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The free press., 1902-03-06

Andrew Carnegie was the chief speaker
al the celebration of the twenty-siXth au--
niversary of the Railroad Branch OF the
Young Mems Christian Association, New
York City. The hall on the second floor
of the building was filed to overAowing
with railroad men. Seats had been re-
served for them until just before the meet
ing opened, when many visiting ladies en-
tered the hall and took them. The place
was literally packed. Mr.. Carnegie said:r
Gentlemen, ] congratulate you of the
railroad world on occupying the proud po-
sition, as [ believe, of the most temperate
body of employees in the world. You are
an example to the workingman in other'
branches of the outspreading tree of labor,
and your influence cannot fail to prove OF
incalculable benefit. No rule that man
can adopt will bring greater reward ~tff&EH
this, to abstain from the use OF alcohol as
a beverage. A drinking man has no place
in the railway system. Indeed, he should
have no place anywhere.
There is no room for antagonism upon,
a railroad between employer and employe,
for your President and Superintendent do
not own the property any more than you
do; therefore you are, as just said mem
bers of the same corps-you are all equally
the servants of the company. There is
another feature of cheering import in your
positions. The road to promotion is clear
and direct. You can all certify to that,
for I doubt not many of those now in au-
thority over you began as you did, in su-
bordinate positions, and have won their
way by merit not by favor
Fellow railroaders, there rests upon,
you grave responsibilities; you have in
your keeping the lives of the public. I
need not say the travelling public, for with
us all travel Strict sobriety. unceasing
vigilance, stanch courage, faithfulness to.
duty, are demanded from you, and that
these are characteristic of the force is tes-
titled at recurring intervals and by the
position you have reached and occupy in
the estimation of your grateful fellow-cit.
liens"
The free press., 1902-03-06
why Few Are Called.

"Of the various reason-often contra
dictory-assigned for the disinclination of
young men to enter the ministry none, it
seems to us" says the New York Examin
er (Bapt.). ''touches the real source of the
difficulty, which may be summed up in a
single 'entence-they do not want to en-
ter it. All the various objections to the
ministerial career that have been enumer-
ated would count for nothing if young
man were possessed by a consuming zeal
for that form of Christian service The
fact that the ranks Of medicine and the
law are overcrowded does not deter young
men from entering them; nor does the
other fact that the majority of the fedg-
ling doctors and lawyers find the struggle
FOR eXistence-to say nothing of success
and a competency-a long and bitter one,
act as a barrier to aspiring youth. A gen.
timely consecratcd heart would not shrink
from whatever hardships the pursuit of so
high and sacred a vocation as the Gospel
ministry might entail. if the possessor of
it were persuaded il his inmost being that
it was his vocation. a veritable call from
God to his soul. Magnify these hardships
as you willard we are not disposed to
minimize them. or some of them, at least
they would still be, yea. they are to many
a noble soul, but as a thread of gossamer
in barring the way to the ful6lment OF the
hearts desire"
The free press., 1902-03-06

Nearly twenty years ago, largely through'
the instrumentality of one devoted woman
aided by noble workers, especially the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
the first Temperance Education law in the
world was enacted in Vermont. As State
after State in rapid succession placed sim
liar laws upon its statute books they were,
represented in white on the map of the;
United States as an object lesson, whill
the rest of the Union was drawn in black.
The Governor of Georgia has just sent
Mrs. Mary H. Hunt Superintendent for
Worlds and National Woman's TEMPER.
ance Union, OF Boston, the pen with which
he signed the last of these laws now passed
by the Legislatures of every one of the.
forty-hve States of the United States and
by the National Congress, all of which re-.
quire temperance physiology to be taught
all pupils in all schools under State and
Federal control.
A company of distinguished people gath
cred informally in Mrs Hunts parlors
January 25 to witness the removal of this
last ''black cap from the national map,
and to welcome Georgia to the white sis.
terhood thus made complete.
This study that gives with other laws OF
health the scientific reasons for total ab-
stinencc is now legally engrafted upon the
educational system OF this entire country.
and Is last spreading to other lands. It's
beneficent results, already manifest in the
greater sobriety Of the American workingt.
man, and In the increased length of humah
life, are destined to become more and morIe
apparent, Their thorough enforcement
will mean a new generation of citizens toJc
wise to stultify themselves with into-1i
cants, and thus the peaceful solution
through education. of the temperance prob
lem.-New York Sun.
The free press., 1902-03-06

A jury in Prince Edward Island
seems to be pretty independent body.
according to story published recently
in one OF the local papers. The incl
dent occurred during the trial Of case
for the assessment Of damages, which
was up before the high sheriff of the
county. The case was originally very
simple, but owing to the peculiar tao
tics employed on both sides was soon
transformed into an exceedingly com
plicated and mystifying problem. Aft
er listening for many weary hours to
the haranguing of counsel and the ex-
animation of witnesses, one old jury
man finally got up in disgust and left
the room, with the spirited exclama-
tion, '"To - with it," and all the
others followed him out. The court, il
is said, thereupon decided that, since
the jury had disagreed. no damages
could be assessed.
The free press., 1902-03-06

years his name has been synonymous
with terror in the minds of the white
people. To-day, enraged and humili
ated, the raiments of his Office taken
from him and his very presence ig-
nored, he threatens vengeance swift
and terrible upon his arch enemy and
all those who have conspired to his
1ndoing.
Geronimo in this mood is indeed a
Zoe to fee from-unless one would do
desperate battle That Is why there
"a trouble brewing these days on the
Apache land In Oklahoma.
It all happened because Geronimo
listened to the fattering invitation
rendered him by the officials Of the
Buffalo exposition.
He spent the summer there and was
. conspicuous feature of the great
show. His stay was thoroughly en-
3oyable, his life at the exposition
grounds one of continual comfort and
pleasure. AS to the future he trou
6led himself not at all.
To be sure, there had been slight
unpleasantness before he left home,
stirred up by one Macenhorses, an
Apache who had jealously longed for
many years to step into Geronimo's
moccasins. Macenhorses openly ac-
cused Geronimo of catering to the
wishes of certain cattlemen who
leased land of the Apaches. To this
charge Geronimo, always proud, al
ways dictatorial. haughtily disdained
q reply. He considered it beneath his
dignity to do, and maintained stiff
aecked silence.
Then came the overtures OF the Buff
falo exposition people. The chief Of
che Apaches packed his paraphernalia
and departed in all his picturesque,
barbaric glory for the haunts OF civ
ilization and its brilliant center, the
Pan-American at Buffalo. He did not
think seriously enough Of the attitude
of Macenhorses to provide himself any
means of defense. He fattered him
The free press., 1902-03-06
Living by Daily Work.

That which we earn, or which we work
for. is worth more to us than that which
is given to us without any effort on our
part. This is in accordance with God 8
best dealings with His children, and all of
mans experience tends to confirm this
truth. Even in Eden. before mans fall,
man was set to dress the garden and keep
it. He had to work for his living while yet
at his best, and while God was caring for
him as His favorite child. When later in
the wilderness. the children of Israel were
being led by God. and fed by bread from
heaven day by day. they had, each and
all, to earn enough for living by picking
up their needful food When the rich
Boaz was won to an interest in attractive
Ruth, the Moabitist young widow, he did
not say to the laborcrs in his lordly fields:
"Givc her all the grain she needs or
wants,' buo he said: "Let her CLEAN. even
among the sheaves" That was the better
way for Ruth. Having what she cleaned
was better than would have been having
what was given her in charity. 1t was the
samc in the new dispensation as in the
old. The word of The apostle was, as to
the early Christians: 'If any man will not
work, neither let him eat" Our highest
privilege is of working for our living. not
of living without work. Let us be crate
full that we have the blessing of work
When we have living support in connec-
tion with work, that is something more to
be grateful for. May we be spared from
living without work rk.-Sunday-S Times.
The free press., 1902-03-06

Before large number of young men,
many of them members of his Bible
class in New York, John D. Rockefel-
! Ter, Jr., delivered a short address ON
Opportunity" In an earnest manner
he expressed the belief that mere
chance has little to do in shaping the
fortunes OF men, and that opportunity
must be sought.
He based his remarks on the promise
given in Matt. vii, Z: ASK, and it
shall be given you; seek, and ye shall
find; knock, and it shall be opened
unto you"
at often happens" said Mr.. Rookie
feller, that young man in all ear
nestness says, I want to do something
for myself, something for my friends
something for my family and some
thing for my God and fails to do any
thing. Then he sighs and believes that
opportunity has never offered itself to
him.
Il suppose that it often happens that
men are the victims of circumstances,
but more often better explanation for
failure can be found. Some say that
Hobson did that great deed in the har
Dor OF Santiago because fortune fav
ored him. Others who were there were
brave and competent and just as will
ing as Hobson, yet the opportunity was
only for him
''The reason that one man finds an
opportunity while another fails is that
the first seeks while the other waits to
be called. 1t is not always so, but at
least ninety-nine times in a hundred
fortune favors the persistent hunter
and passes by the laggard.
Christ says, Go and knock on the
door if you want to get in. Don't sit
back and wait for the door to open
So when a man knocks on the door to
success and demands an opportunity
he may be mighty poor specimen, he
may be ignorant, he may know nothing
Of the task on the other side Of the
door, but the fact that he knocks and
The free press., 1902-03-06
Chief Geronimo Deposed


which numbers only two hundred and
fifty. An election was held fort
night ago and Geronimo was defeated.
His lordly raiment was then handed
over to Macenhorses, who was formal.
ly proclaimed chief.
This was the cheering condition Of
Apache politics when the unsuspect-
ing Geronimo, his sport ended, left the
haunts of the pale-face, whose over
lures had indirectly wrought his ruin,
and hastened home
He Immediately challenged Chief
Macenhorses to fight duel. The new
ruler retaliated by having Geronimo
arrested and fining him ten ponies.
The band of Apaches on the reser-
yation surrounding Port Sill, though
In reality prisoners of war are prac-
tically free, as they have had their
liberty for years and show no inclina-
ton to escape. They control their own
land to rent or use, and live in their
own preferred Apache way. Geronimo
himself draws $25 a month as scout.
The free press., 1902-03-06
GODS MESSAGE TO MAN
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM TIE
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS.

Poem: Dawn-Soon the Truth Win Illu-
mine All Our III Hearts-Prayto BE Spared
From Living without Work-A Source
of Gratitude.
The heralds of the summer dawn
Are Joyous in the dewy fields:
The morning wind brings up the hill
The fragrance that the meadow Yields
A mingled scent, elusive, sweet,
OF new-mown grass and clover white,
And locust blossoms by the brook
That glimners in the early light.
Now all the east in splendor shines.
The world awakes to greet the day..
The quail is whstling mo more wet,
The river mists are rolled away;
For now the sun is on the hills.
The shadows stretch across the mead
The JOY of morning freshly fills
Each spreading tree, each waysidc weed.
Not so has dawned the light OF truth
Upon the darkened world of thought;
But slowly to our waiting eyes
Has grown the glearl our souls have
sought.
So, slowly growing through the years,
The. blessed truth that "rlakes men
free!"
The clouds of superstition still
Obscure the light that all should see
Yet surely as the dawn unbars
The gateway of the eastern sky
To food the fields with radiance,
And all the land to glorify,
So surely shall the light of truth
Upon its heaven-appointed way
Illumjne all our hearts at last,
And shine unto the perfect day"
Harriet Waters For5ush.
The free press., 1902-03-06

One would not imagine offhand that
ice could possibly be instrumental in
accomplishing the distribution Of
plants, yet a French scientist has re-
Gently called attention to the fact that
icebergs are frequently useful in this
way. Navigators of polar seas often
encounter bergs carrying enormous
masses of debris, with more or less
SOIL in which plants are growing.
Eventually the ice mass runs aground
upon the shore of some distant land,
there depositing the plants, which
may find themselves so situated as to
be enabled to reproduce their species.
The case of volcanoes as plant dis
tributors is even more remarkable.
though one must regard as very ex-
ceptional such instances as that noted
at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in
1887, where large quantities of vol
canic pumice were observed floating
on the sea. On these fragments Of
pumice were found various small ami
mails unfamiliar to that part OF the
world, and there was also a sort OF
cocoanut. The nut was planted, and
in due time produced a palm strange
to the African coast. 1t was decided
that the pumice came from the great
eruption of Krakatoa, in the Straits
of Sunda, which was in its way the
most remarkable volcanic cataclysm OF
modern times.-Philadelph Evening
Post.
The free press., 1902-03-06
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOoSS
TIE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Tipping Women in All Classes-BishoP
Coleman Says Conditions in England
Are Even Worse Than Here-There Ia
a BETTER Showing Among the Men.

Coleman Says Conditions in England
Are Even Worse Than Here-There is
"A Better Showing Among the Men.
The Right Rev. Leighton Coleman, Epis.
copal Bishop of Delaware, who startled
his hearers in a mission address at New
Brunswick by the statement that there Is
an alarming increase OF lntemperance
among women along with decrease or
intemperance among men, repeated the
statement to reporter of the New \ ork
World. He said that his opinion had been
formed only after exhaustive investigation
and observation of conditions in this coun-
try and abroad.
Bishop Coleman said that a newspaper
hostile to his views set on foot an inquiry
in New York with a view of disprovlng
his charge. Committees of impartial citi-
zens went to the various fashionable no.
tells and womens restaurants, taking notes
of the orders of women patrons. They
found that to take wines, cordials, even
whisky with ones meals was an almost in
variable rule among the wealthy and fash
ionable set. Not only this, but IN so.
called tea rooms intoXicantS were served
to women who ordered them without even
the pretense of ordering meal.
"Intemperance among women, however,,
said the Bishop, ''is not confined to the
women of the wealthy and fashionable
class. The use of stimuants, medicines,
bracerS, tones and all similar devr&1S
serving as a mask for the liquor habit is
becoming more general among the middle
classes. In England conditions are worse
even than here, for the 'grocers' license
advanced by Mr. Gladstone as a temper
ance measure has had vastly different aas
suit. w.
'Mr. Gladstone hoped that intemper-
ance would be decreased by making it pos
sible for the middle class to secure the
liquor in small quantities from their gro
GERS instead of compelling them to go to.
public houses, where the temptation to
drink in excess would be much greater.
Instead of this, however, the grocer's liz
cense enables women to indulge the drink
habit secretly. Whisky and gin are bought
at the groceries and are charged to the
husbands accounts as tea or cheese. The
evil is as prevalent among the aristocratic
among the middle classes" As to the
decrease in drunkenness among men Bishop
Coleman said: Not so many years ago
there was tendency on the part of many
people to laugh at a drunken man; to see
something funny, or absurd or ludicrous
in drunkenness, but nothing sinful or
wicked. Nov, however, that men are
coming to consider drunkenness as some
thing to be ashamed of, there is increas-
ing vigor to the resistance against all sorts
of temptations to excess"
Bishop Coleman said that much of this
reform is due to the positive attitude
taken by all denominations of the Chris
tian church, especially the Episcopalians.
The free press., 1902-03-06

There is a unique tenement house in
Guilford. Maine. Years ago the old
Universalist Church in that place was
abandoned as a place of worship and
it fell into the hands of several owners
who converted 1t into a large dwelling
house by the alteration simply Of the
interior. Stairways were placed on the
outside, leading to the upstair tene-
ments, but beyond these exterior addi-
tions the church retained all its former
appearances Of meeting house" and
is known locally as ''The Church" The
high steepla and it's weather vane add
ed little ornament and no usefulness to
this rather odd dwelling house, but
they continued to occupy this exalted
If incongruous position until week
ago, when the carpenters tore dowr
the steeple, and this old landmark ol
"Pious HIP lost. as it were, its piety
The free press., 1902-03-06

Everything goes by contraries, of
course, out here. The European of
proverbial experience buys a grand
piano which, being bought, necessi-
tates corresponding alterations and
improvements in the drawing room,
and so to the house in general, the
result being a removal from the villa
t oa mansion. China knows better
She buys an expensive fleet, and then
foreseeing the trouble and expense it
is going to be to her in a thousand
different ways, gets into quarrel with
Japan so that she may rid herself of
a considerable portion. That done,
the second step is taken. So that all
temptation may be removed she gives
away ney naval ports.
Now she puts up to auction the few
remaining vessels.
"Going, going not yet gone"
the troubles and anxieties Of fleet.
Hans in Luck" was nothing to it,.
Wonderful China!-Shanghai Mercury.
The free press., 1902-03-06
Your Best Work.

A timid man, a discouraged worker.
sad-hearted struggler, can never do the
best work of which he is capable. The
timid man is afraid to let out his forces.
The discouraged man thinks there is no
use in exercising his forces. The sad
hearted man has weakened his forces SO
that he cannot respond to a call. 1t is
not merely cheerfulness in our work that
we need: it is downright faith honest,
whole souled daring. Try to do your best
with a question whether it pays or whether
there is any hope of success, OF. whether
life is not great, cloudy experience and
you will fail. The best in us comes up
through confidence, and it is kissed into
power by smiles of hope, and it is led on
by shouts of victory, and crowned by beau
tiful latience "The best is born Nof con
test, and is eolored by blood And it is
measured in Gods glorious presence, not
bv banners, or human plaudits, or sound
ing trumpets, but by the amount of virtue
which has entered into it.
The free press., 1902-03-06
SUNDAY IN OLD VIRGINIA.
The Day Was Observed as Strictly as IN
New England.


There is an idea prevalent that the
strict observance of the Sabbath was
almost wholly confined to the North.
Nothing could be more erroneous.
The Blue Laws" of Connecticut, sur
viving as a proverb for hardness, have
impressed the popular mind and fixed
an idea which was, however, not alb
solutely accurate. AS severe as those
enactments We're, they were scarcely
more rigorous, whenever the CbserV-
ance of Sunday was concerned, than
those under which the colony of Vir-
ginia was established and developed
Attendance on divine service was as
strictly enforced, and abstinence from
all secular employment as rigidly en-
joined. 1t was a church going time.
Religion engrossed lne energies of the
people. Participation in worship was
the law and whoever failed in it was
a lawbreaker and was dealt with ac-
cordingly. Later on-that is, prior to
the Revolution-there came a certain
laXness-the reflex Of the taut-strung
bow-when the fox-hunting, cock
fighting parson was inducted into the
livings; but. as the causes were tenn
porary, the main cause being the po-
litical appointment by an absentee
Metropolitan, so the effect was not
permanent
1t was out of these conditions that
Hanover presbytery sprang, under the
influence of Patrick Henry's model, the
eloquent "Parson Davies" later the
president Of Princeton college. Indeed,
while some of the English parsons who
have made the time notorious, were
dicing, and drinking, and fighting. the
laity were standing staunchly for the
old customs, and were making the
saddling upon them Of such miscreants
one of the charges in their indictment
against the government "at home.s
They withstood innovation. They kept
the faith. They build churches which
still stand to-day as memorials of their
piety and churchmanship- "An
Old Virginia Sunday" by Thomas Mel
son Page in Scribner's.
The free press., 1902-03-06

self that his reputation and the plr1e
that he believed he occupied in the
esteem of his tribe would keep his
position secure.
But Geronimo has been given the
surprise Of his life in this year, 1901.
He is choking over the bitterest pill
he has ever had to swallow. He is
the maddest Indian in America.
The assassination of Macenhorses
is the next event anticipated by those
who realize the mood that the de-
throned chieftain Is now chafing under.
for never yet has foe escaped Geroni-
mos wrath.
While he was absent in the East
Macenhorses and a friend Of his
named Naiche put their energies to
good use in undermining his strong
hold. They actively canvassed against
him and succeeded In winning over
TO their side two-thirds of the tribe,
The free press., 1902-03-06

John Burns, the famous English lab
leader and the champion of labor in +
British Parliament, is upon record as X
ing recently made a starting stateme
concerning the relation of saloons to Il
progress Of municipal improvements n
signed to better the condition of worlir
men at Battersea, England. Battersea bti
the borough from which Mr.. Burns Is
representative IN Parliament. The folio
ing is the statement:
Bear this in mind; in everything Tx
we have undertaken we have had the n
sistent and malignant opposition of
saloonkeepers"
The free press., 1902-03-06

A new electrical apparatus for the
guidance of ships at sea is being made
at Baltimore. A shoai light-ship will
be equipped to throw 13-inch electric
beam skyward, and the reflection, it Is
promised. can be seen thirty or forty
miles away.
The free press., 1902-03-06
Municipal Economy.

Jackson, Ont, has made record for
municipal economy. OF the $4,000 yot-
ed for decorations for the reception Of
the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and
York $500 was not spent.
The free press., 1902-03-06

Difficulties are absolutely nothing to the
man who knows that he is ON the mission
on which God has sent him. They are
only opportunities for him to show his
power; problems to manifest his skill in
their solution; thunder clouds on which
to paint the frescoes of his unrealized ten
derness.-ReY F. b. Never.
The free press., 1902-03-06
Azure and Noble Life.

There is not a man on earth so humble
but what he can rise and live pure and
noble life and command respect from MS
fellow men and from God.-Rev. I. L.
Monroe.