as only a place to eat. drink and sleep
In, the work la begun that ends In
gambllug houses and reckless degra­
dation. Young people must have fun
aud relaxation somewhere; If they do
not find It at their own hearthstones
It will be sought at other and less
profitable place«. Therefore, let the
The trouble It that eome automobiles fire burn brightly at night aud make
irry too mauy "tanka.”
the homestead delightful with all
those little arts that parents so per­
That overworked geography class Is fectly understand. Don't repress the
Dow at work on Scandinavia.
buoyant spirits o f your children; half
an hour’s merriment around the lamp
Opportunity has an exasperating | aud fireside of home biota out the re­
way o f calling on a man when he's membrance o f many a care aud annoy­
oa t
ance during the day, and the beat
safeguard they cau take with them T H E P K O W l k T S O K I H I t A K U
An automobile la extremely danger­
Into the world la the Influence o f a
ar «•*. Joh n a. s w t s r i
ous when charged with gasoline and
bright little domestic sanctum.
Text: "K eep ye Justice and practice
boose.
righteousness.’’ Isaiah Ixvl.
Physicians In New York say that
UrtUlaucy o f literary power marked
"Bright young men are needed In the
country,” says Secretary Wilson. In the average New Yorker la killing him­ the age of the prophets, but morally
self by his pursuit o f the strenuous It was dark and degenerate. Abnor­
ths country only, Mr. Secretary?
life. That life, aa explained by the mal wealth and abject poverty, beauty
The object la to avoid contact be­ doctors tn tills Instance, Is ths uisd and ashes, glory and shame, the robes
tween the wheels In the chauffeur's chase after wealth which the New of Dives aud the rags of latzarus alter­
Yorker makes hit main object In life. nately charmed and terrified ttie Imag­
bead and those of the automobile.
The great Increase In deaths due to ination. The simplicity of pastoral life
A New York department store has diseases o f the heart and Bright's dis­ was abandoned.
Property once held
added a hospital department, having ease. as shown In the mortuary statis­ In common passed Into personal own-
profited by observations taken on bar­ tics of New York, la the principal foun­ erahip. Socialism merged Into Indi­
dation for the doctors’ reports. From vidualism. Society reorganised around
gain days.
1868 to 1904 the Increase In deaths the Individual. Greed coerced men be­
President Eliot of Harvard advises from Bright's disease was 10.47 per yond legitimate acquisition Into re­
young men to associate with their su­ 10,000 population. In a recent week spectable robbery. Money controlled
periors. But how can college young 125 people died o f heart disease, while
the seats of law and Justice.
men do that?
the number for the corresponding week
Dark Are the pictures of the age
of the year previous was only 56. The painted by the prophets. The sins, so
I f Grover Cleveland was hired to sit
fact Is established that the stomach deadly to virtue and so fatal to hap­
on the Equitable safety valve few peo­
and the heart are extensively affected piness, were common. Fraud, dishon­
ple will expect the old thing to blow
by the bolting o f food aud by w orry­ esty and robbery prevailed lu commer­
off any more steam.
ing.
The New York business man cial life. The weights aud measures
bolts his food, and he worries, so the were false.
Ignoble traffickers tam­
Railway travel at the rate o f a mile
doctors assert that be dies earlier than pered with the markets and cornered
In half a minute la exciting, but many
was the custom forty or fifty years the necessities o f life. Stocks as In­
o f us do not carry sufficiently large life
ago. In the face o f these figures the substantial ns p. mirage were floated
Insurance policies to risk I t
cry that the life strenuous Is shorten­ and bubble companies formed. In vlg
ing the lives o f business men would orous language Isaiah denounces illi­
The Czar's <6,000,000 Investment tn
seem to be amply substantiated. F ig­ cit trusts and combinations.
"W oe
the United States does not look so very
ures don’t lie. But occasionally they unto them that Join house to bouse,
big when one considers the wealth he
do give out woefully wrong Impres­ that lay field to field till there be no
has deposited In the Straits o f Korea.
sions. The recorded Increase o f deaths place, that they may he placed alone
Borne things about the insurance due to Bright’s disease In this Instance In the midst o f the earth.”
But notwithstanding the manifold
companies are coming out that the gen­ means little. The medical records of
fifty
years
ago
were
kept
In
a
manner
corruptions
of the nge. reaching from
tlemanly agents forgot to mention to
not to be compared with that o f the palace to hovel, and permeating every
you when they were soliciting your
present day. They were far from com­ sphere o f lal>or and every avenue of
business.
plete.
Possibly 50 per cent o f the trade, the people were religious That
I f King Oscar doesn't like such a deaths were properly diagnosed, and In they had made lies their refuge, and
short title he might fill a whole line diagnosing heart troubles the medical concealed themselves under falsehoods
on the hotel register by writing this profession o f that time was notorious­ did not Interfere with their devotions.
way: “ Oscar, King o f Sweden and ex- ly Incompetent. Many men undoubt­ Such astounding Inconsistencies were
edly died o f heart disease whose Inevitable. For moral standards had
K in g of Sweden and Norway.”
deaths were ascribed to some other been falsified.
Hypocrisy ruled the
cause.
Had the mortuary statistics of duy. True merit and genuine worth
An English paper Is authority for
the statement that Duchess Consuelo fifty years ago been kept with the were discounted. Fraud, sham and de
o f Marlborough has among her pets at same care that obtains to-day there Is ceptlon were rewarded.
The prophets were altogether dlf
Blenheim a number of snakes which great probability that the death rate
ahe takes pleasure In twining around In the diseases mentioned would not be ferent. They were progressive, expan
shown to have Increased. Everything alve. upward gazing souls.
Their
her neck. Well, It’s her neck.
tends to make this probable.
The minds were fluent aud flexible. They
It Is absurd to say Paul Morton business man o f the present day, while were open-eyed and believed In the
knows nothing about the Insurance he possibly worka harder when be Infinite Intelligibility o f things. They
business. Any man who has lived to works, does not work so many hours, saw the red streakng o f the dawn of
be as old as Mr. Morton and h a » not nor so many days each year, aa did the Truth's Illustrious day. In the sym­
been positively discourteous to the business man o f fifty years ago. He phony o f progress they were the lead­
agents must know a whole lot about takes more vacations, spends much ing performers. They had visions of
more time in recreation and amuse­ the Ideal Man, the Ideal Church and
the Insurance business.
ment. He works under conditions much the Ideal State. Against arid formal-
less conducive to worry than did bis lam they vowed eternal war. and
Since Theodore Roosevelt became
predecessors. Telegraph, cable and ■mote the huge ecrlealastlclam of
President 72,000 government employes
rapid mall service permit him to know their times as with a inace. They as­
have been put In the classified service
the exact condition o f big business a f­ serted the supremacy o f reason over
—that la, their successors must be ap­
fairs at all times. F ifty years ago a tradition.
pointed under the competitive exam­
merchant was frequently under a con­
They were lavish o f the light, know­
ination system. Now practically the
stant strain for weeks and months at a ing well that all sanitary purification
only large group of government ap­
time, merely awaiting an Important begins when rooms are flooded with
pointees still outside of the classified
letter, or news from a shipment of
And so It
service Is that made up of the fourth- goods. Now one day will bring the oxygen and sunbeams.
was
their
function,
not
to
repress
life,
class postmasters.
business man what be wishes to know not to clip It Into mechanical shapes,
from any corner o f the earth. Besides, but to give It room, to keep It plastic,
In the midst of the pomp and splen­ the business men o f to-day drink less
green nnd fresh and growing, until It
dor of the royal wedding at Berlin than did those who have gone before
reached Its attainable
perfection.
there must have been some disquiet­ So If the New York business man dies
They cared nothing for the cult and
ing reflections among the guests upon earlier than did his fathers, the reason
ceremonial, the changing drapery of
the outlook for what Mark Twain has is yet to be found. The plea that mod­
religion. Rut they did care for relig­
called “ the king business.” Many of ern life kills early will hardly hold.
ion as a life, ns an essence unmixeii
the princelings at the wedding have
and pure. And so they became the
no love for Nicholas o f Russia, yet
lenders and Instrnetors of the soul
they cannot understand that the down­
and uncovered peak after peak In the
fall of the Muscovite autocracy would
mountains o f the Ideal.
spell a menace to every throne In Eu­
rope. Once familiarize people with
C H A R A C T E R A N 'I) H A B I T .
the Idea of dethroning kings, and no
By Ker. 6. 0. r . H i l l o c k . D. O*
monarchy is safe.
Text: “ Learn to do well.” — Isaiah
tuli
D JÍ0,
Farmers’ daughters are educated In
many parts o f Germany in traveling
schools, which go from village to vil­
lage to give girls over sixteen years
of age practical lessons In housekeep­
ing, cooking, the selection o f food,
care of poultry and cattle, the culti­
vation of vegetables, and butter and
cheesemaking. The results have been
so satisfactory that It Is now pro­
posed to add instruction In nursing,
cooking for the sick, mending and
sewing. The teachers, who are grad­
uates o f the schools of housework, and
have passed government examinations,
carry with them an outfit of a cook­
ing stove and the various utensils for
cooking and Ironing. The classes are
held In the achoolhouses, the term
lasts six weeks, and the cost of tuition
Is pat so low as practically to exclude
oo one.
Don’t be afraid o f a little fun at
borne. Don’t shut your house lest the
■nn should fade your carpeta, and your
heart*, lest a hearty laugh shake down
some o f the musty old cobwebs there!
I f yon want to ruin your sons, let
them think that all mirth and social
enjoyment must be left on the thres­
hold without when they corns heme at
• I f h t When oboe a house la regardsd
Swimming Is very good for a girl’s
figure If It Is good to begin with.
What a woman likes about a yacht­
ing trip Is the clothes she has to buy
for It.
I f a girl wasn’t Jealous o f somebody
It would be a sign she was the only
person in the world.
I f a boy Is real clever he can ac­
quire a lot o f knowledge at school use­
ful to forget afterward«.
The way some women's summer
clothes are made they would look
dressed up If they fell off.
Sometimes It’s Just aa well to go
home early to make your w ife aus­
picious about your health.
I f a man Rad to work aa hard to
get hla living as he does to get his
fun he would become an anarchist
H e Is B o u n d to K e e p Busy.
1:17.
Some one has well compared learn­
ing to do well with learning to swim.
You wade In the water, but not very
fax, for fear you will drown. You try
to
swim,
but
sink.
You try
again, and do a little better.
You
swallow a good deal o f water; It gets
Into your ears and eyes and nose, but
you keep on splashing, and finally can
swim. So must we, In the region of
moral things, keep on doing well until
we learn how, and It tins become a
habit. Habit Is something we have—
we have It. That Is what the word
means. B u i as we well know, It often
becomes something which has us.
What la habit? It has been well
defined as “ the Involuntary tendency
to perforin certain actions which la
acquired by their frequent repetition.”
“ Habit Is second nature.” Habit “ la
prevailing disposition«, feelings and ac­
tions which are right or wrong.”
Habit la ’’ moral character..” “ Habit,”
says Horace Mann, “ is a cable; we
weave a thread o f It every day, and at
last we cannot break I t ” What we
have thought or felt or done once. It
la a little easier to think or feel or
do the second time, much easier the
tenth. Incomparably easier the twen­
Lightning aet the bell In a church
steeple ringing recently and Brother
Williams exclaimed; ’ My, my! It abo’
has come ter pass dat de devil Is ring­
in’ folks ter m eetlnT’— Atlanta Const! tieth, and very difficult to keep from
tntion.
thinking or feeling or dolug after one
hundred repetitious.
W e need to borrow tha fore« of
habit in the discharge of our religious
duties. Devotion should be a habit.
Prayer should be a habit Wa should
have aet time» for prayer. W e should
read the scriptures with system, not
reading fitfully, now and then, Juet as
we happen to “ feel like I t ” That Is
the surest way o f getting Into a state
lu which we wlU not feel like It at all.
Our benevolence should lie a habit. We
should give, not at the Impulse of feel­
ing, but In the pursuance of a habit
conscientiously formed and persistent­
ly maintained.
It pays to have ths habit of doing
right, even though It saves the soul
only once. How Infinitely well It pays
when that soul saves! la the man's
own. Joseph's soul w h s saved by the
habit o f doing right. Millions of souls
have been saved In tha same way.
There Is Infinite danger tn risking
your soul to any other than a fixed
habit of doing right, which la a fixed
habit o f fleeing to Christ III every time
of »tress and strain for hla divine ami
all-powerful aid.
R E C O G N I T I O N IN H E A V E N .
By Ksr. B. W. C o t w o l l .
Text: "And I asy unto you, mauy
shall come from the east ami from the
west and shall sit down with Abra
ham, laaac and Jacob lu the kingdom
of heaven.” — Matthew v lll.:lL
What a bleseil boon 1» life!
How
much more hlcsed to know we »hall
live forever, and that we »hall love
and commune with loved ones and the
holy of all nges In the life beyond!
The desire to live and the longings of
love are the strongest proofs o f both
Immortality and heavenly recognition
Man Is unconscious of mortality and
the animal of Immortality.
Instinct
lends each to their God given destiny.
Klondykers would not lond a ship
with gold to sink It In mid-ocean. Sure
ly God Is as wise as his children. He
will bring the treasure ship /Ion Into
the desired haven and laud Its pre­
cious freight on the eternal shore. An
Infidel once said: “ I f I could he sure
of a hereafter nnd know that 1 should
meet the loved ones gone before, I
would crawl on my hands and knt-es
from New York to San Francisco Just
to gnln that certainty.” On hla knees
before God, every Infidel can attain
that blessed consciousness of Immor­
tality and loving fellowship with the
holy as light divine flashes through
his Iteltig.
Would you live a life of entire holi­
ness freed from every weight nnd aln?
Would you look only unto Jesua? Then
look often toward the unseen and
realize that tho arms of loved ones
are around you, pulling you to the
skies; that you are not only a pilgrim
of earth, but an inhabitant o f glory,
und as you gaze, you will exclaim:
“ Let me be holy, for yonder company
are robed In sotless white.” We gaze
too much upon things nenr us, and
the near view Is often dnrk. dusty nnd
doleful; oh. the beyond! How It lifts
our drooping spirits up and makes of
our earth a heaven! L ift up your eyes
unto the heavenly hills whence cometli
your help.
We are truly a race of travelers,
having no continuing city. Strangers
and sojourners ns were all our fathers.
Our days here are a shadow, a hand-
breadth: yonder shines one eternal
day. “ Death does not end nil," It Is
ciily the beginning! Afflictions are but
for a moment compared to the far
more exceeding and eternal weight of
glory.”
Separations only mean that
your beloved lias gone home to gaze
upon the "K in g In His beauty” and
await your coming to the heavenly
mansion.
Death signifies that yoti
have go ne to the "building o f God, the
house not made with hands eterunl In
the heavens.”
Christian believer, art thou weary
with sorrow, heavy laden with separ­
ation. cast down with loneliness; gaze
townrda the faces that look back upon
you.
See! they beckon you home­
ward. Soon the white-winged mes­
sengers will come for your spirit nnd
will whisper to your soul “ I,et not
your heart be troubled, neither let it
be afraid. In my Father's house lire
many mansions.”
Come ye blessed
of my Father, Come up higher. That
where I am there ye may be also.
S H O R T M E T E R HERMON0,
There la nothing divine in dullness.
Sulkiness la only aelflshneaa turned
•our.
Many great souls have been lost by
little sins.
Rleased la the sorrow that cures of
eelflahneaa.
Gliding the wagon does not ease the
springe.
The beat place to pray for corn la
between the row«.
The religion that lacks sunshine 1«
all moonshine.
lenco*
Ammonia va|mr hns proven a power­
ful disinfectant, a room filled with It
being freed from cholera bacilli, pus­
tule germ» or diphtheria microbes In
two hours.
An English health officer has Issued
the following circular, which Is posted
In butchers’ shops; “ With n view to
preventing contamination by the han­
dling o f meat exposed for sale und o f
preventing the spread o f Infectious dis­
ease« thereby, I hereby request you to
provide a suitable supply of forks with
which Intending purchasers mny make
examination of the meut In your shop.”
A cubic foot of earth weighs nlstut
five and a half times as much as a
cubic foot of water. A cubic mile o f
earth weighs 2t>,649,.'kNI,ua» ton«, Thu
volume of the earth Is 259,8811,000,000
cubic miles. The weight of the world
without Us atmosphere Is 6.iW6.2rtt,-
000,000,01 hi ,<N 10,000 tons. To add to this
the weight of the atmosphere gives a
grand total o f 0,666,255,8 tU.dUO,0U0,*
000,000 tons.
When that English submarine sunk
the other day the occupants of the ves­
sel were given a brief wurnlug before­
ha ml, according to one of the survivors,
by the actions of u cage full of white
mice. According lo this authority ev­
ery submarine has a number of white
mice abourd because these little crea­
tures are very susceptible to atmos­
pheric changes and at once give warn­
ing o f any escaping gas by squeaking.
Glass containing manganese Is slow­
ly turned violet by sunlight, and Sir
William Crookes has found thut ra­
dium prod ii < es lu a few days a colora­
tion ns intense ns that caused by tin»
sun In years.
F. Fischer, has u<>'v
been studying (be effects o f ultra violet
rays and reports that the light o f a
mercury arc lamp In a quarts tube gave
a alight color In fifteen minutes to
four out o f eight glasses, und an In­
tense violet hue lu twelve hours. The
color proved to be due to tunngutics*
silicate.
The city o f Hull, England, hns 1.1
miles o f wooden pavement, nnd Is
gradually aubatltutlng such pavement
for the granite hlocka hitherto used.
It Is ns smooth as asphalt, but less
slippery. After many experiments with
woods from various part* o f the world,
the city authorities have settled upon
the Jarrah and karri woods from west­
ern Australia ns the beat for the pur­
pose. They are of a dark mahogany
color. The blocks are cut to the si/.«*
of large bricks, and are carefully laid
upon a foundation o f cement seven
Inches thick. Koine of these pavements,
laid from seven to ten years ago, are
not yet In need of repair.
The lirnxlllnu government, convinced
of the existence o f Immense supplies
of underground water within Its terri­
tories, promises to organize a division
of hydrology similar to that of tho
United States geological survey. Drill­
ing outfits have already been purchas­
ed In this country. The colonial offic»
of Bermuda has sought American ex­
pert advice In regard to obtaining a
supply o f water from underground
•ources In those Islands, nnd there la a
similar movement In 1’erti, where It It
thought that water drawn from l»e-
neath the deserts may serve to Irrigate
the nearly ralnleaH area along the
const It la also {minted out that Ara­
bia may be Irrigated In tills manner,
an Investigation hns shown the exist­
ence o f great underground water teals,
there, one of which Is said to extend
mini miles across the peninsula from
the Hedjaz northeasterly toward the
Euphrates.
V i e w s a n il Notions.
President Hadley, o f Yale, nnd a
young men whose appearance was
that of a student once met, says the
Searchlight, In Yellowstone Park, In
the midst of the wonders of nature.
ITesIdent Hadley turned to
the
young man for sympathetic comment.
“ This la a wonderful scene, lau’t
I t r he said.
The young man smiled and nisi led.
and turned without speaking to gaze
at the prospect spread before them.
“ Do you think,” asked President
Hadley, confirmed In Ills idea that ho
was talking to an ardent student,
“ tlmt this olmsin was caused by some
great upheaval o f nature, or Is It tin-
result o f erosion or glnelnl action?
What are your views— ”
“ My views,”
said the stranger,
quickly, opening a hag containing
photographs, "are only two dollars a
dozen, and dirt-cheap. Let me show
you some.”
A fronted
V
Authority.
"So yottr w ife does not approve of
baseball?”
“ No,” answered Mr. Meektnn. "H en ­
rietta can’ t stand It to see any mere
man bossing people around the wny
the umpire does.” — Washington Star.
A F a m o u s Ancestor.
Lawyer— You say the mania
fo r
pnrch-ollmhing la In your blood?
Porch-Climber— Yes, air. It’s Inherit­
ed; I ’m a lineal descendant of Romeo.
— Detroit Free Press.
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