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Self-Cultivation.

It happens to many man and woman
that in the absorbing demands OF business
or professional life, Of home duties or the
claims of society, there is q gradual failure
of moral purpose or religious conviction'
and, while the life grows in one direction,
it as surely degenerates in another. we
can cultivate any part Of our natures we
will, just as the gardener or horticultur-
ist, by selecting certain qualities, gradually
develops a new kind of potato or corn; a
new variety of strawberry or apple. we
can make ourselves new kinds OF men and
women by giving attention to business or
pleasure, books or music. athletics or re-
fgion. Spiritual things are not OF inter-
est to us where we do not cultivate them,
lust as business becomes dull if we do not
give attention to it and try to make 1t IN
teresting. As no man can be strong unless
he takes much exercise, so no man can De
devout who does not wrestie with GOD
in prayer. early and late.
Every kind of cultivation leads to
growth in manhood, and we are the kind
of men we make ourselves by our toll and
our play, our hopes and our fears, our
fidelity Of mind and our loyalty of heart.
When the mind is open and alert, the
heart gentle and loving, the conscience
firm and unfailing, the will strong and
steadfast, we are sure to grow into larger
manhood and womanhood, and there Is
nothing else for the sake of which life Is
worth living. Truly, it is good and ac-
ceptable saying that ''the only. object in
life is to grow.n- Christian Register.
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The Innermost Room.

The innermost room may be torture
chamber or shrine of peace. According
as it is, one or the other, 80 is life happy
or unhappy. For the blessedness of life
does not so much depend on what is pass.
ing in the outer chambers as of what is
passing in the secret place of the soul. 1t
Is because we forget this that we blunder
80 much, strive so hard, are so bitterly dis.
appointed with our so-called successes. In
the innermost room remorse may be pres
ent, infinite repining, infinite sorrow. The
very thought Of entering it may. be agony,
but enter you must. An unseen force drags
YOU into the peace of pain. Or it may be
shrine of rest, a veritable chamber OF
peace. To visit it, to linger in it, may be
the chief joy and solace of existence. One
may come from it with radiant face and
strong heart, able to cope with his diff
culties and perform his allotted task in an.
other spirit. Is this the last word? No;
the riddle of life is never understood until
we know that the torture chamber may be-
come, not all at once, but by sure and slow
degrees, shrine of peace. Most of US
know how this comes to pass in sorrow,
how sober joy at last replaces the bitter
anguish. The religion that we need ls
religion that will lay all the ghosts that
will cast the instruments of torture from
great glooms and make it place Of re-
pose. And this is why we must always
say to the sufferer in his most cruel hour
of endurance: "Hope on; hope ever. It
will not be always as it is now" The place
to which you are now dragged as by furies
may come one day to be your sure and
chosen home. You will one day want
nothing better than the peace of the in
nermost room.-W. Robertson Nicoll. ,
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therew he shouted. II can hear yo'
breathe and your dress rustic. Jus
like your ugliness not to answer fel
low! Do you hear, Sue? Black my
boots, quick! I'm waiting for them"
And "bang! bang" came the usefu
articles Of wear in question down the
winding stairway that led into the
kitchen.
Poor little Ethel! She half rose up
then sat down again, piteously unde
cided what to do-and even while she
hesitated, with color varying like the
red and white Of the American flag In
a high wind, the door at the foot OF
the stairs flew open and In stalked Mr.
Julian Morand, sallow and disheveled,
with unkempt hair and beard. fright
fully curved mouth and most unbe'
coming costume of soiled Turkish
dressing gown, faded neither garments
and stockinged feet, thrust into dirty
red morocco slippers.
Il say your he snarled out; "why
don't you"
And then. perceiving to whom ne
was actually addressing himself, he
started back, turning fiery red.
Miss Hunt"
And with a downward glance at his
toilet he fairly turned and fed, the
skirts of his Turkish dressing gown
floating like red and orange meteors
behind him. And, mortified and terri
fed though she was, Ethel Hunt could
not resist the temptation to break lnto
a peal Of hearty laughter.
This, ther, was her ideal among men,
her gallant cavalier, her "Sir Launce'
lot" of fancied perfection, snarling at
his mother and sister like an ill-condi
toned bear, flinging old boots down
the stairs at them, tumbling out of bed
at 9 o'clock in the morning, While his
mother split kindlings and picked to-
matoes out in the vegetable garden!
Like some Chinese idol, so fell Mr.
Julian Morand off his high pedestal In
the estimation of Miss Ethel Hunt.
She told it all to Sara Martell when
they were safe at home.
"Aunt Sara" said she, II am thor
oughly disenchanted."
Miss Martell shrugged her shoulders
and mentally thanked her lucky stars.
81 could have told you as much be-
FORE" said she. "These Adonises are
like cheap calico-they will neither
wash nor wear! Wait until EVerard
Grafton comes"
"And who is Everard Grafton?
"The incest young fellow In the
world-after my betrothed husband
When Mr.. Grafton came he so far
justified Aunt Saras encomiums that
Ethel really did like him. And Aunt
Sara was willing to leave the rest to
fate.-New York News.
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British Schoolboy Blunders.

The historical and other facts"
given here are taken from schoolboys'
examination papers:
OF whom was it said, "He never
smiled again." William Rufus did this
after he was shot by the arrow.
MY favorite character in English
history is Henry WILL. because he had
eight wives and killed them all.
Edward III. would have been King
Of France if his mother had been a
man.
Alexander the Great was born in ab-
sence of his parents.
What followed the murder OF Gecket!
Henry II. received whacks with a
birch.
The principal products of Kent are
Archbishops of Canterbury.
The chief clause in Magma Charta
was that no free man should be put to
death or imprisoned without his own
consent.
Where were the Kings Of England
crowned? On their heads.
What were the three most important
Feudal dues? Friendship, courtship,
marriage.
What do you know of Dryden and
Buckingham? Dryden and Bucking-
ham were at first friends, but soon
became contemporaries.
What is Millions chief work? Mil
ton wrote u sensible poem called the
Canterbury Tails"
Give the names of five Shakesperean
plays. Macbeth, Mikado, Quo Vadis,
San Toy, Sign of the Cross.
An optimist is a man who looks after
your eyes, and pessimist is man
who looks after your feet.
A man who looks on the bright side
of things is called an optionist and
the one who looks OH the dull side Is
called a pianist-St. James Gazette.
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THE GREAT DESTROYEB
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcEs Is

Ioss By Fire and Loss by tho Drink Curse
Money Spent For Liquor in Two
Years Equals Fire Losses Of Twenty
five Years. ~.
In recent number of Leslie's Weekly
there appears contribution IN Wnlcn tna
losses by fire in the United States are ms
telligently discussed from the standpoint
of the statistician.. 1t appears that during
the past twenty-six years fire losses have
reached total Of $2;s90, ia, OH, and thai
the uninsured losses aggregate about $ts
l00, 100000. The losses of the present yea1
slightly exceed $l50, ,OO0, 900.
Commenting upon this the New 4orh
Journal of Commerce says: i
ut is clear that the enormous tire waste !
is serious tax on the resources OF the
lie opinion is 80 dull regarding this waste.
No other nation could stand such drain
and no other nation would.
These figures present valuable compar
ison by means Of which it is possible to ap
preciate with some degree Of exactness ths
enormous losses caused by the drink traffic
The people of the United States pass oveI
the bars of the saloons and hotels in only
little more than two years time q sum
Of money equal to the aggregate tire lossea
of the country for more than quarter o.
century, Every dollar, every cent, oi
that enormous sum Ia just as really lost a.
if the manewho parts with it should burn
it up. Indeed, when all the facts OF tha
case are considered he is vastly worse Of
than if he had lost by fire property to the
value of the amount which he spends for
drink, for he would be infinitely the gain.
er in the transaction If when he has put
his money in the liquor sellers hands that
worthy should refuse to carry out his part
of the contract and should withhold tho
liquor that has been paid for.
A minutes consideration Of the facta
will show that this is the proper way OF
looking at the matter. In the case Of the
property destroyed by fire the loss lies not
in the fact that certain material objects
have been destroyed. It would be per-
fectly possible that such destruction should
take place without any real loss to any
body. The loss lies in the fact that q cit
izen, or certain citizens, have been obliged
to part with their possessions without val.
liable return for> them. The parallel be.
tween loss by fire and loss by drink, this
principle being kept in mind, becomes
clear. The man whe has spent the value
of house for drink has Just as really lost
his money as if his house had been burned,
for not a cent Of his expenditure brought
back to him the slightest valuable return.
These facts present an astounding mar
vel. Well may the words of the Journal
of Commerce be quoted: "It is strange
that public opinion is so dull regardins
this waste. THE New Voice. q; & 5,s5'5.
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The Crusade in Brief.

There has been a growing agitation in
years.
Wherever the liquor trade is sanctioned
by law its followe.s will be found to be
sticklers for the law.
In the Canadian Parliament resolution
is to be introduced asking for the passage
of a prohibitory liquor law.
From the smallest patch on earth you
can see the stars; from the grog shop ysu
can see the workhouse and the prison. e..
A great pledge signing campaign fof
Ontario, Canada, is being organized by the
temperance forces OF that country.
In 1900 the cost of elementary education
in England was fS,973,Sl7. The amount
spent in strong drink was sl6O, ,7lS.
In 1898 there were l77,OOO drink shops in
Belgium, one for every thirty-five inhabit-
ants These figures do not include hotels,
restaurants or small grocers.
Recently q schooner left Boston harbor
for the west coast of Africa with a cargo
of rum and gin valued at over $4,000. 1t
will take a good many missionary contri-
buttons to counterbalance the curse of that
cargo.
The Grand Lodge of Free Masons of
Georgia, recently in convention at Macon,
adoptcd a report recommending that per-
sons who engage in the manufacture or
sale of liquors after joining lodge shall
be expelled. .
A writer in the New York Sun says: II
venture to say that man with sand and
power to break policemen for failure to en-.
force the law would close the saloons so
quick that reformers, ministers and every
one else would be surprised"
In the London County Council Asylums
there has been a high percentage of insan-
ity from alcohol, more than double the
number OF women than men being admitted
from that cause.
DR.. Wynn Westcott, the Coroner, says
it is very rare that bona-hde tetotaller
takes his; own life. During the year 1899
he held iifty-eight inQuests upon suicides,
thrty-sevcn males and twenty-one females,
not one Of whom was a bona-ide abste!ner.
At the opening of the Supreme Cosrt of
Newfoundland at Harbor Grace both the
Justice and the Grand Jury congratu.
lated the people Oh the utter absence of
crime in that large judicial district, which
creditabie state they attributed to the
wise temperance legislation SO well en-.
forced.
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GODS MESSAGE TO MAN
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS.

Poem: How Easily Each Is Given {.
The Religion That We Need Is Ono
Which VIII Mako the Soul Place of
Repose.
It was only sunny smile,
And little it cost in the giving;
But it scattered the night
Like the morning Light.
And made the day worth living.
Through life's dull warp wool it wove
In shining colors of light and love,
And the angels smiled as they watched
Yet it cost little in the giving.
It was only kindly nod,
And word that was lightly spoken;
Yet not in vain,
For it stilled the pain
Of heart that was nearly broken.
It strengthened faith beset by fears,
And cropping blindly through mists OF
tears
For light to brighten the coming years,
Although it was lightly spoken.
It was only helping hand,
And it seemed of little availing;
But its clasp was warm,
And it saved from harm
A brother whose strength was failing
Its touch was tender as angels wings,
But it rolled the stone from the hidden
springs,
And pointed the way to higher things,
Though it seemed of little availing.
a smile, word, or a touch,
And each so easily given;
Yet one may win
A soul from sin,
Or smooth the way to heaven.
A smile may tighten the failing heart,
A word may soften pains keenest smart,
A touch may lead us from sin apart
How easily each is given!
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A New Surgical Device.

A demonstration of new apparatus for
sewing up wound after an operation was
given at a meeting of the Vienna Society
of Physicians. The verdict was that it was
swift, easy to handle, reliable. The aseptc
state of the wounds after its Use is better
maintained than heretofore. The essential
feature Of the apparatus is that the wound
is not actually sewn up, but is held to
gether by means Of minute clamps.
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Wore Elizabeth's Cast-of Garments

1t Is not often that a woman of to-
day can array herself in any fabric
that once formed part of the wardrobe
Of Queen Elizabeth. The Countess Of
Pembroke has, however, this privilege,
and at the recent drawing room she
attended, she wore a white and silver
gown, the peach colored train Of which
was trimmed with old Point de Flan-
Dire, which not only had been owned,
but also worn, by the famous Tudor
queen.
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A New Rifle.

A new rifle, the invention of Mr.. John
HvIard. of Melbourne, Australia, has re-
Gently been tested at the Thames range
in England. The magazine takes five car,
tridges, which are simply dropped in, ana
do not require careful insertion, as IN the
Lee-Metford. The striker is almost en-
tirely concealed within the bolt; 1t re,
ceiyes its energy from hammer operated
by fiat spring, both hammer. and spring
being within the lock. Unlocking the bolt
cocks the gun. The new rifle was tried
against the Lee e-Mctford, the regulation
English army rife. 1t was found possible
to work it about a third faster than the
latter weapon.
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Color of Race Horses.

Winning race horses are general,
bays, chestnuts or browns; and for
every hundred bays among them there
are fifty chestnuts and thirty browns.
There Is no record of an important
race being won by a piebald.
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All Nature Tells of God.

Nature reveals God as well as the Bible
Each season of the year has its peculiar
revelation. If winter tells US of the stern
er aspects of Gods character. the spring
speaks to us of the sentler side.-Rev. H.
H. Proctor, Congrcgationalist, Atlanta.
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How to Attnfn Nobility

It is only by nuture and discipline, by
effort, frequent failures and renewed
trials that nobility of character is at
tanned, and in this work there is need of
all the helps of all the ages-Rev. DR..
Jenkin Lloyd Jones. All Souls Church,
Chicago.
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The worlds total production of coal, the
professor continues, amounted to some
800, 100000 tons: Suppose the coal stu eS'
tity a, vet available must be put down at
about I 100, 900, ,OOO, 900 tons. Taking the av-
erage German price for coal, at pits
moyth, @ VIZ, eight marks, or s2 per ton;
it will be seen that the total value of coal
still buried in the soil of our earth amounts
to no less than 1920, 900, ,00O,0
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Buried Wealth.

Professor Otto N. Witt has published
some interesting figures on the .produc-
tion and value Of coal. During. the year
1900 the principal coal producing coan-
tries of the world showed the following
OUTPUT:
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the axe that slipped the helve. The young
man cried out in the hearing of the pro.
phet. "Alas, master, for it was borrowed
He had a right to borrow: There are
times when we have not only right to
borrow, but it is duty to borrow. There
Ire times when we ought to lend, for Christ
in His sermon on the mount declared,
From him that would borrow of thee turn
not thou away"
It is right that one borrow the means
of getting an education, as the young stu
dent of my text borrowed the axe. It is
right to borrow means for the forwarding
tunes that now overshadow the land were
tatched out of borrowed dollar.
Those students in the valley of palms
by the Jordan had a physical strength
and hardihood that would help them in
their mental and spiritual achievements.
We who are toiling for the worlds better
ment need Drawn as we'll as brain, strong
bodies as we'll as illumined minds and con.
secratad souls. Many of those who are
now doing the best work in church and
state got muscle and power Of endurance
from the fact that in early life they were
compelled to use axe OF. plow or fail or
ND in the Injuries of life give out before
the battle is won. They are keen and
sharp of mind, but have no physical en-
durance. They have the axe head, but no
handle. The body is the handle of the
soul.
There Christ stood by His disciples on
i the Mount of Olives after His coming out
of the sepulcher. No ladders let down for
His ascension, but His feet lift from the
hill, and He goes up until the curtain OF
cloud drops, and He is invisible. Law Of
gravitation again embarrassed. Enoch
Mcthusaleh's father, escaping death, went
up bodily and will have no need of resur
rection. So will all the good who shall be
still alive at the end of the world. They
will not need wings. Every one OF the
millions of our planet who loved and
served the Lord, if then alive, will "be
caught up" as the Bible says, body a
we'll as soul, the law Of gravitation par
alyzed. -,
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-09-06

| farmer in the village OF Schivelbeis IN
| Pomerania. Until he was 1S years old Ru-
dolph Virchow attended the ''Volkschule'' of
his native town. and at Il he passed his
departing examinations at the gym
nasium OF Koslin.
Immediately afterwards he went to Ber-
lin and began the study Of medicine In
1875. at the age OF -. he WAS graduated as
a physician and became an assistant pro-
fessor at the charity hospital in Berlin.
Professor Virchow first attracted wide
spread attention in 1875. At that time he
was appointed junior member or 4 Gov
ernment commission to Investigate the
epidemic Of typhus fever among the starv-
ing inhabitants OF the Silesian Highlands.
His report. embodyinE the result OF his
studies. was regarded as brilliant and pro-
found. and gave direction Immediately. both
TO his scientific bent as a student Of path
ology and to his political career.
His carly discovery Of the self-p-opagat-
ing power OF the animal cell and the yalua-
BILE results that followed therefrom made
his name celebrated Professor jacob said
some years ago in an address at the Col
leGe OF Physicians and Surgeons in New
York. referring to the early life OF Virchow:
when Virchow began to examine into the
cell. it had already been discovered to be
the foundation Of both vegetable and animal
tissues.
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Do Not TTife With Them!
Paine'S Celery
Compound
PERMANENTLY CURES SICK AND
NERVOUS HEADACHES THAT
MAKE LIFE MISERABLE.

Sick and nervous headaches are
amongst the worst ills of life. The man
or woman who is subject TO headache at
irregular intervals goes through life
bearing 4 load of misery and wrctched-
hess that j. terrible 10 think Of
Headaches as 4 rule result from 4 dis
ordered condition of tile nervous system.
Mental excitement. loss OF sleep. bodily
fatigue and diSOrdered digestion are eX-
citing causes. When the brain becomes
tired and debilitated. the whole nervous
system is weakened and headaches re-
suit. II the liver j. sluggish. the kid
neyS inactive and digestion deranged.
headaches invariably follow. To cure
and prevent headache the nervous syS-
lem must be strengthened and vitaliZed.
The most persistent cases Of headache
nervous feeblenesS and SleeplessnesS are
permanently cured by Paine'S Celery
Compound; it is the great reconstruct
ant of the nervous system. Mrs. Henry
Westrick. st. Clair. Mich. tells of her
release from suffering as follows:
Il have been troubled with dyspepsia
and sick headache for number of years
About every week | would have Il bad
spell of sick headache. but since began
using Paine's Celery Compound my dys-
pepsia is gone, and / do not have any
more headaches. / feel better than |
have for years.
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GENERAL DOMESTIC

Irreconcilables in the Province of Tayabas.
Luzon, attack a village and kill two wom-
en- and a girl.
To-day is the anniversary of the shooting
OF President Mckinley. In Ohio Il will be
observed by the beginning of a canvass OF
the labor unions for contributions to the
Mckinley memorial fund
Both Dun and Bradstreet report n highly
favorable condition of trade throughout the
country, with distributive buying especially
heavy
John W. Gates is said to be at work trv-
ing To procure options on the coal fields OF
Illinois for the United States Steel Corpor-
alton Several new roads into the lands arc
contemplated. The object is not only 70
mine coal, but to coke 1t under a new,
process.
Indictments are returned against four
men at Chicago in connection with the
'tax-fxing'' scandal.
A crowd Of citizens attacked Parson
Green's house at Eldorado. Ill. and be-
came involved in a pitched battle with the
soiciers stationed there by Governor Yates
Several shots were exchanged, but no one
was injured as far as known. Green is
said to be enjoying the notoriety he is re-
ceiving.
negro who was found guilty OF yagrancy
by court at Shelbyvflle KY. was sold
into servitude for one year. This is the
highest penalty under the State law.
A woman leads the fight against reorgani-
zation of the International Mining Con-
gress, and by her skill as a parliamentarian.
prevents consideration of the report of the
committee favoring the plan.