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Decreasing Birth Rates in America.

Decreasing Birth Rates in America.
French economists are consoling
themselves for the gradual deporula-
ton of their country, pointing out that
many of the American states. inciud-
ing the whole of New England, arc still
worse off, says the st. Louis GlcDe-
Democrat. The birth rate in France
has fallen from 33 per eco at the be-
ginning Of the century to % per 1,1G0.
and is less than the death rate, so that.
if the present conditions continue, in
about 200 years the French race will
have become extinct. In many CT the
United States, however, matters are
even more serious. The birth rate in
Nevada is 1880 per 1,COO, so that, eYcn
if no more people should emiTratc from
that state, its population would die out
completely in less than 100 years.
Maine comes next with Il birth rate
Of 1890 per 1000, which gives its race
about a century longer to exist. New
Hampshire is third, with 1874 per 1000.
Vermont is fourth, with 1875, and
strange to say, California, which comes
next, has birth rate Of 1914 per
1000, or nearly IL per cent. less than
that of France.
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ARRESTED FOR COUNTERFEITING.
Peculiar Crimes Which Attack the Pub
lie Health and POcketboOk

Isaac Platt and Otto Doerlam are at
present held at bail at Chicago, ILL.,, in the
unusually high sum of SIC, 800, after stay
ing for some time in default of sureties,
on charge of counterfeiting Dr. Viii
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People The
sum in which the District Attorney de-
manded bail shows the Importance which
the tribunals attach to the offence OF
counterfeiting the medicine of the people.
The condemnation at Syracuse, N. Y, re-
Gently, of the counterfeiter DR. Marqui-
see, to a term in States Prison, is another
instance of the same view.
The courts in these cases held that a
medicine having the confidence of the
people to an extent which can tempt to
dishonest imitation has attained an i'm.
portance which renders the substitution
for it of unreliable and unauthorized COM
pounds an offence of very serious ma
ture, against which the people would not
have gotten into the way of relying upon
a definite medicine for the cure of their
ailments without good cause. Therefore,
counterfeiting such remedy is not an of
genuine goods alone, but against the pub
lie. 1t is an offence against the manufac-
turers because it robs them of the fruit of
their enterprise in making known the
merit of their product and their expendi-
lures in advertising them, for which large
sums are paid to the newspapers daily.
But it is an offence also against the people
~. q
dence of the public in genuine product
has been justly earned, it would be folly
advertising it. Hence the substitution of
counterfeits is an offence against the Com
monwealth and (as the courts have heidi
righteously punishable by imprisonment
and heavy fine.
1t was shown that it is the Importance
of a medicine that creates temptation to
this crime; no one counterfeits a poor
medicine. 1t is gratifying fact that
fraud, to the extent of straight counter
feiting, is very rare; the druggists of the
country are too honorable class of men
to involve themselves in such dubious
methods, and the people are right in pro
tecting themselves by obtaining their
medicines from trustworthy dealers, and
by taking pains to have the genuineness
of their purchase placed beyond doubt by
seeing the correct, advertised name, las
for instance, the full, unabbreviated title.
like DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People, engraved on the package they
buy. The public now-a-days refuses to
listen to the sort of talk occasionally of
fered to the unwary about something
else just as good,'' which always means
flake" medicine gotten up to deceive peo-
pie whom an INSCRIPTIONS dealer thinks
foolish enough to believe such pretence.
Fortunately, DIR. Marquisee was arrested
before he had sold a single box of his
counterfeit pills, and the Chicago gang
were caught after they had been at work
for four days, and all the spurious pills
were seized and withdrawn from the mar
bot
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SCHOLARS STUDY.

TIME.-About A. D. 81; near the end
of PauPs third missionary journey.
PLACE.-Ephesus, the capital of
the Roman province of Asia.
GOLDEN TEXT "Take heed,
and beaoare of couetousmess." - LUKE
-: Is.
UNIVERS ALIST CATE
CHISM.-XXX1V Who is working
with Christ? God is IN Christ, recon-
Cling the acorld unto hinaself.-2 Cor.
5: 10.
LESSON PREVIEW. = From
Ephesus, Paul sent his First Letter to
the church at Corintb; from this letter,
we recall. our last two lessons have been
taken. Paul had found Ephesus such
an important center of influence that he
had continued his ministry there three
years; the Gospel was thus established
in strong church in the capital of the
Province of Asia. Ephesus was famed
for it's Temple of Diana, in its day reck
oned one of the seven wonders of the
world. Near the end OF Paul's ministry
in Ephesus the strikingly dramatic
event occurred which is described in
our acknowledgment. = Light from
other Scriptures Paul's Report of his
work at Ephesus: Acts 20; 1886. Paul's
Sufferings at Ephesus; l Cor. 4: lib
and Cor. Is: 1892 written at Eph.
esus), and 2 Cor. l: $40.
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STATEMENT OF TERMS.

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INTRODUCTION.

The Love which so dwelt in Paul
that he was inspired to the utterance of
the Psalm of Love-" is itself the cause
or the occasion of the tumult described
in our present lesson. 1t is one of the
paradoxes of history. Paul was, beyond
most men. forgiving, forbearing, court
eous, humane; his message breathed
only good will to every living soul. Yet
it is Paul who stirs the city to wild con-
fusion; it is the Gospel Of peace that
drives multitude into temporary in
sanity.-Nevertheless the sword Of
truth is always the servant of real peace.
The truth abides after the commotion it
occasions passes away. The world must,
by agitation, be made pure before it can
be the scene of enduring peace.
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TEACHING POINTS.

INTRODUCTION One of the strikingly
dramatic scenes connected with the min
istry of Paul.
o. V. 21-2S, SILvERsMITHs EXCITED.
A demonstration against Pauls teaching
on the part of the idolaters, was inevi-
table Paul foresaw the crisis, and
therefore delayed his journey .-Deme-
trius' speech confession, first, that the
silversmiths' interest in Diana was sell
fish; second, that the Gospel had made as
tonishing progress in Ephesus and through
the province of Asia.-The temple of
Diana: it ranked with the pyramids of
Egypt, the lighthouse of Alexandria, the
walls and hanging gardens of Babylon,
the Olympian statue of Jupiter, the mau-
soleum of Artemesia, the colossus of
Rhodes, as one of the Seven Wonders of
the World. The crowd in the square
was frenzied by Demetrius' appeal to self
interest, patriotism and religion. ''Great
is Diana of the Ephesians. "
e. V. ia. The SCENE IN THE COL
ossEUM. The extent of this theatre. It's
construction and uses. The ease with
which it could be filed with people,
The victims dragged by the crowd to the
theatre.-Paul's desire to speak to the
$4,000 infatuated inmates of the theatre.
-Alexander's futile endeavor to plead
for the Jews.-The two hours cry of
the crowd, ''Great is Diana of the Ephe-
slams" a safety-valve, to prevent a riot
GUS explosion. sensible and polite
speech of the town clerk -The crisis
passed. Paul can now safely leave Ephe-
sus
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crest fires that only the federal govern

forest fires that only the federal govern
ment can stop. Travellers through the
west in summer are not likely to forget
the fre-work displayed along the vari.
GUS railway tracks. Thoreau, when con-
templating the destruction Of the for
est on the east side of the continent
said that soon the country would be SO
bald that every man would have to grow
whiskers to hide it's nakedness, but he
thanked God that at least the sky was
safe. Had he gone west he would
have found out that the sky was
not safe; for all through the summer
months, over most of the mountain
regions, the smoke of mill and forest
fires is so thick and black that no sun.
beam can pierce it. The whole sky,
with clouds. sun. moon, and stare, is
simply blotted out. There is no real sky
and no scenery. Not mountain is left
in the landscapes; at least, none is in
sight from the lowlands, and they all
might as we'll be on the moon, as far as
scenery is concerned.
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A PREACHERS REPORT

Interesting Statement by Elder Joel n.
Austin of Goshen, Ind.
81 was victim of catarrh and had
almost constant pain in my head. The
trouble was gradually working down on
my lungs. / was weak and irresolute.
My wife had the grip and Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla cured her. After this l had the same
disease and resorted to Hoods. In a
short time the aches and pains were re-
lieved and / also saw the medicine was
helping my catarrh. In six weeks ceased
to have any further trouble with it and
am now a well man. The pains and
boating / had in my limbs are gone and
am relieved of heart trouble. / am
thankful for medicine so intelligently
compounded and so admirably adapted to
the needs of the system" ELDER JOEL
Fl. AUSTIN, Goshen, Indiana.
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TEACHERS HELP.

Our Lesson Passage should be
construed in the light cast upon it by
Paul's epistles and by his subsequent
review of his ministry in Ephesus (Acts
20: 17-35). His three years stay in this
city was one of the intense periods of
his ministry. The enmity of the Jews
was bitter and unrelaxing. After they
had by discourtesy driven him from
rooms of the pagan school of Tyrannus.
But not there alone; the church met
privately and often in the houses of be-
LEVERS. Paul labored at his handicraft
night and day; for the support OF his
mission. His health suffered under the
unrelieved strain. He says he fought
with beasts at Ephesus Il Cor. 10: 32)
Whether this means that he was literally
cast to the wild beasts in the arena or
that he daily struggled with men as
heartless as wild animals, it surely sig
mites terrible battle for life. But the
victory he gained was according to its
price. A strong church was established
in Ephesus. one of the future metro
poles of Christianity,-the gospel thence
radiated into all the province of Asia
The seven churches of Asia which be-
came conspicuous during the apostle
Johns ministry, were probably founded
by Paul at this period.
1. The Silversmiths of Ephe-
sus Aroused to Zeal for Diana.
vs. 21-2s.
1t was Paul's desire, after he had been
three years in Ephesue, to go to Jeru-
salem, bearing from the gentle churches
of Macedonia and Greece contribution
that would be both relief to the dis
tressed church and a peace offering to
the Hebrews. By this journey he hoped
also to hasten the day when he could
raise his voice for the Gospel in imperial
Rome. But when signs appeared of a
coming storm in Ephesus, he felt that
his presence was needed in the church
OF Asia, He therefore sent his trusted
fellow workers, Timothy and Erastus,
to Macedonia, to carry greetings and
gather offerings for the Jerusalem
church. He awaited even s in Ephesus.
The crisis suddenly rose, and as
quickly passed. The manufacture Of
images of Diana was leading industry
OF Ephesus. This city, let US recall was
the scene of the national games of Asia,
as Corinth was OF the games of Greece.
Multitudes came each May, "the month
OF Diana" to attend the annual games.
1t was fashion for visitors to procure
images Of Diana to be carried away as
mementos and serve as household
shrines. The image makers of Ephesus
10 answering the popular superstition
had become opulent.
The leader of the image makers was
the master silversmitb, Demetrius. As
the time OF the annual games APP.
preached he summoned his fellow work
men to an indignation meeting in one of
the squares of the city. The speech be
made is preserved to US in these words:
Sirs. ye know that by this business we
have our wealth. And ye see and hear.
that not alone at Ephesue, but almost
throughout all Asia. this Paul hath per-
suaded and turned away much people
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FOR THE GA. R. ENoAMPMENr.

be sold via the Nickel Plate Road at rate
of $40. 80 for the round trip. Returning
either via rail or boat to Cleveland. Ar
rangements have been made for parties
wishing to remain in sleeping cars at Buff
falo, to have the cars tracked convenient
to street car lines to any part of the city.
Call on or address j. Y. Callahan, Genl
Agent, Ill Adams ST., Chicago ILL.,
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Our Forest Pines.

1t is not generally known, says
John Muir in the August Atlantic,
that. notwithstanding the immense
quantities of timber cut every year
for foreign and home markets and
mines, from five to ten times as much is
destroyed as is used. chiefly by running
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UNIvERsALIsT REGISTER 81.
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Mr.. Natanael Mortonson, a well known
citizen of Ishpheming, Mich, editor Su-
perior Poster, who, Tor long time, suf-
fered from the most eNcruciating Pains of
rheumatism, was cured, eight years ago,
by taking Ayers Sarsaparilla, having
never felt twinge of it since.
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In the popular
mind Electricity
is classed as a
modern in V n
ton. In reality
it is not an inven-
ton at all, but
part of nature
herself, and has
always existed.
The ancie n t S
knew something
of it, but how to
produce and con-
troll it, and apply
it to useful pur-
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YAZOO DELTA
OF MISSISSIPPI

lying along and owned by the Yazoo Il Missis-
slppi Railroad Company, and which that Com
pany offers at low prices and on long terms
Special inducements and facilities offered to &c
and examine these lands both in Southern I'LL.
nois and in the ''Yazoo Delta Miss. For fur.
Their description, map and any information, ad.
dress or call upon e. P. SKENE. Land Commia
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RAIL RAIL LANDS

For Sale at Low Prices and Cd
Easy Terms.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company offer,
for sale On easy terms and at low prices. itO.0W
acres)t hoice fruit. gardening. farm.aud gra,
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80 lKERN Illinois,.
They are also largely interested In, and call
special attention to the 100000 acres of land in
the famous
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ELECTRICITY.
Free Trial Lesson Given by Mail to
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PAUL OPPOSED AT EPHEsUs.


Lesson IX.-August 80. 1897.
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1.-THE Kingdom of the World is become she
Kingdom of Our Lord and of His Christ"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-05-26
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.


May IA bill appropriating a 00O. 600
10 rebuild and improve the public roads of
the state under the superyjsor eystem pro-
posed by the Hamilton road bill. was intro
duced in the house this evening by Chair
man Martin OF the committee on agricul-
ture No township shall receive a greater
sum than II raises by local taxation for road
purposes. The bill also appropriates 81 500
Tor the employment of a clerk to keep the
books and accounts and O., 900 for postage
and contingent expenses.
The state Is asked to pay sG5, 900 SO for the
expenses OF the Penrose committee in in
vestirating the alleged abuses In the
municipai government oil Philauelphia. Inc
Dill was presented IN the senate Tonight by
senator Grady, OF Philadelphia.
May l6-ihe House TINS morning, atter
two-hours debate, adopted the report OF its
committee on eiections, unseating hoht. IL:
hoberts as the member from the Third
PhiiadeIphin district, ana seating oscar 4.
saunders, the antl-comoine candidate at the
tnii election Inc vote was io3 10 %, Just
enough
NAV 1a-The house killed the Connell
hill providinp for Indemnity bopds TO sher-
iffs. A similar fate was suffered by the
Gould poor BILL which was called up by the
author and amended to apply to the entire
state. The objection to this bill comes from
the smaller counties, where the system OF
farming out the inmates OF asylums is In
vogue.
There was some debate over the Weller
labor bill. which came over from the senate
to the house for concurrence In amend
ments. Bliss, OF Delaware. wanted the act
amended, saying II was unconstitutional,
but the house voted down his proposition to
send the bill to committee and concurred In
the senate amendments, thus sending the
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CONGRESSIONAL.
Abstract Of the Important Measures In
Both Houses.

May lin the house Mr.. HIT Of Hin oils
asked for the Immediate consideration OF
bill to appropriate 900 for the relief of
destitute Americans in Cuba, but Mr.. Bailey,
OF Texas, said that he must object unless an
amendment embodying Senator Morgan's
resolution for recognition OF the insurgents
be added. Mr.. Dingley objected to the
amendment. whereupon Mr.. Bailey objected
to the bill IN the Cuban question was side
tracked.
An undertone OF Cuban comment pervaded
the senate when the session opened to-day.
The anticipation OF q Cuban message and
Cuban debate drew large crowds to the
galleries.
Following tho reading OF the message
Mr.. Davis, OF Minnesota, chairman OF the
committee on foreign relations, favorably
reported with amendments the resolution in
trOduced by Mr.. Gallinger, last Thursday
approprating $4,000 for the relief OF dest-
tuto citizens Of the United States In Cuba
The resolution was then put ON its passage
and without division 1t passed unanimously,
thers being no response to the calls for nays.
1t had taken exactly IL minutes for the read
ing of the message, the presentation of the
committee report and the brief speech and
the final passage OF the resolution.
May ls.-There was no abatement of in
terest In the Cuban question in the Senate
to-day. and the galleries were wel-fllled
when the session opened at noon, although
the Morgan resolution was not In order un-
til 2 o'clock.
When the business OF the morning hour
wns disposed OF the calendar was taken up,
and many OF the bills upon It were passed,
including several bridge bills.
May 19-Mr. Morgan's resolution, declar-
ing that n state OF war exists In Cuba, and
that the United States will preserve strict
neutrality, was tho subject OF n notable de-
bate in the Senate to-day. Mr.. Mason. Re-
publican, Illinois, started the discussion
with n speech In favor OF the resolution.
Senator Hoar criticised Mr.. Mason's
speech, and opposed the Morgan resolution.
He declared that all the talk about outrages
and infamies in Cuba was "brass band
talk" Senators Gauinger, Hale and Haw-
ley also aided In the discussion, after which
tho Senate adjourned with the resolution
still pending.
May 20.-The long and exciting debate on
the joint resolution recognizing the exist
ence OF state OF war In { uha aud declaring
that strict neutrality shall be maintained by
the United States passed tho Senate by the
decisive vote OF Al to IA at late hour this
this afternoon. The announcement OF the
voto was received with tumultuous ap-
plause. which drew from Senator Hawley an
emphatis protest against "mob demonstra-
ton" The resolution as passed is rs fol.
follows.
"Resolved, ETC., That condition OF pub
lie war exists between the government OF
Spain and the government proclaimed and
for some time maintained by force OF arms
by the people OF Cuba, and that the United
States OF America shall maintain a strict
neutrality between the contending parties,
according to each all the rights Of belliger-
ents In the ports and territory OF the United
States"