MAN HASAUONTO FIGHT
Dr. Tilnrnge Esys When Cooltodlni Atsinst
An Evil llsbll Yob Stand la
Circle e( Sympathy.
Cloud ol Wltncises "Blessed Are They Wlio
Pat Their Trust la tllm."
' Washinotox, D. C This discourse of
J)r, Tnlmflgc is full of inspiring thoughts
for those who . find life a struggle, end
shows that we hnve many eclrstinl sym
pathizers; texts, Hebrews xii, 1, "Seeing
we also ore compassed about with ao
great a cloud of witnesses;" I Corinthians
xv, Si, "I hove fought with beasts at
Epheeus. . .
trossihg the Alpa liy the Mont Cenis
pass or through the Mont tenia tunnel,
you are in a few hours set down at Vero
na, Italy, and in a few minutes begin ex
amining one of the grandest ruins of the
world, the ' Amphitheatre. The whole
building sweeps around you in a circ.e.
You stnnd in the arena where the combat
was once fought or the race run, and on
all sides the seats rie, tier above tier, un
til you count forty elevations or galleries,
as I shall see fit to call them, in which eat
the Senators, the kings ant) the 23tOOO ex
cited spectators. At the sides of 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 are let out upon some poor
victim, who, with his sword and alone. Is
condemned to meet them. I think that
I'aiil himself once stood in such a place,
and that it was not only figuratively, but
literally, that he had "fought with beasts
at Kphesus,"
The gala lny has come. From all the
world the people are pouring into Verona.
Men, women and children, orators and
Senators, great men and small, thousands
upon 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 Koman 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 nt 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 lile depends upon the first thrust
of l is blade? The wild beast, lame and
bleeding, slinks back toward the side of
the arenaj then rallying 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
pombatant comes in with stroke after
Stroke until the monster is dead nt his
feet, and the 25,000 clap their hands and
utter a shout that makes the city tremble.
Sometimes the audience came to see n
rare; sometimes to see gladiators fight each
tther, until the people, compassionate for
Ihe fallen, turned their thumbs up as an
appeal that the vanquished he tpared, and
sometimes the combat was with wild
beasts.
To one of the fioman nmphithcatrical
audiences of 100.000 people Paul refers
when he says, "We are compassed about
With so great a cloud of witnesses." The
direct reference in the last passage is made
to a race; but elsewhere having discussed
that, I take now Paul's favorite idea of
the Christian life as a combat.
The fact is that every Christian man has
a. lion to fmlit. Yours is a bad temper.
The (rates of the arena have been opened,
and this tiger has come out to destroy your
soul. It has lacerated you with- many a
vvonnd. You have been thrown by it time
and again, but in the streimth of God you
have arisen to drive it back. 1 verny re
lieve yon will conquer. I think that the
temptation Is petting weaker and weaker.
You have given it so many wounds that
the prospect is that it will die, and you
shall be victor, through Christ. Courau'e,
brother! Do not let the sands of the
arena drink the blood of your soul!
Your lion is the passion for otrong drinlr.
You may have contended against it for
twenty years, hut it is otrong of body and
thirsty of tonrue. You have tried to light
it 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.
Take this weanon, sham and keen leach
up and pet it from God's armory the
sword of the Spirit. With that thou may
est drive him back and conquer!
But why specify when every man nnd
woman has a lion to fight? If there be one
liere who has no besetting sin, let him
speak out, for him have I offended. If
you have not fiiuqht the lion, it is because
you have let the lion cat you up. This
very moment the contest goes on..
The Trajan celebration, whero 10,000
gladiatofa fought and 11,000 wild beasts
were slain, was not ao terrific a struggle ae
that which at this moment goes on in many
a soul. The combat was for the life of the
body; this is for the life of the soul. That
was' with wild beasts from the jungle; this
js with the roaring lion of licll.
Men think, when they 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, Sarah, Isaac, Joseph,
Gideon and Barak and 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, and at every victory
gained thero comes down the thundering
applause of a great multitude that no intin
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,
eat Tihemu or Augustus or the reigning
king. So in the great' arena of spectators
that watch our struggles end in the first
divine gallery, as I shall call it, aits our
King, one -lesus. On His head are many
crowns. The Roman emperor got his
place by cold blooded conquests, but our
King hath come to His place by the bro
ken hearts healed and the tears wined
way and the souls redeemed. The Ko
man emperor eat, with folded arms, indif
ferent as to whether the swordsman or
the lion beat, but our King's sympathies
are all with us nay, ugheard 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
voice 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 olden timo food to thicken their blood,
eo that 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 bone of His bone,
flesh of His floi.li, blood of His blood.
In all the anguish of our heart
The Mad of Sorrows bore a part.
Once in the ancient amphitheatre a linn
with one paw caught the combatant's
sword and with his other paw caught his
shield. The man took his knifo from his
girdle and slew the beast. The king, sit
ting in the gallery, said: "That was not
. fuir. The lion must be slain by a sword."
Other lions were turned out, and the ioor
victim fell. You cry, "Shamel shame f" at
such meanness. But the King in this case
is our brother, and He will see that we
have fair play. He will forbid the rushing
out of more iions tl.au we can meet. He
will not suffer us to be tempted above that
we are able. Thank God! The King is in
the gallery I His eyes are on us. His heart
is with us. His hand will deliver u.
"Messed are they who put their trust in
Him."
I look again and I see the gallery of tha
martyrs. Who is that? Hugh Latimer,
sure enough! He would not apologise for
the truth li preached, and so he died, the
Might before swinging from the bedpost in
periect glee at the thought of emancipation-
Who is that army of BttflO? They aro
the Thcban legion who died for the faith.
Here is a larger boat in magnificent array,
881,000, who perished for Christ in the
iiemecuiions or uioclutjan. Yonder is a
family group, Felicitaa, of Rome, and her
V.'Mh iluz wcx Lot ihs
faitlT'sTie stood encouraging them. One f
on was whipped to death by thorns; an
other was flung from a rock: another was
beheaded. At last the mother became a
martyr. Thero they are together, a family
frotip in heaven! Yonder is John Brad
nrrl. who said in the fire. "We shall have
a merry supper with the Lord to-night!"
Yonder h Henry Vocs, who exclaimed as i
rie died, If 1 had ten heads, they should
all fall off for Christ! " The great throng
of the martyrs! They had hot lead poured
down their throats: horses were fastened
to their hands and other horses to t'icir
feet, nd thus they were pulled apart;
they had their tongues pulled out by red
hot pincers; they were sewed np in the
skins-of animals and then thrown to the
doza! thev were daubed with combustible !
and set on fire! If all the martyrs' stakes
that have been kindled could be set at ,
proper distances they would make the mid-
light all the world over bright as noon--'ay!
And now they ait yonder hi the mar
tyrs' gallery.
VrtT (ken flirt flrni ft nrmi I lint. a
gone out; the swords are sheathed and the '
mob hushed. Nov they watch us with an
all observing sympathy. Ihcy know all
the pain, all the hardship, all the anguinh,
all the injustice, all the privation. They
ranuot keep etill. They crv: "Courage!
The lire will not consume; tiie floods can
not drown; the lions cannot devour. Cour
age down there in tho arena!"
Whit? Are they all looking? This hour
we answer back the salutation they give
nnd cry, "Hail, sons and daughters of the
firs!" -n.
I look again and I see another gallery"
that of eminent Christians, What strikes
ne strangely is tho mixing i:i companion
shin of tho?e who on earth could not aurce.
There is Albert Barnes nn.l around him
t.'ie presbytery who tried him for lictero-
I'oxyi onuer are i-.ymti needier ami
the church court that denounced him!
Stratlffer than all. there nrp .Inlin Cnlvin
and dames Arminius! Who would have
thought that they would sit so lovingly to- j
gcther? There are George Whitelicld and i
tne nmii'Hers woo wouiu noi lei nun come
into their pulpits because they thought
him a fanatic. There are the sweet sing
ers Toplady, Montgomery, Charles Wes
ley, Jmiac Watts and Mrs. Signurney, If
heaven had had no rjusic before they went
up, they would have elarted the singing.
And there the bund of nmsiouaritis
David Abcel, talldiiu of China redeemed;
and John Scuddcr, of Iniliu saved; nnd
D.ivid Biaiiicid, of the aborigines evan
gelized; and Mrs. Adomrnin Judson,
whose prayers for Unrnm took heaven by
violence! All thee Christians are looking
into tho menu. Our struggle in nothing to
theirs! Do we in Christ's cause eulVer
from the cold? They walked Greenland's
icy mountains. Do wc surfer from the
heat? They sweltered in tropica. Do we
get fatigued? They fainted, with none to
care for them but cannibals. Are we per.
scented? They were anathematized. And
as they look from their gallery und see us
falter in the presence of the iions I seem
to hear Isr.ac Watts addressing v.s in his
o'.tl hymn, only a little changed:
Must you be carried to the skicj
On flowery beds of caao
While others fought to win the prfea
Or tailed through bloody seas?
Top'.atly shouts in his old hymn:
Your harps, ye trembling saints,
Down from the willows take;
Loud to tho praiec of love divine
Bid every Btring awake.
While Charles Wesley, the Methodist,
breaks forth in words a little varied:
" A charge to keep you have,
A God to glorify,
'A never dying soul to tave ,
And fit it for the sky!
T look again and I see the gallery of our
departed. Many of those in the other
galleries wc have heard of, but these we
knew. Oh, how familiar their faccis! They
sat at our tables, nnd wc walked to the
house of God in company. Have they for
gotten us? Those fathers and mothers
started us on the road ol, lite. Are they
careless as to what becomes of us? And
those children do they look with stolid
indifference as to whether we win or lose
this battle of life? They remember the
day they left us. They remember the
agony of the last farewell. Though years
in heaven, they know our faces. They re.
member our sorrows. They speak out
nanus. They watch this tight for heaven.
Nay, I see them rise up and lean over and
wave before us their recognition and en
roura?ement. That gallery is not full.
They are keeping places for ns. After we
have slain the lion they expect the King
to call us, mying, "Come up higher!"
Between the hot struggles in tho 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, "He thou fnithful unto
death, and you shall have a crown!"
But here pause, overwhelmed with the
majesty and the joy of the scene! Gallery
of the King! Gallery of angels! Gallery
of prophets and apostles! Cillery of mar
tyrs! Gallerv of saints! Gallery of friend
and kindred! O majestic circles of light
nnd love! Throngs, throngs, throngs!
How shall we stand the guzo of the uni
verse? Myriads of eyes beaming on us!
Myriads of hearts beating in sympathy for
us! ' How shall we ever dare to sin again?
How shall we ever become discouraged
again? How shall wo ever feel lonely
again? With God for us and nngels for u
and prophets and apostles for us and the
great souls of the ages for us nnd our glo
rified kindred for us shall we give up the
fight und die? No, Son of God, who didst
die to save us! No, ye angels, whose winjtf
ure 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 the cross, endure the pain,
Supported by Thy word.
Tliv sai.-.te in all this glorious war
Shall Ci-rrjiier though they die;
They see the triumph from afar
And seize it with their eye.
When that illustrious day shall rise
And all Thins armies shins
In robes of victory through the skies,
The glory shall be Thine.
My hearers, Bhall we dio in the arena ot
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 nnd asked him why
lie shouted "Here!" "Oh, I heard the roll
call of heaven, and I was only answering
to my name!" I wonder whether after
this battle of this life is over our names
will be called in the muster roll of the
pardoned and glorified and, with the joy oi
heaven breaking upon our souls, shall cry,
"Here here!"
(Coiiyricut, IMS, h. KlopscB.I
Did the Shark Eat a Cow 1
In the Btomach of a shark recently
caught at Lultovo were found, among
other things, it la said, a pair of trous
ers, a cow bull and a shoe. Probably
any one who should bold 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 man-eating
shark, that they prove Just as much
that the aforesaid shark would, could
or did swallow a cow, tor certainly, we
can hear tbem argue, it is as reason
able to claim that this fish did not
swallow the cow bell without swallow
ing a cow, m that In swallowing a
pair of trousers and an old shoe it
necessarily must have swallowed
man or two, too. Fishing Gazette.
Collection (or Princeton. '
Princeton University Is soon to re
celve, from Professor D, Wilson, a col
lection ot Syrlao manuscripts said to be
the largest and most valuable ever
made by a private individual. Many
ot the documents date from the reign
of the Emperor Constantino.
1H SABBATH SCHOOL
International Lesson Comments For
March 2,
Juaject: Tat Stoning of Sttpbti. Acts ' 54;
vlll. 2-0oldea Text, Matt, f4-Me-orj
Veraea, , tosiBrstsre
Ike "Bay's Lessoa.
64. "When they heard." It is disputed
whether the speech was finished or not.
His abruptness in closing and the anger
of the Jews nt that moment render it prob
able that he was interrupted. "Cut to
the heart." Literally, they were sawn
through, or asunder. A figurative expres
sion for being greatly enraged. "Gnashed
on him," They were rilled with rage and
thirsted for his blood.
fi". ' "Byjng full." The Greek "being
full" implies, not a sudden inspiration
but n permanent state. "The Holy
Ghost." While his hearers yielded more
nnd more to their violent passions, and
were filled with a carnal fire, and indeed
with a spirit from the bottomless pit. the
soul of this faithful witness was filled, by
the grace of Und, with a heavenly fire.
"Looked up." Wo would sec more heav
enly visions if we would "look up" oft
ener. "Steadfastly." Fixed his eyes in
tently. Tlieir - ravings did not distract
him. "Into heaven." The question has
been asked how he could see into heaven
from that council chamber, but we should
remember that the Spirit revealed to him
this scene in heaven. The eye of faith
can see heaven from any spot on earth.
Moses beheld it from the land of Kgypt
(Hcb. 11: 27), Isaiah from the temple (Isa.
6: 1), Kzekiel from the banks of the ('he
bar (lCzek. 1:1), Peter from the hopse top
(Acts 10: 11), John from Patinos. Rev.
4: 1. "And saw." There is no indefinite
ncsa about this statement. "The glory of
God. Saw the Shekinah, for with the
Jews the "glory" and the "Shekinah" are
similar terms. It was some visible mani
festation of the divine splendor, such as
Moscb saw on Horeb and Kzekiel at Che
bar. It first filled the tabernacle and af
terward the temnle. and shone round the
shepherds, and appeared to the apostles
upon Hermon. And Jesus." lie was
permitted to see Jesus triumphing in the
flesh in which He had been crucified. He
saw Jesus "in His official character as
mediator between God and man." "Stand
ing." In other places Jesus is represented
ns 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 llis 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 and power.
86. "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 time that
our Lord is by human lips called 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.
57. "Cried out." Among other things,
perhaps, that he should be silent or that
he should be put to death. "Stopped their
ears." 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 tho right
hand of God, then they had murdered an
innocent person, and God's justice must
speedily avenge His death. And rushed
udoii him" U. V.) This was the act of a
mob. Under the Roman laws the Jews
had no authority to intlict 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 his
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 wns placed on an eleva
tion twice the height of a man, fiom
whence with his hands bound he was
thrown down and then a "tone as much
as two men could carrv was rolled down
upon him by the witnesses, after which all
the people present cast stones upon him.
lAn old tradition places the scene outside
the Damascus gate, near where Christ was
crucified. "The witnesses." The false
witnesses who had accused Stephen of
blasphemy. "Laid down tlieir clothes."
'According to Moses' law (Dcut. 17: 6, 7)
,the witnesses were required to cast the
irst 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 cornients,
."At feetl" They put their garments here
for safe keeping. "Whose nania was Saul."
This is the first mention of the one who
was afterward the great apostle of the
Gentiles.
69. "Receive my spirit." They stoned
him while he was uraying. This ft 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 lie could
not have commended his spirit to Christ
had he believed that he had no spirit, or
in other words that his body and soul were
one and the same thing.
60. "Kneeled down." A good position
in which to pray or to die. "Cried." If
Stephen had not prayed the church would
not have 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. Tho
body to earth. 3. Friends to the divine
protection. 4. Enemies to divine compas
sion. "To tlieir charge." Comparing this
with nearly the same request of his dying
Lord it will be seen bow very richly this
martyr of Jesus had drunk into his Mas
ter's spirit in its.divincst 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 terriblo
was 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 tho
death of Stephen, without exciting an in
surrection of the people or the resentment
of the governor, tuey 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 they were convinced,
"Great lamentation." They encaged in a
solemn mourninc for him. Tins is evi
dence that Stephen was not condemned
by the Sanhedrin, for public lamentation
wua never made over a condemned person.
A Iie:.'rlreratlna; Effs
t'ndreamed-ct luxuries are being
chowored upon us thick and fast in
thesn opcaing 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 nickel-plated copper of the size
end shape of a hen's egg. It Is hollow
and nearly filled with water. Belnj;
placed In a freezing mixture, its con-
tents in a short time become Ice. It
you .have a glass of milk that is not''
cold enough and you object to putting
Ice Into it on account of the addition
of water to the beverage, arid you
have one of these eggs at hand, -yu
may drop It Into the glass and In a
few momenta the liquid Is reduced to
the desired temperature. In the same
way, If you desire to cool your cup of
coffee and are too high-toned to pour It
out Into the saucer and drink It there
from, this little frozen egg will relieve
the embarrassment of the situation.
This same Idea Is applicable to any
I other drink.''
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
rosing The Tlpplair's Vow Drink and
Crime as VUwed by tha Twelve City
Magistrates of New York I.lqnor Ko
sponsible For Most Cases.
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 he
iearns '
The fire he quenches most the more it
burns.
This bottled stream has wet so many lips
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 shake 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 Inst 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 holds the crimson
blush
Of him who first taught man tho grape to
crush.
,i, Lee Fairchihl.
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 nnd
belief?" Here nrc the answers received
from the magistrates who favored with a
reply:
Magistrate Mott: "Almost universal
cause of crime."
Magistrate Flammcr: "Liquor in most
eases is the cause or aggravates the si urn
tion."
Magistrate Olinstead: "The abuse of
liquor is the cause of a large proportion of
minor ottenses.
Magistrate Duel: "From fifty-five to
sixty per cent.
Magistrate Crane: "To a creat extent
To my mind three-quarters of the offenses
charged against prisoners brought to our
courts come lrom the use ot liquor.
Mairistrute Mavo: "To the best of mv
knowledge and belief the use of liquor op
erates as the inspiration or cause of the
above specified offenses to the extent of
atiout two-tlurus ot them.
Mazistrate Zcllcr: "In niv opinion linuor
nperates only as the inspiration or cause
for disorderly conduct, and this is mostly
the case with the male ottenders. 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 being
only misdemeanors, viz., assault or uisor
derly conduct. Of course there are excep
tions to the rule, but I say these exceptions
are the rarest occurrence. I may say
that drunkenness on the part of women is
rather increasing, and with few exceptions
when a woman is arraigned for intoxica
tion she is also charaed with disorderly
conduct, which is not the case with a
man.
Magistrate Mead: "To a very large ex
tent, t'rolmbly ninety per cent.
Don't I-anali.
How often have you seen a drunken man
Bt.iKircr alnns the street?
His clothes are soiled from falling, his
face is bruised, Ins eyes are dull. Some
times he curses the boys that tease hiin
Sometimes he tries to smile, in a drunken
effort to placate pitiless, childish cruelty
His body, worn out. can stand no more,
and he mumbles thnt he is going home.
The children ncrsecute him. throw
things at him, laugn at him, running ahead
ot him.
Grown men and women, too. often laugh
with the children, nudge each other, and
actually tmd humor in the sicht or n hi:
man beinK sunk below the lowest animal. ,
The eight of a drunken man going home
should make every other man and woman
sad and sympathetic, and, horrible as the
eight is. it should be usctul. bv insnu'inj.
in who see it, a resolution to avoid and to
heln others avoid that man's fate.
That reelini drunkard is uoiim home.
He is aoimr home to children who arc
afraid of him. to a wife whose life he has
made miserable.
He is coing home, taking with him the
worst curse in the world to suffer hitter
remorse himself after having inflicted suf-
fenna on those whom he should protect
And as he goes home men and women
knowing what the homecoming means,
Jatmti at nun and euinv the eiKlit.
In the old davs in the arena it occasion
nllv hannencd that brothers wero set to
fight each other. When they refused to
fight they were forced to it by red-hot ironu
applied to their backs.
We have progressed beyond the moral
condition of human beings guilty of such
brutality ns that. Hut wc cannot call our
selves civilized while our imaginations and
sympathies are so dull that the reeling
drunkard is thought a funny spectacle.
cw York Journal.
Alcohol und Crime.
The . warden of the Allegheny (Penn.)
county prison board says in his report that
during the twelve months ending Decem
ber 31, 1900, there were received 9182 pris
oners as against 8440 the previous year.
Tho jail physician says that ninety-five per
cent, of those committed were under his
rare for alcoholism, and out of 5727 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 as necessary to muni
cipal prosperity. Such ignorance is bound
to be banished by the brighter light of the
twentieth century.
Need of a Revival.
Whilo the average Frenchman drinks 31.6
gallons of wine and beer, the llriton 32.1
and the German 20, the American drinks
but 13.6 gallons, and he drinks hut a little
more than half as much distilled spirits as
either the Frenchman or the German. No
wonder that a temperance revival has been
well ttarted in Kuropc,
Directory ot Habitual Drunkards.
At a mass meeting held in Exeter Hall,
London, General Booth, the leader of the
Bulvation Army, inaugurated a special tem
perance campaign us u feature of the work
of the Salvation Army during the present
year. General iiooth said he relied confi
dently upon the co-operation of saloon
keepers in this work, through their indi
cating the habitual drunkards, insomuch
as the supplying of habitual drunkards
with liquor endangered the publican's li
cense, and that he intended to compile a
drunkard's directory in each town, and
follow the habitual drunkards home and
reform them there.
The Crusade In Brief.
If saloonkeepers would "respect them
selves" and secure the respect of others let
them abandon their disreputable business.
Dr. Paul Gamier, the French statistician.
says juvenile criminality is relatively in
creasing, and be attributes the evil to al
coholic Heredity.
After tha horrible wreck of the Islander,
rhich cost the lives of so manv human
beings, it was practically demonstrated
t';iat John Barleycorn wrecked the ship.
';The captain of the barque Max, which
w is in collision with tho steamer Walla
Walla when she sauk with the loss of forty
lives, declares that the lookout of Ilia
AV illa Walla was drunk und that no atten
tion was paid to the tigtuU of t'uo Max.
Another Point of View.
Gravity A stratagem invented to
conceal lack of intellect.
Wisdom That which is srrcatcr than
gold, provided it is our wisdom and
some other person's gold.
lemper bomcthuiR that at once gets
the best of a man and betrays the worst
of him.
Sour Grapes A kind of difairrccable
fruit we would rather tar;e ourselves
than have someone ehc reach.
Argument A device ccncrally em
ployed to convince ourselves that ve
are right.
Holiday A thnm happily conceived
to make us appreciate the rcstfulness of
work.
Eccentric A term applied to those
whom wc cannot afford to call fools.
Smart Set.
Expert on Timepieces.
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 a cheap second-hand
store with all sorts of old junk. It;it
the man who had nsked to look at it
was going over it with a swift and ex
pert eye.
How much ;
"Two-fifty," answered the dealer.
The man laid clown the price nnd
walked off with his purchase carefully
tucked under his arm.
"It is a ship chronometer," said he.
Some sailor stole it and sold it. I sup
pose, for the price of a few drinks. The
dealer evidently thought it a rliean clock
or I would not have got it tor the
money. It is worth $75, and must have
',-osl $130 when new.
Oa'strlpplni? Text. Honks.
Progress is so rapid in electrical im
provements," declares a government ex
pert, "that the, text books are from five
to ten years behind. For the latest im
provements one looks in the electrical
journals and the catalogues of the bi(?
manufacturers. Tor instance, 1 ran
across the advertisement of a universal
clcctncai shunt in a late catalogue. A
shunt is a device for switching from a
current all the electricity not wanted, for
instance, in a delicate galvanometer, and
the finest mathematic.il calculations have
been necessary to regulate the carrying
and receiving power of the ilv.tnt. This
universal shunt will be to electricians
one of the most important of recent in
ventions, and yet it is left, for a manu
facturer's catalogue to give the an
nouncement to the public.''
Mortinnntlon.
"'Surely, EJi'.h." txclaimed the minis
ter :o his daughter, "you arc not coing
to attend a theari;al performance this
evening ;
"Ye;, fatr.tr.''
' Sli5.n-.el J.V yoj forget that this is
the pen:tcnt:a: season .'
"Oh, no; that'.-, jast it You see., this
is an ameteur penormance
Deafness Caunot Bo Cured
by local applications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the enr. There is only one
way to euro deafness, and that Is by consti
tutional remedies. Deafness Is caused by an
Inflamed condition of the mueous lining of
the Eustachian Tune. When this tube Is In
llamed von have a rumblins sound or lmper-
feot hearing, and when It Is entirely closed
Deafnoss Is the result, and unless tne lnuanv
motion can be taken out and this tube re
stored to Its normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forevor. Nino cases out of ten
nre caused by catarrh, which Is nothing but an
intlamed condition 01 tne mucous surrace.
We will Hive Ono Hundred Dollursfor any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Hall s catarrn l ure. iir-
- Hold by Druggists, 73o.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
finest battleship afloat, the Mikata, of
loJUO tons displacement.
Best For the Bowels.
No matter what alls you , headache to a can
cer, you will never get well until your bowels
,tro put right. C'ascaiiets help nature, cure
you without a gripe or pain, produce easy
natural movoments, cost you just 10 cents to
start getting your health back. C'asoaiiets
Candy Uathartie, tne genuine, put up in meiai
boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stumped ou
it. Bewuro of imitations.
A girl of sixteen is apt to think her soul
is yearning for something when what really
is the matter with her is that she's hungry.
Mother Gray's Sweet rowders for Children
Successfully used by Mother flray, nurse In
the Children's Home, in New York. Cure
Feverisbness, Bad Btomach, Teething Disor
ders, move and regulate the Bowels and
Dostroy Worms. Over 80,000 testimonials.
At all druggists, 25o. Bnmpls mailed Fbee.
Address Allen 8. Olmstead, Lclioy, N. Y.
During a busy time the twenty leading
hotels in London accommodate about 1S,4U0
guests every night.
Tctxam's Fadeless Dye produces the fast
est and brightest colors of any known dye
stuff. Bold by all druggists.
In Algeria the native population has al
most doubled in less than fifty years, rising
from 2,307,000 in 1830 to 4,071,000.
FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Groat
Nerveltestorer. 2 trial bottle and treatise froe
Dr. It. H. Ki.iwe, Ltd., 031 Arch Kt., Phlla., Pa.
)ul of twenty blind people eleven are
men, nine women.
Ohio Knows Tetterlae.
Tf. O. MoCall, Granville, O., writes: "I find
your Tetterino to be a marvelously Kood
thing for skin diseases." 60e. a box from
J. T. Hhuptriiia, Savannah, Qa., U your drug
gist don't keep It.
Lord Breadalbane is the owner of the
finest vine in Kuropc.
Flso's Cure is tho best medicine we ever used
lor all affections of throat and lungs. V,
O. Esuslet, Vanburen, Iud., Feb. 10, 1000,
Conquer the conquerable and submit to
the inevitable.
Colds
" I had a terrible cold and could
hardly breathe. I then tried Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral, and it gave mo Im
mediate relief.'
W. C. Layton, 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 CherryPec
toral. Tarns sues ! Ut.. tSc.,11. All ercnlsts.
Oonsalt your don lor. If he Mrs take It,
then So as lie ?.. If he tell, you noi
to take H. then don't Uke It. He kaewa,
Leave It with hlin. W ere wllllnic.
J.O.AVKU CO.. Lowell, Maes.
Salf-Threadlns Sewtttf Michlm Needlil
B.natlcsna we will MDdrrni Mrai'lMr-ktrRort4
RtUef. Olveliuui.ol t'uui. As.ni. wtuiit"'.
lluuni Aulomtu.. Notait Cy-ileu Nawuiu si., N-K City
He Tlsrl a "Meter rteatrr. "
"This," said a trnmpy-looking indi
vidual, "is what I call a mcter-bcater. 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 encorsgement.
"You now bring the coil into the mag
netic field of the meter, thus," and he
held it about three inches from the place
where the hands go F.round ; "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 1 began on your meter," said
the electrical tramp, "you were in debt
to the company for about $16. Inside of
five minutes the company will he owing
you money. Price two-fifty. No? Some
what surprised at you. 1 have been 111
twenty places today and this is the first
one where I haven't made a sale."
Hclween V liifl"
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 a large,
round biscuit is generally an acceptable
substitute.
A maker of epigrams is one who seeks
to clothe the wit of others in his own
language. 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.
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.
Geniuses are absent-minded, whereas
common people arc merely careless.
Only a millionaire can risk piving his
friend a poor cigar. Smart Set.
An Kxplttnatloii.
Judge Your statement doefn't agree
with that of the last witness.
Witness That is easily accounted
for, your honor, lie's a bigger liar than
I am.
veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeete
1 St. !
jJabsOil)
VHK words familiar throughout the J
civilized world, words that stand e
S for all that is pure and effective in J
medicine. J
e No power on earth has been able to
bar its progress, because it did its op- J
pointed work. e
J In every clime and with every people J
it has worked wonders in ahcviating e
e pain. e
Its cures of Ilheumatism have ap- J
e proached the miraculous. e
2 Its intrinsic value is the secret of J
e success of its world-wide popularity e
i of its wonderful sale of its eon-
stant growth. J
e Its virtues are stamped on the hearts e
J of the once crippled and tortured J
e everywhere never to be effaced while e
e life lasts. e
Such in brief is ST. JACOI1S OIL,
e the pain killing marvel of the century, e
S IT ACTS J.IKH ,1IA;iC. e
I CONQUERS 1
I PAIN. !
removes from the soil
large quantities of
Potash.
The fertiliser ap
plied, must furnish
enough Potash, or the
land will lose its pro
ducing power.
Head carefully our books
00 crops lent rtt.
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
93 Nauau St., N'ew York.
HHAT IS A SUCKIr.?
IF IT BEADS
THIS TRADE MARK
IT IIS THE ftetT
WATiaPROOS
OILED COAT
IN THE WORLD.
S.BETuHi W TMl MUCK 41 KUTMU.
imr- CATALOGUES fKtc
3M0WIN TUtL LINB Or 6AP.MENT4 AND NAT.
A.J.TOWER CO., BOSTON. MA55.4I
CLOVERS
f Largest grower of
Utf L.HJ K l , IIIIHMU
A....,wk.e-M or stun Clover.
for vigor, t rofct and drouth resitting
i Z.r.?.im has IiihiIv become tuuioua. ,
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1 tiioraifls r nvrs nil is c: iuu ids. si. out
, U Croiu MM Clover, m. n-tw; iuu isi. .
Ssmpl" Cloer, Timothy snd Grsun isd rci'. j
JOHN A.SALZER
lioEED tO.C ,
e - 7"rl
Wills Pills
Lead tho
World.
An You Sick?
Bend your name and F. O, adilroe to
Th R. B. Willi Msdlolnt Co., Hmrro, Ki
nDADftV 1W DleCOVMY; trrae
L SA si 1 amok i!M tuS auras eoin
bum Book of tettloionila ind IO fleje trttttnent
free. Dr. B. a. essia S SUSS, lu S, At ante. Ue-
f-'H aflllctefeTerraea-Hpllon. Bat.
- liferlk'li uoariiit.MML
nr.ieicr pnrre. (bhx HAiur.i
lie M. twice HI ..BiLTiMoHv, Mi,
d h..mt AApi 11$. I
intfti syrup. Teios uotri. Dse I I
time. h,.'1 l (Ir-iik-trlMe. J
I I Beet Coutiii hi
I 1 - time.
3
ml Corn !
yY 'A AXW. &z ci
MVaV V7 P V"
MRS. J. EJ'DOIIIiELLl
Was Sick Eight Yenw wltli
Female Trouble and Finally
Cnred byLydla E. FInLham'f
"Vegetable Compound.
" Dear Mm. Tijikham I hare,
nerer in my life (riven a testimonial
before, but you have done so much for
mo that I feel callt! upon to gire you
this unsolicited acknowledgement of
MRS. JENNIE K. O'DONXELL,
Trerldent of Oakland Woman's Hiding Clnb.
the wonderful curative rahie of Lydla
E. Plnkham's Yepretablo Com
pound. I'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 nnd not much
pood for anything1, until one day I
fiMind a hook in my hull tolling of
the euros you could p?rform. I became
Interested! I bought a bottle of Lydia
K. lMnklinm's Vrcctablo Com
pound und was helped; I continued its
use and in seven months was cured, and
since that timo I have had perfect
health. Thanks, dear Mrs. Finkham
again, for the health I now enjoy."
Mks. Jenkib O Donkkix. 878 East 31st
St.. Chicago. Ill . fMOO forfeit If aov
testimonial it noi genuine.
"Women sufferinff from any
form of female Ills can be cured
by Lydla K. Pinkham's Vegeta
ble Compound. That's sure.
Mm. Pinkham advises sick wo
men free. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Jr. Veils, fd
Yafll l( fSXji
Doc well 13 fi 11
at pa;. WJfjf
&Oth Contury Oats
ft
lit) oat marvul, producing
from 'Haj iu mo bua. ,r un,
Molser'a Ualt ara war.
ran ud to firodae graml
yitjIJi. Iht V. H. A. LK'i.t.
!) Ikrt tti TCI eMail
Tilsit pj:
Three Eared Corn.
JtKi t-j.M 1. us, par Nvrn. It
xtrtmrly rtltaul at ia
at price rr ooiti. falser'
ttUa pruducg i-r-crysrsw.
Marvel Wheat
yUUf-i in M titau-a Usiytar
tut o tu. p-T aj . M" altti
baio iliMM-lahratcl Alstcc
rulU htftt. winch tkldvd
an our laruiei tkl bus. cr acra.
7
iv.
latl py.
Soeltz.
Grvatm t ma l food oa
b u bu. grain and
it ttnt firoti I ui par
wrv. 1 bat pay.
Victoria Rape
nakaa it jioselblo i' grow
bugs, herij and call I at a
coal of but a lb. Uartul
ously frolilW. tloea wtll
afcry wtior-. J'hiU P
Dromu Inermla
JlT 4o-t Wonderful Kraal uf
'- Iht rcutur. frodU'-oAttMif
f hy au I low aud tot C
Mlnrage twsidv r aort.
Grow wlicravcr muii If
found, ttitUrr'a ared Is
warrauttd. 1 but pay.
SI 0.00 for 10c
H i vi-h you io try our
great I arm ird, lieneo
off- f iu It farm teed
m
ample) containing Thousand
Hsaaei) ., loasluio, ttspo,
Alfalfa. tPni, U. (fully wnh
10.0nwttaitfi) iottaor wiik
our yrr-a' m Ins; lor 10a postaif.
SALZER'S MAGIC CRUSHED SHELLS.
Beat on rarth. Sell at ll.aa per 2ie IU bee.
fa. 7a lorano ir.: vt.vj ror i.ui.i me.
mmstnymsstmsmm
jmiiisiiK.iM'j l
i f-'nlre.
6u4inw Myo Than Qoutileit in four ifai.
THE REASONS I
W, L. J'muuIks iuakM anrlM.lt more inen'i
fTOO and 9-U "lioo t ban any other two lutuv
uiitoiurera iu tue worm.
W. I,. Imig.iw I T( and $3.50 sheet nlaeed
tide by B,iie with 95.00 and f tMX altoi of
other uinkdg, are found to bo Jnei aa good.
Tlier will outwear two palra ot ordinary
3,00 and f 3.00 nhoea.
Mcrf of thm 6ft itathen. Including Patent
Corona Hid, Corona Coit, and National Kanaaroo.
Past Color Kyolota mm Always Rlark Hooka toad.
W. L. DousTiita $4.00 'OUt &d Iirw"
eaunot be quwilea tut any price.
Matties ty MittttwAc. emlrtt. a'atnloa .
W. 1,. li.MiilLL, , H.ot kt..... Msaao.
TUTOTEL
11 EMPIRE,
BROADWAY AND 63d ST., N. Y. CITY.
ABSOLUTELY Of MODIRATI
FIREPROOF. RATBO.
From Arena Central Station take cere mark
Broaitway ami 7th Ava. B.v.e ruiuvitaa u Luiftre,
Ou crowing any el tne frtoe, take lu. Me k jauue
KUTat4 KaTUej I talk St., Iron wbk-k It la owl
minute's ik itei. . , ..,.
The Uotei Umpire teetauranl la notaa for lit efc
oellnnt eouklng. rl. lent Herlne and modwaie P""
V. II lila an minutes ol aeutmeiil a ehtM
etaitree. All oar una tlie Suiilr
ee.ift te jtuytre lor naerripltve aooklata.
W. JOHKSON JdlN. swvrletor.
MUttllillUl M. aallXK. fc.llla-.
tioi Merfel at SJurleie K-llle.
McILHKNNV'S TA. :
ADVinTISS IN TNI I - '
PAPER. M Ht j
Ilntnirt.4 wlflt Tl .
wak eyee, aae II.
I SWrM'k Beardless I
I . flW HInll b nroOU.il; pr.11
fnglaaS
jf : V jy and llir brat 1
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II t " "" W eT'rTW,"'r
II fi lahl. H Tlie genuine
' w Y"fi I'eveW.L.
Re M SHOES fB'-H
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