JONAH'S SEA EXPERIENCES Bright Sunday Sermon Bj Ber. Dr. John R. Mackej. Hew Haass Blfort sad Hatnia Influence Wltlicf Quickly Under Sarcsm. OtfNs Kam.8. N. Y. The Rev. Dr. John K. MacKav. naator of the First Pres byterian Church, here, preached Sunday morning on "The Significance of Jonah's Sea Kxpericnce." The text trat from Jonah i.12. Dr. Mat-Kay said: One of the surest way to ruin any cause is to be able successfully to heap ridicule upon it. Mike it ridiculous and you have ruinea it. An soon h it becomes the butt of common talk and the standing joke for the funny column of the newspaper its power is gone, its influence sealed. And so soon at an individual becomes thr centre f a community's joke and sneere his in fluence ia gone. Human etfort and influ ence wither more quickly under sarcasm and ridicule than in any other way. In this way many n Rood cause and ninny a good person has Buffered at the hands of jiersons who have never seriously tried tc understand the cause or the person. In this way many a great human Heart hat open placed upon its Calvary and made to bleed and suffer the keenest agony. Ill thi way many a no'jle, sincere, sensitive soul is going through its (icchsemane or is be ing nailed to its cross on this very Sabbath day. This is how I believe the work and life of Jonah have suffered. Unthinkingly, un feelingly, sarcastically, people have asso ciatd Jonah with .1 whale, and a joke be ing the easiest and cheapest way of show ing wisdom they hive exhausted all their wisdom there. We cannot keep too often reminding ourselves that we shall continue to miss the true meaning of the Bible and most of its great teaching unless we remember that every incident mentioned in the Old Tes tament gives not only the storv of some person, with all the local coloring sur rounding him as a man and an individual, but also and more important, that there is a great world truth to be revealed, and this individual, with his local coloring, has teen chosen as the medium through which to reveal and teach that truth. And, therefore, the great Uible difficulties, with so many, have arisen because they have lieen satisfied to centre all their thought and interest on the individual and his lo cal details, and in this way have missed the great truth intended to be taught a truth so great that were it grasped it would then become a key by which to open up and understand the incident it Belt. This is how Jonah has suffered at our bands. And our task is now in a few words to take another look at Jonah to try and see him in the light of the great truth intended to be taught and see if thereby we can the better understand the tory itself. Bethink yourselves back into the earlier stages and gradual growth of the human race. To them as to us there came prob lems to be solved. We have the benefit of their efforts and can profit by them in our problems. But the further back we go the less and less did they have to help them solve their problems. Yet they felt the full force of each one and had to make an ef fort of some sort to solve it. The problem waa not always the same. Sometimes it was social,, sometimes it waa physical, Bometimes it was national, sometimes it was intellectual, sometimes it was moral. If it took a religious phase it was either national or moral or intellectual. Men felt the presence of God impinging upon them. .They have forced themselves to formulate certain conceptions about Him. Then they found that certain of their experiences did not agree with these conceptions of God. 'And there their difficulties arose. This is the meaning of the book of Jonah. Who ever wrote the book felt the difficulty of a great intellectual and national problem. This led him to take the story of the Pro phet Jonah, that, having thrown it into a parabolic form, he might the better through it explain to the people what ha thought was God'a own solution of this particular problem. What, then, was that difficulty, that problem? The people of Israel believed that the love and sympathy of God were confined to themselves. His care, His fa-. Vor, His blessings were for them and them alone. God was their God and all the rest of the world was outside. There waa but one human family that had a divine rela tionship, and that was Jewish. Quite true, there were other nations, and thev had to live, but they had to live without God. Ho did not belong to them, they had no claim upon Him. That was the real traditional Jewish feeling. But a few people were growing up who had a newer and truer conception of God, and a broader outlook upon man. One of them felt he would like to relieve this nar row, limited, wrong conception of God. This led him to write the book, and in doing so he took Jonah as the representa tive of the old narrow Jewish idea, and (howed how Jonah's ideas became broad ened, and thus taught the broad, full love of God for all men taught not only the clemency of God, but also that He loves all inen. There, then, is the national prob lem, to teach that God ia God of all men and loves them; and the intellectual prob lem, to teach the Jewish people and all other people that Cod is everywhere. Let us see, then, how this double sided prob lem was solved and satisfactorily illus trated in Jonah's experiences that God is fr-whero and that God loves all mep. JXiJonah aid not believe this. God was not everywhere' as Jehovah. This Jonah had been taught and this he believed. This was xne very atmosphere in which he lived and moved and ban) his being. This was his unou s nsping, nis noynooci s teacning and Ins manhood's patriotism. But one nay there broke into his mind a new thought: "Why should not Goi. carefo.f the people in that other city just as well s He does for the people in this city! jVV hy should Jerusalem be any more fa .vored than Nineveh? The people are not Jews, but why should God not care for them just as well as if they were Jews! ,n-8uJ'i there n.Qt be a brotherhood of mankind strSnger than "all ths limits of national and family prejudice! Why not!" That thought came to Jonah like a voice which seemed to say to him, "Then, Jonah, why don't you go and tell them about God? Why don t you go and tell them they may have God's favor as well as other people?" This thought ao burned itself into Jonah's mind and heorl that be felt It must be God's will also to bless other people beside Jaws. But Jonah being a dyed-in-the-wool Jew could not tolerate that. He therefore said, "Now. if I get out of the country for a while this thought will leave me, for God is not everywhere o press it upon me as He is in Israel." lie did not care very much where he went if only he could get away from that voice. The voice troubled him. He felt that .voice was calling him to do something he Was sure was rignt, but he did not wish to do it. This is the sphere in which we so often are Jonahs. That voico we have al ways heard, and likt Jonah we have tried to stifle it. Yea, we get just as angry with God and our friends when they dare to keen suggesting it to us; we do not want to near about the right when we don't want to do it. Jonah, therefore, fled. He did not care where.' That ship going to Tarshish was opportune. It made bun de. oids that the safest place for him would be at sea. God was never known to have spo ken to a Jew on the sea. And now Jo nah felt he would be safe from God and that voice. That is why he so rapidly aaj peacefully got asleep. i .Now that is just why storm waa neces. ary. JonaH had to learn, an J through Aim all men had to learn, that God is pres ent as much on sea as upon land on an ocean greyhound as on a Tarshisj mer chantman. And Jonah learned it. Anil Jonah accepted it. At once he admitted, 'I have dolie wrong, cast me into the sea." And the storm ceased. The lesson had yeen learned, and through Jo:iah the Israelites learned that God ia everywhere, and no man can get away from Hun. That fish should pick bim up and cast him ubore is a mere incident of the parable. Qt ia simply that part of ths slory which Bachet that if a man repents God will re ceive, him and care for him and five him another chanc. It ia the divine exposi tion of man's "other chanoe" a chanc to Wdstni km oaafc end. go forward, to do God'a wiIt-Hio forwarrt to accomplish the particular form of service for which his life has been endowed and prepared. To have learned that God is everywhere was also to learn tht since God is God there can be no limit to His divine love that God has love and blessing for all peo- Cle and every person. So that in Jonah eing cast into the sea, it was not a pun ishment, but one method of a fuller reve lation of (he care and love of God for those who became willing to obey Hitn. Our sor row ia not a punishment, but a method for a higher and fuller revelation of God's love and blessing. There is often a little tinge of atheism in our thought about Christian trouble or sorrow. It does not seem right lo speak of any Christian sorrow as some thing allowed of God and overruled to a higher purpose. All Christian sorrow, as well as all Christian experiences are but different methods of God's own through which He gives higher and fuller revela tions of His love and blessing, and devel ops His people to better fitness for service. And this is what Jonah learned, ami hav ing learned it he went at onco to that city of Nineveh and delivered the message God had given hint to Oliver. He tells the Nincvit.es all he Knows about the love of God. He tells them nlso all about the pure and righteous demands of God, and that if they persist in living tl.eir awful lives' of selfishness and sin destruction must come to them as it must come to all men who persist in sinning. The city did repent and God (lit bless the people. And in this way donah learned that the verv blessings be had himself re ceived and his people had received were not for themselves alone, but also for eth ers Nineveh and every other Nineveh til:: t needed the knowledge of the love and righteousness of God. It .a this that makes this parable of Jonah so li!;e the purabies of Jesus illustrations of the love of Go I and of what God expects from thoje who already have been blessed. And this second thought was just as viv idly taught as the first one. After preach ing for about five weeks in Nineveh, Jonah thought (iod was showing too much favor to this city. He was granting it too many blessings. This he regarded us a very pain ful reflection upon Jewish traditions, and this he resented. At the close of a day's preaching he went out into the country to think it all out and have a real satisfactory rumble about it all by himself. He sat own near to a large, big leaved gourd, whose refreshing shade, as the sun moved around, kept its burning rays from harm ing him. Next morning he went back to the same place, but the gourd had with ered during the night. Jonah got angry, and in his indignation pitied the gourd thus destroyed so soon. But as he cooied off and his reason and his heart again as serted themselves, that voice seemed again to speak within him, "Jonah, what a fool ish, unreasonable creature you are! Here you pity this gourd, and yet you find fault with and upbraid God because He has shown His pitying love and blessing to ward these people of Nineveh are not sin ful, sorrowing human beings of more value than a gourd?" That was enough for Jo nah. Ho was satisfied God did care for tho people of Nineveh, and that it was Godlike to do so; yea, and what was more important, that His love and blessing were to he made known to them through the people already blessed. That is the teach ing of the book of Jonah; that is the les son Jonah learned, that he must offer God missionary service as well as worship, that he must offer God service as well as love, that to carry the message of God's love to bis fellow men is to worship God. Do you know, I think that is what God still asks? And yet, and yet. I sometimes think we rebel against the thought of it Juite as much as Jonah did. That is why have been led to bring this study of Jo nah this morning. If we ure not going to help the people of our Nineveh, who is going to do it? Like Jonah, we spend enough upon ourselves; we do not deny ourselves a single thing we set our hearts upon social parties, theatres, entertain ment, home comforts, bodily comforts, tra vel by land and sea. And these have all their own place but we must not forget the people in Nineveh. In addition to our own care for ourselves and our worship, we have one other responsibility the peo ple in Nineveh. For them I speak this morning. We may take to sea as Jonah did, but it is not a very profitable busi ness. Much better respond to the Lord gladly. Truo, we do not say with Jonah that God is not everywhere, or that His love is not for every creature that is the very essence of our creed, but we may say with Jonah, Let some one else help Nine veh. I don t want to do it; if Nineveh can t take care of itself and some one must help them, let some one else do so. This is not what we are going to say to-day. We are going to sav, rather, tell us where our Nineveh is, tell us how we can best help at this particular time and we will do it! My answer is, this home mission offer ing is our Nineveh. Why should we? Because it is Godliks. God Himself ia our supreme example. Be cause it is good for us to give we feel our brotherhood better and the joy of giving becomes ours. Because new American, commua-lties need our help to fill them with hope, and by church privileges inspire them with those same God-given princi- files and truths that have made New Kng and and New Y'ork, that have made our selves and given us our prosperous environ ment, for Oou s sake, tor our own sake, for America's sake, this is our opportunity. We want these people to know the same God we know and to speak to Him as con fidently as we do and call Mini 'father. When these people come together on Sun days wo want them to be able to say with us "Our Father." When they gather their little, white-robed children around them at the even hour, we want them, children and parents together, to say "Our father. When they come to lay any of these little ones out on the hillside and place upon the marker the words "Our Daring," we want them also confidingly to say, "My Father." Ajid when tliey themselves come to the edge of the deep waters and wonder what ferryboat is to bear them across their Jor dan we want them trustfully, lovingly, to be able lo put their hands outward and up ward and sav, "My Father." That ia out Nineveh. Will you help? Help us unto Jlun! pf ''"' Kai; "I'll Not Forget to Keep You." She waa oniy a poor, aick, old woman. but a royal soul dwelt within her homely bodv. 1 he eaconess found her. after climbing a long, dark stairway, in a poor little room, dark, but neat and clean. On a tiny table lay an open Bible, and oppo site the bed hung a picture of the Good bherherd. Av. mv dear lady, sne said, when the deaconess spoke of the picture, ' manv a time I lie here all alone looking at Him and at the little lamb Ho carrier ao ten derly, and sometimes He seems to look at me so kindly that I can almost hear Him saving, "I'll r.ot forget to keep you.' " The deaconess went away feeling otrongej for the simple expression oi uun. True ireatness lies not in never falling. but in rising every time we foil. Curious Jam. Rose-leaf jam doei not appeal to the taste of everybody, but it 1b a commod ity greatly favored by Queen Natalie of Servla, and rarely absent from ber tal3. Queen Natalie's villa at Btar rlta it a large edifice whose decora tions and architecture suggest the East. Here the queen entortalns a great deal, and la generally surround ed by ber many friends. She still re tain! much of ber beauty for which she waa famous, and wblcb, together with her Intellect and wit, made ber one of the most fascinating women of ber day. An Honorable Record. A Marblehead (Mass.) bank which haa been going a hundred years pay Ing dollar for dollar all that time now puta up Its shutters and will go out of business solvent and respected to the last. It was never a big concern having a capital of only a little over 1100,000, but it shows a better record than many a bigger one, and will leave a memory creditable to tha town and the commonwealth in which it bas ao lunar nnratd. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MAY 13. ul.Jeet! Tho Irndlgnl Hon, l.ukn xv., It riolilen Text, Hones vl I Mem ary Verses, 17-19 Commentary on tin Day's Lesson. I. Leaving home (vs. ll-ni. 11. "A cer tain man." The simple, unpveemious be ginning of t lie most beautiful of all thr parable. I'he man is here the image ol God the father. "Two sons." Both art Jews. The idea that tne elder son repre tients the Jews and the younger (he Gen tile is foreign to the parable, but in char acter the two sons may he said to be rep eentative of mankind, for we have in them examples of two great phases, of aliens tion from God; the elder is blinded bv solf rightcousness, the younger degraded by his unrighteousness. 12. "The younger." He represents open ly wicked persons, such as the publican and sinners. He also represents the thoughtless, careless youth. He was ovct confident, and could easily be deceived "Give me." It Ins been a custom in tho Fast for sons to demand and receive their portion of the inheritance during th father's lifetime. 13. "Not many days." He had decided unon his course and hastened to be gone This shadows form the rapidity (4) ol national and (2) individual degeneracy "Gathered all together." Sinners who ijo astray from God venture their all. "Took his journey." He was weary of his f.ith cr's government ami desired greater lib erty. As soon as the bridle of restraining grace is taken otf. we are soon gone. The journey the prodigal took represents the sinner in his departure from God. lie went into a "far countiv." far from truth and virtue. "Wasted his substance." So sinners waste the gifts God has given th-m Tho worldly life is niwavs a wasteful Itfe It wastes body and soul, life and health, time, talents and all that is precious and valuable. Sinners waste their Bibles, theit Sabbaths, their religious training, theit heavenly inheritance and get nothing in return. "With riotous living." In verse 311 we see how low he fell. His body, mind and soul were debased. II. In distress (vs. 14-1(1) . 14. Spent all. He did not stop until his last dollar was gone. His passions reigned. This repre. sents the sinner who has thrown away the mercy, favor and love of God, and has wilfully rejected the salvation of Christ. It seems that he spent all very soon; the enjoyment of sin is brief. "A mighty fam ine." The soul living at a distance from God, and shut out from intercourse with Him, will verv soon feel its own utter emp tiness. A mighty famine will follow. "In want." Heal want, is soul want. The prodigal now felt, the effects of bis dissi nated course. The steps downward were 'apostasy, profligacy, penalty." See I'rov. 24: 34. The soul has many cravings, and the pleasures, riches and honors of this world can never satisfy it. 15. "Joined himscif to a citi.ren." The same wicked life that before was repre sented by riotous living is here represent ed Dy srviie living, lor sinners are per fect slaves. The devil is the cit'.cn of that country; be is both in city and coun try. Srmers join themselves' to him to go at hi-: bidding (John S: 341. and are de. fiendent upon him for their living. "To eed swine." This was doublv degrading, and especially so to a Jew. "The degrada tion at the end of a course of sin is here represented." ohame. contempt and dis tress are wedded to sin, and can never be divorced. 16. "With the husks." The husks were not the pods of some other fruit, but "the fruit of the carob tree, used for feeding swine." Ho was driven to the extremity of trying to satisfy his hunger with the food that was fit only for swine. So sin ners endoavor to satisfy the soul with earthly and sensual delights. "No man gave unto him." Those whom he had called his friends now deserted him. They bad taken his money and then cast him aside. Satan's agents do the same to-day. The saloonkeeper will rob a man of his money, health and character, and then kick him out of tho back door to di. III. The decision to return (vs. 1710). 17. "He came to himself." Sin dethrones the reason. A state of sin is a slate of folly and mauness. but the madness is in the heart (Keel. 9: 3). 18. "1 will arise." He had left home by his own free will and he must return in the same way. God compels no one to do right. "And go." following the decis ion there must be an effort put forth. In returning to God there is something to do. "I have sinned." The first thing to do is to make a full confession of our Rins (1 John 1; 0; .lob 33: 27, 2S). Against heav en." Aguinst God. "A id before thee." lie had also sinned ngainst his earthly father. It is ever a token of the sincerity af repentance when on views even the sins commuted against others as tranagrcs lions against God. IV. The return and the welcome (vs. 20. 21). 20. "He arose." He immediately did all of these things that he had decided upon. "Great way otf." He was coining ilowly, in rags, in disgrace, questioning about bis wo'enme. "His lather saw him. The father was ever watching for his re turn. So God knows when we start to ward Him. Sin has made the distance great, but as soon as the lost one starts to return the father has Compassion. "And ran, etc." This represents tlu readiness with which God receives returning sin ners. Tha running to welcome corresponds to the seeking in our Lord's other para bles. 21. "1 have sinned." He makes his confession personal; be abases himself. This is n I ways the result of true rcpent nce. "No more worthy." All truo peni tents feel their unworthiness. They are :onsrious that they deserve nothing but death, mid their only hope is in the mercy of Christ. V. forgiveness and rejoicing (vs. 22-24). 22. "But the father." The father did not wait until he had finished his confession. In this wo see the creat affection of the father erllih willingness to forgive. "Said i2 hir:;pvartts. Tie lather's' joy is full ana he instantly issues orders to celebrate sVis return. "Bring forth quickly" (K. V.) 'J.et us show at once by your actions that me wanucrer is iuiiy lorgiven and rein I'.atcd. "i'ut a ring on hi hand." A sign of affection and that he was a free man. There is no license given here to adorn the bodv, as some have vainly tried to how. The true standard for such adorn ing is given by Paul and I'eter (1 Tim. 2: 9. 10; 1 I"et. 3: 3, 4). 23. "Be merry." Be joyful and happy. The Bible give the children of God license to shout for joy. When Const restores the wanderer there is general rejoicing and he is immediately treated as a son. The best that God hss is given him. and the past is entirely blotted out. 24. ''Was dead." Lost to all good, given up to all evil. "Is alive again." Here was sieeisl cause for rejoicing. Who would not be partaker of this joy? VICTIM OF NOVEL ACCIDENT. Woman Awakens to Find Herself on Top of a Freight Car. Mrs. Joseph Callowits went to bed at ber borne at Centralla, Pa., and woke up in the morning on top of box car. The car, one of an extra west bound freight train on the Leblgh Valley rail road, jumped the track at Railroao street and Locust avenue, on tb northwest corner of which the Callo wlts restaurant and residence U lo cated. It turned at right angles wltt the track and plunged into the build leg. It cut a swath eight feet wide through the barroom. Tho car was so high that It reached the first floor celling, and as it dashed Into the bouse It tore out the floor ol the room above tbe saloon, in whlct Mrs. Callowits and an infant wers asleep. The car root took the plac of tbe floor, and Mrs. Callowltz's bed settled firmly upon It. Trainmen and neighbors came t ber assistance and by means of I plank she reached a rear room wltt her infant and secured clothing. 8h was uninjured, beyond a slight cut. ot the nose. IE: MAY FIFTEENTH. "What Joseph and Benjamin Teach About Benjamin Care. Gen. 43; 29-31, 34; 43:14-22. (Union meet- Ing With the Juniors.) Scripture Verses. Acts G:40, 41; Matt. 4:18 22; 19:21. 27. 30; 2!:37-4; 1 Cor. 8:9-12; John 18:15; 13:25; 21: 15-17. Lesson Thoughts. True friendship Involves much mor? than mere affection; it moans to seek In every way the welfare of those whom we love, even at our own cost; It means also confidence In them, and a real desire to gratify every proper wish; in short, true friendship tnoan3 real, devoted service. True brotherly love Is not resent ful; does not hold grudge, hut waits to forgive and return good for evil. Selections. David was doubly David while Jon athan was alive. Are you gt.Ung an much out of friendship as David and Jonathan did? Once or twice In a dncad some heart is as finely touched by the spirit of love as Father Danilen, facing the certainty of doath from a long, slow putrefectlou, that a congregation ol lepers may enjoy the consolations ol faith. But the ordinary taat of char Ity Is much more comm niplace. It Is helpful compassion to a brother who is known to be In need. Tha more you love your nolghUir the more you will love God; and the more you love God, the more you will love your neighbor. Shipwrecked sailors have all things in common; and what are we but sailors, shipwrecked out on the ocean of eternity upon these strands of time? Live out from yourself into all the race. Realize the brotherhood of man in thought, and you will practice it In deed. How sweet, how heavenly Is the sight When those that love the Lord In one another's peace delight, And so fulfil His word; When each can feel his brother's sigh, And with him bear a part, When sorrow flows from eye to eye. And Joy from heart to heart. Prayer O thou who art our lovlnj Elder Brother, Rive unto us the true spirit of brotherliness for one anotlv er. Make us kind and gentle, and helpful; all that, thou wouldst have uj he. In thy name we ask all. Amen. EPnirinEssii MAY FIFTEENTH. A Bottle of Woea. Hab. 2. 13.. At Alternative Lesson. In the vision of tha Lord which came to the prophet there were sivera' woes. Our text is the fourth of the awful list, and the w:irst. Indeed, the bottle of intoxicating drink is in Itseli a bottle of woes. Though wo know them, still let us refresh o'tr nitnd; with tha facta concerning the bottle 1. From it Issues a woe upon the Individual drinker upon body, mind and morals. Look at hlin a little after he has bf gun to Imbibe. Red nine, bl )tch"J face, bleary eye, unsteady Halt! If you could Bee his stomach-lining ynu would see a cong83t;-J, ulcerous tj:nj nother drink, and the tuni:: bNjip.s ;o babbl.! silly thiags, in tlii k;n?J ipeech. Ths sa. 'redness of do:iijs.'.ic life is not sacred to him. Licantlin? lokes and snatches of ribald ;!ong tin 1 blundering utterance, springing nat jrally fiom the poisoned a:; 1 h?atod Imagination within. When tho win s in the wit and everything good are jut. The drunken man 4 ies home jnless ho fall Into the di'.ch. It U bet :er that he should not com) home, it may be. for he will bring terror and loathing nnd abuse with him. and. jften, he brlnga crime as well. Many i man has gons to prison, and many nave died on the gailows, for crimes ;hey did not. remember having com mitted because they were in their :ups. The moderate drinker, even ioes through a'proeess of mental and moral deterioration. Thr drinker may not know It, but hu friends perceive that his perceptions are less keen, ludgment less sound, his temper Un jerene, and his spiritual vision lesj ;lear. The great teacher of the laws sf health are recognizing thai alcohol ic liquors are a disturbing and wja!; )nlng factor wherever introduced. The body Is not the ma'.n thlnB. The mind Is the nun. The moral nature is the highest, and the mind nd the moral S'.nse are ruined at length by the uj of the contents or ;he bottle. An officer was commended to King Alfonso as a man who could Irink much and retain what he drank Said the king. "That Is an excellent jua'.lty in a sponge, but not in man." 2. it Is a bottle of woo, therefore to the civil State. Of course, tlnce the State !3 ma le u,i of Individuals, whatever is bad for tho individual Is bad for society and the government. "License is good for business." Whose? "The gravndig ger's." said one, and said truly, for certainly not less than one hundred thousan men die prematurely In this land every year from drink. Every le gitimate business Is Injured. And tha political life of tbe nation la de bauched by drink. Tbe saloon con trols tha floating vote and turns It which way It wills, and always In the direction of debasement and woe to all right 'nterests. For Comfort cf Sailorj. Experiments have already been car ried out In battleships with refrigerat ing machinery for the purpose of main talning an even temperature in tha magazines. It appears that further tests are aboiit to be conducted on board the Ramlllles. Steam will be raised some days prior to the com mencement of the tests, in order that the magazines and other compart ments may be warmed. The object In view Is to maintain a temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the maga zines. If this can be d .ie a con siderable Improvement in the shoot ing may be expected, as naval gun nery has more than once been affected by the changes of temperature to which the charges are pubjucted. savsr Oam a Nuisance. A beaver colony has been busy on Mitchell brook, between Frye and Hale, near Rumford Falls, Me. There are thought to be four beavers Id the colony, and they built a dam of alder boughs and brush, making It three rods long. It was torn out. and twice did the beavers rebuild, flooding tbe wood road. Ia soma instances they have felled poplar trees sis and eight Inches through. iidsy f.oalng Victories. My infant class one summer morn VVa gathered in the maple shade, Near tho church door, ami there we talked Of the fair world our God had made. Ths w,iying trees upon the hill, The waving grain, the shadowv grove-- Till every little henrt seemed rillftf With the sweet seme of Jenus' love. A query came: Dear little ones. As d.iys go by, what shall wo do Since .loiim haa ao loved us ail To show Him that we love Him, too? "I'll mind mamma," said willful Tim; And Hen. "I'll e:irry in the wood:" Said M.irv, '1 will lewiona learn; While Dimple lixped, "I will be dood." And how will Helen show her love? She, with a wintful glance at Rose A sweet, but. pale nnd timid child Replied, "Hy giving up, I s'pose." Dear girl! To fragile sister Rose She oft must yield her will and wav; Rut now this duty Mull dispone Her love for Jesus, duy by d,iy. Oft, were we but wise, we'd find Our triumph in another's gain; On glowing altar coals of love Would joy to see gulf -idols slain. In simplest way the soul may drink With Christ the sacrificial cup, And many a victory is won, And nobly won, by "giving up." -H L C Richmond, Ind. The Illesapilneas of Itlght llntr. Blessed arc they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they .hall be filled. JIatt., v.. 0. Observe the word. It is not creed, or ritual, or money, or noiver, or pleasure, but righteousness. "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after right ejnstiess. Character, manhood, the noble life that was what Jesus wis talking about. But take care not to miss the main point in this Beatitude. Jesus did not say Blessed are they which are righteous, lie might have slid that, but He did not say it. What lie .iij was this: "Blessed are they which do hunger after righteous ness. In other words, the Great Teacher de clared, in substance, that there is a b!ens ing for those who truly and sincerely de. sire to lead the noble life, even though they should often fail in their attempt to lead it. Of course, righteousness is u grand and beautitul thing, and lie who has it is to Ire congratulated, lor his is the "peace which passcth all understanding;" but he must riot forget the man who, though lie often fails, falls under protest, falls in deepest, bitterest grief, nnd. getting up, lights like a hero for his ideal until he falls again! It is not the falling, hut the way in which one falls, that tells the story of ones worth or worthlessness. To fall and not to care about the falling, to do wrong and to feel no remorse for the wrong, to insult life's sanctities and to feel no grief for the insult that is one thing; but to fall and feel the shamo of the fall, to do wrong and heartily to repent of the J uig, to degrade one's better self and to I... -nly feel the degradation, is quite another thing. It is one thing to fall easily, contentedly, like a weakling and a coward; it is an other thing to fall against one's will, an.) only after a hard light bas been made with tho finally victorious tempter. There are noble men and women who have never fallen; but all who fall are not ignoble. Anyth ing but ignoble is the man who, though overthrown, never shows the white feather, never swears allegiance to the evil that wounds lum; is ever, in his heart of hearts, a lover of the good, and, fighting to tha last ditch, dies with bis face toward the light! The desire for righteousness! It is not to be despised, for it has the blessing of the Master Himself. Speak not too lightly of those who fall, of those who, hard pressed by temptation, stagger and stumble along the way. 3uinu i mem, we Know, Have lought the temptation hard and long, have tried manfully to keep up, and have been more heroic in their failures thon others have been id their success. They have hungered and thirsted after righteousness; they have hated the evil that has despoiled them; in their heart they have loved the good that they have so poorly served, and they know, arid GoJ knows, that their souls have never sur rendered. And so Jesus threw out this fourth Beatitude, like a life-line, (o those who were struggling in the deep waters of Sin. ' He knew that thoso waters were, to those who were struggling in them, the waters not only of Sin, but f Sorrow, and He took pity on them und gave them his blessing. Now it is when we perceive nnd act upon such large and noble Spirit us this that we become Christians. . leans was grent, and beautiful, nnd di vine, not because Ha was of the "House of David." but because lie. had a heart pure enough and lurgo enough to recognize goodness, even when it ovisted only in the shape of a good intention. Whenever He saw the good intention, the noble desire, He crowned it with His loving approval, and, in Ins infinite char ityv accented ti e will for the deed. Ves. let tho narrow-minded and the scornful say what they will, it is true that "blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousnot.i, f- they shall be filled." "He filled!" There is health in the word, and victory! The desire for right eniuncss means that somewhere, Home time, somehow, the desire shall be crowned with fruition, for aoniethinj deeper than mere logic tells us that Fierce tho' the fiends may fight. And long tho' the angels bide, We know that, truth and right Have the universe on their side. Kev. T. B. Gregory, in tho New York American. God Gives Us Strength. God never makes us sensible of our wea!;ncs except to give us Hi strength; we must not be disturbed by what is in voluntary. The great point is, never to set in opposition lo the inward light, snd to bo willing to go ss fur as God would have us. Feuelon, Hotter Than rallvnre. There is something better than trying to keep oue'a patience when hard pressed. One who was dreading an interview ou matter that promised friction, prayed be forehand that ha might hold himself well in hand and keep his patience. For a few hours before the interview there was an unexpected opportunity for lov ing fellowship with (h ierons involved. When the tune cume for discussion, both aides wre so close together that the an ticipated trouble failed lo appear. Tho next dsy's prayer waa: "Lord help, m not In k?ep my pstience, but to keep my lo."--ll. IS- Times. To Quids the Wayfarer. A curious old custom is kept up al the picturesque English village of Balnbridge, where every winter's nighl at nine o'clock, a large horn is blows on the village green to aid any way farer, who might chance to be on the surrounding fells, to And bis way to tbe village. The fine horn now iq use was presented to the village some years ago, and at one time adorned the head of a huge African bull. The an cient born in previous use Is a good deal the worse for wear, and is kept as ao Interesting relic. ME GREAT DESTROYER J0ME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. 4 Ailhitiierte nn "Mf rlirnmslle-Knaml KrlemJ" From the Pen at Hob Bar delte. Which Make Oooil Common aonae Temperance Sermon. For a good, common-aense lemperar-o crmon brought right down to practical, every day experience, there could be noth ing better than the following from the" pen of Bob Burdette. What he anys of liquor drinking may be applied with equal force to all other expensive habits that aeem but small items when counted ain. gly, but which, when figured up as a whole, amount to enough to build s home in a few years, or to start a man in busi ness. Ho says: "My homelena friend with the chro matic nose, while you are stirring up the sugar in a ten-cent glass of gin. let mo give you a fact to wash down with it. For some years you have been drinking a good improved farm at the rate of IK) square feet at the gulp. If you doubt thi-i state ment, figure it out for yourself. An acre contains 4.1,5!) aqusre feet. Kstimating, for convenience, t lie land at Ml."!) an acre, you will see it brings the land to juat one mill per npiare foot. Now pmr down the dose, nnd imagine you are swal lowing a triwbcrry patch. Call in your friends, nnd hive them help you swal low that 5H)-foot garden. Get on a pro longed spree, ami see how long it will take you to swallow enough pasture land for a cow. There is dirt in it .I'M feet of good rich dirt, worth S411."il an acre. "Xow is a good time to look the matter square in tho face, nnd cut off the expen sive and useless custom of throwing money five, ten, twenty, or thirty cents at a time into the beer and whisky till nnd aave it instead, ns the beginning of a fund to buy a farm or home. '1 here is one tiling sure aa truth, and that is, that you can't give your earnings to somebody else, and also keep them for yourself. The men you give them to will neither buy you a farm or build you a home. They may build homes with the mouev you give them, but the homes will be for themselves, and the firms they buy will be for themselves. Wherever you plant it there it will grow. If you drop it on another's soil, he will harvest the crop; if you plant it for yourself, you may reap the fruitful increase, and gather the golden grain into you own granary, where by every God-given right it belongs." American Homes. Ham or the Republic. An eminent American statesman, now and for the last twenty-five years a mem ber of the United States Sen.iL., said, in H7i), that "rum selling and rum drinking are working our nitional ruin. It, (the rum power) regards neither public good nor private welfare; it h.i.s pra:-ti".-iliv sub verted civil law in this country; it is sip- 5 ing the foundations of free government, he Republic must triumph over rum, ot rum will triumph over the Republic." Confining ourselves for the moment tu the line of thought thus presented, who will doubt that, on this line, we have been on a continual down grade since 1470? In most of the States ot the I'nion the li quor laws have been made satisfactory to the liquor sellers, who have, thereafter, habitually defied the laws, almost with tm- Kuniiv. Of the men high in authority, ow tew have dared to speak or to act in defiance of the liquor power, the actual dictator? The surrender has already tak en place. Dure we fight for redemption, or will we udmit that "democracy is a failure." It is our own mission to try to save men and women from ruin through the agencies of drunkenness. We try to thing that some success has attended this effort, but we are sadly conscious of the odds that are against us, chief among which is the apathy and carelessness ot men and women who know their duty quite as well as we do. The iniquitous classes will not alarm us if the men and women who ought to be Christian will stop theorizing and go to work. But conditions, as they actually stand to-day, are reeking with peril. Na tional Advocate. Intemperance Cause of Canrer. An inquiry by Dr. Alfred Wolff into the mysterious cause of cancer h.is yielded an unexpecie l conclusion wuicn promises tein- perai.ee advocates a new and powerful ar- gument. Taking the widest possible sur- vey of cancer areas throughout Ktirone and in the United States, Dr. Wolff discovers that all the districts of high cancer mor tality are districts in which beer or cider is largely drunk. Bavaria, for instance, heads the but in Germany, and Salsburg in Austria both great beer drinking pro. vinces. In France the statistics are still more striking. There is the most marked contrast between the high cancer mortal ity in beer drinking departments and tiiu low death rate from cancer elsewhere. Ths increase in cancer in KngUnd during re cent years, Dr. Woltf thinks, has probably direct relation to the increased consump tion of beer. What it is in beer that con veys infection is not clear; that is a matter for further investigation. Another conelu. Hion to which all the figures point is that cancer is most common in thickly wooded il.alrifj 'ilrt,,n.li in ... 1 .. lICT'. researches show the strongest evidence I that cancer is contagious and that habits and environment have much more to d ! with the disease than race or heredity. Leslie's Weekly. Miners' I.(vea. A dispntcli from Poitsville states thai ''in order to reduce the danger of accidents in the anthracite mines to a minimum and to assure ste idler work by the men the officials of district No. ',) wiil hereafter discharge ail miners who become incom petent by reason of drink." Such action is common among railways. But owing to the laxity of miners' lives, the decision of district No. is an in novation, and it is particulary interesting because it was suggested by the employes themselves. Theio miners recognize the risk to their own lives involved in the carelessness of fellow-workmen befuddled by drink. Thoir own safety demands sobriety all along the line. Their course was dictated by self protection. Tho lines are closing up against the man who drinks. Kmployera everywhere are realizing that the employe who gives a part of himself over to slavery of liquor s not the man they want. They want a full man not part of the time, but one who is a whole man with a full sense all the time. It is becoming more and more impera tive every year that ihe man who has ser vices to sell should recognise these facts. The school of experience is a hard one, but it teaches thoroughly. National Ad vocate. Idiots Vroin Urnokarda. Plutarch says: "One drunkard begets another," and Ariatotle, "Drunken women bring forth children like unto themselves." A report was made to the Legislature of Massachusetts by Dr. Howe on idiocy. He had learned the habits of the parents of 800 idiots, and 143, nearly half, are report ed ss known to be habitual drunkards, showing the enfeebled constitution ot tht children of drunkards. Metier Abandon Its Use. All whisky is said to eonUin fusel oil. That being true, it will be better thai wonky shall be abandoned as a beverage. Tearful Ranges. At a recent meeting Paris of the four chief temperance societies of Krsuoe, pre sided over by M. Caainur-Pener, it wss shown that abeinthe among tbe upper sod middle classes snd brsndy among the low er olssaes are making ftarlul ravages. The land of "light wtoee" snd "moderate drinkers" u even ss other Unds. Public sentiment is naing. Ths Catholic, snd Protsetant clergy, army surgeons snd civ ilian reformers sre uniting to investigata and avert this national peril. A Itiui Tolas. Ths average arrests for drunkenness ia tbe Bcaadinsvisa oities are four and one balf times ths number average for ail tut siWKUaa siM u the em class. the wist Gnome. - Within a deep nnd dwksome wood there) lived a learned gnome. And in an ancient saucepan de made hi cozy nonie. His name wan so impress1", it filled everf! one with awe 'T was Diomed Diogenes Penio.thones de Graw. His fame for wiadom was so great thai even passing birds Would atop and listen eagerly to Dioineds) wise words. One day two little jiib-jub birds were walking by that way They paused and said: "Oh, Diomed, de teach us something, prav." "Ay, ay," tht annent gnome replied; "now listen well, you two; A bit of information I will gladly give to you. Yon lustrous luminary empyrean queen of night Our libratoi v, vibratory, lunar satellite, That rotary orb revolving fecund our sphere terrene, Is but coagulated curds, tinged 'hromiuni berylline!" Although a bit bewildered, tne j'nb jiib birds slid, 'Oil Oh, thank you. dear l)i,igm-s; that's what we wished to know.'' Carolyn V clis. in Sc. Nichj 'as. "I'eiits lic omi !,ii-B"i' the more n.ey are i-imtrju-toil.' rrini-eton Tiger. Mrs. Asciiui -' Il.ive you Mil. ot that servant girl you li.-i I lust ivi'o'i'f" Mrs. Hir.T III OflVn "Which day last week?" Philadelphia Press. .Tohuiiy "Ma w's always tulkiti' about a hygienic diet Wiiut is :i hygienic diet?" roiiiiny "It's iui, kind of diet you don't like." Chicago Tribune Madge "I'liysicul ruiture is jiiHt splendid. I'm taking be.uity exer cises." Marluric "You Iiiivcn't Ic-en tiikiti? them long, have you'.'" Judge. "Now do your uorst!" the hero eiicJ I nto the villain bold. They saw 1 1 1 tii aci. ,n i then they sighed, "He did as he was told!" Washington S'ar Huron "All the iiiilkiiii-u in town use that bank." Ilgliert -"Tluil would be a good place to look fur .-lull; de posits, I suiH.si;y"--VuiiI;iMV Stales man. Kawiiiile Rube "Wbnt nrn tli-so here magazine guns, nyl:rTwV" Hair trigger Hunk "Oh, f s'pos. they arc the weapons them cilflors bnve to plui; poets with." Chicago li.iily News lie "I uiiiliTstaml Sm'tlolgh has been assigned a very diriVull role in viiif niiKiteiir theatricals." Slic "Yos, poor fcllowl They giivp lum a thinking part." Chicago LMily News. Just, what the effecl of jiu-jiuu Happens to be wheA it ni'u I cannot declare. But no matter where It lands, why it certainly git.iii' New Orleans Times-Democr il. First C:iiiiiuter-"Oh. htiug it all!" Second Commuter "What's tbe mat tor?" First Commuter (bitterly) "Let the conductor punch m fifty-servant Intelligence office ticket iustead or my, commutation." J udge. The Heiress "Ami I've been intro duced to quite a number of the Kurn peun nobility." Her Friend "Think ing of marrying uuy of them;" The Heiress "Oh, nu. 1 don't Intend t buy a title; I'm merely shopping."-. Puck. , 'One-half of the world doesn't knave tmw the other half lives, you know " '"Well." she answered, "it's (lie ignor ant half's own fault. Ilverybody Umk , , , , . ,. a t,la,,,',' to B" urm11"1 n"11 ol,t j when the 'for rent' sijrns are put up.' Ckicu go Record Horn Id . Private Secretary "There's a Duke? outside waiting to see you, sir." American Magnate "I can't see him just now; there's a directors' meeting." "If you keep him waiting, he may not like it." "Well, give hitn half a mil lion to keep him quiet." Life. 'A man In your position is stibjecl oil to many temptations, isn't b'r" "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. "Every now and then he feels like let ting his sympathies get the better of hi in anil missing chances to uink". But the only thing to do is to be Grin.'' - I Washington Star. Kxtinrt Anltiinla. No extinct land animal of for mer ages has a bigger body than ban the biggest African elephant of to-day, and not one, so far as is known, ex ceeded or even equaled in bulk tho existing great whales, which some times ure till of l' feet long. As ele phants, horses and similar animals are traced backward through the varioim strata they ure found to get smaller and smaller. Some extinct elephants) were no bigger than Shetland ponies, while the horses of prehistoric times; were about the size of large dogs. In almost every group of hairy, warm blooded animals existing specimens are bigger than those of bygone times, and the notion that there is auy tendency lu animal life to dwindle ia size is entirely without foundation. There are, of course, exceptions, for the ex tinct sloths, kangaroos, lizards and some others exceeded in bulk existing creatures of the same order. ProAtable Inveatmenc. In 1873 it was communicated to the British Government that the Khedive I small Pasha, being in desperate need of money, was willing to sell hit 170,' U02 vhares of stock In the Sues Canal Company at a fair price. Disraeli waa thou Premier and he dldu't hesitate ft minute. England paid fJO.000.000 foe the Khedive's ucMlugs, or at the rate of $U3.i!0 per share. Since then the dividend on Its purchase have ag grew ted $LM.0OO,00O, and to-day the share are selling at $700 each. Tuie shows a profit on the transaction of 103,00O,0tK). Price oa Bessls of Pests. ' At meeting ot tbe trustees of the Lutheran Orphaus' Home at Beading, Pa., au Itemised bill tor f 1.39 was sub mitted by tbe "Itat and Mice Trust Company." Bevereud Dr. Kuendig ex plained that be would pay the bill, as be bad agreed prlvstely to pay to the boys a cent each for all tbe rate and mice they caught, to rid the home of the pests. Bacllsh Omld Colas. There were 9,10X1.000 new gold sov ereigns issued In Kngland duriuf 11)03. as compared with 4.S23.000 lu 1902. Half sovereigns Issued numbered 1.0HOOO, rgaiuet 2,121(000. la 1903.
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