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More Blessed.

"I have showed you all things, how
that so laboring ye ought to support
the weak, and to remember the words
of the Lord Jesus, how He said, it is
more blessed to give than to receive"
(Acts 20:35). The worlds principle
is that it Is the most blessed thing in
the world to receive, and to keep that
which we have. The principles Of
heaven works on exactly the opposite
principle from that of the ruler OF
this world. :
It is a wonderful thing that this
saying, though not recorded In the
gospels by any Of the eyangelists,
was thought worthy Of record by
Luke, who received it from the apos-
tie Paul. This was the controlling
principle of the life of Jesus, also Of
the life of the apostle Paul, who fol-
lowed Jesus. 1t will be the control
ling principle of every n who is a
Christian. We receive but to give,
and the greatest Joy in this world is
to give. The greatest blessing comes
in giving.
My dear brother, do you know that
one reason why your spiritual exper-
l6nCe Is uOL CledT IL uTlSuL u1dy uS
that you do not give as is your privil-
eye? What a blessing would come
to many who read this article If they
were to give until it became a real
sacrifice! During the week of prayer
just past you may have had your
heart drawn out in longing for the
blessing Of God, and yet it may be
that you are closing the channel to
Gods blessing by not giving what
God has given you.
There are many calls. A blessing
Is in every n for those who give,
and not only giyea bit sacrifice to
give. Some one who reads this arti-
Gle could easily give $1,000 and more
to the various funds appealing for
aid, and it would be a great blessing
and joy to him. Others could give,
by a little effort, one-half that
amount, and there are many who
read this article who can give 500.
MY brother, my sister, you know
whether you can do this. He who
gives will in return receive a greater
blessing than he would were some one
to make him a present Of that same
amount.-Review and Herald.
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THE SUNDAY school,.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM.
MENTS FOR JUNE %, BY THE
REV. I. w. HENDERSON.
Review Lesson-Golden Text: Is. 43:
2-Rcad Ps. 1O6:1-12.

Review Lesson-Golden Text: Is. 43:
2-Rcad Ps. %1O6:1.12.
Chief points of the lesson for April
7 as set forth in our study in these
columns. /. Isaac's trust in Gods
Willingness to continue to Jacob the
promises that He had made to Isaac.
2. Jacobs consciousness of the divine
reality. 3. Jacobs consciousness of
the divine contiguity. 4. Jacobs
consciousness Of the divine prov
idence.
April IA. 1. Jacob in distress.
2. Jacob PROSTATE before God. 8.
Jacobs terror. 4. Gods answer to
Jacobs prayer. S. The awfulness of
the recollection Of sin.
April 21. /. The fascinating char
acter of Joseph. 2. Joseph gotten
rid of by his brethren. 8. The con-
sequences Of family favoritism. 4.
The progress and elimination of fra
ternal hate. S. How God uses the
plans Of bad mel to further His d.
vine purposes.
April %. l.. Joseph sold into
slavery. 2. The greatness Of Gods
providence. 8. The greatness of JOS
eph's character. 4. Joseph faithful
to God. S. Faithfulness to Christ a
necessity to the enjoyment of the joys
: of the Christian life.
May S. /. Joseph in prison. @.
Joseph as a diviner. 8. Joseph's
substantial evidence of his nearness
to God. 4. Joseph faithful to Poti-
phar. S. Joseph humble in his vice.
regal splendor.
May IL. l.. The magnanimity of
Joseph. 2. The abiding love of JOS
eph for his unworthy brethren. g.
Joseph's forgiveness.
May 10. /. The trials and the
tribulations of Israel in Egypt. q.
The book of the Exodus a record of
the industrial as we'll as Of the spir-
itual hardships to which the people. OF
Israel had to submit. 8. God with
Israel in her adversely. 4. The les
son of Israel in bondage apropos to-
day.
May &c. 1. The humble birth Of
Moses. 2. The loyalty Of Moses
mother. 8. Moses in the palace. 4.
Moses indignant at the cruelty OF
the Egyptians in dealing with his
brethren. S. Moses advice to the
fighting toilers. g.. The unkindness
Of the worlds toilers to each other. z.
Advice refused.
June 2. 1. Duties that come to us.
2. The holiness of Gods house. 8.
The value Of humility and depend
ence on God. 4. Moses asks for aid
to accomplish his work. 5. The
power of God in this world.
June 9. /. Gods covenant with
Israel. 2. Egypt reaps the conse-
quences Of her W misdoings. 3.
Israel helps herself out of trouble.
4. Israel obedient. .
June Is. /. Israel delivered. Q.
Pharaoh behind. 3. The inspiration
of God to Israel. 4. God insists that
Israel shall help herself. 5. The ten
acity and steadfastness Of Jehovah.
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havior; but there are others who
have better opportunities Of judging,
who give anything but a good report
Of him. l think it is positively mon
strous, William" concluded Aunt
Maria, energetically, that a man in
your position, and at your time of
life, should be summoned up to town
in such weather as this, with snow
On the ground, to dance attendance
upon Mr.. John Adair."
The long cherries journey in the
train Except when he took out Rob-
ert's letter and read it again, which
always acted as a cordial) was a very
miserable business. On arrival he
drove to Albany street, a very unex-
pected visitor.
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CALDRON EXPLODES, 5 DEAD.
Third Fatal Accident at Steel Com.
nanv,s Furnaces Within Six Months.

Pittsburg, Pa.-The Inflated Eliza
group Of furnaces Of the Jones &
Laughlin Steel Company was the
scene of another disaster, the third IN
six months, shortly before 6 o'clock
D. m, when a slip" caused furnace
No. l to explode.
Five charred bodies burned to a
crisp are at the county morgue, two
Of whom were assistant superintend-
ents. Another, an assistant superin-
tendent, is badly injured, and four
other workmen are at the Mercy Hos
pital, all of whom will likely die.
OF the five charred and blackened
bodies at the morgue it is possible to
identify only the two assistant super
intendents from papers and letters
found in their clothing, some OF
which, in an unaccountable manner,
we're not destroyed, although the bod
les are so horribly burned as to be
past recognition.
The dead are: E. B. Willard, chief
mechanic, with. title Of assistant SUI
perintendent; John West, head blow
er, with title Of assistant superin-
tendent, and three unknown men.
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WHITES AND BLACKS
|. IN DEADLY CONFLICT
Five Killed at Reidsville, Ga, in
Fierce Encounter.
BRUTAL ATTACK ON A WIDOW
Tragedy Occurred at Home Of John
Pagett, Where a Crowd of
Whites Went to Seek Elem Pa
gett, Colored.

Pagett, Where a Crowd Of
Whites Went to Seek Elem Pa
gett, Colored.
C%laXton, Ga. - In an attempt to
avenge an assault on Mrs. Laura
Moore, a white widow, a mob at TAFT
nails killed the father, mother, two
brothers and a sister Of the suspect,
Elem Pagett a negro. The lynchers
did not escape injury, one white mar
being killed and several wounded.
About fifteen citizens surrounded
the house Of Sim Pagett, father of
the suspect, who they thought was
harboring him. They demanded Of
Pagett's wife to be allowed to search
the house. 3.
Permission was given, but when
the posse advanced TO within thirty
feet Of the house Pagett and the
other negro men on the inside of the
building opened fire on the posse, in
stantly killing John Hare and Sc
riously wounding Barlow Preston.
They shot out James Daniels eye
and wounded him in the shoulder and
arm.
The fire was returned by the men,
bers of the posse, killing Sim Pagett,
n of his girls about ten. years old.
and a son twenty years old, and
wounding two other girls about six
and thirteen years old; also shooting
one of Pagett's boys, aged twenty
two, through the hip.
When all the ammunition of the
)osse had been exhausted they re-
ired, leaving one Of their number
lead and carrying off three wounded.
The negroes were still shooting.
The news spread like wildfre, and
soon there were 500 men on the
Icene, with rifles, shotguns and pis-
oils. A searching party started IN
pursuit of the two negroes, one OF
hem wounded, who escaped from the
house after the shooting. One of
hem was captured and taken before
Mrs. Moore, but she failed to identify
aim as her assailant. Later DR.. j.
L.. Kennedy identified him as the ne
gro whom he say shoot Mr.. Hare,
and lynching looked inevitable. The
crowd finally decided to let the law
take it's course, and Deputy Sheriff E.
;. Elmer left with all the negroes for
the Reidsville jail. ,
On the way the officer was over
taken by about seventy-fve men and
the prisoners were demanded. There
was no other alternative, and the
prisoners were taken by the mob.
One woman was told to run, and as
she did so she was riddled with bull
lets. Her son was wounded so that
he could not run and was shot to
pieces in the public road.
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Consciousness Of Gods Presence.

Be regular in your seasons Of pray1
er. Make use even Of those times I'M
the day when you are only partially
occupied with external things, to ocj
cupy yourself inwardly with God; for
instance, while doing needleworA
maintain a close sense of the presence
of God. The thought of His presence
is less easily preserved in conversai
ton, but even then you can frequentj
ly recall a general consciousness of
It, overruling your every word, and
depressing all that is over-eager, al!
sallies of pride or contempt, all the
sensitiveness of self-loye.
Bear with yourself, but do not fat1
ter yourself. Work effectually and
steadily, yet calmly and without thd
Impotence Of self-love, at The correct
ton of your faults.-Fenelon.
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The State vs.. the LIQUOR Traffic.


The Indictment. /. The liquor
traffic has ever been a. blighting curse
upon everything pure, good and holy;
always in direct opposition to all the
best interests Of mankind.
2. 1t is the cause, direct or indi-
rect, of s~ix-sevenths of the pauperism
and four-hfths CT all the crime in the
nation.
8. The saloon is the natural rem
devious of anarchists and outlaws;
in fact, the incubator where such
crime-producers are galvanized into
life, and reinforced with the incentive
and courage to go forth and perform
their deeds of darkness.
4. Liquor drinking is the prime
cause of the horrible condition of the
slums in the great cities, thus adding
greatly to the miseries Of mankind,
and to the burdens of the non-drink-
ing and producing class.
The temperance advocates present
these indictments, and in the open
court of the people say to the liquor
dealers: Stand forth, and plead.
Are these grave charges true or false?
Are you guilty or not guilty."
It will not answer the purpose to
waive the main question, and say, as
of old {: "You temperance people are
cranks and fanatics; if we do not sell,
someone else will. The people are
not educated up to prohibition yet.
Anyway, what are you going to do
about it? We have the money to put
in any campaign-and' we will fight
you to the bitter end"
No court will listen to such plead
ing as that. Guilty or not guilty to
the charges in the indictment. If the
charges are false, refute them and
the temperance advocates of the
country are falsiiers and maligners:
and you should prove them thus to
be, and insist upon a proper punish
ment being melted out to them.
Upon the other hand, If these as
yet unrefuted charges are true, how
is it possible for honest, fair-minded
men to uphold or justify the licensing
of the traffic?
The Ease is submitted, without ar
gument, until the defendant sees fit
to come into court and plead.
When this is done, the party OF
the first part" will be ready with ar
gument and testimony sufficient to
convince any court or jury of the
truth and righteousness Of the
plaintiffs cause; and the temperance
hosts will move for a verdict of guilty
and demand that sentence be passed
upon this hardened and ancient GRIM
inal, who has wrought no good, but
only evil all the days of his life.
Then will the world take on a new
lease of life, and, as n has said:
when the people have settled this
question and settled it right we can
say in reality, as we now say in the
DRY, 'Vox populi, vox Del. Cali
fornia Issue.
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THE GREAT
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.

Poem: s'Thc Cost of It"-Case of the
State VS.. the Liquor Traffic
Whole World Should Move For a
Verdict Of Guilty.
'"Ten dollars and COSTS" so the wise judge
said,
As out from his presence the man was led.
Just a common drunk-an everyday thing
Still, there's room for a little ponderlng.
Ten dollars and costs! Is this all, wise
man? =,
There is something anliss with your legal
plan. 49,,
NV reckoning, sir, is far from this
There is something, / fear, which has gone
Did you count the cost of the mans dis.
grace, -
His bloodshot eyes and his sodden face?
His trembling hands and shame-boWed
head,
His step from which all blitheness had
fed?
The remorse that came with his sober
thought, .,
Did you reckon the price with which it
was bought?
Did you count in your judgment the
precious price
Of a soul enslaved in the bonds of vice?
Of a life that was wrecked-a birthright
sold,
Priceless, beyond all price OF gold?
Did you count in your judgment, o man SO
wise,
The mothers tears in her trimming eyes?
Did YOU note the grief ID ner careworn
face,
And the burrows made by a child's dis
grace?
Did you count the prayers she has falter-
ing said
That her child from sinful ways be led:
0 judge, did you count all these, l say,
When you balanced accounts on tnat
judgment day?
And the stricken wife with her broken
Did you count that in with your cost as
part:
Did you think of the shame of a drunk
ards wife
Her blasted hopes and her ruined life?
The nights of sorrow and days of woe
Laden with shame, as they ever go;
Did you count the prayers that her lips
had said
And the tears that flowed as her sad heart
At the thought of her children's cruel
shame?
A drunkard father-a dishonored name!
Better by far had they never been born
Than to face the world with its pitiless
"N 1T ..
lid you count what it strong
man lost
Or had this no part in your summed up
cost?
A cu,nberer now where he might have
been
A host for good 'mong his fellowmen-
A leader of strength hero to fight
In the raging battle for good and right;
Might have led and paved the way ,
70 some fair-famed goal and a better day;
Might have broken the chains of drink
and vice
And lived in the glory of sacrifice!
Just a common drunk-no moreno Less
A spicy joke for the daily press.
Just a common drunk-an everyday thing.
Yet there's room for a little pondering.
Home Herald.
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Judge Lin.isay's Indictment.

AS a Judge I have faced the woes,
the trials, the miseries, and broken
homes of society caused only by the
want of a. proper solution of this
problem OF problems.
Thousands and thousands OF homes
have been broken up, caused by the
traffic in ~intoyicants.
| have divorced four thousand peo-
pie. I have tried no less than 5000
children in the past six years.
This lamentable social condition Is
traceable in a large degree to the
legalized saloon.-Judge Ben. B..
Lindsay. Denver, Col.
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Italy BUYS q Masterpiece.

Minister of Education Rava an
nounced in the Chamber Of Deputies
at Rome that the Government had
purchased for 100000 a magnificent
masterpiece of ancient sculpture,
which was brought to light by a
storm in 1878. In this tempest the
waves washed away part of the shore
at Porto d'Anzio, where a famous
villa of Nero was situated, and un-
earthed a statue representing a
priestess. BY some persons this
Statue is attributed to the school of
Praxiteles. 1t is considered to be IS
perfect as the Victory" of Samo-
thrace or the Venus of Milo.
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TWO KILLED IN FEUD BATTLE
Flemings. of Kentucky, in a Desper-
ate Fight With a Posse.

Whitesburg, Ky,-News Of a des-
perate encounter between the Elem.
ings and a posse of officers from Pike
County, in which Bob Rivers, a mem
Der of the Sheriff's posse, and Dave
Moore, one of the Flemings' gang,
were killed, and Abe Hall, of the
posse, wounded. The Flemings, who
killed Bony Hall, the Deputy Sheriff,
a few days ago, after he had led the
Halls in an attempt to arrest them,
have been resting on their arms In
their rendezvous on Long Fork, and
the neighbors have feared to carry
news to the officers.
The relatives of Hall, who have
long been engaged in a feud with the
Flemings, got up a posse and went in
search of the outlaws. The Halls
we're routed and the Flemings, after
taking their dead on horses, gal
loped away togard the Virginia line.
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Italy Buys a Masterpiece.

Minister of Education Rava AMI
nounced in the Chamber of Deputies
at Rome that the Government had
purchased for 100000 a magnificent
masterpiece of ancient s%culptureI
which was brought to light by a
storm in 1878. In this tempest the
waves washed away part of the shore
at Porto d'Anzio, where a famous
villa of Nero was situated, and uni
.arthed a statue representing a
priestess. BY some persons thia
statue is attributed to the school of
Praxiteles. 1t is considered to be as|
perfect as the Victory" of Samoa
ihrace or the Venus of Milo.
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Gods School.

There Is nothing like LIES drudg1
cry to make men and women OF us|
You chafe under it. You sigh fol
leisure, to be free from bondage I'd
hours, to duties, to tasks, to appoint
ments, to rules, to the treadmil|
round. Yet this is Gods school FOL
you. 1t may be a cross. We do moi
grow most in the easiest life. Acl
cent your treadmill round, your plod|
ding, your dull task-work, and do all
well--do always your best-and you
will grow into strong, noble charac|
t~er.--e.:..'eh Pef3"mer.
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Novel Temperance Society.

A novel temperance society has
been formed in the city of Berlin
for the purpose Of rendering timely
assistance to drunken persons. On
meeting a drunk in the street it will
be the duty Of a member of the asso-
citation to proven: him from imbib-
ing any more liquor, to protect him
from the dangers of the street, and
to escort him. if possible, to his home.
If a conveyance has to be secured for
this purpose, it will be done at the
expense of the society.
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THE MASTER CALLETH.

Hark the voice of Jesus crying,
"Who will 60 and work to-day?
Fields are white, and harvests waitIngs
Who will bear the sheaves away
Loud and long the Master calleth,
Rich reward He offers thee;
Who will answer, gladly saying.
Here am I, send me, send me-"
Let none hear you idly saying,
There is nothing l can do
While the souls of men are dying,
And the Master calls for you.
Take the task He gives you gladly,
Let His work your pleasure be;
Answer quickly when He calleth--
Here am I, send me, send me-
ID. March.
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Only Too We'll Satisfied.

The husband who is always growl-
Ing over everything from his meals
to his laundry looked up from his
paper and remarked sulkily:
Madam, / see where a Chicago
man went from home, remained
thirty years and then returned and
gave his wife $4,000. If you don't
do better you may find me doing the
same trick some day"
The patient little wife looked up
from her sewing and replied sweet
ly:
"All right, James, but if you will
only remain away thirty years you
needn't trouble yourself about the
$4,000" And after that he stopped
growling.-Chicago Daily News.
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No Home Rule at Present.

The Nationalist Convention in Dub
lin unanimously adopted John Red
mond's resolution rejecting Chief
Secretary Birrell's Irish bill, and in
consequence nothing further will be
done in the direction of home rule
for ireland at this session of Parlia-
meut.
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Governor Cooling Criticised.

Counsel for Haywood accused Co.
ernor Goodipg. Of Idaho, OF arrang-
ing the Orchard interview for the
purpose of influencing the talesmen,
and Judge Wood ordered a rigid in
Yestigation.
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The Good Endures.

mo good deed, no genuine sacri-
fee. is ever wasted. If there be good
in it, God will use it for His own holy
and whatever of ignorance,
or weakness, or mistake, was mingled
with it, will drop away as the with
cred petals drop away when the full
flower has blown"
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Disastrous Fire at Ncwberry, Fla.

T%wo-thirds of the business district
of Newberry, Fla, the most important
town in the phosphate belt, has been
burned, with a loss of 100000,
about one-third being covered by in
Surance.
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A.ffectionate Father Kills Children.

William Simpson, a prosperous
young farmer of st. Charles, Canada,
shot and killed his two infant daugh-
tiers and then tried to kill himself by
putting two revolver bullets into his
own body. Physicians say excessive
affection for his children caused in
cnnitN-
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FATAL CRASH ON THE CENTRAL.
One Dead, Several Hurt, on Passenger
Train at Little Falls.

Little Falls, N. Yin the wreck
of the Buffalo and Cleveland special,
west-bound from New York City, on
the New York Central Railroad, just
outside the eastern limits of tbs city,
n man was killed and two were
critically injured. The dead man is
Baggagemaster Isaac Finley, Of New
York or Rochester.
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K i tile Life Out.

BY the time you have boiled your
faith down to a form YOU have taken
the life out of it.
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Japan'S Bank CearinoS.

Tokio's bank clearings last year
were s1.750,000, 900, an increase Of
$500, 000,0 900 over 1905.
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Two sorrel horses, weighing 1000
pounds each, have been purchased
for President Rooseyelt's carriage. 7