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A Famous Bulgarian Festival.

"One OF the most interesting and re-
markable of Bulgarian national festi.
vals has just taken place." says the cor.
respondent of the London Times at So.
fla, Sin the heart of remote forest,
amid the wild solitudes of the Balkans.
Midway between the shipka Pass and
the almost equally famous dehle of
Hainkoi, by which Gourko penetrated
into Eastern Roumelia, narrow path
leads up the mountain side to lonely
spot, upon which no Bulgarian patriot
can gaze without a feeling of the keen.
est emotion. Here, on verdant slope
thickly studded with magnificent beech
trees. Hadji Dimitr and his companions,
the first Bulgarians who for centuries
had dared to meet the Ottoman conquer
or in the open field, made their last
stand against overwhelming numbers;
here they fell, fighting to the last, and
here they lie, with no other memorial
than few little wooden crosses, roughly
hewn from the adjoining wood, but with
lasting record in the hearts OF their
countr7mcn. Every year thousands OF
the peasantry from either side OF the
Balkans assemble on this spot, together
with dcputations from the towns OF
North and South Bulgaria, bringing
with them wreaths and crosses to lay
upon the graves of these martyrs to the
cause of freedom.
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DRUNKENNESS IN SOCIETY.

II can find no stronger word IN our IAN
guage than brutalizing to convey to your
minds the hideous and poisonous nature OF
intoxicating drinks" says Jealous temper
ance lecturer recently. Composed OF in
gradients, which by nature are oftentimes
rank poison, it is not surprising that liquor,
when consumed in large quantities, produces
q most baneful effect. It inhames the lmag-
nation, supplies the will. and stagnates the
reason; it wrecks the system: corrupts the
heart, and in O short time makes man mere
mass Of brutalized humanity. Mans sys-
tenn, being composed of most delicate or
ganism. has therefore great need OF mans
utmost care and consideration. When we'll
protected, man enjoys most perfect state
of health and happiness, but when abused
and neglected, it becomes in short time
curse and burden to its unhappy possessor;
once diseased or corrupted, it now demands
a long ser es of medical investigation, 1t
pants for every possible care and solacs, but
alas! for the body ruined by the excesSes OF
intoxicatlon there is but one remedy, the
cold and silent grave. True it IS, there have
been cases in which medical aid has given So
lace to respondent patient, but then the
system,was only. injured, it was not destroyed,
but once the yitalS of our nature have been
devoured by intoxicating liquors. none but
the great physician, its,Creator, can give it the
desired and wished-for salvation, Hundreds
of cases could be cited to prove what have
said; hundreds who row fill drunksrd's
graves would bear me out in my assertion,
and even today, il our own city, there are
hundreds Of men and women, who have treu1-
ulous and wrecked constitutions, and all
this because they have cast to the ground all
their self-respect and shame, to become slaves
and dupes to the intoxicating cup"
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RESICiSlNG THE RUDDER.

1t was PRAYER of George Herbert's that
he might wholly be led to resign the rudder
of his life to the sacred will OF God, to be
moved "as Thy love shall sway How much
fretting. how much worry it would spare US
all If we asked our heavenly Father that He
would cause US to lean utterly, In perfect
faith, in cheerful, unquestioning obedience,
upon His will and wisdom, whether
in life's trivial concerns or in
those shades of darkness from which we re-
coil in fear? We can ask Him nothing be-
yond His power. Some of US know the
feeling, In all but this could say "hy will
be done,'" hlt if we only tell the story at
His feet, pouring out our hearts before Him,
we shall be able to trust our Father, even to
rejoice in Him, through every changeful
pathway.
Not long ago Christian visitor called upon
poor woman who had just been told by the
matron Of the hospital of the incura'e nature
of her complaint. The poor sufferer tcarfully
declared she accepted Gods will patiently, so
far as her own pain and death were con.
of her motherless children. Eobody could
inducs Eer, She said as CONCERNING the chill.
dren. to feel patient and resigned. 1t was a
painful scene. The visitor could not re-
lnonStratc with her upon her spirit Of
ilnpstience and mumurlng. but felt as
Though she must weep with her, as she
sasd ''Yours is untold sorrow, beyond my
understanding even, but God knows all
about it; God understands. Will you not
tell Him just how you feel; tell Him what
you have told me, all your pain, anxiety, and
dread Of leaving your little ones alone? l
am going now to tell the leader of our pray
er-meeting about you; tomorrow. from three
to half-past, prayers will arise on your be-
boH Will pou nnt ot tho Sorpo time hp On
your knees before God and tell Him all!'
The sufferer promised.
Next day, relates the visitor, earnest,
pleading sunpl;cations laid her case before
God, and what was the result? The next in
terview found that woman rs calm rs she
had been impatient. She had poured out
her own heart in prayer, and others had
prayed for her, and she told ths visitor: Il
am just leaving everything with God; not
only whether live or die. but each of my
little children. Everything is safe with Him.
I feel it, know it." Verify our God is the
same now as in past ages. praye.-hcaring,
prayer-answerlng. Culver.
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reypes,ScnS NEWS AND NOTES.


OF seventy-two members OF Parliament for
Scotland, fifty are pledged to vote for
Scottish PernIsSive bill.
The Women's Temperance Union in Canada
has sect on composed Of those who promise
to deal only with temperance grocsrs.
Boston shipped to Africa during the last
fiscal year over eight hundred thousand gal
Ions OF rum. valued at nearly 81, OOO, 600.
Mrs. r. a. Green who has been the effi-
cient RecordingSecretary Of Honolulu VIC.
#. u, will attend tho Worlds w. =. T. u.
convention IN Boston as delegate from the
Hawaiian Islands auxiliary.
Mrs. NJ. c. Leavitt says that in Tasmania
there is not single descendant Of the aoo-
rignes left, and that the destruction Of the
people is, in a large measure, due to tbs
strong drink introduced by civilized ma.
tiors.
In view of the serious disappointment to
guests at the dinner tables of total absti-
nence peoD,e on finding that thars is no wine,
q total abstinence hostess in London now
writes her invitations VITA mo w,nt" ut the
bottom.
in connection with the British Women's
Telnuerunca Association there are four
homes Tor inebriatc women, through wnica
upward OF three hundrei ami fifty-five pa.
tients have passed. many OF wnom are thor
ougiliy reclaime AMI most grateful for the
help while resident therein.
Rv. Dr. Mccarthy, Roman Catholic
Esnop OF C!oyne has issued letter in
which he strictly forOids any priest OF tue
diocese to say mass in al y house where he
finds drink has been distribute Or attend
the funeral of the deceased, AMI requiring
that on their ministry at tae house Or funeral
the priest shall exacta promise taa5no drink
will be distributed.
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DOCTORS WHO DaIH:; AND THE LAW.

DOCTORS WHO DEIS.s AND THE LAW.
Hard. drinking physicians, if there are any
such in Georgia, will now have disagree
able time of it, as a statute has been passed
by the Legislature Of that State disqualify-
ing any medical man from further practice
who has once been convicted Of drunkenness,
and imposing heavy penalty upon the man
thus disqualified if he attempts to practice
medicine again. It may not Be knowl that
We have also a law in New YORK on this sub
ject but it concerns itself with the drinking
physician only in case he does harm to a
patient while intoxicated, andhe can other
wise drink as much as he likes. being only
subject to the laws governing all citizens o:
whatever calling. The following is the New
York statute: "a physician or surgeon, or
person practicing as such, who, being in
state Of intoxication, administers any poison,
drug or medicine, or does any other act as a
physician or surgeon to another person, by
which the life of the latter is endangered or
his health seriously affected, is guilty Of a
misdemeauor." Another section declares
that II, under like circumstances, the patients
death results, the physician is guilty Of man
slaughter. The penalty imposed by the
Georgians upon drunken physician may
perhaps not be too severe, but the passage
of such u law by the Legislature is in the
nature of deliberate insult to the physi-
clans Of that State-Nedical Record.
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GERMANY's AFFLICTIoN.

1t is mentioned that the official returns Of
suicides committed in Berlin during the first
fortnight Of July show total OF !47, and
that the cause of this enormous self-destruc-
tion is attributed chiefly to drink. 1t is also
stated that: Impressed with recent official
statistics concerning the growth of criminal
offenses and suicides arising from drink, the
Government has opened an inquiry in re-
gard thereto, and is drawing evidence from
hospital and other medical sources concern.
ing the increasing use of potato spirits and
other impure alcohols, and how far the use
of these spirits may be regarded as leading
factor in crime" All this goes to show quite
conclusively that. despite the protesta5ions
of the beer propagandists. and those Ameri,
can travellers who ''see no drunkenness"
that Germany. the chief Of beer countries,
is afflicted with drunkenness. and is seeking
relief from the crime which is the inevitable
outcome of its drinking usages. In Ger.
many, as IN America abstinence alone will
be found sovereign remedy.-National
Advocate.
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Tan Earth Growing in Weight.

1t hardly seems possible that tne earth
could increase in weight apprecla6ly
from the meseoric hail to which it Is
subjected. The few shooting stars one
sees seem utterly incapable OF producing
anv noticeable increase. 1t is not these.
Of which even close observer could
scarcely count an average of four an hour
on clear night, but the myriads OF
lesser ones that arc never seen, unless,
accidentally crossing tae field OF an OBJ.
servers telescope, that produce the re-
suit. These lesser ones are OF such slight
weight that the small amount OF light
caused by their combustion in the earth's
atmosphere is not visible to the naked
eye. However, these little fellows are
continually bombarding the earth day
and night, year in, year out, finally
reaching the surface as fine dust. This
increase in weight amounts to about
ninety thousand tons year at very
moderate calculation.-Nep York Re-
c0rder.
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Where Franklin Flew His Kite.

When the Record building was erected
on the site where it now stands the un-
conscious granite pile was unwittingly,
but not inap2ropriasely, made to COM
memo1atc an historic event OF world
wide celebrity. On June Is, 1752, DR.. (.
BENJAMIN franklin, deeply convinced
but unable to demonstrate that the poe
nomenon of lightning was manifessa-
tion of electrical energy, and somewhat
distrustful of his ability to pull. down
lightning from the clouds aud establish
the identity his acute aud philosophical
intellect led him to suspect, came little
way out of built.up Philadelphia into the
country in the neighborhood of Tenth
and Chestnut streets, to try his simple
experiment. 1t was so simple that he
probably thought he might be laughed
at in case of failure. Everybody knows
the story of DR.. franklin and his kite,
and there is no need to repeat that; but
everybody does not know that Franklin
stood about where the Mercantile Library
on Tenth street now stands, and held
the cord while his kite hovered over the
spot now covered by the Record bui ldiug
until the lightning answered to ha
summons, and in flash theory had been
converted into ascertained fact.
This statement rests on the authority
of the late John T. Frazer, OF the Uni
yersity of Pennsylvania, whose khowl-
edge of the history Of Pniladelphia was
both remarkable and accurate; and it is
further vouched for by Professor Stille
and Professor Thompson. TO the latter
gentleman the Record is indebted for tue
knowledge of the facts herein stated.
1t vas an exceedingly happy accident
that on the spot selected ny the most
notable of American printers and phil
osophers to establish Geographic com
munication with the sky great printing
house should have been erected more than
one hundred years afterward to dissemi-
nate news day by day brought from the
ends OF the eartn on the wings OF lIgat
ming. If it ha been proposed to build
a monument to commemorate the name
and tame of Franklin, could anything
more appropriate have been conceived
by the wit Of man?-P.. itaaelp!!a IL
cord.
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KEEP YOURSELVES.

A physician found patient shut up in .
damp, chilly room. He said to him, mo
wonder that you are sick in such place.
You don't reed medicire, but fresh air, sun
shine. and exercise" He took that hypo-
chondriac out of doors. He made him walk
and ride about. Soon be was well again,
and the doctor left him. But In little
while be was sent for. His morbid and per-
verse patient was lying in the close, damp
chamber as before. shivering and moaning:
:.Oh. doctor" he cried, THAT sure cure OF
YOURS has failed, and l am just as bad as
ever" "Dd you keep yourself in the sum
shine!" mo, thought that had taken
enough Of it, not only to make me well, but
to keep Inc so, and then came back 70 bed
again."
Just like this imaginary invalid arc many
(alas, how 1nany.) Of the p'tientS OF the
Great Physician. They read Of His won
drous love: they believe it: they rejoice in
it. 1t kindles in their souls hope that is
full Of glory. But. haying 'tnste,s the good
word of God and the powers Of the wOlld to
come" they return to the weak and beggar-
Is elements of this world. Hence they lose
that blessed hope They become cold and
sad, and then they wonder why God does
not "kerE them in perfect pence" Alas!
:hcy forget that God cannot make evil good
and good evil. lie has created an atnlos-
3here of love. He offers it freely to all who
will live in it. But II we fai to do So-if we
shut ourselves up il the caves or Cellars OF
sc!lishncss refusing to enjoy what God has
provided for sustaining the new lifc--can We
wonder that we are weak and Sickly:
But how should we keep ourselves in the
love of Cod: BY study, by mcdi.ation, by
Christian communion. and. above all, BY
prayer We ion't read the Bible enough;
.yo liant think rn0umh about what we read
in it: we don't talk en",igii with each other
about our heavenly Father, our Elder
Brother, anil our celestial homr; we don't
work enough for Christ to keep our heart
in q glow; we dcHt commune enough with
God. Our reading, thinking, toilia-, I'll? king
and praying win not create the atmosphere
that our spirits nee,l. but they Will keep lis
in it. They will enable lis to Climb up ont
of the dampnrss and gloom Of unbelief.
They will help US 20 ascend the mount Of
faith. On it we will find the lan'l oi Beulah,
from which we can see the walls and gates,
and almost hear the songs OF the golden
city, Interior.
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A Modern Samson.

John Whitman, the man who lifts 60C
pounds with his teeth, pushed freight
car weighing $4,000 pounds along O
switch on North street, near Madison,
in the presence of about 300 people. He
got between the car be was to push and
another, the brakes of which were down.
Seating himself upon the second car, he
placed his feet against the forward car,
and, after taking deep breath, gave it
one mighty push with them. The car
quivered and then went forward several
feet. He did this several times, but
owing to the car being on a grade he
could Lot move it very far. A car weigh
ing 23,600 pounds he moved with ease.
Mr.. Dunn, the yardmaster, said the cars
moved would take the efforts of at least
eight ordinary men.
In the afternoon Whitman gave an ex-
hibition of his strength at the gymna-
sium at the Central Police Station. He
handled hundred pound dumb-bell as
if it weighed five pounds. Captain Far
nan and one of his officers then got on
Whitman's back, who stopped over, and
with his teeth picked up two dumb-bells
tied together, weighing 100 pounds, and
at the same time lifted a nundred-pound
bell in each hand. The bells and men
on his back in all weighed 600 pounds.
Whitman also lifted 200 pounds by his
teeth. Laying out fiat on the floor, he
strapped a ffty-pound bell to his foot,
and then raised it up slowly, stopping at
intervals. One of the most remarkable
feats he did was to tie twenty pound
bell on the end of strap, the other end
of which he held in his teeth. He then
swung the bell around, and when he got
it high in the air he jcrked il, back with
his teeth. Whitman, the wonder, was
at one time oa the New York police
force. american.
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TEMPERANCE.

ODE TO COLD WATER.
,, fair Is the virgin Lymph, fresh from the
fountain,
Sleeping in crystal well,
Leaping in shady dells,
Dr. issuing clear from tas depth of the noun
sky-mated, related, ,earth's holiest Daughter!
Not the hot kiss Of wine
Is half so divine
As the sip Of thy lip, inspiring Cold Water!
As chaste as the SHOWS OH the sky-piercing
Alpine top
Now sparkling in dews,
Now nearing the hues
Of the rainbow, born Of the ray and the
In health and in sickness, all seasons. all
weather,
Men may quaff thee. and laugh, and be
happy together.
see, how all Nature claps hand and re-
joices!
What greenness and gladness,
For BROWNIES and sadness
What music and mirth from infinite voicesl
Herds lowing, cocks Growing, ten thousand
birds singing,
Sweet murmuring rills,
And splashings OF mills,
And foaming cascades, gems and jewels up
finging;
The winds, all ths leaves from their sick
slumDers waking,
With whispers and kisses
And breathing Of bGsses,
From the blooms all perfumes on the buxom
air shaking:
New beauty returning to grass, tree, and
flower,
So soon as the thirsty earth drinks in thu
shower.
The great gift Of God, and the joy of crea.
tion-
As needful as air.
Like it, everywhere,
AS essential, potential, its blest operation
The innocent source OF health and hilarity;
The friend Of long life,
Tho foe Of all strife,
The pledge Of good fellowship, friendship.
and charity,
Is Water, pure N'ater-it makes the heart
gladaer
Than wine, the fierce baker,
The merciless mocker,
That bites like serpent, and stings like the
For devil-born revel, and hollow brief
laughter, "a
Have gnashings Of teeth and wailings here
after.
Abraham Coles. in National Advocate.
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IN HIS NAME.

Why do Christians so commonly ask,
"for Jesus saket" Where in His Word are
we taught to use this common formula?
Why not retain the phrase that Jesus Him.
self gave us? The devout soul loves the
language of the Lord, and denied the original
m9ra insists all the more strongly TPon the
!e shall ask in My name, that will do, that
the Father may BE- glorifed in the Son. II ye
snail ask anything in Ny name, l will do it."
John xiv, Is. A. 'Hitherto have We asked
nothing in 9Iy name," John xvi, s4.)
"Wha socvcr yc shall ask of the Father, He
will give to you in My name" John xvi,
2S) In that day ye shall ask in Ny name
rect choice of words with which to express
His meaning? Begin today TO ask "in His
name" and experience the smile Of blessing
which your careful love will quickly receive.
-[Horace Waters, in the Voice.
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SoME time since 1t was discovered

SoME time since 1t was discovered
that certain insurance companies hail
added sun stroke to tho causes .ot
death, list Of which is printed in very
small type in their rolicie', for which
they will not be responsible. Now
company has placed asphyxiation in
the same list. There is no reason for
the exception of either ailment from
the operation of the policies and it is
simply bit of sharp practice which
tde courts should rebuke at the first
opportunity.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
he CARETH.

he cARETH.
What can it mean? Is 1t aught to Him
That the nights are long and the days are
dim?
Can He be touched by the griefs bear,
Which sadden the heart aud whiten the
hair?
About His throne IRE eternal calms,
And strong, glad music of happy psalms,
And bliss, unrutfled by any strife
How can He care for my little life?
And yet want Him to care for me
While live il the world where the sorrows
be,
When the lights die down from the path I
take.
When strength is feeble and friends for.
sake,
When love and music that once did b'ess
Have left me to silence and loneliness,
And my life song changes to sobbing pray
ers,
Then my heart cries out for a God who
cares.
When shadows hang over the whole day
long.
And my spirit is bowed with shame and
wrong,
When 1 am not good, and the deeper shade
Of conscious sin makes my heart afraid,
And the busy world has too much to do
To stay in its courses to help me through
And long for Saviour-can 1t be
That the God OF the universe cares for me?
Oh, wonderful story OF deathless love!
Each child is dear to that Heart above:
He fights for me when cannot fight,
He comforts ME in the gloom Of night,
He lifts the burden, for He is strong,
He stills the sigh and awakes the song;
The SORROW that kows me down Hetilears
And loves and pardons because he cares
Let all who are sad take heart again,
We arc not alone in our hours of pain;
Our Father stoops from His throne above
To soothe and quiet US with his love;
He leaves US not when the storm is high,
And We have safety, for He is nigh;
Can 1t be trouble which He doth share?
Oh, rest in peace, for the Lord will care!
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MANY of the fools think they can
beat the lawyer in expounding the
law; one-half think they can beat the
doctor in healing the sick; two-thirds
of them think they can beat the minis
ter preaching the gospel; and all OF
them know they can beat the editor in
making q newspaper.
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THE catacombs of Rome contain the
remains of about 6,O0O,UOO human
beings, and those of Paris about
3,OO0,OOO. The latter were formerly
stone quarries. Many of the victims
of the revolution of 1924 are bmied
there.