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Railway Building in 1901.

In forty-three States and Territories
there will be built new railways and
railway extensions this year. Con-
tracts already made show that about
$500 miles will be constructed, or
enough to more than reach through
the earth. This means about 600
miles more than was built last year.
The least building, which will be
almost none, is in Maine. New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts. Rhode Island
and Connecticut, with Nevada, in the
West, for company. while most Of the
construction will be in the South and
Middle West. A remarkable feature
of this new building is the great mum.
ber Of lines with little mileage, the
average length being only about forty
miles.
In work now under way Texas leads
with 1853 miles on thirteen lines; then
comes Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory, with G12 miles on nine lines;
Georgia, 600 miles on nine lines; Penn.
sylvania, 300 miles on seventeen lines
New Mexico, 230 miles on two lines;
Illinois, 224 miles on four lines; Ar.
kansas. 1913 miles on nine lines; Louis
lana, IT'S miles on four lines; Min
nesota, 1G5 miles on five lines, and
Washington, 165 miles on five lines.
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Some Points About walking.

The best exercise in the world is
walking, and this is the most suitable
season Of the year for taking it.
A person who knows how to walk in
telligently can get along without a
gymnasium. No other form Of exer-
else brings so many muscles into play
and develops them so normally.
The most popular games are those
in which walking forms prominent
part. Golf. croQuet, and in a sense
cricket. and even bicycling, merely
give an excuse for walking one way
or another.
Every one should know how to walk
properly. 1t is because Of careless
ness that so many walk badly. The
body should he carried erect, the chest
we'll out, the head back. while the arms
should swing freely ut the sides.
The pace should be regulated to ones
strength. Every one should walk fast
enough and far enough to get the boc..'
in a comfortable glow.
70 get the best results from walk
ing one should give his undivided at
tention to it. In other words, he
should walk for the pleasure Of it. and
not carry worries with him. Exercise
walking is injurious. Never walk
just after q heavy meal or after vio-
lent exercise. And after walk it is
we'll to rest for ten or fifteen minutes
before taking up severe mental work.
London Express.
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Kind Of Religion We Want.

We want religion that softens the step
and turns the voice to melody and fills
the eye with sunshine and checks the i'm.
patient exclamation and harsh rebuke; a
religion that is polite, deferential to su-
periors, considerate to friends; religion
that goes into the family and keeps the
husband from being cross when the din
ner is late and keeps the wife from fret.
ting when the, husband tracks the newly
washed floor with his boots and makes
the husband mindful of the scraper and
ioormat; keeps the mother patient when
the baby is cross and amuses the children
as well as instructs them; cares for the
servants besides paying them promptly;
projects the honeymoon into the happy
harvestmoon and makes the happy home
like the eastern fig tree, bearing on its
bosom at once the tender blossom and the
glory of the ripening fruit. We want a
religion that shall interpose between the
ruts and gullies and rocks Of the highway
and the sensitive souls that are travelling
over them.-Helpful Thoughts.
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The Crusade In Brief.

The demand for temperate men and abb
sta!ners is more imperative every year.
At Cincinnati the Catholic knights Of
Ohio almost unanimously rejected propo-
sition to amend their bylaws so as to ad-
NIT to membership sa!ooakeepers.
A much more stringent control over
pubiicans is needed, and there should be
decisive penalties bo~i for druEkardS and
for those who tempt them to this sin.
Eeer guzz.cd dor':, as it il b. many
workingmen. is nothing better than brown
rur. Dull, droning blockheads sit on the
a,e-bcnch ~! wash out what little sense
they cve- hud..-C. Fl. Spurgeon.
Beer drinking in this country produces
the very Lowest forms of incbriety, closely
allied to criminal insanity. The most dan
gerous class Of tramps and ruffians in our
large cities are beer driukcrs.-Scientiic
American.
The Mayor of Madrid. Spain, has or
dcred as Il punishment that all inebriates
arrested for drunkenness on the second Of
fence shall have their hair and boards cut
off once every four weeks as a mark Of
disgrace and punishment for the offence.
1t is announced that the Southern Pa.
cifc Company has abolished the sale of
liquors on all ferryDoats and other vessels
under it's control. This order involves a
loss Of $5OOO0, but it is expected to pre-.
vent accidents which may involve sti1
rreater losses.
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The PHYSICIANS Orders.

Sir James Paget, the great physi-
clan, who died not long ago, used to
cite case Of his us an illustration Of
how important it is to follow the ply
sician's instructions in even the mi
nutest details. He had performed
dangerous operation on a patient, and
had given strict orders that he was
not to be disturbed in even the slight
est particular, as his recovery would
depend on absolute rest of body. A
nurse. few hours later, disregarding
this order. gave the patient cracker
for which he had asked. The patient
ate it. and in doing so scattered a few
crumbs in the bed. One of these got
under his back and tickled him, and
he moved his body to escape it. But
the movement made one of the liga-
lures slip. and the patient died in con-
sequence. Sir James said that the
little crumb killed the man.
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GODS MESSAGE TO MAN
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM The
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS. .

Out Of tho Depths-The Minor Virtue" =
CheerfuIness, Gentleness, Considers
tlon and Compassion Only Won "
Fnith and Effort.
Out of the depths have I cried to Thee.
o Thou who nearest prayer,
Sovereign of time and eternity,
Making mankind Thy care;
Set me on high from the swelling flood
Billows that DER me roll,
Thou who withheld not Thy precious
blood,
The winds and waves control.
Out Of the depths have I cried to Thee,
Hear my petition, Lord,
Give me a faith that asks not to see,
Trusting alone Thy word;
Saviour Of sinners, know Ihou art,
Lord, I of them am chief.
Sanctify, strengthen my fainting heart,
Help Thou mine unbelief.
Out of the depths have cried to Thee,
Father, for peace and rest;
Eye of eternal love, look on me,
Answer my spirits quest;
Blessed Redeemer, who bled and died,
Bringing abundant grace,
NV longing soul shall be satisfied,
When 1 behold Thy face.
Miss Anne H. Woodruff, in New York
Observer.
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for an instant to fill bucket with
water from the tank on the tender
He plunged his head and arms IN II
and splashed the rest over hs clothes.
Dan turned to him for the last time.
at isn't far now" he painted.
"Just around the next curve ana Wen
see the town, If it's still there. off in
the valley"
The old convict did not catch more
than the half of what he said, but he
smiled and nodded his head.
As they swung around the curve a
dead sycamore, which the fire had
cirdled at the base, crashed across the
track. The engine plunged into Its
top. rolled i. over once and tossed it
aside. There was the smashing or
glass and the ripping of leather as
the sycamore's limbs raked the cab,
and Roger Oakley uttered a hoarse
cry, a cry Dan did not hear, but he
turned, splitting dust and cinders from
his lips, and saw the old convict still
standing, shovel in hand. in the mar
row gangway that separated the en-
CINE and tender.
He had set the whistle shrieking,
and it cut high above the roar of the
flames, for, off in the distance, under
a canopy Of smoke, he saw the lights
OF Antioch shining among the trees.
Two minutes later and they were
running smoothly through the yards.
with the brakes on and the hiss of es-
Gaping steam. AS they slowed up be-
side the depot Dan sank down on the
seat in the cab, limp and exhausted.
He was vaguely conscious that the
platform was crowded with people.
and that they were yelling at him ex-
citedly and waving their hats, but he
heard their cries only indiFerently
well. His ears were dead to every
thing except the noise Of his engine.
which still echoed in his tired brain.
He staggered to his feet, and was
about to descend from the cab when
he saw that his father was lying face
down on the iron shelf between the
engine and tender. He stopped and
raised him gently in his arms.
The old convict opened his eyes and
looked up into his face, his lips parted
as if he were about to speak, but no
Sound came from them.-From "The
Manager of the B. & A." by Vaughan
Hester, Harper & Brothers.
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The kaiser's Engagement Ring.

AS the Emperor was driving Il few
days ago from Gudvangen to Stalheim
in Norway a gold ring clipped unob-
served from his finger 1t was after
ward picked up by a stable boy, who
handed it to the hotelkeeper. who in
turn restored it to His Majesty. On
the following day. as the Emperor
was driving back to Gudvangen, he
presented the coachman with a note
for fifty kronen as a reward. The
coachman at once declared that it was
not he but the stable boy had found
the ring. The Emperor at once pulled
out second note for the stable boy,
and explained: II am 80 extremely
glad to have recovered the ring, for it
was my engagement ."-London
News.
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TAKEN AT HER WORD.
He came and asked me for my love.

He came and asked me for my love,
And said that his devotion
Would most individually prove
As boundless as the ocean.
But l was young and fair and gay;
NV life was like summers day;
And this was all that would say,
YOU'D better ask Pepita.'
His form was fine, and Oh, his face
Recalled the young Leander,
And for his <eer in manly grace
Go back to Alexander.
But fatterv had turned my head.
And when he urged that | would wed,
Couuettishly again I said.
YOU'D better ask Pepita.
And then-I've heard of course. that man
Is tickle and peculiar,
Ranging from Elinor to Ann.
From Ann to Jane or Julia.
But if I e'er had thought that he
Would so extremely docile be,
I never should have said-ah me!
He'd better ask Pepita-
&C. w. Thayer, in Harpcr's Magazine
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The Trouble With Religion.

Once there was man who got his teeth
filled by a dentist who wore artificial
teeth, and he bought from a man who
wore wig,a preparation that was war.
ranted to make hair grow on bald heads.
And this man believed that his teeth
would be saved by having them filled, and
they were. And he had faith in the hair
medicine, insomuch that he bought one
bottleful after another as long as there
was hair left on his head. But one day
he heard of preacher who went wrong
way the man who believes in the tooth1ess
dentist and the hairless hair doctor found
that religion was a: delusion. The great
trouble with religion is that it is not
warranted to make people better looking.
Chicago Record Herald.
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Tragedy in O Single Drop.

The late Professor Henry Drummond
used to tell this story: 'I know man
who was temperance lecturer. In his
early days he had been a great drunkard,
but he was reformed, and had got consid-
erable notoriety as a platform speaker in
one of our large cities. BY trade he was a
glasscutter. One day, many years after
everyone thought, servant girl brought
into his place of business decanter with
broken neck, and asked him to cut it
smooth. He took up the bottle to see
what was wrong; the fumes Of the brandy
came out of the neck and went into his
brain. He turned the decanter upside
down, and got a drop of the fluid upon
his finger, and put it to his lips. 1t set
his brain on fire. He went to the nearest
public house and got drunk. That was the
pn6 ~
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The Minor virtues.

The minor virtues are fruits of ODE.
dience to the great commandments OF love
to God and love to man. They are cheer.
fulness, gentleness, consideration and
compassion. To some they appear to come
as mere gifts of natural disposition, but
these are of a lower and perishable sort,
TO most of us they are heroic virtues,
only won by faith and effort in the service
of Christ. It is in trying days that Chris.
tian cheerfulness is tested and that 1t
shines. 1t is under provocation that gen.
teness reveals its quality. 1t is in contest
with self-wil that our thoughts of the
right and needs of others comes to proof
and compassion is never as beautiful as in
the company of strength.
The final Importance of these high quail.
tiles of Spirits depends upon the fact that
the lifeIwith Christ is life of service. 1t
is true that they are essential to the peace
of God, but the peace of God can never
rest content in itself. The major virtues
have their occasional opportunity to wit
ness, and it is immensely powerful in oul
meetings with our fellow-men, but these
minor virtues have their opportunity con.
tinually. Few can really test our hon.
esty, for few come close enough to US in
business dealings, but cheerfulness and
consideration impress themselves on
strangers in the chance encounters of our
crowded life. And in the closer intima.
cies these, after all, are the winning. vir'
tues. 1t is easier to respect than it Is to
love, and one may be just and honest and
yet unloved because he hides himself be-
hind morose or irritable looks and words.
It must be confessed that many good
men, men whom we hope to see enjoying
Christ's favor in the heavenly life, are not
lovable. Their real self is hidden, we like
to think, behind a veil of harsh and un.
considerate uncheerfulness. But in the
view of Christian life as the it-beaHng
life, pledged to love men because Dhrist
loves them, and us, a piety that ls un.
cheerful, ungentle, unsyhfpathetic and
pitiless seems like no piety at all.
Because these virtues are 80 constant
and their application is so wide, because
they show themselves in little words and
acts, they are an ideal training ground for
character. For every temptation to dis
honesty there are thousand temptations
to dependency. For the thrush of muir.
dcrous impulses of hate, there are ten
thousand impulses to seek our ease at the
expense of others. 1t is here, indeed, that
the real battle-ground of daily life exists
for most of US. Our influence and our
happiness would be immeasurably in
crossed by cheerful living, gentle thought
loving consideration and compassion for
all who are in need.-Boston Congrega.
tionalist.
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What Paid Church Debts.

The Evangelical Church at Industry,
Nan, has just paid off its church debt
with a crop of wheat. Last autumn the
pastor, the Rev. Mr. Bruner, together with
a number of the leading members. rented
forty acres of ground near the church
a:ain were contributed. At harvest the
threshing vas contributed The yield was
70 bushels, of which one-thrd was paid
for rent and the remainder has just been
sold for enough to pay the $3.50 mortgage
IN the church. The congregation is plan
..ng to SOW another field to raise funds
for Improvement and church expenses.
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License Endorses.

A singular episode has transpired in
Chicago which opens another door of light
on the saloon question. 1t appears that
license for $500 is extracted from clairvoy.
ants. War is being made on the matter,
and for the reason that to license clair
voyance is to recognize it," 'legalize il"
and give it certain respectability." Ex-
actly That is precisely what the license
does whether it be mountebank clair
voyaut or hell-flling saloon.-Central
Christian Advocate.
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF lNTEMPERANcE.
Alcohol In Childhood - It's Administration
to Sick or Healthy Children is to Be
Discountenanced Under All Circum-
stances-Weakeus the Intellect. .,

Alcohol In Childho - It's Administration
to Sick or Healthy Children is to Be
Discountenanced Under All Circum-
stances-Weakeus the Intellect. -
Concerning the use of alcohol in child.
hood DR.. kassowitz (Deutsche Medicinal
Zeitung) concludes as follows, -.
/. Severe functional disturbances (de.
lirium tremens, alcoholic mania, epleDsy)
and organic changes (anasarca, enlarge
ment of the liver) have been observed by
the author and others after the continued
use of alcohol.
2. These diseases occurred not only al.
ter the use of brandy and excessive doses
of other alcoholic drinks, but also after
the use of ordinary amounts OF wine and
beer, and even after such small doses OF
cognac as are usually considered not only
harmless, but even curative. =.
3. From these results we must conclude
that the nervous system In childhood ls
extremely sensitive to the poisonous ef-
fects of alcohol.
4. The administration of alcoholic
drinks to children is permitted in the
best regulated families in the belief that
small doses cure weakness and diseased
conditions. 1t is easily demonstrated,
however, that this idea is absolutely
wrong.
S. Physiological experiments have dis
proved the former views that alcohol is
food and prevents body waste; the excre-
ton of urea is increased rather than di-
minished during the administration of al
cohol.
6. From this it may be concluded that
the protracted use Of alcohol prevents the
growth and development of the. child.
7. Even as an appetizer alcohol is use-
less, since experiments have shown that
it disturbs rather than aids digestion.
8. As an antipyretic alcohol is useless,
because even after the administration of
very large doses the temperature falls but
slightly.
8. Researches have shown that the
much-lauded stimulating effect of alcohol
either does not occur or is very passing,
but that a slow degree Of depression of
the muscles and nerves takes place. The
use of alcohol, therefore, for the preven-
tion and treatment of cardiac weakness in
childhood has no scientific foundation,
10. The internal administration Of al
cohol as an antiseptic-5hat is, as bac-
tericidal agent, in acute infectious dis
eases-is not rational. Experiments have
shown that during its administration the
resistance against infection is diminished
rather than increased, and that alcohol is
too quickly oxidized to have any bacterici-
dal power.
H. In school children, even after a mod
crate use, the weakening effect upon the
intellect was evident.
u. From the foregoing i'll effects of
even moderate amounts of alcohol the ad-
ministration of alcoholic drinks to healthy
or sick children is under all circumstances
to be discountenanced.-Me Record.
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The Water and the Vessel.

If only wish for clear water it is Of
little consequence whether it be brought
in 4 vase Of gold or glass. 1 should even
receive it with more pleasure when pre-
sented in glass, because 1 can see it more
clearly than in a golden cup. In like man
ner, if seek only the will of God I should
be indifferent whether it be presented to
me in tribula alton or consolation, provided
[ can clearly discern it. 1t should be
even more agreeable. in suffering, because
it is then more visible, and the only
borrows from the divine will.-Francis Of
Sales.
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Bfc Advance In Telegraphy.

The new Hungarian system Of telegra'
ply, the introduction of which was an
nounced eighteen months ago. has been a
marvellous success. The system has been
installed between Budapest and Fiume, q
distance of 375 miles, and is in practica!
working order at speed of 10000 words
an hour. The messages are written in
Roman characters and require no trans
cription. The system is an ingenious COM
b;nation of the telegraph, the telephone
and photography: the messages being writ.
ten on sensitized paper by ray light and
developed and fixed by Oil automatic pro-
cess
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Revival Of Pledge Signing.

A revival of pledge signing is now in
progress in England. The Christian Of
London, commenting on a decrease Of
fl,27l,756 spent for intoxicating liquors
in 1900. as contrasted with 1899, says:
LET temperance workers meanwhile take
heart, and continue their good work with
renewed energy. If the million pledges
aimed at be secured, it will make a far
even this year shows"
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Traced to Drink.

W. Bode, German doctor says: Cover
seers of the poor, especially in North Ger.
many, have often declared that from fifty
to ninety per cent. of all the poverty can
be traced to drink. Drunkenness is fur.
thermore the chief source of vagabondage
among seventy-seven per. cent: of the
tramps. A great proportion of the ex-
pense of hospitals and of sick funds is
owing to this cause. It shortens life among
at least ten per cent. of the men, often
very considerably. Investigations among
the English life insurance societies. which
keep separate tables for their moderate
drinking patrons and for those who to-
tally abstain, as we'll as recent statistics
of the causes of death in Switzerland, fur
nish plain testimony on this point. In
temperance is also cause of the mortality
among children, since the children of in
temperate parents have little endurance,
or die for want of care. Among twelve
per cent. of the suicides drink is one of
the causes. A considerable number of ac-
cidents are also to be traced to this
source"
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Punf6hlneutS.

Punishments are often the only instru.
ments in the hands of loving God by
which indiyiduals with evil wills are per
ways forgives does not Danish the conse
quences Of w.SS::,,.z-dIoing-Rev. D. C. Dor
chester.
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Inferior Beer.

The Wine and Spirit Gazette, of New
York, says that some brewers of this city
who are members of the Brewers Board
of Trade and also the New York State
Brewers and Masters Association are
advertisements announcing that large
amount of bottled beer made of cheap
and inferior material is in the market
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A Grand Eestimony.

A grand testimony-The famous novel.
ist, Nine. Sarah Grand, says: "The only
thing that find bad for my work is alco-
hol in any shape or form. l find that even
a glass OF light wine deprives me Of. stay
ing power. 1 drink nothing at luncheon,
but have small cup Of black coffee after
wards"
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A Reformation.

One age is but the forerunner of an.
other, and to-day we are entering upon 8
reformation that is more wonderful in its
workings than any that has gone before,
votion and energy.-Rev. D. E. Marvin,
Congregatioualist, Asbury Park, N. j.
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Present Duty.

He who ls false to present duty break
a thread in loom, and will find the flaw
when he may have forgotten it's cause
Henry Ward Peecher.