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.Z'TStCX SELECTION OP INTER-
EJTIHG ITEMS.
I CrttlcJsau Ihc4 Vpmm
at the Day-Mia-
Wewa Kate
I Ci Cartas erldeutry considers a mas-
i C tbe Kurds as being- quite the
eboold try the Mage. As a
fm eoflsedlan he ought to make a
hit
am going to teach the Spanish
in Santiago to speak English.
pat) the talk!
:-. , i .
Caving to swallow hard words at
may be healthful In affording
food for thought '
with Us ginger might be-
Am deelrable territory if this country
Ctwset cramped elsewhere.
4 Ethssald the war cost Spain $378,000.
rrx MSX this is about the only way it
MOm a big figure in the war.
ta trying to pull up Its Anarchists
J a round turn Europe may have to
Cake tbe turn that of a rope for the
Asew book tells "How to Act Like
4B0i" Bat people can act like idi
eja If tbey want to without a book of
Passu tulng the talk of Jamaica be-
part of the Union, pronounced
unionists say its rum is better
i lta cmnpaay.
Oast ef the Hobson crew Intends to
Mesne a policeman. His experience
i the Herri mac will be of value to him
stoking schooners.
Rico makes molasses and Ja-
the molasses and makes
ft aBbs-ram. . Who says Jamaica should
Mt be annexed to the United States?
al Pando. who was neither at
Cfaaila nor at Santiago, declares that
Oe recent controversy was "no war at
at." Moreover, be Is absolutely correct
a Car as Spain was concerned.
The Bon. lames B. Angell, retiring
to Turkey, Is reported as say-
tfee strong band Is needed for the
to Crete. The minister might
added "mod the strong foot also."
"The Chinese toilet is an unsolved
Bysfcery to the rest of the world, but
St la probable that Li Hung Chang,
'tripped of bis yellow Jacket and pea-
feaitaera, still has a bathrobe for
occasions.
(
Vt A. Brooklvn vounz man writes to a
fcew York paper to complain because
wanted several days in teaching his
aajrwetheart how to ride the bicycle, and
BMW atw has eloped. The other fellow
srMantly took her for wheel or for
"At least $1,000,000 prise money win
s distributed among American sailors
Ma result of the war with Spain. More
fku one-half of this sum will be paid
! accordance with that section of law
gewvidiug for the payment of a bounty
Car persons on board of vessels of war
uafc action.
fTbm Is one locality In the world
srhicb has thus far resisted the Inva--'Tatem
of the bicycle, and that Is Aden
ajst the Bed Sea. The United States
there. In reply to the Inquiry
to the bicycle Industry In that
sta takes
" Car mtt quarter, reports that owing to
'-0 rough streets and hills nnl the heat,
""'mp which no one can expose himself on
Can wheel without danger, as well as
the the fact that the natives are too
to tray wheels even if they wante 1
there is no prospect "of a de-
I in this market for bicycles of any
loacrtrt'on or make." '
ordinance to punish the nse of
and Indecent language, lately
I by the city council of New York,
been defeated by the alder
ssBsa, who might take a lesson In the
asanTla mlilji of public morals from
Juniors. When the Rer. A. T.
established the great Industrial
! at Charleston, 8. C, be told the
Oya that whoever wrote or drew any
Improper on the walls needed
ind that the others must
Mm to the pump and wash blm
, after which he would be expelled.
a presence ef William Cullen Bry
KXttkfft yearn later, Dr. Porter asked
Ct asigrt If tbey had ever er.erted their
C&Gsit Thar laughingly replied that
T bad, three times, but the culprits
X,M begged so hard to stay In the
t aat, and promised so solemnly not
I, J aCTnad agala, that they bad not been
C Jtatd. . A pity that some of the
thisad boys educated to such
f Jr.y,by Dr. Porter do not servo upon
V, ara boards of aldermen t
Cf tba atreral causes of fear, that of
Criiar and lightning la said by Presi-
ir-Si ' I nmmum Mall la DC UK most com-
L; ' . bocaaa of the supposed helplef s-
r itt hamantty to avert or neotrslize I
' a at Ugntnlng. Yet this is not
Ca eaaa. During the Civil War
, k .Harford B. Hayes and a little
" )f.sbsa were rcconnolterlng In
:t '-TZ'S t West Virginia, when
vr . &mtotatm broke over
, (Ll JCtJT beltaT under a
Xl&tm. mt alngle bolt.
CM O wyataaa, aad were
. r 7 tie ckSMm a dead.
l UMZft twe awn te
i csaiJci Oats, and
"tttcj tie oaOotlt need
CI fmrbai. Aftet
t t-r: Cart, the
twenty minutes two of the men showed
sign of life; In forty minutes two oth
ers, and after an hour and a half the
breath of the fifth canie with a faint
flutter, and all were eared. "Make
a point of U-1'lng th e experience,'' P.es
Ident Hayes used to say; "It may save
other lives."
Dr. Lllllenfeld, the celebrated Vienna
chemist, has discovered a process for
making albumen artificially from the
waste products of coal tar. It can bt
made at se little cost that 8 cents' worth
will support life for a day. It is a de
batable question whether the average
run of people want to live cheaply
that is, judging by their present meth
ods of life. There is not a family In this
country In even ordinary circumstances
that does not expend considerably more
money than is necessary for Its "liv
ing." iK-erease in prices does not de
crease family expenses, unless adver
sity interrupts. A certain sum has for
years been allowed for house expenses,
and if prices drop more articles are add
ed to the list, thus keeping up the av
erage expense account. It is a notori
ous fact that there is more waste among
the poorer classes than among those of
"better circumstance." This waste Is
due to Ignorance of the preparation of
food. The waste meat from the labor
er's table is brought back as croquettes
to the clerk's table, or chopped and
mixed with a couple of eggs, an omelet
The additional expense Is not 5 cents,
yet a fair meal for a small family has
been made. And so on. Fear keeps
the average American family from liv
ing within Its proper money limit Mr.
So-and-so has thU and Mr. What's hls-
name must have it too. If Dr. Lllllen
feld could End a process for keeping a
whole family for 8 cents a day and de
pended on the sale of the process for
bis own loving he would starve to death.
People do not want to live on 8 cents
a day.
There Is to be no change In the nom
enclature of the Sandwich Islands. The
commission appointed to arrange the
annexation preliminaries has decided
that the new acquisitions shall be called
Hawaii Territory. This will be a dis
tinct disappointment to thousands of
our English-speaking -.'tizens who had
hoped that the name t he Pacific por
tion of our public domain would be
changed from the one bestowed upon
It by its Kanaka Inhabitants to one
more In conformity with the nomencla
ture common-In this country and with
the orthoeplcal limitations of the Amer
ican tongue. Still, concessions have to
be made In such matters to tradition
and origin, and these considerations
evidently swayed the CommiHslont rs In
deciding to retain the old name. There
Is some consolation for the thoughtful
patriot In this decision. Hawaii and
Its minor insular comrades might have
been defaced and disgraced by the be
stowal upon them of names of cheap
politicians or of public men with un
desirable reputations. It Is going to
be a great strain on the chest throat
tongue, teeth, palate, lips, lungs and
nostrils of the American man and w in-
n t imrtfni'-m flu, If irmin.fni.wia . I i
exigencies of pronouncing Maul, Oahd,
Kaul, Molokal, Latmi, Nuhau and Ka
li oolaul, but the American man. and
woman have ie the past beeu equal to
all the emergencies produced by fate
and territorial expansion. N'o one
doubts that they will brace themselves
np and meet without flinching the jaw
breaking obstacles thrust into their
language by the annexation of the
Sandwich Islands.
The question of precilen'e, which
some time ago disturbed officialdom in
Washington, has also been raised in
Canada, and Liberal papers do not hes
itate to pronounce the old order at
state functions absurd and obselete.
The Issue was raised by the protest of
the President of the recent Metbcd'st
ronfereuce at Ottawa, who objected to
i railing along with uo recognized place
at functions, -where the archbishops
and bishops of the Roman and Angli
can churches held high rank. The ta
ble of official precedeiK-e in Canada is
a relic of early colonial days, and
places the Governor-General first, the
senior officer commandaig Her MaJ s
ty's troops in the Dominion and the ol.i
cer in command of the Drltish North
American station, If of the rank of Ad
miral, following in the order named.
After these imperial officers come the
Lieutenant Govt mors of the provinces
and territories, then the dignitaries of
the Church, according to seniority, and
after ail these civil, military and re
ligious personages comes the real head
of the Government the Prime Minis
ter, who Is graciously permitted to fall
In somewhere near the end of the pro
cession. Stin another anachronism of
which Canadians are beginning to be
come conscious Is that the officer com
mandlng Her Majesty's troops In the
Dominion takes precedence over the
Speakers and members of the Senate
and House. This is a strict subordina
tion of colonial dignitaries to the im
perial to which Canada has not hith
erto objected. Her protests eveL now
are very courteously voiced, and unless
made more earnestly than perhaps the
occasion seems to warrant, will pass
unheeded. Canada Is but a pendant
of Imperialism, and unless It sets np
for Uself must continue to see ha dig
nitaries siilrdlnat to those who rep
resent the Crown.
Whites -n Germany.
In Breslan, Germany, where factory
wages have been reduced, a whole fanv
fly a man, his wife and their children
work for 25 cents a day. In that coun
try a railroad brakeman get 4 a week,
while a locomotive engineer Is opulent
with 110. Mall carriers and weavers
of woolens get 2JM a week, while
good active reporter draws fu every
Saturday.
1m Erescn Saytaaw" ever the deot
ef a Cxaatl setar-letaat te preb.
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IN this discourse Dr. Talniate selwU
one of the boldest fipn-e of the Bible
to preseot moitt practical sad eucour
ging truths; text. EpLesians vi., 12, "We
wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers,
gainst the rulers of the darkness of this
world, asaint spiritual wickcdm-M in
high places."
Sqaeamighnes and fastidiousness were
ever charged against Paul's rhetoric. In
the war against evil he took the first
weapon he could lay his band on. For il
lustration, he employed the theater, the
arena, the foot race, and there was noth
ing in the Isthmian game, with its wreatn
of pine leaves, or Pythian game, with its
wreath of laurel and palin, or Nemean
fame, with its wreath of parsley, or any
Roman circus, but he felt he had a right
to put It in sermon or epistle, and are you
aot surprised that in my text be calls upon
a wrestling bout for siiegestiveness? Plu
tarch says that Wrestling is the moat sr
tistic snd cunning of athletic eames. We
pugilism, the lowest of spectacles, and
wrestling, which is an effort iD sport to
put down another on floor or ground, and
we all of us indulged in it in our boy
iood doytif we were healthful and plucky.
The ancient wrestlers were first bathed in
oil and then sprinkled with aand. The
third throw decided the victory, ami many
a man who wmt down in the firsti throw
or second throw in the third throw was on
top, and his opponent under. The Komana
did not like this game very much, for it
was not savage enough, no blows or kicks
being allowed in the game. They prefer
red the foot of hungry panther on the
breast of fallen inanyr.
In wrestling, the opponents would bow
hj apparent suavity, advance face to face,
put down both feet eolidiy, take each oth
er by the arms and push each other back
ward and forward until the work began
In real earnest, nd there were contortions
and strangul.. lions and violent strokes of
the foot of one contestant against the foot
of the other, tripping bird np. or, with
truggle that threatened .apoplexy or
death, the defeated fell and the shouts of
the spectators greeted the victor. I guess
Paul had seen some such contest, and It
reminded him of the struggle of the soul
with temptation and the struggle of truth
with error and the struggle of heavenly
forces against Apollyouic powers, and he
dictates my text to au amannen:, fur ail
his letters, sare the one to Philemon, seem
to have been dictated, and as the amanu
ensis goes on with his work I hear the
groan and hnzh and shout of earthly and
ceiestial tieiligereuia. "We wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but acainst prin
cipalities, nxaivM powers, against the rul
ers of the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high place."
Polite Athletes.
I notice that as thcae wrestlers advanced
to throw each other they bowed one to the
other. It was a civility, not ouiy iu Gre
cian and Roman games, but in later day,
in ail the wrestling Inrnts at Clerkenwell,
England, and in the famous wretling
match during the reign of Henry III., in
St. Giles' Field, between men of SVestmin
ster and people of Ioudon. However
rough a twist and hard a pull each wrest
ler contemplated giving his opponent, they
spproaebed each other with politeness and
suavity. The genuflexions, the affability,
the courtesy in no wise hindered the de
cisiveness of the contest. Well. Paul, 1 (
see vbat you mean. In this awful strug
gle between right aud wroug, we must
not forget to be gentlemen and ladies.
Affability never hinders, hut always beips.
You are powerless as soon as you get mad.
Do not call rumsellers murderers. Do not
call infidels fools. Do not call higheT
critics reprobates. Do not call all card
players and tbe:er goers children of the
devil. Do not say that the dance breaks
through Into bell. Do not deal iuvitnpera
tion and biilipgsgate and contempt aud
adjectives dynamitic. The other side can
beat us at that Their dictionaries have
more objurgation and brimstone.
We are in the strength of God to throw
flat on Its back every abomination that
curses the earth, but let as approach our
mighty antagonist with suavity. Her
cules, son of Jupiter and Alcmena, will
by a precurser of smiles be helped rather
than damaged for the performance of his
"12 labors." Let us be wisely strategic
In religious circles as attorneys in court
rooms, who are complimentary to each
ether in the opening remarks before tbey
come into legal struggle such ss that
which left P.ufus Cboste or David Paul
Brown triumphsnt or defeated. People
who get Into a rage in reformatory work
accomplish nothing but the depletion of
their own nervous system. There Is such
a thing as having a gnn so hot at th
toucbhole that it explodes, killing the one
that sets it off. There are some reforma
tory meetings to which I always decline
to go and take part, became they are apt
to become demonstrations of bad temper.
I never like to hear a man swear, even
though be swear on the right side. The
very Paul who tn my text employed in
Illustration the wrestling match behaved
en a memorable oceusion as we ought to
behave. Thp translators of the Bible
0i:i dean unintentional mistake when they
represented Paul ss Insulting the people
ef Athens by speaking of "the unknown
god whom ye iunornntly worship." In
stead of charging them with Ignorance the
rlg.nal indicates he complimented them
by snsitestlns that they were very relig
ious, but as Ihcy confessed Ihnt there wer
some things they did not onderstsnd shout
God he proposed to say some things con
eeruine him. beginning where the bad
left off. The same Paul who said In one
place, "Be courteous," and who had notic
ed the bow preceding the wrestling match.
here exercises suavities before be proceeds
prntically to throw down the reeky siee
ef the Acropolis the whole Partheeea et
idolatries. Minerva and Jupiter smashed
np with the rest of them. In this holy
war polished rilles w ill do more execution
than blunderbusi-e. Let our wrestlers
bow as tney g into the struggle which
will leave all perditioa under and all hesv
en on top. ,
The Teat of t-lrenKth.
Rememlier also that these wrestlers
went throuch severe and continuous
course of preparation for their work. They
were put ujioii such diet as would best de
velop their muscle. As Paul says, "Every
man that sirivcth for the mastery is tem
perate in all thiuies." The wrestlers were
put under complete discipline bathing,
gymnastics, struggle in sport with each
other to develop strength and give quick
ness to dodge of head and trip of foot
stooping to lift each other off the ground,
suddenly rushing forward, suddenly pull
ing backward, putting the left foot behind
the other's right foot and getting bis oppo
nent off his balance, hard training for days
and weeks and mouths, to that w hen they
met it was giant clutching giant. Aud, my
friends, if we do not want ourselves to be
thrown In this wrestle with the sin aud
error of the world we had better get ready
by Christian discipline, by holy self-denial,
by constant practice, by submitting
to divine gupervisal and direction. Do
Dot begrudge the time and the money for
that young man who is in preparation for
the ministry, spending two yar in gram
mar school and four years in college and
three years in theological seinmary. 1
know that nine years is a big slice of
take off of a man's active life, but if yon
realised the height and strength of the
archangels of evil in our time with which
that young man is going to wrestle yon
would not think nine years of preparation
too much. An uneducated ministry
was excusable iu other days, but not in
this time, loaded with school and colleges.
A Mijthtjr Mruuulc
Yoor going around with a Bagster's
Bible, with (laps al the edges, under your
arm does not qualify yuu for the work of
an evatiRcliijt. Ia this day of profuse gab
remember that it is not merely capacity
to taiK, iiur t!:e fact tliat you u.ive some
thing to tn. that is coins to fit yon for
the struggle into which you are to eo with
a smile on your fare and illumination on
your brow, but out of which yuu will not
come until all your physical and menial
aud moral and religious energies have
been taxed to the utmost and you have
not a nerve left or a thought unexpended
or a prayer unsaid or a sympathy unwept.
In this struggle between right and wrong
accept no chalk-nze on platform or in j '"" " " her memory ami she mugs uu-m
newspaper unless you are prepared. I so j ov,-r "gam at Die cradle or while prvpar
not misapply the story of Goliath the noonday meal. Domestic resurrec-
(Jreat and David thp Little. David had lion! lie cime home earlier than he uw d
been practicing with a sline on docs and
wolves and bandits, and a thousand times
bad he swirled a stone around his head
before be aimed at the forehead of the
gr.nt and tumbled hint backward, other
wie the big foot of Goliath would almost
have covered up the crushed form of the
son of Jesse.
Not 'ice also that the success of a w rest
ler decided on bis having his feet well
planted before he grappled his opponent
Much depends upon the way the wrestler
stands. Standing on
an uiu-ertam piece'
ail his weight on I
or srouno or tearing ! nis wwirht on
right foot or all his weight on left foot,
he is not ready. A slight cuff of his antag
onist will capsize him. A stroke of the
heel of the other wrestler will trip him.
And in this struggle for God and right
eousness, as well as for our ow n souls, we
want our feet firmly planti-d in the gospel j
both feet on the Itock of Asri. It will I
not do to believe tho Bible in iU or
think some of it true and some of it un
true. You just make np your mind that
the story of the garden of Eden is an aile-go-y,
and the epistle of James an interpo
lation and that the uiiracli of Ohrist can
be accounted for on natural grounds, with
out any belief in the supernatural, ami the
first time you are interlocked in a wrestle
with sin and saran you will go under and
your feet will be higher then your head.
It will not do to have one foot on a rock
and the other on the sand. The old book
would long asro have gone to pieces if it
had beeu vulnerable. But of the millions
of Bibles that have been printed within
the last twenty-five ycsrn, not one chapter
has !en omitted, and the omission of one
chapter would have b-cn the cause of the
rejection of the whole edition.
Alas, for those who while trying to
prove that Jonah was never swallowed of
a whale, themselves get swallowed of the
whale of unbelief, which digests but never
ejects its victims. The inspiration of the
Bibie is not more certain than the preser
vation of the Bible in its present condi
tion. After so many centuries of assault
on the book would It not be a matter of
economy, to say the least economy of
brain and ecouomy of stationery and econ
omy of printers' Ink if the batteries now
assailing the book would change their aim
and be aimed against some other bnoks,
and the world shown that WaMer Hcott
did not write "The Lady of the Lake,"
nor Homer "The Iliad," nor Virgil "The
Oeorgics," nor Thomas Moore "Lalla
Ilookh," or that Washington's farewell
address was written by Thomas Paine,
and that the war of the American Revo
lution never occurred. That sttemit would
be quite as successful as this long timed
attack anti-Biblical, and then it would be
ww. Oh, keep out of this wrestling Umt
with the Ignorance and the wretchedness
of the world unless you feel that both feet
are planted hi the eternal veracities of th
book of Almighty God!
fclence of Wret!inir.
' Notice also Hist In this science of wrest
ling, to which Paul refers In my text, it
was the- third throw that decided tbe con
test. A wrestler might be thrown once
and tb-owu twice, hut the third time be
might recover himself, and by an uuex
eclfd twist of arm or curve of foot gain
the day. Well, that Is broad, smiling, un
mistakable g'isiel. Some w hom I address
through ear or eye, by voice or printed
page, have been thrown in their wrestle
with evil habit
Aye, you have been thrown twice, but
that does not mean, ob, worsted soul, th.it
you are thrown forever! I have do au
thority for saying bow many times a man
nisy sin snd lie forgiven, or bow many
times be may fall and yet rise agala, hot
I have authority for ssylng that be awy
fall 4U0 times, and 4(10 times let up. Tbe
Bible dec-tares that God wUI forgive 70
times 7, sod If you will er ploy the rale of
multiplication yog wiU And that 70 times
7 Is 400. Blessed be God for such a foa
ftl ef high hope tad smrlMlag eacoarsge-
meet and saagnifleent rescue. A goape!
of toe sheep brought home oa stiepherd's
shoulder, and the prodimla who got into
the low work of patting husks into swines
troughs brought home to jewelry and ban
quettsg aud hilarity that made the rafters
ring.
Three sketches of the same mm: A hap
py borne, of which he and a lassie taken
from a neighbor's bouse are the united
head. Years of hppins roll on after
years of happiness. Stars pointing down
to nativities. And whether announced in
greying or not every morning was a
"Good morning" and every eight a "Good
Bight." Christ mss trees and May queejj
and birthday festivities and ThanksgivHig
gatherins-s around loaded tables. Hut that
basbaod and father forms ao unfortunate
acquaintance who leads him in circles too
convivial, too Ime houred. too scsndalous.
After awhile, bis money gie and not able
to bear bis part of the expere, he is prnd
ual.'y shoved out and ipnored and puhod
sway. Now, what s dilapidated home is
bis.' A diswlpated life always shows itwlf
in faded window curtains, and impoverish
ed wardrobe, and dejected surroundings,
and in broken palincs of the garden fence,
and the unhinged giite, aud the dislocated
doorbell, and the disapixe-ance of wife
and children from scenes among which
they shone the brightest, aud lanehed the
gladdest. If any man w as eTer down, that
husband and father is down.
A f'owerfut Koc
The fact iw he got into a wrestle with
evil that pushed and pulled and contorted
and exhausted him worse than any (Wyui
piau game ever treated a Grecian, and he
was throw n thrown out of prosperity into
gloom, throw n out of good association into
bad, thrown out of health into invalidism,
throw n out of happiness into misery. Rut
one day while slinking through one of the
back streets, not wishing to be recognised.
: s good thought crosses bis mind, for he baa
i beard of men flung flat rising agsin. Ar
riving n hi house, lie culls his w:re in
and shuts the door and says: "Mary
am going to do differently. This is not
what I promised you when we were mar
ried. You have Ix-en very patient with
me and have borne everything, although I
would have had no right to complain if
you had left me and gone home, to your
father's house. It seems to me that once
or twice when I was not myself I struck
yon. and several times. I know, 1 railed
you hard iuiux-s. Now I want you to for-
i give me. I am going to do better, and I
! want you to help me." "Help you?" she
j says. "Bless your soul, of course 1 w ill
I neip you. 1 knew you d.dn t mean it w nen
I J"13 treated tne roughly. A 11 tuafnt in the
! nasi. Never refer to it air:iiu. To-day let
us begin anew."
Sympathizing friends come around and
kind business people help the man to
somethinir to do. so that he can nsain earn
a living. The children m have clothing
! so thai they can go to school. The old
1 hicii the wife sane years ago "ime
'' 8n1 h' ( "I"'1"' u" 'v,-',ls
pay;ug games w ith the children or helping
ihein with arithmetic or grammar lessons
which are a little too hard. Time parses
on. and s.ime outsider suggests to him that
he is iha weiring as much out of it as be!
ousht and proposes an wessional Visit to.
scenes of worldliness and dissipation. He j
i-oni-uts to go once, and, ufter much so- J
licitatiou, twice. Then his o d habit cuities
back. He tusys he has been belated and j
could not get back until midnight. He i
,lau -lJ some iv ren'i n un-rcuum imit
"d arrived aud taJk of business with him
before he gt out of tow n. Kindness and
geniality again quit the d position of that
biudand aud lather. The wife's heart
breaks iu a new piace. That man goes
into a second wn-:le w ith evil habit and j
is flung aifl ail heil cockles at the moral ;
defeat "I told you
H-ople who have no fa
" say many good j
h in the reforms-!
tiou of a falien man. "I told you so! You
ui.idc a great fus shout bis restored borne,
but I knew it would not last. You eou't
trust these fellows who have ou gone
wrong." So with this unfortunate, thing
get worse aud worse, and hi family have
to give up the bouse, and the lat valuable
g- to the lawnliroker's shop. But Ihnt
unfortunate man is sauntering along the
street otae Sunday night, and he goes up
to a church door, aad the congregation are
singing the second hymn, the one jiiwl lie
fore sermon, and it is William C'owper's
glorious hymn:
There is a fountain filled with blood
Hrawn from Emmanuel's veins,
And sinners ptungi-d beneath the flood
Ivomc all their guilty stains.
Victory Ihronnh Christ.
He goes into the vestibule of the church
and stops there, not feeling well enough
dressed to go among the worshipers, aud
he bears the minister say, "You will Ond
the words of my text in Luke, the "nine
teenth chapter and tenth verse, The Hon
of Man is come to seek and save that
whi-h was lost.' " The listener in the ves
tibule says: "If any man was ever lost I
am lost, and the Son of Man came to save
that which in lost, and be bas found me,
and be will take me out of this loat condi
tion. Ob, Christ, have mercy on nle." The
poor man bas courage now tn enter the
main audience room, and he sits down on
the first seat by tbe door, aud when at the
close of the service tbe minister cornea
down the aisle the poor man tells bis story,
and be is eucoureict-d and invited to come
again, aud the way is cleared for him for
membership in a Christian church, and be
feel tbe omnipotence of what Peter the
apoatle said' when he spoke of those "kept
by tbe power of God through faith unto
complete sslvatiun." Yet he is to have
one more wrestle before he ia tree from
evil habits, and be goes Into it not In his
own strength, for thai has failed him
twice, but in the strength of the Lord God
Almighty. Tbe old habit seises him, and
be sei7.ee it, and the wrestlers bend back
ward and forward and from side to side la
awful sirutfitlc, until the moment comes
for his liberation, and with both arms In
fused with strength from God be lifts that
habit, swimrs It tn air and burls It into the
perdition from which U came and from
which it never again will rise. Victory
victory, through our Lord Jesus OJiristl
Hear it, all ye wrestlers! It threw blm
twice, but the third time he tnrew it, and
by tbe grsce of God threw It so hard he is
as safe now ss If be had been ten years
in ties ven. Ob, I am so glad that Paul
in my U't suggests the wrestler snd the
power of tbe third throw,
Copyrir'x. !.
Our Minslon. With other Christian
natlitis, our mission Is to open tbe
world to tbe Ingress of the Gospel,
which has made us free and has exalt
ed us to a first place among the sinter
bond of oa lions. Iter. J. Q. Uutic,,
Lutheran, Washington, D. 0,
PROFITS FOR THE TATTOOER
War Ha Breaajbl Kstra Baalaeas far
the Artist aa Rbla.
The war boenied at least one Bow
ery industry, says a New York eorre
sjoudent It brought grist to the mills
of the "professors" who use the Jaa
me needle on the human skin. One
of the lt-st known tatttxters has a "stu
dio" iu Chatham snuare. another ex
pert can I? found under the skylight of
a Bowery saloon. There Is no better
profession for a young man to adopt
according to the b ailing professor, than
that of tattooing, provided, of course,
that the learner has a gift for the art
He modextly admits that it is a mighty
poor year when he ihswn't earn f5,0(t
or $'.,. For the benefit of those who
know nothing of tattooing. It may be
said that the prices vary from 25 conta
to $44i. You can get an anchor and
three stars for 30 cetits. but a Japanese
drngou cost $40. "In Memory af
Mother," 'The bailor's Return" aad
HoK-" come at about $11 apiece, and
are very popular. "The Sinking Kkin"
has a certain vogue among the despaa
dtut, but ."Hoisting the Flag," whir
represents a sailor turning the glori
ous stars and stripes loose In a gale
of wind, Is deservedly the most popu
lar design. It figures on the lioMiiae
of most American sramen. Of late, how
ever, pictures of the Maine, the por
traits of the naval iieroe. eagles and
flags have had the call. The profcttaer
Is himself a walking art gallery. He
proudly exhibits "The Crucifixion," a
battle M-ene and several other works
of his beloved tutor. Due of the eur
liet photographs of Lillian Russell,
taken when she was alxmt 17 years
old, has beeu tuttoed on the arms of
thousands of American cIHjwiuh, and M
Is not a very attractive photograph at
that. Export say the tattoo mark is
one of the lxt aids the police have ia
catching criminals. Due Bowery art
ist makes a specialty of "covering old
work" and administers cocaine when
it Is desired, though he says the in-cd!
dw-sn't hurt.
Tornado and Cyclone.
The government weather bureau has
lit oul the following dUtiiicllou, so
that all may know the diffcretsce' be
tween these two forms of aimowpherie
disturbance.
The tornado i a sudden outburst of
wind in an otherwise .iiict. suliry at
mospnere; It Us ushered in 1 y u bind. Itl
descr, liable ro-.ir, .liiill:ir t a continu
ous roll of Uitindi-r: l:s path is very
narrow seldom more tli.'ti fsKJ fi-ct
wide at -grenlcfct destruction: It moves
generally from southwest to nortbitiRt
and nircly extends more than 'H miles;
It very often rises In the air, to deoeml
again at a jmlnt a few mile ahead: it
Is always iiecwnpiiuied by thunder
storm, with "fto'i a bright glow In the
cloud: the 'cloud has usually a funnel
Klmpe, which Hpixiirs to lie vvh!rllii.
though some observer) h:tvc described
lis app'-iir.-iiH-e as like that of a huge
ball rolling forward. A tornado may
tn- considered -in the result of an ex
treme development of Cjitidlilui which
otherwise- produce thninlerst-iniis.
A cyclone, on the other hand, I a
very IihmiI sionu, oft-'titiiiics l.("K)
fiiili-ti in lii.-i mi-Ti-r citiil Kitioi-tittif-M i'uit
bo followed half around the world: the
winds circulate alH.ut It from right to
left, or the way oye, turns clock bands
backward 'in the Southern Ilciuhsphere
this motion It reversed!. The air pres
sure always falls us one approaches t.bt
center, w here at m h, tln-ie Is often a
calm, with clear sky vWlile at time.
Ihe cyclone wind often rUc to hurri
cane force, hut are not to be compared
with the extreme violence of the tor
nado, before which the most solid
structures are razed.
Bee H!ln.
Nature has been getting Information
from bw-keopers as to Immunity frrwn
wings. Circulars w ere sent to one hun
dred and forty-live Ih-c kn-jiors In Ger
many. From the replies, tt appears
Unit all but twenty-Mix lu-id acquired
Immunity, nine or so having It natural
ly. I he numlH-r of stings riulred to
bring the irsult varies from nbout thir
ty to one hundred, and the remifdles ap
plied range from tolwtcco juice, salvia
and water to French brandy, nun, am
monite, acctnte of alumnla, heat and
tuansage. Ifcxior 'Langyr, who U con
ducting: the Investigations, stub that
a two to five per cent, solution of per
manganate of potash injected wlU
counteract Hie poison. It used to be
supposed that the poison of bee stings
was due to formic acid; but aa It hat
leen found that beat does not destroy
the poisonous activity, this can hardly
te the cae, and It Is more likely that
Hie toxic substance partakes of the na
ture of an alkaloid.
He Thought It. - '
An Irish aoWler, who bad been hauled
over tbe coals several times, for Im
aginary offeiisea, by a petty officer,
stepped from the ranks one dny while
the regiment was at drill and saluting,
said, "Sergeant If I were to call you
the squint eye'd son of a bloated race,
what would I get?"
"Hit mouths, you scoundrel," said
tbe officer.
"And If ( were only to think It, what
would I get?"
"Oh, we could do nothing to you for
that"
"Well," said Pat, "begorra I think It"
The W skid's Newspaper Output
The total numlier of copies of news
paper printed throughout the world
In one year Is 12,lKg),0tiO, To print these
requires 781,240 tons of paper, or l,fa,.
4K0.000 pounds, while It would take the
fastest press In London IlX'l years to
print a single year's edition, which
would produce a stack of papers nearly
fifty miles high.
White elephants have become so
scarce In India Uiat they are now pro
tected by law. Sportsmen will be glad
te know that tbe law Is not In effect la
ibis conn try.
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