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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-5-27, Page 3HOW THE MONEY GOES REV. DR. TALMAGE ARRAIGNS ALL CLASSES OF SPENDTHRIFTS, lie Says Alcoholism is the Greatest Foe to the Working Classes-- His Subject is, "A BagW ith Holes"—A Drunker Ps !Grave. Washington, May 28.—This sermon of Dr. Talmage is an arraienment of im- providence in all classes, and of alcohol- ism as the greatest enemy of the working people. The text is Haggai i, 6, "eie that earneth wages, earneth wages to put into a bag with holes." In Persia, tinder the reign of Darius Hystaspes, the people did not prosper. They inade money, hilt dill not keep it. They were like people who have a sack in which they pub money, not knowing that the sack is torn or eaten of moths, or in some way incapable of holding val- uables. As fast as the coin was put in one end of the meet it dropped out a the other. It made 118 difference how xnuch wages they got, for they lost them. "He that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." What has become of the billions and billions of dollars in tbis country paid to the working classes? Some of these moneys have gone for house rent, or the purchase of homesteads, or wardrobe, or family expenses, or the necessities of life or to provide comforts in old age, What has become of other billions? Wasted in foolish outlay. Wasted at the gaming table. Wasted. in intoxicants. Put into a bag with a hundred holes. Gather up the money that the working classes have spent for drink daring the last 80 years, and I will build for every Workbagman a, house and lay out for him a garden and clothe his sons in broadcloth and his daughters in silks, and place at his front door a pranoing •span of sorrels or bays and secure him a policy of We basurance, so that the pros. ent home may be well maintained after he is dead. The most persistent, most overpowering enemy of the working classes is intoxicating liquor. It is the anarchist of the centuries and has boy- cotted, and is now boycotting, the body and mind and soul of American labor. It Is to it a waren foe than monopoly and *worse than aecociated capital, It annualize swindles industry out of a large eereentage of its earnings. It holds out its blasting solicitations to the me- chanic er operative on his way to work, and at the nonn spell, and an his way home at eventide; on Satureitty, when the wages :we paid, it snetches a large part of the limner that might come into the family and sacrifices it among. the saloon keepers. Stand the salouns of this coun- try side by side, and it is carefully esti- muted that they would reach from NOW York to Chieago. "Forward, =nee" says the &ink power, "and take possession of the American nation." All tor Drink. The &ink businees is pouring its vitriolle end damnable liquids down the tin•oats td huntirtele of thousands or laborere, and while the ordinary strike.; are ruinous both to employers and em- ployes, 1 procetim a strike universal againet tgrong drink which, if kept up. will bP tit s relief of the working classes,. and the • Ovation of the nation. I will undertaka to say that there is not a leselthy laborer in the 'United State.; who, wit ein the next ten yenrs, if he evill refuel. all intoxicatieg beveratze and les saving. Lily not heconie a capitalist on a small se de. Our country in a year speoes en500,050,o00 for drink. Of cotree teet working classes do a great deal of Ude expenditure. Careful statistice slenv Tien the wage earning classes of Great ;began expend in liquors 4:100,- otantet t, - r $11tio,o00,060 a year. Sit down tom vele-elate, 0 workingman, how much you have expended in these directions! Add it tin up. Add up what your neigh- bors have expended, and realize that in- stead of ..nswering the beck of other people yen might have been your own capitalise When you deplete a working- man's ysioal energy you deplete his capital. the stimulated workman gives out been.. the unstimulated workman. My fatht said: "I became a temperance man in t• rly life because I noticed in the hare•st field that, though I was physically weaker than other workinen, I could lied out longer than they. They took etireilants, I took none." A brick - maker in England gives his experience in regaro to this matter among men in his ;owl, e. He says, after investigation: "The bee,. drinker who made thet'fewest bricks mode 650,000, and the abstainer who made the fewest bricks 746,000. The difference in behalf of the abstainer over the indulger 87,000." When Int army goes one to the battle, the Wile .• who has water or coffee in his canteen marches easier and fights better than the eoldier who has whisky in his canteen. Drink helps. a man to fight when he has only one contestant, • and that at tee street corner. But when he goes forth to maintain some great battle for GO mid his country, he wants no drink about him. When the Russians go to war a corporal passes along the line '‘,. and smells the breath of every soldier. If there be in his breath a taint of intoxi- cating liquor, the man is sent back to the barracks. Why? He cannot endure •fatigue. All our young men know this. • When they are preparing for a regatta, or for a ball club or for an athletic wrestling, they abstain. Our workinz people will be wiser after awhile, and the money they fling away on hurtful indulgences they will put into co-opera- tive association and so become capital- ists. If the working xnan put down his wages and take his expenses and spread them out so they will just equal, he is not wise. I know working men who are in a perfect fidget until they get rid of their,. last dollar. A Sealskin Coat. The following circumstances came tihder our observation: A young man worked hard to earn his $600 or $700 yearly. Marriage day came. The bride had inherited $500 from her grandfather. She spent every dollar of it on the wed- ding dross. Then they rented two rooms in a third story. Then the young man took extra evening employment; almost exhausted with the day's work, yet took evening employment. It almost exting- uished his eyesight. Why did he add evening employment to the day employ- ment? To get enoney. Why did he want to get money? To lay up soinething for a rainy clay? No. To got his life insured, so that in case of his death his wife would not be a beggar? No. He put the extra evening work to the clay work that he might get $150 to get his, wife a seal- .. skin coat. The sister of the bride heard of this achievement, and was not to be eclipsed. She was very poor, and she sat „ up working nearly all the night for a great while until she bought a sealskin coat. • I have not heard of the result on that street. The street was full of those who are on small incomes, but I suppose the contagion spread, and that everybody had a sealskin coat, and the people came out and cried, practically, not literally, "Though thO heavens fall, we must have a sealskin coat!" I was at west and a minister of the gospel told me in Iowa that his church and the neighborhood had been impover- ished by the fact that they put mortgages on their farms in orer to send their fam- ilies to the Philadelphia centennial. It was not respectable not to go to the cen- tennial. Between such evils and pauper- ism there is a very short step. The vast majority of children in your almshouses are there because their parents are drunken, lazy or recklessly improvident. I have no sympathy for skinflint sav- ing, but I plead for Christian prudenee. You say it is impossible now to lay up anything for a rainy day. I know it, but we are at the daybreak of national pros- perity. Some people think it is mean to turn the gas low when they go out of the parlor. They feel embarrassed if the doorbell rings before they have the hall lighted. They apologize for the plain meal if you surprise them at the table. Well, it is mean if it is only to pele up a miserly hoard, but if it be to edueate your children, if it be to give more help to your wife when she does not feel strong, if it be to keep your funeral day from being horrible beyond all endurance because it is to be the disruption and annihilation of the domestic circle, if it be for that then it Is magnificent, Broods poverty. , There aro those who are kept in pov- erty because of their own fault. They might have been well off, but they smoked or chewed, up their earnings, or they lived beyond their means, while others on the same wages and on the • same salaries went on to competency. I know a man who is all the tinae com- plaining of shis poverty and orying out against rich men, while he himself keeps two dog, and chews and smokes, and is full to the chin with whisky and beer. Wilkins Micawber said to David Copper. field: "Copperfield, my boy, R1 income; expenses, 20 shillings • and 6 pence; result, misery. But, Copperflelcl, my boy, eel inecene; expenses, 10 shillings and 6 pence; result, happiness." But, 0 work- ingman, take your morning dram and your noon dram and your evening dram, and spend nverything you have over for tobacco and excursions, and you insure poverty for yourself and your children forever I If by some generous fiat of the capital- ists of this country or by a new law of the government of the United States 25 per cent. or 50 per cent. or 100 per cent, were added to the wages of the working classes of Ainerican, it would be no ad- vantage to hundreds of thousands of them unless they stopped `itrong drink. Aye, until they quit that evil habit, the more money the more ruin, the more wages, she more holes in the bag MY Plea is to those working people who are in a discipleship to the whisky bot - the the beer jug and the wine flask. And what I say to them will not be more ap- propriate to the working classes than to the business daises, and the literary classes, and the professional °lasses, and all classes, and not with the people of one age more than of all ages. Take ono good square look at the suffering of the Man whom strong drink has enthralled, and remember that toward that goal multitudes are running. The disciple of aleoholism suffers the loss of self respect. Just as soon as a man wakes up and linds that he is the captive of strong drink, he feels demeaned. I do not care how recklessly he acts. He may say, "I don't care:" he does care. Ile cannot look a pure man in the eye unless it is with positive force of resolution. Three- fourths of his neture is destroyed; his self respect is gone; he says things he would. not otherwise say; he does things lie would not otherwise do. When a man Is nine -tenths gone with strong drink,the first thing he wants to do is to persuade you that he can stop any time he wants to. He cannot. The Philistines have bound him hand. and foot, and shorn his locks, and put out his eyes, and are making him grind in the mill of a great horror. He cannot stop. I will prove it. Ho knows that his course is bringing rain upon himself. He loves himself. If he could stop, he would. Ho knows his course is bringing ruin upon his family. He loves them. He would stop if he could, He cannot. Perhaps he could three months or a year ago•'not now. just ask him to stop a month. He cannot. He knows he cannot, so he does not try. Drink Victims. I had a friend who was for 15 years going down under this evil habit. He had large means. He had given thousands of dollars to Bible societies and reforma- tory institutions of all sorts. He was very genial, very generous and very lovable, and whenever he talked about this evil habit he would say, "I can stop any time." But he kept going on, going on down, down, clown. His family would say, "I wish you would stop." "Why," he would reply, "I can stop any time if I want to." After awhile he had delirium tremens. He bad it twice, and yet after that he said, "I oould stop at any time if I wanted to." He is dead. now. What killed him? Drink, drink! And gee among his last utterances was, "I can stop at any time." He did not stop it because he could not stop it. Oh, there is a point in inebriation beyond which if a man goes he cannot stop! One of these victims said to a Chris- tian man: "Sir, if I were told that I couldn't get a drink until to -morrow night unless I had all ray fingers out off, I would say, 'Bring the hatchet and out them off now.' " I have a dear friend in Philadelphia whose nephew came to him one day, and when he was exhorted about his evil habit said: "Uncle, I can't Otte it up. If there stood a cannon and It was loaded and a glass of wine Were set on the moath of that cannon, and I knew that you would fire it off just as I came up and took the glass, I would start, for I must have it. Oh, it is a sad thing for a man to wake up in this life and feel that he is a captive! He says: "I could have got rid et this once, but I can't now. I might have lived an honorable life and died a • Christian death. But there is no hope for me now, There is no escape for me. Dead, but not buried. I am a walking oorpse. I am an apparition of What I once was. I am a caged immortal beating against the wires of my cage in this direction; beating against the cage until there is blood on the wires and blood upon my soul, yet not able to get out—destroyed without remedy. I go on and say that the disciple of rum suffers from the loss of health. The older men ma.y remember that some years ago Dr. Sewell went through this country and electrified the people by his lectures, In which he showed the effects of ale:thol- e ' ea* ism on the human stomach. He had seven or eight diagrams by which he "showed the devastation of strong drink upon the physical system. There were thousands of people who turned back from that ulcerous sketch swearing eternal abstin- etine from everything that could intoxi- cate. ' In Delirium. God only knows what the drunkard suffers. Pain files on every nerve, and travels every musole, and gnaws every bone. and burns with every dame, and stings with every poison, and pulls at him with every torture. What reptiles crawl over his sleeping limbs I What fiends stand by his midnight pillow! What groans tear his earl What horrors shiver through his soul! Talk of the rack, talk of the inquisition, talk of the funeral pyre. talk of the crushing Juggernaut— he feels there all at once. Have you ever been in the ward of the hospital where these inebriates are dying, the stench of their wounds driving back the attend- ants, their voices sounding through the night? The keeper comes up and says: "Hush, now be still! Stop making all this noise I" But it is effectual only for a moment, for as soon as the keeper is gone they begin again: "0 God, 0 God I Help, help I Drink I Give me drink I Help I Take them off me I Take them off mel 0 God!" And then they shriek, and they rave, and they pluck out their hair by handfuls and bite their nails into the quick, and then they groan, and they shriek, and they blaspheme, and they ask the keepers to kill them—"Stab met Smother me! Strangle me 1 Take the devils off me I" Oh, it is no farm, sketch! That thing is going on now all up and down the land, and I tell you further that this is going to be the death that some of you will die. I know it. I see it coming. Again, the inebriate suffers through the loss of home. I do not care how much he loves his wife and children, if this passion for strong drink has mas- tered him, he will do the most outrage- ous things, and if he could not get drink in any other way he would sell his family into eternal bondage. How'many homes have been broken up in that way no ono but God knows. Oh, is there any- thing that will so destroy a man for this life and damn him for the life that is to come? Do not tell me that a man can be happy when he kuows that he is break- ing his wife's heart and -clothing his children with rags. Why, there are on the roads and streets of this land to -day little children barefooted, unwashed and unkempt—want on every patoli of their faded dress and on every wrinkle of their prematurely old countenances — who would have been in churches to -day and as well clad as you are but for the fact that rum destroyed their parents and drove them into the grave. Ob, rum, thou foe of God, thou despoiler of home, thou recruiting officer of the pit, I hate thee I A Deeper Loss. But my subject takes a deeper tone, and that is that the unfortunate of whom I speak suffers from the loss of the soul. The Bible intimates that in the future world, if we are unforgiven here, our bad passions and appetites, unrestrained, will go along with us and take our tor- ment there. So that, I suppose, when an inebriate wakes up in that world, he will feel an infinite tbirst consuming him. Now, down in this world, although he may have been very poor, he could beg or he oould steal 5 cents with which to get that which would slake his thirst for it little while. But in eternity where is the rum to COMO from? Oh, the deep, exhausting, exasperating, everlasting thirst of the drunkard, in hell! Why, if a fiend came up to earth for some infernal work in a grogshop and should go back taking on its wing just one drop of that for which the in- ebriate in the lost world longs, what ex- citement would it inake there? Put that one drop from off the flend's tieing on the tip of the tongue of the destroyed in- ebriate; let the livid brightness just touch it, let the drop be very small, if it only have in it the smack of alcoholic) drink; let that drop just touch the lost inebriate in the lost world, and. he would spring to his feet and cry: "That is rum, abal That is ruml" And it would wake up the echoes of the damned: "Give me rum 1 Give me rum I Give me rum!" In the future world I do not be- lieve that it will be the absence of God that will make the drunkard's sorrow. I do not believe it will be the absence of light. I do not believe that it will be the absence of holiness. I think it will be the absence of rum. Oh, "Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright in the oup, for at the last it biteth like a serpent and it stingeth like an adder." When I declared some time ago that there was a point beyond which a man could not stop, I want to tell you that, while a man cannot stop in his own strength, the Lord God by his grace can help him to stop at any time. I was in a room in New York where there were many men who had been reclaimed from drunkenness. I heard their testimony, and for the first time in my life there flashed out a truth I never understood. They said: "We were victims of strong drink. We tried to give it up, but always failed. But somehow since we gave our hearts to Christ, he has taken care of us." I believe that the time will soon come when the grace of God will show its power not only to save man's soul, but his body, and reconstruct, purify, elevate and redeem it. A Sure Remedy. I verily believe that, although you feel grappling at the roots of your tongues an almost omnipotent thirst, if you will give your heart to God, he will belp you by his grace to conquer. Try it. It is your lase chance. I have looked oft upon the desolation. Sitting next to you in our religious assemblages there are a good many people in awful peril; and, judging from ordinary circumstances, there is not one chance in fivethousand that they will get clear of it. There are men in every congregation from Sabbath to Sabbath of whom I must make the remark that if they do not change their course, within ten years they will, as to their bodies, lie down in drunkards' graves, and as to their souls, lie down in a drunkard's perdition. I know that is an awful thing to say, but I cannot help saying it. Oh, beware! Yon have not yet been captured. Beware! Whether the beverage be poured in golden chalice or pewter mug, in tlae foam at the top, in white letters, let there be spelled out to your soul, "Beware!" When tho books of judgment are open, and 10,000,030 drunkards come up to get their doom. I want you to bear witness that I, in the Lear of God and in the love for your steal, told you, with all affection and with til •kindness, to beware of that veieloh las already exerted its influence upon yaw family, blowing out some of its light'— premonition of the blackness of dark- ness forever. Oh, if you could only hear intemper- ance with drunkard's bones drumming on the head of the liquor cask the dead march of immortal souls, methinks the very glance of a wine cup woeld make you shudder, and the color of the liquor would make you think of the blood of the soul, and the foam on the top of the CUP would remind you of the froth on the maniac's lip, and you would kneel clown and pray God that, rather than your children should become captivee of this evil habit, you would, like to carry them out some bright spring day to the cemetery and put them away to the last sleep, until at the call of the south wind the flowers would come up all over the grave—sweet prophecies of the resurrect - tion! God has a balm for such a wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on a drunkard's sepulcher? Modern Biblical critisism. The modern method of criticism of the Bible by comparison of manuscripts is said to have been initiatecl in the flf- teenth century by Lorene Valle, who proved certain apocryphal writings to be forgeries, and showed that the "Apostles' Creed" post-dated. the Apostles by several centuries. La the twelfth century, Aben Era (not relislaing risk of martyrdom) had advanced, merely as a sort of enigma, suggested by it Jewish rabbi of the pre- ceding generation, a query as to the Mosel° authorship of the Pentateucb, a thing (dearly disproved by the books themselves. Itt 1670, Spinoza, demon- strated that all the five books were full ,of glosses and revisions, made long after tho time of Moses. In 1678, Richard Simon, in his "Critical Efistory of the Old. Testament," showed irorit internal evidence that the Pentateuch and other of the books had been compiled from older sources, and that Hebrew was not the primitive langeage of maukind, Bis- hop Bossuet deuounced Sbnon's work as a "bulwark of irreligion," and un- suceesfully ordered the whole edition to be burned. Soon aiterward Jean Leclerc:, a Swiss refugee at Amsterdam, similarly showed that in the plural form of the word used in Genesis for God, "Elohim," there is a trace of the Chaldean polythe- ism, In 1755 Jeau Astruc published his work showing that two main narratives enter into the composition of Genesis, olio using the word "Elohim," the other, "Jahvele " for Jehovah. Early in the sixteenth century Eras- mus proved that the seventh verse in the fifth ehaper of the first epistle of John was an interpolation, But, although Sir Isaac Newton and the nineteenth century reviser: also rejected this passage as to the "three witnesses," the Anglican Church still retains it in its Lectionary, and the Scotch Church in the Westmin- ster Confession, as a main support of the dogma, of the Trinity. Luther, in aver- ring justification by faith and not by good works, rejected the epistle of Janaes as a "book of straw," and he would not concede that Paul wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews. In the eighteenth century, John Gott- fried Herder wrote his "Spirit of Hebrew Poeny," proving the Psalms to be by different authors and of different periods, and Solomon's Song to be simply an Oriental love poem, nos an allegory of Christ's love for the Chureh or a recon- dite representation pf love of Jehovah fur Israel. In 1806 DeWetto published his "Introduction to the Old Testament," shelving that Deuteronomy is a late priestly summary of the law, and that Chronicles is a very late priestly recest of early history. In 1853 Hermann. Hup- field published his treatise establishing that three documents are combined in Genesis. In 18:30 Abraham Kuenen pub- lished his "Religion of Israel," proving that the Levitical law had been estab- lished not at the beginning, but at the end. of the existence of the Jewish nation, when heroes and prophets had been sue - ceded by priests; and that the Old Testa - intent history is largely mingled with myth and legend. In 1878 Julius Well- hausen published his "History of Israel," showing it to be "an evolution obedient to the laves at work in all ages," and Jewish literature to be "a growth out of individual, tribal and national life."— Benjamin F. Burnham, in the Arena. A Bit of Irish Wit. SOMO time ago while I was trading in it village store ono of the clerks came to the junior partner, who was waiting on me, and said:— "Please step to the desk. Pat Flynn wants to settle his account and wants a receipt." The merchant was evidently annoyed, "Why, what does ho want of a re- ceipt?" he said; "we never give one. Simply cross his account out of the book; that is receipt enough." "So I told him," answered the clerk, "but he is not satisfied. You had better SOB him " So the proprietor stepped to the desk, and after greeting Pat with a Good - morning, said :— "You want to settle your bill, do you?" . Pat replied in the affirmative. "Well," said the merchant, "there is no need of ray giving you a receipt. See! I will cross your account off the book;" and suiting the action to the word he drew his pencil diagonally across, the account. "That is a good receipt." "And do you mean that that settles it?" exclaimed Pat. "That settles it," said the naerchant "And ye're sure ye'll never be askin' me for it again?" "We'll never ask you for it again," said the merchant deoidediy. "Faith, thin," said Pat; 'I'll be after kapin' nee money in me pocket, for I haven't paid it." "Oh, well, I can rub that out!" "Faith, now, and I thought the same," said Pat. It is needless to add that Pat got his receipt. A Successful Life. He was a quiet man, ready for ever good work. His voice was not heard on tho street; he did not aspire to be it leader. But his influence was felt, and, in fact, he led many by drawing them into close relations to himself. When he died there was mourning among all classes, and from distance places the peo- ple came to his funeral. Ile was "beloved in the Lord," a "faithful and beloved brother." Be was a follower of Christ, whose religion appeared in his business relations, and manifested itself in Chris- tian work. Tim poor bore testimony to his kindness and his help be their work and eares. Ministers bore testimony to his help it their official duties. The members of the church bore testimony to bis help in personal living, and in better service to the Master. The world bore testimony to his life as a consistent Christian. Who will estimate the value of such a life? Was it not a great success? BISHOP B. W. ARNETT SWAYS AUDIENCES WITH HIS MASTERLY ELOQUENCE. ite Wines a Letter of More Than Usual Interest to Suffering Humanity. At 'Wilberforce, Ohio, three miles north of Xenia and near Dayton and Springfield, is located Wilberforce tint- versity and Payne Theological Seminary. These two institutions of learning have educated many ministers and teachers. In this somewhat noted educational centre, resides Bisbop Benjamin W. Arnett, D.D., a divine who is of especial prominence because of his thrill- ing eloquence with which be has swayed many audiences. Among the high officials of the church, 3ao one is more distinguisbed than he. • Before being elected bishop he was a leading minister in his church and also a very prominent Republican. He repre- sented his county in the Ohio Legislature Lor several years. Having given this sketoh of the bis- hop, the following testimonial from him will be found interesting reeding and fully explains itself. To whom it may concern :— "In April, 1894, while on my way home from Philadelphia I caught it very severe cold, which soon developed into rheumatism. It was impossible for me to rest by day or sleep by night. About the first of June I was compelled to take to my bed, wbere I remained for some time. When I was able to get up I could only. get about by the use of retches. "The fall came on and the rheuma- tism grew worse, lasting all through the winter of 'lei and '95. I suffered as I never suffered before. I thought that the spring would bring me relief, but it did not, consequently I was forced to cancel a Dumber of engagements to speak. "Om day in June, 1895, my wife said, 'Bishop, I read so naich about Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills, suppose you try them and see if they will not help you? "I said, `No, there is no use of getting then] for we have tried almost every- thing that has been recommended to us, and none of the remedies suggested seem to help my ease.' "She said no more, but went to Xenia, Ohio, and bought a box of the pills, On her return she gave me it dose at noon and another at night. She was only called one time to attend. to Inc during that night. "For months previous she had. been called three to four times during the night. The next day I took three doses of the pills, and the second night I was not disturbed. My wife, for the first time in more than ten months, had it good night's sleep. "I have not lost a night's sleep since that time on account of tne rheumatism. I carry a box of Dr. Williams' Pink .Pills in my pocket wherever I go. "I cheerfully bear testimony and. hope that others may find relief as I did. I have recommended Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to several people. "Yours for God and Man, BENJAMIN W. ARNETT." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure by going to the root of the dise,ase. They renew and build up the blood, and strengthen the nerves, thus driving dis- ease from the system. Avoid Imitations by insisting that every box you purchase is euelosed in it wrapper bearing the full trade mark, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. The Ron. Texas Angel. of Idaho. "Texas Angell Gods, what a namel" was the exclamation of a Spokane man as he read the senatorial reports from Boise City and learned that an individ- ual bearing that name Was it prominent figure in the race over in Idaho. "What could his parents have been thinking of when they named the poor baby?' he continued. "A worse combination could not have been coniured from the imagi- tuition." "Have you never beard of the circum- stances under which Mr. Angel received that name? said Judge John R. Mc- Bride, the well known pioneer of Oregon Washington and Idabo. "It happened in this way: Mr. Angel's father was a member of congress from the Buffalo dis- trict of New York, and while in congress the question of the admission of ' Texas was a lively issue. He took an active and leading part in the movement for admis- sion'and was so enthusiastio over the question that he gave the name of Texas to his son, born at that time. Then only a glamour of romance and adventure hung over the broad region so recently wrested from Mexico, and the elder Mr. Angel could not foresee the character which was so soon to attach to the in- fant state." Mr. Angel is about 60 years of age,has an excellent standing in the southern part a the state, where he is well known, is a successful lawyer, and is a Populist of moderate views.—Spokane Spokesman Review. So Many. SO many stars in the infinite space— So many worlds in the light of God's face. So many storms ere the thunders &all cease— So many paths to the portals of Peace. So many years, so many tears— Sighs and sorrows and pangs and prayers. So aaany ships in the desolate night— So many harbors, and only one Light. So many creeds like the weeds in the sod— So many temples, and only one God. —Prank L. Stanton in Atlanta Con- stitution. • Much Will Depend. A Chicago man is trying to have his wife declared insane because she wants to buy everything she sees. A good deal will depend on whether the judge is a married man or not.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. • THAT FUNNY OLD WOMAN. The Ineuxance Dian Had Het Bar Ontaid• the Realm of Fancy. "NOVelisto have always taken liberties with the funny little old VIOnlan," Said tht insurance man, "but I've had my expert. once -With one in real life. She happened to be going from one depot to another at the sanie time that I did, and bad no hesi- tancy in asking me to lend her my arm, precisely as though she bad me under sals ary for rendering just that sort of service. "She was a *rightly old body, but thin as her -voice and dressed in colors that would have been fatal in a bull ring. It was a strain even on my gallantry, but I piloted her safely through, pulling ber out of the way of buses, street cars and switching trains. I could see that she was disposed to hold me responsible for all these emmytalees, but I made full allow- ance for her peppery disposition, and res. cued her big invoice of personal property every time it was scattered through our combined efforts at dodging. After I bad made her comfortable in a parlor car she had tbe grace to thank me, and I soon learned from a friend whom 1. happened to meet that she was an eccentric character with more money than any one needed. I remember having a comfortable feeling that I might bear from her agran, for she had taken my card at her own request," "Well, did you hear?" "Inside of an hour- levee in the smoker enjoying a pipe when a man in blue and brass buttons tapped me on the sboulder, told zne not to make any fuss, and bad me on the platform just as tbe alcl lady step- ped from her ear. She had lost ben weU filled pocketbook during our stormy Pas- sage from station to station, and con- surned no time in reeking up her mind that I had stolen it. When we inet, it wag plain from the flash of her eyes that my size and age were all that saved me from bodily harm After I had convinced both the officer and berself that I was not a pick- pocket she rated me up hill and down dale Lor not looking more zealously after her interests while I was with her. I was glad to inake zny escape, but she occasionally writes me making a good offer for the re- turn of her book and money. You can never tell about such people, arid I have SOMO anxiety to live till after her will is made."—Detroit Free Press. A Fandiy Affair. Languid Manuna—CeR:stine, who was that ill tred child u .4 you and the baby on the walk this tuerniag? the Maid—Your eldest, madam,—De' troit News. Why Do Reformed. "Yee, I was tol'abp successful while I was in the biznis," aumitted the reformed burglar, with a senile of reminiscent pride. i'nett your eanFeience troubled you too niece:" queried t/ao distinguished philan- art e tise. " t 'between that an the perlice 1 eeuldn't get no rest." --Detroit News. A Vindication, "I don't understand why you dislike Herbert so," said Mabel to her father. "I don't tlaink he has any ideas of finance." "I am sure you wrong him. Be is de- voted to it. He stopped right in the mid- dle of his proposal to me to ask how you business was eetting alma g. "—Washington Star. The Latest Popular Music For 10 cents a Copy. Regularly sold for 40 and 50 cents. Send us cash, post -office order or stamps and we will forward postpaid to any address, The inueic selected to the amount of year purchase. Vocal. 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