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Children and Alcohol.

If there is one subject more than
another within the entire scope of the
liquor problem upon which all OBJ
servers are in gratifying accord, It is
in regard to the dangers of allowing
alcohol in any quantity to children
and adolescents. During youth the
habits Of the body are formed, and
the growing organism has peculiar
susceptibility to narcotic poisons. DR..
Alexander Lambert made a study Of
q certain number Of alcohol cases in
Bellevue Hospital, with reference to
the age at which the use of the drug
began. Here are the rather startling
and highly suggestive facts:
"Of 259 instances where the age
of beginning to drink was known,
four began before six years of age;
thirteen between six and twelve
years; sixteen between twelve and
sixteen; 102 between sixteen and
t~wenty-one; se~venty-one between
twenty-one and thirty, and eight only
after thirty years of age. Thus, near
ly seven per cent. began before
twelve years of age, or the seventh
school year; thirty per cent. began
before the age of sixteen, and over
two-thirds-that is, siXty-eight per
cent.-began before twenty-one years
Of age.-McClure's.
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TemDorance Notes.

No line Of manufacture gives en-
ployment to so few men in proportion
10 the capital invested as does the
liquor traffic.
The cigar manufacturers and deal
ers of New York City have banded
together to wage war against the pro-
hibition movement.
E. 3. Westhafer recently closed a
successful meeting at Noblesville, Ind.
One of the results was to help ban
ish the saloons from the county by a
majority of over two thousand.
Not only is the liquor traffic a
breeder Of criminals, but it is itself
largely composed Of men who do not
hesitate to violate the law. The great
majority Of retail liquor sellers are
open and notorious law breakers.
The moral classes must have a
great issue of some kind, and tenn
perance is about the only one that
is permanently in sight.
The liquor business breeds GRIMM
ais. The testimony of prison chap
lains, or wardens, sheriffs and judges
of the criminal courts warrant the as
sertion that from eighty to ninety per
cent. of crime is directly or indirectly
t~raceable to the use of Intoxicating
liquors
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We Shall See Him.

Stephen, in the hour Of his mar
tyrdom, looked up into heaven and
saw Jesus, and he sank down amid
the !pelting stones like a child hushed,
to softest slumber. Jesus will always
break out into view If we look toward
Him with longing and expectant trust,
and though we be in the very valley
of the shadow of death we will fear
no evil. To see Jesus will soothe n
in pain, will comfort n in sorrow,
will bring calm in tumult, will allay.
doubt, give hope in encouragement,
and in every way i%nVigorate and up;
lift the soul as no other experience
can do. When hearts are breaking,
and tears are falling, and the light Is
gone, to see Jesus is to find true COM
fort; it is like the breaking forth OF
the stars to the traveller lost IN the
depths of a wilderness. We can DO
nothing better to mitigate the sor-
rows and tighten the burdens OF the
world than to help people to see
Jesus. John, writing to the churches
in the days when prosecutions were
fierce and sorrows and suhertngs
were we'll nigh in%tolerable, cheered,
them in words that stand out in Nv
ing light in his epistle, the words
that all the ages have chung to and
rejoiced in beyond all else there writ
Ken: 1--WE shall see Him as He IS.
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Healing Of the Mind.

I know a man who, though busily
and extensively engaged in Christian
service, was for long defeated in his
thought life. The evil word and act
were checked, but he could not pre-.
vent his thoughts from ranging over
forbidden fields, and consequently HI
was brought into inward bondage ant
despair. One night, at the close of
service, as the congregation sang thu
well known words:
"Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind,
Sight, riches, healing of the mind,
Yea, all I need in Thee to find,
o Lamb of God, I come"
the thought broke upon him, and BY
Jaw that what he needed most of all
was such healing of the mind" at
that unto which Christ pledges Him.
self. Falling upon his knees he cried
as he had never done before:
80 Lamb of God, I GOMEZ"
And his testimony is that Christ
brought him that night into an atti.
Jude of new surrender and enabled
him to exercise new faith, claiming
this promise which has CONSTANT!
been fulfilled to him.. 1.-THE peace OF
God shall guard your heart and your
thoughts."-J. Stuart Holden.
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THE PULPIT.
IN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
A. H. LEWIS, D. D.
Theme: The Sacredness Of Fatherhood

God alone has absolute power to
:reate. He might have retained this
bower forever. He chose rather to
confer infinite honor and infinite re-
,ponsibility on nan by delegating to
lin the power to r~ecreate. This pow
sr to perpetuate the race, as a SUBJ
creator. and to be a direct factor IL
determining its character and destiny
Is divine. It's exercise in f~atherhood
IS among the most sacred functions of
existence. In this life alone its re.
suits for good o evil are beyond COM
)utation. Considered by the stand
lrd of an endless life, they are over
Rhelming. Were there not unknown
possibilities for good results, in each
experience Of p~arentnood, no man un-
lerstanding what it 9 could zen.
lure to assume fatherhood.
Much the larger share of human
suffering comes through impaired
physical health. Weakness and dis
Ease make men a burden on society,
cad to poverty, drunkenness, social
kmpurity, larceny and kindred evils.
No mar is free from guilt who trans
nits a single element Of physical
weakness o disease which he can
avoid. J.
The habitual use Of stimNlants and
narcotics destroys nerve force and
mental balance. Their effects are Of
ZEN more prominent in the second and
he third generations than in those
who first indulge. Purity in thought
and act Is an imperative demand
which the sacredness' of actual or pos.
sible fatherhood places on all men.
In assuming fatherhood you are
acting for God; exercising the hottest
junction ever given you. II a mar
goes out as the agent Of a business
firm, or the representative of a great
nation, he must be loyal to the power
which commissions him, and in whose
name he acts. How much nor when
I man assumes fatherhood, In behalf
Of the Infinite and Eternal Father!
He who does not love God cannot
transmit the tendency to love Him.
Such a man must rather transmit the
tendency to hate and disobey God, for
which he, not his child, is RESPONSE.
BILE. This stupendous fact lies at the
cor of all true religion.
The husband has to bear little OF
The passive service and continuous
burdens which attend parenthood.
The wife has an absolute tight to all
the help which pure love, exhaustless
patience and tenderest sympathy can
afford. This is due to the child also,
who must suffer loss In proportion as
these are withheld from the mother.
If any husband denies these, or worse
still, gives, in place Of them, indiffer-
snce, neglect, harshness or abuse, he
becomes a shame to the name Of
latherhood, a disgrace to his sex, an
enemy to his own child, and a sinner
before God.
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Herald Blasts. p

Never borrow money-the chances
are you can't.
Never run your neighbor down.
be may beat you at the game.
If you are living in the Lord youI
neighbors will rejoice in your life.
. Some men never pay any compli'
merts. They are too stingy even Tor
that.
A gentleman is never more polite
to another woman than to his owr
wife. ,
The way of nature is the survival
of the strong; the way OF grace is
the salvation of the weak.
There is little to choose between
those who blow themselves in anc
those who blow themselves out.
The man who practices what ne
breaches before he breaches 1t shall
experience no difficulty in gettlne
others to practice what he breaches.
Birds sing, flowers bloom, zephyrs
blow-all nature smiles-for the sole
purpose of keeping in good humor,
and still some old rascals refuse ia
be happy.-Home Herald.
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The MAN She LOVED
By EFFIE ADELAIDE R0WLANDS.


some velvets and things, and this Will
be a good opportunity.
Gervais bent and kissed. her.
81 told you Uncle Rogers
history, did /, darling? 1t is a very
simple one, yet it changed his whole
life. He married early in life a wom-
an whom he adored-my mother says
his love was something passing
words!-and after two years of hap
piness it ended abruptly; his wife de-
ceived him, and it broke his heart"
Deceived him." repeated Dorothy,
mechanically. How, Gervais?"
"She had never loved him, but had
married him for his money; and when
she met the man she did love, she for
got her wifely vows, and fled from the
husband whose tender care and good
ness she had never valued. From
that day to this Uncle Roger has been
a wanderer. He makes his home
nowhere; he will not ven stay with
us for more than two or three days
at a time, and those at rare intervals. "
"And-his wife," said Dorothy, In
quiet, low tones.
His wife repented all too late, and
crawled back to him n day, just as
he was starting on a fresh journey,
and begged him on her knees to for
give her."
"And he did,"
Dorothy's face WIS strangely
eager.
Gervais shook his head.
"How could q man forgive that
wrong? My uncle did as I should do
refused even to acknowledge her
very existence. She had dragged his
honor in the dust, degraded an old
name, broken his heart, and ruined
his life. How could he forgive herr"
Dorothy shuddered.
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THE FATHERS PART.

A day or two ago it seems to me,
l said within my p~rayers-"Dear Go6
above, r.r.
Bless Thou our baby with abundant
love;
Keep her from pestilence and close t.
Thee"
4 day or two ago-and yet tonight ~
I'm asked to give her up to loves de-,
rmand. 5,
A just request, Christ-sanctioned, and,
my hand
I cannot raise to wrestle with the blight.
A day or two ago-I begged Gods grace
Because she was SO little and so dear.
The Master, kind and gracious, calmed
my fear:
Straight-limbed and strong she grew be-
fore my face.
And yet-my nights petition was the ame
/ did not seem to know it when she
grew.
But Bless our little one and keep her;
true" -.
Assembled from my lips each night that
Tonight one spoke-1 know him clean and
strong
Told of his love, and then of love re-
1 must tstHs say ayes" but how my hurt
heart yearned!
And all the years ahead, how long-how
Edwin Garlic Ltsey.
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Hoarded Pension in Prison.

At Fort Madison, Iowa, James R.
Saunders, alias William B. Glyndon,
was released from the ~penitentiary by
pardon of the Governor, after serving
%thirty-one years for the alleged muir
der of a fourteen-year-old girl in
Grundy County. Saunders is now
hale and hearty at seventy-one years.
He was a sharpshooter in an Ohio
regiment during the Civil War, and
was granted a soldiers pension since
his incarceration, during which time
he saved $500. He came of a prom
inent Eastern Ohio family, and has
all these years hidden his family
name behind that of Glyndon, tho
family not knowing his whereabouts.
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Dogs Help Blacksmith.

A blacksmith in an uptown East
Side street employs three Ncwfound-
land dogs to work the bellows of the
FORCES Of his shop. In Il corner Of
the place is a wooden wheel about
eight feet in diameter and wide
enough for a dog to stand in. When
the wheel is at rest the dog stands in
much the same position as the horse
in a child's rocker, with its head to.
ward the forge, awaiting orders.
When told to "go ahead" the beast
on duty at once starts OH 4 brisk trot,
which makes the wheel turn around
rapidly, and by means of a crank and
lever the power is conveyed to the
bellows. The dogs work willingly
and with such intelligence that pedes-
trians are never weary Of watching
the efforts of the animals to keep the
smiths fires bright. Each dog works
in the wheel one hour and then rests
for two.-New York Correspondence
in Pittsburg Dispatch.
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THE TEMPERANCE PROPAGANDA
CONCERTED ATTACH on DRINK
WINNING ALL ALONG LINE.
Wise Teddy O'Shinn.

"Just a wee drop" said the man in the
store.
He knew little Teddy. who'd been there
before.
a little won't hurt you, at least not this
once,
Just take it now, sonny, and don't be a
Ounce.
See here. l will put this nice sugar-lump
IN,
And here's to the health of young Teddy
O'Shinn."
But Teddy looked up with his honest blue
eyes,
And his brave little face was most though
full and wise.
Pm tep'rance," he said, land I can't taste
the stuff.
And how should I know when I'd taken
enough?
A taste mightnt hurt me, but maybe it
might,
And l know a way that is sure to he right.
1t never will hurt me-" said Teddy
O'Shinn,
vt never can hurt-if I never begin
Julia Fl. Johnston, Peoria, Ill
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Medical Science and Alcohol.

Perhaps the most startling indict-
ment of alcohol and alcoholic drinks
ever made was that registered against
them by a convention of eminent doc
tors and scientists meeting in Wash.
ington City a few days ago as THE
American Society For the Study Of
Alcohol and Other Drug Narcotics"
These men came not as temperance
advocates, but as physicians and
scientists reporting the actual results
of scientific and medical inVestiga.
tions in hospitals, laboratories, and
sick rooms. With remarkable a
unity they declared that the old ideas
of whisky as a medicine have been
exploded; that its use in the treat.
ment of disease must be wholly aban.
doned. It brings out hidden weak.
nesses and develops latent maladies;
1t is especially dangerous when used
by persons suffering from any nerv.
GUS weakness, land by lowering the
vitality and destroying the combative
forces of the blood" it makss it
harder to resist all kinds of disease,
Superintendent Burton, of the Sterls
ing-Worth Sanitarium, declared that
1.-The use of spirits is followed by
shortened life, increasing (prema.
ture) age, and diminished vitality;
alcohol in any form can pro.
long life," while DR.. B. G. Keister, OF
the Roanoke Home Sanitarium, de,
clared:
Theories held a few years ago as
correct are now found to be errone-
Gus. Alcohol, like every other drug
In common use, is found by science to
be useless except as a narcotic.
Alcohol as a beverage is a relic OF
barbarous times.
DR.. Henry o. Marcy, eX-president
of the American Medical Association,
laid especial emphasis on the use of
whisky as a cause of degeneracy
among the colored and illiterate
classes of the South" and a number
of eminent doctors joined in urging
the necessity of providing hospitals
for the especial treatment Of inebri-
ates and dfunkards. DR.. H. j..
Achard, a tuberculosis specialist, es-
pecially attacked the old idea of whis-
ky being useful in lung trouble, and
reported statistics showing that Of
suspected consumptives treated with
alcohol, ninety per cent. died, and Of
those treated without alcohol, only
twenty-five per cent. "In some cases
the direct action Of alcohol predis-
poses and encourages tuberculosis"
he Acknowledgements Farmer.
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Let All Intoxicants Alone.

No. man who begins drinking is
lure that he can keep from drinking
Immoderately; while the latest medi-
,al researchs have proved that even
the most moderate drinking Injuries
hne's and mental powers, les
sens ones ability to resist disease,
and also aids in developing any latent
disease or weakness. Surgeon-Gen-
aral Wyman in his recent address on
Southern health conditions sounded
! special note of warning concerning
he injurious effects of alcoholic
drinks in. warm climates.
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Glorious Gift of Life.

Life, despite Of all that cynics o.
sentimentalists say, is a great n
glorious gift. There is good for the
good; there is virtue for the faith
full; there Is victory for the valiant
There is spirituality for the spiritual
and there is, even in this humble life
an infnity for the boundless in desire
There are blessings upon It's birth;
there is hope in its death, and there
is-to consummate all-there is eter'
nifty in it's prospect.-Orville Dewey.
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Weld In Your Will.

It is not by co%nstraint or by pain
full effort that we make real progress
On the contrary, it is simply a ques'
ton of yielding up our will, OF goina
from day to day wi~thersoever God
may lead US, discouraged by nothing.
satisfied with the present moment
thankful to let Him do all who has
made all, and to leave our own will
immovable within His will.-Fenelon
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The Path Of Safety.

We yield ourselves up to evli
thoughts and suggestions, take coun-
sel of Them, listen. and then wonder
that we become their victims. Our
safety is not chiefly in strength OF,
will. but in cleaving to a holier COM
ranionship which shall arouse the
better elements of the soul.-Ephraim
Peabody.
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The Old Manly Faith.

Nav the courage. may the insight,
NAV the deep confidence in truth and
in the search for it which made u
fathers in the faith strong, come TO
us. New questions meet US In gu
own lay, new forms of thought: NAY
we have the old courageous n mag.
unanimous spirit, the manly faith Of
those willing to do, 10 dare, II neea
tie to die for truths. M. Crothers.
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andard Oil Ties Up Town

Public business at Tilton, ILL.,, was
at a standstill because three members
of it's Board of Affairs, necessary to a
quorum, have had to choose between
resigning public Office or their places
as employees of the Standard Oil Com'
pany. and decided to stay with the
oil company. The company informed
its employees that they must have nc
mart in public administrative business,
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A Silly Deed.

In the endeavor to ape the medic.
val custom of christening ships with
wine certain parties acting under the
ausDices of the Aeronautical Society,
If New York, went through the whole
ceremony in connection with al aero
plane constructed by Wilbur R. Kim
ball. A bottle of wine was gravely
broken on one of the bars of the ma
chime.
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The Cruelty of Thoughnessness.

. IL VI uSAty VI He1
Most of the cruelty Of the world is
thoughtless cruelty. Very few peo-
pie would intentionally add to an.
others load or make his burden I'M
life heavier or his path rougher.
Most of the great heart-wounds are
inflicted by thoughtless thrusts, flung
out often in a moment Of anger
when, perhaps, we were too proud
to apologize or to try o7heal the
grievous wounds we had made.
Can anything be more cruel than to
discourage a soul who has been strIg-
Cling to do the best he can, Sto throw
stumbling-blocks in the path Of those
who are trying to get on in the world
against great odds?
No life is just the same after you
have once touched it; will you leave
3 ray Of hope or one Of despair, q fash
Of light or q >somber cloud across
some dark life each day; will you by
thoughtless cruelty deepen the sha-5
dow which hangs over the life, or
will you by kindness dispel It alto
gether? No matter how you feel or
what. is disturbing your peace OF
mind, never allow yourself to send
out a discouraging, a cruel, or an un-
kind word or thought.
The gloom caster. the shadow
thrower, the Pathfinder, the sarcas-
tic man, the man who Is always Civ
Ing you a thrust somewhere. does q
vast amount of harm in a communitys
Men who throw gloomy shadows
wherever they go, who depress every
body, who ere always looking on the
dark side of everything, who see ut
tie good or beauty in life, are bad
neighbors, and, as a rule. unsuccess-
full. unpopular, and little mournedS
when they die.
d It is the inspirer, the man who
cheers and gives you hope and ~.
couragement, the sunshine bearer, the
man who always has a kind word for
YOU. who is ever ready to give you his
hand and his help, that is loved dur
ing life and missed after Death
Northwestern Christian Advocate.
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A Statesman's Reply.

Wisdom and wit are about evenly
balanced in an utterancc of the Chan
cellor Of the Exchcqucr, which lately
went the rounds in England.
Mr.. Asquith was recently speaking
in a Welsh town, when he was some
what rudely interrupted by a voice in
the audience. which demanded to
know his position as TO woman's suf-
frage.
That" NJ. AsQuitA replied,
blandly, rs a subject l prefer to dis
cuss when ladies are rot prcse1t."-
Youth'c CcnEan:G1.
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School of Press Abolished.

BY a vote of the Senate at Jefferson
City, Mo-, on an amendment to the
Educational Appropriation bill the
School of Journalism at the State
University is practically abolished.
The amendment forbids that any Of
the money appropriated be used for
the support of any newspaper which
solicits either advertisements or SUBJ
scriptions. Senator McAllister de-
clared that the State ought not to be
in competition with private news
papers of the State. 800
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Rind Yourself to God

. 7 thank Thee, o God, that l may
strive to do Thy work in the world
even when my heart is dry. I thanh
Thee that l may bind myself to Thee;
even while I am crushed by my sina
and shortcomings; that, even when J
doubt whether the love of God is IT
me, I may yet press nearer to Thee
where only the heart can find rest.
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Only Fleeing Words.

Take it not g%rievously if some
think ill of thee, and speak that thou|
wouldst not willingly hear. Thou
oughtest to be the hardest judge OIL
thyself, and to think no one weaker|
than myself. If thou dost walk spir-|
itua;ly, thou wilt not much weigh
deeting words.
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Rest in the Lord.

Thou, o God, hast created us fol-
Thyself, and our heart is restless un'
til it rests in Thee.-St. Augustine.
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CONDENSATION,

It is some compensation for great
evils that they enforce great lessons.
Scottish Reformer.
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Carrier Pigeons Abolished.

Last year the British Admiralty
abolished the use of carrier pigeons,l
as the result of the demonstrated suc-|
cess of wireless telegranhy- !
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IiphtenS the Trials

With an habitual ems of the di.
vine presence, the trials of life ars
lishtened.-E. Peabody
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a ~cord arnle hsr;est Is expected
In Devon and Somerset, England.
There IS every possibility Of 1908
proving the greatest ar-'s YER
kuc WI in these counties.