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ARIZONA'S WILD CAMELvS. Descendants of a Herd That 7ero Imported from Africa. The camels now running wild in Ari sona are the descendants of a small herd originally imported for use in the state of Nevada, says the Ban Fran cisco Chronicle. In the early days of mining on the Cornstock, Ion? before there were any railroads in the Great Basin region, it was thought that camels might be profitably used about the mines, particularly in packing across the surrounding1 deserts, and twelve "ships of the desert" were ac cordingly purchased and brought to Virginia City. They were waDted for ni( in rrac.'inr' Halt iroin the Hot Springs salt marsh to the Comstock re- 1 duction works. This salt deposit lies far out in a desert region, and to reach it many waterless stretches of sand and alkali had to be traversed. The camels were able to cross all the j deserts in perfect comfort, carrying : heavy loads of salt and finding means 1 of subsistence in the prickly and bitter j plants and shrubs everywhere to be . found in abundance. In short, the ! animals did as good work here in our ' deserts as they are able to do in any j country in the world, but they were ; too slow. The camel may be fast : enough for an Arab, but he is too slow : for an American. When the occupation of the camels ' as packers of 6alt was gone they were 6old to some Mexicans, who used them ; for a time in packing wood down out of the mountains. The Mexicans took : them np rocky trails into the rugged hills and used them the same as they use a mule un mercif ully. They soon hilled three of the wretched beasts and . would have killed the remainder had not a 1'renchman, who owned a big ranch crj. the Carson river, below Day- , ton, taken pity on the poor, abused jreatures and bought the whole of them. This Frenchman had been in Algeria with the French colony, where he had developed an aHectior for the camel probably owed the animal a debt of gratitude for having saved his . life on some occasion. lie had no use for the bea.sts, therefore turned them j out to roam the desert plains at wilL ; Tne animals, left to shift for them Belves, soon waxed fat, and increased and multiplied. In a few years from I nii-e the herd had increased to thirty- ' six, old and ycur.g. The Frenchman then sold the whole lot to be taken duwn to Arizona to be used in packing . ore down off a big mountain range. It w as said there was a good smooth trail, but the animals found all the rocks and : 6'on became footsore and useless, when : a.l were turned adrift to shift for them selves. They have regained the ia etincts of the original wild state of their species and are very wary and nift. They fly into waterless wastes impenetrable to man when approached, borne of the old animals, however, oc casionally appear in the vicinity of the settlements. Of late it is reported that ; the cattlemen have been shooting them for some reason, perhaps because they , 2o one knows how many camels are now running at large in the wilds of the Giia country, but there must be a great number. One is occasionally caught. Four years ago one was cap tured near to Gila Bend that measured over nine feet in height. It appeared to be a stray from one of the herds in that region. With the herd of camels when it was owned by the Frenchman on the Car son river was a huge old bull camel known as "Old Ileenan." because of his fighting proclivities. lie was a giant, and the patriarch of the herd. Lie had hair on parts of his body that was a foot or eighteen inches in lengh. The animals ranged down the valley of the Carson nearly to old Fort ChurchilL At Sam Buckland's ranch, a mile above the fort, several Mexican vaqueros were employed. These men had seen the big camel, and looked with envious eyes upon the long, silken hair that hung from the hugs frame. They thought this hair tnipht be spnn into beautiful riatas, bridle reins and orna ments for bridles. One fine Sunday morning in spring two . : the Mexicans Antonio and Ge donio equipped themselves with a lasso and a pair of sheap shears and set out to catch and shear Old Ileenan. Ge donio found the big animal easy of ap proach. The old fellow stood stock stilL lie was dreamily chewing his cud with half-closed eyes. The lasso swished through the air, and in a m o ment was about the big animal's neck. Then, as the patriarch felt the rope tighten about his throat, the fun be gan. Alongside the giant beast the Mexi can looked a mere pigmy. When Old Ileennn realized that the small two legged creature was actually trying to gather him in his little eyes turned green with rage. Hissing like a red hot locomotive he charged Gedonio. The little Mexican held to the rope for a time, hoping to choke the camel down, but found the animal apparent ly able to subsist as long without wind as without water. Besides, Ileenan made for him so r3pidiy that ho could get no pull on the old fellow. At last. Gedonio was so hard pressed that ho was obliged to drop the lasso and take to his heels. By this time Old Ileenan was wild with rage. The Mexican tried to dodge the irate be tat among the bunches of grass wood, but these being only two or three feet high, afforded poor cover. He then struck for the river, intending to ciimb one of the cottonwoods on its banks, but Ileenan was too close upoc his heels. There was no time for climbing, and he was obliged to plunge into the river. Not being abie to swim, Gedonio was constrained to halt when the water came up to his chin. Ileenan charged down to the water's dge and there stood on guard. Though the old fellow would not enter the water yet he made Gedonio very unhappy by spit ting showers of acrid saliva into his face and ryes. Meanwhile Antonio, who had wit nessed hla partner's inglorious retreat and almost F-plii his windpipe in laugh ing iiCr"aL,tc:Cme uneary. He begau ,-.t . to fear that Gedonio was either drowned or killed, as he could see neither man nor camel after they had plunged down over the bank of the river. Leading1 the mustang's he ventured near the bank of the stream and shouted: "Gedonio! Gedonio! mio amigor Gedonio heard and shouted lustily for Antonio to come to his relief, lie in structed Antonio to tie the two mus tangs fast tog-ether and leave them, then slip quietly down the bank, get hold of the trailing end of the lasso and tie it to a tree. All went well until Antonio waa about to pass the end of the lasso round the tree. It would not reach by a foot or two. and he hauled upon it. Instantly fleenan wheeled about and went lor Antonio open-mouthed. Up the bank went Antonio, wivh the big camel close at his heels. lie tried to reach the horses to mount and ride off, but at Eight of the camel the mustangs gave a snort of terror and dashed away up the river. Ileenan's attention being attracted to the horses he gave chase to them, much to the relief of Antonio, who had pluDged head first into a big bunch of sagebrush to conceal himself from the enemy, though his hiding was merely that of the ostrich. I'resently the two men got together and went in search of their horses. Ilalf a mile up the river they found both animals drowned In a deep hole, with Old Ileenan upon the bank look ing down at them. It was only after infinite trouble that the two Mexicans were able to recover their saddles and bridles. As they sneaked home to iSuckland's that evening they were sadder and wiser men. They "went for wool and came back shorn" even their shears were lost. The pair told all manner of lies to account for the drowning of their horses, but as it happened the French man who owned the camels had climbed a tree to watch the Mexicans, not knowing what they were after, and had leen an amused witness of the whole affair. When the true story reached ths ranch there were a thou sand jokes among the men about the fun to be had in "shearing the bull camel in the rutting season. When the camels were first taken down to Arizona to be used in packing ore one of them was shot and killed by u German miner. The man who did the deed suffered about as much dis tress of mind as did the sailor who killed the albatross. The German was working for a mining company at a place about three miles from where were located the men who were trying to use the "ships of the desert as "prairie schooners" in carrying ore down out of the mountains. The man did not know there was such an animal on the American continent probably in all his life had never seen a camel. One Sunday Hans came tearing into camp about ten times as wild-eyed us usual "Povs," cried he, "I shoot a helick." "A what?" asked one of the men. "A hel-ack helik," cried Hans. "Mine Gott, the biggest hclak in all on a. "lie means he has shot a monster elk," said some one. "Yas, a helk," said Hans. "So wohr mir Gott helfe, es ist de biggest in de mountains." "Big horns like this?" queried an old miner, drawing his neck down into his chest and spreading his arms abroad. "No bom at all," said Han. "She was a frau helak; she woi de grand mudder of all de helick." As Hans was able to show blood on his knife, gun and hands, the men con cluded he had at last really killed a beast of some kind. Horses were caught up and two men sent with Hans to bring in the meat, of which he said there was "more as a vagon load." Hans insisted upon all handa taking guns,as he said he had seen a large herd of the elk justacross a little valley from w here he had downed his victim. As the party rode along with him to find his game, Hans honestly owned that he had never before seen an elk. He had heard so much about the elk, how ever, tha: inaL he thought he knew the ani Presently Hans put spurs to his mus tang and proudly dashed to the spot where lay the dead camel Dismount ing, he threw his beloved "jager" across his game, then as the others came up laid a finger on his lips, lie pointed in the direction of some low hills. He wanted no noise made. He was in just the right humor to creep over the hills and slaughter the whole herd. In his anxiety to make Bure of his victim, Hans had nearly sawed the head off the poor camel with his knife. When his companions came up they were for some moments at a loss as to what kind of a huge creature Hans had slain. I'resently one of them, Tom Alchorn. the well-known Comstock millwright (now dead), cried out: By. the holy poker, it's a cameL He has killed one of the camels that belong over at the other camp. Here is a nice mess. I've no doubt the animal is worth all of one thousand dollars." " Wort a tousand dollar?" cried Hans. "Gott in Himmel! If we c-ould kill cem all it is more as twenf tousand dollar in our pocket." It was long before llan could be made to understand that the "'boot was on the other foot;" thct the owners of the camel would demand one thousand dollars for it. "Ach. der toufel!" cried nans, with rueful face. "Potz wetter. Das kameel, das kameel. Is it den one kameel I haf killed?" "Yes, a camel, said Alchorn, "and the men who own the camel will be after you." "Bonner wetter!" grooned Hans. When they got back to the mine and tohl of linns' latest exploit with his old "jager," the whole camp was in a roar. Every man who looked at Hans burst into a horse laugh, and wherever he went he heard the cry: "Hi! hero comes the man that killed the cameL For about a week Hans endured the gibes and jeers of the camp, then he came up missing and his old "jager with him. The men had ma-ia tha camp too hot for him. V .rill in uiBl n? mwwn r?TlfvrPTfT -n COXEYISM AND M 'KIN LEY ISM. The Protection Policy Carried to Ita Logical Conclusion. The secretary of the American pro tective tariff league writes to the World protesting against the league's being held responsible in any wise for the Coxeyite "armies." Jt is probable that we were mistaken in naming the league as the specific source from which the Coxeyites were receiving aid. Never theless, a week ago there were unmis takable signs that the protectionists were lending the movement aid and en couragement of a substantial character; just as there are signs now that they dropped it when public attention was called to the earmarks of partisan ma nipulation. And in spite of protests and disclaim ers nothing is more obvious than that McKinleyism and Coxeyism stand in the relationship of cause and effect. For twenty years the protectionists have taught by speeches in congress and on the stump and through their party press that when anything goes wrong with business, or even with any particular industry, congress should be called upon to set things right. Their doctrine, put forward on all occasions, has been and is that laws make pros perity or bring disaster, and that the remedy for industrial disasters is more laws or changed laws. In what does this differ from Coxey ism? The Coxeyites are in distress. They claim to be willing to work but unable to obtain work, and to repre sent millions who are suffering priva tion by reason of this condition of things. They follow the teachings they have heard for years and turn to Wash ington for help. They ask congress to pass laws which they claim will bring relief. Even their plan of presenting "a pe tition in boots" is borrowed from the McKinleyites. How many times dur ing the last dozen or twenty years have the capitol and Washington swarmed with people who had gone there to ask congress to pass laws or to levy taxes for their special benefit? How long is it since the protectionist spellbinders and newspapers were shrieking in chorus because the democrats of house and senate refused to give ''hearings" to bands of people from all parts of the country who insisted upon telling con gress what kind of laws and taxes they wanted for their own benefit? Does the fact that the MeKinleyites had the money (or had it put up for them) to go to Washington in passen ger coaches give them any rights not possessed by the Coxeyites, who for lack of money must walit or steal rides on freight trains? The plain truth is that Coxeyism is simply McKinleyism reduced to an ab surdity by being carried to its logical conclusion. And though a burlesque in its present phase it will have one good effect. We shall hear less here after of congress and congress-made laws as the remedy for industrial troubles and trade depression. We shall see an end made of those "petitions in boots" which the palace car Coxeyites have been thrusting upon congress year in and 3-ear out. We shall see the honest American doctrine of self help put in practice more and more. Blindly and unconscipusly, with but a nebulous idea of what he is doing, the grotesque Coxey is a great reformer. His absurd "arm" will be turned into a circus sideshow at twenty-five cents admission and then melt away into the police station, almshouses aud casual freight trains. But be has taught a lesson that will not be forgotten. He has opened our eyes to the extent to which our social structure has been undermined. He has set men to think ing, and as the first and surest result of that thinking a halt will be called upon that form of state socialism known as McKinlevism. N. Y. World. M'KINLEYISM IN OHIO. An Indication That Tariff Reform la .Still In Demand. It is natural, perhaps, that the repub lican press should endeavor to belittle the democratic victory in the congress ional election in McKinley's old dis trict in Ohio, but the very effort they make in that behalf shows that they appreciate the full significance of the victory. They may well do so. There has been a good deal of chatter in the organs of the party about "reaction in public sentiment" concerning the Mc Kinley tariff and a good deal of exulta tion over republican victories here and there, but it is worthy of note that this election is the first that has been held since the revolution in in which the McKinley issue was fairly and squarely raised. The followers of McKinley realized this and made extraordinary efforts to carry the district which he himself car ried in the gubernatorial election by a majority cf nearly six hundred They had in their favor the hard times, the dissatisfaction so widespread over the delay in passing the tariff reform meas ure, the help of the American Protect ive association and the customary "off year'" indifference. But with all these advantages they were beaten by sub stantially the same majority which the democratic candidate had in .No wonder the republican organs are whistling to keep their courage up, for so long as the country clings to tariff reform when tariff reform is in issue the carrying of a few municipal or even state elections for the g. o. p. on other issues will be of small avaiL The value of the election to the dem ocracy is in the indication it affords that the alleged "reaction" lias not re acted and that the people have not j-et abandoned their hope of tariff reform or their intention to secure it. Detroit Free Press. If ex-Iresident Harrison is so vi olently opposed to gerrymanders he should give a little attention and advice to the repub.ican members of the Ohio legislature. These statesmen are now considering a bill to gerrymander the judicial districts of Ohio so that it will take 31,700 democratic votes to elect a democratic judge, while G.500 votes will elevate a republican to the bench. X. Y. World McKinleyism and Coxeyism are but twin offsprings of thirty years of republican legislation, -N;. Y. World. TOBBfTTl! T ItrtwtH; TO REFORM THE TARIFF. lll-Advised Methods for Securing Delrtt Legislation. Because the democracy, undertaking the work of tariff reform, has no, acted as quickly or done all that was ex pected of it, it would be footish in the extreme for those who voted for its candidates to go over to the party that is absolutely opposed to tariff reform. When, thirty-three years ago, the re publican party gained control of the national government, it went into of fice pledged to the enforcement of the principles promulgated in the declara tion of independence and embodied in the federal constitution, that "all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This and other pledges made of the party an anti-slavery organization, and yet it will be remembered that, in spite of the war which the slave-owners waged against the government, there were not a few anti-slavery men in our north ern states, and particularly in New England, who believed that the republican party was not fulfilling its pledges, and who did not hesitate to de nounce what they termed its weak subserviency to the slave power. In fact, there were in the early days of the war leaders in the party who were held up to condemnation, in the same way that Hill, Gorman and others are held up to-day, as traitors to the purty's cause. But if, to rebuke this delay in the accomplishment of a great reform, these anti-slavery men had enlisted in the confederate army or had by aid and advice done what they could to 6ecure the maintenance of the great crime of negro slavery, they would have been acting in no way different from those who would reform the tariff, but who, because this reform has been delayed, feel justified in voting for the support ers of McKinleyism. The true way is rather to defeat those in the democratic party who have proved recreant to their trust, than de feat the principle which the democratic party has pledged itself to embody in our laws. Undoubtedly the action of the Minnesota democrats, the Iroquois club of Chicago and other like organi zations has been of value in making it apparent at Washington that betrayals of trust in this matter cannot be cov ered by fulsome professions of general political allegiance, and, no doubt, if the state committees and democratic clubs generally were to adopt a similar course the result would be advanta geous. Boston Herald (Ind). NAPOLEON M'KINLEY. I Indications That the Tinsel Emperor's Waterloo I at Hand. It has become fashionable in politics, finance and trade to hail any man who is phenomenally successful as a Napo leon. The man who accepts the title should not forget that the history of Napoleon which does not include Wa terloo is not complete. It looks now as if the young Napo leon McKinley might reach his Water loo sooner thau even his opponents pre dicted. His administration of affairs in Ohio is overcast. He has failed to meet the expectations of his Iriends. There are ugly rumors, and what re cently were surmises only have now be come facts. There are irregularities and shortages and scandals in his adminis tration, scarce three years old There are accusations and crimination and re crimination. There are attempted ex planations which only confound. And in the midst of the confusion Gov. McKinley seeks to divert atten tion by going hither and yon, mounted in his old armor, and rallying wherever he can his party followers to follow his plume, and his eyes turn to the white house. Meanwhile he leaves his own capital behind, about which there is an uglier growth, and around which there are mere scandals than were ever be fore known in the history of Ohio. If some of those who are fond of calling the governor a Napoleon would read the history of the Corsician em peror, they might find some similarity between sections of the latter's history and the governor of Ohio as he appears to-day. When Napoleon realized the unrest of his own capital he sought to divert it by invading another. Gov. McKinley knows what he has brought upon Ohio, and he turns toward the administration at Washington and rails at it and tells the people what would be the difference if he were pres ident Chicago Herald. POINIONS AND POINTERS. How is Mr. Harrison this? Some weeks ago was telling the young men of California not to seek office, but to let the office seek them. Perhaps different conditions prevail in Indiana. Kansas Citv Star. The protected sheep of Wyoming are now sheared by steam. The hu man sheep who were promised the same protection, and given it about as effectively, are sull sheared by the old, smarting, extortionate methods of heavy-handed monopoly. Kansas City Times. There is a republican chorus to the effect that as congress is sure to pass a tariff bill of some sort, the sooner it is done the better. As an ad mission that the sooner the McKinley law is repealed the better for the coun try, it brings the republicans up to where the democrats have been for over three years. St. I-ouis Republic Republican protection organs which a few months afro were proclaim ing that the troubles of the country w-ere due solely to uncertainty about the tariff are now insisting that indefi nite delay in acting upon the tariff bill can do no harm, and are demanding that the republicans in the senate do all they can to prolong that delay. Louisville Courier-Journal. When the McKinley act was passed with its fixe cents a dozen duty on eggs, the farmer was told by repub lican campaign speakers that he would now receive a greater price than ever before for the eggs he brought to market and that the price would be maintained. Instead of the five cents tariff keeping up the price of eggs the price is lower to-day than it was at any time before the McKinley bill became a law. Owego Gazette. RELIGIOUS MATTERS. THEREIN ABIDE WITH GOD. Let every one. whatev'er Ills calling be. Therein abide with God. So wrote of old Saint Paul to them at Corinth, and to me With loving lips to-night that truth was told. I had grown weary with my strifes and cares, And murmured at the service of the day. Wherein I had forgotten, unawares. That thus I still might honor or obey. Abide with God: Would I might ne'er forest That evermore I may with Him abide: What matters how or when the stamp is set. Or what the furnace where the gold is tried. So that the metal has the sterling ring. So that the likeness of the King Is shown God's coinage still, that to the soul will bring Such wealth as merchant princes have not known. In market-places where the race is swift. And competition on temptation waits: In quiet homes where unseen currents drift A thousand petty cares through open gates Let each and all. wnate'er the calling be. Therein abide with God: from break of day nil set of sun they shall His purpose see. And serve Him in His own appointed way. So let me see and serve. anJ thus abide: Not simply patient, or at best content: Not with eye-service, wherein, love denied. In rounds of duty solemn days are spent Give me. O Lord, a joy that Is divine. Touch Thou my lips w:th constant themes Of praise. Since, having Thee, all things I need are mine, Whate'er my lot. wnate'er my length of days, Anson D. F. Randolph, in N. Y. Evangelist. THE LIGHT AND THE SUN. Spiritual and Keligioun Significance of tha Radiance About Ls. Beautiful as are some of the descrip tions of the dawn in Homer and superb as are the lines in which Virgil pictures the rise of Aurora from her saffron couch, no literature makes so much ol the light and the sun as the literature of the inspired writers. From the hour when the fiat of the Almighty speaks effulgence into being, to the completed and unclouded radiance of the new Heaven and the new earth, the light and the sun are favorite similes and metaphors by which to express the Di vine beneficence and glory. All the phenomena of the heavenly bodies, from the rise of the morning star to the dying down of the day and the shining out of Orion and "the sweet influences of the Pleiades." were fa miliar to a people living simple lives, and lives beneath the open sky. And to the writers of the Bible light i in all of its manifestations was Divine. I Whether seen in the golden brightness of the moon, or the silvery radiance of the niht, or in the yet more beautiful i and mysterious movement of the elec tric waves across the northern horizon, light always impresses a spiritual na ture with a sense of the Divine near ness. A single drop of dew, or the in numerable jewels that compose the rainbow, alike reveal something of Him from beneath Whose throne crys tal streams flow out, and over Whose mercy-seat the bow of promise shines. Light in its nature, diffusion and ad justment forms one of the mof.t fascinating studies of the scientist; and no one uncorrupted by a false philosophy could fail to see in so glori ous an exhibition of nature the product of a power, intelligence and wisdom, far exceeding that of man. We were reading lately a letter writ ten by a man long blind to one just ap palled and stunned by the sudden loss of sight. It humbled and shamed us, for there was running all through it a strain of love and trust which seemed, as indeed it was. a spiritual miracle. Of all the looses to which life is sub ject nothing seems comparable to loss of sight. What can we conceive more dreadful than for the mind to be shut in upon itself? Light is synonymous with life because light reveals to life that world of beauty about it in which it finds its joys. More dreadful than to be an eyeless fish in a Mammoth cave must it be to be a sightless man in a universe of light and radiance. "Thou hast prepared the light and the sun," says the I 'sal mist; and "we are not of the darkness" but "children of the light," savs Paul. God has in sundry times and places spoken to us by the mouths of holy prophets since the world began. There has been one not unworthy to be called The Light of Asia, but only One Who could be fitly termed The Light of the ; World. Only Jesus Christ surpasses j the natural sun in universality, con- stancy and beneficence. In our Heaven ! of heavens, bright above the soul, 1 burns with undiminished fervor the i source of the soul's light and heat. If men tumble spiritually now, it is, as Job says, a "stumbling at noonday as though it were night." God has not called us to the existence of troglodites in a gloomy cave of doubt. We are not made to le dwellers in some cavern of despair, far from the cheerful rays that refresh and animate the soul. A man may close his eyes, but the day still shines. We recall while riding, a morning of the years gone by, in which for the first time aud for one brief hour we dwelt in a world that was all light light without a shadow. We had reached the snow line of the Bel Alp the night before, after the last ray of day had long since gone out. We knew little or nothing of our place or our surroundings. But a light tap upon the door in the early hour waked us to see the sun rise. It is years ago. but the very remembrance of it makes the breast swell with emotion. It was, so far as the eye could see, a new world in which we waked. Below us a cur tain of clouds shut out all the cities that were homes of men; and the clouds themselves were pure silver without one spot of dross. But above them rose a scene that could be com pared to nothing except that which John saw, when he saw the city whose inhabitants walk in white, and in whoe center stands the "great white throne." A dozen peaks against the effulgent blue: Leone, Rosa, the Aeg pischorn and Simplon and their titanic peers; each glittering as an icicle and majestic as the battlements of Heaven: glacier, snow-field, mount and sky, one unspotted world of light without a shadow; a creation fresh from the touch of God, and before sin had put a stain upon its purity. Was it to be wondered at that, silent, we stood, while from the eyes dropped happy rtV.yV, a 1 ' tears; and like Coleridere in the Valley of Chamounix, the world "still present to the bodily sense Didst vanish from our thought; entranced la prayer We worshiped the Invisible alone." Ch icago Interior. "WELL ENOUGH." An Old and Popular Adage Which Aadly Needs Revision. The old injunction, "Let well enough alone," brings comfort to lazy people and to those who do not care to origi nate ideas. This saying is a foe to de velopment, and an insurmountable ob stacle to progress. It is like a stone wall beyond which a man, while he stands upon the ground, can not see. There may be apples of gold in the or chard beyond; there may be diamonds in the sand over there; there may be music in the valley, and sunshine, such as he knows nothing of on the moun tain peaks; there may be limitless op portunity to do good beyond the walL But the shriveled berries are good enough fruit for him, and the dull lead "will do" in place of diamonds: his own husky voice is melody, and he himself is "the poor" to whom charity is first to be administered. If the man who is willing to "let well enough alone" were to move hia lazy bones and climb the wall he would find beyond it those things which are so much better than the surroundings, and opportunities to which he had been accustomed would not appear "well enough" because not the best. When the limit of accomplishment has been reached a man may say "let well enough alone." Then "well enough" means his best. Having done all he can, one may rest in his assur ance that God will take care of the re sult. Young Men's Era. I n ion In God. The only real and lasting basis of fellowship among men is in the fellow ship with God. They seem to come to gether more easily on the material and intellectual side through their interest in trade, or science, or politics, or art, or literature. At the same time, the sectarian disputes over theological doc trines seem to show that it is in the Divine relation that unity is impossi ble. But all union among men that is not in God is surface work, and re mains such until it is made in some way a part of the universal human fellowship, which man has the right to in God. When the day of truest sanity comes, men will "bring their glory" into the Heavenly society in this way, and recognize all other phases of social life as part of the one perfect fellow ship in God. S. S. Times. GEMS OF THOUG HT. No one is useless in this world who lighten the burden of it for another. Dickens. The one thing a man doesn't like to do is often just the thing which stands most in his way. White. Moods must be mastered. The mood of to-day makes the moodiness of to morrow. Chicago Interior. Nevr does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another. Bich ter. The wages of sin is death, no mat ter how high may be the station or so cial position of those who engage in it. Ham's Horn. Indifference in religion is more fa tal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood. Beecher. If Faith, Hope and Charity are the three Christian graces. Jealousy, Envy and Covetousness are the three dis graces. Young Men's Era. Our safety is in havinglofty ideals, and in constant labor to secure their realization. Let the getting of money le a man's ideal, and he will of neces sity crow toward the dust. Joseph Parker. James Russell Lowell, in one of his recently-published letters, speaking of the new substitutes proposed for the God of revelation, remarked that "the protoplasm fetich is a poor substitution for the Rock of Ages." The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. It is the great example; it is the law of the highest life. He who would be great must serve. He rises highest who does most to lift others. Chicago Standard. We should accustom ourselves to self-denial and patient waiting; for the blessings that God reserves for His peo ple are like fruit which will be whole some wheu it has time to ripen, but will certainly be noxious if greedily and prematurely gathered. Scott. One of the best things ever said by the patriot Kossuth, whose body has been laid to rest in his native Hungary, in answer to inquiries about his finan cial condition: "My hands are empty, but they are clean." What a life of honesty , and integrity these noble words represent! Infinitely better such a legacy than an inheritance of millions of dollars. Pacific In earthly life we can be sure only of birth, existence and death. If birth be viewed as the earthly introduction to opportunities of immortal growth and eternal service; if existence be used as a gymnasium for character; then death will be the new birth into a higher life of unceasing activities and unfolding usefulness. Chicago In terior. It is not what we do, but what we are, that talks, effects and proves the religion of Jesus Christ. We may from specific causes be brought to the level of a noble deed, but to be fragrant for the Master, with a radiating glory in our very presence that fountain of life, truth, generous nobility must be within, and we will do because we are. Ram's Horn. The true measure of a man's life is not the space he occupies in the pub lic attention while he is living, but the abiding results of his life. Fire-worka are brilliant and beautiful, but in a moment they fade into darkness. To morrow will be the same as"" though they had not been. "The men that leave most are the greatest." United Presby terian.