Qardoon journal
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fcM8OT,
VIB.
Manila used to be spelled with two
It Is easy to guess who knocked
f oat of it
Spain baa discovered us aain; and
Be second surprise was probably great
er than the first
Oolumbus has been called a pirate, a
buccaneer and other harsh names, but
history does not call hiai a Spaniard.
The local poetess who sings "My
heart seems cramped within its cage"
robably should wear a larger corset
One million collar buttons are used
tn America annually and how so many
an get under tlw bureau is a mystery.
Dewey before he visited Manila wu
a acting admiral; when he arrived he
at considerable emphasis on the act-
Grog to served to sailors and marine
fel the navies of every nation In the
world aave the United States. Uncle
a'a aailors never get groggy.
The Boston Herald thinks It is queer
feat In the latest big horse race Vertigo
voa by a head. Why? That's Just the
hart i to go sailing around the track.
The progress the South U making In
Mootrlal development is indicated by
iae fact that a company has been organ
load to erect a carpet mill at Gaffney,
tv a
According to a thorough canvass of
the subject it has been found that Dr.
Mary "Walker is the only self-made
u who has not applied for a general
ship in the army.
. The number of persons who "knew
Oeorge Dewey when he was a MttJe
hoy" has reached such proportions as
sable them to be a factor In the next
Presidential election.
' Kentucky cannot understand why the
ommlssary department has ruled that
"whisky is medicine and not subsist-
Aren't the necessaries of life
as subsistence?
A New York man who has been writ
Big letter to his "own sweet dear dar
ling" has on his hands a $."X,000 breach
of promise suit. His estimate was cor
feet, anyway; she evidently was very
ear. -
John Bull is congratulating himself
a the handy manner in which he pick
et the winner. However, John had a
great advantage. He has known for
I time just how hard the Americans
light
The fellow who knows just how the
war ahotild be conducted now is proba
bly the same wiseacre who in times of
peace devotes all his spare time to tell
lag editors how , their newspapers
Should be run. :
Some day the government will abol
ish the reservation, which makes lazy
paupers and vagabonds of the red man.
Then the Indian will depend upon him
aelf and mix with the rest of the bu
Ma race. As a tribesman he will cease
to exist. As a man he will be devel-
The individual will be saved
the degradation and ruin of the
Bribe.
The fact that Cuban railroads have
been getting their coal from the Uni
te States while there are vast depou
ta of coal in that island only needing
Ike work of the miner is a striking In
dication of the inefficient character of
the administration which has prevail
oi there, and which has made possible
the present deplorable condition of the
Pearl of the Antilles."
15 A RiWvn irlrl ia credited wl.fh flndlmr
the cause of , bicycle collisions. She
oayi: "It ia hypnotic Influence of con-j
narrated attention, rendering the
rementa lacordinate, bo that the
become tiie victim of perverted
toflexes of purposeless effort, and the
oJhject eobject of an optical delusion."
a toothsome morsel to feed one s
of first public appearance
I in busy roadways.
i In naval warfare ha nothing
at the hifalntin sensationalism aspect
Bhewt it; there 1 no waving of swords
mi cheering to the men, no prepara
4tea for heading the boarders and thus
jprtrlag the enemy from hi hlp. It ia
Bow a question of higher mathematlca
M t how the gun shall be trained to
the enemy's sbtps so far distant
the men upon her are nndurtln-
even with marine glasses. It
, we omy, the gray brain tissue highly
and properly organised
i wins the victory.
, H mam, bare live.
fr awaae of humor, after aU. The Na
ICMBJef Madrid, yast before the battle
Z Embb, reasarked wHk doubie-iesd-CS
eOr1t iBssmsss: "The mleer
59 Tackeea wfi content themeetves
f-i sasafll aBBonetr1oo off the
: of the fvJltppraes, bat will not
te triaa." It sieo das concern
ht War lb BstBl: If our own
t aot trtasvph, of which H i
jrast lBjjwsftii s eeacetve, M wHI
t3 KT Masr sstlNBry atttance
Ctmt Erltdn ai eaeiry take
rra cVezsi tmm norMt, ch-
l -TStzS Z3t VKftm teb the
i g3 sjsjac-si,, , TmA woaM
Cat la
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I or UUlre," Lb WiAi'U:M."d iA triUUiUta of
the Northwestern University of Evairs
ton, 11!., who, when not tiuietlv pursu
ing their stmlles, are on ilui) at th
United States Uve-karlng station. Their
greatest game of the past season oc
eurred on a day when the twins (:' scr
eral Eastern college wew bre.tklnir
each other's bones on the foo. bull held.
In the teeth of a living gale, with the
air full of sU-ut and snow, the-4 brave
boys, at the repeated risk of their own
lives, brongbt oft" fifteen men from a
shipwrecked vessel. Their iitanes were
promptly added to the honor !o!l of the
government service, and they have
since received gold meilals to commeui
orate the day. There are athletics and
athletics.
One result of the present war is to
send people back to their long-forgotten
geographies and maps. In these there
are some confusions, because geograph
ers do not all follow the same classifi
cation as to continents and adjacent
islands. For instance, one authority
will class Cuba and Puerto Rico as
Spain's "West Indian colonies," while
another, equally reliable, will embrace
them under "American possessions."
In Asia the classification is still more
perplexing. One writer will divide th"
colonies of 8pftin Into the Philippine,
Caroline, Marianne, Sulu nd oilier IkI
ands, when some of them belong to the
Philippine archipelago, and they tm
frequently classed together by other
authorities under the name first given.
Some of the smalt islands are so sit
cated as to be classed iu groups and
given distinctive names, but the trad
reports of the Spanish government take
no account of such divisions, but class
many of them together under the name
of Philippine islands.
Some Idea of the magnitude of the
burden resting upon the Spanish people
can be gained by a comparison with
our own situation, says tiunton's Maga
zine. Their national debt per capita Is
about 4S pesetas, or $' in American
currency. Mulhall, a few years ago,
estimated the wealth of Spain at about
$455 per capita; perhaps by this time It
could be placed at $400. The per capita
debt of the Spanish Government there
fore is more than 20 per cent, of the per
capita wealth of the entire nation. The
debt of the United States Government
which la 1S"V! amounted to two and
three-quarters WLllons of dollars, stoTwi
in January, at (net) $1,011,701.-
338.6. including the greenbacks. This
would be a per capita indebtedness of
about $1 1. The per capita wealth of the
United States was. in 10, Sl.GSfl; now
it is of course greater, but, even oa tuv
ISSSjO basis, the per capita ludebuxliM
of the Government to-day amounts to
only 1 per cent of the per capita
wealth of the nation. The p-r cipita in
terest charge on this debt amounted, in
18Cfj-'&7, to about A cents; iu Spain tin
annual cost of the public d;bt la nearly
$8 per capita.
Through the exertions of Mr. Abbott
Kinney, the olflcers of the Amerl-u
Forestry Congress have acceptnl tui In
vitation to hold a 'summer session In
California, probably In the Yosenilte
Valley, says the San Francisco Call.
The application of the principles of
forestry to the preservation of our for
est lands has bad the West for Its A dd
Immense reservations of the public do
main have been made west of the
sotirl River, and. frequently, great pop
ular discontent has arisen from denial
of the right of free commons on th
timber land of the government wl! bl
anch reservations. Perlmps there l
hardly any other object of governm n
tal concern of more Importance than
preservation of the forcst-produefng
capacity of titular tracts. As present
ed to our people, however, In the 's,-r-Tatiotis
ait-endy made, St appears sim
ply as a denial to them of the commer
cial use of the forexts. Hence tiny
have learned to decry the wbol pbiu.
Forestry, however, does not imply de
nial of the right to harvest tl:b;r, like
any other crop, when It Is ripe and
ready. It means that all timber of
commercial dimension, and under, shah
not be waatefully sncrim ed tn the har
vest. The process of eliminating it for
est may be slow, but its restoration I
slower. When the groves are destroy
ed the soil 1 washed away because no
longer retained fn place by the wet of
roots and fibres, and the surface, otir
humid and shaded, is exposed to direct
evaporation. The conditions of refor
estation present problems that are verj
costly, European government ore
now spending hundreds of millions si.
terracing mountain slopes to hold sol
enough in which to plant swls and
nursery stock of trees, which often
have to be Irrigated or artificially shad
ed while they get a footing. Eastern
forests are rapidly disappearing. Thw
pine lands of the northern peninsula ot
Michigan and of Wisconsin and parts
of Minnesota were sandy soils, covered
with a light loam produced by tbe de
caylng duff. When stripped of theli
large titular, these lands were usual!;
ravaged by fire, which destroyed the
yonng growth and burned the II M top
stratum. They are now bare, nm
stretches. Deudrologiata, under State
patronage, are trying to set thcin It
the Norway sand-gristi that has 1ci
so effective In holding the done I:
Golden Gate Park, but scores of year,
must go by before they will upor
any considerable forest growth. Th
reaten which drew its lumber suppl
from these spent forests must, ver,
soon, look to the Pacific coast for It
supply of first-class lumber. If w
learn In time how to harvest our l;im
ber and at the same time preserve our
forests, we have in them a mine of
permanent wealth beyond computa
tion. The quality of rapid growth will
make our Western coast tbe source of
supply, not only for our own country,
but for the greater part of Kurope.
Pieeerratlon la moet issentlsl.
The only law a
feMBf 1 tb
Us
FliOM an unusual standiwint Dr.
Talmage in this diMiiucse discusses
aniusemeiits and ui'l'lies tests by
whii-h they may t known a good or bad,
The text is Judges xvi, 25, "And it came
to pgKB. when lheir hearts were merry,
that they faid. Call for Samson, that he
iny make us sixirt. And they alled for
Saiiivm out of the prison houw. and he
unide them isport."
There were 3,fK)0 people assembled fn
the temple of Pngon. They hud come to
make iirt of eyeless Samson, They
were all ready for the eutertainmeut
They began to clap and pound, impatient
for tbe amusement to begin, and they
cried: "Fetch him out! Fetch him out!"
Yonder I we the blind old giant coming,
led by the hand of a child into the very
midst of the temple. , At his first appear
ance there goes up a shout of laughter
and derision. Tbe Wind old giant pre
tends he is tired and wants to rest him
self BfaitiKt tbe pillars of the house, so
be says to the lad who leads bim, "liritig
me where the main pillars are." The lad
dues so. Then the strong man puts his
hands on one of tbe piliars, and. with the
mightiest push that mortal ever made,
throws himself forward until the whole
house comes down in thunderous crash,
grinding the audience like grapes in a
wine press. "And so it came to pass,
when their hearts were merry, that they
said. Call for Samson, that he may make
ns sport. And they called for Samson
out of the prison houxe, and he made them
(K)rt," Id other words, there are amuse
ments that are destructive and bring
down disaster and death npon the beads
of those who practice them. While they
laugh and cheer they die. The S.OiK) who
perished thst day in Gaza are nothing
compared with the tens of thousands 'Rho
have been destroyed, body, mind and soul.
by bad amusement and by good amuse
ments carried to excess.
In my sermons you must have noticed
that 1 have no sympathy with eci-iesins-
tlcal strait jackets, or with that whole
pale denunciation of amusement to which
many are pledged. I believe the church o
Cod has made a tremendous mistake irf
trying to suppress the sportf nines of
youth and drive out from men their loe
of amusement. If Cod ever impJunled
anything in us, he inipfiuited this desire,
lut instead of providing for this demand
of our nature the cbun h o C-ini has fur
the main part ignored it. As in a riot j
the mayor plants a battery at the end of
the street and has it fired off. so that
everything is cut down that happens to
stand in the range, the good as well as the
bad, so there are men in the church who
plant their batteries of condemnation and
fire away indiscriminately. Everything is j
condemned. They talk as if tiny would
like to have our youth dress iu 1 hie uni-
form, like the children of an orphan any- ,
bun, and tnnrch down the path of life to 1
the tune of the dead march in "S:sul."j
They hate a hlne lash, or s rosebud in the l
hair, or a tasseled gaiter, an.i think a
man almost ready for the lunatic ay)uiu
who utters n conundrum. j
Youi c Men' Christian Associations ai,
the country aie doing a giurtoiH work, j
They have fine reading rooms, and ail the i
influences are of the best kind, and are !
now adding gymnasiums and bowling al-j
leys, where, without any evil surround-'
Inirs, our young men tuny get physical s '
well as spiritual improvement. We are
dwindling away to a narrow chested, J
weak armed, feeble voiced raeij, when
God calls us to a work in which lie wants
physical as well as spiritual athlete. 1 j
would to God that the time might soon
come when in all our coilejfen and tiieo-j
logical seminaries, ss at Princeton, a gym- j
nnsinm shall lie established. We spend j
fereu years of bftrd study in preparation i
for the ministry and come out with bron-1
cidtis and dyspepsia and liver complaint, j
and then crawl up into the pelpit, and !
the people ay, "Uoesn t he look heaven
ly!" became he looks sickly. Let tbe
church of God direct rather than attempt
to suppress the desl.-e for amusement. The
best men that the world evvr knew have
had their sport. William Wilberforcie
trundled boop with hi children. Martin
Luther helped dress the Christmas tree.
Ministers biive pitch?d qnolta, philanthro
pist have gone a-skatihg, prime ndnUf
ter have played kJl,
Our communities are filled with men
and women who have in their soul un
measured resource for sportfulncss and
frolic. Show me a insn who never liubt
up with spartf nines and has no sympa
thy with the recreation of others, and 1
will show you a man mho i a stumbling
block to the kingdom of God. Such men
are caricatures .of religion. They lead
young people to think thst man I good
In proDortion a be groan and frown and
look, sallow, and that the height of a
u.nn's Christian nature ia In proportion to
the length of bis fse. I would trade off
fiOOsach men for one bright-faced, radiant
Cbrisiian on whose face are the word,
"Rejoice evermorer Every morning by
hi cheerful face be preichec fifty ser
mon. I will go further sod say that I
have bo confidence Id a man who make
religion of bis gloomy look. That kind
of a man nlway turn out l.ndly. 1
would not want bin for the treasurer or
an orphan asylum. Tbe orphan would
suffer. Go forth, O people, to your law
fill amusement! God means yon to be
happy. But when there are f many
source of innocent pleasure, why tatnpet
ith anything that is dangerous and por
IntmaT .. .
Now, sff ipera si m, theater, bowling
alleys, skating rink and all style of
amusement, good and had, I pat on trial
to-day and judge thea by certain card'
eat principle, fyst, yen may judge of
any anmsement by Its healthful malt or
by Its baneful reaction. There are peo
ple who seem Made up of bard facts.
They an a coksbiaatien of aumbUs"
7
lahlea and statistii-s. If you show them
an fXijuixite picture, they i:i begin to
difw iif-it the pigments involved in the col
oring: if you thuw them a lx atitiful rone.
they will mbuiit it to a tM.tanical ntiaiy
i, which i only the post mortem exam
ination of a flower. Tuey never do any
thing more than feebly smile. There are
no great tides of feeling anrging p from
the depth of their soul In billow after bil
low of reverU-rating !ai;j!hter. They ecm
as if nature had built" tlu m by contract
and made a bungling job out of it. Hut,
blessed be God, there are people In the
world who have bright faces and wboe
life is song, an anthem, a pean of vic
tory. Even their troubles are like the
vine that crawl up the side of a great
tower ou the top of which, the sunlight sits
and the soft airs of summer hold perpetual
carnival. They are the people you like
to have come to your house; they are the
people I like to have come to my house.
Now it is these exhllnrant and sympa
thetic and warm hearted w-opIe that are
most tempted to pernicious amusements.
Iu proportion as a ship is swift it wants
a strong helmsman; in proportion as a
horse is gay it wants a strong driver, and
these people of exuberant nature will do
well to look at the reaction of all their
amusements. If an rfmusemenl sends
you home at night nervous so you cannot
sleep, and you rise In the morning, not
because yon are slept out, but because
your duty drags you from your slumbers,
you have been where you ought not to
have been. There are amusements that
send a man next day to his work blood
shot, yawning, stupid, nauseated and
they are wrong kind of amusements.
There are pntertninmetits that give a man
disgust with the drudgery of life, with
tools because they are rot swords, with
working aprons because they are not
robe, with cattle because they nre not
Infuriated bulls of the arena. If any
amusement sends you home lonjring for a
life of romance and thrilling adventure,
love that takes poison and shoots itself,
moonlight adventures end hairbreadth es
capes, you may depend upon it that yon
are the sacrificed victim of unsanctilied
pleasure. Our recreation are intended
to build us up, and if ttiey pull us down
as to our moral or as to our physical
strength, you may come to the conclusion
that they are obnoxious.
Still further, those amusements are
wrong which lend into expenditure be
yond yonr means. Money mmit in recre
ation is not thrown awiiy. It is all folly
for us to cotne from a place of amusement
feeling that we bare wasted our money
and time. You may by it have untile an
investment worth more than tbe transac
tion that yielded you ?KI or $1,000. But
how many properties have beet) riddled by
costly amusements? Tie table baa been
robbed to pr.y the club. The rlmmpnime
has cheated the children's unrdrobe. The
carousing party lias burned up the hoy's
primer. The Inblectotti of the corner sa
loon is In debt to the wife's faded dress -excursions
that in a dtiy make a tour
around a whole tiifiiilli's wages; Isjjiea
v. 'io-e lifetime business it is to "go shop
ping" have their counterpart In unedu
cated children, bankruptcies that shock
the money market end appall the church
mid that send druukwincM staggering
in ross the richly figured carpet of the
iiiausion and dashing into the mirror and
drowning out the carol of music with the
whooping of I. loa ted sons come home to
break their" old mother's heart. . When
men go iuu HtniuK-nii-nts that they cannot
afford, they first borrow what they cannot
earn, and then they steal what they can
not borrow. First they go into embar
rassment aud theu InU theft, and hen
u man gets as far on as thiit he does not
stop short of the penitentiary. There Is
not a prison in the land where there are
rot victims of unsanctilied amusements.
How often I have bad parent come to me
and ask me to go and beg their boy off
from the eonueuence of crimes that he
hud committed against hi employer the
taking of funds out of the employer's til!
or the disarrangement of the arcotints.
Why, he tihd sniaiy euougt, to pay all law
ful expenditure, but not enough salary to
meet hi ainful amusement. And again
and again I havt gone and implored for
the young mn souiciiio.cn, alaa, the pe
tition unavailing!
How brightly the path of unrestrained
amusement n-ns! The young man says;
"Now I am off for a good time. Never
mind economy. I'll gel money somehow.
What n fine road! What a beautiful day
for a ride! Crack the whip, and over fh
turnpike' Com, boys, fill high your
glasses! Prink! Long life, health, plenty
of rides just like this.'" llard-wurkiir,'
men hear th clatter of he hixifs and i s k
np and say: "Why, I wonder where those
fellow get their money from. We have
to toll and drudge. They do nothing."
To these gay men life In thrill and nn
excitement. They stare at other people
and In turn are stared at. Tbe wajCn
chain jingles. The rti foams. The elnvk
flush. The eyes flab. . The niid,iigbt
hears their guffaw. They swagtrer. They
Jostle decent men off tin? sidewalk. They
take the name of God In vain. They par
ody the hymn tbey learned at their moth
er's knee, and to ll pictures of coming
diler they cry ont, "Who care!" and
to the counsel of some Christian friend,
"Who are yoaT Passing along the itreet
some uight you besr briek in a grog
shop, tbe rattle of the watchman' club,
the ruish of the police. What is tbe mat
ter now? Oh, thi reckles young man
has been kflled in grogshop light. Carry
him home to hi father's house. Parent
will conic down and wash hi wound and
close his eyes in death. Tbey forgive bim
all he ever did, though be cannot In si
lence ask it Tbe prodigal ba got borne
at lat. Mother will go to ber little gar
den and get the weetet Sower and twist
them into a ehaplet for the ilent heart
of the wayward boy and push back from
the bloated brow the long lock thst were
once ber pride. And the air will be rent
with th father' cry, "Ob, my son, my
son, my poor son: would Cod I had died
for thee, ob, my son, my nonT
- Ton may judge of amusement by their
effect npon physic I health. The need of
many good people ia physical recuperation.
There are Christian men who write bard
thing agalnat their immortal mul when
there Is nothing the matter with them but
an incompetent liver. There are Chris
tian people who seem to think that it la a
good sign to be poorly, snd because Bick
er Baxter and Ilobert HaO wan in
valid they think that by the skh-
te the sae graadear
of character. I waat to tell Christian
iple that id will hold you responsible
for your invalidism if it is your own fault
and when through right exercise and pru
dence you misiht be athletic and well.
There are ioose who dare to shatter the
plivsicnl vniw in which God put the jewel
of eternity. There ore men with great
hearts and intelh-cts in iMMlies worn out
by their own neglects. Mnimitkeut ma
chinery raiable of propelling a great
Ktruria across tiw. Atlantic, yet fastened
in a rickety North rirer propeller. Phy
sical development which merely show
itself in a fabulous lifting or in perilous
rope aikiug or iu pugilistic encounter
excites only our contempt, but we confess
to great admiration for the mnn who ba
a great soul in an athletic body, every
nerve, muscle and lone of which is conse
crated to right uses. Oh, it seems to nr
outrageous that men through nealect
should allow their physical health to go
down beyond repair, speeding the rest of
their life not in aotne great enterprise for
God and the world, but in studying what
i the liest thing to take for d?spsla.
Again, judge of the places of amuse
ment by the cmniianionship into which
tbey put you. If Jou belong to nn organ
ization where you have to associate with
tie intemperate, with the andean, with
the abandoned, however well they may be
dressed, in the nstne of God quit it. They
will despoil your nature. They will un
dermine your.moral character. They will
drop you when you are destroyed. They
will not give one cent to support your
children when you are dead. They will
weep not one tear at your burial. They
will chuckle over your damnation. Hut
the day comes when the men who have
exerted evil influence upon their fellows
will be brought to judgment. Scene, the
last day. Place, the rocking earth. En
ter dukes, lords, kines, beggars, clowns.
So sword. No tinsel. No crown. For
footlights, the kindling flames of a world.
For orchestra, the trmniiets that wake the
dead. For gallery, the clouds, filled with
angel spectators. For applause, the clap
ping floods of the sea. For cnrtniiiB, the
heavens rolled together as a scroll. For
tragedy, the doom of the destroyed. For
farce, the effort fo serve the world and
God at the same time. For the last scene
of tbe fifth act, tbe tramp of nations
across the stage some fo the right, oth
ers to the left.
Again, any amusement that gives you
distaste for domestic life is bad. How
many briirbt domestic circles have been
broken op by ainftil amusement? The
father went off, the mother went off. tbe
child went off. There are all around us
the fragments of blasted households. Oh.
if yon have wandered away. I wonld)ike
to charm yon back by the sound of that
one word, "home!" Po yon not know
that yon have but little more lime to give
to domestic welfare? To you not sec,
fnthr-r. that yonr children arc soon to
Jp Into the world snd all the Influence
for good you nre to have over them you
must have now? Iicath will break hi on
your conjugal relation, and alas! yon
hove fo stand over the gmve of one who
perished tr.-.m yonr nerlcct!
1 saw a wayward husband standine at
the deni!ib"d of his Chris-fin n wife, and
I saw her point to a ring on her finger
and beard her snr to ber he ;! ind. !
you see that rifg?" He replied. "Yes. 1
sc it." "Web said she, "do you re
member who put it there T "Yes," said
he. "I put it there." And a I! the p:':t
seemed to rush upon him. By the memory
of that day, when in the preset of men
and angels you promised to tie ftiillifnl In
joy and sorrow fttid in sickness and In
health; by the memory of those pheasant
hours when yon sat together in your new
house talking of a bright future; by the
cradle and the excited hour when one life
v ns spared end another given; hy thnt
sickbed, when the little one lifted np the
hands and called for help and yon knew
he must die, and he put one una around
each of your nocks and bronchi yon very
rieer tocether In thnt dying k! s; by the
little grave in the cemetery that you never
think of without a ru'i of lejcs; l.y the
family Bible, where in its stor:e of heav
enly love is the brief but expressive record
of births snd death; by the rcylecr of
the past and by the agonies of the future;
!y a judgment dav when husband snd
wives, parents and children. In immortal
croups will s!ind to be caught up in shin
ing array or to shrink down into darkness
by all that. I let- you to jrive to home
your best affections. 1 look in your ryes
to-day, and I ask you the question that
Cchnzi asked of ti e fUjuoammttr: "Is It
well with thee? Is it well v.-i:,, thy hus
band? Is it well v.itli thy chi'd'.'" Cod
grant that it may lie evcrsustiim.y well!
Let tue ny to all young men your style
of fttiHinement will decide yonr eternal
destiny, oh. young man. will the good
anel sent f"rtli hy Christ or the bad
angel s" forth by sin get the victory
over yoiir.sfiuij .Their wings are Inter
locked ti ts moment shore you. contend
ing for your destiny, as store tbe Apen
nines rath' 'and condor light mldsky. This
hour may decide ymir destiny. Cod help
you. To hesitate Is to die.
CwpyrigM. IS'is. .
Anarchy. We have proved beyond
question thnt we can have a strong
government without either nobility or
king. There !s less governmeut in the
Uuitcl Btntcs here to-day than In al
most nny other country of Iho world,
a nearer. approach to what the phil
osopher would call anarchy. Anarchy
docs not uiean disorder, when ft phil
osopher is talking; it mean merely the
absence of external government. And
that Is the Ideal that we are approach
ing. Rev. M.. J. Savage, i'murliin.
New York City.
A War of High Motives. We hare
reason to to proud that our own na
tion has risen atiove selfish considera
tion, ba dared lo do an unconventional
and a humane national set and Is will
ing to take all consequence. 1 believe
with all my hear, that tbl war will Iw
distinguished among tbe armed con
flicts of all time as a tsar from high
motives and ume'nsh, humane and
Christian purjKcs. Rev, J. C. Adams,
Universalis!, Wllllsmaburg, N. Y.
Punishment. There must bo punish
ment ss long ss there is sin In the uni
verse. If tbsrs Is sin forever, then
there rutist be pualsbrncnt forever.
Kcv. W. O. Partridge, baptist, Cincin
nati, 0.
Unrest W hat makes unrest? Pride,
ambition, selfishness when w feel
slighted or are disappointed In any
thing, then peace floe. Bev. O. Bough
too, atetkodist, OlnclaoaU, a
I Have
No Stomach
Uld a jolly man of 40, of almost lder
nuie rotundity, "ince takiim Hood's
tarsaparilia." What be meant w that
hi grand direstive tonic had o eoui
ilete:y cured all uistrcs and disagreeable
lyspeptic symptom that he lived, ate a-ud
lept in comb.rt. You. may be put into
his delightful condition if you will Uk
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Whyf
Why 'sn't kis-ung the wrun;? girl a ,
ilunderbnss?
Wliy isn't nn insani hall-tosser a
rrackexi pitcher?
Why not term tbe goneril's chart a
lrwn bittle?
Why can't baby shad enough tear
a drown its noise?
Why shouldn't people who wear
aaste jewels be stuck up?
Why are so few peopie content with
.heir own condition,
HEIRESSES ON A LOCOMOTIVE.
Mrs. Oelrich and Mis Fair Sid
Milm In tab.
On the recent homewnrd Journey
(rem the East Mr. Ut-rmun Oelrlcha
and her sUtar, Mis Virginia Fair, two
at California' wealthiest hedreesea,
rode a part of the way In the cab of
a locomotive.
This novel experience was partly of
their own seeking. It wtts suggested,
however, by Meivln Shell, the engine
of the train on wh4ch they were travel
lag, who hspiMMJwd to have known
thr father, the late Senator Fair, ta
the pioneer days.
At Promontory, fifty-three miles
west of Ogden, the train on which the
heiresses were had to wait ovr for
some time. Mrs, OelrSchs and ktls
Kalr availed themselves of the delay
by UkJns a little walk on the track,
From the window of hi cab l&agSneer
Shell recognlzid them, and said to M
fireman, Jim McUrUle, "Why, there are
Senator Fair's daughter,'
El remark ws audible to the tw
ladies, and, golcjf closer to the cab,
Mr. Oe'.richs said: "You seem to bav
known my father."
"Yes, madam." replied tbe engineer,
"J know your father when be wa rar
ning the Comsttock mine." He Uh-b
-ocallwl to the slaters pome Incident!
if thi-lr childhood" which Hill resuaiaed
fondly treasured In their mtiuorlea,
'juefc'Jon atd aawe.r oon broadened
to a regular co a versa t ion between th4
heiress sod the engineer. The ttm
for the train to shirt rume around.
Then Melvln b"!,e!l, 'in an lotenltj
of frlendiih'p. blurted out: "LgtUas, 1
beg your jMiilon, but aren't you tire"
of rliling la that at u fly Pullman lcl
there? Wouldn't you l!Ue to r!3te I
while ta the cab, whtre'll you get som
fresh air?"
The sisters stared at the engineer fo
a moment, too startled to pak. Tbef
the- bumor of the situation eaugbi
IhcfU, aad, ticJiajriIng glances, tbej
burnt Into a hearty laugh.
"Shall we?" Jmpiirod Mm. OeirichJ
of M!a Fair. A nod from Mia Fail
teUlt-d tbe question, and la a second o)
two EnvitHtir Shell was assisting Mrs
Hermann CMrich and Mli VlrgWl
Kalr Info Ms cramped and grimy quae
ters. Dlm-lly afterward the oonduo
tor's signal was given, and pulling hit
valve open W,t!neer Shell ate rj
locomoUve No. 1N of the Central Pa
clfic Hoad, with It Increased, crenr
off for tbe next Nation.
At W11, whew the ttralu stopped
a? tin, He heir, flashed, aooty an1
with their dainty finery la sad disar
ray, parted cougniy with their fU
ex's friend, the hospitable engineer.
In confidence to their actiuiatauc
In the prior car they afterward KaU
that they would not have mimed th
ride In tbe cab of tbe locomotive "No
aot for anything."- San FratuJaco Ex
anj'ner.
Tit
TBE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF R2S
is due not only to the oriu-in.lif .
1 in illicit v of the combination ht
to the care and skill with which It to
manufactured by scicntlflo priiinssai
known to the Cauronaia Flo 8raa
Co. only, and we wish to impress a post
all the importance of purchasing 'he
true and original remedy. A tfc
genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured
by the CauroHKu Fio Sravr Oow '
only, a knowledge of thai fact wiU
auiht one in avoiding the ft Ills
imitatious manufactured by other pas -ties.
The high standing of the f-a-roaviA
Fio Sruur Co. with the aaodt
eel profession, and the satlsfaetioa1
whioh the geaalne Syrap of Figs hat
gifoa to millions of famillea, wakes
the name of the Company a (annate
of the excellence of Its raaaedy. It
wr in aavBDos or ail otoer laaatts
as It acts on tbe kidneys, Hear
dow is wiinoui lrntaUng or 1
rag uaena, ana ll Ooes aot (Tips
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