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Nore.-The following article has
been widely published and is one of
the most remarkable illustrations of
(tie value of careful marshalling and
anulysis of facts in presenting a sub-
Ject to the public.
LEVELERS.
‘The Mission of Whisky, Tobacco and
: z ee
The Creator ma le all things, we ve’
lieve.
If so; He must have. made these.
. We know what He made food and
water for, and air and. sunshine, but
why Whisky, Tobacco ‘ands Coffee?
They are here sure enough and each
performing its work. , ;
There must be some. great plan be-
Bind it all; the thoughtful man seeks
to understand something of that plan
and thereby to judge these. articles for
their trae worth. eT a
Let us not say ‘bad’ or “good” with-
out taking testimony. -
There are times and congitions when’
it certainly seems to the cdsual observ-
er that these stimulant.narcoties are
real blessings.
Right there is tlie ambush” that con-,
eeals a “killing” enemy.
. One cam slip into the habit of either
whisky, tobacco ov coffee easy enough,
but to “untangle” is often a fearful
struggle.
It seems pldin that there are circum-
stances when the narcotic effect of
these poisons is for the moment bene-
ficial, but the fearful argument against
them is that seldom ever does one find
a steady «user. of either whisky, cof-
fee or tobacco free from disease of
some kind.
Certainly powerful elements in their
effect on the human race.
1t is a matter of daily kistory testi-
fled to by literally millions of people,
that Whisky,
smiling, promising,
on the start, but
itself in the end. once they
hota enough fo show their strength,
they insist upon governing and drive
the vietim steadily towards ill health
{n some form; if permitted to continue
beguiling friends
always false as hell
Tobacco and Coffee are |
fo rule, they will not let up until! phy- |
gical and mental ruin sets in. Te
A man under that spell (and “under
the spell” is correct), of any one of
these drugs, frequently assures him-
self and his friends, '*Why, I can leave
off any time I want to. I did quit for
a week just to show I could.” Itis a
sure mark of the slave when one gets
to that stage.
week fighting every day to break the
spell, was finally whipped, and began
his slavery all over again.
The slave (Coffee slave ‘as well as
Tobacco and Whisky) daily reviews his
condition, sees perfectly plain the
steady encroachments of disease, how
the nerves get weaker day by day and
demand the drug that seems to smile
and offer relief for a few minutes and
then leave the diseased condition
plainer to view than ever and grow-
ing worse. Many times the Coffee
slave realizes that he is between two
fires. He feels bad if he leaves off,
and a little worse if he drinks and al-
lows the effect to wear off.
So it goes ou trom day wo day. Every
night ‘the struggling vietim promises
himself that be will break the habit
and next day when he feels a little
bad (as he is quite sure to), breaks,
It is nearly always a tough fight, with
disaster ahead sure if the habit wins.
There have been hundreds of thou-
sands of people driven to their graves
through disease brought on by coffee
drinking alone, and it is quite certain
that more human misery is caused by
coffee and tobaceo than by whisky, for
the two first are more widely used,
and more hidden and insidious in the
effect on nerves, heart and other vital
organs, and are thus unsuspected un-
til much of the dangerous work is
done.
Now, Reader, what is your opinion
as to the real use the Creator has for
these things? Take a look at the ques-
tion from this point of view.
There is a law of Nature and of Na-
ture’s God that things slowly evolve
from lower planes to higher, a sturdy,
He wiggled through a |
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Jows. The “levelers” are in the bushes
along the pathway of every successful
man and woman and they bag the ma-.
jority. :
Only now and then can a’ man stan@
out against these “levelers” and hold
his fortune, fame and health to the
end. : :
So tae Creator has use for Whisky,
Tobacco and, Coffee to level down the.
successful ones and those who show
gigns of being successful, and keep
them back in the race, so that the great
“field” (the masses) may not be left
too far. behind.
And yet we must admit that same all
wise Creator has placed it in the pow-
er of man to stand upright, clothed in
the armor of a clean cut, steady mind:
and say unto himself, “I decline to ex-
change my birgnrigat . for: a. mess, of
potage.
“I will not, Ry my senses, wea tk
en my grip on affairs and keep myself
cheap, common and behind in fortune
and fame by drugg ring with whisky,
tobacco or coffee; life is too short. It
is hard enough to win the good things,
without any sort-of handicap, so a man
is certainly..a ‘fool trader’ .when he
trades strength, health, money, and the
good things that come with pawer, for
the half-asleep condition of the ‘drug-
ger’ with the certainty of sickness snd
Cisease ahead.”’
it is a inatter each individual must
decide for himself. He can be a lead."
er and semi-goa if he will, or be can
go along tiwrough life a drugged clown,
a cheap “hewer of weod or carrier of.
water.”
Certain it is that while the Great
Father of us alle does not seem’ to
“mind” if some of His children. are
foolish and stupid, He seems to select
others (perhaps those Howinionis for
some special work) and allows them to’
be threshed and castigated. Fash: feat
fully by these “levelers.” » ..
If a man fries flirting with these tey-.
efers awhile, and gets a few slaps as.
a hint, he had better take the hint or
get nrm. a good solid blow will follow.
When a man tries to live upright,
clean, thrifty, sober, ani undrugged,
manifesting as near as be kiiows what’
the Creator intends he should, happi-
ness, health and peace sce to come
to him. Does jit. pay?
This article was written to sol peo-
ple thinking, to rouse the “God wilh-
in,” for every highly organized. man
and woman has *imes when they feel
a something calling from within, fqr
them to press -o:the front and “be
business;” don’t
mistake it; the spark of the Infinite.
is there and it pays in ‘every. .way,
health, happiness, peace, and even
worldly prosperity, to break off the
habits and strip clean for the work
cut out for us.
It has been the business sf the writ-
er to provide a practical and easy way
for people to break away from the
coffee habit and be assured of a relurn
to health and all of the good things
that brings, provided the abuse. has
not gone too far, and even then the
cases where the body has been rebuilt
on a basis of strength and health run
iirto the thousands. !
It is an easy and comfortable step to—
{ stop coffee instantly by having well-
not the habit, but his own resolution. |
made Postum Food Coffee served rich
and hot with good cream, for the col-
or and flavor is tliere, but none of ‘the
caffeine or other nerve destroying el-
ements of ordinary coffee.
On the contrary, the most powerful
rebuilding elements furnished by Na-
ture are in Postum and they quickly
' set about repairing the damage. Sel-
dom is it more than two days after
the change is made before the old
stemach or bowel troubles or com-
plaints of kidneys, heart, head or
nerves show unmistakable evidence of
getting Detter and ten days’ ge
changes things wonderfully.
Literally millions of brain orig
Americans to-day use Postum, having
found the value and common sense in
the change.
steady and dignified advance toward
more perfect things in both the Phy-
sical and Spiritual world. The pon-
derous tread of evolutionary develop-
ment is fixed by the Infinite and will
Zot De guickened out of natural law | a particular fancy for automobiles, a
by any of man’s methods.
Therefore we see many ilustrations '
shewing how nature checks too rapid
adyance. Illinois raises phenomenal
crops of corn for two or three years.
If: she continued to do sc every year
her farmers would advance in wealth Prince of Monaco
far beyond those of other sections or
countries. So Nature interposes a bar
every three or four years and brings
on a “bad year.”
Here we see the leveling influence |
at work.
. A man is prosperous in his business |
for a number of years and grows rich.
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C. W.. POST.
Royal Fads.
The rulers of Europe at present are
not so much engrossed in ruling that
they have not time to indulge with
the rest of the world in “fads.” King
Carlos of Portugal is said to be
specially fond of the camera, and
spends ‘a considerable part of his roy-
al leisure in taking “snap shots” of
things. King Emmanuel of Italy has
liking shared also, it. may be added,
by President Loubet of France. the
Shah of Persia and Prince Ferdinand
of Bulgaria. .The Queen of Roumania
is a great collector of rare books, as
wéll as being a’ poet herself.” The
is an expert in
deep sea life and phenomena, and
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland : boasts
the finest collection of old Jace in
Elurope. But most curious of- all, is
the specialty. of the venerable King
| of Denmark, the collection of bird's
Then Nature sets the “leveling influ-
ence” at work on him. Some of his
investments lose, he becomes luxuri-
ous and lazy. Perhaps it is whisky, to-
baeeo, coffee, women,. gambling, or |
some wther form. The intent and pur-
pose is to level him. Keep him from
evolving too far ahead of the masses.
A pation becomes prosperous and
great like ancient Rome. If no leveling
influence set in she would dominate
the world perhaps for all time. But
Dame Nature sets her army of “level-
ers” at work. Luxury, over eating and
drinking, licentiousness, waste and ex- |
travagance, indulgences of all kinds,
then comes the wreck. Sure, Sure,
Sure.
Lue law of the unit is the law of the
Man goes through the same
Weakness tin childhood),
growth of strength,
thrift, probity, prosperity, wealth,
comfort, ease, relaxation, self-indul-
gence, luxury, idleness, waste, de-
bauchery, disease, and the
mass.
Process.
gradual
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wreck fol-
eggs. His present collection .is. said
to be worth $75,000, and it may in
time go to .some museum.—Leslie’s
Weekly.
Blame the Parents.
It has long been a debatable ques-
tion whether heredity or environment
is responsible for the depravity and
degeneracy of children. In either,
case it is the parent’ and no! the
child upon whom the responsibility
should Test. If the Iowa juvenile
court law will compel parents to
look after their children be ter, in-
stead of hauling them into court on the
least provocation and asking that
they be sent to jail or the reform
school, it will have done such a great
and good work that all the omissions
of the legislators in the framing of
the law will be forgiven.and forgot-
ten.
About thirty thcusanu horses are
said to be slaughtered for their meat
in Paris each year. The carcass of a
good horse-yields about +69 pounds of
meat, which can bs eaten by those
who do not care what they do.
Jesus says.
i eonfess alw
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN EL OQUENT D! SCOURSE ENTITLED.
“"GLORIFYING THE FATHER. »
Preached by. the.Rev. Dr. Thom:is B. Me
? Jeod, of Brooklyn, N, Y.—We..Can
‘Make God Real, We Can Make the
Gospel sublime. 3 id
Br H00KL TY, N. ¥ Me? By 1 turn to
his pulpit from ‘his vacation 7 Pr,
Thomas B. McLeod, pastor:
Avenue Congregation orp prac “hed:
an. seloquent SEEINQ Synday F1OT
“Glorifying the Father.” The t
chosen from
chn Xx
Father gioried that y vat apuel re
so y Tall ye be My disciples,” Dr. Mcleod,
sai
How vital,
Testaniont:
dear friends, are’iall. Net
representations of religion!
Comp the New. Testament with thee oh
ical tence biz 1g, or religious, teaching: of
other books in this respect, and vou fi
simpiv ustonished. © There is nothing me-
chanical in thein. nothing formal, pothing
instituti onal-—cvery process is a recess. of
no use for.a man, or: for no to
they -have Abraham ‘for toeir
igion-is nota matter of Riou 2
man's stors vere; it is a anudter
what a man himself is. Jesus has given g
in one pithy sentence His estimate of the
fatired
worth of the claim that’ is based on de-
scent, on heredity, on social prestige, w hen
He says that God conld raise up, or make
children. ‘unto Abraham out of the.very
stones of the roadside. The coneern.thut
interests God. when it, comes to the matic:
of religion, ix whether a man is a living
plant or a dead stick. . The hedge, thouy |
it be a hedee of flowers or roses, in which
the stake oeonrs, does nok make the stoke
a living thing. The line oi descent. in
which a man “stands, nor the social posi-
tion he occupies, nor the church of which:
he is an attendant, or a member, is noth-
‘ing. The man may after all be nothing
better than a de: wd stake in a. hedge.
There was a certain fine man, a fine man
socially, religiously, politically-—one of the
best of men as men went—came to Jesus
to make inquiry on the subject of religion.
He was reverent and devout and respect-
ful and courteous and cultured and learne
a leader and teather of the people, a.!
tuger bat Fheg i came sto re]
gion, Ne Jons st be
Bern :
3 pres
tation we or) in the Now Testament, re
gion 5 its Ji ave come that ye mig
have ! ike, and that ye might have it
abundant . “ yest
And so of . Not simply of the rep-
resen tations or de seriptions of rajie
{Tow ate we to know th:
¢“ Christiang? © How are 'w
thant others are: living Christ
v, the New Testament pushes
the point of urgent belief, and in
it, ‘that the tes tis fruit, not leav
flowers, but fruit, and that fruitfhine
the only essential .thing that shall teinmply
under the test, Jesus.may endure ‘barren;
ness outside of the “church, bit He cannot
endure it inside of the church. A br amblie
in tlie woods 15° bearable. but a bramble in
the orchard. that is intolerable. By, their
fruits ye shall know them. Men do not
gather figs of thistles ot grapes of thorns.’
“The man of God is perfect, fruitful unto
all good works.”
How little stress Jesus lays upon those
tests that are so universally adopted and
applied, and admitted to be sufficiently ad-
equate; attendance upon religious ordin-
ances, subscription to creed and statement,
routine observance of ritesand ceremonies:
He makes nothing of all that, and He
comes to us, friends, just as’ He came to
the fruitless, leafy fig tree by the wayside,
searching for fruit, not for leaves, not for
blossoms. not for florescence, not for es-
thetic delight in sacred music. not for fond-
»f the literary side of religion, not for
ness
a keen appetite for well « fod and pre-
sented © il, but for fru it, and"He
comes up closer to us, ‘friends, than any-
body else can’ come--than our dearest and
nearest can come—for, after all, these can
see only outside appearances, He sees real-
ities. They ¢ things that pass for Sr
works in us, born, it may be,
ambition or ‘of 8 it. He sees ot
down into the centre soul. and He is
looking for fruit. 1 He find in
vou and me? Fruit i; leav ves, or just bare
branches? 3 v
The test is fruitfuleess. Now that oucht
to be an easy
friends, is
test to apply, and it surely,
fe test to apply—for you and
me to apply to our own selves. But then,
some one may say, “Well, what constitutes
fruitfulpess? I am ready now te lay hare
my soul before God; Tam ready now to go
down on my face before God and apply the
tést; I am ready now for heart-searching,
and to measure myself by this standard,
but f want to know what constitutes
fruitfulness.” “What are the fruits that
Jesus expects and that I am “to Took for
and by which I am to measure myself?!
Why, the Bible is simply full of that.. It
has set the whole thing so ®lain, and 50
fully, and so wariously that a ww ayfaring
man though a fool need not mistake as to
what: fruitfulness -an the Christian life is
“Blessed are the poor.in st ,
Come now, we -are examining ourselves
about the fruits. “Blessed are the poor in
spirit; blessed are the meek; blessed are
the merciful (the good hearted); blessed
are the pure in heart; blessed ave the
peacemakers; blessed are they who have
not simply a relish now and then, bit a
hunger and a thirst after riglitcousnesa-
rightness. These. are the fruits that the
‘hristian man is expected to grow. in his
character :
An apostle says,
of the spirit. is love: joy,
patience, meekness, faith, temperarc ws,
frnit that the Christian is to develon, that
will be developed, that Jesus will expec tif
there be life—ove—the heart of all good-
ness—love to God and love to mon. “Who
Joveth not his brother whom he hath seen.
how shall he love God—how can he Jove
God whom he hath not seen?” Fruit: love
—ioy. Joy in fellowship with God; jov. in
fellowshio with believers; in service
and ministry. T.ove—ioy o. -Content-
ment of mind uh nstances;* the
harmony of conviction, of thoutht and af-
fection. Long suffering — patient endur-
ance not only in affliction, but patient cn-
durance of wrong and provocation; and
meekness and temperance and all the rest.
What does fru itfulness smean? , It means
simply the development or achicverent of
character that will approve itself to God.
But-this growth of charac ter does not ex-
haust the expectation of Chrise coreernins
us. Tt dots not. exhaust fruit which
the Christian has to bear. There is other
fruit. You tread that passaze arain and Jou
will see that the-teror of it has. to do:with
fellowshin—fellowship! awith Jesus,
ship in His pury tedeom this world
from sin. Jesus id not thinking altogether
of the good His disciples are tb get throtigh
‘the fruits, or the frait
long suffering,
The
fellowship with Him. bug, He is thinking
also of the goed which His, Hryipks are to
do throuch fell owship with Him.” Not alto-
gether of what His disciples’are to receive,
but of what, His disciples ave to achieve.
“Except the branch abide in the vine it
De forth no fo ic. If ve abide iv Me
and My words abide-n you, ye <hall bring
forth much fr .
Oh, friends
ristian life,
we Hie
and our
range of the
tstand minds
ing, gelting—
that we. are
col cerning do-
the vine the
enjoy ing,
deaf to “the wort
ing, doifig, doing. ror
branch ean bear no fruit; apart’ from the
branch: the vine cannot» bear fruit. ‘And
here, friends, we up to: something
that ought to bri and me very lowly
before God. Low!ly. not so much with the
gense of mortification and penitence, but |
with a kind of exultant joy. It befit
our dependence upon
enjoy
_|-those
|.sickly people die for lack of help.
r angel somes down to cool their fe--
swam
but iad we we have Christ confessing Hig de-
Porigdfice ou us. ‘Marvelous thing! The
branch cannot bear of itself except it abide
in the vine.”. and the. vine cannot bear
frnit without the- branches.
Paul wuts that thought in another. form
wheén Be says: “Yo arc the body of Christ,
and members gach severally —members of
that b part from the body the
members Yori There is no power in the
hand, no vision in the eve, no power in the
ear to heir the votece of God apart from
the body.» We are the bedy of Christ; we
are the organization through w hich Christ
wor ks; we are the organization by ‘whi ich
Chri hails up His kinedon, gn the earti.
We are the lands of Christ.” Christ wauts,
Christ desires to feed the hungry and
clothe the naked, and visit the
build homes for the homeless
prison deors 5 those in cap
supposing thé hands of the Food ye
alaged, * how can He do these things? We
areg they voice of Christ.
publish abroad to the end of {he earth the
meapheof God's dovesand thy way of sal-
vatfon, dbut if the v
He i, i 4
voice be sient, how can
the mare of God having
talle about the bound-
and we do well,
of God have
Not according to the dis-
«which our fathers believ-
i niercy’ is infinite; God! 's pity is
of God.
God and the mercy
US a
ed, God's
botndiess; His Jove extends to’ all men—
that . we believe:
glory; we
onation oi our
in that, de
{lower and cor-
we count it the very
religion.
by us—by.us.. Ac
1% or “uniyilling is
omeiy tastttiont Here
wom you have always
AB a CLASSIn gay Le in school, an
associate in 51 and he has fallen
sn evil times amd everything that the
spefit hidlife in accumulating is gone. You
are rich, you are perfectly able to put that
man on his feet again; to give him a sec-
ond chance and another start; you are
God's elected ‘minister - for
But you don’t doit. God-is kindly dis-
pesed to that man;
‘man, and Ie.has put vou in a position to
Ye him. You are His hands} you are
(GGod’s ministering . agency,
God’s goodness, don’t YOUZ. cy
God is very pitiful, very pit
iful.” Rich
‘men can feed poor men, but they don’t do’
it.” No'fnanna falls fron heaven to feed
poor men. They starve.
rousiy pitiful, and there: ares stron
. who are perfectly able to help and
rt weak and sickly people, but’ these
No min-
wond vr
DE
COY
heal them. Don’t you see tnat we,
’s band, God's voice, the branches and
s of the vine, limit ‘the fruitfulness of
ok tine; linuf the power, of the Almiglity
“Herein is Father glorified. that »
shail ve be My dis
When I look al that
am terrified .to thi nk that.
that God wanted done v dry
throtigh my neglec
at there is encour: re nt here for
Apart from the vine the braut h
ing. Abiding in the
eth forth mueh fruit,
y
us’ ry
withers; it can do 1
vine, the branch bring
aud we may abide and we may olorify our
Father. Glorify: Him. Make Him shine
with radiance and beauty in the eyes of
ake God manifest. We can.make
; we can make the gospel sublime
s of those who are living without
it.” Wé can so tell the story; we can so
live our religion; we can so manifest the
arace of God in our lives; we can so lot
our light shine that others—our neighbors
and friends, our children and rélatives—
shall glorify our Father in heaven.
God Only is ‘Pertc cf.
Perfection, in every absolute sense, can-
not be found among men—it abides ony
with God. ‘Man, at his best, is. not free.
An heir of immortality, he is: imprisoned
Candidate for itheed. he
itage of sin and corruption from
the generations of the past. Called to do
all things through God str thening hin,
he finds that the spirit ing but the
flesh is weak. Coun ils menace the
voyage of the per fectionist. Presumptuous
n have dominion over him, when
is it is. not robbery to be equal
and share with the absolute the
Seraitiite 3 of divinity. Spiritual pride
leads kit to moral ruin when he is per-
suaded. to: forget the hour of prayer be-
se of his conceit that with him every
h is a prayer. The Man of Nazareth
so far from this vanity that He spent
hoe nights in communion with God on
thre mountains and in solitary r.plages apart
from His companions. The perfection
a . 1s2deceived when he materializes tHe
things of God, by asserting for: the saints
below an earthly: empire over disease and
death and by: claiming a part in the politi-
cal of ‘the aq neg Christ in a
miliental reign at
ne
Ww
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Increasing God’s Tie te
Some one has said that ‘each human life
1 another opportunity for “God to disp ay
is grace and power.” So'it is, and the
thought" will grow upon vou as ‘you medi-
tate: upon it. “Just think, 1 am God’ s op-
Derlunie Isn't it wonderial Isn't 1t
gigrious? When we jook af ie whom
Goa has nl ly blessed’and honored in ser-
vice we can see how it is, ‘but do we ev or
think of ourselves as God’s opportunity?
Every one that responds to God's call,
“Come!” gives God a larger place in the
world.
JYvery one who obeys G
i
od’s comunand,
Gaol s God in gai a larger piace
in the h s of men. 'Y Yege enerated
heatt and life is a new garden i wlich
God plants His seeds of love and grace; a
fouhtain out of - which flow constant
streams of liealing pow
Take it home, dear Yoling friend, and
say to our: self, I am God's cpportunity.’
Be that'and your life will beeon ie unuiter-
ably erand and your ex wee unspeak-
ably sweet. -A. W'S DD.
One Thing Wo Can Do.
Each one in any givea iace
& sible sl Are in every,
that place
part with our Wats
do” our part with our hen
Agtostle Jo; 1n Said about evil d
i ‘Tet
>
has a re-
ing in the n oud
to welco me such, 1 be fell 1
workers.” What we spe dd on its wi
what \% welcome in out hearts a 1 we
heag of:it il this we have 2 Share.
How. widy ng, then,
are the opportu-
nittes, of even “the: most sectnded! How
great is the work’in which even’ the Jeast
ean’beswniared! As we’ hail any good in-
coming, or sieed outgoing,
enter Jnto the Ek, and
reéeive a pro} ata 1.6t ‘us
‘heart and do ‘our share. oo
Ever On rd and Upward.
We are commanded to
love God continually, to r
and ‘in everything to gi
reason is in “accord with re
joi ning, this duty.
onward andsupward
ly infinite possibiliti
ment invite him to p
ing foolstep.
latron in ‘en-
n’s pathway is ever
arger and seeming-
of future achieve.
Those on Tr
“Are these masterpieces
ist in a Florentine gallery,
nit that I do not see mu
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er, ‘“‘are not on trial; it is
y are on trial.” It is the cr
ial, not the Scriptu
rver.
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X Or
The Apostle”
-Charist wants to.
but the-
larati on we.
“And vet God's’
; compassion is bound-.
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that purpose.’
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God 18
e:
the thought is appalling: :
“LE SPORT.”
It Must Be Expensive or Frenchmen
Don’t Care for It.
This is the season of sports, prin-
cipally for men who hayven’t the leis-
ure to be “sportif” all the year, and in
France they are numerous. With us
the clerk and salesman, unlike his
British prototype, has no opportunity
for habitual exercise. In England
banks and, shops tlose gags Satur-
day is, a half-holiday, and* some
countiecs—Devonshire, for IA
Wednesday also; of conrse no work
is done on Sunday. In France offices
and stores are stupidly kept open 12
hours on end, though there isn’t busi-
ness enough to warrant such over-
application. The time that is left is
hardly enough for meals, to say noth-
ing of aperitifs. Hence only men of
leisure, they become a ground of pet-
sports with any sort of constancy.
And this has already established a
radical distinction between the way
sports can be developed in France
and the way they are developed in
Anglo-Saxon countries. As sports
are the privilege of men of wealth and
liesure, they become a ground of pet-
ty vanity for those who commonly
practice them in our French demoec-
racy, and an object of jealousy, dis-
guised as disdain, for those who are
deprived of them by reason of lack of
money and lack of leisure.
THe thing is especially apparent in
the provinces. Today
prefecture has its tennis court,
especially every city that has a garri-
son. And nothing could be more
amusing - than the
baughtiness—displayed by the happy
individuals admitted to that tennis
court—nothing, that is, unless you
prefer to laugh at the slanderous hos-
tility of those who are not yet admit-
ted and who employ various Machia-
vellian manoeuvres to secure admis-
sion.
Nor is this the only
proof that in
“France sports are regarded as a dis-
tinetive badge of’. aristocracy. Just
as soon as a snort comes into gen-
eral vogue it is dropped by all true
sportsmen. Canoeing, which still
flourishes on the Thames, is given
over on the Seine, with affected indif-
ference, to workmen and’ counter-
jumpers, who, for this part, no long-
er particularly enjoy it. The bicycle
was abandoned the moment its re-
duced price brought it within every-
body’s reach. Whenever any form of
physical exercise becomes inexpen-
sive its doom in France is sealed, for
the only Frenchmen who have leisure
for ¢rorts demand something more of
them than the development of their
muscles—they want them to be a
mark “of social excellence.” At
heart they eare far more for a mark
of “social excellence” than they do
for the development of their muscles,
and that is one of the reasons why
the automobile is so popular. A fat
monsienr, comfortably seated beside
a hired chauifeur, imagines himself
a sportsman. Indeed, he is privileged
to wear a bearskin and a goggle
mask. No spnortsman’s club would
dare to blackball him..—Marcel Pre-
vost in Figaro.
War Times in Japan.
The happy life of the family circle,
otherwise c¢njoyable in the cool
breeze of the summer evening, is
quite. impossible this year now that
the main support of the family is ab-
sent on account of the war. The
housewife, who sets the dinner table
daily with a seat left vacant, and the
old sire, whe emerges from his her-
mitage into the troublesome world to
toil for the daily bread for the family,
buy newspapers, otherwise uninterest-
g, but for the sake ‘of the one at the
front, and request the eldest boy to
read them aloud.
“What report of the. war?’ So say-
ing, the grandfather takes into his
arms* the youngest grandchild, to
whom he says: “Thy papa is doing
great deeds and will soon come home
to bless thee.”
How deeply pathetic must be the
scene of this country home, where the
winds that sail over the green fields
of rice and even the tinkle, tinkle of
the bells at the necks of the farmers’
horses that pass by the door remind
the family of the man at the front.—
Tokio Asahi Shimbun.
Age as Senator Vest Understood it.
On a certain occasion Mr. Vest had
returned to the senate after one of his
brief absences. Senator Hoar cf Mas-
sachusetts, four years his senior, met
him in the lobby and chided him good
naturedly for not attending strictly to
business when vital measures were
being debated. “You're a fine young
man,” said Mr. Hoar, “to absent your-
self at suvch.a time and leave us old
fellows—Cockrell and me and the rest
—to handle these matters.”
“You'll never be as old as L” said
Vest, “if vou live fifty years longer.”
“Bless you, I was born in 1826, and
was preparing for college before you
came into the world,” said the Massa-
chusetts man.
“If vou were'born in 1726 you
wouldn't be as old as I,” said the Mis-
sourian. “You and Cockrell will see
rears, but vou will- never see age.
Yon haven't lived as lively as I have
—and I am wishing sometimes that
« hadn’t,” d, with a weary smile.
—Kansas City Star.
he ¢
Him.
en you utterly
Some Hope for
Young Sorreltop—TI
cast me off?
Miss Esmeralda (with
ness)—WI ny
great gentle-
no, Sylvester; but—but
it would be 30 silly for a girl to say
ves the fir time. If—if you are of
the same mind you might ask
again some day, vou know.—Chiecs
Tribune.
L
4 the burglar.
every -sub-,
and
vride—not "to" say
Ln
AEYSTONE STATE GULLINGS
BURGLARS BUSY.
Leave Note Requesting Sharon Peo-
ple to Have More for Them
Next Time They Call
of Greenville, has
Southern
Melvin,
brought suit against the
Pacific: Railroad company for $50,-
000 damages. Melvin and his wife
bought round trip tickets from. St.
Louis to San Francisco and return.
Melvin alleges that on the return
trip. a conductor claimed his -signa-
ture dig not agree with that on the
ticket and put him and his wife off
at a lonely station in Northern Cali-
fornia at night.
Postmaster Wells, of Wilcox, cap-
tured a lone burglar who had robbed
the postoffice at Wilcox. The rob-
ber had‘an hour’s start, but by using
a fast horse the postmaster overtook
Instead of stopping the
Wells drove on to
where - he dis-
gun - for
Milton
man at once Mr.
a turn ir the road,
mounted and prepared his
work. As the robber approached the
turn he was halted, admitted his
guilt and gave up the stolen proper-
ty.
A remarkable prehistoric
been discovered at ‘Dailies quarry,
Lathrop township, Wyoming county.
[n removing a “lift” of stone, about
four inches thick, the quarrymen
were surprised to find the impression
of nine well defined human footsteps
across the slab. The feet were large
and roughly shaped, but the impres-
gion is distinct. The rock was found
20 feet below the surface.
An action was filed at Carlisle by
John W. Wetzel, Democratic nominee
for president judge, against Otto B.
find has
Block, publisher and editor of the
“Star and Enterprise,” of Newville,
and another against D.. P. Sollen-
berger, correspondent, for libel.
Damages are fixed at $5,000 against
Block and $2,500 in the case of Soll-
enberger. The suits grew out of a
political article published against
Wetzel.
W. R. Carothers, a well known oil
man and prominent Y. M. C. A. lead;
er, was sued for $10,000 damages for
breach of promise to marry Miss Mary
J. Brady of Washington, a member of
a well-known family. It is alleged
Carothers had been friendly with Miss
Brady for several years and had been
engaged to marry her for several
months. . Two weeks ago Carothers
married another girl.
The twenty-second annual reunion
of the Seventy-sixth regiment, Penn-
sylvania volunteers, was held at Al:
toona. Capt. Alfred Hicks, of Pitts-:
burg, was elected president, and
Capt. John McNevin, of Altoona, sec-
retary-treasurer for the ensuing year.
The next annual meeting will be
held in Pittsburg.
Burglars entered several residences
n Sharon and “stole jewelry and other
sooty amounting to several hundred
iollars, and then made their escape,
leaving no:clue. The robbers left a
aote in the residence of T. J. McCar-
‘hy, as follows: “You want te have
iomething more -the next time we.
ome.’ :
Robbers gaired an entrance to the-
home of Jacob Schell, in Altoona, and
secured plunder to the value of $25.
They then made an attempt-to burn
the house. Neighbors noticed the:
oright light in the house and awaken-'
¢d Schell and his family in time to:
prevent any great damage Yo the Prop,
arty. rie: 8
The Washington EI coun
cil have been res rained by the court’
from grading Dunn avenue, a thor-
pughfare leading into the new Wash-
ington park. The injunction was:
made on the petition of the Taxpay-
ers’ league. . .
Work has been resumed at the
plant of the Pitsburg, Window Glass
company at Washington, and with-
in a week it will be in full operation.
The factory will.be operated under
the St. Peter's .scale, and noc wage
difficulties. are expected. ETE
Christ Evangelical - Fuineran
church, of South Sharom, has’ extend-
ed a call to Rev. M. C. Zundel, of
Fargo, N. D. Rev. J. A. Frisckorn,
who has been pastor, ha§ resigned on
account of failing health.
Patrick Bryne, of Wheatlapd, -was
the victim of footpads while return-
ing from Sharon. He was seized
from behind and was hit on the head
with a club. The ‘robbers secured
$20. ?
Seth McGee, 40° years old, mill-
wright of the Greer tin plant, of New
Castle, was killed by failing from &
tree near New Bedford. He is sur-
vived by two children. :
Frederick H. Musser,
township, Mercer county, had his
barn burned. His loss is. about Zz
500, “partly insured.
James Ryan, of Ruftsdale, i ‘Tun
down by a car at Tarr. station’
was killed. Ryan was .68 years
and leaves a wife and family.
Smallpox has broken out at Mo
gan station, . Fayet e- county. The
town has been quarantined.
Davis Brothers’ livery barn, at Bau-
claire; was burned, the loss being
$1,000, partly insured. =
S. E. Smith, a well-known Tosident
of Homewood, was struck by a train
last night and severely injured.
James Shaw, of Uniontowa, was run
over by a freight train ‘and both legs
were cut off.
of Delaware
The corner stone
n Catholic churel
town, was laid
Rev. Eugene A. Garvey, hop of the
a diocese, in: the: presence .of
0 people. Bishop Garvey
sist~d by a large number R
isiti p tS. St. Patric
will cost ab ou: $30,000
Rev. Herbert Yeull
stor of the Centr
of St. Patriek’s
in Moxham,
oe Righ
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