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the Secretary of States Duties.

The Secretary Of States duties are
more ceremonious than those of any
other Cabinet member. At the New
Year reception he presents the entire
Diplomatic Corps to the President. He
then returns to his own home and en-
tertains the corps-with its dukes,
marquises, counts, viscounts,. barons
and other nobles-at a magnificent
luncheon. With great ceremony he
will from time to time personally in
troduce to the President all new di-
plomats accredited to this country. He
reserves one forenoon in each week
for the reception at his Office of Min
listers and Charge d'Affaires. He also
attends to the correspondence between
the President and the emperors, kings,
sultans and other rulers of foreign
States. When a royal child is born
he frames letter of congratulation to
the parents. When q royal parsonage
dies it is he who dispatches this na-
tion's formal message of coincidence.
A clerk in the State Department copies
these polite missives upon large sheets
of gilt-edged paper, in a faultless cop
perplate hand. A messenger takes
them to the White House for the Presi-
dents signature. They are then re-
turned to the Secretary of State, who
seals them with the Great Seal Of the
United States.-Ladies' Home Journal.
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Envy.

Among the sins that very frequently a.
lure into the perilous paths prominently
stands envy. Out of selfish, unholy pride
grows resentment. which too. often bears
this poisonous fruit. Yet it seems to
change from fruit into cruel hend. How
it soured the life and marred the character
of Voltaire, who displayed it so offensive
" in his continued effort to detract from
the sublimity of Corneille and the charm
of Racine. The strength and ugliness OF
envy were manifest in severing the beautl'
full friendship once existing between those
two fathers OF Anglo.Saxon poetry, Chau-
Ger and Cover. Controlled by this de-
mon. it is said that Dryden could never
speak of Otway, his rival. with kindness;
and even the giant minded Leibnitz on all
occasions would refer, slightingly to
Locke's essay, and fiercely strove to over
throw Newton's system. What wonder;
then, that lesser minds should be assailed
BY it. Even Christians indulge it without
realizing what it is and how base it may
make them. Let US be large enough and
sufficiently Christ-lik to rejoice with
those more highly favored than ourselves.
There was not a particle of envy In our
Lord. If we would walk with Christ we
must give it no place within.
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The Social Rank of Cabinet OficerfL

The social rank of each Cabinet Of.
1icer is reckoned according to his
standing in the order Of succession to
the Presidency, which is arranged ac-
cording to the age of each executive
department. The State Department
having been the first executive branch
of the Government created, the Sec
retary of State is the official and social
head of the Cabinet and the first of
its members to succeed to the Presi-
dency, in the event of the death Of
both President and Vice-President. If
the President, Vice-President and Sec
retary Of State We're all to die before
their successors had been appointed
the Secretary of the Treasury would
become President, because his is the
second oldest Of the executive depart
ments. This right to succession ex-
tends in turn to the Secretary of War,
Attorney General, Postmaster-General,
Secretary Of the Navy, and lastly to
the Secretary of the Interior. This
gradation thus indicates the social
rank of each Cabinet officer in his own
circle.-Ladies' Home Journal.
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SONG FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

We tread a better earth to-day
Than that the fathers knew;
"A broader sky line rounds away
To realms of deeper blue.
More ample is the human right,
= More true the human ken;
The law of God has been light
To lead the lives OF men.
He led our generations on
/ In mist of smoldering fire;
\ To more than all the centuries gone
The marching years aspire,
Across the onward sweep of time
We strain our vision dim,
And all the ages roll and climb
To lose themselves in Him.
We gaze upon the aeons past
A blind and tumbling surge,
And slowly, from the weltering vast
Behold law emerge.
The water seemed to heave and sway
In chaos undenied,
Yet not foam fake drove astray,
For He was wind and tide.
D purpose of the stumbling years,
o wistful need and hope,
Whereby in all the woven spheres
The atoms yearn and grope;
Flow through the wandering will of man
\ tide of slow degree,
And merge our strivings in the plan
That draws the world to Thee.
Langbridge, in Chicago Stand
ard.
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.

Effects of Beer Drinking-It Kills Quicker
Than Amy Other Liquor-Hon the su-
perb Constitutions of German Young
Mon Succumb to It.
DR.. S. H. Burgen, practitioner OF thlr.
ty-fve years, twenty-eight in Toledo, says:
II think beer kills quicker than any other
liquor. My attention was first called to
its insidious effects when l began exam
lining for life insurance. I passed as unu-
sualIy good risks five GermansG7young
health, and to have superb constitutions.
In a few years I was amazed to see the
whole five drop off, one after another;
with what ought to have been milo and
easily durable diseases. On comparing my
experience with that of other physicians
I found they were all having similar luck
with confirmed beer drink kers, and my
practice since has heaped confirmation
upon confirmation.
1.-THE first organ to be attacked Is the
kidneys; the liver soon sympathlzes, and
then comes, most frequently, dropsy or
Bright's disease, both certain to end ia
tally. ANY physician who cares to take
the time will tell you that among tbe
dreadful results of beer drinking are lock-
Jaw and erysipelas, and that the beer
drinker seems incapable of recovering
from mild disorders and injuries not usu-
ally regarded of grave character. Pneu-
monia, pleurisy, fevers, etc., seem to nave
q first mortgage on him, which they Tore
close remorselessly at an early opportu-
nity; L., s-;,,.o. :, ,,rob ,vorse of
than the whisky drinker, who seems to
have more elasticity and reserve power.
He will even have delirium tremens, but
after the fit is gone you will sometimes
find good material to work upon Good
MANAGEMENT may bring him around: all
right. But when beer drlnker gets into
trouble it seems almost as If you have to
recreate the man before you can do any
thing for him.
"Beer drinkers are peculiarly liable to
die of pneumonia. Their vital power,
their power of resistance, their Wis medi-
catriz naturae,' is go lowered that they are
liable to drop off from any form of acute
disease, such as fevers, pneumonia, etc.
AS a rule, when beer drinker takes pneu-
monia he dies.
"Beer drinking produces rheumatism ,by
producing chronic congestion and ultl-
mately degeneration Of the liver, thus in
terfering with it's function by which the
food is elaborated and fitted for the sus-
tenance of the body, and the refuse mate
rials oxidized and made soluble for elm
ination by the kidneys, thus forcing the
retention in the body Of the excrementII'
tious and dead matter I have spoken OF.
The presence of uric acid and other lnsol-
uble effete matters in the blood and tissues
is one main cause of rheumatism.
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Safe at Home.

The world never need shed tear foT its
sainted dead. They are safe as the har'
vest is when the farmer has bound it into
sheaves and stored it, or as the roses are
when the gardener has. wrapped their
roots in straw and housed them from the
storm. They are safe as larks are that
fly singing from the green earth out OF
reach Of the huntsman's snare and the
aim of the cruel sportsman. They are
safe as warriors are who march be-
meath worn battle flags no more, but sit
down with conqueror to festivals OF song
and wine. They are safe as young lambs
are when shepherds fold them from, the
blast and carry them over rough places
in tender arms. Weep for the living all
YOU choose. yet. Your tears be unstayed
above the dying bed where your dariings
lie like wreaths of fading snow beneath
the glance of death; but if you believe IN
God. and hold any faith in heaven; shed
not your tears for the blessed and happy
dead. Christianity gives the lie to its be;
lief when it garbs itself in sables and
mourns without comfort for those who
have exchanged the. inn for the palace,
the wilderness for the land of peace and
plenty.
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The 1rastery of ones Self.

A man bought tract Of land IN b
mountain region. On it was wild stream
which rushed down in a fierce torrent,
through deep chasms and ,gorges,, carrying
destruction to the gulfs below. The owner
built fume in the torrent, and now 1t
flowed quietly down the s.opes and turned
great mills in the valley. Thus the wild
stream became source OF useful energy
and its power, no longer destructive. be-
came useful. That is what we should do
with bad temper-tame it, bring it under
discipline and compel it to use its energy
for GOOD and not for evil. The secret for
such change is in getting the mastery OF
ones self. We have high authority. for
saving that che that ruleth his spirit IS
better than he that taketh city. ."-Llon 8
Watchman.
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The Crusade in Brief.

It is estimated that the average German
consumes the equivalent OF five glasses OF
spirits day.
Seven hundred and fifty millions of dol
lars is yearly spent in Germany on intox-
icating liquors.
The St. Luke's Society, of Chicago, pro-
noses to establish an inebriates' home on
the farm where Abraham Lincoln was
born. fifty miles south of Louisville, Ky.
The farm has been donated to the So
ciety.
A French physician. DR.. Bourneville,
reports that among 2O72 boys and 4s2
gir;s suffering from idiocy, imbecility and
various paralyses, there were forty per
cent. in whose cases alcoholism in one OF
The parents or both was found.
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The Worda Of q Judge.

Recently at Newry, Ireland, the judge
in sentencing two men who had been
drinking together, and who were charged
with having stolen money, said: 1T was
terrible thing, at recurring sessions, to see
magistrates voting for the increase of
these plague spots, as if these places did
trstes m 1es' W. would accompany him all through.
and hear the cases, both on the criminal
and civil side OF the court. and they would
understand, as he now did, that nearly all
the crime. and five-sixths of the poverty
Of the country, was caused by the public
house. He thought that every man. who
voted for a public house under ordinary
circumstances was a criminal himself"
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again, stronger, freer. From distant
Buffalo Gap the breath Of the noun.
tains came to him; the grasses ano
wild flowers spurned beneath his ny
ing feet sent after him a sweet per,
fume. Wolves howlcd about him, Du'
held off. No terrors had they Tor h!hi
He was coming to the White River
country and the waiting mares OF Ills
breed. Not so many had been the
years of his captivity that he did moi
know lust where they would be linger'
ing in the shadows of the valley. Few
there were left uncaptured by the
white man. but these few, dauntless,
unconouered, still roamed where, as q
child, he had been part of their child
DAYS. Every glittering star told MIN
when it was midnight, and he poised
himself on the great roll of land above
the valley where the mares waited
He listened, but the grasses gave nc
warming of pursuit. He had out
stripped all men. He listened for q
sound from the valley, but there was
none. Then he called, the wild chal'
lence of the full-blooded range horse
to the female of his breed. The cry
went up and down on the night ar
It rang back from other rolls of land,
and it burst through the shadows OF
the valley and reused the mares. One
-two-three-they all called back. Be-
low him was the sound Of rising ami
mails, the patting Of hoofs on range
grass. He had found his own.
s.
He could not see them, so far be-
low were they, but they, looking up,
could see him silhouetted against the
sky. His name was blowing free; he
was q something carved out of the
night; he was flesh and fire and blood,
and he was free. Again he called, and
again he was answered, and this was
repeated several times. No need for
him to wait longer. He leaped from
his eminence, and he dashed down the
rough way to where he knew he would
be awaited. Needless of rock and
shale, needless of gashed waterways
now dry, he leaped on. spurning all
earth beneath his feet, coming with
the wind of the plain. A rock turned
beneath him; he was quick and did
not fall; shale slid with him, ne
bounded ahead. Then for one instant
there opened before him a horrible
sulch, unsoundable, unknown. 1t had
not been there when last he was In
this valley. The mares We're beyond
calling to him. Surrender? He drew
Off and went at it, rising in the air
for frightful span to cover, screaming
again his wild song Of freedom as he
leaped.
The pursuing ranchmen found him
in the gulch's bed the next day, back
broken, blood at his lips. dead. He
was free.-H. I. Cleveland, in the Chi
cago Record-Herald.
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To Raze Mile of Fence.

The United States Circuit Court Of Ap-
meals has denied the application of Jesse
d. Carr for an order restraining the United
States Marshal in Oregon from tearing
down a stone fence around what is known
as the Clear Lake Ranch, on the Oregon
and California boundary. The ranch com
prises $1,000 acres. and the. fence which
surrounds it is fortyfour miles in length;
The Interior Department. and the Unlted
States Circuit Court previously have ruled
that the land is part of the public domain,
and the Marshal will at once destroy the
fence
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"R,bl. Class For the Elite"

Well.known young women on the no: tn
side of Chicago are experiencing revival
Of religion, which has resulted in .the. es-
tablishment of a "Bib,e Class for the
Elite" with William R. Newell. assistant
superintendent OF the Moody Bible lnsti-.
tute, for teacher This his Gafs ha m meets fbs LIN
coin Cyciing Club. There were present at
the last session about fifty women, who
represented in the aggregate possibly SSo;-
OO6,OOO. Such smart turn-outs, such styllsn;
hats and rare feathers, such tailor'r,ade' made
suits and elegant gowns have not been
seen at Bible class before for years.
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Explosions in Tnirteen-Incn Guns.

An inquiry made by the Ordnance Bu-
reau of the Navy Department into the
causes of the premature explosions Of thir-
teen-inch shells in guns on the battleships
Kearsarge, Kentucky and Alabama, has
resulted in a discovery that the eXplos-
ives were detonated by gases quickly gen.
charges with the projectiles proper. These
gases reached the explosives in the projec-
tiles before the proiectiles left the guns
and ignited them. The gases escaped into
the projectiles through the screw threads
with which the fuses were fastened to the
projcctiles. The defect will be remedied
in all these shells by putting caps on the
fuses.
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rb. Drun1Sard Not the Worst Man.

A gentleman stepped into saloon and
saw filthy drunkard, once respectable
man, waiting for his liquor.
He thus accosted him: C, why do
you make yourself the vilest Of men,
"I amt the vilest of mem" said the
drunkard.
eyes, you are!" said the gentleman;
"See how you look! Drink that glass and
you will in a very short time be in the
gutter" ,
II deny your poz-z;-tion," stammered
the druniard. "Who is the viPcst, the
tempter or the tempted? Who-who was
the worst, Satan or Eve?"
"Weil well, behold the tempter!" said
the drunkard, pointing to the bar:
The. argument was irresistible, The
barkeeper few into a passion, and turned
the poor fellow out of his house without
his dram.-Christian Endeavor World.
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Drunkanness In England.

The Rev. J. @. A. Henry. Superinteac.
ent of the New York Anti-Saloon League,
has begun his crusade in England, at the
invitation of the Free Churches, holding
the first of his seventy-fvc meetings in
London. The Rev. Mr.. Henry thinks
there is more drunkenness in England
than in the United States, especially
among women. He points. out that one
third of the arrests for drunkenness IN
that country during the year 1900 were OF
women.
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Swedes TalIest in the World.

According to statistics just published ths
Swedes are the taliest people in the world.
The Norwcgians were little, taller I'M
til some ten years ago, but the Swedes
have outgrown them by the fraction OF
centimetre.
The Swedish conscripts, aged twenty
one, average a height of l7O.l centme-
tres, showing a steady increase since lS4l,
when their average stature was l6I.
This is quite an unparalleled develop
ment of the race, and is thought due III no
small measure to the diminution OF drunk
cnness in Sweden.
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Th. Foundations of God,

What are the foundations of God? We
behold them in His conception and ad-
justment of this physical world of wonder
ment and beauty, in the unique gltt to
man of the processes of thought, reason
and iudrment.-Rev. DR.. Charles F. Wee.
den, Congregationalist, Lynn, Mass.
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Christ nm Essential of Manhood.

The manhood which can save the indi-
vidual and society is a manhood with con,
science and heart as well as intellect, and
can receive the training it needs except
from a knowledge of Christ.-Rev. DR..
Thomas j. Conaty, Catholic, Washington.
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Need of Gods Consciousness.

This Is the truth in the old STORY OF the
burning bush, and this is the need or the
human heart, the consciousness OF Goa:-
Rev. T.. Walter Mason. Unitarian, fitts'
burg
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Observation-Disclosures
BT'be Horse That Runaway 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IA

Id A n t e l o p e
Ranch of North
eastern Nebraska
went out of eX-
istence with a
great many other
things. during the
season of the "big
drought" Every
cattle country. has
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Live in Christ's Light,

He who does not walk in Chrlsts hght
stumbles into darkness and doom.-Rev.
DR.. Landrum, Baptist, Atlanta.
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,r,s,,,n sc,ence Spreads in England.

Lunrrst,an science Spreads in England.
The cult of the Christian Scientists ls
spreading so rapidly in the eastern cou1-
ties of Ena,and that the Dean of NorwlSh
has found it necessary to announce puo-
liclv that he intends soon to address MN
self in a controversial spirit to the whole
subject. ;
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had historic drought. Local events are
marked from thatperiod, and is said in
the South, when one is reminiscent, ''be-
fore the war;" so they say in Nebraska,
-'before the dry SPELL" But when the
Antelope was in its prime there was
kept in one Of the corrals q black
horse that was never used FOR any but
special service. If child was sick
at the ranch house and needed physi-
clan, out came the black, and furious
ly he covered the distance as no other
horse on the range could. When the
Sioux rose in the west Of the State
1t was the black that carried the warn
ing through Keyapaha and along the
Niobrara, where the sparsely settled
villages were. He even in a day at
that time journeyed 120 miles and
flung his proud head high in the air
,whinnying as if he could joyously
cover that distance over again without
rest. OF course, he was range horse;
no thoroughbreds blood in him, Off
spring. from no mother coddled under
the trainers watchful eye, but child Of
Sthe range mare and stallion, facing
blasts Of ice and sand, fighting for
food while the blizzard ragged above,
swimmer of swollen streams, COM
panion of the coyote, the rabbit and
the antelope, nature-born and nature
bred.
E,
The black lived long and well at the
Antelope Ranch after he was tanned
somewhat, but one day he broke the
! bounds of his corral by some chance,
and. standing where the dip Of the
plain land came up to the bars Of his
late prison, he gave triumphant
scream and plunged into the wilder
ness before him. The ranchnen heard
his cry, they came running, come just
in time to see him arch himself on a
distant elevation and scream again.
He, was free. Once long before this
time he had been free. That was
when he grazed with his mother, far
out On the Elkhorn, when no strap or
halter lay upon them. and only the
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ANY measures, State or individual,
tending to limit the ravages of alcoholism
will be our most precious auxiliaries in
the crusade against tuberculosis, but the
here. Still, should like to draw attention
to a mistake made too easily in the differ
ent countries by ministers who have: the
charge of the financial department of the
State. They like to calculate the sum the
State gets from the duty on alcohol, put
they should deduct from it the cost to the
community of the family of the ruined
drunkard, his degenerate, intirm, scrotu-
lous and epileptic children, who must have
shelter.
"This invasion of alcoholism ought to be
regarded by every one as public danger,
and this principle, the truth Of which is
incontestable should be inculcated into
the masses, that the future of the world
will be in the hands CT the temperate"
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Disaster Caused by Alcohol.

alcoholism" said the professor, "i>
the most potent factor in propagatlng tu-
berculoss. The strongest man, who has
once taken to drink, is powerless against
comparisons between the laws in,force in
different countries, those which are pro-
posed, private efforts, associated efforts
and temperance societies. But ! can. say
that universal cry Of despair rises from
the whole universe at the sight of the dis
asters caused by alcoholism. I Will quote
but two sets of statistics, but they speak
for themselves. Tatham's show that the
mean mortality being represented by lOo,
thot oouoed hv Tuberculosis is in:
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. The pursuing ranchmen found him
in the gulch's bed the next day, back
broken, blood at his lips. dead. He
was free.-H. I. Cleveland, in the Chi
capo Record II erald.