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Innovation In Church Work.

Rev. c.. H. Elder of Trenton, N j..
according to press reports, is strir:iy
up-to-date minister He is called the
vaudeville pastor, for having intro
duced illustrated hymns as feature Of
his Sunday evening services. Rev.
Elders holds that church must make
it's services attractive if its pastor is
to have an opportunity to talk to nom
members. 1t is his custom to go into
the street before the hour Of services
and invite passers-by to attend his
church, promising that they will be en-
tertained If not converted. These novel
methods may be effective. though they
are not in line with the established
ways of carrying the gospel to all
hearts.
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Prohibition In Texas,

In Texas, the conclusion has been
reached, that it was better to carry
on the campaign against liquor on the
local option basis for the present,
leaving the question of state prohi5i-
tion to be determined in the future.
This conclusion was reached at con-
ference Of the Anti-Liquor League
held at Waco some weeks ago. Tho
Prohibitionists will make the State
fight whenever the time is ripe for it,
and will strengthen their cause in the
meanwhile by capturing more seats
in the legislature and by securing,
through local option. control of moro
counties and districts.
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Standing by tho oOlors At Getty sD6rg.
And how did the Twentyfourth
Michigan fight? They charged into the
woods without taking time to load,
and with bayonet driving the enemy
across Willoughby Run, captured the
Confederate Gen. Archer and many of
his men, says a writer in an Eastern
magazine. Private Patrick Maloney,
seizing the general by the throat, and
commanding, Right about, gineral.
march!" conducted him to the rear
and handed him over to the division
commander, with Celtic smile, and
"Gineral Wadsworth, sir, allow me to
make you acquainted wild Gineral Ar
cher" There the well-dressed line
waited in the forest during the long
afternoon, repulsing every attack of
the enemy. Gen. Sol Meredith, the
brigade commander; Col. Henry A.
Morrow, Lieut.-Col. Flanagan, the ad-
5utant, and almost every ofilcer who
was not killed outright was severely
wounded, twenty-five being killed
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Knew How to Forage.

But the most successful forager in
our part of the army was John A.
Mediston Of the Twentieth Illinois. On
Sherman's march to the sea he was a
treasure. He was in command of a
squad or company that had free range
of the country, and he always came in
with supplies. On one occasion he
captured a wagon loaded with hams,
wine and whisky. 1t was the sort OF
a thing the ordinary forager would
have sidetracked, but Mediston ran
the collection into the Quartermaster's
hands and said nothing.
"One day he dashed into town as
the rebs dashed out, and found good
many things as good as il made to or
der. But be found also some choice
lots of bread baking in ovens. Ex.
perts who looked into the ovens re-
ported that the bread was not quite
done and recommended that it be left.
1t was against Mediston's principles
to leave anything, so. explaining that
he had no time to wait, he said he
would take the half-baked bread with
him and finish the baking in camp.
And this he did. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
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Testimony Worth Reading.


Drunkenness is flattering devil. a
sweet poison. pleasant sin. which
whosoever hath, hath not himself;
which whosoever doth commit, COM
mitteth not q single sin, but becomes
the center and slave Of all manner OF
sin. st. Augustine.
"Your poorhouses are full, and your
courts and prisons are filled with the
victims of this internal traffic. and
your homes are full of sorrow, and
the hearts of your wives and mothers;
and yet the system is tolerated. -
Father Taylor
"Only a clear brain can think Gods
thoughts after him. Only steady
hand can gIorify the divine Carpenter.
Only heart unhurried by artificial
stimulants can be loyal in it's love 10
Christ and humanity. Frances E.
Willard
"As in Africa streams intersect the
forest in every direction, so the gin
shop stands at every corner, with Its
River Of the Water of Death flowing
seventeen hours out of the twenty-four
for the destruction of the people. A
population sodden with drink, stepped
in vice, eaten up by every social and
physical malady,-these are the deni-
zens Of Darkest England"
Booth in Darkest England.
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Intemperance dulls the moral ma
ture. 1t puts the soul to sleep. 1t
keeps men from the great invisible
realities of life. 1t shuts their eyes to
the dangers and evils of strong drink.
1t is high time for the whole people
to awake out of sleep on this subject,
to realize the dangers to society, TO
arouse from lethargy, and work for
the good cause. For the day of SAL
vation from intemperance is nearer
than when we first joined the ranks
Of the total abstinence army.
And the danger is especially near to
the young and inexperienced. They
do not realize the danger of forming
the drink habit, or the evils that flow
from It,
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R.,,xion and rempsrsnce.

The strength of the prohibition
move in the south is little understood
outside of that section. 1t is almost
wholly of religious origin; that is, the
movement Is fostered and managed
by the preachers and is backed large
ly by the women of their congrega-
tions. The negro vote stood for long
time an immovable rock in the path
of prohibition. The prohibitionist
leaders declared that the liquor men
owed their victories entirely to the
negro voters. The fact is undisputed
that SO long as the negroes voted in
any large numbers in Mississippi the
prohibitionists Jared sadly in the
local option elections. Moreover, the
whites, with large majority facing
them, did not dare to stir up any po-
litical issue likely to cause division
In their ranks as prohibition would
certainly have done.
Not until the negro was disfran.
chised, therefore, did the prohibition
movement show much strength in Mis-
sissippi, and it is in that state that
it began in the southwest. 1t may be
said here that the attitude Of the
negroes IN these local option elections
die much to influence the Legislature
in disfranchising them; as 1t arrayed
against them the religious element
which resented being defeated by the
negro vote in the local option elec
tiOns.
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siOnaries and mission women are con-
stantly engaged In visiting the Police
Courts. Sessions and homes, ana dur
Ing the year no fewer than 1851 per-
sons have been materially assisted.
and l ,301 total abstinence pledges have
been taken; 1879 women inebriates
have been handed over to women mis-
si0naries, and 900 men and lads have
been restored to friends, sent to sea.
or to homes. The statistics include
several forms of reformatory relief.
and rescue work among those whose
offences have brought them within tho
confines of that court. The cost OF
this Police Court work was 5000
pounds yearly and of the whole
branch about 5000 pounds. the
finances showing small balance in
hand Of about 300 pounds.
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Tests Of Manhood.

Consider the standards and tests OF
manhood. Many men misjudge them
The warning is let. no man think him
self more highly than he ought .a
think. This does not mean that men
are to depreciate themselves. HUI
mility is one thing; self-depreciation
is another. Power begins with self
reliance; conscience is one of Gods
under agents, and an honest, just pride
is another. In measuring our man.
hood we must balance the evil over
against the good. We are what we
are on the average; II we are Gods
children we shall be what we are at
our best. only more.-Rev. DR.. Hills,
Congregationalist, Brooklyn. N. Y.
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Whoo Y0a Woo1 AWa2.
twas on day like this. dear Heart,
You went away:
Though spring. chill Waa In the a1Es
The sky was gray.
The earth before that had, aAA time
Had scattered light
And left the fragrant meadows greeo
In bs,t Q night.
But on the day you went. dear Heart.
a breath Of snow
Fell from the whitening beard OF time
A sudden woe
Withered the JOY within my life
And left It gray.
And made me old with sadness, when
You went away.
I cannot now be brave. dear Heart;
The sadness still
Speaks to me in mournful whispers
From wood and hill:
On the sky the autumn shadows
Trail their gray
The sun can't shine. until to you
60 away.
Stella Pearl Harris.
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fAo DaSs Thss Are Net.
The path still winds atar.
Where the wealth OF daisies are.
And the tangled grasses bend osnsatn
the breess:
The swallows sail, and swing.
And the happy woodlands ring,
With melodies Of bird-songs in the trses.
The flowery fields are fair
And the bounding brook IL there.
Hut the scene has lost its old. peculiar
Joys:
From the bending blue has ned
The splendor that is shed.
When used to 20 a-hshing with the
boys.
The summer sun has lost
The glory that he tossed
On the waves that rippled 'round the
bare brown feet:
And I sit and sadly dream
BY the wayward-wending stream.
Where I wandered with the boys wnen
life was sweet.
A sadness shrouds the heart.
And the floods of sorrow start.
When memory tells her tale OF vanisheo
days:
When the gray of cleaning falls
On the jeweled western waAs,
And walk again the old familiar ways.
Herbert L. Brewster. In Acadlensis 1oF
April.
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washing ton a. He Look.d.

According to Capt. Mercer, the fol:
lowing describes Washington when he
took his seat in the House of Bur-
gesses in 1859:
''He is as straight as an Indian.
measuring six feet two inches in his
stockings and weighing 175 pounds.
His head is we'll shaped, though not
large, and is gracefully poised on
superb neck, with large and strgight,
rather than a prominent nose, blue
grey, penetrating eyes, which are wide
ly separated and overhung by heavy
brows. A pleasing, benevolent. though
commanding countenance, dark prown
hair, features regular and placid with
all the muscles under control. with .
large mouth, generally firmly closed"
Houdon's bust accords with Il a1nn
scription.
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Ala to Hvsrv Vice.

Ala to Gv0ry Vlcos
OF suicides, at least ninety-nine out
Of q hundred result from excessive
drinking.
The hundredth case very often 10
thnt of some miserable woman driven
to suicide by poverty and abuse-too
much whisky drinking by some man
usually covers the poverty and abuse.
When you see a lot Of young men
gambling away their money. sleep.
future and honor, you find that they
are drinking.
II one of them is not drinking he
is a sharp-eyed, clear-minded swim
dler engaged in robbing the others.
That swindler among gamblers
knows better than anybody else that
his ablest ally, his most cunning as
sistant, is alcohol.
1t is the clever swindler who most
energetically urges drinking among
his victims.
In every gambling house in America
the players get all they want to drink
for nothing.
Champagne, whisky brandy, are Of
fered freely to all who come, whether
they play for big or little stakes.
Many a man ruined by gambling
has been made a gambler and ruined
for life by the drink offered to him at
the door, just as he had made up his
mind not to gamble or to stop gam
bling and go home.
A young man made notorious
through inherited money recently
squandered a large fortune in one
night. His friends could only say for
him by way OF excuse that he drank
too much,
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In n. Tim. Of r.s.,us.

1T Is wonderful how much OF our
goodness is due to the lack OF tempta-
tion." said wise woman recently.
warm, soft soil, some atmosphere OF
comfort where they are sheltered from
storm and stress, and they grow into
hothOuse luxuriance and beauty. We
never doubt their vigor or genuineness
until something deprives them of their
shelter and leaves them where the
blasts of trial beat upon them.
81 thought myself a strong. reason
able, self-controlled woman. just and
tolerant toward others, sweet-tempered
and unselfish. Oh, no, l never said So
Of course, but that was the estimate OF
my friends, and | secretly accepted 1t.
There was little trouble in living up
to it in the dear home atmosphere Of
love and appreciation.
But when a sudden change came 10
my life, when ! was where half-veiled
distrust took the place OF the old, ten
der loyalty, where petty jealousies and
clashing interests made themselves
felt, and many things that had long
been considered mine of right were
called in question, then-ah, WE'LL
discovered that there was a deal OF
bitterness, morbid weakness. anger and
selfishness in my composition. / was
weak in ways ! had not deemed pos
sible. and scarcely less bitter that the
change in outward circumstances was
the revelation of myself"
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Fallacx OF "nIodaration.e

The moderate" drinker struggles
constantly with himself If he is an
intelligent man he constantly mis-
trusts himself and fears his growing
inclination. If he has the power OF
self-examination he knows how much
his success is hurt by his drinking, he
knows how much harm 1t does to those
who blindly rely upon his statements
of his moderation. He knows what a
lie the talk Of moderation is.
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Iadia.a's Wsr 1sess4
1ndiana's battle record duling the
war for the Union comprised q total
Of 30S engagements, which took plAcs
In sixteen states and one Territory
One Of these states was Indiana.
which was thrice invaded by the Con.
federates. The first inya1lon Of th1e
state or any Of the free ttAtes ~ N
armed and organized force " rebels
occurred at Newburg. Warrick 4ean.
ty. on the Ohio river, fifteen miles
above Evansville. on July 1S, 1862
The force consisted Of but thirty-two
oMcers and men, under Adam r. John
son, whose object was plunder. The
condnct of these raiders was that Of
thieves rather than soldiers. They
ransacked the town and returned hve
hours after their landing to Kentucky.
The second raid was that of COM
pany of Kentucky cavalry, under Cap
tain Thomas H. Hines, belonging to
Gen. John H. Morgan's division. This
force, 62 men. entered the state ON
June II, 1863, 1s miles above Camel
ton, for the purpose Of picking up
fresh horses. All except Hines a1d
two of his men were captured The
third invasion was by Gen. John H.
Morgan, with about 2,200 men. July
8, 1868, crossing the Ohio from Bran
nenburg, Ky.
Indiana troops were engaged in the
last battle of the war, fought at Pal
metto ranch, Texas, May 13, 1865. i've
weeks after the Confederates surJen-
dered at Appomattox, Va.
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A Phil.dslph,. vetersn.

a Phllod0lphao Votefon
It would be dificult, II not impos-
sible. to find In Philadelphia. or per-
haps in the whole country, q man who
has played more parts. filled more Inn
portant Offices, and attained greater
eminence in business. political. MILL
tary and social circles than Gen. Louis
Wagner.
Louis Wagner was born in Germany
in 1888, and came to this country with
his parents in 1S49. In 1861 he en-
tered the army as first lieutenant of
Company d, Eighty-eighth Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers. and finally became
colonel Of the regiment and brevet
brigadier general. He STas severely
wounded and taken prisoner at the
second battle of Bull run. rejoined
his regiment after parole, and took
part in the battle of Charlottesville.
after which his wound broke out
again and he was put in command Of
Camp William Penn at Philadelphia,
where he organized and sent to the
front about $4,000 colored troops. Hc
was mustered out in July. 1866.
Gen. Wagner organized the Depart
ment Of Pennsylvania, Grand Army
of the Republic, in 1867, and was
elected Its first commander; was elect
ed junior vice commander-in-chtef In
1870, senior vice commander-in-chief
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Temperance Work in London.

The annual meeting Of the London
Diocesan Branch Of the Church Of
England Temperance Society was held
recently at Exeter Hall, London. The
work of the branch, which has some
40. 900 adult members and nearly 120,-
600 Juveniles, appears. from statements
made, to fall into various divisions,
one being the now we'll known Police
Court Mission work. Twenty-ons mis-
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What Whisky Docs.

1t will be admitted by the sober man
and by the drunkard-especially by
the drunkard-that whisky adds
strength to every vice. to every harm
full inclination. At the same time it
weakens every good resolution every
one of the forces that work within us
for our betterment
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How Character I. R,r...d.

Not all Christian people bear loss,
sorrow and sickness in a victorious
way. Too often DO we see men yield
Ing to trouble, not growing more
beautiful in soul, but losing their
spiritual beauty in lifes trials. This
is not the way it should be. however,
Our character should ripen in life's
weather. whatever the weather may
be. "Tribulation worketh patience !"
The object Of life is to learn to live
We are at school here. and shall al
ways be at school until We are dis
missed from earth's classes to be pro-
noted into heaven. 1t is a pity if we
do not learn our lessons. 1t is a pity
If we grow no gentler. no kindlier, no
more thoughtful, no more unselfish, no
more unworldly. as the years pass
over us.-Christian Intelligencer.
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LiOuor statistics.

There are 100000 saloons in Bel
gium. Brussels has 5000 The pro-
portion of saloons to inhabitants
throughout the country is to 36.
France has 1 to 10: Germany l TO
100; Austria, / to 200: Russia, to l.
600, and Norway, to $1,000.
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selves the whels armour Of 0od. ~ -.
pect him TO lead them into eonAiot at
once. But his sxhertation 10 to "sta11"
not to night. And this standing on
guard is the hardest and thu NEST
needful thing for us In most sitaations
of Mfe.-Great Thoughts.
The Ideal Li1a
After al, that life 10 the more sanely
ordered in which an opportunity 10 left
for revision of the original draft.
High Heaven rejects the lore
OF nicely calculated less or more"
And we may be sure that High Heaven
will make US pay for it If we attempt
to mortgage our brains or our time.
work in. There is spirit that
bloweth where it listeth. We cannot
afford to defraud ourselves OF those
breathing spaces which are often more
truly productive than hours when the
machine is toiling at full pressure. It
is we'll to have a clear aim. and to
pursue it by means judiciously con-
trived to fit the end: to labor with
regularity and perseverance, indepen-
dent Of casual moods and impulses. 1t
is better still. amid our shrewdest
schemes, to allow place for interlinea-
tions by wiser hand.-Rev H. w.
Horwill. NJ. A.
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Just Taxing His Hasaiea1

During the war Of the rebeil
captain Of q Maryland regimej
to 60 into action was giving
tions as to conduct under cert
ditions. I'VE are expected to \
position as long as possible"
planned. although we are I'd
II the advance OF the enem
checked. But stand flrm."
on, until you see the whites
eyes-and," he added, "as !
tie lame, I think III start q
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Real Reason.

Commit your all to Christ. BY HIS
divine power He will hold you. You
say the church is full of hypocrites.
but forget that you must stand or fall
by your record. The real reason for
rejecting Christianity is that men love
DIN and will not abandon it.-Rev e
d. Hull, Methodist, Chicago, III.
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Working Out.

Working out spiritual problems is
one thing; the deepening Of spiritual
life is another thing. 1t is very little
we know in regard to anything save
such things as our hands can handle,
but there is not soul here so utterly
involved in spiritual midnight as not
to detect the glimmer of a world that
such things as hands, rocks and dol
lars form no part of. The world may
have been great while in coming to
1t. Physical eyes are very slow in be-
coming organs of vision. Spiritual
eyes may be great deal slower in be-
coming organs OF spiritual vision; but
to you and me there is glimmer in
the air that does not come from the
sun.-Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, Presbyter-
ian, New York.
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/ anA ~ n1oo out = ~
| CapD. aDeo0 anA on
IAeMts. yg1ilaceI 0aA1s1,
pAregville. Dtcke9 an& AhA(
AeaA uooa he ia. 6ooe(
sss vsre shot AeW1 6lid6 6lls
four q thsn. Abel reck Ch1gle
Ion, August 1aBest 81
lying dad a1snost ~
every ono q - ~ -
the
ward
ran mp
"The c0jdl
shall never cdll
alive" He was RJlll H.
another brave soul rai3
only to fall. Again e.
grasped the starry banner, - 4!
waving 1t aloft, he. too. 1ell tsgz1bly
wounded. No falling back wns tAsaeht
Of until ordered to retreat. and then
the nag was dragged BY force fr0A
the hands Of . mortally wounded 0oa-
der. who, with last expiring effort,
tried to raise It from the grOund. but
fell back. only to die. Splendid Nlchf-
gan. your sons have done you great
honor!
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Without faith = man can do moth
ipg, but faith can stifie all science.
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in 1871 and 1872. At Dayton. O., in
1880, he was elected commander-in-
chief Of the G. A. r. He is an active
member of Ellis post, No. 6, G. A.
R., of Germantown, Pa, where he now
resides.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-02-12

In front of the fire sat q stout, broad
faced, dark skinned man
Catholic priest His hair was thick
and as yet untouched by the gray of
age, eyes large and strong, and his
countenance, though confessing to good
living, advertised a spirit of benevo-
lence and charity. This was Father
Francois Grhe, cure of Mansura, whose
ecclesiastical dominion extended south
ward to the Bayou B9uf. He had
heard call to the ferry, and later,
when the sound of rushing hoofs and
wheels in the road fell upon his ear,
ne had peered out into the darkness,
but, Notwithstanding the illumination
of a lightning fash, had discovered
nothing Valsin entered the room
swishng the rain from his broad felt
hat and, stamping his wet and muddy
boots upon the floor, said:
II don't like a night like this, father
hot and dripping and heavy. 1t always
makes me feel that something bad is
going to happen"
Keep your soul clean, Valsin," said
the priest, land whatever happens on
a night like this cannot be bad for
YOU
"Oh, it is not for myself-no-that l
am uneasy, but l think that persons
travelling abroad are sure to meet with
accident. and If man is hurt in the
Magnolia hills on such a night he may
lie there until morning and no one
know of his suffering"
81 have just heard some one drive up
from the ferry" observed the priest,
"and pass on toward the hills. Who
was 1t, Valsin"
81 do not know" replied valsin. 81
did not go to the ferry. The boy
Pierre is there tonight. But come, ia
Their; your supper of chicken, eggs and
coffee is ready. You must be very
hungry after driving so far and wait
ing so long"
TContinued next week