"HE PAIDHIS FARE" Sunday Discourse By Dr. Chapman, the Noted Pastor-Evangelist. Tht Dibit It But History o! Evtry Hums. Lift Slot art Bought Dear . New York ClTr. The following tchol arly and readable sermon has been pre pared for the pi ess by the popular pastor evangelist, the Rev. Br. J. Wilbur Chap man. The subject of the discourse is "He Paid His Fare, and it was preached from the text, "So he paid his fane." Jonah 1: 3. Whatever else men may say about the Bible at least this is true that it contains the hiotory of every human life, and when we see Jonah fleeing away from Joppa seeking to get to Tarshish instead of Nine veh, we have a vision of our own past ex perience, when God commanded and we disobeyed, and we believe the Bible not be cause it is an old book, for there are other old books, but we believe it because it speaks to our deepest and truest heart's experience. It is a perfect revelation to ui of ourselves. The Mediterranean Sea ia in teresting. First, because of its sunsets, and sec ondly because it is tideless, but also for the reason that it is visited by frequent storms which are beyond description. Eight hundred nnd sixty-two years before Christ the passengers' boat plied upon the Mediterranean Sea from port to port. One of these was pushed out from Joppa when an excited passenger hurried on board, looked into the faces of all he met as if he feared detection, paid his fare and went down into the bottom of the boat that he might get away from the sight of men. A terrific storm overtakes them as soon as they leave the port, but we have not so much to do with the storm as with the ex cited passenger. The boat had crossed and recrossed the sea many times in safety, but this is to be an exception, for the wind howls and the waves beat against ' the bark, but as I say we are not to study the storm but the frightened man in the vessel. The word of the Lord came to hiin to say, "Jonah, go to Nineveh," and instead of obeying he set sail for Tarshish. It was an expensive trip, and brought him neither pleasure or escape: is like the jour neys that the most of us nave made. The text must appeal to every one; you never committed a sin, you never have indulged in appetite, you certainly never have ob tained a success and never have met with a defeat, but you have been obliged to pay a fare. There are but two lines to travel in, this world- one is the line of duty per formed and the other the line of duty dis regarded. There may be different modes of travel, but two great divisions; those who have known their duty and followed it. and on the other hand those who have shirked re sponsibility; the one company is bound to the Nineveh of duty done, the other for Tarshish of duty shirked, but in ivery case we pay a fare. Men must pay a price for attainments in this world always. It is the price of exer tion, of earnest, continual effort, of severe discipline. Two men in Philadelphia years ago were workmen in the same shop. One of them used his noon hour to teach a little dog to play tricks, and the other occupied his time in perfecting an invention which has astonished the world and made him a mil lionaire many times over. j There are some things that impress our, minds as we study the text and read this story. . First, it is vain to try to defraud God. Men some tiines think they are succeeding, and they laugh at the puritanical ideas of the Christian, but you may sin month after month and apparently prosper, and at last when you least expect it you will be dis covered. A man cleaning out a well on one of the farms in our State came across a skeleton the other day. He reported to the authorities, and a murderer guilty of sin twenty-five years ago was apprehended and sent to his punishment. Jonah found that that was true; that God could not be' mocked. The storm was against him, the' sailors against him, God Himself sought' him out. "Be not deceived, God is not mocked; whatsoever a man soweth that' shall he also reap." i Second, as soon as we go contrary to,1 God everything is against us. God said,! "Go to Nineveh," and Jonah started for! Taruhish, and the sea roars, and the winds blow, and the ship rocks, and no man ever' gets to Tarshish in comfort when God, commands him to go to Nineveh. The mo-! ment you turn away from Him thee is' conflict, and you cannot hide from Godj either by day or by night. There is one, text which ought to be written in lettersl of fue for all men to read, "Thou God' aecst me." I II. : If we could only make men understand1 the eternal cost of sin many a man would forsake sin. The word of God has stated, plainly, "The wages of sin is death," and; the cost is an infinite price. There is dan-j ger, however, of being deceived because sin flatters and fascinates. At the time of the Inquisition there was a punishment known as the Virgin's Kiss. The one to suffer, was pushed forward and made to kiss the lius of the Virgin and instantly the arms of iron were about him and hidden dag gers pressed their way to every part of his body. How like this is to our experiences in sin, and in this world sin does not pay,1 for conscience disturbs us and the remorse crushes us, while in the world to come there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. It is an awful thing to be with out God here, but who can describe being without God there. It is true that no suc cess was ever achieved without paying a price, but it ia here where the devil conies in to say, "You can escape all this drudg ery and take a cross cut to success." There is an innate desire in the human heart to get the most for the least effort, and he takes advantage of this. Let me give you an illustration of a young man of thirty years of age who has a work to do and vgrea'. end to attain, but he must have a long mmistry of agonv and suffering and conflict. The devil meets him to say, "All these things will I give you if you will fall down and worship me," and he might in an instant have had worldly power, but he had the courage to say, "Get thee behind me, Satan." With the temptations that come to all of us at times, we want success; he promises it; we Heek happiness; he deceives ill when he says that he can give it us; we are after peace and he would lead us to think that he can bestow it upon us. but let it be re numbered that there is a law which always holds, that no man has real success in tliis world without paying the price for it, and if we yield in the least to Satan in the mat ter of an impure thought, an unholy occu pation, a sinful alliunce, instead of paying the price for success we are paying it for failure. "Mny it please the court," said a young man who was asked how he came to sin. "I had a good mother and a good father, but bad company has been my ruin." No man can ever be a Christian if he holds on to one sinful alliance, or keeps step with one sinful companion. III. Let U be remembered, therefore ,that you be obliged to pay first for every sin indulged. Look back over your past life, the youth you have wasted, the opportuni ties you have lost, the strength that has aone, you will have to pav for. HoWr.raujr ,t,imel1 hv heard men ay, If I could only go back to the day of my youth, ' but you cannot, they are gone, and although sins may be pardoned manhood u affected, character weakened, the soul scarred: thufc ti.a aiua of our youth, "i would give my right! handy said a distinguished mini in J)e. itwit. "if I could forget the sins of my youth, and sacrifice my left hand and my - eye if I could put away the sinful stories of my boyhood's days. Second, for the habits of indulgence we shall be obliged to pay. We wake up at forty years in the midst of a busy world, every man is buiiy about us, and before w can seize an opportunity it is gone; before, we can take advantage of blessing it il away, and habits of indulgence to a greatei or lens degree will cling to you till death. You may have gone through the worst forms of sin. and God will forgive you, but you are marked. I once said to a friend of mine as I wai trying to help one who has been a drunk aid. ' 1 oft wish that I hud full the pungi Wld-aulluriuiai of intemperate loan. tiuit-J might better sympathize witn men," and ) shall never forget his face; it grew deathly white, and tfce tears ran down his checki W he said, "Never say it again, for if J could only forget I would be perfectlj happy, but while it is true that wo nevet forget, God does, for He has said, 'I will remember your transgressions no more for ever," and in the Old Testament has de clared that "our sins shall not be men tioned against ns in that day." Third, we shall have to pay for every Warninggiven. After Jonah was rescued ana entered Nineveh he cried aloud: "Yet forts days and Nineveh shall be overthrown," bul God has been better to you than that. They had one appeal, you have had fifty; they had one warning, you have had o thousand; they had fortv days, you have had forty years. Sometimes the warning has come in the providences of God, some times in the sickness of the night when th Very ticking of the clock was an invitation, and we shall have to pay for conscience scared and hearts burdened, and we shall be obliged to go out into the world to come absolutely shorn of excuses. It is not necessary to speak of big sins. Dr. Tal mage has said, however, that there are five acta in the rum traffic. ACT THE FIRST. A man starting from home for college, his parents Weeping, his sister almost with heart breaking, and as he leaves the house they stand in the doorway of the old home to wave him farewell until he is over the hill and gone. ACT THE SECOND. The marriage altar and the church filled with music and two hearts beating as one and a new home established. ACT THE THIRD. Midnight and a woman waiting in a home of poverty for a husband who does not come home, and when he comes is in toxicated. ACT THE FOURTH. Three graves in a dark place, the grave of a child who died of neglect, the grave of a woman who died of a broken heart, the grave of a man who has killed himself. ACT THE FIFTH. A distressed soul's entry, no music, no life, the blackness oMarkncss everywhere. Suppose we go on in the wav in which we started. Oh, what nn infinite cost, ig noring conscience nnd the prayers of our friends and the pleading of the Snirit. A young boy sent away from New York to e Western city provided with a' new suit of clothes and a new hat, was seen tearing the lining out of his old hat. nnd Iwhen asked why he was doing so said, "It .was a piece of my mother's dress, and I 'cannot go without it. She loves me, nnd it is all I have of hers," but it is not all that you have of your mother; you have ,the memory of her sweet life and the vision of her tears of concern nnd the sail look of her face ns she said, "I beseech you, do not go astray," and you promised ,you would not, and you have. Manhood will suffer if you go on. Here is a graduating scene in a Western college, nnd at the feet of the leader of the class the flowers are thrown, nnd ns ho descends from the platform the old college hall rings with cheers and people rise nnd congratulate the aged father and the lov ing mother on having such a boy, and here is a picture of a prison cell and the in mate's hair is matted and his eyes nre bruised, and the picture of the second is the nicturo of the first after the trans forming nower of ein. Oh, that we might turn to God to-day, for we may wait until it is too late. The Rebecca Goddnrd years ago came al most within sight of the New York harbor and was then caught in the ice and thrown back again at sea, drifted for days at the mercy of the waves and finally was lost, and yet she was within sight of the har bor. God pity us if we should be in sight of home to-night and after all be lost. Cheerful Living. Cheerful living is a matter for every day's experience. It is not a series of lightning flashes, each succeeded by a gloom of dark; it is a steady glow such as the lamp con tinually fed and tended makes because it is a lamp. It is and must be ever in this troubled life the great attractive quality for disappointed and desnairing men. To proclaim Christ's invitation with good words is much, but to be ourselves Christ's invitatjon by a life of constant cheerfulness is at once the noblest and the commonest of all earth's opportunities. Since cheerful living is a light, the time of darkness is its opportunity of shining. To be happy in life's happy days is as easy as breathing. The opportunity of help comes in with trouble, sorrow, loss. And it comes most perhaps with petty troubles, cares, anxieties, vexations. To be cheerful, when it is easy to be vexed or sad, is to win a victory for Christ and hold a light for men. One lamp in the city's glow counts little, but how men in the darkness of the wood follow one lamp that shows the way toward home and peace! Congre gationalism Coming of Earl of Roastyn. The Earl of Rosslyn -will act In this country next season under the name of James Ersklne. He spent a fortune (of $1,600,000 and has since been church singer, organist, traveling salesman and female Impersonator. RAM'S HORN BLASTS. HE man who thinks leads the crowd. A teacher is not a taskmaker. Good things al ways given bad men. Some men are bora with tha brakes set The vision is only for the seeing heart. V-CJ3,' Heroes never see I ."hemselvea In the glasa. Logics will not Illumine until It Is on nre with love. Culture ia not character, but char acter is culture. There are no sins that a man may keep to himself. When a man ia his own god he la other people's devil. Some men march to holl to the time of heavenly tunes; The heart within to resist evil is bet ter than a fence without. You cannot estimate a man's mes sage by the size of his mouth. God refreshes the leaves by watering the roots. Imagine an angel with a pipe In bis mouth. The nimble nickel has tripped up many a aaint The stream of life rlaea not above its source. The tbrona of grace Is not a bar gain counter. ' All aoclal problems center In the sin problem. The only thing that cornea to the man who waits la the dust from the processions. Deep digging must go before high building. Bin, la not essential to commercial success. The love la not fautleas that falters at a fault , . Trials are heavenly teachers In earthly guise. The pulpit easily becomes a platform for pride. The problem la not to get education out of politics w. much as to get edu cation into the politicians. A woman may have opeued the door to sin but man gave It the glad baud as soon aa he got home. T THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lesson Comments for August 10. ' . Soblect: Nadib and Abihu Tcmp:rinco Let aoa, Lav. x., l-llOoldaj Tei, 1, Tlteu v., 6 Memory Vcrsss, 8-11 Com mentary on the Day a Lesson. "Nadab and Abihu." These were the eldest sons of Aaron and nephews of Moses. They were next to Aaron in posi tion and rank. They had just been in lucted into the priestly office, and their first acts as priests brought them to a most tragic end. "Censer." A small ves el used for burning incense. "Incense." The sacred perfume offered to God by burning. It was composed of fragrant ipices (Ex. 30: 34-38), and was n symbol of prayer. "Stranire fire." Instead of talking fire which the Lord Himself had kindled (chap. 0:24), from off the altar of burnt offering, they took common fire which was expressly forbidden. Chap. IB: 12. their sin seems to have consisted, 1. In going without orders. 2. In taking their own censers, instead of using the utensils of the sanctuary. 3. In doing what none but the high priest was allowed to do. i. In that they went together at the same time, whereas the incense was only to be offered by one. 5. In going at an hour not appointed for this service, ft. In of fering strange fire. It is thought by some that thev even entered into the holy of holies. The whole service on this solemn day of inauguration was to be performed by Aaron himself, and his sons were only to attend him. These two young priestj were presumptuous, rash and irreverent. It is the prevailing opinion that they were in a state of intoxication when they en tered upon their duties (see vs. 8, 9). and that this was the reason they acted so rashly and wickedly. 3. "Fire from the Lord." Fire from the Lord had just consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar (9: 24) in token of divine complacency and sacred nearness and the acceptance of human worship, and that some fire went out from the. .Lord and consumed the auda cious priests. The very fire which they had slighted was now the instrument of their destruction. Fo God's truth is a savor of life unto life or of death unto death. 2 Cor. 3: H-lfl. The Holy Spirit will either regenerate (Titus 3: 5) nnd senl us (Enh. 4: 30),- or consume us. Heb. 12: 29. "Died before the Lord." That is, be fore the veil that covered the mercv-seat. God was now teaching His children obe dience, as .became servants. In this sin was manifested a contemnt for Moses and the divine law, and for God's glory. The punishment was necessary according to the law. 3. "Sanctioned," etc. "I will be made to nnpear holy bv those who administer in My name." This refers directly to the priests. They had received solemn warn ings as to the cautious and reverent man ner of their approach into the divine presence. "Aaron held his peace." He submitted in silent resignation to what? he saw was "the righteous judgment of God." Far be it from him to honor his sons more than God, or wish God's name, or house, or low, to be exposed to re proach or contempt to preserve his family. 4. "Out of the camp." The burying place of the Jews was without the camp. 5. "In their coats." Burying them in their priestly robes was a sign of their being polluted bv the sin of their irrelig ious wearers. Anron was not permitted to die in his priestly garments, in order that they might be worn by Eleazar. Num. 20 : 26. 6. "Uncover not your heads." They were to use no sign of grief or mourning. 1. Because those who were employed in the service of the sanctuary should avoid everything that might unfit them for that service. 2. Because the crime of their brethren was so highly provoking to God. and so fully merited the punishment which He hail inflicted, that their mourn ing might be considered as accusing the Divine Justice of undue severity. It was the law that the priest should never leave the aitar or go to burials, or interrupt his sacred ministry by shedding tears. "Whole house of Israel." All the people were to bewail the burning, not only on account of the loss of their priests, but especially because God had been displeased. "They must bewail the burning kindled, that it might burn no further. Aaron and his ions were in danger of being too much affected with the ' providence, therefore thev are Jorbiuden to mourn; me nouse jf Israel was in danger of being too little iffected. and therefore are commanded to lament." 7. "Shall not go out." "They were not to come in contact with secular affairs bv kbandoning the service of the tabernacle. ' 'Lest ve die." Many a Christian minister has suffered spiritual death by voluntar ily going forth from the tabernacle to cu ter upon secular matters. 8. "Spake unto Aaron." This command was immediately given to Aaron to en tourage him by such a token of regard; nd because the Lord would not have it appear as if Moses had not sympathized n his affliction, or had intended to charge dim with criminality in this respect. 9. "Do not drink wine," etc. This Itrongly implies that Aaron's sons had iinned through excess of wine, and "had attempted to celebrate -the divine service in a state of inebriation." "this wine is In Hebrew 'yayin,' the most general term or the beverage, especially when it is in toxicating. In seventy-five out of a hun dred and thirty-six passages it is spoken f with condemnation by reason of its disastrous effects. 'Stroug drink' is ap plied to all fermented liquors except wine, It included beer and cider and the fer jnented juices of various other fruits and vegetables." "Lest ye die." God fixes the penalty and give it as a warning. 10. "May put difference." "To be able to distinguish between what was sacred and what was common. Wine draws a film over the spiritual eve and confounds moral distinctions." "This is a strong reason why they should drink no intoxi sating liquor, that their understanding being clear, and their judgment correct, they might be always able to discern be tween the clean nnd the unclean and ever pronounce righteous judgment. Indeed, common sense itself shows that neither a Drunkard nor a sot should ever be suf fered to minister in holy things." 11. "Teach the children." "The priest was the proper person to teach, and if he were addicted to drunkenness he would be indeed very unfit to teacb people God's laws or statutes, for two reasons, namely, Bocause they who live after the flesh can not have an experimental knowledge ot the things of the Spirit; and because they would, by their example', destroy all their own teaching. Drunkenness is sinful, therefore is considered fleshly. Temper ance is a virtue and does not unfit one to learn of Chriot and the things of His kingdom." "The law of the Lord is per fect, converting the soul." The "Taxameter" Cab. Vubllc automobiles operated it Berlin run at the same tariff aa th droschkiea, which go by horse powei -that Is, about seventy-five cents aa hour. Like most of the Berlin public ve hides 'and those of other Oermai cities, It la equipped with a taxa moter. This device la a clock whosi speed ia accelerated by an odometei attached to the axle of the cab. Tht revolutions of the wheels mark tai distance traveled, and according tt this distance you pay for the uae o! your cab. The clock's face la divided InU spacea, representing one hundred pfennigs'. The minimum face la flftj pfennigs, and tho clock band starti at the fifty pfennig mark. When vol have traveled a distance which ac cording to . - the legal . , schedule , li chargeable at fifty pfennigs the clock hunil jumps, to fifty-five, and tt con tinues to move as the wheels revolve If your cab stands still the hand sUl1 booh, but at a alowor rate of spaed. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. Au.nat 10. "A Suggestion In Addition." 2 Peter I. 4-9. SCRIPTURE VERSE3. Eph. 11. 19-22; 111. 14-21; Phil. i. 9-11; 1,1. 12 14; Col. 11. 9-11; Theaa. ill. 12, 13; 2 Tneas. I. 3; Heb. vi. 1; xlll. 20, 21; 2 Peter 111. 18. Lesson Thoughts. Every virtue attained In tho Chrla (lan Ufa is a stepping-stone to a high er virtue; tha Christian is always as cending. All substantial physical life reaches maturity by gradual growth, though even the germ may be perfect as a germ. Christian character goes to ward perfection In the same way. All progress that Is not toward God Is growing to decay. Selections. Heaven la not reached at a single ' bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. God never means that his disciples shall take a backward step. If we cease to advance, It Is In spite of God. None of the disappointments, discouragements, failures, or circum stances that life holds for us ara meant to be setbacks. Everything, absolutely everything, that God senus Into our lives ia sent to help us on ward. All of God's providences are stepping atones. Soul of mine, tVouldst thou choose for life a mot to half divine? Let this be thy guard and guide. , Through the future reaching wide, Whether good or III betide, Rise higher. A little child stood on the floor or a great cathedral, looking up at the dome, one hundred and fifty feet above him. He saw men and women walk ing around tne gallery just inside the dome, and wondered how they could have got up there. But his father opened a door, and he saw a flight ot atone steps. He went up the steps one at a time, until, before he realized what he was doing, he, too, stood with in the great dome and looked on the marble floor beneath. So it is we climb to heaven, a step at a time. Suggested Hymns. Blessed Savior, ever neav-r. Nothing but leaves. Nearer, my God, to thee. More love to thee, O Christ. More of Jesus. As lives the flower within the seed. EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS. August 10 A Suggestioa la Addltloa 2 Pet. 1,4-9 "Order la heaven's first law." The. evidence of order In the natural world Is positive proof of an Ordainer. Soma things come first necessarily, and others follow. To find the order aa established by Deity requires intelli gences To follow that order obedi ently Is the highest wisdom and must lead to the best results. In our day great stress is laid upon method. Wesley regarded It so highly that he and his first few followers were, slightingly Btylod Methodists. Petei himself was one, as clearly shown Id tho scripture. He starts out right hy insisting upon diligence. We have ail learned that nothing reat can be achloved without tills requisite. Brick by brick, stone by stone, mag ciflcent temples rise. Grace added tc grace and virtue to virtue will issue id th-j still more magnificent temple ol Christian character. To your faith add courage to dare and to endure. This is the meaning of the word translated "vlitue." It is a noble and ennrollng quality. It is often exempli fied In the common walks of life. Courage to suiter for another we must add to our faith, and to this "knowl edge" must be added. Without in formation. Intelligence, courage may become Impulsive and rash. Intelli gent virtue is becoming more and more demanded as the race advances In civilization; and it in turn becomes a powerful factor In advancing the bSiit form of civilization. To knowledge add temperance. Not temperance in Its restricted sense, but tamperance broadened in its mean ing till It signifies self-mastery. There is within every noble soul an ambition for personal freedom in its highest degree, which Is real self-mastery. But even this virtue may become Intolerant and ascetic. To it must be added patience one of the sweetest, most vital, and most valuable of all the factors entering Into human char acter. James says, ' Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be per foct and entire, wanting nothing." Thl3 quality makes a very large con tribution toward completeness of lite, Now turn the soul heavenward and in sist upon the necessity of godliness. How wonderously does this elevate man! Marvelous:B our possible powet to become Godlike! For Godliness is Godllkness. How natural is the adding na.Y of brotherly kindness! This is to preserve the proper balance. Godly and pious people have often been inclined to separate themselves from their fellow-man, and In solitude en joy communion with Jehovah. Monks and nuns have made this serious mis take. And now the crowning virtue le charity in the sense of God's own beautiful love in the human heart. Without this grace we may become narrow and bigoted. With it our love of the great brotherhood will be gener ous and inclusive. "Charity aufleretb leng, and Is kind; charity envleth not; charity vaunteth not itself, Is not puffed up." The Perfect Seven has been re garded as standing for perfection. Here we have seven graces, which, when woven Into a human character, must make It just what God designed it should 'become. How sublime and In spiring is the promise ot perfected character which God's word aaaur&a us may be retched. - Loeettd. Col. Malthy tells of a neighbor, says the Philadelphia Times, of his, at St. flavld's, who went home at a rather vuusual hour of the day aud said to the family servant: "Can you tell me of my wife's whereabouts?" ; ' . Bridget hesitated for a momout, and then replied: "Faith, to tell ye the truth, I really j believe they are la the wash I" ... THE GREAT 'DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. ft-arabla of the Fly ami the Fly-paper A Clever Editorial From the New York Journal Showing That tha Whisky Drinker Is as Foolish as a Fl. This is a true story; not an accumulation t pseudo facts. A man had spread out a sheet of fly paper. He noticed that from day to day the number of small black apecks increased, each speck telling the story of the fly's tragic end. One day, out of idle curiosity, he fell to studying the flies as their doom overtook them. One fly came to the edge of the paper, tasted the treacherous, sticky preparation, then went away for the time being. Another fly did the same, but waded boldly in, and was soon caught fast. Another fly. flying down straight from above, landed in the middle of tht fly paper. His pleasant bu77. of anticipation soon changed to a loud singing noise, that told of helpless rage and fear. As the flies landed on the paper each acted in a different way. Some beat their wings frantically for a second or two, onlv to fall over on their sides very soon and succumb to the sticky poison. Others showed more intelligence, and, when they realized the danger, stood on the tips of their tiny legs, endeavoring to draw themselves up and fly away. Now and then some fly. with violent effort of his muscles and of his will, would actually tear himself from the fly paper nnd escape. Others could not get away, but made a heroic struggle. They walked across the paper, dragging their heavv Icm and sticky winis, climbing up on the bodies of the other flics in search of some means of escape. The man watched the flic. their differ ent kinds of efforts, their different ways of dying, the long struggles of some, the quick submission of others. It was a grewsome but interesting spectacle. What interested him most was the stu pidity of the flies, and the fact that not one of them seemed to learn anything from the fate of the scores of others stretched dead on the sticky surface. "It is evident," Mid the man. "that tlien flies have absolutely no capacity for think ing or for estimating consequences. "Each flv ns he approaches the paoer must see that there are scores of flies lying dead on it. Kach of thee flies, as he goes back and forth n-ar this deith trap must see the other flies struggling, see their useless efforts, h?nr their terrified buzzing yet each fly in his turn runs the . risk, and, tempted bv the sweet, sticky substance, goes to death in his t-.i'-n. "I suppose that each foolish flv thinks that he will escape the fate of the others. Each one imagines that he can light on the paper nnd get off again. Perhaps ench has noticed the occasional flv that gets on the fly naner and does escape safely. "What fools these flies are. What a fool each one of them is not to say to himself that what has ruined so many other flies will surely ruin him. Why do they not set out of this room, if thev cnn. or at litt keep as far away from the fly paper as pos sible?" Having thus mused nhilosnpiiirnl'y. the man nut on his hat nnd went out, leaving the flies nnd their foolishness to take care of themselves. The man turned to the riff ht. then turned to the left, then went through a doorway, and then he was on the fly paper that catches human beings. He was in a drinking saloon, nnd he had a glass of whisky in front of him. At this point we mav stndv this ran in the saloon as he studied the flies on the fly paper in his bedroom. What happens to the man in a si'oon? Exactly that which happens to flies on the fly paper. One man goes near the edge of the whiskv habit, takes a little and goes a'way, like the first fly mentioned, who ap proached the edge of the flv paper. This human fly who takes a little and goes away is almost sure to come back again in time. Other men who approach the whiskv flv paper take a little and promptly wade right in to their doom. The human victims that light on the whiskv fly paper have as mnnv way of struggling, as many wavs of dying. a many ways of suffering, and as few chances of escauing. as the ignorant fly that lights on the sticky fly paper in the hot kitchen. Of human flies on the whiskv fly paner. some struggle feebly for a while against the habit that has caught them, and soon succumb. Others Inst for a long while. Only the ends of their feet touch the flv paper. They keep their bodies erect, and for the time being feel quite proud of themselves, and call themselves "Moderate Drinkers." But their feet are on tha fly paper, and with nine out of ten of them it is only a question of time when the body and mind will sink to the level of the feet, and that will be the end of the struggle. An occasional human being escapes from the whisky fly paper, and goes away to tell others that "whisky never hurt him." Thi3 human fly does the most harm. He sends others to whisky, and sooner or later he is pretty sure to go back there himself. When you go into a restaurant, or any other place where fly paper is spread out, take a look at the struggling, suffering in sects dying slowly and horribly in the sticky mass that falsely attracted them. You will wonder at the stupidity of each fly as it alights, regardless of the fate of others. Don't duplicate that fly's stupidity in your own life. Remember that what has ruined other may ruin you. Keep away from the sa loon and from the whisky bottle. Take a walk through the Potter's Field some day any man at the Morgue can tell you how to get there and you will rind the fruits of the whisky bottle, quiet and peaceful nt last in their final rest on the surface of the fly paper that caught them. New York Journal. A Bishop's Testimony. Bishop Tucker, of Central Africa, giving his experience of teetotaliBm to a press representative, said: "I have been a tee totaler for twenty years. So far from re gretting it, I would commence it sooner if I had the chance again. I rind that in Africa, not only is a teetolar better fitted to cope with the climate, but he is better fitted for the great physical exercise which he hair to undergo. I have marched some 10,000 miles in Africa, and have never felt the want of anything like a stimulant. In deed, I felt sure that if I had not been a teetotaler it would hive been impossible to undergo tho fatigue involved in some of the marching." The Bishop in his previous pastoral visit covered about 1000 miles, en tirely on foot. This was harder than being Bishop of tlendigo. Tha Crnsada In llrlef. Von Moltke, the great German, was a ti ict teetotaler. Whisky won't get you into trouble if you don t drink it. There are 8,000,000 more total abstainoro to-day than fifty years agu. The railroads are drawing total absti nence lines closer about their employes. Another of those humanity stuggerina things, says the Chicago Tribune, is the national drink bill. The Chicago night school term is to be shortened, but the saloons will continue to run on full time. Swiss prison statistics show that drink ia the chief immediate cause of the crime and arrest of C7.7 per cent, of the persons in penal confinement. We know of no habit or practice so thoroughly treacherous as ia the us of in toxicating beverages. Its positive tend ency is toward tha slavery of its davoteea. Senator Hansbrough, of North Dakota, introduced a bill to prohibit the aale of liquor in all public buildings and immigra tion stations belonging to tha United fcitutea. A "Committee of Twelve" has been evolved in Massachusetts, made up of rep resentatives (if three temperance societies and ceituin men engaged in education, to make out a course oi atudy iu teiupurauca physiology. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Oeaeral Trad Caadltloas. . Bradstreet's" ay: "Weather, crop and industrial developments have bean largely favorable, ancl coupled with the greater ease of money make for an op timistic feeling in trade and speculation. As stated some time ago, and confirmed by recent developments, the future teems more and more secure, but the immediate present does not in all in stance) present so satisfactory an ap pearance. "Warmer weather has continued to help retail distribution, but has not in all cases made up for the disadvantages caused by the heretofore backward sea son. With few exceptions, summer re sort business has not equaled expecta tions. Railway earnings are really flat tering, June returns on nearly 100,000 miles of road showing an aggregate pain of 8 per cent on last year. "In the matter of actual business im provement is noted in the demand for finished products of iron and steel and lumber seems to be recovering from the temporary depression noted at the be ginning of July. The shoe trade and naturally hides and leather, heretofore backward, have begun to show a favor able side, and the strength of wool ami woolen goods is also more noticeable. The dry goods trade taken as a whole is rather quiet, but increased interest it hortly to be expected. The Eastern fall jobbing trade in thit line is not ex pected to set in quite as early as a year go. "Good growing weather is reported Ihe country over, and corn and cotton reports are generally more favorable. 'Woolen goods are ttill quiet at the East, but the reports as to the clothing business received from Western and Southern manufacturers indicate a good Business. It has been a waiting market ior cotton, the crop position not being s yet clearly defined enough to induce new commitments. A better tone is noted in the manufacturing branch, par ticularly in print cloths, which are said to be in increased inquiry at Fall River." LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour Spring clear, $3.15a3.35- boat Patent, $4.65; choice Family, $3.90. Wheat New York No. 2. 75Kc; Phlladelphio No 2, 77Xa78 0: Baltimore No 2, 760. Corn New York No. 2, 70c; Phila delphia No. 2. 72tfa73; Baltimore No. 2, 71a72o. Outs New York No. 2. 56Ko; Phila delphia No. 2, tJOc; Baltimore No 2, 59o. Hay No. 1 timothy, $16.50al7.OO; No. 2 timothy. $16.00al6.50; No. 3 tim othy$14.00al5.00 Greon Fruits and Vegetables. Beets, Native, per bunch laljo. Blackberries, Eastern .Shore, per quart, 4a5c. Cab bage North Carolina, per crate $1.00 al.50; do Norfolk, per brl, $1-004125. Cantaloupes Florida, per crate 50ca $1.50. Cucumbers Charleston, per bas ket 15a25o; do North Carolina, 15a25o jEggnlants, Florida, per crate $1.5l)al.75 Huckelberries, per quart 5u6o. Let tuce, Native, per bushel box 20a25o. Onions, New, per basket 80ca$1.00 Peaches, Florida, per carrier $1.00al. 50 Pineapples, Florida, per crate, $2. 00a 2.50. String beans, per bushel, green, '80a40o; wax, 70a80o Tomatoes, Poto mao, per six-basket carrier, fancy, 50 :a65o do, fair to good 25a30o. Potatoes, Norfolk, per brl, No 1, $1 25al 65; do, seconds, $1 OOal 10; do, culls, 50a75o; do, North Carolina, per l.rl. Nol, $1 25al 60. Butter,- Separator, 23u24c; Gathered cream, 22a23o;prints,l-lb 25a26c; Rolls, 2-lb, 25a26; bairy pts. Md., Pa., Va., 23a24o. ,' Eggs, Fresh-laid eggs, per dozen, 16Xal7o Cheese, Large, 60-lb, lOalOjo; me dium, 3G-lb, lOalOjf; picnics, 23-lb 10fal0o. Live Poultry, Hens, 12al2Xo; old roosters, each 25a30o; spring chickens, 13al3o, young stas, 12ul2Xo. Ducks llal2o. Hides, Heavy steers, association and talters, late kill, GO-lbs and up, oloso se lection, llal2c; cows aud light steers, 8Ka9o. Live Stock. Chicago, Cattle, Mostly 10al5o lower, good to prime steers $7 75a8 75; poor to medium $4u7; stackers ind feeders $2 50 a5 25; cows, $1 50a5 75) hoi furs $2 50a C 50; Texas-fed steers $4 00u6 00. Hogs, Mixed and butchers $7 30a8 05; good to choice, heavy $7 75u8 17; Sheep, Bheep aud lambs slow to lower; good to choice whethers $3 75a4 75; Western sheep $2 50a3 60. East Liborty, Cattle steady; choioe $7 15a7 50; prime $6 75a7 15. Hogs, prime heavy $3 10a8 15, modiums $8 00; heavy Yorkers $7 85a7 90. Sheep steady, Best wethers $4 15a4 20 culls aud com mon $1 50a2 00; choice lambs $G 00a6 50. LABOR AND INDUSTRY Indiana farmers are organizing trade unions. San Francisco, Cat., salesladies have organized. The pay of the German soldiers is only six cents a day. Buffalo, N. Y., union labor men will nominate a local ticket. Wisconsin dairy industry employs 1700 hands at an annual cost (or wages of nearly $1,000,000. The sum of $27,084,710 is expended annually for wages of employees in the glass industry in thit country. - It is understood that the car builders will go out over the Union Pacific sys tem where unions are organized. Potteri at East Liverpool, Ohio, have tent out word to all their men that all plants will resume operations in full. As surances have been given that no ttrike will occur in the district this year. Clothing stores "not in the union" are being picketed by the Union Retail Clerks' Association of Duluth, Minn. The mortality from accidents to rait way employees was reduced 35 per cent last year by improved coupling devices. The average weekly earnings of the women wageworkers in the large cities of Ohio it $4-83 a week, and their living expenses $5 23. Santa Barbara, Cal., plumbert went on a strike for higher wages. They have been receiving from $3.30 to $J7J a day, and they demand a uniform rate of $4. In view of the terrible distress among armor plate workers in Sheffield, Eng land, the government it being pressed o no longer delay the placing of or der. Every native or naturalized citizen of Denmark who at the age of 60 years it found to be unable to support himself or his family, is entitled to a pension Irom the government. A bill to prevent fhe employment ol women and minors in the manulacture ol textile goods after 6 o'clock in the evening or before 6 o'clock in the morn ing has been defeated in the Massachu setts House of Representatives. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAK1 READING FOR THE QUIET HOtmJ WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF. Poem 1 Take Tlme-A Christian Touqj man wno nu sumii m Fnbllo Profeisloa of HI BaMa ld His Tormentor to Jean. Take time to think: Thought oft will save thee from the snareJ Bring thee to cooling streams and bow ers, Spare thee from nursing needless car, ; Surround thee with defensive towersj Yield thee the harvest of content, Lift thee from dust to starry wys, Discover comfort heaven-sent In thy most dark and cheerless days. Therefore, take time to think. Take time to pray: -. For when thou pray'st the vision's cleared. The voice is toned, the Trill's subdued, . The dear are to thee more endeared, And the soul's failing strength renewed,' In prayer the purest words are spoken, The mind receives heaven's holy light, The heart is given the Spirit's token, The hands are charged with wisdom's! might. - J Therefore, take time to pray. Take time to praise: Praise is the witness that you see, Or hear, or feel, or understand, Or trust where there is mystery About the workings of His hand. It is thy child-attempt to prove Thy kinship with the hosts above, ' . Who, as they in God's presence move. Praise Him for His exhaustless love,' Therefore, take time to praise. Take time to work: Know what a privilege it is. To work with God, to have thy hand Engaged for llim thy energies Developing 'neath His command, To share the stores of grace and truthV Which to His faithful ones are given In service to maintain thy youth, ' . - And hear tho Lord's "Well done!" la heaven. Therefore, take time to work. How Far to Heaven T A seminary student, whose custom t was to go into the darkest parts of Chu cago to rescue the fallen and point sinners, to Christ was returning from his mission one night to his room at the McCormick Seminary. The hour was late, about 11.3J o'clock, and on the street car which was bearing him to his destination was a part) of people, who had just come from the theatre. They were gayly dressed and were talking lightly about the evening's, enjoyment. The car was crowded. 1 Presently, in walked two shabbfljl dressed women, each carrying a large btuM die underneath her arm, the contents o which were partly visible and which rex vealed the fact that they were the rect pients of the benefits of some charitable; institution. They looked tired and worts and haggard. The young man from the seminary arose from his seat and inviteq them to take it. With a look of gratitude and a modest thanks the two women squeezed into the small space previootls occupied by the one man. " He stood in the aisle steadying himself by means of the strap which hung from the top of the car. With one hand he held on to it, while in the other he held an open testament from which he was read ing. Presently, a finely-dressed, worldly, looking young man said to him in a mot sarcastic tone. "Ol then you're a Christian, are you?" "Yes, sir, I am," came the re ply. "Well, then," said the impertinent youth, "perhaps you can tell us just how; iar it is irom cne top oi your neaa ti heaven?" "Yes." said the God-fearim man: "it is nnlv a stpn " nnd with thu he fell upon his knees in the middle of tha car. A hush fell over the entire crowd and all seemed deeply moved. I Before long they reached the street at which the student was to leave the cary and he got off and walked to the seminar and from thence to his room in the dor-i mitory. I The next morning as the students were all rushing to their respective classes many of them noticed a young man, a stranger to' the rest, standing in one of the doorways, eagerly scanning the face of each passer by. At length came the young student of, the night before and the stranger Btepped forward and greeted him. He asked,' "Were you not on the Clark street car last night about 11.30 o'clock, and do yott not remember of a young man asking you.1 how fnr t was from the top of your heaj to hem-en, and your answer, that it waa, only a step? Well, I was that young man and I have come to find Jesus." J The seminary student was excused from his classes for that day and the young man was invited up to his room and was there led to the Savior. It was a wonder-i ful example of courage and humility and it! won a soul for Christ. Ram's Horn. Christ the Source or Strength. British Weekly of London, believes in au! all sufficient, all conquering Christ. He says: "Christ did not come so much to give ft thftnrv nf lif ia l;f if J - m me H.SC1I. nei cama to be Himself the Centre for the' anecuon8 ot humanity, the Foundation for its fnith, the Conquerer of its mortality, the Opener of the eternal gates. He was thff Ktiaiirriuitinn mw,A T.f- ,. .1 - ..v..... .Ill tne UllV, HOt L IlB mere teacher. He came not to develop thel .aic, uu, 1,1, luireute IE. "By Christ's incarnation, by the triumph1 V i' iigmeousness over tne power of evil, by His resurrection and Hit as cension. He created a new order into Whlf-h WA mat, An, an an -.t 1. 1 . 1. - . .ueirciiucui, oi our win. entering into! that order we have an immediate, persona!, and direct knowledge of the divine object! of faith; entering that order we receive the beginnings of that communion which will endure through the eternal ages ol the life of Christ in God." Making or Marring tha Fast, "" We make or mar the past. A ton take-) bis father s or his grandfather's name, andj that name, whatever it has been in the) past, is going to be a different thing by tt-hlll that .. It 1. . ... T. ' J .. . . u, lt ,Tay hHVA IWOn ,imk . AM I I . , , f. .. .. . ,,, u, lt may; r , "r , F . "0,,ur wnicn snail; be almost obliterated in its degradation.. H may have been wholly unknown, and' become widely, honorably mentioned. A! nation takes the heritage of the uilgrim' travels and trials, and what that nation' goes on to become shapes in a measure' the reputation of the founders. They be-i come greater and more worthy as it be-' comes greater and more worthy. So we ot( the present day hold in our hands, not only our own weliare and reputation, and the' shaping of our future, but the reputation) of those who went before us, whose works! we pass on to their final fulfillment or their final failure.--Sunday-School Times. The 4(acr of Prayer. Dr. Theodore L. Culyer, in speaking of prayer as the agency through which ho per-J forms his many duties and derives nisi greatest help, sayt: "Prayer is tha con-) duit-pipe between my soul and heaven. It' tt the outlet upward for gratitude, and! yearning desires for blessing; it is the, inlet through whioh the supplies of grace pour downward into the heart." 8aerincea. God literally reigned over Israel, At tha door of tha laK.m...la i ;u : dr. ness sacrifices were offered uato God, and! C- iran neavrn Durnt otfuH gs yet God was seeking s broken, heart, j Governor Odll snys tbe.Wst way to wear a silk but is to carry It in a grip, lie is having a dress suit rase made with a c-oiiipnrtiiipnt for his "stove plpo," so that ho needn't wear it when ho's off duty nor carry an extra hat box. , Lord Cnrsou of Ktdleston g slIro of a rh-P ill the peei-ago wlu-n bis ludinm vice-royalty ronn'ij to nu ml, says the Loudon Chronicle. II will (licit bp in (lie viti t, (hough not nniiiuc, position of luihliiig .a i-auU grenlfi- than his father's.
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