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
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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
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r. w. m. a. ana's svai. s, a ant. u-
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L A w"a lur rrl. ea. JSK elkltliKn
i m l(t). t'mrlee St .IIai timuih, Mu.
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I I Beat t:uun or run. 'i i
Id lT rtruurtnf.
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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
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