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The Judgment of God.

God will give you the thing for
which you faithfully work-health,
prosperity, learning, or any other
of His gifts. What you SOW that you
shall reap But it does not follow
that you will be a happy man or a
good man or a man worthy Of all
respect and love. For these gifts of
the spirit you must have your special
preparation. God grants us u re-
quest, even when We pray for the
wrong things, for hard work Is
strenuous prayer. But it does not
follow that a man shall be satisfied
with the result of his own prayer.
With the splendid physique of an
athlete he may be an ignorant fell
low, out of place among cultivated
people, embarrassed, good for moth
ing outside Of athletic contests. He
may be many times a millionaire, and
yet a man of so few resources that
life means little more to him than
a good dinner and the ticker of the
stock market. He may be a famous
scientist and have classified a SUI
perb collection, and yet the man OF
him so withered and sapless that, as
Emerson said, he Is only fit to be put
in some bottle and added to his "
collection of snakes and beetles.
The judgment Of God Is strikingly
in evidence. Men have prayed or
worked, just as you wish to state it,
merely for animal health or a mil
lion of money or the details of some
science, merely for them and nothing
more. And God has given them their
request-and sent leanness into their
soul.
The severest Judgment Of God Is
letting people become just what they
want to be-ignorant Dr. grasping or
frivolous or even vicious. They close
their hearts to all noble, all generous,
all broadening influences; they have
no interest in the religious or social
life Of the day; they have neither the
scholars love Of truth nor the re-
formers enthusiasm for humanity;
they are living merely for money or
pleasure or personal culture. They
are narrow, self-centred, ignorant,
prejudiced. unamiable men and wo-
men. And what they sow they reap
social pleasures, good investments,
a cultivated taste in art and music.
God grants their requests-and sends
leanness into their soul.-George D.
Latimer.
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How One Man Lost Hi Chance.

A young man, in the very flower
of his days, once told the writer the
following story, in answer to a ques-
ton as to why he was not spending
his life for God and others.
II was once" he said, "as you
are, a Christian worker, and service
for God was a great delight. For
many years I gave Of my best, and
was happy in giving, until n day
God called me to launch out in the
deep'-to forsake all and follow Him
fully. But" he continued slowly, Il
thought of my wife and two children,
of my comfortable home, of my pay
ing business, of all I valued in the
homeland, and l looked up to God,
and said No That's three years
ago." he said, land now
Now" 1 echoed quickly, "what?"
"Oh, he replied with a mirthless
laugh, whats the good of speaking
about these things? I don't know
why you should have asked me that
question; I must co." And he arose
and reached out for his hat.
But" 1 answered breathlessly,
laying my hand upon his arm, you
care still, don't yOu?"
For a moment he lifted his dark
eye to mine, and never shall I forget
his look of remorse. "Care!" he re-
plated hoarsely; whats the good
of caring now? I'm so involved in
business and with worldly men that
I hardly dare call my soul my own.
Both my wife and l have backslidden,
and never even go to church; and
as for helping others-look, I've lost
my chance"
Beware, reader, lest you lose yours.
Christian and Missionary Alliance.
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The Holy Spirit Waiting.

The spirits sensitiveness to the
worldliness and inconsistencies OF
church members Is the reason for
the spiritual impotency of so many
churches to-day. If an inhabitant OF
Mars were to come to earth, n
could understand u sermons and
prayer-meeting ~utterances, he would
Inevitably gather the impression that
the Holy Spirit, about whom he
heard expressed longings and de-
sires, lived on some planet farther
away than Mars, and could only be
persuaded to come to earth at rare
Intervals. and after almost endless
petitioning. Why, we talk about tho
Holy Spirit and His coming into our
churches very much as the children
who have begun to lose faith in Him
talk about Santa Claus. Some OF us
haven't as much faith that our pray
ers for a spiritual revival will be
answered as the ragged boy has that
he will get the skates or velocipede
for which he wrote a letter to Santa
Claus.
But what are the facts on which
our hope should be based? That the
Spirit is not on some remote planet,
but has been sent into the world for
the precise object Of operating
through the church. The Spirit is
kept out of his own so long as there
is not a spiritual revival in the
church. We have only to lift a fin
ger, breathe a wish, and He is at our
command.-Dr. Cowan.
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Licking the Editor.

In some portions of the United
States it has always been a favorite
pastime when a man was not salts
fed with what appeared in the local
paper to go and lick the editor. Some
unwise guy imported the scheme into
the Southwest recently. 1t was tried
in FL Paso, and the editor is still
doing business, while the man who
wanted to lick him is buried in Okla
homa. Last week IN Albuquerque
policeman tried it. He was six inches
taller and weighed fifty pounds more
than the editor. The policeman was
taken to the hospital in an ambu-
lance, and when he recovered con-
seriousness the nurse gave him a
message from the Mayor announcing
that he was fired from the police
force. 1t is probable that the editor
Of the Liberal and Colonel Max Frost,
of the New Mexican, are about the
only editors in the Territory whom
it would be safe for an ordinary man
to try to fredericksburg Liberal.
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ROCKET T~ORPEDOES.
Germany Said to Fancy a Swedish
Military Invention.

Several years ago a Swedish army
officer devised a novel weapon. In
consisted Of a case in the head of
which was a charge Of dynamite or
%guncotton. The contents were so
placed that an explosion would follow
when the head of the missile hit any
thing hard. Provision for projecting
it was made not by firing it from a
u or forcing it under water by au-
tomato mechanism. 1t was equipped
with. a charge of powder in the lower
end, which behaved like the charge
in an ordinary s%kyrocket. 1t would
force it's way upward in the air by the
violence of a stream of fire emitted
behind, or, more accurately, below.
To assist in steering it the torpedo
was supplied with a stick. When it
was to be dispatched it was mounted
on a light metal frame, which could
be so inclined as to give it the neces-
sary angle.
Nothing has been heard of the in
vention for a long time, but a recent
report indicates that the German War
Department has secured the right to
use it. The British authorities also
studied the device, but did not think
enough of it to invest. From that
fact it may be inferred that there IS
much exaggeration in the statement
that the torpedo "is the deadliest
weapon known
Colonel Unge, it's author, was for a
time employed by the firm started by
Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. The
German cannon and armor plate con-
st%ructors, the Krupps, are said to
have secured the right to use it in
countries outside of Sweden.-NeW
York Tribune.
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TcmDerance Notes.

The Alabama Supreme Court has
held both the State prohibition law
and the 9 o'clock law constitutional
and effective.
Twelve hundred of Ohio's 1871
townships and 500 Of its 500 towns
are dry" 100000 of Cleveland 6
population live in dry" territory.
The temperance Chautauqua series
which was given in nearly a hundred
important Texas towns last year, Will
be repeated this year on 4 larger
scale and with even a better llst OF
attractions.
The Anti-Saloon League was Or
ganized about 1895, and 1t boasts
that it has passed prohibition or local
option in more than One-half or thls
country geographically.
Have you ever noticed how and
where drunkenness has decreased!
II has been cut Off as wages and pros
perity have been augmented. 1t mas
died ont where the utmost poverty
and w~retchedness have died out.
Millions OF victims OF excessive
drink are not poor because they
drink; they don't drink because they
are poor. They are not sad III heart
because they drink; they drink be-
sauSe they are sad.
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CHAPTER XVII.
Brutunl Fulmen.

Campion's state of mind as he fol-
lowed Nebelsen down into the paint
ing room was %curiously contradictory.
He could not divest himself of a feel
ing of awe at what he might be con-
fronted with in another moment; at
the same time he had an angry sus-
picion that he was being made a fool
of. He could see nothing, for it vas
almost as dark as night, and besides,
a large folding screen stood at the
foot of the steps intercepting his
view. Behind this screen Nebelsen
made a fresh stand. There is yet
anoder thing" he whispered; Ito
TRANSPORT that idol he must first be
in the hands taken!"
Well" said Campion, I'll fetch it
for you, If that's ALL"
But you don't understand eX-
claimed Nebelsen, that is shust a
thing what the tirthankar will never
bermit!"
"Nell, we can't skulk behind here
much longer" said Campion, reck-
lessly, "let us come out in the open
and have it out with whatever it is
that's there! Never mind if you can
do the thing or not, Nebelsen, tell
him YOU will, and see if buster won't
make him climb down."
SOL will blcster as goot as l
can," said Chela, but my plan is
bedder."
And Campion, not without a sense
Of shame, came out and stepped i'll
stinctively inside the charcoal dia-
gram of the floor, Ill he croyait pas"
perhaps "mais il craignait," III spite
of himself.
Through the open north window
the sky showed 4 deepand murky red,
and in the intense gloom below he
could just make out the form of the
idol sQuatting on u chair in the cor
ner, its mead and il shoulder
touched by such light as there was.
1t seemed to sit there in deadly COM
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of Toast.

did you ever wonder why toast Is
always recommended for invalids?"
said a chemist. "The reason Is that
toast is predigested bread.
What makes fresh bread trying
for invalids is the starch In 1t.
Starch is very hard to digest. 1t
needs a good stomach to take hold OF
the soggy starch in bread and change
it to strengthening, stimulating deX-
trine.
But when you cut bread thin and
toast it brown, the fire itself changes
the starch to dextrine. That, in fact,
is what the brown color in toast indt-
cates-that the starch is gone and
dextrlne has taken its place. "-Bos-
ton Cooking School Magazine.
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Too Late land.

Crazed with liquor, a son-well
reared, well educated-shot his aged
father and slew himself in maudlin
sentimentality owe his parents de.
termination to marry. again. How.
ever we'll taken the young mans oh.
jections may have been, the letter
he left was insane. But his brothers
did not suspect that he was insane on
the subject, otherwise they would
have kept him from his father.
Charity suggests that the terrible
affair should be put out Of sight be-
hind the iron shutters of the morgue
for the forgetting Of insane acts.
But a grewsome lesson will obtrude
for a few days. 1t is that the man
with a grievance only %intensifes his
grievance tenfold-a hundredfold-
by the burning emphasis of alcohol
Alcohol is the terrible e~mphasizer..
1t emphasizes bitterness as much
as it exalts gayety. The small offense
becomes a deadly insult. A real in
jury develops into an unreasonine
ferocity of revenge. And Too Late
Land is a bad place in which to sober
up.-New York American.
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A Thought For the Week.

If I were to vote for the manufac.
ture and sale of intoxicating liquors,
I would never see another drunken
man or widow or orphan Of a drunk.
ard, or read Of a crime of which Whis.
ky is the cause without knowing
was responsible for it, or at the very
least a partner in the responsibility
Think what you are doing
mem Think what you are letting
them do, women, when you quietly
permit them to vote For the Manu-
facture and Sale of Intoxicating LID
uors." I consider it an awful thing
to do. And l believe that If you re-
fleet upon the consequences OF your
vote you will think SO too. 1t may
make your son a drunkard. 1t may
make your daughter the wife OF a
drunkard.-T. T. Hicks, Henderson,
n. g..
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Feeding on Charity.

They would resent it, these ro'
fund, fulfilled fellows, who plead fol
the granting of license to hotels sc
that those houses may set a better
table, if one were to point out thai
they are expecting to get more food
than they pay for, but such is the
fact. Nothing can be clearer than
that if the price paid for the meal is
sufficient to v the cost to the no.
tel, there would be no deficiency to
be made up from the receipts OF a
bar. When the representative OF the
travelling public, therefore, presents
his argument on the necessity OF IL
cense for hotels, it is only saying IN
other words that he gets more than
he is paying for, and to that extent
is depending on charity The People
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
TILE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Beer or Boys - At Least $4,000
Young Men Every Year Take
the Dreadful Path Leading to
All the Horrors of Drink.

the Dreadful Path Leading to
All the Horrors Of Drink.
The president of the Wheaton Co.
lege asks: who are these children
who dwell in squalid and infected
homes, who live in rags, who have
no place to play and no fitting food
to eat?"
They are the children of the sa-
loon traffic. They are to be beg
CARED by it as long as It continues.
l.. We are establishing homes
for boys in all our great cities. They
are very costly, the maintenance OF
them requires large sums of money
annually. Every n knows that
these homes are needed because par
ents drink up their earnings in liq.
! uor shops. Every one who has stud
led the situation knows that the sup
ply of homes car never overtake the
demand. The taps are flowing free,
the distilleries, ~breweries, wholesale
houses all are sending their deadly
grist day by day to the mill.
At least $4,000 boys every year
take the dreadful path leading tc
all the horrors of the drink curse
They may be seventeen years old OF
twenty-five years old.
Many of them are boys Of fathers
who are disgraced and ashamed, they
are sons Of mothers whose hearts
break. Each industrious young man
capable and ambitious, earning $500
per year, is working capital worth
$4,000. So the liquor traffic that
destroys $4,000 boys, youths, young
men who might earn now or by and
bye $500 per year, really destroys
$780, 900 of the best capital OF
this land! This half billion lost by
drink must be added to the billion
and a half Of money wasted yearly
for LIQUOR. Each Industrious, sober
ambitious young man Is worth more
to the higher industrial interests Of
the land than all the distilleries and
breweries and liquor shops! A man
Is more precious to God and to the
world, actually or prospectively, thar
fine gold. Destroy factories, shops
! banks, business houses and sober, in
dustrious, intelligent, forceful mel
would build finer, stronger, more
beautiful and useful structures thar
those the fire burned.
Said a general to Fighting Phi
Sheridan as they were watching
Sheridan's four children: phil, Il
you could choose for your little SOL
from all the temptations which viii
beset him, the one most to be feared
which would it be-"
General Sheridan replied soberly;
1T would be the curse Of strong
drink. Boys are not saints. W.
are all self-willed, may be full o,
courage and thrift and push ant
kindness and charity, but woe be tt
the man or boy who becomes a slave
Of liquor. Oh, I had rather see m!
little son die to-da..- than to see hin
carried in to his mother drunk
G. H. ", in The People.
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4 Wooden Leg,

A sheep with a wooden leg Is a
curiosity at the farm Of Ira Quaint
ance, in Dallas township, says the
Pittsburg Dispatch. Early in the
year the sheep was struck by light
ming, it's foot and part of the leg be-
ing torn off. AS the animal was a
valuable one, Quaintance concluded
to try an artificial limb. He covered
it with wool, and so we'll dos the
sheep use 1t that people would not de-
tcct the difference except for a slight
limp.-American Sheep Breeder.
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Wall Twice Saves Town

A double brick wall in Greenwich,
Conn, has become famous. 1t is the
party-wall between the p~ostofice
building and the carriage repository
of John Ray. 1t saved the entire bust
ness section from fire recently. About
eight years ago this wall also saved
the town, and the two fires were alike
In many respects.
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Monument to Young Hero.

On the monument erected to Mid
shipman James Thomas Cruise, at
Arlington, Va, are inscribed the
words he said while suffering from
mortal injuries: Never mind ME;
I'm all right. Look after the other
fellows" Young Cruise was a victim
of the explosion in the turret of the
battleship Georgia.
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Gave Cup of Coffee; Gets $4,000.

Three thousand dollars was the re-
ward received by Mrs. Harvey Bart
lett, of Plymouth, Mass, for a cup
of coffee given two years ago to a
sick woman sitting in the coach Of a
train that had stopped at the station
there. Mrs. Bartlett Is a widow and
works in the station lunch-room. Her
%benefactor is Mrs. E. Lilley, Of New
York City. Mrs. Bartlett saw Mrs.
Lilley i'll in the coach and made her
as comfortable as possible during the
twenty minutes wait.
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BeCin Shining at Home.

A candle that won't shine in one
room is very unlikely to shine in an
other. If you do not shine at home,
if your father and mother, your Sis
ter and brother, if the very cat and
dog in the house are not the better
and happier for your being a Chris
tian, it is a question whether you
really are one.-J. Hudson Taylor.
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Record Prohibition Vote. Sa@

The chairman of the Prohibition
National Committee thinks the Pro-
hibttion party will poll a record vote
this fall. He says that the number
of people in prohibition territory has
grown since 1904 from 20,000,000
to 10000, 900"
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Safety.

why" asked a Missouri paper,
docs Missouri stand at the head III
raising mules?"
Because" said another paper,
that > the only safe place to stand"
Reflector.
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In Japan every male over twenty
five years of age and paying a direct
annual tax Of ten yen (s5) is entitled
to vote.
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Pcrhaps q Gentle Hint at ITari-kari

1t was a ludicrous mistake to offer
n sword to the head of the Standard
Oil Company. Its :avorite weapon is
the rebate.--New York Evening Post.
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THOUGHTS F9RTHE
ST T0Z
NAIo~
QUIET FLOUR
CHILDHOOD.

To be Himself a star most bright
To bring the Wise Men to His sight,
To be Himself a Voice most sweet
To call the shepherds to His feet,
To be a child-it was His will,
That folk like US might find Him still.
John Erskine, in the Atlantic.
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Jesus ut His Best.

Jesus was at His best in heart-to.
heart m~inistration; multitudes Away
throDeed Him
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Wages and I'rcinht Rates.

On the p%ay-rolls of the railroads OF
the United States there were last
year 1,G72,074 employees. They re-
ceived for their services S1,Q72,3SG,-
1o7
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The problem of producing ice in
small quantities quickly and cheaply
has, apparently, been solved by a
French inventor, who has perfected a
machine which is cheap, simple of op-
Grafton, practically everlasting, and
thoroughly practical. 1t may be op-
Grated by a belt connected with a
steam engine, by a small electric mo-
tor, or by hand cranks.
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The Russian Secret Service employs
more than 6ooo womeli. Several Of
them draw $4,000 q year.
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.Es2sIsaeess. EEaWI
N~S
RPeep11AR
81 4 SCIENCE y ~

Pure iron in the presence of pure
oxygen does not rust.
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The nectar of flowers from which
bees make honey contains seventy to
eighty per cent. of water, but honey
contains only about twenty per cent.
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To render wall paper adaptable for
washing with soap and water without
destroying the colors, make a solu.
ton Of two parts of borax and two
PARTS of stick lac, 3hellac or other lac
in twenty-four parts of hot water,
Strain the solution through a fine
cloth filter, rubbing the latter with d
soft brush after every application till
a brilliant polish is obtained. 1t is
immaterial whether the paper is al
ready pasted on the walls or still in
rolls.
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The connection, long suspected,
between atmospheric conditions on
earth and conditions on the sun ap-
pears to be reasonably we'll estab-
lished by the investigations of PROBES,
sor Bigelow. The fact that sun-spot
areas wax and wane in an eleven
veal cycle was noted years ago, as
was the coincidence that the most ex-
tensive was frequently marked by un-
usual magnetic and electrical phe-
nomena on earth.
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Electricity excels all other methods
of transmission for convenience, says
the Scientific American. An electric
cable may be strung where required.
and machinery may be arranged
in any position without reference
to line shafting. There are in
stances, however, where rope drive
will save both in first cost and in cost
of operation, particularly when the
process of manufacturing calls for a
number of parallel shafts with ma.
chimes in one plane.