MAN HAS ALION TO FIGHT Dr. Tilmojc Says Vha Coaleadln. Aalnst An Evil HabM Von Stand In Clrclo of Sympathy. Cloud ot Wltnomi "BleMtd Aro They Wlio Put Tbrlr Trnst la Him." Washington, D. C This discourse of Dr. Tnlmnge is full of Inspiring thought for those who, find life struRiile, and shows that we have many eelrstinl sym pathizers; texts, Hebrews xii, 1, "Peeing we also ore compassed about with o great a cloud of witnesses;" I Corinthian xv, 32, "1 have fought with beasts at Ephcsus." ..... Crossthft the Alps by the Mont Cenii pass or through the Mont Cenis tunnel, you ore in a few hours set down at Vero na, Italy, and in a few minute begin ex amining one of the grandest ruins of the world, the ' Amphitheatre. The whole building sweeps around you in a circ.e. You stand in the arena where the combat was once fought or the race run, and on all sides the seats rise, tier above tier, un til you count forty elevations or galleries, as I shall see fit to call them, in which sat the Senators, the kings and the 25,000 ex cited spectators. At the sides oi the arena and under the galleries are the cages in which the lions and tigers are kept with out food until, frenzied with hunger and th.rst, they ore let out upon some poor victim, who, with his sword and alone, is condemned to meet tbem. I think that Paul himself once stood in such a place, and that it was not only figuratively, but literally, that he had "fought with beasts at Kphcsys," The gala day has come. From all the world the people nre pouring into' Verona. Men, women and children, orators and Senators, great men and small, thousands upfr" thousands come, until the first gal lery is full, and the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth all the way up to the twentieth, all the way up to the thirtieth, all the way up to the fortieth. Every place is filled. Immensity of audience sweeping the great circle. Silence. The time for the contest has come. A Itoman. official lends forth the victim into the arena. Let him get his sword with firm grip into his right hand. The 2.1,000 sit breathlessly watch, ing. I hear the door at the side of the arena creak open. Out plunges the half (starved lion,' his tongue athirst for blood, and with a roar that brings all the galler ies to their feet he rushes against the sword of the combatant. Do you know how strong a stroke a man will strike When his life depends upon the first thrust of his blade? The wild beast, lame and bleeding, slinks hack toward the side of the arena i then rallving his wasted strength he comes up with fiercer eye and more terrible roar than ever, only to be driven back with a fatal wound, while the combatant comes in with stroke after stroke until the monster is dead at his feet, and the 2o,000 clap their hands and Utter a shout that makes the city tremble. riometimes the audience came to see a (ace; sometimes to see gladiators fight each tther, until the people, compassionate for 4he fallen, turned their thumbs up as on appeal that the vanquished be (pared, and sometimes the combat was with wild beasts. To one of the Itoman ampliitheatrieal audiences of 100.000 people Paul refers when he says, "We nre compassed about With so great a cloud of witnesses." The direct reference in the last passage is made to a race; but oleewherc having discussed that, I take now Paul's favorite idea of the Christian life as a combat. The fact is that every Christian man liau a- lion to fight. Yours is a bad temper. The gates of the arena have been opened, and this tiger has come out to destroy your soul. It haa lacerated you with- many a wound. You have been thrown by it time and again, but in the strength of God you havo arisen to drive it buck. I verily be lieve you will conquer. I think that the temptation is getting weaker and weaker. You have g'ven it so many wounds that the prospect is that it will die, and you shall be victor, through Christ. Courage, brotherf Do not let the sands of the arena drink the blood of your soul! Your lion is the passion for strong drinl:. You may have contended against it for twenty years, but it is strong of body and thirsty of tongue. You have tried to light jt back with broken bottle or empty wine flask. Nay, that is not the weapon. With one horrible roar he will seize thee by the throat and rend thee limb from limb, 'fake this wcaoon, sharp and keen reach up and pet it from flod's armory the sword of the Spirit. With that thou may tst drive him back and conquer! But why specify when every man and woman has a lion to (ight? If there be one hero who lias no besetting sin, let him speak out, for him have I offended. If you have not fought the lion, it is beennse you have let the lion eat you up. This Very moment the contest goes on..- Tho Trajan celebration, where 10,000 gladiators fought and 11,000 wild beasts were slain, was not so terrific a struggle as that which at this moment goes on in many a soul. The combat was for the life of the body; this is for the lifo of the soul. That waa with wild beasts from the jungle; this is with the roaring lion of hell. Men think, when thev contend against an evil habit, that they have to fight it all alone. Not They stand in the centre of an immense circle of sympathy. Paul had been reciting the names of Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Farah, Isaac, Joseph, Gideon and Barak und then says, "Being compassed about with so great a cloud of Witnesses." Before I get through I will show you that you fight in an arena, around which circle, in galleries above each other, all the kindling eyes and all the sympathetic hearts of the ages, ond at every victory gained thero comes down the thundering applause of a great multitude that no man can number. "Being compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses." On the first elevation of the ancient am phitheatre, on the day of a celebration, vat Tilierjus or Augustus or the reigning king. So iu the great arena of spectators that watch our struggles and in the first divine gallery, as I shall call it, sits our King, one .lesus. On ilia head are many crowns. The Roman emperor got his place by cold blooded conquests, nut our King hath come to His place by the bro ken hearts healed and the tears wiped away and the souls redeemed. The Ro man emperor sat, with folded arms, indif ferent as to whether the swordsman or the lion beat, but our King's sympathies aro all with r.s nay, ujheard of conde scension! I see Him come down from ' the gallery into the arena to help us in the fight, shouting until all up and down His voieo is heard: "Fear not! I will help thee! I will strengthen thee by the right hand of My power!" They gave to the men in the arena In the ol-Jen time food to thicken their blood, so thai it would flow slowly and that for a longer time the people might gloat over the scene. But our King has no pleasure in our wounds, for we are bono of His bone, flesh of His flesh, blood of His blood. In nil the anguish of our heart The Mait of Borrows bore a part. Once in the ancient aninhithcatre a linn with one paw caught the combatant's word and with his other paw caught his shield. The man took his knifo t'rnm bis gudle and slew the beast. The king, sit ting in the gallery, said: "That was not fair. The lion must be slain by a sword." Other lions were turned out, und the )oor victim fell. You cry, "Shame! shame!" at such meanness. But the King in this case uur orotner, ana Jie will see tnat wa nave fair play. He will forbid the rushing ou' f more iions than wa can meet. He will not suffer us to be tempted above that w are able. Thank God! The King is in the gallery! His eyes are on us. His heart I'm '" His hand will deliver u.. llim ""U aro they who put their trust in I look again and I aee the gallery of the """tyre. Who is that? Hugh Latimer, jure enough! He would not apologia for .,' kVt"! Poached, and so ha died, the uignt before swinging from the bedpost in penect glee t the thought of emancipo !onV,VY' is that army of BftflOf They aro the iheban legion who died for the faith. ilVZJ? 4 !rger host in magnificent array, bMI.OOO, who perished for Christ in the persecutions of Diocletian. Yonder is a tamily group. Kelicitas, of Rome, and her ttuirc.. VMh thf- jvc- !u; Jot ilia fnifTT'ana stone) encournmnff them. One f son waa whipped to death by thorns; an othet was flung from a rock: another was beheaded. At last the mother became a martyr. There they ore together, a family group in ncaven: xonoer is jonn nraa ford, who said in the fire, "We shall hove a merry suprer wun me iora io-nignu fce died, "If I had ten heads, they should Ynmier 13 lienrv vocs. wno excaimeu as all fall oil for Lhnsll J he great throng of the martyrs! They had hot lead poured down their throats; horses were fastened to their hands and other horses to t'teir feet, and thus they were pulled apart; thev had their tongues nulled out by red- hot pincers; they were sewed up in the PKiria-ut animals niiu men imuwii iu mo doia: thev were daubed with combustibles nnd set on fire! If all the martyrs' stakes that have been kindled could be set nt proper distances they would mnko the mid light all tho world over bright as noon day! And now they sit yonder in the mar tyrs' gallery. For them the fires of persecution have gone out: the swords are sheathed and the mob hushed. Now they watch us with on all objerving sympathy. They know all the pain, nil the hardship, nil the anguish, all the injustice, ull the privation. They cannot V.eoi) r.till. They cry: "Courage! The (ire will not consume; the floods can not drown; the lions cannot devour. C'our go down there in the nre. in!" What? Are they all looking? This hour we answer back the salutation they give and cry, "Hail, sons and daughters of the Ore',". I look again and I see another gallery that of eminent Christians. What strikes ne atrangely is the mixing i:i companion ship of tho?e who on earth could not agree. inero is Alhert Jiames nn.l around lum t.i HCBijieiy who triea mm ior ncicro tloxyl Yonder arc Lyman Beecher and the church court that denounced him! Stranger than all, there are John Calvin and James Amiinius! Who would have thought that they would sit so lovingly to gether? There ore George Whitc;ieM and the minister who would not let him come into their pulpit because they thought him ft fanatic. There are the sweet sing er Toplady, Montgomery, Charles Wes ley, Isaac Watts and Mrs. (Sigoumcy. If heaven had had no i.juic before they went lip, they would have started the singing. And there the band of missionaries David Abcel, talking of Cliinu redeemed; and John ricuilder, of India saved; und D.ivid Biaincid, of the aborigines evan gelized; and Mrs. Adomrnm Judson, whose prayers for Burma took heaven by violence! All these Christians are looking into the mcnit. Our struggle is nothing to theirs? Do wc in Christ's cause stiller from the cold? They walked Greenland's icy mountains. Do wc suffer from the heat? They sweltered in tropica. Do we get fatigued? They fainted, with none to care for them but cannibals. Are we per secuted? They were anathematized. And as they look from their gallery und sec us faller in the presence of the lions I seem to hear Isr.nc Watts addressing v.t iu his o'.d hymn, only a little changed: Must yo-.i be curried to the ekiej On flowery beds of ease Yv'hile others fought to win the priza Or railed through bloody seus? Toplady shouts in his old hymn: Your harps, ye trembling saints, Down from the willows take; Loud to tha plaice of lovo divine Bid every string awake. While Charles Wesley, the Methodist, break'! forth in words a little varied: " A charge to keep you have, A God to glorify, 'A never dying soul to euve , And fit it for the sky! T look again und I see tho gullery of our departed. Many of those in tho othtr galleries we have heard of, but these we knew. Oh, how familiar their facas! They sat at our tables, and wc walked to the house of God in company. Have they for gotten us? Those fathers ond mothers started us on the road of life. Are they careless us to what becomes of us? And those children do they look with stolid indifference as to whether we win or lose this bnttle of life? They remember the day they left us. They remember the agony of the last farewell. Thouph years in heaven, they know our faces. They re member our sorrow. They speak out nanus. They watch this fight for heaven. Nay, I see them rise up and lean over and wave before us their recognition and en couragement. That galleiy is not full. They nre keeping places fur us. After we have slain the lion they expect the King to call us, raying, "Come up higher!" Between the hot struggles iu the arena I wipe the sweat from my brow and stand on tiptoe, reaching up my light hand tc clasp theirs in rapturous handshaking, while their voices come ringing down from the gallery, crying, "lie thou faithful unto death, and you shall have a crown!" But here 1 pause, overwhelmed with the maje3iy nnd the joy of the scene! Gallery of the King! Gallery of angels! Gallery of prophets and apostles! Gullery of mar tyrs! Gallery of saints! Gallery of friends und kindred! O majestic circles of light and love! Throngs, throngs, throngs! How shall we stand the gaze of the uni verse? Myriads of eyes beaming on us! Myriads of hearts beating in sympathy foi us! ' How shall we ever dure to sin again? How shall we ever become discouraged again? How shall wo ever feel lonely again? With God for us and iingcls for ill and prophets and apostles for us and the great souls of the ages for us and our glo rified kindred for us shall we give up the tight and die? No, Son of God, who didst die to save us! No, ye angels, whose winj are spread forth to shelter us! No. ye prophets and apostles, whose warning! startle us! No, ye loved ones, whose arm are outstretched to receive us! No; we will never surrender! (Sure I must fight if I would reign, Be faithful to my Lord, And bear tho cross, endure the pain, Supported by Thy word. Thv saints in all this glorious war Shall conquer tho igh they die; They see the triumph from afar And seize it with their eye. When that illustrious day shall rise And ull Thin armies shine In robes of victory through the skies, The glory shall be Thine. My hearers, shall we dio in the arena or rise to join our friends in the gallery? Through Christ we may come off more than conquerors. A soldier dying in -the hospi tal rose up in bed the last moment and cried. "Here, here!" His attendants put him back on his pillow ond asked him why lie shouted "Here!" "Oh, I heard the roll cull of heaven, und I was only answering to my name!" I wonder whether after this battle of this life is over our names will be culled in the muster roll of the pardoned and glorified and, with the joy of heaven breaking upon our souls, shall cry, "IIcre,v hero!" (Conyrlflit, IMS, L. XlopxM Did lbs Shark Kat a Cow T In the stomach of a shark recently caught at Lukovo were found, among other things, It Is said, a pair of trous ers, a cow boll and a shoe. Probably any one who should hold that these exhibits ere prima facie that this thark at least swallowed a man would receive the rejoinder from our expert aquarium friends, who assert that there Is no such thing as a ma'n-eatlng shark, that they prove just as much that the aforesaid shark would, could or did swallow a cow, for certainly, we can bear them argue, It Is as reason able to claim' that this flub, did not swallow the cow bell without swallow ing a cow, aa that In swallowing a pair ot trousers and an old shoe It necessarily must have swallowed a man or two, too. Fishing Gazette. Collection (or Frlacotoav' Princeton University la soon to re ceive, from Professor D. Wilson, a col lection of Syrlao manuscripts Bald to be the largest and most valuable ever made by a private Individual. Many of the document date from the reign of the Emperor Constantino, 1H SABBATH SCHOOL Interoaliaail Lesson Comments For March 2. S)cf: Tha SionJof of Sttphta, Acts l' Si; vliL, 2 Ooldea Text, Malt, v., M-Mea orjr Verses, M, M Consultary oi lfceDay'i Leisoo. M. "When they heard."' It is disputed whether the speech wa finished or not. His abruptness in closing and the anger of the Jews at that moment render it prob able that he wa interrupted. "Cut to the heart." Literally, they were snwn through, or asunder. A figurative expres sion for being greatly enraged. "Gnashed on him." They were filled with rage and thirsted for his blond, fS". - "B?,ing full." The Greek "being full" implies, not a sudden inspiration but a permanent state. "The Holy Ghost." While his hearers yielded more and more to their violent passions, and were filled with a carnal lire, and indeed with a spirit from the bottomless pit, the soul of this faithful witness was filled, by the grace of God, with a heavenly tire. "Looked up." Wo would sec more heav enly visions if we would "look up" oft ener. "Steadfastly." Fixed his eyes in tently. Their ravings did not distract him. "Into heaven. The question has been asked how he could see into heaven from that council chamber, but wc should remember that the Spirit revealed to him this scene in heaven. The cvo of faith eon see heaven from any spot on earth. Moses beheld it from the land of Kgypt (lleb. 11: 27). Isaiah from the temple (Isa. 6: 1). Kzekiel from the bank of the Che bar (lizek. 1: 1). l'etcr from the hnpse top (Act 10: 11), John from Batinos. Ucv. 4: 1. "And saw." There i no inrlelinitc ncss about this statement. "The glory of God." Saw the Shekinah, for with the Jew the "glory" and the "Shekinah" are similar terms. It was some visible mani festation of the divine splendor, such as Moses saw on Horob and Kzekiel at Chc bor. It first filled the tabernacle and af terward the temple, and shone round the shepherds, and appeared to the apostles upon Hernion. And Jesus." lie was permitted to see Jesus triumphing- in the flesh in which He had been crueilied. He saw Jesus "in His oflicial character as mediator between God and man." "Stand ing." In other places Jesus is represented n sitting on tho right hand of God (see Matt. 2C; 64), but here Stephen sees Him standing. He arose to show the great in terest with which He watched His dis tressed servant and to pour glory and blessing into his soul until it shone out from his very countenance. "The right hand." Christ was exalted to a place of honor ond power. fifl. "Heavens opened." A figurative ex pression denoting that he was permitted to see into heaven, as if the eye was per mitted to penetrate the eternal world. "Son of man." This is the only lime that our Lord is by human lips culled the Son of man after His ascension. And why here? Stephen speaking by the Spirit is led to repeat the very words in which Jesus Himself, before this same council, had foretold His glorification. See Matt. 26: 64. This would tend to exasperate them still more. They are now told that He whom they had crucified was exalted to the right hand of God. 67. "Cried out." Among other things, perhaps, that he should be silent or that he should be put to death. "Stopped their cars." As a proof that he had uttered blasphemy, because he saw Jesus standing on the right hand of God. Fearful proof against them; for if Jesus was at the right hand of God, then they had murdered un innocent person, and God's justice must speedily avenge His death. "And rushed upon him" (K. V.) This was the act of a mob. Under the Reman law the Jew hud no authority to inflict capital punish ment. ' In this case they did not wait to take the legal course, but before any sen tence' was pronounced rushed him to hii death. 58. "Out of the city." According to the law of Moses. Lev. 24: 14. The person to be stoned was required to be carried with out the camp. "Stoned him." The per son to be stoned was placed on an eleva tion twice the height of a man, from whence with his hand bound he wo thrown down and then a stone as much as two men could carry was rolled down upon him by the witnesses, after which all the people present cast stones upon him. lAn old tradition place the scene outside the Damascus sate, near where Christ was crucified. "The witnesses." The false witnesses who had accused Stephen of blasphemy. "Laid down their clothes." 'According to Moses' law (Deut. 17: 6, 7) ,the witnesses were required to cast the ',rst stone, probably to prevent any care less or unjust shedding of blood, and be fore they entered upon their murderous work they laid off their outer garments. ."At feet!" They put their garments here for safe keeping. "Whose nania was Saul." This i the first mention of the one who was afterward the great apobtle of the Gentiles. 69. "Receive my spirit." They stoned him while he was praying. This to the identical prayer that Christ Himself had offered on the cross. Here is clear proof that it is proper to offer prayer to Jesus Christ. This place affords a full proof of the immateriality of the soul, for he could not have commended his spirit to Christ had he believed that he had no spirit, or iu other words that his body and soul were one and the same thing. 80. "Kneeled down. A good position in which to pray or to die. "Cried." If Stephen had not prayed the church would not havo had Paul. "Lay not." Weigh not, reckon not, place it not in thy bal ance against them. The best will and tes tament of the Christian is that which commends: 1. The soul to heaven. 2. The body to earth. 3. Friends to the divine protection, 4. Enemies to divine compas sion. "To their charge." Comparing this with nearly the same request of his dying Lord it will be seen how very richly this martyr of Jesus had drunk into his Mas ter's spirit in its . divinest form. "Fell asleep. He died. "But sleep implies an awakening." His spirit was welcomed into heaven and his body sleeps until the resurrection. 1. "Saul was consenting." So terrible waa the hatred which this man bore to Christ and His followers that he delighted in their destruction. "A great persecu tion." As the rulers had caused the death of Stephen, without exciting an in surrection of the people or the resentment of the governor, they ventured to carry on the persecution with increasing violence. 2. "Devout men." Pious Jews. "To his burial." They did not hesitate to give an honorable burial to a man of whose inno cence and godliness tlieyiwere convinced, "Great lamentation." They engaged in a solemn mourning for him. This is evi dence that Stephen was not condemned by the Sunhedrin, for public lamentation was never made over a condemned person. A lie rlpersl Ing Egg Undreanied-f luxuries are being thowored upon ub thick and fast In thesw opoaing years of the twentieth century. "One of the most unique of recent inventions is a refrigerating egg." says Cold Storage. "It Is a cap sule of nlckel-platod copper ot the size and shape of a hen's egg. It la hollow and nearly filled with water. Being placed In a freezing mixture, its con tents In a short time become Ice. If you iave a glass of milk that la not cold enough and you object to putting Ice Into It on account of the addition of water to the beverage, and you have one of these eggs at hand, -you may drop It Into the glass and In a few momenta the liquid la reduced to the desired temperature. In tho same way, If you desire to cool your cup ot coffee and are too high-toned to pour It out Into tha saucer and drink It there from, this little frozen egg will relieve the embarrassment of the situation. This tame Idea 1b applluubla to any other drink.' cu.-. . Tflfi GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Foeint The Tippler's Vow Urlnk and Crime as Viewed by tlia Twelve City Magistrates of Mew York Liquor tic sponslbl For Most Case. I vow to drink no more, for well I know The more I drink the thirstier I grow; And he who drinks to know, too late be ienrns ' The fire he quenches most the more it burns. This bottled stream has wet so many lip That were not dry in speech nor used to sips; Has made so many cheeks unwilling show The rose that ever keeps them blushing so! Look wise and shnkc your pretty head at fact? To play the fool so would the wisest act; Sweets of the twining vine, as sure as late Make loving woman too affectionate. Wine makes a man. his fancy for the fact, Believe he owns the earth, his wealth in tact. Here, beggar, take another sip nnd be For one brief hour a millionaire with me. I've owned the earth; and I did pay for it (The gain of pleasure mine) with shallow wit; And that same earth, the rent last falling due I've sold for an old story told anew. Just one more drink? Alas, that just one more Has been how many thousand times be ' fore? I break the glass that hold the crimson blush "Of him who first taught man the grape to crush. ;., Lee Fail-child. Drink and Crime. The Defender. New York, recently sent to the twelve city magistrates the follow ing question: "To what extent does the use of liquor operate as the inspiration or cause of of fenses to the best of your knowledge and belief?" Hero aro the answers received from the magistrates who favored with a reply: Magistrate Mott: "Almost universal cause of crime." Magistrate Flammcr: "Liquor in most rases is the cause or aggravates the situa tion." Magistrate Olinstead: "The abuse of liquor i the cause of a large proportion of minor offenses." Magistrate Duel: "From fifty-five to Magistrate Crane: "To a crrat extent To my mind three-quarters of the offenses charged against prisoners brought to our courts come trom the use ot lmuor. Magistrate Mayo: "To the best of my knowledge and belief the use of liquor op erates as the inspiration or cause of the above specified offenses to the extent of about two-thirds of tbem. Magistrate Zeller: "In my opinion liquor operates only as tho inspiration or cause lor disorderly conduct, and this is mostly the ease with the male offender. Mv ob servation on the bench leads me to believe that liquor has been the cause of a limited number of crimes, and these crimes heine only misdemeanors, viz., assault or disor derly conduct. Ut course there are excep tions to the rule, but I say these exceptions are the rarest occurrence. J mav sav that drunkenness on the part of women is rather increasing, and with few exceptions when a woman is arraigned tor intoxica tion she is also charged with disorderly conduct, which is not the case with a man. Magistrate Mend: "To a -cry large ex tent. Probably ninety per cent." Don't Langh. How often have you seen a drunken man stagger along the street? His clothes are soiled from fulling, his face is bruised, his eyes are dull. Some times he curses the boys that tease linn Sometimes he tries to smile, in a drunken effort to placate pitiless, childish cruelty. His body, worn out. can stand no more, and lie muuiules that be is going home. Tho children persecute him, throw things at him, laugh at him, running ahead ot him. Grown men ond women, too, often laugh with the children, nudge each other, and actually find humor in the sight of n hu man being sunk below the lowest animal. . The uight of a drunken mun going home should make every other man nnd woman sad nnd sympathetic, and, horrible as the sight is. it should be useful, by inspiring. in who see it, a resolution to avoid und to hell) others avoid that man s fate. That reeling drunkard is going home. He is going home to children who arc afraid of him. to a wife whose life he has made miserable. Ho is going home, taking with him the worst curse in the world to suffer bitter remorse himself after having inflicted suf fering on those whom lie should protect. And as he coes home men and women knowing what the homecoming means, laugh nt nun and enjoy the eight. In the old days in the arena it occasion ally happened that brothers were set to fight each other. When they refused to fight they were forced to it by red-hot irons applied to their backs. We have progressed beyond the moral condition of human beings guilty of such brutality n that. But we cannot call our selves civilized while our imaginations nnd sympathies are so dull that the reeling drunkard is thought a funny spectacle. cw York Journal. Alcohol and Crime. The warden of the Allegheny (Penn.) county prison board says in his report that during the twelve months ending Decem ber 31, 1000, there were received 91S2 pris oners as against t4U the nrevious year. Tho jail physician Buys that ninety-five per cent, of those committed were under hi rare for alcoholism, nnd out of 6727 who were summarily convicted there was not ono who was not a victim of the alcohol habit. Still there are people who look upon the saloon Business a necessary to mum cipal prosperity. Such ignorance is bound to be banished by the brighter light of the Mvcntietn century. Need of a IlevWal. Whilo the average Frenchman drinks 31.6 gallons of wine and beer, the liriton 32.1 and the Herman 2U. the American drink but 13.6 gallons, and he drinks but a little more than half us much distilled spirits as either the i'renclimsn or the Uernian. Au wonder that a temperance revival has been well started in r.uropc. Directory of Habitual Drunkards. At a mass meeting held in Exeter Hall. London, General Booth, the leader of the Salvution Army, inaugurated u special tem perance campaign as u feature of the work of the Salvation Army during the present year. General Booth said he relied confi dently upon the co-operation of saloon keepers in this work, through their indi eating the habitual drunkards, insomuch as the supplying of habitual drunkards with luiuoi- endangered the nub lean s li cense, and that he intended to compile a drunkard's directory in each town, and follow the hubitual drunkards home and reform tbem there. Tho Crusade In Brief, If saloonkeeners would "respect them- selvet" and secure the respect of otlfcrs let them abandon their disreputable business. Dr. Paul (lainier. the French statistician, says juvenile criminality is relatively in creasing, and he attributes the evil to al coholic heredity. After tha horrible wreck of the Islander, which ooat the lives of so manv human beings, it was practically demonstrated that John barleycorn wrecked the ship. The captain of the harnue Max. which waa in collision with tho steamer Walla Walla when she sauk with the los of forty lives, declare that the lookout of tha AValla Walla waa drunk und that no atten tion was puid. to the siguuls oi tuO Mux. Anotlior rolnt of View. GravitvA strntAffrrfl invented to conceal lack of intellect. Wisdom That which is greater than gold, provided it is our wisdom and some other person's gold. lenioer botnet una that at o:ice Rets the best of a man and betrays the worst of him. Sour Grtncs A kind of disagreeable fruit we would rather tarte ourselves than have someone else reach. Argument A device generally em ployed to convince ourselves that we are right. Holiday A thins happily conceived to make us appreciate the rcstfuhiess of work. Itcccntric A term annlicd to those whom we cannot adord to call fools. Smart Set. Expert on Timepiece. It looked like a oo-ccnt clock, except that there was a smooth simplicity of finish, which was deceptive to the eye. And it reposed in n cheap second-hand store with nil sorts of old junk. But the man who had asked to look at it was going over it with a swift and ex ert lye. " ' How much ?"' "Two-fifty," answered the dealer. The man laid down the price and walked off with his purchase carefully tucked tinder his arm. "It is a ship chronometer," said he. Some sailor stole it and sold it. I sup pose, for '.lie price of a few drinks. The dealer evidently thought it a rhcao clock or I would not have got it for the money. It is worth $75, and must have osl $150 when new. On'strlpplno: Trxl-Hnok. 'T'rogress ill so rapid in electrical im- pr:v.emetits," declares a government ex pert, "that the; text books are from five to ten years behind. For the latest im- rovemcnts one loons in the electrical journals and the catalogues of the big manufacturers. For instance, 1 ran across the advertisement of a universal electrical shunt in a late catalogue. A shunt is a device for switchine lrom a current all the electricity not wanted, for instance, in a delicite galvanometer, and the finest niathematic.il calculations have been necessary to regulate the carrying and receiving power of the ;lv.int. 1 his universal shunt will be to electricians one of the most important of recent in ventions, s.nd yet it :s left, for a manu facturer s catalogue to r:vc tlic an- nouncement to the public.'' Mortification. ''Surelv, EJith." txclaimcd the minis ter :o his daughter, vcu arc not gcmiS to attend e chca'ria! perforn-.anc: this evening : 1 e;, :ati:.r. "Slian-.e. I Vr yoi forget ihat this is the penitential ieason : "Oh, no ; that's j:;st it You see; this is an amcteur performance Deafness Caunot Bo Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion ot the ear. There is only one way to cure deaincss, ond that Is ny consti tutlonal remodlcs. Dea fness Is caused by an Inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube Is In humed you have a rumbling sound or imper fect hearing, ond when It Is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the Inflam mation can be taken out and this tube re stored to Its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nino cases out of ten nre caused by catarrh, which Is nothing but an Hummed condition ot tho mu-ous surioce, We will give Ono Hundred Dollurefor any cose of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by null s cntarrn cure, uir- - Bold by Druggists, 73o. Hull's Family Fills aro the best. Janan now possesses the heaviest and finest battleship afloat, the Mikasa, of 15,2U0 tons displacement. Best For the Bowels. No matter what alls you , headache to a can cer. you will never get well until your bowels aro put right. Cascaret help nature, euro you without a gripe or pain, proauce easy natural movements, cost you Just JOoents to start getting your aeuitn dock, jjasoabet Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet lias v. v. c. stumped ou it. iiewure 01 imitations. A girl of sixteen is out to think her soul is yearning for something when what really is the matter with her is that sue s hungry Mother Gray's Bwoet Powders for Children 8uoceesfully used by Mother Gray, nurso In the Children's Home, In Now York. Curo Feverishness. Bad Stomach. Teething Disor ders, move and regulnto tho bowels nnd Dostroy Worms. Over au.uuu testimonials, At all druggists, i5o. Sample mailed Frke, Address Allen 8. Olmsteod, LeI'oy, N. Y. During a busy time the twenty leading hotels in London accommodate about 18,4'X) guests every night. Futxam's Fadeless Dye produces the fast est and brightest colors of any known dyo stun, bold by all druggists. In Algeria the native population has ol most doubled in less than fifty years, rising from 2,307,000 in 1850 to 4,071,000. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness uftor first day' use of Dr. Kline's Groat NerveRestorer.t2 trial bottle and treatise free Dr. It. H. Knur, Ltd., Ml Areh St., Phils., Pa. Out of twenty blind people eleven are men, nine women. Ohio Know Tetterlae. W. O. MoColl, Gronvllle.O., writes: "Iflnd your Tetterlne to bo a marvelously good thing for skin diseases." 50o. a box from J. T. Shuptriuo, Savannah, Ga,, if your drug gist don't keep it. Lord Breadalbane is the owner of the finest vine in Europe. Flso's Cure Is tho best medicine we ever used for all affections of throat ond lungs. Wm. O. Ehoblet, Vonburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1D00. Conquer the conquerable and submit to the inevitable. Colds " I had a terrible cold and could hardly breathe. I then tried Ayer'a Cherry Pectoral, and it gave me Im mediate relief." V. C. Lay ton, Sidell, 111. How will your cough be tonight? Worse, prob ably. For It's first a cold, then a cough, then bron chitis or pneumonia, and at last consumption. Coughs,, always tend downward. Stop this downward tendency by taking Ayer's Cherry Pec toral. Tlu ttusl Us., Mc.'ll. All iratttsls. Ootualt to"' Sootor. If a urs Uks It, tbsa So as h ftM. If as tslf. ,ou not to uk. It, thaa don't tks It. Hs aaons. Lot It with him. We t,rm willing. J.C. AVKUCO.. Low.ll, VMS. Stll-Tkretdlne Sewlni Michlm Knedlil Bd rc nd w wiU m.I ran mpl pw-kir Mttort4 lluukl iutwjUj nwidl- Cy., llw MftWMU ttt., n. I City He nt a "Meter Heater." "This," said a trampy-looking indi vidual, "is what I call a mcter-beatcr. It is an ordinary magnetic coil with a screw base to fasten to an electric light socket, thus." So saying he adjusted it deftly in place on an electric lamp and looked around for further cncorsgcnient. "You now bring the coil into the mag netic field of the meter, thus," and lie held it about three inches from the place where the hands go around ; "and you will observe that the hands of the meter turn backward each time in their flight." That is just what they were doing, and they were buzzing at a tremendous speed at that. "When I began on your meter," said the electrical tramn, "you were in debt to the company for about $16. Inside of five minutes the company will be owing you money. Price two-fifty. No? Some what surprised at you. 1 have been in twenty places today and this is the first one where I haven't made a sale." Between M lilff u A philosopher is a man without feel ings and without regard for the feelings of others. An idealist is like a baby crying for the moon, but it is noticed that n iarge, round biscuit is generally an acceptable substitute. A maker of epigrams is one who seeks to clothe the wit of others in his own anguagc. The result is sometimes called original. Beware of the man who prides himself on his tact and of the woman who says she is logical. 1 he former is dishonest and the latter never employs logic for any good end. A cynic is a man without ambition, since he sneers at things as they are without helping to make them as they should be. A cynic is usually a man whose wife is a pessimist and whose best friend is an optimist. Ucniuscs are abscnt-mmded, whereas common people arc merely careless. Unly a millionaire can risk giving Ins friend a poor cigar. Smart Set. An l-'xplanntlon. Judge Your statement doesn't agree with that of the last witness. Witness That is easily accounted for, your honor, lie's a bigger liar than I am. St. j Jacobs 0il VK1C words familiar throughout the J civilized world, words that stand S for nil that is pure and effective in J medicine. No power on earth has been able to J bar it progress, because it did its op- J pointed work. In every clime and with every people it has worked wonders' in ubeviuting pain. It cures of Hheumnti6m have ap- J proached the miraculous. J Its intrinsic value is the secret of success of its world-wide popularity of its wonderful sale of its con- J stunt growth. Its virtues are stamped on the hearts J of the once crippled and tortured J everywhere never to be effaced while life lasts. Such in brief is ST. JACOBS OIL, the pain killing marvel of the century. i IT ACTS I. IKK MACK'. 1 CONQUERS 1 PAIN. Corn removes from the soil large quantities of Potash. The fertilizer ap plied, must furnish enough Potash, or the land will lose its pro ducing power. Kead carefully our bool:i 00 crop. tent rte. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Natiau St., New York. WHAT IS A SUG.U? IF IT BEARS THIS TRADE MARK tin m& IT IS THE ET WATeapsoos OILED COAT IN THE WORLP. 5y5.B2 jSaiTiru M THt novctiM wumu. TAKE HO 3i CATALOGUES f REE SHOWING PULL LINE Or- ARHENT5 AND MATJ. A. J.TOWER CO., B03T0N. MA35.48 W 1 . 1 ! i: I . 11111, ...j . WM .-. . I MarnunllllVtr. for vinor, frost and drouth resisting i properties, has justly become f Bilious. SUPIHIOB CLUVtR, . u, iuu - U CroiM Print Clover. ... $5 60; 100 Its. M.JO Sunplei Cloer. Timothy sad 0rte esd ftcs'. Ciuior msileJ yat tor t tt. .JOHN A. SALZER llACROSSE.WIS.f Wills Pills Lead the World. An Yon Sick? Bend your nam and P. O. addross to Thi R. B. Willi Utdlolni Ca,. HigerirOWs, Md. riDnDOV 'IW DiscovsaY; ("as J 1 mW W Ci I iiai rellat aaa enrae siorit r .... Book of teatlinoaiOa ead 10 alays treatm.nl r. w. m. a. ana's svai. s, a ant. u- ! r-Vel aail f of Tarrrtew-rlptlnB. Bar. J" "-ai gUSLia totartlon Ouarai.jvMl, L A w"a lur rrl. ea. JSK elkltliKn i m l(t). t'mrlee St .IIai timuih, Mu. lOrTi'ri' I I Beat t:uun or run. 'i i Id lT rtruurtnf. m ymmL MRS. J. LO'DOIIHEll' Was Sick Eight Tears wit Female Trouble and Finally Cured byLydia . l inLham f "Vegetable Compound. "Pbab Ma. I'iskham: I har) never in my life given a testimonial before, but you br.ve done so much for tno that I feel colbd upon to give yow this unsolicited ecy:nowledg;ement of 5W Kwr'ia MRS. JEN'XIE T.. O'DOVXELL, President of Oakland VTomsa's Killing Club, the wonderful curative Talue of Iydi E. rinkliara'R Ycpctnblo Com pound. l'"or eight years I had female trouble, falling of the womb and other complications. During that time I was more or less of an invalid and not much pood for anything1, until one day I found a book in ray hc".l tolling of the cures you could perform. I became interested; I bought a botHe of Lydia K. Plnklmm's Vegetable Com pound und was helped; 1 continued its use and in seven months was cured, and since that time 1 have had perfect health. Thanks, dear Mrs. Pinkham again, for the health I now enjoy." Mrs. Jenkh O'Donskix. 278 East 31st St.. Chicago. Ill tHOOO far fit if ssovt testimonial la not genuine. "Women suffering from any form of female ills can be cured by Lydia K. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound. That's sure. Mrs. Pinkham advises sick wo men free. Address, Lynn, Mass. TNE rttAsoitM V. h. JmukIai wake ami tell more men's $3.00 and $3.60 1 hot than any other two kuaiv ufneturers in tite world. W. I.. Dm.glM f 3.00 and $3.50 shoes placed side by tula with $5.W and U alioeii of otiier uinkda, are found to bo juet aa good. ThfT will outwear two pairs of ordinary ta.oO and f.l.r-0 hoes. ttad of thm bast tathtr&. Including Patent Corona Kid, Corona Colt, and National Kanoart9 Paa l'olr Cyl4 Awj Rlirk ll ta w. i. ixufif4s ee.uu "um &aue ennnot b enuuli It hoe l-y mi at if till, rsini. t'l.tntoafV. iea ai any price. WV. rsini. sTittntoaT f mm" If .' J -, HOTEL EMPIRE, BROADWAY ANB 63d ST., N. Y. CITY. ABSOLUTELY Off MODIRATI FIREPROOF. .. RATES. From arana ranrrmi menon ,, -- Broadway auil tth Are. mtuillae U; - k.u..li OneroMtni any el tna teniae, taaetlia lh Arauue Novated Hallway tVta8l., I l "" Uilimta'D walk to hotel. , ,, Tha Untal Umpire raetenract I. noted for l.e at. calioat sousing, eat -lent aarTl.w one mmWeie arliiaa, Wltlila Ian oilnuloa ol aatueamsul man t.vvvu.g rntraa. All are the Bmaira. tlaad te luiylr l"r Awu-rlptive hvioalata, W. JOHNSON gt'lNN, rrwurieio. HUkHMIh U. U.t. ataxia.. Vela Medal at Batlule a!- ."Wa. MclLllliNWV'3 TA ' ADVERTISE IN THIS f ' PAPER. MIJ. KaOllrted with with Tt. -aa'- 1 , a. a I - , -11 . are. r : 1 SiJi'y,f I B As 'kntisaatBiMLsBMaaMaUa.'.i ByM iUi Bsnraiess Barlef lf) 1 like 'Milfy'j P'rttt.ii; fi.il--. Juia- t:i Tfl hrf iW-1 l.b.l lr w. D... UI 15 I rfJhjS tf'iv'-i aoth Contury Oats. iw ilill'5t 3l from iw iMw kiu.. .r un, liftl ' l'lljlflll Halzer'a ttmtt v. war Mf H ive IjV f TT V '..t-a I. rrodae. fra.t mm ifl -'tji 1 VJ iui. in i). s. . ik-iii. 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