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Tho Crukude in fsries,

Chicago has 60) churches and 6O0O sa-
looms.
What soberness concsals drunkenness
reveals.
Nothing short OF total abstinence can
save tho n2ton.
Drink reyenus is we: with tears and
stained with drink.
When liquor dealers are busy, the devi!
Is glad.
The most prolific source OF strife is the
wine 2luss.
Maay n man withhold. ids from hs
iarni.y when hc can stand drinks for $
friend.
The drink devil is still potent factor in
politics.
1t isa poor race tina: starts from. the sa-
loon.
II not living for the right, we have no
right to live.
1t is much easier to "rectify" whisky
than 1t Is to rectry the evil it ca1ses.
The saloons and the drink traaiH will
soon 90 when Christmas are in earnes:.
The mistake Of the State is locking up
the drinksr instead OF the drink.
One of the most sweeping temperance
campaigns which the North OF England
mas ever witnessed, Is now on. Members
OF Parliament, Lord Mayors, members OF
the nobility and prominent ministers anI
laymen are speaking daily.
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Qualities for Successful Service.

In order to be successful in spiritual SER
vice the same qualities in general are re-
quired which contribute to fruitful effort
anywhere else. There must be sincerity OF
conviction. He who doubts nev,r can
illustrate or proclaim his belief CON-
yincingly. There must be sturdiness OF
faith, or opposition in argument and
conduct, which is sure to be encoun-
tered. will dishearten and check. If not
actually overcome it. There must be energy,
the Jealous activity OF effort which knows
no possibility of cessation but accepts its
obligation to work steadily, even If silently
and unobtrusively, toward its desired end.
There must be tacttulness, without which
energy blunders and repels. There must be
OF adapting ones self TO peculiar condi-
tions 80 as to avoid offense.
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"The First Person Plural"

Many OF the men and women whom the
preacher meets today are or have been
doubters. All are sinners. He must speak
out OF his own heart to theirs. His word
must have the comfort which can only come
from one who has been comforted, the peace
which can only be declared by one has
sought aud found 1t in the experience OF re-
conciliaton with God, the sympathetic
power which can, only flow from one who
knows both the burden OF iniquity and the
bessedness OF the forgiveness through
Christ. The gospel for world Of sin cannot
be preached by any except those who need 1t
for themselves. An angel could not deliver
it Alright. Its language Is always in the first
person plural, drawing the speaker and the
hearers into brotherho Cd. of penitence and
forgiveness. "God commanded his love to-
ward us, in that, while We were yet sinners,
Christ died for u.s." Christ Himself did not
come to preach this gospel. He came to
live it. 1t was when the Apostles Pet.r and
Paul and John had seen Him delivered for
their offences and raised again for their
justification that they began to understand
and preach this gospel for world OF sin.
Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. D., In The
Gospel for World OF SIM"
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Character According to Copy.


"The Imitation OF Christ" is an inspiring
and much-misunderstood term. Jesus is
the great ideal for each Christian and we
are bidden to follow the Master. Bit we are
prone to fall into u mechanical methed
rather than to apprehend a vital process
when we seek to initiate the Christ in
His ideal character and work. To acquire
the character OF Christ is not to slavlshly
copy the external quality Of life witch
the Master displayed. And yet the question
just now asked so generally, What would
Jesus do?' very often receives its answer in
the terms OF the copy-book rather than In
terms Of life. This is an important distinc-
tion to be made by those who are sseking
80 earnestly to follow "in His steps." We
need to ask not only, "What would Jesus
do were He in ny place?" but we
must seek also to know why Jesus
would have done as We decide that He
would have done. That is, the supreme
thing Is not an imitation Of externals, but
such vital union in spirit between each
soul and the risen Saviour that we shall do
what Jesus would lave done because we
possess common life with Him. Character
according to vital union. which is tie way
of Paul means that the trait Is the necessary
manifestation Of the life within; hence 1t Is
the only true way to follow Christ. We
must beware lest our high enterprise be un-
derstood to consist In mechanical imitation
of,rather than vital union with, The Master
whom we seek to follow.
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GODS MESSAGE TO MAN.
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS.

The Incompatible Christ-Character Ac
cordinS to Copy-Christ's Great Undef
lying Truths-"The First Person PlS
ral"-Oualities for Successful Service
The whole creation can afford
But some faint shadows OF my Lord;
Nature to make His beauties known
Must mingle colors not her own.
Is he rose2 Not Sharon yields
Such fragrancy in all her fields:
Or II the lily He assume
The valleys bless the rich perfume.
Is He vine? His heavenly root
Supplies the boughs with life and fruit;
o, let lasting union join
My soul to Christ, the living vine.
Is He a fire? He'll purge my dross;
But the true gold sustains no loss;
Like reflner shall He sit
And tread the refuse with His feet.
Is He a rock2 How firm He proves!
The Rock OF Ages never moves;
Yet the sweet streams that from him How
Attend us all the desert through.
Is He sun? His beams are grace,
His course is Joy and righteousness;
Nations rejoice when He appears
To chase the clouds and dry their tears.
Nor earth, nor seas, nor sun, nor stars,
Nor heaven His full resemblance bears;
His beauties we can never trace,
Till we behold Him face to face
Isaac Watts.
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The Umbrellas Story.

The umbrella is OF every ancient
origin. It is found in designs on
Greek and Etruscan vases, and Il
traced back to ancient Egypt, the
mother of arts. Its first use was un'
doubtedly to protectfrom the burning
rays of the tropical sun; its Latin de-
rivation is from umbra, shade. The
English got the umbrella from France.
and the first man who carried this
rain protection in England was Jot
seph Hanway, who began the practice
when young man, and continued II
until his death, in 1874. HanwaJ
was famous in his day as q philan'
thropist, but he is remembered now
quite as much for his persistence i9
carrying an umbrella, and beating
down the prejudice against the use Of
il, as for any of his purely ,bsneacent
deeds. When Hanway died all the
. ,ople in England carried umbrellas,
ai.d they have continued to do SO evel
since. Indeed, nowadays England
w,uld not seem England without tho
ever-present umbrella.
Though the umbrella came from the
East, reaching first Italy, then Spain
and France, and afterward England
and Germany, the pendulum now ID
swinging back again, and the last
commercial statistics show that tkS
city of Paris is exporting 600, 900 um-
,brellas annually to Turkey, while in
England in one year s19, 900 umbrel'
las were manufactured for shipment
to Burmah.- Home Com
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INVENTED A NEW AIRSHi7.
One Man Claims to Have Solved the
problem OF Aerial Navigation.

One Man Claims to Have Solved tho
problem OF Aerial Navigation.
Arcldas Farmer, OF Evansville, Ind,
claims to havesolved the problem OF aerial
navigation. He has been known for sew
eral years as an experimenter In alrship
Invention. His airship is navlgable bal.
loon. The balloon Is cigar shaped and
about thirty feet long. The bas kst, which
bontains the propeller and steering power,
ls made Of steel tubing and welg as seven
ty-tve pounds. 1t Is he1agonal III shape,
five feet across, and the basket Is OF stout
rope netting. The propelling, apparatus
consists oftwo aluminium propellers, work-
Ing at the ends OF hollow shafts at the
side OF the machine. The propellers are
ten feet apart, and in front OF the seat
where the man who produces the power is
beated, In double wheel. The man can
cbange tho position of the propellers.
When both are iE front of the shaft and
power is applied the atrshtp is driven Tor
ward. When reversed and thrown Dack OF
the shaft, 1t goes back. When the propel-
lers are placed on top and reyolved tho
machine rises. and when placed under
meath It sinks. Each propeller IL indepen-
aent OF the other In Its positions. by
placing one In front and one behind, the
machine can be turned around. ,
The airshtp hus had several tests. Ine
inventor makes no extravagant claims Tor
the ship. He does not know how lost No
san drive 1t In q calm or how much mead
way he can make In strong WIND. All he
Bays Is that the machine will move IN the
direction he expects.
When ho give the first test at Evans.
vile the airship made several circuits OF
the baseball park, where the test was
made.
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CURES AT A CAMP MEETING.
Alleged Miraculous Healing at "Holi-
ness Society" Gathering.

Incidents never before witnessed In the
northern section OF West Virginia at re-
ligious assemblage attracted hundreds OF
persons to the "holiness" camp meeting,
which was just in session at Moundsville.
Twenty.six persons who said they had suf-
fered from bodily Ills for many years pre-.
sented themselves before Elder Schell and
his associates to be healed.
Members OF the sect calling itself tho
Holiness Society" gathered from all parts
OF the country, and with them were many
invalids. At the Sunday afternoon session
Elder Schell, who came from England to
preside at the meetings, preached from
one o'clock till four, and at the conclusion
OF his remarks the patients were presented
for the healing ceremonies. One woman,
Mrs. w. Il. Dlaney, OF Indiana, was taken
to the nu ditorium In carriage. Later
she was seen running about the grounds
and shouting and telling her friends OF her
alleged recovery. She had thrown away
her crutches, which, she said, she had
carried for many years.
An old MAJ from the southern part OF
the State said be had been cured OF neu-
rulgic trouble with which he had suffered
for many months. He, too, went shouting
through the crowded grounds. The meet.
ings and strange ceremonies attracted
great crowds to the camp grounds, and the
recoverles are youched for by persons not
members OF the sect, but who watched the
meetings closely.
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Fifty Years in q Workhouse.

Sarah Rebecca Warwick recently
died in the workhouse of Marylebona
parish, London, at the age OF ninety
nine years, having spent more than
fifty years as an inmate of that instis
tuition. Her father was trunkmaker,
and she never was married. When he
died he left her little money and she
lived upon it in quiet way for sew.
eral years until by bad investment
she became destitute. She applied
for admission to the wofkhouse in 1849
and had been there continuously eve,
since. Such thing could not happen
in America.
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Tho Purist.
cit looks like rain"
"I beg your pardon"
HT say IL looks like rain.

s'It looks like rain" =
'rI beg your pardon"
''I say it looks like rain"
"What does?" -"
'"The-the weather.
'The weather, my dear sir, is con.
dition. Rain is water in the act OF
falling from the clouds. It is impos.
sible that they should look alike"
"What I meant was that the sky
looked. like rain"
Equally impossible. The sky 10
the blue vault above us-the SEEM
ing arch or dome that we mistakenly
call the heavens. It does not resemble
falling water in the least.
"Well, then, if you are so thunder
ingly particular, it looks as if it would
rain"
sAs if what would rain?"
s'The weather, of course"
s'The weather, as before stated, be-
ing condition, cannot rain"
"The clouds then, blame you"
"Ah, here it comes! And I have
taken 80 much time in talking to you
that I shall get wet to the skin before
I can reach yonder street car. Good
day."
calling after him)-I may not
know as much about it as you do, but
I've got sense enough to come in out
of it, and you haven't.-Chicsgo III
hune
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AGAINST THE EATING HABIT.
Mr. Rathbun Starved Twenty-Etght Days
and Improved His Health.

W. tS0L0Dun St8IV6u OeJS
and Improved His Health.
While others make war against thai
drink habit, the tobacco habit and thei
opium habit, Milton Rathbun, who
does business in New York City and
lives at Mount Vernon, appears as the
foe of the eating habit. He is con-
yinced that the human stomach is the;
source of most human ills, and should.
therefore, be boycotted.
He has recently completed vindi-
,ation Of his theory and an illustra-
tion of his method by fasting twenty
eight days. In that time he subsisted
on Croton water and his own previ-
ously accumulated resources of nutri-
ment, with little apollinaris on the
side when he felt that he needed q
stimulant.
Mr.. Rathbun is fifty-three years old
and an amateur athlete. he was
much annoyed several years ago to
find that he was taking on flesh fast.
He tried a series of experiments and
found that by vigorous exercise he
could reduce his weight with rapidity,
but that when he tasted the reduction
was much hastened.
As soon as he resumed eating and
returned to his normal allowance OF
exercise, however, the fattening pro-
cess would r.sume. Mr.. Rathbun at
last weighed 210 pounds. For the
first time in his life he found himself
awkward and short of breath, and he
began to have serious thoughts Of
apoplexy.
On the night of April % he dei
clared the boycott against his over1
jealous stomach. He then ate his
usual evening meal and bade farewell
to food. On the Oath hig stomach
clamored loudly and threatened serii
GUS trouble. Mr.. Rathbun gave il
no attention. On the next day tho
stomach subsidized aud accepted the
situation. Mr.. Rathbun hungered mo-
more. His friends demonstrated with
him. They.whispered among them7
selves that he was going about With
nothing in his stomach and his head
full of wheels, but Mr.. Rathbun per-
sisted. He drank water copiously
during the day and made hearty.
meal Of half a pint of apollinaris at
night, and went right on with his
business. ID
Mr.. Rathbun heightened his work.
ing time two hours day, and vas
sharper and more energetic than ever
before. In the evenings he would
weigh himself, note decrease q
two, three or four pounds for the dayl
and 90 home in high spirits. BE
counted his losses asshis gains. e
At the end of twenty-eig days Mr.
Rathbun weighed 1853 pounds, hayin&
lost-or, according to his viewt
gained-forty-two pounds. Then hug
stomach woke up and began to inquire
if the trouble could not be amicablJ
arranged and the boycott declared of
Mr.. Rathbun had promised his friendi
and doctors that he would eat again
when he felt hungry, and on May q
began to eat cautiously. Now he 4
eating as he formerly did, and says ht
never felt better in his life than he
did while he was starving. New
York Times.
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A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.

The Drink For You and Me-A Thrilling
l;er. +. l.. Power-Sinile Suggested
by tho Battle of Maui;a Bay.
Did you ever take rambn
Amid flower and bush, and brambic,
On a sunny summer morning,
And view the rich adjoining
OF the fields?
You remember the sweet sounds
Through the wood and meadow grounds,
From the throat OF pretty bird,
Or tho busy hoe. you heard
In tho fields.
Gut the sweetest OF them all
Was the tiny waterfall
Ia the ripplinS lIt.lo brook,
Coursing through the shady nook,
In the fields.
How you loved it's gentle voice!
Aud it made your heart rejoice
As it spoke OF fountains bright,
SO beauteous to the sight,
1n the fields.
Yes, from water springs. You see,
SO sparkling, pure and free,
Game the music of the brook
RippliuS through the shady nook
In the llelds.
In these fountains sparkling bright
Yon and have both 4 right;
And tho drink for you and me
Is pure water, flowing FREQ
In the fields.
Youths Tumpernpce Banner,
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Massacre by Filtpinos.

Captain Johnson Spicer, Of the British
ship George T. Hay, which arrived at New
York few days ago from Manila, has re-
ceived letter from his brother, Captain
George Spicer, OF the British ship Glooscap,
saying that all the adult male Spanish
residents at Balabac, the extreme south
west island OF the Philippines. had been
massacred by the natives. He said that
after killing all the Spanish men the ma
tiyes had taken the women for themselves
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Proinfnent People.

General Low Wallace says that the work
in merely assisting at the dramatization
OF Ben Hur" Is as hard as was the writing
of that book.
Mrs. Hetty Green has won her suit for
480 acres OF valuable land In the city OF
Chicago, aud has decided to subdivde 1t
into city lots.
In the House OF Commons at London a
few days ago Lord Charles Beresiord de-
livered sharp criticism OF the Govern
ment's policy Of "drfting In China"
1t is reported that Admiral Dewey will
decline the home for which fund Is being
raised, and will ask that the money be
applied to the maintenance Of sailors re.
fuue -.
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ORDERS FOR DEWEY'5 SON.
He HIS Dome More business Than Al
His Fcllow-Trayelers Together.

Admiral Dewey is not tho only member
OF his family who has distinguished him.
self this year. His son, George G. Dewey
who Is q traveller for firm in New York
City, is said to have made q record this
year In selling goods for his employers.
Ever since Muy l, 1893, the young man
haG but to mention his name In order to
secure q sale for whatever he carried. So
far this year he hns obtained more orders
for his house than all his fellow-travelers
put together. The merchants seem to vie
With each other IN giving him orders.
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White Girl WEEDS AN Indian,

Chester P. Cornelius, an Indian OF the
Oneida Reservation, In Oklahoma, and Miss
l.. Gertrude Smith, IN accomplished white
girl, OF Darlington, were married few
days ago Mt the Mission Church. Cornelius
is a full-bloodad Oneldu indian. He Is the
son OF Adam P. Cornelius, one OF the best
educated and cultivated mon OF the reser.
walton. Chester Cornelius holds good
position In the Indian service In Oklnhnma.
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Selhshness a Spiritual Dropsy.

A man whose eyes and whose thoughts
are centered on self, comes to have for the
most part, a strangely exaggerated notion
OF the goodness and worthiness OF his me.
1t is like sort OF spiritual dropsy thnt
swel5 the soul up to twice its natural size,
and which looks, perhaps. on the surface as
an increase OF health and strength, but Is in
reality only a symptom OF a sore disease.
Such one Is suffering from what the French
call La maladie du moi, and is one Of the
most fatal maladies there is.-Hannah Whit
all Smith.
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Bank Cashier Captured.

Harry Hough, who lately absconded
from Dover, N. a., after having robbed
the Cocheco National Bank OF Dover, OF
which he was the assistant cashier, and
the Cocheco Savings Bank. OF which he
was the treasurer. was taken to Ports.
mouth, N. H., having been arrested In
Boston. In default OF bail he was remanded
to the Portsmouth Jail.
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Porto Ricans Mako o Protest.

The Commission ers from Porto Rico to
the United States who are in New York
CITY have issued formal protest against
the treatment Of their country and the
people by this Government: They say
more obnoxious than under Spanish rule;
that they are treated as interiors and de-
pendent people, and that the liberty that
was guaranteed to them Is O deluston.
They say they do not ask favors, but de-
mand justice.
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Chicago Alder,nunic Philosophy

Said the Hon. John Coughlin on one oil
tho very hot afternoons OF last week:
"When high-stepping girl that ought to
be wearing L check-reln and Mexican
Bit gets so she thinks she can drink booze
with tue fellow that's keeping her COM
pany she needs her mother, IL spnnkiDS
md llfe-preserver The first glass OF
wine for that kind OF Il g'rl. whether she's
ter. is right at the top OF Il tobogsan-sliie
that has he'll at the bottom. ."--ChicaSo
Tim ps. HeraIl
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When you come down from the submits
you do not como away from God. There is
no task in life in which you do not need
Him. The workbench needs His light as
truly rs the cloister. Phillips Brooks.
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A Successful Submarine Boct

A successful trial was made at Cherbourg,
France, OF q new submarine boat, the IL
yentlon OF Captain D Del Passo, which Is ex.
pected to take the place Of the ordinary
diving methods. The beat was sunk 16o
feet and filled all Of the requirements Of its
design.
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EnrlIsn rraIse OF West Point.

"West Point Is the best military estab-
llshment In the world" said Major- General
Maurice, Com mander OF the Woolwlch Dis
trlct, few days ago at tho United serylap
Institution In LouSun-
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We Must Crush the Saloon.

(FoI REcITATION.)
The following, taken from Il report Of n
thrilling speech de ive.ed by Gev. T. D.
Power, OF Washington, d. G., before thu
convention OF Christian EnIenvors at Nash
lille, will make nu excellent defamation:
There Is an awful leprosy upon us. There
8 Il tyranny OF one worse than tho Turk. a
slavery u huudred-fold more savage than
that which bound the negro, fastened upon
our body polite. We grant the devil for a
consideration absolute freedom to produce
misery and prohicaey, cruelty and wicked
ness disgrace and social emoraliZation;
TO transform creatures OF heaven into the
felon, the har!ot, tue pauper, and the mad
man. We have permitted an organized sa-
!anic deSpotiSm TO be reared in our midst,
which has bouEdless resources, moves for
ward with gigantic str des, crushes mill.
.onS OF victims, infianes society with all
he passions Of the pit. 1t is the school Of
anarchy, the breediug-Ground OF criminals,
:he nursery Of woe, the sworn foe OF the
church. Economically, politically, re-
Igiously, this Is the problem.
10 meet 1t, the conscience OF the world
must be awakened. Moth pS will do but
he total extinction OF the saloon. We
must smash the enumy.
You remember the battle OF Manila Bay.
It wns In the black OF night when Grdley
of the flagship Olympia siguaed to the Ad-
miral, "We are approaching the entrance"
"Stean ahead" came the Admiral's an
;wer.
Then the fash from the heights and the
Doom OF a great gun. Again the signal,
The batteries OF Cavite have opened fire."
steam ahead" was the Admira!'s or
Ter.
On the squadron went. under batteries,
over mines, into the heart OF the bay; and,
ls the dawn broke, there stood the Ameri-
:an feet in battle array, flying the Stars
and Stripes, facing the frownlng forts and
warships. the bands playing the "Star-
ipanSlel Banner" Then came the con-
aict and victory.
So we must crush the saloon. smo her its
guns. puiverize il. This is not the DEVILS
world. and he must know it. The haad
pierced on Calvary is on the helm OF the
Universe"