I The PulatTX A SERMON Subject: Beth-el. Brooklyn, N. Y. Preaching on the above theme at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, Hamburg ave nue and Wlerfleld street, the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took as hm text Gen. 28:19. "And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord Is In this place; this Is none other but the the house of Ciod, and this Is the gate of heaven. in(j Da called the name of that place Beth el." The scene Is as grand as the lan guage Is Inspiring. And the sublim ity of the picture and the elevation of the language are only to be ex plained upon the assumption that at this time and under the conditions that are described Jacob enjoyed a pecial and glorious spiritual experi ence. Jacob was Journeying from Becr sheba lo Haran. He stopped on the way, took stones for a pillow and lay down to rest, the day being spent, for the night. "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of It reached to heaven: and behold the angels of'Ood ascending and descending on it. And behold! the Lord stood above It." Is it any wonder that Jacob ven erated the place? Here he found blessing. Here was Inspiration. Here was the manifestation of the ever lasting C.od. It was but a stone In the open, roofed with the arching heavens, walled by the horizon be yond which his vision could not pen etrate: but here he had seen God. And he called the place Beth-el. No one is so foolish as to Imagine that the stone and the surrounding locality were any more sacred In and of themselves than were a thousand similar stones upon which Jacob might have rested his tired head or were a hundred other places in the quietude of which he might have found repose. But upon that stone his head had rested when the God of Abraham and of Isaac reiterated to him the covenant He had made with the fathers. In that spot he had been the recipient of the richest Joy that the heart of man may experience in this life or the mind of man desire: a vision of the living God. And so he poured oil on the stone and conse crated the place where he had tarried through a memorable night. What else would any man have done? The event was not common place. The vision was beatific. The covenant was tremendous both as to Its authorship and Its duration. Con sidered from any point of view the occasion was to be commemorated and the locality was forever Invested with a subduing and soul warming at mosphere that would be effective with us to-day were we within the scope of its Influence. Jacob would have been neither courteous nor hu man if he had not set the place as In a sense apart. If we may remember heroes with monuments and good men with statuary, shall not Jacob commemorate the revelation of Jeho vah with an oil soaked stone? If we are conscious of a thrill as with bared heads and reminiscentminds we stand In Independence Hall or about the graves of the martyr dead shall we not admit the sacredness of the spot where God showed Himself to the leader of His people? All of which is not to push sense over the border line of reason, or to make the logieal'become Illogical. Jacob called the place Beth-el, the house of God. And so we call our churches. Every church Is a Beth-el or it is nothing better than a club house. A church Is not simply a col lection of stone and brick and plaster and wood and glass and iron and nails bound into a building, any more than the stone was the sanctuary or the place where Jacob heard the voice of God the shrine. A church is more than an edifice as the shrine was something more than a geogra phical or geological entity. We con secrate our churches to the benefi cent uses of the religious life of the people not because we consider that God abides simply and solely within them or that a blessed brick Is holler than an unblessed stone. We enter our churches, rather, I should say we should enter our churches, because In a real way they stand for an eiper fence, they teem with reminiscence, they commemorate individual and so cial blessings and visions of the sov ereign God. Jacob called the place Beth-el be cause he had a compelling religious experience. And so we should ven ' erate our churches. A church that lacks the spiritual atmosphere, that is not the expression 6f a deep spirit ual couvlction, that commemorates no visions and that is ineloquent of mighty spiritual exaltations, is not a church. It la a fraud. A church Is a Beth-el. And as such It should be revered. Within it should be found blessing and inspira tion, out of It should flow the influ ences that tend toward God and that militate for the weal of men. Beth-el was notable as the com memoration of a blessing. And what blessings have we not had within the confines of our churches. Where such holy reveries, such glorious In spirations, such lasting Joys, such revelations through the abiding of a common spirit? Here we have Been the glory of the Lord, here we have known the power of His love, here we have fed upon His promises and been augmented In the riches of His grace. Here, as was Jacob at Beth-el, have we been Inspired, filled with larger hopes, urged on to nobler and to holler achievements, filled with the energy that no man may describe, In effable, Intensive and divine. Here we have felt the warmth of the spir itual atmosphere and have clasped hands with God. The Influences that rolled with pre dicted vigor from the simple Bhrlne at Betb-el ought to flow and will, from any well appointed church. The church Is not a pool, It is a stream. It Is rather a dynamic than a static. From the church should well forth the Influential streams of rlgbteous end of truth and the t ,f the nations. The world owes an In calculable debt, as do we, to the church, and the church should by her unceasing and compounding Influence for good and for God. and unremit ting service for men, place the world ever more largely In her due. The churches must be Beth-els or many of them never could withstand the abuses to which they are lent. Only upon the assumption that the spiritual Influences that, move within them are born of God can we under stand how many of them survive tho desecrations to which they are sub jected. The average fair Is enough to kill any church. The average church entertainment, paltry and puerile as It is expressionless, would be a death blow to the social activi ties of any organization less hardy What with moving pictures and wax works and spelling bees and turkey suppers nnd men's smokers and wom en's gossip. It Is wonderful that we have any veneration for churches at at all. that we And any blessing, any Inspiration within them, and any in fluence moving from them. The church should be Beth-el. It should be the house of God. There, too, we should see the ladder stretching down from heaven, there the ascending and descending angels. There we should see God. There we should make covenant, with Him. There we should enter into the pos session of His Interminable promise. There we should have a glorious, au exalted spiritual blessing. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR mm: :8. The Change. "My life Is hemmed In by things 1 cannot change, you see," said a girl, explaining her depression of spirits to an older friend. She had been talking about the ugly little town where she lived, and how little money she had to spend, and how there were no concerts or lectures or chances for culture, How monotonous and nar row things were week after week, how her health was not strong, and there was no special thing she could do in the world. It did sound rather hopeless, and the older woman was silent a moment. Then she said, thoughtfully: "No; you cannot change these con ditions of your lire at present. But there is one thing. Marjory, that you can change, and it will make every thing absolutely different." "But what can I change? I don't understand," cried Marjory. "You can change your point ot view," returned her friend. "That's all. But it's everything." The girl thought It an unsympa thetic answer. She went home still thinking so. But It stuck in her mind nevertheless; tor she was an intelli gent girl. "It is the only change I can make," she said to herself, and she tried It. Her point of view had been from herself from what she wanted to do, and have In the world, but could not She faced round to the point of view that God had put her Where she was had prepared blessings for her If shf would recognize them, and had glvec her opportunities for unselfish useful ness to others In her dally life. From that moment her life was t study In transformation from dis content to cheerfulness, from languoi to activity, from lack of Interest In life to a fullness of loving sacrifice. "It Is all absolutely different," she wrote her friend, a year later. Only one thing has changed. That was all. But It was everything. Forward. Wear Your Troubles Inside. Many a man gets into the habit of carrying his troubles In his face. The eyes tell It, the droop of the lip speaks It, the bowed head declares It, the very grip of the hand reveals It, and the footfall is full of it. He has run up the flag at half-mast, and bo carries It everywhere, so that his whole little world is compelled to know his sorrow. Is this natural? Possibly. Is it wise? Probnbly no'. Is It fall? Surely not. Is It a sign of weakness'.' Undoubtedly it is. Is there a belter way? Surely there Is. First, a man must make up his mind to expect Ills share of trouble, and perhaps a little more. Then he should make up his mind to bear his troublo manfully, L e., with patience, with courage and with hope. The world has enough trouble of its own; let us not add to its burden! It should be the aim of every Christian man and woman to become strong, and when strength Is won to use that strength in bearing the burdens ot others. Every sorrow mastered, ev ery burden borne Inside instead of outside, makes us stronger, and leav3S the world blighter. Learn to smile, get the habit of It; learn to sing, make italso a habit; and you will be surprised how much brighter It niakeB the world, not only to Others, but to yourself. The smile and the song lesson the burden and light the way. Christian Guardla" Life Not a Holiday. Sooner or later we find out that life is not a holiday, but a discipline. Earlier or later we will discover that the world is not a playground. It is quite clear that God means it for a school. The moment we forget that, the puzzle of life begins. We try to play in school. The Master does not mind that so much for its own sake, for He likes to see His children happy; but in our playing we neglect our lessons. We do not see how much there is to learn, and we do not care. But our MaBter cares. He has a perfectly overwhelming and Inexpli cable solicitude for our education; and because He loves us He comet Into the school sometimes and speaks to us. He may upeak very softly and gently or very loudly. But one thing we may be sure of: The task He sets us to Is never meas ured by our delinquency. It Is meas ured by God's solicitude for our pro gress; measured solely by God's love; measured solely that the scholar may be better educated when he arrives at bis Father's home. Henry Drum-mond. Subject? Temperance. Eplieslnm ."! rt-20 Golden Text, Eph. .VIA ; Commit Verses 1.1, 10 Com- j unitary TIME. A. D. 61. I'LACE. Rome. XFOMTION. I. No Fellowship With the Unfruitful Works of Dark MM, tl-l-1. The believer In Christ If child of light (v. 8), there can be no fellowship between light and dark ness, the believer must therefore re fuse all fellowship with the works of darkness (cf. 2 Cor. 6:17). This set tles our duty about thetheatre, dance, etc. etc. These works of dnrkness bring forth no fruit for God ( Rom. ti:21). So far from having fellow ship with them we should "even re prove them," I. e., expose and rebuke their badness. "Darkness" does much of Its work In secret." light does Its work in the open. The things done by those who are "of the darkness" in secret It Is disgraceful even to men tion. Many sins are better unde srrlbed Don't let out the darkness, but let in the light. The light makes everything manifest, nnd that which is thus made manifest by turning the light on to It becomes light Itself (v. II, R. V.) The believer who has any fellowship with darkness Is asleep. The sinner is fieaii (cf. BpS. 2:1). God calls the sleeping believ er, the one who is having fellowship with the unfruitful works of dark ness, to awake from his sleep and arise out. from among the dead, I. e., from the sinners with whom he In fellowshlpping, as a live man among corpses (cf. Ro. 13:11). ii. Understanding what the Will of the Lord In, 15-17. It will not do to carelessly take It for granted that our walk Is all right unless we have looked very minutely Into It. Thei-K are two kinds of walk, the walk of the unwise and the wnlk of the wise. In order to walk wisely we must "buy up the opportunity" (v. 16 R. V., Marg ) As the far sighted merchant buys up all that which he sees to be of large and constantly increasing value, so we must lay hold of every IWtftly passing opportunity of doing .ood and of growth In the knowledge nt and likeness to God. The fact that "the days are evil" Is not a reason for discouragement, but for more ear nest improveni"nt of every opportu nity that offers. This is a reason for lot being "foolish" (v. 17, R. V., a rjr stroc word, literally "without NiBon." seness). The only way to void being foolish Is by "under tandlng what the will of the Lord s." The Lord here It Jesus (vs. 20 and 1 ). III. Killed With the HfrJrH, 18-20. Paul here takes up one esptclal form of folly, a fruit of darkness that has cursed every age since the dayB of Noah, drunkenness (Gen. 9:20-26). Perhups Paul warns against this spe cial form of folly because It is the root of almost every other kind of folly. But by God's wondrous grace one who has been a drunkard may be "washed," "sanctified," "Justified" and may then inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor. 6:11). In drunkenness there is "eicess" or "riot" (R. V., in rorriglbleness. abandoned profligacy ) . ' Any one who has had any experience of lite knows how true this is. The drunkard becomes lost to every noble ambition and holy desire. Note that It Is drunkenness, not merely with whisky and rum. but drunkenness with wine that Paul warns against and proposes as the cure for drunk enness the only sure cure, being filled with the Spirit." To be "filled with the Spirit" means to have the Holy Spirit take possession of the whole being I Luke 1:41, 42, 67; Acts 1:4; 4:S; :il : 13. 9, 10). It Is nearly synonymous with being "bap tized with the Holy Ghost," except ing that, the expression being "bap tized" with the Spirit is never used of a second experience, while being lllled" Is icf. Acts 1:6 with 2:1-4 and 10:44-41 with 11. 15, 16). When one Is "drunk with wine." wine takes possession of every faculty, and when one is ' filled with the Spirit" the Spirit takes possession of every fac ulty. Intoxication Is the devil's coun terfeit of being filled with the Spirit. The effects of heiug filled with the Spirit is that one Is lifted on to a su pernatural plane of life and activity. The best way to keep a man from having recourse to the devil's stimu lation is to have him filled with God's. He that knows the wine of heaven (Is 61:1) will not want the wine of hell. The literal force of the words translated "be filled with the Spirit" is "be getting filled with (or in) the Spirit," I. e., be getting constantly filled. One filling Is not enough, there must be a constant inpouring. As to' how to be "filled with the Spirit" iitudy Acts 2:38; 5:32; Luke 11:14; Acts 4:31; S:16-17. When one Is filled with the Spirit he will be full of joy and song (v. 19), there will be melody not only upon his lips, but In his heart as well (cf. Is. 65: 14). But the songs will not be the songs of thiB world, but "psalms and nymns and spiritual songs. The Splrlt-fllled man Is taken up with God and Christ (Acts 2.4, 11; 4:31, 33) and his songs will be about Christ. The Spirit-filled man will also be filled with thanksgiving (v. 20). He will be returning thanks all the time (cf. Ps. 34:1) and "for all things." His Splrlt-lllumlned soul will see something to be thankful to God for In everything 11 Cor. 1:1; 1 Theaa. l':2, 3:2; 13; 2 ThesB. 1:3' Acts 5:41; II: SI; Job 1:21) Gal. 2: 14-18. 2 Ccr 110 Foreign Missions: Henry Martyn, and Missions in India I Cor. 2: 1-16. Ready tCf missions. Isa. 6: 19. Aiding missionaries. 2 Cor. 11: 1-9. Working harmoniously 1-9. The wide field. Mark 10: To "spend ami be spent." 12: 11-15. A live missionary. Inrush Some Bible Hints. The secret of Henry Mnrtyn's In fluence Is the secret of the Influence of all Brent Christians he let Christ Influence men. through himself. Martyn's weakness wan part of hi? strength, for men saw the spirit of Christ In him. upholding his fainting body. Henry Mnrtyn was n man of the Spirit of God, and moved men because he was himself moved. Mnrtyn's biography nnd other writ Ings are among the most powerful of missionary influences, not because of the missionary's Intellect, but because they breathe the mind of Christ. Henry Martyn's Life. Henry Martyn died In the thirty second year of his life, hut few mis sronarles have produced n more pro found Influence upon the world. He was born at Truro, Cornwall. February 17. 1781. II" went to Cam bridge, nnd bocame a distinguished scholar, famous especially for hln l.a tin and mathematics. He was to be come one of the most notable of nils slonary translators. Becoming a minister of the Church of England. Martyn was compelled by financial stringencies to take a chap lalncy under the East India Company, that he might pursue his missionary labors nnd at the same time support a sister. He reached Calcutta in May. 1806, and labored, first at Dinnporc and then at Cawnporo, two places northwest of Calcattn, on the Ganges. The fierce heat and his feeble body conspired to produce fevers nnd faint lngs. To recover his health by a sea voyage he went to Persia In 1811. There he labored among the Mohnni medans. and presented to the Shah a splendidly bound copy of his Persian New Testament. Again sickness compelled a remov al, and he set out homeward on horse back for Constantinople, distance 1,300 miles. Complete exhaustion overtook him on the way. and he wat obliged to stop at Tokat, In the centre of Turkey In Asia, where the plague was raging. There he died, Octobe 16, 1812. THE ART OF GETTING INTO THE NEWSPAPERS The Short Cut to Publicity Revealed by One Who Knows Every Road and By-Path. EPWQRTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNAY. JUNE 20. The Lender of Men. We all know perfectly well what a true leader is. He is a man of ideas, a man who advocates a certain line of action, and he works through the presa and public speech that the peo pie may be convinced of the wisdom of his course. Ths Rev Dr. fl... Pittsburg. Over at Last. "At last," he sighed, "we're alone. I've been hoping for this chance." "So have 1," said she, very frank X?. "Ah! you have guessed, then, that I wanted to tell you that I love you." "Yes. and I want to say 'No' and get It over with." London Opinion. In some parte of China the natives have taken to raising grapes and mak ing several kinds at wine Hone Folk;. "I haven't bqcii a drunken man since I've been here,' declared the vl3 ltor to the prohibition state. "Oh, we are not ostentatious," ex claimed the Georgia mun. Louisville Courier-Journal. The Inhabitants of Ecuador are a! ways In a state of uneasiness, as that country has a record In volcanoes. Three of the volcanoes are aotlve, five are dormant, and It extinct. Antiquity of the Oath. The oath Is practically as old as history Itself. As far back as we can go we find some form of appeal to the forces that are stronger than man. The oath calling God to wit uess Is, of course, much later than that made in the nr.me of the powers of nature, fire, flood and ternptst, or the ferocity of wild beuBta, or the terror of the pestllTice. The, gesture of the raised hand and the formula, So help me God." Is of Jewleh-Chrls-ilan origin, although the ancient na tions swore iu the name of their sods. Best Work at Fifty, Tn the industrial world J has be come accepted that a nir,a is too old at forty, and the London County Council Works Derailment decided last year not to engage men above thirty-live. How U it in the intellect ual world .' Despite ail the evidences p precocity, Mr Borland arrlvus at a conclusion which gives an avt?agn of fifty for the master work of great juuu. T. P. 'a Weekly. Safe in God's Hands (1 Pet. 1. 3-5; John 10. 28, 29.) 1 Pet. 1. C-G. When we think of the providence of God we must take the same kind of a view as we do when we think of his plans In general. That Is to Bay. you cannot tell whether things ate good or bnd for yon. at the monien't. The noostle says that we are gunrdrxl by the power of Ood through faith, unto a salvattr.n re?.dy to he revealed In the last time. It Is not nil revealed now. Ood mu3t say to us many times: "What I do thou know eat not now." It Is easy to prow impatient, and to exnect results on the spot, bill the kingdom if God Is not brought In In that way. God's I patience Im lone-sufl'erln; so niuet ourx be. We must take long views of his dealings with u . and. In the long run. God's guardlm; will bo vindl cited In the life of every one of his , children. John 10. 2S. 20. The peculiar nun! Itv of the life which Is given to the Christian Is that It cannot be harm Of! by any sort of attack whatever from without, Jesus says of his disciples that thev shall never perish Ho V this claim on the great thought of God's nlniightlncss. "My father Is greater than nil." When- one has given himself Into 'he hands of God he has found a place of safety which enn never be captured by any of Ml adversaries. The only way by which he can be hurt Is the method of self alnndonment. He who leaves the citadel of God's protection hp reject ed the protector, but as long as he remains he Is safe. This world of ours la very full of partis; on every hand we are threat ened by dangers that may easily over whelm us. The powers of evil are abroad In innumerable forms, and they are seeking to harm us by Marching out SVerjF vulnerable point In our own doBlres. There It enough prompting to .! t.he Oioart of every one of us to destroy its, without the attack of any enemy from outside. How, then, can we be shfe? With pitfalls on every hand, with our own hearts giving aid and comfort to our enemies, how shall we be kept from defeat and despair? There Is only one way: we must put ourselves In the hBnd of God. Powers of Desert Plants. Dr. D. T. MacDougal tells Bomi Interesting things In the Fifth Yeal Book of the Carnegie Institution ol Washington, about the water-stprag organs of desert plants. In region! where rain falls scantily for a briel period, the remainder of the yeai being dry, the plants possess special storage organs at the base of tb stems, which He unchanged during the hot season, but quickly put out roots, shoots, fruits and seeds dur ing the brief time of the rains. Som of these storage organs, kept dr on a museum shelf slnca ft 0 2 , have every year, at a period corresponding to the rainy season In their natlv habitat, produced thin stems, wblcb quickly die. In some cases five years' growth has been made with the aid of water stored up In 1001, and tbs storage organs are still sound. Literature of Japan. Japan has never produced a Shakespeare or a Mlllon, a Goethe oi a Humboldt, a Montalngne or an Em erson, a Gibbon or a Mommsen, but despite this fact it has a very respec table literature in all of it's various branches history, poetry, geography, art, science and the novel. Educa tion is quite unlversbl throughout the empire, and within the past thir ty or forty years the national litera ture baa grown immensely. -York World. The following clever and readable article on the subject uppermost In every newspaper man's mind, "adver tising." Is by Victor Smith, the "On the Tip of the Tongue" man of the New York Press: Advert Me. Dear Tip What is the short cut to publicity'.' 1 have been striving In vain to get into the newspapers these seven years. What can I do' Hackensark. PUBLICITY. Strive your hardest NOT to get In. Steal a million. Rob another fellow of his wife Spring n sensational di vorce. Beat the bank at Monte Carlo. But the best plan of all Is to adver tise. I nm In favor of the pay-aB-yott-enlci proposition. Commercial houses, theatres, circuses, etc., pay their way; why should not society and the pro fessions do likewise? The general preBs Is under no obligation to you. Address the buslneas office at so much a lino, and you can obtain all the publicity you reoulre. Some newspapers are not profitable .because they fJIVI AWAY vast quantities of space in free advertising, or puffs, to the undeserving. The time is close nt hand when everybody and every Institution will have to "pony up." The Eternal Equivalent. Every commercial business exacts the eternal equivalent in the granting of favors. Of no other Institution In the world is bo much exacted free as of the newspaper. It is a kind word here, n kind word yonder, a puff here and a puff there. For the price of ONE cent a man expects, aye. even demands, space worth hundreds of dollars. But whore Is our quid pro quo? Thecireulatlon Is not increased. We are giving something for noth ing. Once In a while Tip s column has a paragraph about an Interesting man. It is good reading for all who take The Press; and the interesting man, being deeply interested, buys 100 or HOO copies and scatters them broadrast. to Interested people. What dooa It amount to? Five hundred copies cost $5 at retail; so there is an outlay of S5 for $500 worth of ad vertising. Shucks! The business is too one-sided. It Isn't fair. Complimrataries, Those not In the newspaper busi ness Imagine that the editor, mana ger, nil the subs and every reporter and office boy, the compositors and even the scrubwomen go about loaded with railroad passes, theatre tickets, boxes at the circus, police cards, steamboat complimentarles, telegraph and telephone rrnnlts, free use of the malls, race track badges, etc., and their friends on the outside are even Insistent upon obtaining these privil eges. As a matter of fact, there are but few compllnientarlcs of this char acter flying nbout, nnd all are paid for by the eternal equivalent, the small matter of advertising. A Press man, ror instance, sent to Chicago, may ilde on a pass, but that pass has been paid for In advertising. Before the anti-pass law was enforced my life was saddened by my inability to meet the domands of friends for free transportation. Some had no dell tacy nbout asking (or passes to San Francisco. Now It is easy to say: "You know the I.-.w, jiu more free passes." As it is Uone. No gentleman of the staff Is sup posed to s.-ek transportation from any railroad, steamboat or steamship company, from any submarine, air ship or automobile company, on his own recognizement. If he wants to go to Carlsbad, or the heart of Africa, to the North Pole or to the antipodes, to Mars or to the bowels of the earth, he is supposed to mention it to the uusinoss manager, who. if he chooses, refers it to the highest authority. Of course there are department heads who control certain and sundry priv ileges of the pass evil, such as the drama editor, the music editor, the sporting editor, etc. If I want a free puss for a theatre I may ask the dra ma editor, and he may (If he feels In the vein) send me a "pasteboard," but it Is a quid pro quo. If I want to go to the circus I must ask the circus editor. Do I waut to go to the race track? The sporting editor Is the man to suuggje up to. Etc. Newspapers Overburdened. The newspaper Kir ag as a rule about twenty to one as its "equivalent." No other Institution on earth could af ford to do this and live. Tho news paper is the maker or all men and all corporations, the supporter of all. the adviser or all. Mind you, I do not say CREATOR. Without its free pub licity most of the men In political nnd commercial life to-day would be In their graves. We are really too gen erous. The chief trouble Is we do not draw tight enough the llttid line between news and notoriety. The theatres get an awful lot of free ad vertising because a vast majority of the people patronize the drama and demand good report of It. So of the opera. Bo of horse racing. Etc. Just an Illustration. The man who has a can of lard to sell falls to understand why he does not get a column or two a day or bountiful description for bis ten-line ugate mi . wbeu a racing association, with the same size ad., commands so Siuut au amount of space. He over looks the fact that only a few persons may be Interested in a cau of lard, while tens of thousands are deepl) concerned In racing, ibo theatrical equivalent cannot be estimated. A hundred thousand people, 500,000, 1,000,000, may bo anxiously waitintr Tuesday morning for a critique on Marx Lankershlne s new play of ' The Tschuern o' dl Steurxwler." The ad vertisement of the drama may amount to 20, but that cuts no Ice with the nuwspuper. It does Its duty by allot ting a much space to the perform ance as the critic thinks tho play Is entitled to. Itasebnll. Baseball gets 1000 times Its "equivalent." Why? Because It is an amusement for vast multitudes ot readers. The advertising of the game amounts practically to nothing, that is, from a business office view. "No money In it." But no paper could af ford to cut out its baseball reports. The Press baseball articles are the best, nnd they cost us a great deal of money. Hunting nnd FNhlng. No other paper In New York Is so much read by fishermen and hunters ns The Press. Here again the "equiv alent" Is altogether on our side. We give 100 times as much as we get out of It, but the Rod and Gun column Is expected dally by a multitude of sportsmen, and to stop It would de stroy a prominent feature which pleases many who neither fish nor shoot. Wall Street. Wall Street receives an overabund ance of valuable space, you may say. The Stock Exchange forbids advertis ing. More's the pity. In a little while, however, all this will be changed through the publicity now being thrust upon it. Thirty years ngo a physician who advertised was frowned upon as a quack. To-day some of the lendlne practitioners In troduce themselves to the public by means of printers' Ink. Stock Ex change firms will have to advertise or go out of business. Tho day of the "high-horse" Is past. I expect to see the time when all price quotations shall be paid for, and at big rates. Henry Clews made a great fortune In the Street. He is a firm believer In advertising, nnd his card has been In the papers for many years. He Is the best known broker in the world THE TEMPERANCE PROPAGANDA CONCERTED ATTACK ON DRINK WINNING ALL ALONG LINE. WHY HINDOOS WORSHIP SIVA. Romantic Legend .'ells How the East Indian Daity Camo to Bless a Poor Unlucky Hunter Hindoos young and old solemnly observed the fast of the Sivarathrl, on a recent Sunday, and gladly en dured Its deprivations. For twenty four hours no religious Hindoo took a morsel of food nor slept a moment, but constantly prayed the god Siva to grant his wish and relieve his suf ferings or unhappiness. Tho Sivarathrl rests on a legend that comes from the misty past. A penniless hunter went out one morn ing, but when night fell only a puny bird had rewarded his long day's hunt. Weary and fearing ferocious tivasts, the hunter took refugo in a bale tree for the night, and hung the "game" on a twig. It bo happened that Siva, in the course of his accustomed nocturnal wanderings, seated himself under the bale tree. Tho wind was blowing fleshly, and leaveB and the water they held from a shower fell on tho god. This libation and the bird, pre sumably an offering, made Siva be lieve that some one in the tree was worshiping him at that late hour. Pleased, the god lnv;ited the person bo devout to descend. The hunter climbed down and told of bis sor row nnd needs. Siva gave him many blessings and he lived happily to a ripe old ago. So, now, he who fasts and, sleepless, worships Siva at night, will be blessed nnd enjoy eternal bliss. Simla (India) Correspondence of the New York World. A Remarkable Cuvc. The President has signed a procla mation creating the Jewel Cave Na tional Monument within the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota. This remarkable cave, thirteen miles west and south of Custer, the county seat of Custer County. In a limestone formation, Is believed by geologists to be an extinct geyser channel. The national monument will embrace an area of 12S0 acres. Th'ls cave, which was explored as late as 1900, has been found to consist of a series of chambers counected by narrow pas Rages with numerous galleries, the walls of which are incrusted 'with a magnificent layer of calclte crystal. The opening of the cave is situated In Hell Ct'tiyon, the walls of which are high and precipitous. The surface of the country lu which the cave Is lo cated consists of a high rolling lime stone plateau, about 0000 feet above sea level. The area is almost entirely covered by n forest of bull pine, a considerable portion of which is mer chantable, while the remainder con sists of a vigorous young growth. The Jewel Cave National Monument will now be given permanent protection by virtue of the act of June 8t 1906, which provides that object ot scien tific Interest may be declared national monuments, If such action Is deemed necessary for their preservation and protection. Science. Resourceful Wives. "I am told that your husband playr billiards every night at the clubs plays tor money, too," said the anx ious mother to her newly married daughter. "That'B all right, mother," cheer fully responded the young wife. "H gives me ull his winnings" - "What? Do you -" "And he always plays with Mr. Ne:;tdoor." "What difference cm that make?" "Mrs. Neitdoor makes her husband give her his winnings, too, and aho gives the money to me and 1 hand her what my husband won from hers, and so we both have abuut twice as much money us we could get out of them otherwise." Chicago Journal. Ilcrlin's Electric Signs. It is announced that t,be Berlin po lice are taking steps to prevent tho defacement of streets by electric signs. No objection will be offered to their erection lu ugly or confined spaces, but they will be excluded from the best streets and from places where they are likely to produce "a discord ant effect." rho Burled Laugh That Alcohol Pigs Up That is Alcohol's DniiRcr omn Power It Drives Away Sor row and Brings Rack Laughter. The following remarkable editorial was written bv Arthur Brisbane for the New York Evening Journal: A woman walked along the north Bide of Twenty-eighth street, near Fourth avenue, at noon yesterday. Her walk was a little unsteady, her carriage not quite natural. She was neither young nor old perhaps fifty, perhaps only thirty one of the many women of thirty made to look old by poverty and worry. The woman's dress was black, faded and rusty. Her face was a good, honest face; It, too, was faded. Her head was bare, and the hair was gray. Tho hand that loosely held her skirt was wrinkled, the veins stood out. Many a hard day's work that hand had done. The woman looked old. But her manner, her actions were for the mo ment those of a young woman. Her walk was a little unsteady. Only that walk betrayed the woman's condition at first. As she walked she looked about her gayly. like a girl of fourteen. She walked along hum ming to herself. She dropped her skirt for a second, and, bending far over, seized the dress Impatiently and lifted it, with a laugh of almoBt gen uine mirth, smiling at the passers by as she did so. That laugh told the story. Men passing by had glanced care lessly at the faded working woman. They had scarcely noticed the un steady walk. Fatigue might have caused that unsteadiness. But everybody who heard the care less, ringing laugh turned to look. And Immediately every man knew that the unhappy woman had been drinking to excess. If she had been young or well drcsBed, if her clothing or her face had been that of a happy woman with a decent chance In life, the laughter would have seemed quite natural, it would have caused no surprise. But coming from that faded face, everybody knew that the laughter had behind It some cause other than nat ural mirth. Some who looked at the woman laughed; others scowled at her con temptuously; a few looked with pity and sympathy. Laughing, the v.oman gathered up her skirt, looking about with her poor faded eyes, hoping for sympathy and friendly appreciation of the little In cident that seemed ridiculous and mirthful to her poor brain. And then, unsteady but able to take care of herself, and, let us hope, able to get home safely, she passed on out of sight. , Of those that saw her, a majority probably said later, "I saw a drunken woman this afternoon," and Bald nothing more. This newspaper would like to say a little more. And we would like to say It especially, and earnestly, to the prohibitionists, the moral reformers, and the other good, well-meaning men and women that fight drunkenness throughout the country. Drunkenness Is repulsive; it Is ut terly shocking and dreadful In a wom an exposed to public contempt, on the street. Drunkenness should be fought. Everybody engaged in the fight Is doing a noble work, and a useful work, when the fight is made intel ligently. Alcohol does for Its victimB certain things. And those things must be done for the victims, on a higher and better scale, if drunkenness Is to be conquered. . That poor woman was horn like other human beings, with laughter in her soul. But how deeply that laugh ter had been burled, probably from her early childhood! It was burled tinder worry, under poverty, njjder hard work. Long hourB, worry over children, worry of every kind and sickness and Buffering had burled laughter, mirth, cheerful ness deep out of sight. Alcohol dug up the almost for gotten laugh and brought It to the surface. And the poor, tired, faded face, for a second -at least, regained part of the cheerful old expression that ought never to have left it. If you want to fight alcohol, try to do In a noble way what alcohol does In an Ignoble way. Alcohol makes the poor forget their poverty for a moment. Fight It by relieving the poor of their poverty. It's Locul Option or Prohibition. But It 1b as certain as the coming of another sunrise that If the liquor Interests continue to deny to Ameri can citizens powers that are theirs by right, perpetuate their alliance with corruption In every municipality and every Legislature and persist in thwarting the will of majorities fix pressed at the polls, they will finally force all elements to unite, not on local option, but on prohibitory meas ures so extreme that their traffic. In stead of being regulated, will . be swept from the face of the Nation. Philadelphia North American, April 3, 1908. A Woman's Movement. Prohibition In the South Is to a certain extent a woman's movement. In the campaign in Alabama It was the women, the mothers and the wives and the children ot the men who sup ported the saloon with their earnings, who marched In the procession and stood all day at the polls to see that their husbands, sons and father... voted right. Temperance Notes. A noteworthy feature of the autl saloon crusade i.i the West, as was the case in the South, Is the active participation ot women. Tho progress ot the prohibition wave through tho States of the Mid dle West la not less remarkable than Its sweep of the South. The fight against alcohol la world wide. In German universities, even, the relation of beer and "brain ef ficiency" la the subject of earnest experiment. The French Flag. The three colors were dovlsed by Mary ftuart, wife of Francois II. The white represented the royal house ot France, the blue Scottand and tho red Switzerland, lu compliment to the Swiss Guards, whose livery it was. It is generally understood that the revolutionists of 1789 had adopt ed for their flag the two colors, red and blue, but that Lafayette per suaded tiiem to add the white, to show that they bore no hostility to the king. New York American.
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