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NOTES 41‘71) commENrs.
The cootraet juee let for the -great
eleetrie plant to be connected. with a
nMW. uniou ehieway station in liestofl.
is a &timers/hat surprising exhibit a the
U3$$ to 'wheel the electric current is
now applie& eaeluded tin the service to
be performed, by the plant are power,
heat, light, ventilatieee and refrigera-
tion. Tem boilers will be placed, in the
power home equipment, atad compound
exigimes of 1500 horse -power. Nineteen
electric elevatora and lifts will be dis-
tritnated threagligat the building% coad,
travelling orane,s- Where needed.. The
heating is to lwi done by hot blast and
tempered air, furnished by fans driven
by electric motors., and the ventilation
will be assisted by electrically driven
exhaust fans. Twenty tons of ire per
day will be made on tth,e premises, and
twenty-ftve drinking fountains supplied
by a refrigerating plata. Other elec-
trio features erabrace a fire service sys-
tem. electricadly driven pumps, come
peased. air, pipings he and. snow Limit-
ers for fourteen, ares of roofs hot
water and steari supplies, arc and in-
oandeecent lights and. two large inter-
locking teeters.
A few days ago a group of works was
opened at Shoreditoh, London, at which
house refuse to be used for generate
tog all the electric light and power re-
quiredby the distriet, and for heating
wat er for bath houses, wash houses, and
other purposes. The house refuse from
this part cif London bias hitherto been
carried by barges out to sea at a cost
of 0a a ton. The plant, covering an
acre and a half, comprises a dust de-
structor, electric station., baths and
wash bousea, technical institute and.
free lihrary. Oa the ground floor a
dust cart discharges its contents into
an. electric lift. The rubbish is heist-•
ed and dropped into one of the fiery
celLs. Gases pase out of the cells
taraugh the bailer tubes. The capac-
ity- •a combustion is Mout 120 tons of
refuse per day. Nothing is left after
the eumbustioa but a clinker, and
that is seeable for making roads. So
great a heat is maintained. that all nox-
ious vapors are 'consumed..
these two illustrations of what is
t000mplisb.ed. in applied eleetricity may ;
be seen t'he swift eel:mote of the cur-
rent as a new fore in the industrial
and scaial world. It is hard to keep I
track of ale that is going on in electric-
ity. In every department of human af-
fairs it is working changes and im-
provements. Whet it is nobody knows,
and what it can do is just beginning
o beunderetuod. The next century ;
will be the eleetric age unless some-
thing more wunderful is discovered to ;
take its place as a. tireless forni of en -
"I BAG. Willi liOLES,
•
diet he want to get moueye 'Volay up
1
i e add evening employment to the
....-•-• something for a rainy day? No. To
get money. i hy
REV. DB, TALMAGE PREACHES ON get his life insured, so that in case of
HOW THE MONEY GOES. Ms death his wife would not be a. beg-
gar ? No. He put the extra evening
work to the day work that he might
rile celebrated Dne erealetes AU Clauses get $1.50 to get hes wife a sealskin coat.
�V see/emu-toe - Their notaishitese , The sister of tbe bride heard of thia
LieeeeepejeLoss.seery o A se,..e Remote nor achievemenl. and was not to be eclips-
lett. She was very poor, aud she sat up
vtiorking nearly all the night for a
Hoy. Dr. Telmege Preaehed 'ea aim- great while until she bought a seal -
day from Haggai,i. 6, "He that earueth. ekin. coat.. I have uot heard of the re -
with. holes."
wages, earneth wages to put into a bag
of those who are on small incomes, but
suit on that street. The street is full
'I suppose the cantagioul spread., and
In Perste under the reign of Darius that everybody bad a sealskin coat and
Hystaspes, the people did, not prosper. the people came out and cried, prace
'They made motley but did not keep it. eically, tot literally. "Though the
'Theyare like people svho have a sack iu oguraYieils 1-411 " moist have a sealskin
which they pat MODJaY, not knowing I was out west and a minister of the
that the sack is torn or eaten of moths, gospel told me in lova that lea church,
and the neighborhood. had been imeoh-
or in some way incapable of holding exished, by the fact that they putenort-
valuables. As fast as the coin was gages on. their farms in order to send
pot in oae end of the sack it dropped therr families to the Philatiel bia cen-
out of the other. It made no differ
a t• ?nit: ithel r' eNevnatse not fespectab e not to
vim nixie . Between such
encs bOW rtmeh wages. they got, for ! .,
and pauperism there is a. very
did h
der employment?' To -V
they lost them. "He that ea.rneth short step. The vast majority of chil-
wages, earneth wages to put it into . drim in your aimehouses are there be-
e bag with holes." ,cause their parents are drunken, lazy
What has become of the billions and. orl IblevkelenssolysYlm7artrgyiritolirt'skinflint sev-
billiseas of dollars in, this country paid, ' ing, elite plead for Christian prudence.
to the working (gasses 4 Some or these 'I rtut Yhyoutataisyigitfoirs ima ip.aosiosyible now to lay Up
moneys have gone for house rent, or the
purcse of homesteads, or wardrobe, or 'ProsPeritday. I know it,
e. Same we are at tbo daybreak
hae think it is
family expenses. or the neeessaries of mean to turn the gas loev when they go
late or to provide comforts in old age. oiditifor the parlor. They feel embarrass-
Wha t has beecime, of other billions ? . tt!aii ht'allifillgfebctillitfs„, mbeoi(l)irgeilheeiYolbeVities
Wasted La foolish outlay. Wasted ab :plain ixieel. if you sur)pripse them at the
the gaming table. Wasted in intoxi- . table. Well, it is mean. if it is only to
heaonieste. Put euto a bag with a hundred
I taieducate you ohlearen, if it be to give
',pile up a miserly hoard, but if it be
Imore belp to your wife when she does
Gather up the money'. thae the work- not feel strong, if it be to keep
Leg classes have spent for drink during ' your funeral day from being horrible
the last thirty years, and I will build rale:es-0r VI endurance beictirtioto toisof tibuie
for every workingman a house and lay domestirc gixeollte,113'itTilenfor annihilation
then it
out for him a gardeu and. clothe his is magnificent.
sons ho broadcloth. and his uaughters elhere are those who are kept in pay-
ee silks, and. place at his front door a rueriteh- ..)Tacausio) ot theen eir 7.1.13, fta'tTet..; They
in
span of stirre•Is or lays and ed or ell:nye' d up thar eareingsoir they
so• ma* ioni a Lorna of lire insuralea, lived beyond their means, while others
maimained after he is dead. The most eateries went on to competency. I know
o'n. the same wages and on the same
so that the. present home may ee well
persistent, most overpowering enemy a. man who is all the them complaining
of his povert a d ye.11 or agsainst
turi dogs asul chews and smokes and is full
liquor. It is the, anarchist. of ths tien-
es anti has bee -hated, and is now to the chile with whisky and beer. Wil-
kiras lificawber said to 1)01 id Copper -
boycotting, the body and mad and field; "Copperfielde my boy, iel income;
soul ot Amerivan labor. It is to it a expenses, 20 ,sbillings and 6 pence; re-
morse for than menopoiss and worse sett. misery. Bat Copperfield, net boy,
tirat aesociatea capital. *a moorneo expenses, 19 shillings and
6 pence; result, happiness." 13..it it work -
It. annually ea -incites industry outof a ialgenan, take your mernhag. dram and
•
.arge percentage of its eternings. It. your noon dram and your evening dram
, and spend everything you have over for
Iwisis °let iis blasting solieitiolons to tobacco and excursion, and you insure
the mechanbe. or operative on his wag poverty, for eourseli and your children
to work, and at the noon spell, and on forever 1
his way Nene at eventide; on Satur illy plea is to those working people
da -•
y, '.hen the wag, are paid, it, =at..., . who are in a discipleship to the
whisky bottle, the beer jug and the
ches e large part of the money tbat wine flask, And. what I say to them
might come into the family and sure. will not oe more appropriate to the
Stand. the saloons or this cettntry side working classes ttiten to the business
age% d
4;flihrtrh
flees it among the saloon leeepers. toh spoeciplri olageense
of the working &asses intoxieeting rich men, while rltie tins. f keeps two
by side, and it is carefully estimated Ike one goollil looelnPaet e suAering et
that they would reach from New York the man whom strong drink has en -
to Chive " • - IS thralled, and remember that
towarus
go.. loneard, mareh, saYs that goal multitudes are running. e
ergy. the drink power, "and take possession disciple of alcoholism suffers the less
STALKING THE OSTRICH. taiThe tl:e. drinkAtzinsss
niericaneatioin."pou i it , of respect. Just as soon as a man
s wakes up and finds that he is the cap-
- vieritilit- and damnable liqui Le down the tive of strong drink he feels demeaned.
Row the Patient Muslim:In Gets Within
Arrow Shot of Him.
The Dushma.n dive,sts himself of all
his incumbrances; water vessels, food,
eloak, asseeaL and. sandals are all left
behind. Stark naked, except for the
hide patch about his middle, and arm-
ed. only with his bow, arrows and knife,
he ems forth. The nearest ostrich is
feeding aeore than a mile away, and
there is no covert but the long, sun-
dried ,yellow -grass, but that is enough
for the Bushmen. Worming himself
over the ground with the greatest cau-
tion. he crawls flat on his belly to-
ward the bird. No serpent could tra-
verse the grass with less disturbanee.
In the space of an hour and a half
he has approached. within 100 yards of
the tall bird. Nearer he dare not creep ,
on the tare plain, and at more than
twenty-five paces lie cannot trust his ,
light. reed arrows. He lies patiently hid- t
den in the grass, Ms bow and arrow!
ready in front of him, trusting that
the ostrich may draw nearer.
It is a long wait under the blazing
sun close, on two hours, but his instinct
serves him, and at last, as the sun
shifts a little, the great ostrich feeds
that way. It is a magnificent male
bird, jet black as to its body plum-
age, and adorned with magnificent
white feathers upon the wings and.
tall. Swaneet's eyes glisten, but he
moves not a muscle. Closer and. closer
the ostrich approaches. Thirty paces,
twenty-five, twenty. There is a light
musical twang upon the hot air, and. a
Any yellowish arrow sticks well into
the breast of the gigantic bird. The
ostrich teels a sharp pang and turns
at once. In that same instant a sec-
ond arrow is lodged in its side just
under the wing feathers. Now the
stricken bird. raises its wings from the
body and speeds forth into the plain.
But Rwaneet is quite content. The poi-
son of these two arrows will do the
work effectually. He gets up, follows
the ostrich, traelcing it, after it has
disappeared from sight, by its spoor,
and. in two hours the game lies there
before him, amid the grass, dead as a
stone. '
THE DIAMOND BEETLE.
One of the most beautiful of insects
is the "diamond beetle" of Brazil. Ac-
eording to tb.e recent investigations of
Doctor Garbasso, th,e sparklin,g colors
of this beetle, which blazes with exe
traordenary brilliance in the sunshine
originate in an entirely different way
from the hoes of butterflies. The scales
ea the diamend beetle appear to om-
elet of two layers, separated by an ex-
ceedingly Main inte.rapace, and the light
falling upon them experiences the ef-
fect of iinterference, so thet the result -
ng colors correspond with those of thin
plates, or of the soap -bubble.
TOO EARLY IN THE GA.
Neighbor -I sew the doctor call at
your eouse this morning. Is your
father very eick?
Boy -Not yet. The doctor just start-
ed to come this morning.
U-P-TO•T)ATE STATEMENT.
heSo ha e bur nee th bridges eeh i ncl
him bee be?'
Well. practically. He has sprieltlet
teeku :fleets the rola
o noti
throats of hundreds of thousands of la- He may say, "I don't care; he does
,
boreae,ana wheel the ordinary strikes
are ruinous both to employers and em- care. He cannot lo ik at a pure man in
eye, unl
ployes, I proclaim a, strike universal tne ess it is with positive force
ot resiosluatisosntr. destroyed; bis
o usretlfh-sr self-respect
elicits na-
tureis
against strong (trail:, which, if kept up. gone; he says things he would not oth-
will be the relief of the working classes
anti the salvation of the. nation I will erwise say; he does things he would not
otherwise do. When a man is nine-
tenthsuntlertake to say that there ie not a thi
n
g
hisson ley I with1otsstotrodnog idsritook,ptshresafithirset
healthy laborer in the United States you that he can stop any time he wants
will refuse all intoxicating leverage to. He cannot. The Philistines have
bound him band and foot, and shorn his
wee, within the. next. ten years, if he
and Le saving, may not become a mph miceakksi,nganhdput
hint grind
hihis tehyoes,mailnldotarae
tanist on a small scale. Cow country ' great horror. .L will prove it. Ile knows
Of course the working classes do a that his course is bringing ruin upon
in
himself. He loves himself. II he could
a year spends e1,500,050,00J for drink.
great deal of this expendituee. Care- stop,
stopelinhgewinr eludiIl
n upeonknhoilvsfahmisiecr!uxHsee
ful statistics show that the wage earn- loves them. Ile would stop if he could.
in liquors 1,60000 a year. Sit down He cannot. Perhaps he could three
iing classes of Great Britain expends
toa'eastoyper ago;monthn.or Ifetr"cvajnrtilt
oat.
masokuhteims or
end calculate. 0 workingman, hew He knows he cannot. so he does not
xnueh you have expended. in these dies '
ections. Add it all un. Add up what ; trYa..had a friend who was for 15 years
going down under this evil habit. He
yeller neighLors have expended, and , had mtge. means. He had given thou -
realize that instead of auswering the sands of dollars 1.0 Bible ,societies and
Leek of other people you might have ' reformatory institutioxis of all sorts. He
Leen your own eapitalist. 'When you • was very genial, very generous, and
deplete a workingenan's . physisal en- , very lovable, and whenever he talked
-
g 1 -vital. the sti-
wheat the evil habit lie would say, "1
mulated workman gtves out infore the , eau stop any time." But he kept going
unistimulated workman. My father ! on ening on down down down His
said: ii a temIeran.3e man in family Would say, "1 wish you would
early life Lecauee I noticed, in the hare
telly weaker then other workmen, I . .1.
stop." "Why," he would reply, "I can
vest field that, thou,git I was physi- ,
coued hold out longer than thy. 'Amy ; it twice
ehile he had delirium tremens. He had
sine any time I want to." After a
and yet atter he said, "'could
, none.
brickmaker in. England giid, ids A 1 stop at any time if I wanted to." He
perienee in re,oseei to leiei giiiiewxr- . is dead now. Whet killed him? Drink,
after szoteetigatien: "The Leer drink -
He says, , drinlc. And yet, among his last utter -
alining. men in his employ.
ex who made the feweet breaks made did
was, "I can stop any time." He
did not stop it because he could not
659,000, and the abstainer Who made 1 stop
it. Oh, there is a point in inebrito
once in baiter el the abstaa'hainerdifof!re , tion beyond which if a man goes he
the fewest bricks 746,000.
When an army gees out to the tattle, ; One of these victims said to a Chris-
:, cannot stopi
i
the 'indulger, 87,000." ver
the soldier who has water or coffee en , tian man: "Sir, if I were told that I
his canteen marches easier and fights couldn't get a drink until to -morrow
night, unless I had all my fingers cut
Letter titan the soldier who ha e whisky . off 'I would say, "Bring the hatchet
fight when he hats only one contestant, 1 friend. in Philadelphia, whose nephew
and cut them off now. " I have a dear
en his cante,en. Drink helps a Man to
and that at the street corner.
whea he goea forth to maintain sotiet I came to him one day, and 'when he was
great Lealo for God rand Ms country; ; exhorted about the evil habit said :
"Uncle, I can't give it up. If there
he wants no drink about. him. 'Wee , stood a. cannon and a glass oh wine
the Russians go to war a corporal passes were set on the mouth of that cannon
-very soldier. If there lee la, his ereatir . and I knew that you would fire ib off
e
just as I came lip and took the glass,
along the line and smells the breath of
a taint of intoxicating liquorthe man is I would etert, tor I must have it."
sent beck to the barracks. Why? He . Oh, it is e sed thing far, a man to
cannot endure fatigue. All our young -'1.ke UP
in this life and find that he
men know this. When they are p is a captiv8l Ha says, 1 oouid have
paring fora regatta ortor a ball dub go!; rid of this once; but 2 can't now; I
or for an atheetio wreatling, they ale Might have heed en honorable life, and
stain. Our working people will be wis.. died a, Cheistmai death. • But there is
er after avabile, and the money they no hope for me now. There es no esca,pe
Haig away on hurtful indulgences they for me. Dead, but not buried. I am
will put into a co-operative aesociation Et• walking corpse. I am an apparition
and so lee eine ktinitaltsts. ff the of what I once was. I an a caged im-
workmgmen pat down his wages and.
take his expenses and spread theni out
so they will just equal, he is not wise.
I knew workingmen who are in a per-
fect fidget untie they get rid of their
last dollar.
Tbe follow -bug circumstances came un-
der our observation A young man
worked hard to earn hie $600 or $700
yearly. Marriage day came. The bride
had inherite,d. $500 irom her grandfa-
ther. She vent every dollar of it on
the evedding dress. Thee seey rented
two rooms 141 a third storey.. 'Then the
young man took extra evening employ-
ment; almost exhausted met'n the day's
tvetk, yet took evening employment. It
almost eetinguiehed, his eyesight. Why
mortal., beating against the wires of
my cage in this direction; beating
against the cage until there is blood
on the wires and blood on 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 Joan may remember thee some
years agoler. Sewell went through this
country and electrified the people by
his lectures, in which be showed the
effects (-4 alcoholism on the 'human
stomach He had seven or eight dia-
gloms by which be showed the devas-
tation of strong drink upon the physi-
cal system. There were thousands of
people who turned back from that
ulcerous sketch. swearing eternal eh-
°
' suMenee fie= everything that could in -
1 toxicete.
i God only knows what the drunkard
suitex.s. Pain files on every nerve, and
stings with every
travels every muscle ,aid gnaws every
bane, and. burns with every flame, and
i hem with ertrery torture. What re,otiles
crawl over his sleeping limbs 1 "'bat
poison. end pelts at
!fiends stands by his midnight pillow 1
Ntleerkl4rtacgirtaaalks ateathrehiailsquieaisri tliZiltaallhc°ori
the funeral pyre, talk of the crushing
Juggernaut -he feels them all at once.
Have you ever been in the ward of
the hospital where those inebriates are
• dying, the stench of their wounds driv-
ing back the attendants, their voices
sounding through the n,ght? The keep-
er comers eto and says: "Hush, now be
still! Stop making all this noise!" But
1 itis effectual only for a moment, for
gin again: ''0 Go& 0 Gad. I Efelp, help!
as soon as the keeper is gone they be-
' Drink! Give me drink! Help ! Take
them off me! 0 God!" And then they
shriek, and. they rave, and they pluck
oat. their Imir by hand.fuls, and Into
their nails into the quick, and then
they groan, and they shriek, and they
blaspheme, and they ask the keepers
to Ical thern,-"Stab me! Smother met
Strangle nae! Strangle me! Take the
(levies aff mei" Oh, it is no fancy
sketeh l That thing is going on now
all up and down the land, and 1 will
benotsliveltdeaIelsi
tell you further that this is going to
. of coning, will die. I
es:melt co
Again the inebriate suffers through
the. loss of home. I do not care how
much be loves his wife and children, it
bus passion for strong drink has Imes-
tered him, will do the naost outrageous
things, and if he could not get drink
in any: other way he would sell his
family into eternal boniage. How many
homes have been broken up in that
way no one but God knows. 011 is
there anything. 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 banpy when he
, knows that he is breaking his wife's
ailedand streets a this land to -clay little
heart and clothing his children with
rags. Wiay, there are on the roals
e 00 e , uilwasbeci an
kempt-want on every patch of their
faded dress and oo every wrinkle of
their prematurely old ceuutenenceew
who -would have, been in churches to-
day and ae well teal as you are but for
, the. feet that rum destroe-ed their
Parents an1 drove them into the ite ere.
0.11, rum, thou foe of God thou despoiler
of home, thou recruiting °Meer of the
pit, I hate thee,"
Oh, the deep, exhausting, exasperat-
ing, everlasting tbirst of the drank-
, ard in hell! Why, if a fiend came up
to earth for some infermal work in a
eregzhop aad should go back tak'ng on
its wing just one drop of that for
which the inebriate in the lost world
• longs, what excitement would it make
there? Put that one drop from of the
; fiend's wing on the tip of the Iteneue
of the destroyed inebriate; let the
liquid brightness just teach it let the
• drop be small, if it only have in it
the smack a alcoholie drink; let the
drop just touch the lost inebrint t 121
thelost world, and he would spring
to his feet. and. cry: "That is rem
;elle! That is rum 1" Ane it would v alto
up the echoes of the damned: dGive
; me ram! Give me rum! Give me rum 1"
' In the future world I do not believe
!that it will btl the abetnee eif God
that will melte the drunkard's sorrow.
I do not believe it will be the itbeenee
of light, I do not believe th it it P1
. be the absence of holiness. I think
it will be the absence of rum. teh
"Look not upon the. wine when 't is
red, 'when it rnoveth itself arieht in
the. cup, for at the last, it stitith like
a serpent and. it stmgeth like an ad-
der."
I When I declared some teem ago that
• there was a point beyond wheel 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 grain
can help him to stop at any time. I
ewes in -a roam in New York where
1 there were many men who had been
' rectlaitned from drunkenness. I heard
Itheir 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 some-
how since we gave our hearts to Christ,
He has taken care of us." I believe that
, the time will come when the grace of
God. will show its power not only to
; save man's soul, but his body, and re-
construct, purify, elevate and redeem it.
1 I verily believe that, although you
feel grappling at the roots of your
tongues, an almost omnipotent thirst,
if you give your heart to God, He will
help you by his grace to conquer. Try
it. lt is your last chance. I have looked
aft upon the desolation. Sitting next to
you m our religious assemble es there
I are a good many people in awful peril;
'• and, judging from ordinary circumstan-
ces, there is not one chance in five thou-
sand that they will get clear of it. There
are men in every congregation from
Sabbath to Sabbath of whom I must
j make the remark that if they do net
change their course, within ten years
• they will, as to thew bodies, he down
in drunkards' weaves, and as to their
souls, lie dawn in a drunicard's perdi-
, tion. I know that is an awful thing
to say, but I cannot help saying it.
I Oh, beware 1 You have not yet been
eantured. Beware! Whether the bev-
erage be poured in golden chalice or
pewter mug, in the foam at the top, in
, white letters, let there be spelled out te
your soul, "Beware 1" when the buoks
of judgment are open, and 10,000,000
drunkards come up to get their doom,
want you to bear witness that I, in
the fear of God and in the love for your
soul, told you, with all affection and
with all kindness, to beware of that
which has already exereed its influence
upon your family, blowing out some of.
its lights, -a premonition of the black-
ness of darkness forever.
Oh, if you could. only hear intemper-
• ance, vvitb. drunkard's bones drumming
On the head. of the liquor cask the deed
.march of immortal souls, methinks the
very glance of a wine cuiewould make
you shudder, and the color of the liquor
would make you think of the blood cif
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 captives of
this evil habit, you would like to car-
ry them out some bright spring day
to the cemetery and put them away
to the laist sleep, until at the call of
the south win.d the flowers would come
up all over the grave -sweet prophecies
of the resume:Hon ! God has a balm for
such a wound, lsul; what flower of com-
fort ever grew on a drunkard's sepul-
care ?
GENEROUS MAN.
• There are • two &ewe:necks here, she
said as she sat down in one of them.
'Well, there's no use in our being sel-
fish, he replied, as he sat clowtt in the
same hammock. Let some one else have
the other.
7,7
CHE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG. 15.
alestateine 101' the Sake of Others." I For.
I43, eoideu Text, eels iest.
PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 1. Touelieng things offered. Re-
vised Version, "concerning things sacra
feeed." We know that we all have
knowlolge. Mae !meaning a this
clause is, "AR Cheistians everyvvlaere
are firmly convinced that idols are no-
thing." Nobody undertook to dispute
this fouodation doctrine; but not all
could feel what they all thought they
believed; the reasoinof many was fully
convinced but they had worshiped these
gods for so long it was hard to get rid
of the feeling that they actually exist-
ed,. Paul is ready, be praise mein for
theix "knowledge," butt he feels here
what he says later "Atnd yet show I
uinto you . a more. excealent way."
Xnowle,dge puffeth. up, but charity edi-
fieth. "Knowledge puffs up, but love
builds up." Over and over again
Paul uses the figure of a building ris-
ing on re strong foundation to repre-
sent a Christian lire rising on :Jesus
Christ -a thought which contained in
Ohrist-a thought which contained in
the word "edifieth." Regard this
little sentence and the two following
verses as a. parenthesis. Knowledge
by itself is never a safe director of
Chriatian living.
2. If imy m.an think that he knosvetle
anything. In modern phraseology, "If
any may be coneetted;" if he has know-
ledge without love. He knoweth noth-
ing yet as he ought .to know. Revised
Version, "He knows not yet." Ile
needs heart knowledge as well as brain
knowledge. "Satan," as Dr. Whedon
says, "is the model of intelleet with-
out love." The question is not so
=eh what to know as how to know.
8. If any man love God, the same is
known of him. No matter how nautili we
know, our knowledge falls short a our
needs; but from the moment we begin
to love God he is on our side, and bis
vigilant watchcare and tender love are
better protection and guidance than the
highest human knowledge. There is no
true knowledge unconnected with love
for God.
4. The parenthesis is endetk and the
discussion concerning the propriety of
eating food offered to idols, and of sit-
ting in pagan temples or at the tables
of idolaters, again begins. An idol is
nothing in the world. That is, the dei-
ty represented by the idol. This image
of metal, or stone, or ivory. is harm-
less in itself, notwithstanding the rev-
erence of heathens who regard IL as an
eintodiment oi some supernatural be-
ing. Not only de we know that there
is no suoh embodiment here, but we
know that, there is no such supernatur-
al being as the heathen fears; if behind
idolabory there be any personality at
all it is that of devils. 1 Cor. 10. 20.
5. Though there be. Not really, but in
curreat opinion. In heaven. The sun
arta stars were widely worshiped. In
earth. The ancients deified the powers
of nature; and. their fancy peopled ev-
ery brook andtree with divinities; be-
sides which they were always ready to
worship the castings and carvings of
men's hands. Gods many, and lords
many. The minds of the superstitious
were haunted by unnumbered gods who
could only be pacified by prayer and
6. One God, the Father. The father-
hood of God, brougla into full view by
Jesus, was unknown to the heathen,
en(1 only dirtily apprehended by the
Hebrews. Of whoni are all things.
lie is th.e Fountain and Source of all
good. We in him. "We unto him."
Living for blue we find perfection. One
Lord. Jesus C:hrist. "Lord" should have
a cumnaa after it, or else "Jesus Christ"
should be put within pageotheses. The
heathen. have many gods; we have one,
the Father. The heathen have many
lords; we have one, Jesus, the Messiah
We by him. "We through him." The
expression refers rather to our hopes
of heaven than to our original creation..
All we have, as men and. as Christians,
we have through Jesus the Messiah.
This glorious creed is introduced to
show how an enlightened Christian can
afford oa
ordteo disregard idols -they are ciph-
ers
ansedi all.
Howbeit is not in every
man that knowledge. We must naake
allowance for disciples who are not yet
enti're.ly freeci 2 rara hwithen concep-
tions. Note th.e Revised 'Version "Soma
being used until now en the idol."
Their lifelong habits made it well-nigh
iamossible to shake off superstitious •
seatiments, althougheir deeper con-
ye:Aeons were Chrisnian. Eat it as a
thing offered unto an idol.
What to the Chrietiart who has never
be.en an • idolater is only palat-
able food, has to the fancy of the weaker
brother an almost surernatural pow-
er, like the " c.onsecratecl wafer" to
the Boman Catholic. Their conscience
being weak is defiled. Not strong en-
ough to grasp firmly the great truth
that an idol is nothing, but seeing clear-
ly that to worship idols is a sin. If
you believe a thing to be wrong, though
it be not intrinsically wrong, since you
must decide to do wrong before you can
do it, to do it is sin. Many a person has
hurt his conscience, and therefore cone-
mitted sin, by doing. a dead which in-
trinsically was innocent.
8. Meat mermen:let:1a us not to God.
Christianity is something much deeper
and more spirituel than physical food.
For neither, etc. Paul now takes up the
intrinsic right and wrong of the ques-
tion. Both parties in the Church were
conscientious, and he would have - each
understand the other.
9. Take heed. Beware. This liberty of
yours, This right of yours. Becom,e a
stumbling -block. The exereise of your
"rights' where otheopeople inevitable
misunderstand them is wrong.
10, If anyman. Any weak Chris,-
tian; any inquiring heathen. See
thee which hest knowledge. • One
is sure to watch • one whom he
regards as stronger than he. "Thee"
stands for the enlightened Ceristian.
Sit at meat in the idol's temple. Where
feasts were often heel; thus going to
the' extreme in the exerctsci of
one's "rights." Shall not the conscience
of him whith is weak be emboldened
to eat those things. The word for em-
boldened is "edified," built up. The
week brother's x.eepect for your super-
ior intelligence and. goodness may in-
duce him to follow your example and
de a thing that his own conscience
ubuoitldsalu)pproaver.ightL°ehvearaNcrtitehr ; kkan:vl
;:vieedciggee
without love builds up a harmful one.
11. Through thy kuowledge shall the
weak brother berish? This 'perishing"
edoes not riecessa,rily imply loss of soul;
thoetgli it may easily be followed, by
that. .01d man's nindependenee"-the
maintenance • of Ms e'rights"--often
breaks down another mans fences and
destroys safeguards which may indeed
have been faulty, by which to the weak-
er man were as important as were
truer principles to the larger minded
man. For whom Christ died. A xnest
pathetic argument. ,
12. When ye sin so against the bre-
thren. When .you 'weaken them. of-
fend them, u,nintentionally lead them
into sin. Wound. their weak consei-
ewe. "Wouncleng their conscience
when it is weak.' Ye sin against
Christ. Weakening them you weak-
en hien, for eihrtst. has identified him-
self with each of his followers. "Inas-
115 ye have dolne it. to the least,
ot these, my brethren/ye have done it
unto me."
18. Wherefore. A conclusion from
all that eas gone before. If meat
make my bxother to offend. If my
habits cause another to stumble. I
will eat no flesh. while the world stand-
eth. "Win eat ao flesh for evermore;"
a declaration of total abstinence for
the sake a others. Lest I make my
brother to offend. The entire lesson
presents strongly one of the two great
arguenente for abstinence from the
use of intoxicating liquors. Modern
science has shown that they do 'unex-
ampled injury to those who habitually
use them, and that where they are even
moderately utherei
sed
is an nsidious
tendency to drunkenness passed by
heredity down to the next generation.
Rut even if you and I knew, what no
one. knows, that we may safely indulge
in them, we still shelled rot do so he -
cause of the moral principle Paul here
lays down: It is wrong to do anything
that weakens unothier.
A CURIOUS CASE.
4,1•••=1,
Abandoned lier Home and Family to In-
dulge s Mania for Wearing ilIca's
clothes,
Investigation of the case of the young
woman who was the other day detected
in boy's attire at the Barge Office, New
York, has developed a rateer romantic
t
Among the passengers landed from
the steamship Cherokee, from Haytian
ports, was a boyish looking person
about 24 years of age. He had soft,
smooth, skin, jet black hair, and. refin-
ed features. When taken before the
clerk for registration he appeared. a
bit nearvous. His appearance aroused
the clerk's suspicions, and Commission-
er Senner was notified. The boy was
taken to the doctor's office, where "he"
finally broke down and admitted be-
ing a woman.
"I'll kill myself," she dramatically
declared, "before I'll wear women's
teethes. It is my life's dcsire
TO RE A. MAN.
That the Almighty made me a woman
.W no fault of mine."
The young woman, who Was well
supplied with money, gave Oominis-
sioner Senner the name of a promin-
ent lawyer in New York. who, she said,
knew her family awl had charge of a
fund set aside for her support.
Though an effort was made to keep
the name of this attorney secret, it af-
terward developed that he was the fa-
mous jurist, Judge Eittenhoter. who,
when summoned, responded immediate-
ly, and told Dr. Senner this story:
" This young woman," he began, "is
the daughter of an Englishmen of
wealth and prominence. About 25 y ears
ago this Englishman was sent by his
Government on a foreign mission, to
one of the Oriental countries, He had.
been recently .married and his wife ac-
companied him. This child was the re-
sult of the union. When an infant she
manifested the desire, ethic') subse-
quently grew into a mania, for boy's
clothing. When only six years of age
she declared to her mother that she was
unbappy because she had been horn a
girl. Never would she wear tiresees,
which, if put upon her, she wculd tear
into shreds. Seeing that they could do
nothing with her, her parents brought
her up as a boy. When 15 ycars of
age she drifted away from them and
came to this country. For tsvo years
she
NVOREED AS A HOSTLER
In a stable up town in this city. Lat-
er she drifted to the South, where she
went to farming. Then she went to the
WesL Indies, where
the vocation of farming bemuse she lik-
ed. to be in a-, position where she could
boss men. In the meantime her lath-,
er communicated with me and set aside
a liberal allowance for the girl's sup -
Port, which I axn instructed to give her
at certain periods. All attempts of her
mother and fatter to induce her to
give up her inclinations to dress as a
man have proved futile. Would she do
so a luxurious home and a social posi-
tion awaits her."
The lawyer handed the young wo-
men moneyin the presence of Commis-
sioner Senner and Deputy Commission-
er ISIeSweeney. All concerned refused
to divulge the girl's real name, or that
under whch she salted, but it afterward
developed that the name by which "he"
is known slime assuming the garb of
a man is that of Alejandro Velas.
Dr. Benner aaked the young woman
if there Was anything she needed. Hand-
ing over a two -dollar note she said: "1
want two plugs of tobacco and a pipe,"
which were secured for her."
The young woman left on the. steam-
ship Friederich der Grosse for Germ-
any, where she said sbe was going
We the farming , business.
FULLY AGREED.
• It is a pity, said the Minister of For-
eign Affairs, that we have not a better
navy. There is nothing like a first-
class fleet to back up a diplomatist.
Correct 1 said Abdul' Herald. A bat-
tle ship in the hand is worth twe -1.
timatums in the bush.
A CANDID -YOUNG MAN.
• I wouldn't marry you if you had
three times tbe wealth of my father,
she said.
I presume you know, he replied. with
dignity, that 12 .1 had that much money
there would be no necessity for me
to marry.
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AN ANOMALY.
Agitator -Don't you know, sir, that
in this country the rich are growing
richer and the poor poorer?
• Petrick -Then it's rtch Oi raust be,
fur Cien t moiglity :night better off
than Oi waz when Oa landed.
TITE DEVIL'S HEAT ROCK.
HELD IN GREAT SUPERSTITION By
THE INDIANS.
nommen Weight to Waten the Effect or the
Introduction to the Stone Ju lathers—
Miners hub the Forehead Tor Lack.
On a steep, rocky bluff overhanging
a, marrow inlet oie the Lake of the
-Woods, about two and a half miles
frora the mining village of Rat Porte
age, Oet., steeds one of the most freak-
ish objeces to be found anywhere in the
world. It coosists of a, ledge of solid
granite which bears a most grotesque
resemblasece to a blames head, itit
oavernoute mouth partly open, its fea-
tu,res disturbed with a horrible grin.
This moiastrosity is commonly known as
"Devii's Head," but is also called "Skull
Rook." It is about twenty feet high
above the bluff and about twenty-one
feet io width at the widest part. Ears,
eyes and a mouth are plainly visible -
tam latter appearung in the form of
a cave, which extends beck in the stone
about ten feet, arid then, like a veri-
table throat, shoots down a consider-
able distance into the hill on whioh it
rests.
esextraorditnary object has ate
treated the notice of airaoat every pro-
spector for preeloutt metal who has
visited the region. There is hardly an
explorer who has entered the pro-
ductive gold fields known as the Rainy
and Seine River Et Dorado wile has
not touishea with the pain of hi a hand
a spot Ss et above the eyes in the be -
tier the 1. this aot 'wetted bring hitn luck
in leis search for the precions metal.
Perhaps the reason, for this singular
superstition is the foot that the
FIRST G -OLD BEARING. Rom,
ever foetid in this region was taken
from the motatli of this figure. where
it is supposed to haVO been deposited
by the Indians years, ago.
A gold miner traveled 1,500 miles to
toixtli it f*fore going out on a. six
months' expedition. "It would have
been juet as well for xne not to have
touclusa the lucky stone, though," he
said, "for both the, fortunes which have
come to me through it have faded away,
end. I am now otuit for the, third tine,
in search of what I have twice squan-
dered with, a lavish hand."
The Indians have a legend concern -
tug the "skull rock," to the effect that
it is nothing more, nor less than the
petrified. head of a great warrior who
came from thar "happy hunting
ground." to proteet the trebes of the
Northwest against extermination by.
flee whites. 'they therefore look upon,
matheh.storre with reverence as a tails -
lo the earlier days a sort of Indian
berrying ground was esta.blislued there
for the bnivest warriors. Tbe custom
seems to have been abandoned. hosv-
ever. The stone was used 1 efore the
ceatetry was surveyea tot mark certain
location for the Canadian government,
and some a the main ,sturvey lines
which now cut the country into sections
were made from this rock as a basic,
poent.
Some one has panted the image with
bloo&i red paint, outlining the eyes and
nose which appear in the structure a
the reek, making them even more prom-
inent than nature left them. This
has given the grinning effigy a some-
what runny epilog:mow certainly it
muses in the Iro.. der who 1 111141,1s it
for the Past time a very queer sen-
sation, and ths boatmen take great de-
light in frightening tha more timid
with the unexpected sight as they pant
along the rever below. Jusiging, hosvi
ever, from the number of souvenirs
taken from the rock every year, it will
not long survive the onslaught a curio
hunters.
• THE BOB -TAILED DOM
--
A Thrilling Story of Adventure In British
bln
There is at the town. of Lillooet,
British Columbia., a certain well-fed
dog, of ancertain breed, which is very.
bob -tailed; and when strangers ask, as
they often. do„ "Why is that dog with.
out a tail?" a thrilling story of adven-
ture bas to be told -a story whkh goes
back two or three years, to a remark-
ably cold autumn on the British Col-
urabia.n mountains.
A prospector who, en his eagerness
for gold had carried his search for in-
dications too far into the autumnal
season, was overtaken on the hills by
• terribte snow -storm. " He was alone,
except for a dog which he had with
him, and whieb bad proved an excellent
companion in bis travels. The two beat:
up and down the hills, the man shar-
ina,g with the dog what provisions he
had. until both were hopelessly lost, an&
bbe food was all gone.
'Iwo days mere the mae. and the dog
wandered, Then the man found a
place of shelter, built a fire with sticks
and roateb.es, and. sat down to dhe as
comfortably as he could.
1 As he sat there, frightfully hu,ngry,
be looked down at the taithful dog
' :aesthetg at his met, and perreivecl that
tee time was at hand when the despera-
tion of bungee would foam him to sac-
rifice the animal to it. ifle did not
want to do it, but would it not be hia
duty? Every raaxes duty is to live if
lee can. "
As he pondered regretfully the mat-
ter, of killing and cooking tale dog,the
dog noticed his attention and looked up
wart:wagged. his tail. Upon this a,
thought occurred to the prospector. es.sboe•
Way take the dog all at &once? The
animal had a stoat and stocky tail. He ,
would cut that off, make an "ox -tail
soup" of it, and then make another
effort to get out of the mountains -and
get tee dog out with hina
This he did, and after he had made
a meal he gave the dog the bona which
elite poor animal ate usmuspectingly.
Then, considerably strengthened, the
prospector started, out again. The
weather cleared; end to hits graat joy
the pie -specter recognized. lin the disie
; mice landmarks that he well knevv, and
m.aking for thexn. found his way before
nightfall to Lillooet.
• There he took tender °are a the dog,
which had already forgiven the cruel
stkoke of the axe; and there the man
and the dog still live, on terate of the
utmost mutual affecteee end gratitude.
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