tbattidon 3ournal.
mmo d. camoii. rtuwui rn.
lAKEISOBT,
Rather than see the throne trembling
Austria's Emperor was wise ill shaking
has cabinet instead.
Quinine capsules cost $10 apiece In
the Klondike region. Wouldn't that
give you the chilly shake?
Wheat rising to one dollar is certain
ly not calculated to go against the grain
so far as the farmers are concerned.
"Look out for dirty $5 bills." exclaims
Boston paper; "there are too many of
them in circulation." This seems In
credible. The lucky workinguian who has
been awarded $21,000 for being black
listed has turned up quite a card for
organized labor.
And now they are shipping American
poultry and eggs to Cupe Town. South
Africa. The Yankee spirit of enter
prise Is In evidence, Indeed.
Kaullani, Kalonokalanl, Wowwow
!:alani, Serapscrapal.ini, Wottellka
laal, and all the other kalanis are get
ting ready for a hot time in the old
town of Honolulu.
A New York woman has discovered
that she can hypnotize butterflies. It
would be of more practical value to
most people to be able on occasion to
hypnotize wasps and bees.
Pittsburg policemen have been for
bidden to play foot-ball. This is a wise
restriction; any policeman who can't
do enough execution with a club and a
revolver should give up his job.
A young woman In Baltimore has had
one of her front teeth filled with a half
karat diamond. This must be the girl
to whom the singer referred when he
remarked that "Her Bright Smile
Haunts Me Still."
Frugality is good, if liberality be
Joined with It. The first 1b leaving off
superfluous expenses; the last Is be
stowing them to the benefit of others
that need. The first without the last
begets covetousness; the last without
the first begets prodigality.
It wa3 a shrewd saying which the
Archbishop of Canterbury quoted in a
recent address to workingmen, of a
great French preacher who, two cen
turies ago, told the court of France that
"they might judge how little God
thought of riches by the sort of people
to whom lie had given them."
A town council in Ohio has passed an
ordinance providing that no girl shall
linger near the railway station uuImh
be has In her possession a railway tick
et, the object being to prevent flirta
tions with commercial travelers. The
railway expenses of drummers In Ohio
are bound to be higher from this time
forward.
Bald-headed men do not understand
what ails thern, but a French doctor
has found out. His name la Sabour-
aud. He says It Is all due to colonies
of microbe on the head, which attack
the hair follicles and produce four
stages of disease. If you feel a nil
erobe on your head get somebody to
stuaah It with a club.
Kelatlng the sad story of the Jersey
Oity boy who tickled a mule's hind
seels with disastrous results, the New
York Sun says he had never heard the
sad story of
A muscular Turk of Stamboul
Tried to pull out the tall of a mule.
And the coroner's Ju-
By the body did view,
And brought in the verdict "damphooL"
Four men were killed In an attempt
to settle an old feud In Louisiana the
ether day. Tlatf's generally the way
with feuds. Other things may be set
tled with good reeult all around. But
the minute an attempt Is made to sottle
a feud somebody Is almoKt sure to gt
killed or hurt, and then, wheat the
smoke dears away, It Is found that the
feud Is still unsettled. The best thing
to do with a feud Is tq Just let it alone.
The same amount of energy ami abil
ity necessary to win and hold a consid
erable office will bring In far more
financial return An almost any legiti
mate bualneM or profession. It Is diffl
mlt, however, to realise thia until the
office seeker li completely Into poll-
tics, aad then be la fit for little else.
There la many a chronic office seeker
; who wishes be bad never consented to
become a candidate the first time Just
- as sincerely aa the drunkard regret his
V first drlak.-
' Work drirea away depression, wbeu
the appetite for food, Invites sleep,
promotes digestion, strengthens the
muscle and sinews, gives free clrcn'a
tton to the blood, stimulates the intel
lectual faculties, provides the comfort
of life, develop all the powers which
It brings Into exercise, transform
stupid Ignorance Into brilliant genius,
fills the world wltb works of art and
literature, nd develop the resources
of nature. Nothing can stand before
1 Cdward Moran was killed oa a New
fork elevated road bees use be was In
a harry. To catch a train and save a
latote he naked across the tract
labia death. Moran was typical of the
avrf American business man, who
h) a. rt raattag wtfl-nksU lit owe
tfjar..4 d whoa he get that) aawst-
tf Cza cat, he has) last on urn Mlft
TT 9 pasarsf rtwblog and taarlag
taking thlaga leisurely
when we get there. Thlit In the land of
bolted breakfasts and gobbled lunches,
the laud of dyspepsia and all 1U at
tendant ilia.
The grow ing cost of our eoonty cam
paigns is an evil against which vigor
ous protest should be raised. We un--rf-and
that oae candidate's cigar bill
during a rwent campaign w: t $300.
and he tras only doing what hps eom.
to le I jrisidered the necessary thing
viz.; offered a cigar to every man wltb
vhoifl he talked politics during the
campaign. An a "treat" It Is as inof
fensive as any, and of course too in
significant to be called a bribe. But It
has grown Into a custom, and the can
didate who docs not w ish to be called
mean conforms to it. But it Is all wrong
that a campaign for a county office
should necessitate an expenditure of
f4oo or $500. It Is ruinous to a poor
man w ho spends It and fails of elec
tion, and when a man has expended
that much he becomes desperate In his
determination to win by any means.
Any citizen who Is tired of mundan
concerns and wants to fix his mind on
something higher, Is Invited to con
sider the allegation of Sir Francis Gal
tou, made in the London Fortnightly
Review, that some oji on Mars Is sig
naling to earth. The Information
seems not aa yet to be very generally
confirmed by astronomical otervers,
but Sir Frsn-i is quoted as authority
for the reitort that in one of the Etiro-
IH-an observatories an apparatus has ,
been devised tor recording tne jiamim
flashes, and that the record tshows tha
three signals and no more are made,
and that they differ, as all flashlight
signals do, in the length of the flashes
and of the Intervals between, so that.
If we had the key, they might be read
like telegraphic message. Of course,
this Is not a yarn to be w;i! lowed
whole, but the association of the name
of Sir Francis Gallon with It Is enough
to entitle It to consideration. There
seems to be no Intrinsic Impossibility
of our having relations with people In
Mars. It sound projioKteroua, of
course; but Uke other marvels. It seetna
preiHsterous chiefly because It Is un
usual. We have to nudge ourselves
from time to time In tills age of swift
surprises and remind ourselves that
nothing that Is new to us can possibly
be more marvelous thau many thing
that have grown familiar.
Slavery was osbusibly abolished It
British dominions many years ago and
the longer continuance of ft In tibe Uni
ted States furalslK-d the British writers
for many yeans a htrikiug Incongruity
in the American system with whloii to
IKiint a moral against democracy. No
doubt the people of Great Britain, as
a whole, are &U11 as firmly convinced
a ever that slavery Is wrong, but
these good people would do well to look
somewhat more closely Into the char
acter and conduct of British soldiers In
Africa In tubs respect. The papers of
the Transvaal, for irastance. have re
cerwty caused British ,.TirtiiTJvi
In that part of the world no muall an
noyance by giving publicity to a form
of slavery that exists in that part of
Soutli Africa under British rule. Cap
tured relie-ls and prisoners of war, es
pecially Hottentots, are, It is wild, sold
Into service ojenly by British officers.
One advertisement In a newsjapex
says: "Anybody requiring a Hottentot
lMy from S to IS years of age, can have
one delivered" on payment of 50
shillings. Such advertisements are fre
quontly Bct-n In South African papers,
yoatba and able-bodied men being sold,
for a period of five years usually, at
the rate of 10 shillings a month for
men and 7 aliillings for boy. The
Boer newspapers, not over friendly to
the English since the Jameson raid,
are using this praotioe, and very prop
erly, to good effect again the British.
If the home govenuneat is wise It will
look after Its officer In Soutli Africa.
Tlie fourth-claMM poKtuuLHtereuiipe
have so long been regarded aa the prop
er political pergiusltea of congreawnen
that First Assitaat Posrtuiater (Jen
eral Heath is not likely to find a warm
welcome for his scheme of rural de
livery by which the village powtniaater
ships will no longer be available aa
irt of a congressman's political aa
sets. The experiments In rural delivery,
first inaugurated by John Wanamaker
arid continued under the preaetKt ad
minlwtratjon, have been so auceaful
that from them the aaiatani postuMurt
er general draws a sound and aipar
etntly unanswerable argument in favor
of the system in general. Wherever
rural delivery ha been tried, aa for
Instance, In Genesee county, New York,
and Kalamazoo county, Michigan, the
eiK-riment baa proven emiueiiUy suc
cessful. In a recent Interview Mr.
Heath referred to LancaMer cotuwy.
I'ennnylvania, as an example of the
working of the system. In tliat county
there are about 150 fourtib'lasa pat
ofHces, nearly every one of which, be
says, could be abolished If free deliv
ery were put Into effeut, white ttie lndl
cations show that In a sJiort time the
Increase In poMal bualneM would pay
for the additional faciHUea. Aa to
(lenexee County, New York, Mr. lleaun
saya tliat of tlie thlrty-nlne poetonVea
now establisiied elgliteen offices and
seven star routes could lie dis-ontlnued
in case of rural free delivery without
detriment to the public service, Uktb-
ly effecting a total net wiving of $2,-
t;0. Tikiug Uem-we Coninity for a ba
sis and leaving oitt of a:cont the
grow th of lswtal receipts tlie saving
effecited would bring down the coat of
rural free delivery for the HUte ef
New York to les than ftnt).(Mi0. Of
courae the system la better adapted to
thickly populated Ktate where the
railroad penetrate to all porta- MibI
Jar results could lie obtained hi the
moat populous of die Weaver Mates,
and It la probably only a question of a
few years nntll the free rural dell vary
iiyal i wlU be tried In all the alder
Htatea. ' " " ..
L TIME OF LEISURE.
REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE IN
FLUENCE OF THE CLUB.
lie Sbowi the K fleet of Bad Clutm The
Ttt of Merit of a Club -The htruicitie
A tin mat Evil Hahits and How to
Conquer,
Our WaetliiiiKtuu I'ulpit.
This rc of Ir. T.-iiui.-ige deliv
ered ill Washington lust Sunday will 1
helpful tu lltoe who want to rind place
with healllifnl mi.', improving surround
ings and to avoid :icos deleterious. His
text is 11. Siiiuiiti ii.. H. "I-ct the young
ineii now ariw- and play before us."
There are two armies encamped by the
ool of llibeoii. The tune bangs heavily
on their hands. Out- tinny promises a
inline of sword fencing. Nothing could
Ik- more healthful and innocent.. The
other army accept the challenge. Twelve
men against twelve men, the sport open,
lint something went adversely. Perhaps
one of the swordsmen got an unlucky
clip or in some way had his ire aroused,
and that which opened in sport f illness
ended ill violence, each one taking his con
testant by the hair and then with the
sword thrusting him in the side, so that
that which oM-ned in innocent fun ended
in the massacre of all the tweuty four
sportsmen. Was there ever a U tter illus
tration of what was true then and is true
now, that tliul which is innocent may be
made destructive?
At tiiis season of the year the club
if i)r ,jWng ,, ,m, iu f
play. I have found out that there is a
legitimate anil an illegitimate use of tile
club house. In the one case it may lie
come a healthful recreation, like the con
test of the twenty four men in the teit
when they began their play; in the other
case it rw-coincs the massacre of body,
miuil and soul, as in the ca?e of these
eoiiti'Htaiits of the text when they had
tone t'M far with their sport. All intelli-;i-i,t
pfi-H have had their gatherings for
IMjIiti.-al, social, artistic, literary pur
poses gatherings characterized by the
blunt old Anglo-Saxon designation of
"cl ub."
If you have read history, you know
that there was a King's Head dub, a Hen
club, a Brothers' club, to which
Swift and Bolingbroke belonged; a Liter
ary club, which Burke and Goldsmith and
Johnson and Boswell made immortal; a
Jacobin club, a Benjamin Franklin Junto
club some of these to indicate justice,
some to favor the arts, some to promote
good manners, some to despoil the habits,
some to destroy the soul. If one will
write an honest history of the clubs of
England, Ireland. Scotland, France and
the United States for the last 1KJ years,
lie will write the history of the world.
The club was an institution born on Eng
lish soil, but it has thrived well in Ameri
can atmosphere. Who shall tell how
many belong to that kind of club where
men put purses together and open house,
apportioning the exjiense of caterer and
servants and room, and having a sort of
domestic establishment a style of club
house which In my opinion is far better
than the ordinary hotel or boarding
house'' But my object now is to speak
of club houses of a different sort
4!-irtriK-itn-iiflr, we nnn cur-V-rtin of
strong drink and tobacco something .
most intolerable. These young men at
this table, it is easy to understand what
they are at from the flushed cheek, tlie
intent look, the almost augry way of toss
ing the dice or of moving the "chips."
They nre gambling. At another table are
men who are telling vile stories, 'liny
are three-fourths intoxicated, and between
12 nud 1 o'clock they will go staggering,
limiting, swearing, shouting on their way
home. That is au only sou. On him all
kindness, all care, ail culture has been
bestowed. He is paying his parents in
this way for their kindness. That is a
young married man who only a few
months ago at the altar made promises of
kindness ami fidelity, every one of which
be has broken. Walk through anil see
for yourself. Here are all the implements
of dissipation and of quick death. As the
hours of the night go away the conversa
tion lieeoiucs imbecile and more debas
ing. Now it is time to shut up. Those
who are able to stand will get out on the
pavement and balance themselves against
the InmplHjHt or against the railings of
the fence. The young man who is not
able to stand w ill hsve a bed improvised
for him in the club house, or two not
quite so oveminie wltn liquor will eomluct
him to his fathers house, ami they will
ring the door bell, and the door will open,
and the two imbecile escort will intro-dii'-e
Into the hallway the ghastliest and
most hellish spectacle that ever enters a
front door a drunken son. If the disi
pating club houses of this country would
make a contract with the inferno to pro
vide it 10,y men a year, and for twenty
years, on the coii'liiion inai no more
should ls askinl of them, the club houses
could afford to make that contract, for
they would save homesteads, save for
tune, nave bodies, minds ami souls. 1 he
lfl.fKMI men who would be acrirleod by
I list contract would be but a small part
of the multitude sacrificed without the
coiitrai-t. But I make vast difference
between clubs. I hsve belonged to four
clubs a theological club, a ball cluli and
two literary club. I got from them phy
sical rejuvenation sud moral health.
What shall be the principle? If God will
help me, I will lay down three principle
by which you may judge whether the Huh
where you are a member or the club to
which you have been invited is a legitj.
mate or n illegitimate club bouse.
First of sll I want to teat the club by
It influence on home, if yon hare a
home. I have been told by a prominent
gentleman In club life that three-fourth
of the member of the great clubs of these
cities are married men. That wife soon
loses her influence over her husband who
erviMisly snd foolishly look upon all
evening absence as an assault on domes
ticity. How are the great enterprises of
art and literature and iH-neficeuee and
PiMic sril to be carried on If every man
is to have hi world bounded on one side
by hi front doorstep and on the other
side by his Isiek wiadow, knowing noth
ing higher than hi own attic t nothing
lower than hi own cellrT That wife
who lieoomes jealous of her hiiaband's at
tention to art or literature or religion or
charity I breaking her own scepter of
conjugal power. 1 know aa instance
where a wife thought that her husband
was giving toe many nlgbt to Christian
service, to charitable service, to srayer
saeetlngs and to rellgioaa convocation.
Shit systematically decoyed hies away un
til sow he attends no church and Is on a
rapid way to destruction, his morals gone,
hi money gone and, 1 fear, hi oii goue.
Let any Christian wife rejoice when her
huslinnd cnusecrnte cfeiiiiig to the ser
vice of tJ.Ml. or to charity, or to art, or to
a n thing elevated, but let not men acri-fi-e
home life to club life. I can point out
to ou a gnat many name of men who
are guilty of this sacrilege. They are a
genial as angels at lie club house and as
ugly a sin at home. They are generou
on all subjects of w ine snpi-rs, yachts
and fast horses, but they are stingy about
the wife's dress and the chnMrcu's shoes.
That man has made that which n.ight be
a healthful recreation a usurper of his
aflections. and he has married it. and he
is guilty of moral bigamy. I'uder this
process the wife, wlmtcer her features,
Is-conies uninteresting and homely. He
becomes critical of her, does not like the
dress, d's-s not like the way she arranges
her hair, is amazed' that he ever was so
unromantic as to offer her hand and
heart. Khe is always wanting money,
money when she ought to lie discussing
Eclipses and I tester and Ilerby day and
English draifs with siv !-c-os, all answer
ing the pull of one "ribbon."
(In titled tn Ilt ulh.
I tell you there are thousands of houses
in the cities liciug clubls-d to death. There
sre club houses where membership hIwsvs
involves domestic shipwreck. Tell me
that a man has joined a certain club, tell
me nothing more ab.u; l.im for ten years,
and I will write his history if he 1 still
alive. The man is a wine guzzler, bis
wife broken hearted or ,rctiiHtiirely old,
his fortune gone or reduced and his home
a mere name in a direct. .iy. Here are six
secular nights in the we, k. "What shall
I do with them?" says the father and the
husband. "I w ill give four of those nights
to the improvement and entertainment oi
my family, either at home or in good
neighborhood. I w ill devote one to char
itable institutions. I will devote one to
the club." I congratulate you. Here is a
nmn who says: "I will make a different
division of the six nights. I will t.Vi.e
three for the club and three for other por
poses." I tremble. Here is a ninn uho
savs, "Out of the six si-enbr night - of the
week I will devote five to the cli.b house
and one to the home, which night I will
spend in scowling like a March squall,
wishing I was out spending it as I had
spent the other five." 'I'biit man' obitu
ary is w ritten. Not one out of lU.'mO that
ever gets so far on the wrong road ever
sto.s. Gradually his health will fail
through late hours :md through too much
stimulus. He will Is' first rate prey for
erysipelas and rheumatism of the heart.
The doctor, coming in, will nt a glance see
it is not only present disease he must
fight, but y nrs of fust living. The cler
gyman, for the sake of the feelings of the
family, on the funeral day will only talk
in relicioiis ireneralities. The men who
got his ya- lit 111 the eternal rapids w ill
not lie nt t!-e obsequies. They will have
pressing ei.gagemetits that day. 'i'hey
will send flower to the coffin lid and send
their wives to utter words of sympathy,
but they v. ill have engagements else
where. Tb never come. Bring me mal
let and chisel and I will cut on the tomb
stone tliat man's epitaph. "Blessed are the
dead who cie in the f,ord." "No." you
say, "that would not be appropriate."
"I.'t me die the death of tin- righteous,
and let my last end Is- like his." "No,"
you say, "tliBt would not be appropriate."
Then give me the mallet and the chisel
and I will cut an honest epitaph, "Here
lies the victim of a dissipating club
bouse."
1 -hink that damage Is often done by
the scio,. 0f some aristocratic family
who belong to , of these dissipating
club houses. l'eoph- ....iijing up from
humbler classes feel it an honoi belong
to the same club, forgetting the fact thai
many of the sous and grandsons of the
large commercial cutal lihuieiits of the
last generation are now, as to iiilncl, im
becile; as to body, diseased; as to morals,
rotten. They would have got through
their proiK-rty long ago if they had had
full pos-essiou of it. but tlie wiiy ances
tors, who earned the money by hard
knocks, foresaw how it was to be, and
they tied tip everything in the will. Now,
there is nothing of that unworthy dc
wehdiint but bis grandfather's name and
roast beef rotundity. And yet how many
steamers there are which feel honored to
lash fast that worm eaten tug. though it
drags them straight into the breakers.
Another l"t by which you can find
w hether your club is legitimate or illegit
imatethe effect it ha ou your secular
occupation. I can understand how
through such an institution a man can
reach commercial successes. I know some
men have formed their beat business rela
tions through such a channel. If the club
has advantaged you in an honorable call
ing, it is a legitimate cluh. But has your
credit failed? Are bargain makers more
cautious how they trust you with a bill
of goods? Have the men whose name
were down in the commercial agency Al
before they entered the club been going
down ever since in commercial standing?
Then look out! You and I every day
know of commercial establishment going
to ruin through the social en-esses of one
or two member, their fortune beaten
to death with ball players' bat, or cut
amidships by the front prow of the regat
ta, or going down under the swift hoof
of the fast liornen, or drowned in large
potation of cognac and tnonotigahela.
Their club house was the "Ik-d Earn."
Their buinea home w the "Yllle dn
Havre." They struck, and the "Ville du
Havre" went under.
A Teat of Merit.
A third test by which you may know
whether the club to which you belong, or
the club to whose membership you are in
vited, is a legitimate club or an illegiti
mate club ia this: What is its effect on
your sense of moral and religious ouliga
tion? Now, If I should take the name of
all the people iii any audience and put
them on a roll and then I should lay that
roll back of the organ and 1S) year from
now some one should take that roll and
call it from A to '., there would not one
of you answer. I say that any associa
tion that makes me forget that fact is a
bad association. Now lo uiuy of the
cities there re two i-oiilcs, and yon can
take the Pennsylvania Hailroad or the
Baltimore and Ohio; but sup.se that 1
hear that oh one route the track is torn
up. and the bridge are torn down, and
the switches sre unlocked? It will not
take me s grest while to decide which
road to take. Now, here are (wo road
into Ihe future, the Christian and the un
christian, the safe and the unsafe. An
institution or any association that con
fuse ssy ides ia regard to that faet i s
bsd Institution aad s bad saaw-iatiua. I
bad prsyer before I Joined the rlnb. Hid
I hsve them after? I attended the house
of lnd Wfore I connected myself with
the cloa Slues at union with the club
da 1 absent mjaelf from religion Infla-
eu'n? Which would yon miher bv In
your hand when you come to die, a park
of card or a Bible? Which would you
rather have pressed to your lip iu the
closing moment, the cup of Belshazxarean
wassail or the chalice of Christian com
munion? Who would you rather have for
your pall Is-arers, the elders of a Cbrie
tiau church or the companions whose con
versation wa full of slang and innuendo?
The fascination of a dissipating clob
house is so great that sometimes s man
has turned hi back oa bis home when hi
chil i was i!. nig of acurlet Mer. II wei.t
away. Before be got back at midnight
the eyes bad been closed, the undertaker
bad done his work, and the w ife, worn out
with three week' watching, lay uncon
scious in the next room. Tin n there is s
rattling of the night key in the door, and
the returned father comes upstairs and
sees the empty cradle and the window up.
He says, "What is the matter?" In God
judgment day he will find out what was
the matter. Oh, man astray, (l6d help
you!
The influence which some of the club
houses are exerting is the more to be de
plored because it takes down the very
best men. The admission fee sifts out the
is-nurioiis and leaves only the best fel
lows. They are frank, they are generous,
they are whole sullied, they are talented.
Oh, I begrudge the devil such a prize.
After awhile the frank look will go out
of the face and the features will I hag
gard, and wheu talking to you, instead of
looking you in the eye, they will kindly
ask, "My son, what kept you out so late
last night?" and he will make no answer,
or he will say, "That's my business."
Then some time he w ill come to the store
or the hank cross and befogged, and he
will neglect some duty, and after awhile
he will lose his place, and then with noth
ing to do he w ill come down at 10 o'clock
in the morning to curse the servant ls
causc the breakfast is cold. The hid who
was a clerk in the cellar has got to be
chief clerk in the great commercial estab
lishment; the young man who ran errands
for the bank has got to be cashier; thou
sands Of the young nu n who were at the
foot of the ladder have got to the top of
the ladder, but here goes the victim of the
dissipating club house, with staggering
step and bloodshot eye and mud bespat
tered hat set sidewise on a shock of
greasy hair, his cravat dashed with cigar
ashes. Eook at him! I 'lire hearted young
man, hsjk at him! The club house did
that. I know one such who went the
w hole round, and turned out of the higher
club houses went into the lower club
houses, and on down, until one uiglil he
leaped out of a third story window to end
his wretchedness,
A Terrible htruui;Ie.
Eel me say to fathers who are becoming
dissipated. Jour sons will follow you. You
think your son does not know. He
knows all about it. I bine heard men
who say, "1 am profane, but never in the
presence of my children. jour cluhircu
know you swear. I have heard men say,
"I drink, but never iu the presence of my
children." Your children know you drink.
I describe now what occurs in hundreds
of households in this country. The tea
hour has arrived. The family are seated
at the tea table. Before the rest of the
family arise from the tabic ihe father
shove back his chair, says he has an en
gagement, lights a cigar, goes out, come
back after midnight, and that is the his
tory of li'sj nights of the year. 1'ocs any
man want to stultify hiiico,, by saying
that that is healthy, thsl that is right,
that that is honorable? Would your wife
have married you with sm b prospects?
Time will pass on. and the aon will be
IU or 17 years of age, and you will be at
the tea table, and he will shove back and
have an engagement, and he will light his
cigar, and be w ill go out to the club house,
and you will hear nothing of him until
you hear the night key in the door after
midnight. But his physical constitution
is not quite so strong as jours, and the
liquor he drinks is more terrifically drug
ged than that which you drink, anil so he
will catch up with you on the road to
death, though you got such a long start of
him, and so you will both go to hell to
get her.
Oh, my heart ache! I see men strug
gling against evil habit, and they want
help. 1 have knelt beside them, and 1
hove heard them cry for help, and then
we have risen, and he bus put one hsnd
on my right shoulder and the other hand
on my left 'shoulder and looked into my
face with an infinity of earnestness which
the judgment day will have no power to
make me forget, a he has cried out with
his liiis eorched in ruin, "Ood help me!"
For uch there is no help ezcept In the
Iord (bid Almighty. I am going to make
a very stout rope. You know that some
times a ropemaker will take very small
threads and wind them together until af
ter awhile they become ship cable. And
I am going to take some very small, deli
cate threads snd wind them together un
til they make a very tout rope. I will
take all the memories of the marriage day,
a thread of laughter, a thread of light, a
thread of music, a thread of banqueting,
a threud of congratulation, and I twist
them together and I have one strand.
Then I take a thread of the hour of tha
first advput iu your house, a thread of the
darkness that preceded, and a thread of
the light that followed, aud a thread of
the beautiful scarf that little child used
to wear when she bounded out st eventide
to greet you, and then a thread of th
beautiful dress in which you laid her
away for the resurrection. And thea 1
twist all these thread together, and I
have another atralid. Then I take a
thread of the scarlet rot of a suffering
Christ, and a thread of the while raiment
of your loved on before the throne, aad
a string of the harp chernWe, and a
string of th bars seraphic, and I twist
them all together, and I have a third
traini, "Ob. you ay, "either trand 1
strong enough to hold fast a world P No.
I will Iske these strsnd snd I will twist
theaa together, and one end of that rope
1 will fasten, not to the comtuunion table,
for it shall be removed, not to the pillar
of the organ, for that will crumble In th
age, but i wind it round and round the
cros of a sympathizing Christ, snd hv
ing fastened one end of the rope to the
cross 1 throw the other end to yon. Esy
hold of it! I'nb for ytr life! Pull fee
aesven!
Copyright, ISO.
Heart Hunger.-Psln fertilises she
soil of the tnltid. As the summer daisy
springs from the decaying leaves of the
previous autumn, so many of the meat
helpful sets, beautiful thoughts aad
Inspiring word spring from a great
heart hunger, aa ovrowrlBg sorrow.
Rev. V. . lUlhurn. UalvomUst, Os
clnnati, O.
Inacoaity iu Kltcheo Tool.
That this i a a-w era iu culinary
!o's U proven by a bite Invention,
which Is a marvel of combination
line articles in one. The practical m
:haulcal Ingenuity shown Iu this tool
x certaltily nothing bs than a mar
vel. Oombined In one article It seeiua
o ls simply a rolling plu of the old
fashioned sort, but It Is soon proven b
be a veritable random's lsx. Fulling
the handle out of one end reveals a
shopping and mincing knife with six
harp blades. This makes an excel
lent tool for tendering or mliiciiig meat
r vegetables for hnxb. Remove the
handle from the other end of the roll
ing pin. and It is found to Ik- fitted
with a fluted islge for the cutting of
-nkes and cookie, with a central cir
cular cutter for the doughnuts cutter.
The tinted circle around the edge may
be removed and the smaller central cut-
POM KSTIC "PAN DOHA S BOX.
ter ussl for nn apple corer. This rake
cutter combination Is also a nrst-claes
funnel. The roller itself has sharp
cdgi-d ends which may be used as bis
cuit cutters, the dough having been
lolled out by the entire combination
rolb-r first, just one handle Isiing taken
out In order to cut the biscuits. Fast
ened to the center of the cake cutler
end Is a nxl with a little perforated
dasher w hich may be used In combina
tion with the roller us an egg beater,
placing the long end of the roller In the
cup m liowl containing uie egg aim
j plunging the dasher rapidly up aiid
down In the roller. In the same way,
crcum limy be whipped In short order.
The dasher ud rod are strong enough
to be Used ns a jsiluto maetier with
eonlly g'ssl effect. This roil Is adjusta
ble, and when the list! Is put together
it occupies the hollow center of the
roller and Is taken opart wbeu apples
are to be cored, cookies or doughnuts
to ! cut.
Thus there are combined in what Is
apparently a simple rolling (rill uim
article, including a rolling pin, chop
ping and mincing knife ami meat fret,
egg ts-ntcr anil cream whip, potato
msudicr, butter chunier, cake and
doughnut cutter, biscuit cutter, apple
corer, and funnel.
Chocotote I'uddlnir.
One heaping teasjssiuf ul of butter,
one pint of milk, one pint of broad
crumbs, live tiib!espsnif uls of grated
clns-ol.'ite or cocoa, yolks of three eggs,
one cupful of sugar. Scald or boil the
milk, add the bread crumbs and choco
late. Take from the lire and add tho
sugar nud eggs which have been beaten
together, then the butter. Bake for
fifteen minutes. When cold lat the
whiles of the three eggs wltb three
tabb-spooufuls of sugar, for Uie mer
ingue, spread on top of the pudding
snd Isikc a light brown. Klavisr both
meringue ami pudding wish vanilla.
l.ololcr Loaf.
Remove tlie ineut (roin two good
srfxed boiled lolmtera; chop rather floe
with a silver knife; add bile chopping
a quarter of a pound of almonds cut
Into slices, a teaHJOiiful of onion Juice,
a clove of garlic, tahlcejioonful of
cbopissl parsly ,a teasoonful of salt,
and a dash of peps-r and the whites of
two eggs. Mix thoroughly and pack
into small moulds. Stand In a banking
pan of water, put them In the oven foe
twenty minutes, and serve cold on let
tuce leaves, with mayonnaise dressing.
Brief Mints.
To cut new bread smoothly, the knife
should be slightly heated flret. '
Keep potatoes and all root vegetables
In a box or bin In a dry ceilar.
A basket kept on a swinging shelf I
the prowr recejitscle for eggs.
IHrTerent kinds of food should be
keK separate from each other.
I line spots on woolen cloths may he
completely removed by strong vinegar,
A glass of hot milk and a few pea
nuts make a good luncheon Isefore re
tiring.
Cranlierrlee may be kept for mouth
In crocks or jars, and covered with
water.
Milk should be, us far as possible,
separated from other food, and kepi
cenn and cool.
'Hie cob of pickle csblw,-" Is,
greatly Improved by putting kllcs ol
uncooked beet Into It.
Sugar, rice, homluy, farina, oatmeal,
And the like, an best kept In bags ol
boxes In a cool, dry closet.
To Uke gre out of cloth, use e hs
roforiu or benzine, being very careful,
as both substance are dangerous la
the handling.
Cablsige lves, chopped assail aad
brown on carpets before swi spins,
n went th aaiae pur peas as tea leave
t taring the dust.
