "This campaign | in< been run
entirely on teetotal principles, and tile en
iieiuuent has proved woudvri'ully suivesß
ful "
Tlie Cruaa.l* In tlrtef.
Corkscrews hive laimk moie people thin
cork j.i Wets will ever safe.
There never was a surer way to get
l>ehiiid tha bars than to stand too iuuiU
In front of them
la-gihlalion a»ain«t drunkenness in lie!
(mm dates from IW7 It deals with lb*
nun! ml uisordei'y. supplying liquor to
a drunken pel sou or to a child under six
'em.
Honolulu is soon t > 1m the scene of an
tetiVe ItMPNUM in. ile led tw the
Woman's Christian Tiuiperuue I'mou
lli advance guard of trusaJel* has just