THE ART OF FORGETTING Dr. Talmage Illustrates How All Offend, era May Be Emancipated. Hew to Be Hippy Allow Other to Forget Cone Into Mercy in! Panloa, WA-nmoTO!, D. C From the letter to the Hebrews Dr. Talmage takes a text and illustrates how all offenders may ho emancipated; text, Hebrews viii, l'J, "Their sins and their iniquities will I re member no more." The national flower of the Egyptians is the heliotrope, of the Assyrians is the water lily, 01 the Hindoos is the mangold, of the Chinese is the thiysanthemum. We hare no national flower, but there in hardly any (lower more suggestive to many of us than tho forKetmenot. W e all like to be remembered, and one of our mis fortunes is that there are so many things we cannot remember. Mnemonics, or the rt of assisting memory, is an important art. It was first suggested by Himonidcs, of Ceos, 6011 years betore Christ. Persons who had but little power to recall events or put fat'ts and names and dates in proper processions have through this art had thpir memory re-enforced to an almost incredi ble extent. A good memory is nn inalua ble possession. Hy all means cultivate it. I had an used friend who, detained all night at a miserable depot in waiting for a rail trim t.ut in tho snowbanks, enter tained a arouit of some ten or fifteen cler gymen, likewise detained on their way home from a meeting of presbytery, by first with a Tiirce of ch.Ok drawing out ou the black and smty walls of the depot the characters of Walter Scott's "Marnron'' end then reciting from memory the whole ot that "oem of some eighty paes in line print. ( My old friend, through great age. lost Ins lucinorv, and when 1 nsked him if t'r.-s story of the railroad depot was true be said. "I do not remember now, but it wa jut lihe me. Let me see." Bind be to me. "Have 1 ever neen. you before?" "Yes," I said; "yon were my guest last night, and 1 w.n with you an hour ngo." What an awful contrail in that man be tween the greatest memory 1 ever knew and no memory at all! But right along with this art of recol lection, which I cannot too highly eulogize, is one quite as important, and yet 1 never heard it applauded. I mean the art of for getting. There is a splendid faculty in that direction that we nil need to culti vate. We might turotigh that proec? be ten times happier and more useful than we now are. We have been told that for getfulncss U a weakness and ought to be avoided by nil possible means. So far from a weakness, my test ncrribes it to God. It is the very top of omnipotence that God is able to obliterate a part ot His own memory. If we repent of sin and rightly seek the divine forgiveness, the record of the misbehavior is not only crossed off the books, but Cod actually lets it pass out of memory. "Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." To remember no more is to forget. And yoit cannot make anything else out of it. '.od's power of forgetting is so great that if two mca appeal t Him and the on? man, utter a iiie all right, gets the aimi of his heart pardoned and the other man, after a life of abomination, gets par doned Cod remembers no more against one than tho other. The entire past of both the moralist, with his imperfections, and the profligate, with his debaucheries, is as much ob. iterated in tiie one case as in the otiier. Forgotten forever and for ever. "Their sins and their iniquities will 1 remember no more." This sublime attribute of forgetfulness on the part of God you and I need, in our finite wny, to imitate. You will do well to cast out of your recollection all wrongs done you. During the course of one's life lie is sure to be misrepresented, to be lied about, to be injured. There are those who keep these things fresh by frequent rehear sal. If things have appeared iu print, they keep them in their scrapbook, for they cut these precious paragraphs out ot news papers or books and at leisure times look them over, or they have them tied up in bundles or thrust in pigconhoies, and they frequently regale themselves and their Ir.ct is by an inspection o; these flings, th'se sarcasms, these falsehoods, these cru elties. I have known gentlemen who car ried them in their pocketbooks, so that they could easily get at these irritations, and they put their right hand in the inside of their coat pocket over their heart and say: "Look here! Let he show you some thing." fc-cientists catch wasps and hor nets and poisonous insects and transfix them in curiosity bureaus for study, and that is well, but these of whom 1 speak catch the wasps aud the hornets and pois onous insects and play with them and put them on themselves and on their friends and see how flu- the noxious things can jump and show how deep they can sting. Have no such scrapbook. Keep nothing in your possession that is disagreeable. Tear up the falsehoods and the slanders and the hynercriticisms. Imitate the Lord in my text and forget, actually forget, sublimely forget. Thorn is no happiness lor you in any other plan or procedure. You see all around you in the church and out of tho chirch disposi tions acerb, malign, .-yuica!, pessimistic. Do you know how these men and women got that disposition? It was by the em balmment of things pautherine and viper ous. They have spent much of their tune in calling the roll of nil the rata that have nibbled at their reputation. 'Their soul is n cage of vultures. Kieiytaing in them is sour or imbittered. The milk of human kindness has bscn curdled. '1 hey do not believe in uny.iudy or uuything. If they tee two people whispering they think it is abovt tuucinelvr".. li they see two people laughing, they think it is about them selves. Wher.' there is one sweet pippin in their oreiiaid there are lil'ty crabappiei,. They have never been uijie to forget. They do not want to forget. They never will forget. Their wretchedness is supreme, for no one can be happy if he carries per petually in mind the nieif-i things that have been done him. On the other hand, ou can find here and there a man or woman (Tor there ure not many of them) whose disposition is genial ana summery. Why? Have they always been treated well? Oh, no. Hard things havo been said against them. They have been charged with ofliciousness, and their generosities have been set down to a desire for display, and they have many a time been the sub. jeet of little tattle, and they have had enough small assaults like guaU and enough great ntlueks like lions to have made them perpetually miserable. If they would have consented to miserable. Kut they huve had enough divine philo sophy to cast off the annoyances, anil they have kept themselves in the sunlight of Uod's favor and have realized that thesu oppositions and hindrances are a part of a mighty discipline by which they are to be prepared fur usefulness and heaven. Tho secret of it all is they have, by the help of the Kternal God, learned how to forget. Another practical thought: When our faults are repented of let them go out of rnind. If Clod forgives them, we have a right to forget them. Having once re pented of our infelicities and misdemean ors, there is no need of our repenting of them aain. hupposo I owe you a large urn of money, and you are persuaded I am incapacitated to pay and you give me acquittal from that obligation. You say: "I cancel that debt. All is right now. Start again." Aud the next day I come in and say: "You know about that big debt I owe you. I have come in to get you to let me off. I feel so bad about it 1 cannot rest. Do let ine off." You reply with a little impatience: "I did let you off. Don't bother yourself and bother me vitb any more oi that discussion." The following day I come in and aay: "My dear r, about that debt I can never get over the fact that 1 owe you that money, it is some thing that weight on my mind like a mill stone. Do forgive ma that debt." This time you clear lose your patience and aay: "You are a nuisance. What do you mean by this reiteration of that affair? I am almost sorry 1 forgave you that debt. Do you doubt my veracity or do you not un ders'aiid th plain language in which I told you that debt wae canceled?" Well, my friends, thera are many Christians guilty of worse folly than that. While it is ribt that they repent of new sins and of recent sins, what is the use of bother L'iS iuuraelf and injuUiiuj Cod. by anJunj; Him to forgive' 'eifia "that long ago weie" forgiven? God has forgiven them. Why do you not forget them? No; you drag tho load on with you, and 365 times a year, if you pray every day, you ask God to re call occurrences which He has not only for-give-i, but forgotten. Quit this folly. I do not nlc you less to realize the turpitude of sin. but I ask you to a higher faith i:i the promise of God and the full deliverance of His mercy. Ho does not give a receipt for part payment or so much received on account, hilt re ceipt n full, God having for Christ's sake decreed "your sins and yeur iniquities will I remember no more." I know you will quote the Bible refer ence to the horrible pit from which you were digged. Yes, be thankful for that retieue, but do not make display of the mud of that horrible pit or splash it over othrr people. Sometimes I have felt in Christian meetings discomfited and unfit for Christian service because I had done none of those things which seemed te be, in the estimation of manv, necessary for Christian usefulness, for 1 never swore a word or ever got drunk or went to com promising places or was guilty of assault and battery or ever uttered a slanderous word or ever did any one a hurt, although I knew my heart was mnful enough and I said to myself, "There is no nse of my try ing to do any good, for I never went through those depraved experiences." But afterward 1 saw consolation in the thought that no one gained any ordination by the laying on of the hands of dissoluteness and infamy. And though nn ordinary moral life, end ing in a Christian life, may not be as dra matic a story to tell about, let us be grate ful to God rather thnn worry about it if we have never plunged into outward abom inations. A sin forgetting God! That is clear be yond and far above a sin pardoning God, How often we hear it said, "f can forgive, but I cannot forget." That is equal to saying, "I verbally admit it is all right, but 1 will keep the old grudge good." There is something i;i the demeanor that seems to say: "I would not do you harm. Indeed. I wish you well, hut that unfortu nate affair can never p"ss out of my mind." There mny be no hard words pass Between them, but until death breaks in tiie same coolness remains. Hut God lets our par doned offenses go into oblivion. He never throws them tip to us again. lie feels ae kindly toward us as though wo had been spotless and positively angelic nil along. Muny years ago a family consisting of the husband and wife and little girl of two years lived far out in a cabin on a western prairie. The husband took a few cattle to market. Ik fore he started his little child asked him to buy her a doll, and he prom ised. He could after the sale of the cattle purchase household necessities and cer tainly would rot forget the doll he had promised. In the village to which he went no sold the cattle and obtained the grocer ies for his household and the doll for his little darling. He started homo along the dismal road at nightfall. As he went along on horseback a thunderstorm broke, and in the most ipnely part of the road and in the heaviest part of the storm he heard a child's cry. Kobbcrs had been known to do some bad work along that road, und it was known that this herds man had money with him, the price of the cattle sold. The herdsman first thought it as a stratagem to have him halt and be despoiled of his treasures, but the child's cry became more Ucrnind rending, and so he dismounted and felt around in the darkness and all in vain until he thought of n hollow tree that he remembered near the road where the child might be, and for that he started, and, sure enough, found a little one fagged out and drenched ot the storm and almost dead. He wrapped it up as well as he could and mounted his horse and resumed his journey home. Cuming in sight of his cabin he saw it all lighted up, and supposed his w:fe had kindled all these, lights so as to guide her hiL-band through the darkuess. But no. The house was full of excitement, and the neighbors were gathered and stood aron.v.1 the wife of the house, who was insens;b!e from some great calamity. On inquiry tha returned husband found that the little child of that cabin was gone, bhe had wandered out to meet her father and get the present be had promised, and the child was lost. Then the father unrolled from the blanket the child he had found in the fields, and, lo, it was his own child and the lost one of the prairie home, and the cabin quaked with the shout over the lost one found. How suggestive of the fact that once we were lost in the open fields or among the mountain crags, God's wandering children, and Ho found us, dying in the tempest and wrapped us in the mantle of His love and fetched us home, gladness and con gratulation biddiug us welcome. The fact is that the world does not know God or they would all floek to Him. So I set open the wide gate of my text, inviting you oil to come into the mercy and pardon of God yea, still further, into the ruins of the place where once was kent the knowledge of your iniquities. The place has been torn down and the records destroyed, and yet you will find the ruins more dilapidated and broken and prostrate than the ruins of Melrose or Keiulworth, for from these last ruins you can pick up some fragment of a sculptured utone or you can sea the curve ot some broken arch, but after your repentance and your forgiveness you cannot find in all the memory of God a fragifient of your pardoned sins so large as a needle's point. 'Their sins and their iniquities will 1 re member no more." Six different kinds of sound were heard on. that night which was interjected into tiie daylight of Christ's assassination. The neighing of the war horse for some oi the soldiers were in the saddle was ona ound. the bang of the hammers was a second suund. the jeer of malignants was a third sound, the weeping of friends and followers was a fourth sound, the plash of blood on the rocks was a fifth sound, and the groan of tho expiring Lord was a sixth sound! And they all commingled into one saduess. Over a place in Russia where wolves were pursuing a load of travelers and to save them a servant sprang from the Bled into the mouths of the wild beasts and was devoured, and thereby the other lives were saved are inscribed the words, "Great er love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend." Many a surgeon in our own time has in trachteo tomy with his own lips drawn from the windpipe of a diphtheritic patient that which cured the patient and slew the sur geon, and all have honored the self sacri fice. But all other scenes of sacrifice pale before this most illustrious martyr of all time and all eternity. After that agonizing spectacle in behalf of our fallen race noth ing about the ain forgetting God is too stupendous for my faith, and I accept the promise, and will you not all accept it? "Their sins and their iniquities will I re member no more." . Copyright, IWt, L. Klopsca.l 'loo Many llachelura Mvln. The last censui showed that there were In thn whole country 5,427,707 bachelor against 3,224,494 spinsters, an excess of 68 per cent of bachelors over the unmarried women. There wan not any state In the Union that did not have more bachelors than single women, even Massachusetts exhibiting a small fractional overplus of unat tached males of marriageable age. To account for thlc situation of af fairs It was explained that, the mass of each state being paired oft by mar riage evenly as between the sexes, only a relatively small traction of single persons old enough to marry was left over. - In most state the male part of this fraction was much tn excess of the female part And It must also be re membered that women marry mock younger than men. If you would, remain a tavorlte int er ask a favor, Stxne people live off their wits and some live off the lack ot wit In other people THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lessoa Comments For March 16. Subject: The Elhleelsa Coirertee", Acts WiL, 2tM-aoMcs Text, Rom. ., 10 M. err Verses, 34, 35-Comnentary ea the Day's Lessoa. 26. "An angel." (II. V.) Not the angel which signifies Christ Himself. We do not know how he appeared to l'hilip, but we know that he was "a real messenger, bringing a real message from God." "Un to Philip." The evangelist, or deacon. "Go." l'hilip was probably still in Sama ria when he received this command, "Oa fs." One of the five chief cities of the Philistines. It was situated near the southern boundary of Canaan, less than three miles from the Mediterranean. "The way which is desert." This is a de scription of the exact route ho was to take. The word "desert" means a wild and thin ly settled region. This wus the road through Hebron. But some think tho word desert may refer to the "place" he was to go. 27. "He arose and went." It does not appear that he knew the object of hia jour ney, but still he obeyed God instantly without question. "Ethiopia." Now railed Nubia and Abyssinia. The high land south of Kgypt, of which the capital was Meroe, called fiheha. Gen. 10: 7; 1 Kings 10: 1. Its Hebrew name was Cush, from the son of Ham. At this time there were many Jews in Ethiopia. "Kunuch." Denoting here a state officer of great au thority, similar, perhaps to tlmt of Joseph. Gen. 41: 39. Sometimes called chamber lain. Acts 12: 20. "Candace." Title of the queen of Meroe, as Caesar of Home, and i'haraoh of the earlier, and I'tolemv of the latter dynasties of Kgypt. "Of ail her treasure." Treasure houses were com mon in the Kast, where not only money, but important documents were kept, Kzra f: 17; Esther 4: 7. Of these treasure homes this eunuch was custodian. He wa the queen's secretary of the treasury. 28. "Wus returning." He had come to Jerusalem to keep the recent feast of l'entecost. as a Gentile proselyte to tho Jewish faith, and having come so far he not only staid out during the festival, but prolonged his stay until now. "Head Ksaias. The Greek form for Isaiah. He was evidently reading aloud, and this was common among Orientals and was the practice of the Jews. He may have ob tained the expensive manuscript while at Jerusalem, and wus now looking over his new found treasure. 29. "The Spirit said." That inward voice which directed Philip to approach the traveler and keep near the chariot, was a command of the Holy Ghost dwell ing in him. The angel who had given him the first direction had departed, and now the influence of the Holy Spirit completed the information. 31). "Philip ran." Showing promptness in obeying the guidance of the Spirit. ' Heard him read." Philip was walking or running by the side of tho chariot. In attaching himself to a train of people who were journeying in the same direction he would not be considered nn intruder. "Un dcrstandest thou." The question would imply that l'hilip was ready to explain. Philip did not begin in n roundabout way, but came directly ti the point. In holy conversation we should come at once to the truth itself. 31. "How can I?" Thus admitting that there was nothing within himself to unfold the meaning of God's word, and yet ex pressing nn earnest desire lo knbw its meaning 32. "Tho place of the scripture." Tho chapter (lsa. 53) contains eleven distinct references to the vicarious sufferings of Christ. "As a sheen." A vivid description of our Saviour's silent submission to that sacrificial death, to which He humbled Himself. 1 Peter 2: 23. 33. "His humiliation." Tn his humble position as a poor man. "Taken away." In the contempt, violence and outrage which He suffered us part His humiliation, the rights of justicu and humanity which belonged to Him were taken from Him. "Declared His generation." There is a great variety of opinion as to the meaning of this expression. Many think it equiva lent to asking, Who cin describe the wick edness of the men of His time His "con temporaries?'' 34. "Of whom speaUetii," etc. Frobably there was no little discussion on this point. "Of himself." Thinking Isaiah might have predicted his own martyrdom by siwing asunder, according to Jewish tradition. Heb. 11: 37. 3.). "Opened his mouth." Feeling the great responsibility of unfolding the true meaning of the Scriptures to his heathen companion. "Began at the same." He took his sermon into the gospel concerning Christ. What the prophet had declared, had indeed been fulfilled. The Old Testa ment is fulfilled in the New. "Preached Jesus." Showed that Jesus was the Christ, and in His person, birth, life, doctrine, miracles, passion, death and resurrection the Scripturca of the Old Testament were fulfilled. 36. "As t'ney went." They must have journeyed some time together. "A certain water." There are many idle conjectures as to tho exact place of this baptism. "See. here is water." Tho expression is merely, "Behold, water!" 37. "Philip said." This verse is wanting in the Revised Version. "If thou believ est." Believing is essential to salvation. With the heart man believeth unto right eousness. Without faith it is impossible to please God. It is not so much our doing as what we avc at heart that God estimates. He desiretli truth in the inward parts. God wants tho heart to he moved toward Him. "The Son of God." After listening to the story of Christ's humiliation and death, to believe truly that Ho was tho Messiah would certainly stir all the love and adoration of the soul; for love pur chased redemption, und love is the price for it. 38. "To stand still." Of course the vhole retinue would see what took place, and they may certainly be regarded ua the nucleus of a congregation to be estab lished in Ethiopia. 39. "Caught awov." A aulden super natural removal. The cxpreesions in 1 Kings 18: 12; 2 Kings 2: 10, and the dis appearance of Christ tn Luke 24: 31, inter pret the statement here. "He went re joicing"." Joy from God, joy in God, joy of God. 40. "Philip was found." Found him self; made his appearance; an expression confirming the miraculous manner of his transportation. "At Azoton." The ancient Ashdod, on the plain by the sea, eighteen miles north of Gaza, Thence he went preaching northward along the coast to Gaesarca. "To Ocsares. ' South of Mount Carmel, on the Dluln of Sharon, Here, twenty years after, Philip met his old-time persecutor, Saul, the apostle Paul, Acts ii: tf-iv. Reallsatluo of Age. Two gentlemen who had slipped pa the meridian of 14 fe without hardly ob serving the faut were talking about ages while eating a deliberate luncheon a couple of days ago, when one of them told a story w hich emlioules the experi ence of more than one man. "It really came to me with a little shock," he said. "I took a sleeper at St. Louis for New York, and there were only half a dozen men aboard when I re tired for the night. In the. morning, while In the toilet-room brushing my hair, I saw In the mirror the reflection of the back of an old gentleman I did not remember seeing before. He ap peared much older than any man I had noticed on the car the night before, and I made up my mind that ha bad come aboard after I had gone to bed. I watched the reflection while arrang ing my hair, aud then turned, Intend ing to speak to the old gentleman. You tan Imagine my surprise when I found that I had been looking st the reflec tion of my own back." CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. March 16 "A Noble Purpose" Dan. I, t-26. Scripture Verses Prov. lv. 14-19; xxlll. 29, 30; Ps. cxlx. 9; Ezek xvlll. 31, 32; Matt. X. 28; Uike xxl. 34; Rom. vlll. 1-16; Gal. v. 17; Eph. v. 3; 1 Tim. v. 22; Tit. II. 12; Jas. I. 12; lv. 112; I Peter 11. 11; v. 8, 9. Lesson Thoughts. Character shows Its effect upon the body. We see Its physical effects In the flushed face of tho drunkard and the low brow of tho criminal. Dan iel's character and conduct gave him a vigorous body and a handsome face. Daniel's character possessed Its natural Influence In winning the re frard and love of others. Both nobles and kings were drawn to affection for him. Every temperate life and strong character will even uncon sciously Influence for good. Selections. In a great factory wheels and ma chinery whirl on every hand, produc ing a thousand lucrative results. Down in the engine room Is the force that keeps all the wheels and bells at work. An Invincible purpose will be just such a force In your life, con trolling every faculty ot mind and body. Anaohonls, being asked by what means a man might guard against the vice of drunkenness, said: "By bear ing constantly In view tho loathsome behavior of the Intoxicated." This consideration should make us all total abstainers. lie who does right Is always Justi fied by flnal results. And In no phase of the great stniR(?lo between right and wrong Is this so manifestly true as in the temperance conflict. In general terms it may be said that no Instance has been recorded where the Influence of alcohol upon a good man, when carried to Its full extent, has failed to taint his moral nature. Nor has an Instance ever been known of a character so base, fo bestial, and Inhuman, that alcohol could not sink It still lower. Over-doing In one direction means under-doing In all others, as you can not draw water out of a pond without lowering Its entire level. Every ounce of strength uacd on what Is lower Is so much taken from what is higher. Suggested Hymns. Sin no more, thy soul is free, - Standing by a purpose true Why do you linger? Gird on the sword and armor, Today the Savior calls, O Christian youth, arise. EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETIN0 TOPICS March 16 A Noble PurposeDan. 18-20. Daniel is nentloned as a religious character, and In Ezek. 28. 3 he is set forth as on example of the high est wisdom. Either this patriarchal Daniel or Bome other man unknown to history is represented as being sold into captivity, falling into the hands of the Chaldean king, suffering the se verest temptations, but as remaining absolutely true to his Jewish con science and to the worship of the one true God. As a consequence he is providentially cared for;he secures un expected honor and prominence; and, like Joseph and Mo3os In days of old, he becomes a striking example of the wisdom of being "obedient unto tho heavenly vision," of heeding con science rather than the clamor of passion or the dictate of expediency, and of the certain victory which soon er or later comes to all those who are thus steadfast In right and truth. Daniel has a definite, intelligent, reasoned purpose back of his conduct. Ho had thought on the law and the worship of God, he had Intelligently consecrated himself to the observance of both, he had foreseen the odds which would be against him, and ho had deliberately made up his mind that he would be true to his conscience and his God at whatever coat. It Is a great thing when a young man does this. He Is already saved from many snares, and ho has started on the road to victory. Any young man who thinks earnest ly and intelligently will see that the Chrlstllko life is the beet, the most satisfactory aud promises most for time and eternity. If he will conse crate himself with a great purpose to do the right, to unfalteringly keep himself lrom everything that defiles, anil to follow only the highest, the purest, the clearly right and good, he will find himself coming straight Into the path of God. A similar process will convince him of the folly of form ing useless habits and creating useless wants. God honored Daniel's purpose and continually promoted him. Captive though he was, In daily danger of death or Imprisonment, misunderstood and ridiculed as a fool and a fanatic. Daniel dared to do the right, and, as 1 ne always does, God brought him off more than conqueror. He had pro motion after promotion, until he be came tho chief man In the realm. It Is simply an emphasis on the fact that "corruption wins not more than hon esty." On the whole, id in the long run, whatever may seem to be the clamors of mere popularity or exped iency at the time, he does best who stands Ly God and truth, right and purity, honesty and incorruptibility. Man's first duty Is to get an enlighten- I ea and Intelligent Intellectual content to his conscience and then to stand by Us dlstates at whatever cost. God and Ood's providence will guarantee the future ot such a man. RAM'S HORN BLASTS. HEY who march In faith pray bet ter than they who kneel In fear. The most valu able picture's on earth Is that of a living holy fam ily. II.. l,nMJnil c n f - k5r ' n - mam do not w.um A man must ba consistent with his present and not with tula past. A religion In sports will not keep you unspotted from the word. A steady shining though small U better than a great scintillation. Men. who are scooped Into the church are not safe In tho kingdom. Better not write at all than wrlto that whloh is not right. Irreverence is the brand of Ignor ftjice. It' an 111 will that speaks well of no oue. .... . . THE GREAT DESTKOYEK SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Thn M orders of Drink Eight Hundred anil Twenty Iloinlrliles In the United States Last Year Were Causeil by In- toxlonflon Itlootl nfth Saloon's Crime For several years past the Chicago Tri bune has annually published a statement regarding the crimes of violence in the United htates. Tho method used in gath ering those statistics is not unquestion ably accurate, since, as we understand it, the report given ia merely a summary of what the news dispatches bring to the office of the Tribune in the course of the year. However, the figures are valuable and probably approach nearer to authen tic statistics than anv others in existence. According to the Tribune's figure tiers were in the United States during the year 1901 820 murders caused by intoxicating dri.iks. The incompleteness of this state ment is manifest in a moment when it is noticed that the list includes 4016 murders that are recorded as tho "outcome of quar rels." It is a matter of common knowledge that comparatively few quarrels end in murder where the principals of the quar rel are sobpr. l'"or some reason or other of late years there has been nn extreme disin clination upon the part of the newspapers to report drink's part it a murder case. Yet tie intelligent reader readily rcco nir.es it in numerous instances. Tn!.e as an illustration a murder occurring in Chi cago last Saturday night Two men quar reled over a matter of $7. One of them went out and was gone a few minutes. turned and renewed his dciu.i id, was re fused und shot the other man, instui tiy killing him, and turning ran from the oflicc, entered a saloon and took a drink. That that was rot tho lirsl drink in the tragedy needs little confirmation, but the published reports will record this as a crime due to a quarrel, rather than due to drink. Hut suppose that the ficures of the Tri bune were accurate, and that only 821 peo ple n-ore r.iurdcrcd iu the United bUiites during th? last year on nccotr.it of intoxi cating liquors. Even with that, the show ing would be that as a people we are al lowing a well-known, preventable cause lo deprive a larg? number of fel!ow-citize:is of life and to carry grief and suffering to a much areatcr number. Even 821) murders stand as a charge of appalling blackness against a people who will not take the necessary stops for the removal of the cause. We say "will not," for, so far as the great multitude of tho American peo ple is concerned, that is tho case. It. is true there arc propositions for regulation, propositions for changing the method by which drink is sold, propositions to in crease the revenue received, but each ami all of such propositions offer not the slight est deviation from the one constant fact that the sale of intoxicating drink, under any regulation, by any method, produces crime, makes murder. The surprising fact about it is t'ml the Anglo-Saxon race has known this for cen turies. Two hundred and lifty years ago Sir Matthew Hale, then an eminent jurist of England, said: "The places of Judicature which I have held in this kingdom have given me op portunity to observe the original cause of most of the enormities that have been com mitted for the space of nearly twenty years, nnd by close observation I have i'oun.l that if the murders nnd manslaught ers, the burglaries and robberies, the riot;-, and tumults nnd other enormities that have happened in that. time, were divided into five parts, four of them have been the ixiue und product of excessive drinking at taverns or ale-house meetings." Murder touches us quickly enough some times. The whole country was convulsed and even now there ore thousands who would legislate nwav the dearest bnimht rights of the people becau.io a single mur der was committed last summer by a poor fool at Buffalo. But how long can not the saloon spatter the blood of its crimes in the faces of Christian people with impu nity? New York Voice. ( Without the Use of Alcohol. The London Temperance Hospital, which was founded in 1873 for the treatment of medical and surgical cases without the use of alcohol, has just issued its twenty-eighth annual report. It covers tho period of 1900, nnd states that during that year 1282 in-patients were admitted, being 72 fewer than in 1890. The cases cured were Sol; relieved. 2o4: unrelieved, 80. The deaths were 117. of which no fewer than 32 occurred within twenty-four hours of admission. The death rate is therefore 9.1 per cent., which may be regarded as moderate. Exclud ing moribund casts the death rate was 0.0 per cent. From the opening of the hospi tal in 1873 the in-patients have numbered 17,910, the cures have been 10,372, and the deaths 12S0, giving the low death percent age of 7.2. The out-patients treated in 1900 were g:j27, who made 21,015 visits. In Jm the figures were 8328 and 22,043 respec tive., v. The casualty patients in 11100 were 14,012, and thrir visits 32.301. In 1.HP9 tho iiKuves were 12.C45 and 30,0.50 respectively. Added together the out-patients and cas ualty patients in 1900 numbered 22,339. These were new cas-js, the visit3 being 53, 370 Insanity Due to Liquor. "Th?re lias been a remarkable increase of infinity in this city in recent years," said Assistant Warden Hi):nrd, of Belle vuo Hospital, to a reporter of the Now York Tribune. "Here at this hospital, where most of the cases arc examined, a case of inar.nity was not so common twenty years ago uj to fail to attrn"t the attention of eve-voody connected with the institu tion. Now we have 20J0 insanity cases u yea- at tho hospital," Mr. flickard opened a book nnd showed that durin; the year 1S!i3 1130 men and 045 women had been sent to the hospital as ini:ne patients. Of the whole number only 10! had been discharged an cured or no: insaue, while 778 men and 745 wonen had been sent to the asylums on the isl and, and the rest had been sent to other institutions. The Cruaailo In Brier. For the best picture illustrating the evils of intemperance tho Belgian Government has offered a prize of 1000 francs. Judge Templetoa, of Toledo, Ohio, has decided that a saloonkeeper can be com pelled to refund the monev spent in his place by a man who is drunk. An English law passed in 1774 providing that not more than $5 can he recovered for liquor debts, was tested lately by a physi cian who owed over 250. The law was de c.nred valid, and the liquor dealer is out 9245. l'ar.igould, Ark., has found a night mar shal unnecessary since the town went dry. According to Mr. Wynn Westcott, an r-ng.isii Coroner, it is very rare when a total abstainer commits suicide. Tiie Wonderful physical vitality of the Tur'tibh race is duo to the universal absti nence of the common people. Alcohol is not touched by the peasants, soldiers, mer chants or members of the learned profes sions. What lenislation, we ask, can make rep utable the business of those men against whom (Jod has pronounced this woe: "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest the bottle to hnu and maketh him drunken also!" The drinkers are the principal part of the problem, and drinking will continue to increase aa long as they are permitted to indulge their appetites at will. Would wo deal with the saloon aa we deal with other sources of contagion, would we treat the saloon as we would treat any other crime centre that was spreading sim ilar baleful inrluences, the liquor trullic would be aboh.died before sundown. The wholesale liquor dealers of Okla homa have agreed to build a home (for or phuus) to cost 120,000, at some point in Oklahoma, and the retail liquor dealers have agreed to puy tho running expenses. News in Oklahoma paper. Oklahoma liquor dealers appear to agree with some anti-saloon peoplo that the saloon ought to "pay its own bills." COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Otneral Trade Conditions. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: Although the shortest month of the year was further curtailed by two holidays and handicapped by the most severe storms of the winter, in dustrial and trade results were most satisfactory. The closing week brought a general resumption of activity in lines that suffered from the weather, and preparation for an exceptionally heavy spring business was reported at many points. Wheat came into sight rather more freely than a year ago, and the Atlantic shipment of flour made a better com parison than in recent preceding weeks, hut total exports of wheat from the United States, Hour included, were 3,185,053, against 4.324,240 bushels a year ago. Corn showed a loss in both movements. Failures for the week numbered 215 in the United States, against 170 last year, and thirty-five in Canada, against mirty-onc last year. LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour Best Patent. $4.00; High Grade F-xtra, $440; Minnesota Bakers, $J.2Sa ?.M5. Wheat New York No. 2, 87c ; Phila delphia No. 2, 85385; ; Baltimore No. 2, 84c. Corn New York No. 2, 6H ; Phila delphia No. 2, 63a(5.'4 ; Baltimore No. 2, ouabrc. ' Oats New York No. 2. 50c; Philadel phia No. 2, S'j'jc; Baltimore No. 2, Hay No. I, timothy, large bales, $15.00.115.50; No. 2 tiniothy,$i4.ooai4 5o; No. 3 do. $r2.ooai3.oo. Green Fruits and Vegetables. Apples New York, assorted, per brl, $J75a 4.50; Fancy Greenings, per brl, $4 5011 5.00. Cabbage New York Slate, per ton, domestic, a$J2.oo; do, large Dan ish, per ton, $23 00824.00; do, small Dan ish, per ton, $18.00,120.00; do, new Flor ida, per crate, $2.ooa2.25. Carrots Na tive, per bushel box, 40a4.se; do, per bunch, Ijaac. Celery Native, per bunch, 3a3;4c. Eggplants Florida, per crate, $3.5034.00. Grape Fruit Florida, per box, fancy, $5.0037.00. Horseradish Native, per box, $2.2582.50. Lettuce North Carolina, per half-barrel basket, 75c.a$t.oo; do, Florida, per half-barrel basket, $1.0031.75. Onions Maryland and Pennsylvania, yellow, per bushel, $i.25at.3o; do, Western, yellow, per bushel, $1.2531.30. Oranges Florida, per box, as to size. $2.2533.00; do, California, seedlings, per box, $2.0032.25 ; do, navels, per box, $2.5033.25. Oystcrplants Na tive, per bunch, fa6c. Radishes Flor ida, per bunch, long, ia2c. Spinach Native, per bushel box, $1.0031.25; do. Norfolk, per brl, $3.0033.50. Squash Florida, per bushel box, $t.5oa2.oo. Strawberries Florida, per quart, refrig erator, 35340c; do, open crate, 30a35c Tomatoes Florida, per six-basket car rier, fancy, $2.0032.25; do, fair lo good, $i.25ai.75. Turnips Native, per box, 20 a 25c. Potatoes. White Maryland and Penn sylvania, per bushel, No. I, 80385c; do, seconds, 70375c; do, New York, per bushel, best stock, 80385c; do, seconds, 70375c; do, Western, per bu, prime, 80a 85c. Sweets Eastern Shore, Va., ktln dricd, ber brl, $3.0033.25 ; do, Maryland, per brl,' fancy, $3.0033.50. Provisions and Hog Products Bulk clear rib sides, o'ic; bulk clcsr sides, ; bulk shoulders, 9c ; bulk clcsr pistes, 9!i ; bulk tat backs, 14 lbs. and under, 9J4 ! bulk fat backs, 18 lbs. and under, g'jc ; bulk bellies. 10c; bulk ham butts. 9J4c ; bacon shoulders, 9!4c ; sugar cured breasts, small, lojc; sugar-cured breasts, 12 lbs and over, lo!4c; sugar cured shoulders, blade cuts, 9J4c ; sugar cured shoulders, narrow, 9J4c; sugar cured shoulders, extra broad, io'ic; sucar-cured California hams. 8;-"Jc; hams, canvased or uncanvased, 12 lbs. and over, 12c. Refined lard, tierces, barrels and 50-lb." cans, gross, io.'c. Butter Separator, 28a2qc ; gathered cream, 24325c; imitation, 2oa2ic; prints, l-lb., 28a20c: rolls, 2-lb., 28a2gc; dairy prints, Md., Pa. and Va;. 26327c. Eggs Western Maryland and Penn sylvania, per doz., 325c. Eastern Shore (Maryland and Virginia), per doz., a25c. Virginia, per dozen, a 25c. West Virginia, per dozen, 24325c. Western, per dozen, a25C. Southern, per dozen, 22323c Guinea, per dozen, a c. Duck, Eastern Shore, fancy, per dozen. 330c ; do, Western Shore, per dozen, 28329c; do, small and dirty, per dozen, '7a28c. Cheese New cheese, large, 60 lbs, ii'jaitc; do, Hats, 39 lbs, 1214 to 12-Vji; picnic, 23 lbs, !2.j to 12 J4.' Dressed Poultry Turkeys, henf good to choice, per lb., ai6c; do, hens and young toms, mixed, good to choice, per lb, aisc; do, young toms, good to choice, per lb, 314c; do, old toms, good to choice, per lb, 11313c. JJticks, good to choice, per lb, 13315. Chickens, young, good to choice, per lb, 12313c; do, mixed, old and young, per lb, 103110; do, poor to medium, per lb, 9310c. Geese, good to choice, per lb, ioai2c. Capons, fancy, large, per lb, 16317c; do, good to choice, per lb, 14315c ; do, small and slips,"pcr n, 12313c. Lire Stock. Chicago. Cattle Good to prime steers, $6.5037.00; poor to medium, $4.00 3640; stockcrs and feeders. $2.2535.00; cows, $1.2535.25; heifers, $2.5035.50; can ners, $1.2532.25; bulls, $2.5034.50; calvej, $2.5036.00; Texas fed steers, $4.5035.75. Hogs Mixed and butchers, $5.7536.15; flood to choice, heavy, $6.ioa6.jo; rough, leavy, $5.8036.10; light, $3 6535.80; bulk of sales, $5.8036.10. Sheep Good to choice, $4-6535.55; fair to choice mixed, $3.8oa4 25 ; Western sheep and yearlings, $4.2535.90; native lambs, $3.7536.50; Western lambs, $5.6536.50. East Liberty Cattle, choice, $6.4036.50; prime, $6.20,16.40; good, $5.50115.00. Hogs lower ; prime hesvy, $6.353640 ; best me diums, $6.2036.35; beavv Yorkers, $6.isa 6.25; light do. $5.0036.10; pigs, $5,408 5.60 ; roughs, $5.0036.00. Sheep slow and lower; best wethers, $5.4035.60, LABOR AND INDUSTRY America has 22,000 women cigar makers. The American Federation of Labor has 1,000,000 members. The brickmakers of Georgia and Ala bama have organized. There are now 1,414 wool manufac turing plants in the country. The Pittsburg Plate Glass, Company's profits for the yeat- were $1,503,638.21.' The luboruinate locals of the Iron Moulders' Union of North America have voted down a proposition to increase the number of apprentices. , The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is planning a $7,000,000 depot at Cin cinnati. The Sheet Metal Workers National Alliance is a new national. labor organi zation. T he Wool Oil Chemical Company will build a plant at Savannah, Ga., to utilize refuse lumber. Organized workingmen of Grand Rap ids, Mich., are planning the erection of a trade and labor council. The Pittsburg Stove and Range Com pany will erect a central plant at Beaver Falls at the cost of about $300,000. The new Industry will employ from 800 to 1,000 men. god's Message to man PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. !i!emt I Never KnewEvery Discovery of Science Shows That Innnlle Wisdom Has Worked Out an Infinitely Complex System of Machinery For the World. I never knew before, the world So beautiful could be As I have found it sinco I learned ' All care to cast on Thee; The scales have fallen from mine eyes, And now the light I sea. I never knew how very dear My fellow-men could be L'ntil I learned to help them with' A ready sympathy; Their inner lives have made me know A broader charity. I never knew how little things As greater ones could he. When sanctified by love for Ona Who doth each effort see; But now a duily round of care May win a victory. I never knew; and still, dear Lord, As through a glass I sec, And perfect light can only come When I shall dwell with Thee; When in Thy likeness I awake For all eternity. Living Church. Itow Science Discovers God. A French naturalist declares that if there were no birds man would be starved out in nine years; for in spile of all that ho could do the insects nnd slugs would multiply so rapidly that they would le troy all vegetation in that time. We owe our very existence, therefore, to the birds whVh in seeking their own living destroy daily myriads oi thc.-c destructive creat ures nd so muke it possible for plants and trees to live. This is only one of n multitude of mar velous provisions by means of which the forces of nature ore adjusted so as to make possible the existence of nn infinite va riety of plant and animal Iiie nn our globe, and more especially to tit the world for man's habitation. Kvery new discovery of science brings out more and more clearly the fact that infinite wisdom has worked out an infi nitely complex nnd marve'.ously beautiful system of machinery, if one may call it so, in this world of ours, that evcrv valve and pulley and belt, every holt nnd rod is ad justed to the Diirticttlnr work assigned to it. nnd that sll work together for the ac complishment of one great design. Man cannot hope, however, to find out the ultimate purpose of the Architect of Nature by studying nature. We need to I00K upon the Architect's own plan to see wdiat ,11 is nurpose is. That plun, which is spread before us in the Hible, is so trans cendantly glorious that it is worth while even for Cod to spend thousands of years in working it out. All truth has its origin in the thoughts of (!od; therefore, any truth when fol lowed back to its source will necessarily lead to God. If the researches of sci'iicc seem for n time to lead men away from (Jod, it ia only because a half seen .ruth usually points in the wrong direction and the true remedy for the evil i- .0 pursue the studv which has led to a ra'-i conclu sion nmler fuller knowledge ci ibe sub ject with which it deals correct.; the false imprchsion derived from partial information-. We find a very (rood illustration of this in a book called "The InHuence of Christ in Modern Life." by Dr. N'ewell Dwight Hillis, published by the Mccniillan Co.n pany. Dr. Hillis says: "It is said that when J.icquard first ex hibited his loom to the wondering specta tors, anil the streams of water, by means of the belt and lly-wlieel, started all the spindles upon their tank of embroidering flowen and leaves upon the silk texture, the onlookers were bo entranced with tho wonders of the loom ns utterly to forget the inventor. The myriad spindles toiling nn without any help from without made .lacquard seem superfluous. But soon tha incuianism needed repairing, and then the spectators came to feel there was no -greatness in tho loom that was not first in lacquard s mind. "Thus for a brief period thin earthly mechanism (nature with its forces anil their laws) Beenied to abolish (iod. But afterward, with knowledge, reveraneo grew until the time has now come when biolo gists, physicists, historians alike confess that there ia no theory of evolution which does not demand a God to make it worka ble." Dr. Ilillisis a particularly able as well as aggressive exponent of the school of theology which is in tho ascendant at pres ent the school which uppeala to reason aa the supreme judgeof truth and accepts the teachings of revelation only us far aa they are considered reasonable. The ad herents of this school believe m God be cause they find Him in nature, and in Christ because He satisfies their ideals with regard to the possibilities of human nature. Well, it is better to believe even so than not to believe at all. I!ut that sort of be ilef will not satisfy the needs of our spirit ual nature. W'e need a God concerning whom we can have definite knowledge through a direct revelation, which wo can feel to be authoritative and trustworthy in itself and superior to and therefore quito independent of any discoveries or impres sions concerning Him which can be ob tained from the ratiocinations of the hu man mind even in its highest development. New York Witness. Life Indeed. Coil has been wrestling with you pa tiently and luvingly for many years. Ho has sought by the prosperity and happi ness that He has sent you to make you con scious of His tender love and care, and to draw you to Him by the cords of gratitude. And when you failed to perceive Him in the daylight. He has met you in the dark ness. He has thrown His strong arm around you and still you have not known. Him. He has wounded you Ho has had to wound you because you ktruggled against Him. Can you not now see that it ia He? And-is it not idle to renist Him? Oh, if men only knew that God is not their en emy, but thoir best friend! If instead of holding Him off or trying to break away from His embrace, tjiey would cling to Him, as Jacob did, exclaiming: "I will not let Thee go, except Thou bless me!" Aa soon as that prayer ia offered the blessing comes and the morning breaks. There would have been iu need of the long struggle if the soul had only yielded sooner to Him whose one supreme desire is to bless and save it. Edward B. Coe, D. D. ' Only the Spiritual Survives. The destiny of man ia bound up with the siiintual life. The physical must be soon abandoned, the mentul will survive death, the moral will always be valuable, but our future weal or woe in a spiritual world turns on our present use of the spiritual opportunities. Rev. H. Francia Perry, Baptist, Kuglewobd, 111. Heaven. -" Heaven ia not a passive state, where ona only site atill and enjoys. Eternal life ia not eternal sleep, but it ia eternal activity in the survice of God. ltev. Charles W. Ilyrd, Methodist, AUanti One ot God's rem man ts better than the world's whole pleoe. Blessed la tfcft main who consecrates God's gifts to Hia glory. A death in tho noma on earth oft opens the uVxtr to the homo In heaven, The steady stream ot ain la not kept' back by an annual spurt of religion. It la well to lay our trouldaa before the Lord and better to laava them there, 1 ' The loving Judgments of frlend3 are harder to bear than the harsh ones of foea.
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