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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-9-23, Page 7ENEMIES OVERTIIROWo • The Sins That Beset the End of the Nine-- teE11(lth Century. God Comes Before Man, Says Dr, Talmage --The Prevalence of Blasphemy --The Sins of City Life -- The Final Judgment. 'Washington, Sept- 18, --This arousing Among the Adirou:iacks I met the tun- idiscourse by Dr, Talmage will excite in- erne procession of a man who two days f Wrest by the manner in which it assails before had fallen under a flash of Iightn- laome of the great mile new abroad„ Tho in while bonsai= after a Sunday of )(subject is ""Enemies Overthrown," and g the text Psalms Melia 1, "Let God arise, let. his enemies be scattered," A procession was formed to carry the ark, or sacred box, which though only 3 „feet 9 inches in length, and 4 feet 3 inches in, height and depth, was the symbol of iSod's presence. As the leaders of the fprocessien lifted this ornamented and 'brilliant box by two golden poles run nihrough four golden rings and started far .cunt Zion all the people chanted the 'battle hymn of my text, "Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered," The Cameroufans of Scotland, outraged by James L, wbo forced anon theta re- ligious forms that were offensive, and by the terrible persecution of Drummond, Dalziel anti Turner, and by the oppressive v laws of 411tarlos I. and Charles IL, were *demon to proclaim war against tyrants ,and wenn Porth to fight for their religious liberty, and Nbe wounrnin heather became zed with a:ernalli, and at Rothwell (;ridge and Aird's doss and Ilrumclo„ the bat - tie hymn and the battle shout of thine glorious old Scoteiaiuon utas the text I leave chosen, "Let trod areae, let his enenlles be scattered.” What a whirlwind of power was Oliver ,Cromwell. and how wish his soldiers, named the "Ironsides," be went from vic- i tory to victory! Opposing enemies melted ss he looked at them. He dismissed Parliament as easily as a schoolmaster a sohool. He pointed his Anger at Berkeley castle, and it was taken, He ordered Sir Ralph liapton, the general, to dismount, and he dismounted. See Cromwell manta instou with his array aud hear the bat - Stamm ot the "Ironsides." toed as a stoma and +solemn as a deathkneil, standards reeling before it and cavalry horses going back on their haunches. and armies fly - Jai at Marston ?Poor, at Winoeby Field, at Naseby, at Bridgewater and Dere- ,moor—"Let God arida, let his enomin be scattered!" What nettleere? Se you soo my text is not Ilko a com- plimentary and tasseled sword that you sometimes see hung up in a parlor, a sword that was never in battle and only to be used on general training day, but more like some weapon carefully hung up " in your home, telling its story of battles, for my text bangs In the Scripture arm- s. ory, tolling of the holy wars of 3,000 years in which it has been carried, but i still as keen and mighty as when David lSrst unsheathed It. It $O0038 to me that in the rhumb of God, and in all atyles of ;reformatory work, what we most need now is a battlecry. We raise our little 'standard and put on it the name of some .man who only a few years ago began to live and in a few years will cease to live. We go into conies against the armies of iniquity, depending too much on human &gentiles. We rue for a hattloery the name of some bravo Christian reformer, but after awhile that reformer dies or gets old or loses his courage, and then we take another l+att.locry, and this time perbaps wo I ut the name of some one who bo- trays tho cense and sells out to the enemy. What wo want for a battlecry is the name of sine leader who will never betray us and will never surrender, and will never die A]1 respect have 1 for bravo men and women, but if we are to get victory all along the lino wo must take the hint of the Gideoaites. who wiped out the Be- douin Arabs, eommonly called IIidianites. Those Oideonitcs bad a glorious leader in Gideon, but what vras the battlecry with Whioh they flung their enemies into the worst defeat into which any army was ever tumbled? It was, "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon." Put God first, twhuever von put second. If the army of the American Revolution is to f.e° America, it must bo, "The sword of the Lord and of Washington." If the Ger- mans want to win the day at Sedan, It must be, "The sword of the Lord and iVon Moltke." Waterloo was won for the English because not only the armed man at the front, but tho worshipers in the oathedrals at the rear, wore crying, "The ' Word of the Lord and of Wellington." God First. The Methodists have gone is triumph across nation after nation with the cry, "The sword of the Lord and of Wesley." The Presbyterians have gone from victory to victory with the cry, "Tho sword of the Lord and of .lohn Knox." The Bap- tists have conquered millions atter mil- lions for Christ with the cry, "The sword of the Lord and of Judson." The Ameri- can Episcopalians have won their mighty way with the cry, "The sword of the Lord and of Biehop M'Ilvaine." The vic- tory Is to those who nut God first. But, 4 [ as we want a battlecry suited to all sects iof religionists and to all lands, I nomin- ate as the battlecry of Christendom in the approaching Armageddon the words of my text, sounded before the ark as it was carried to Mount Zion, "Let God arise; let his enemies be scattered." As far as our finite mind can judge, it seems about time for God to rise. Does it not seem to you that the abominations of this earth have gone far enough? Was there ever a time when sin was so de- fiant? Were there ever before so many fists lifted toward God, telling him to come on if he darn? Look at the blas pbetny abroad' What towering 'profanity! Would it be poseinle for any one to cal- culate the "numbers of times that the name of the Almighty God and of Jesus Cheist are every day taken irreverently n the lips? Profane swearing is as anuoh orbidden by the law. as theft or arson Om r murder, yet who executes it? Profan- 'iby is worse than theft or arson or mur- der, foratbess primes are attacks on hu- manity; that is an attack on God. The Career Cursed. This country is pro -eminent for blas- phemy. A man traveling in Russla was ueupposed to be a clergyman. "Why do !you take me to be a clergyman?" said the man. "Oh," ,said the Russian, "all Wether Americans swear." The crime is ' multiplying in intensity. God very often wows what e thinks s o u or enlisted the mightiest pulitioal , power of ;most; part the fatality 1s . hushed up: work rn the nettle chat be bad cheated God out of one day anyhow, and the man who worked with him on the same Sab- bath is :till living, Luc a helpless invalid under the same flash. Years ago in a. Pittsburg prison two men were talking about the Bible and Christianity, and one of them, Thompson by name, applied to Jesus Christ a very low and. villainous. epithet, and as he was uttering it he fell. A pbysician was called, but no help could be given. After a day lying with distended pupils and palsied tongue he passed out of this world. Ina cemetery 10 Sullivan County, in New York State, are eight headstones in a lino and all alike, and these are tiro taets; In 1$t11 diphtheria raged in the village, and a phystclan was remarkably successful in curing his patients, do eon- 0dent did be become that he boasted that no case of diphtheria could stand before Lam and finally defied Almighty God to produce a cage et diphtheria that he could rat aura, Bas youugeet child seen afte,, toolt the disease alai died and one child after another until all the eight bad died of diphtheria. "rho blesphepter challenged Almighty Gloti, and, Gott accepted the challenge. Do not think that because God has been silent in your case, 0 profane swearer, that he is deed, Is there nothing now in the peculiar feeling of your tongue or nothing in the nhuut.ness of your brain that indicates that God may come to avenge your blaspbefnics or is already avenging them? But thee cases I have noticed, 1 believe, are only a low eases Where theta are hundreds, Families keep them quiet to avoid the borribao con- spicuity, Physicians suppress them through professional cot ldence. It is a vary, very, very long roll that contains the names of those who died with blas- phemies on their lips Still the crime rolls on, tap through pavlova, up tbruugh chandeliers with lights all ablaze and through the pictured corridors of clubrooms, out through busy exchanges, whore oath meets oath, and down through all the haunt)/ of sin, mingling with tho rattling dice and crae;iling billiard balls, and the laughter of bor who hath forgotten the covenant of her God, and round the city and round the continent and round the earth a seeth- ing, bailing surge flings its hot ape iy into the taco of a long suffering God, and the Ship captain curses his crew, and the master 'Milder has Hien, and the hack driver his horse, and tho traveler the stone that bruises his foot or the mud that soils his shoes, or the datectavo time- piece that gets him too late to the rail train. I arraigu prof:ane swearing and blasphemy, two names fax the same thing, as being ono of tho gigantic arlhnes of this land, and for its extirpation it does seen as if it teem about time for God to arise. The Day oi' Drink. Then look for at moment at tiro evil of drunkenness. Whether you live in Wash- ington or Now York or Chicago or Cin- cinnati or Saveunah or Boston or in any of the cities of this laud, count up the saloons on that street as compared wth the saloons five years ago, and see they are growing far out of proportion to the increase of the population. You people wbo are so prep se and particular lost there should be some imprudence and rashness in attacking the ruin traffic will have your son some night patched into your front door dead drunk, or your daughter will cornu home with her chil- dren because her hustend bus by strong drink been turned into a demoniac. The drink fiend has despoiled whole streets of good homes in all our cities. Fathers, brothers. sons on the funeral pyre of strong drink! Fasten tighter the victims! Stir up the flames! Pilo on the corpses! More men, women and olhildren for the sacrifice' Let us have whole generations on fire o1 evil habit, and at the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery and dulcimer let all the people fall down and worsbip King Alcohol, or you shall be oast into the fiery furnace under some political platform ! I indict this evil as the regicide, the fratricide, the patricide, the matricide, the uxoricide, of the century. Yet under what innocent and delusive and mirthful names alcoholism deceives the people! It is a "cordial." It is "bitters." It is an "eye opener." It is an "appetizer." It is a ""digester." It is an ""invigorator." It is a "settler.", It is a "'nightcap." Why don't they put on tbe right labels— ""Essence of Perdition," "Conscience Stupefier," "Five Drams of Heartache," "Tears of Orphanage," ""Blood of Souls," "Scabs of an Eternal Leprosy," "Venom of the Worm That Never Dies?" Only ones in awhile is there anything in the title of liquors to even hint their atrocity, as in the case o1 ``sour mash." That I see adver�ised all over. It is an honest name and any one oan understand it. "Sour mash I" That is, it makss a man's dinpositian sour, and his associations sour, and his prospects sour, and then it is good to mash his body, and mash his soul, and mash his business, and mash his family. "Sour mash!" One honest name at last for an intoxicant! But through lying labels of many, of the apothecaries' shops, good people, who are only a little under tone In health and wanting some invigoration, have unwit- tingly''got on their tongue the fangs of this cobra that stings to death so large a ratio of the human race. The Deadly Cup. Others are ruined by the common and all destructive habit of treating custom- ers. And it is a treat nn their coming to towe, and a treat while the bargaining progresses, and a treat when the purchase is made, and a treat as he leaves town. Others, to drown their troubles, sub- merge themselves with this. worse trouble. Oh, the world is battered and bruised and blasted with this growing evil! It is more and more intrenehed and fortified. They halo millions of dollars subscribed to marshal and advance the alcoholic forces. Tbey nominate and elect and gov- ern the vas,'majority of the officeholders i t t but f theof this country. On their side they have h h b h k i the centuries, and behind them stand all the myrmidons of the nether world, • satanic„ apoilyonio and diabolic. It is beyond all human effort to overthrow this. Bastile of decanters or capture this Gib- raltar of rum jugs, And while I approve of all human agencies of reform I would utterly Iospair It we had nothing else But what °heels me is that our best troops are yet to come, Oalirchief artillery is in reserve. Our greatest commander The oette ry (irar•vn;u•d, has not yet fully taken the field. 1f all Shut in by a large, overgrown stone hell is on their side, 011 heaven is On our wail, or fess picturesquely guarded by side. Now "Let God arise, and let his long lines of picket Peace, the lturyiug ground of a little country village 1S not always attractive to the eye at the Brat glance. Often, by comparison with the great garden cemeteries suolt as lie upon the outskirts of our largo elties, with their velvet lawns and brilliant beds of flowers, the qulot lonely place appears neglected and forlorn. True, there is sure to be 501013 000 coiner of it. very now ane baro in aspect, laid out according to the modern plan, with a few white shafts gleaming from among young shrubs and nets -turfed plots of green. But beyond this, all is a wilderness of grass, vines and wild plants. shooting up among the slanting ho:tsl- stones at their own sweet will. Man has indeed neglected, bun only look a little Maser and you will see that Mother Na- ture does not Forget. Over many t,patneeked graves creeps, a tangle a `ind'.-eeti, above which a hun- dred dote*. pink blossoms pose line guardian smelts every morning, glisten- ing with drops of dew and stirring gently in the breeze, A pendea'nus monument 14 surrounded by plumy ferns, and a ground sparrow's nest isbeneath it. Often a mother bird's small feet move ligbtly upon the moss -grown letters as elle cbiips to the num °nes below, coaxing thein to their first flight, to eomo and join her. \ear by the royal goideu-rod nods against a tall gray slab of slate. The enlogistio varies below, which u:ighe else provoke the visitor to smile, are made veuera111e i1,• a eliuging growth of ;:ray atad mango moss, disere'ltly permitting only an occasional word to be seen, quaintly Out with "ye'' for the, and "foul" for soul. The grass waves over paths and graves alike, and whore old tombstones have fallen on their face. the blackberry vines are wreathed across them in lovely curve, green in spring. starred with welt() In summer, deep red in autumn, and always beautiful. The bells of oows, returning lazily from their pastures, tinkle softly from the road; and the little graveyard, so out Of the world, altbough so near, It seems less a place of sorrow than a place of peace. out its raging claws, shall lie down a lamb at the feet of the Lamb of God, who took away the sins of the world. And now the best thing 1 can wish for you, and the best thing I can nisi for myself, is that we may be found his warm and undisguised and enthusiastic friends in that hour when llocl shall rise and his enemies shall be scattered. enemies be scattero3," Tbou look at the impurities of these great cities. Ever and anon there are m the newspapers explosions of social life tbat make the story of Sodom quite re- spectable, "for such things," Christ says, "were more tolerable for Sodom and Go- morrah" than for the Ohorazlns and Bethsaidas of greater light. It is no unusual thing in our cities to see )nen in high positions with two or three families, or relined ladies willing solemnly to marry the very swine of society if they be wealthy. The Bible all aflame with denunciation against an impure life, but many of the American ministry uttering not one point blank word against this iniquity lest some old libertine throw up his church pew. Machinery organized in all the elties ot the United States and Canada by which to put yearly in the grinding mill of this iniquity thousands of the unsuspecting of the country farm- houses, one proouress confessing in the courte that she had supplied the internal, market with 130 victims in six months, Ob, for 500 uewspept'rs in America to swing open the dour of this lazar house of social corruptlonl I.a n°aure must come before extirpation. The City of Sin. While the city van carries the soum 0! this sin from the prison to the police court morning by morning it is full time, if we do not want high American life to become like tbat of the court of Louis XV., to put millionaire Lotbarios and. the Pompadours of your brownstone palaces into a van of !Popular lutiignation and drive them oat of respectable associa- tions. What prospect at soolalpurification can there be as long as at summer water- ing places it is usual to see a young wo- man et excellent rearing stand and elm - per and giggle and roll up her eyes side- ways before cum of those Prat-olass satyrs of fashionable lite and on the baliroom floor join him in the dance, the maternal caaperon meanwhile beaming from the Window on the scene? Matohee are made in heaven, they say. Not such matches, for the brimatoue indicates the opposite region. The evil is overshadowing all our cities. By some these immoralities ars called peccadillos, gallantries, eccentrici- ties, and are relegated to the realms of jocularity, and few efforts aro being made against them, God bless the ""White Cross"" movement, as it is called—an organization making a mighty assault on this evill God forward the tracts on this subject distributed by the rellgloue tract societies of the land! God help parents in the great work they are doing in trying to start their ohildreu with pure prinoi- pios! God help all legislators in their attempt to prohibit this °rime l The Day or Judgment. But is this all? Then it is only a question of time when the last vestige of purity and home will vanish out of sight, Human arias, human pens, human voices, human talents, aro not sufficient. I begin to look up. I listen for artillery rumbling down the sapphire boulevards of heaven. I watch to see if in the morn- ing light there be not the flash of descend- ing sohniters. Oh, for God 1 Does it not seem time for his appearance? Is it not time for all lands to cry out, "Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered?" I got a latter asking me if I did not think that the earthquake in one of our cities was the Divine ebastisemeut on that city for its sins. That letter I an- swered by saying that if all our Ameri- can cities got all the punishment they deserve for their horrible impurities the earth would long ago have oraoked, open- ing crevices transcontinental and taken down all our cities so lar under that the tip of our ohuroh spires would be 600 feet below the surface. It is of the Lords mercies that wo have not been consumed. Not only are the affairs of tbis world so a -twist, a -jangle and racked that there seems a need of the Divine appearance, but there is another reason. Have you not noticed that in the history of this planet God turns a leaf about every 2,000 years? God turned a leaf, and this world was fitted for human residence. About 2,000 more years passed along, and God turned another leaf, and it was the deluge. About 2,000 more years passed on, and it was the Nativity. Almost 2,- 000 more years passed by, and he will probably soon turn another leaf. What it shall be I cannot say. It may be tbe demolition of all these monstrosities of turpitude and the establishment of righte- ousness in all the earth. He can do it, and he will do it. I am as confident es if it were already accomplished. How easily he can do it my text suggests. It does not ask God to hurl a great thunderbolt o1 his power, but just to rise from ,the throne on which he sits. Only that will be necessary. "Let God arise i" Redemption. It will be no exertion of omnipotence. It will be no bending or bracing foe a mighty lift. It will be no sending down the sky of the white horse cavalry of heaven or rumbling war chariots. He will only rise. Now he is sitting in the majestyeand patience of his reign. He is Morn his throne watching the mustering of all the forces of blasphemy and drunk- enness and impurity and fraud and Sab- bath breaking, and when they have done their worst and are most surely orgauized he will bestir himself and say: "My anomies have denied me long enough, and their cup of inquity is full. I have given them all opportunities for repent- ance. This dispensation of patience is ended, and the faith of the good shall be tried no longer." And now God begins to rise, and what mountains give way under his right foot I know not; but, standing in the full radiance and grandeur of his nature, he looks this way and that, and how his enemies, are scattered! Blas pbomers, white and dumb, reel down to their doom, and those who have trafficked in that which destroys the bodies' and souls of Ween and families will fly with cut foot on the down grade of broken decanters, and the polluters of society that did their bad work with large for- tunes and high somal sphere will over- take in their descent the degraded rabble of underground city life as they tumble over, the eternal proclaims, and the world Shall be left clear and clean for the friends of humanity and the worshipers of Almighty God. The last thorn plucked orf, the world will be left a blooming rose on the bosom of that Christ who came to gardonize it. The earth that stood snarl- ing with ate tigerish passion, thrusting .t, wise Children. First small boy—Wo got a new baby at our house. Came down from heaven last night, Second shall boy—We badono, but it died and went to heaven. First small boy—Bot cher, it's the same kid. Teacher—What do wo learn from the story of Samson? Tommy (with unpleasant results still manifest)—'Twat it doesn't pay to bars women folks cut a fellow's Bair. Teacher—Of course you understand the di1Yerunee between liking and loving? Pupil—les, marm; I like lay father and mother, but I lova*. pie THE PLEBISCITE PROHIBITS THE IVIANUFAC-' TURE AND USE OF ODER AND WINE. I1 P. t.nr_ tar.. "When I was test married," says Rev. Dr. Lal•inlor, pastor of 'Tremont Temple. Boston, "I bati ley strict ideas about Sunday observance. Mrs. Lorimer had a colored aunty for coni:, and on the prat Sunday alter she came I went into the kitchen and told her I did 001 Want any Sunday work. so she could prepare the meals for teat day beforehand, She didn't say one word while 1 was tenting; then she looked up, and, pointing to the door, exclaimed: 'Now, look hyar, Morse George, you just go in der and 1'il tend to ma kitchen!' I went, and as near as I can remember, she had hot dinners Sun- days in long as Aho stayed with us." A Guotl The good man is a useful man. He is not all ornament. He has bis work to do, his place in society to 1111, his influence to exert. He is truthful; others sharp in bis goodness. He scatters blessings all along his pathway. lie is no cumberer of the around. There is neither a human nor a divine demand for his removal as useless. He is spared year after year on account of his productiveness. By his prayers, his in rructions, his ouunsels, his exalnpte, his spirit and his deeds, he lin• proves and benefits all who come within his reach. Are you in favour of the passing of an act prohibiting the importation, manufacture or sale of spirits, wine, ale, beer, cider and all other alcoholic liquors for use as beverages ? San and J',trtl, the Same. A scientific discovery of great interest is announced from Italy. Professor Naini of Padua bus communicated to the French Academy the result of his investi- gation into the gases issuing from the earth in volcanic districts, among which he finds coronium, hitherto known hypo. thetically only as a constituent of the sun. This is an announcement of the highest interest from a scientific point of view, as at once confirming the results of spectroscopic examination of the sun, and adding another proof of the substan- tial identity of materials in the sun and the earth. The Slipper, Antiquarian—The custom of throw- ing the slipper after a bride ooines down Froin very ancient times. Long before the Christian era a defeated chief would take off his shoes and hand thein to the victor, to show that the loser of the shoes yield- ed up all authority over his subjects. Therefore, when the family of a bride throw.alippers after her they mean that they renounce all authority over her. Do you understand? Sfnall auditor—Yessir. They throw away the slippers they used to spank her with 1 Molasses as a Fuel. The lower grades of molasses have proved unsalable at any paying price. Many Louisiana planters 'dumped mo- lasses into the bayous, until the authoa•i, ties forbade it. It is now used as a fuel. being sprinkled by a maohine over the bagasse, or the sugarcane from which the juice has been extracted. This, when put into .the fire, bairns with a strong heat. Its coal ' value is greater than its value for any other 11s°, and over a hun• dred thousand tons were so used last year,—William George. Jordan in Ladies' Home Journal. YES, THE PLEBISCXTBE 13ALX»T PAPERS. NO. The above is an exact reproduction of the ballot paper to be submitted to tba electors of Canada at the miming plebiscite, on Sept. 29th, on the question of pro. bibition. Those who are In favor of prebibition will mark their eros in the yes cal• nano ; those a; must it as the no eoimnu, as above. It will be seen that those who vote yeavote to prohibit the making or use of cider or home.w,a.le wage, EUGENIE. Leading Points in tate Sad LIfM of the lx -Empress of the French. Eugenie, ex -Empress of the French, and widow of Lcuis Napoleon, is the daugbter of Dona Maria Kirkpatrick, of Closeburn, Dumfriesshire, Countess Dowager de ?tontija, whose father was English consul at Malaga at the period of her marriage with the Count de Mont- ijo, an officer in the Spanish army. On the death of the (bunt de Montijo his widow was left with a fortune adequate to the maintenanoo of the position of her- self and two daughters, one of whom married the Duke of Alba and Berwick. For Eugenie, the Countess Tuba, a bigber destiny Was reserved. Her mar- riage to the Emperor Napoleon III. was celebrated with Bauch magnificonce Jan• nary 29, 1863, at Notre Dame, the Em- press then being in her twenty-seventh year. March 16, 1850, she became the mother of an heir to the house of Bona- parte. When war between France and Germany was deolarcd and Emperor Na- poleon took the field the Empress was appointed regent (July 27, 1870). Immo• diately after the revolution in Paris on September 4 she hastily loft tbe Tuileries and escaped from France, landing five days later at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight. Camdon house at Chiselhurst was subse- quently selooted as a residence by the Im• periai exiles. Emperor Napoleon III• died at Chisel - burst January 9, 1873, and In 1879 the Prince Imperial, who had accompanied the English army in the Zulu war, was killed. In 1381 the Empress removed from Camden house t0 the Farnborough estate in Hampshire, close to the borders of tLe county of Surrey. Adjustable Tiros for wagons. Adjustable iron tires for heavy wagons oan be had in suitable widths and can be easily put on, thereby converting ;the ordinary road destroyer into a road isa proveS• lLi ACCEPTING FAVORS AN ART. Pleasure of Bestowing Them Is Lost If They Are Not Gracefully Aeeepted. There are a great many frietidahips ruined by the unwillingness on one side or the other to accept favors. Two school- girl friends united by many congenial ties are forced apart because the poorer one foolishly thinks that she should make some return for the pretty gifts, the party invitations, the tickets to con- certs or matinees which her friend loves to remember het with. She knows that sbe is unable to make any return, so re- fuses the good times, and by doing so not only deprives her friend o: the keenest delight but herself of many opportuni- ties for pleasure, and the family circle at home of the recital of the fresh and novel experience which contact with the world outside of her home would surely bring her. Favors are of many sorts. It sometimes happens that a wealthy woman may wish to send a girl to college, to help her in her music, to encourage her in her desire for an art education; she may give her books, take her out with her and give her opportunities for hearing great artists. When a girl has such Favors offered bor she should accept them gracefully and with a clear conscience. The favors are not all on one side; her bright face and enthusiastic appreciation mean much to the woman wbo is fortunate enough to be able to dispense favors. "I have heard that it sometimes dila wonders," observed the neighbor, "but I didn't suppose boys know much about it.. Has it benefitted you any, Johnnie?" "Benefitted mei" echoed Johnnie. "You just bet it bus! It's great! Wheu you're Christian science, you know, yea ain't never slok. Benefitted me? Well, I should say it has. Oh, golly, ain't it great! I kin slosh around in the snow now all day and eat fourteen doughnuts and all the pie I want and ma never says a word, fee I can't be sick—seal I just can't be sick!" contagious. It was on a crowded suburban oar eat et Washington one day last summer that a middle aged woman carrying a fretful baby was forced to squeeze herself into a email space left vacant beside a dapper youth of possibly twenty years, whom the baby, in its restlessness, would touch wit% hand or foot. Finally ho turned towards the woman and inquired in a tone quite audible to those near bine, "Ah, beg pawdon. madame, but has this child any- thing—ah—contagious?" Glanoing com- passionately at him, through her gold rimmed snectaoles, she remarked, medita- tively, "Well, now, I don't know, young man; but—ah—it might be to you. She's teething 1" Cover During Sleep. The reason that it is necessary to be well covered while sleeping is that when the body lies down it is the intention of nature that it should rest, and that the heart especially should be relieved of its regular work temporarily. So that organ makes ten strokes a minute less than when the body is in an upright posture. This means 600 strokes in sixty minutes. Therefore, in the eight hours that a man usually spends in taking his night's rest the beart is saved nearly 5.000 strokes. As it pumps six ounces of blood with each stroke, it lifts 80,000 ounces less of blood in this night session than it would during the day, when a man is usually in an upright position. Now, the body is dependent for its warmth on the vigor of the circuli`ion. and as the blood flows so much more slowly through the veins when oue is lying down the warmth lost in the reduced circulation nmst be sup plied by extra coverings.—San Francisco Chronicle. Christian Science.. "What's the matter, Johnnie? You seem to be feelinggood,-" acid one of his fatlieree neighbors. "Great," said the buy. "We've got Christian s^.ionce over ter our house," and he munched oue doughnut and waved a second in the air. "Christian science? Whatdo you mean?" inquired the pal,zled neighbor, "It's just iinmoose!" cried - the boy.. "Best thing tbataver happened. It's just the boss, I tell you, it's the best thins going I ler Explanation. "What!" exclaimed the summer girlie dearest friend. •"Are you engaged to that little freshman? I thought you were de- voted to a naval officer." "I am," replied the summer resort girl, who, by the way, heti made a study of various matter:: eonnectcd with the war. "This college boy is merely my fiances junior grade."—Chicago Post. Small Souled. "I suppose that the ruling of the internal revenue department that marriage 11(011308 are not subject to a stamp tax will greatly encourage the young 111en?" "I suppose so. But it seems to nie 11 would be a pretty mean young 1111111 whc didn't care 10 cents for a girl. "—Cleve• land Plain Dealer. M'MANUS ON A PROTOCOL. The Spaniards Had to Be Cooled Dowo. Hi Says. "An pbat the di.il is that ting the per pers do be callin the prettycool?" said Mo. Shand to McManus. "Well, ye see," answered McManus, "the Spanyards hev been hevin sech s hot time the lasht t'ree wont's that there was nothin for t1 t' do but plade fer e let up of hosehilit,.,is, so ez they o'uld cool off." "Shure, now," says McShane, "right you ,are, right you are! It does bate all how war-rm our heroes of the say did make it fer those internal Spanish vac mints 1 I nivor saw the loike 1 Fust Jewey conquers-rs their fleet in Manyila bay, and wuth the externality of those monstrous guns of his'n blows 'em to the bottom till ye couldn't see the threes on land on ac- count of standin spars. "An then cum Adm'rai Schley milli peacefully lolke nigh the harbor -or of Santi-a-ago, an whin be gat ferntst the town, begorry, out pops Cevery and pop goes Schley's guns. Jus' think of thal little Glou-cester wuth thot young Wain. wright aboard of her. Divil a bit he cared for conse-quences, "1 kin piothure Gin'ral Shaftber.a-settin on a kag near the shore and bathin his face in a pail of cm -racked ice whoile the battle was progressin. 'Hit 'em a wheel fer me!' yells Shaf her, and'Bangl' goes the Glou-tester's guns. Ah, me boy, 14 was g-r-randl "An thin, whin the ortbers cum fer the leftinint to hie away an the gallant sailor yelled above the roar of the whizzin, whis'lin projeoktiles: 'All right, cap. I'll close up to the'inimy.' Phy, it's enough to make yer blood bile! Think of the nur-rve of 'im, though, an the projecktilei Myer teched him. "So he closed up, begorry, an blmebyhi gats so close to Adm'ral Celery's boat thot all the poor ole feller' kin do is to step into Wainwright's or -raft to save himself front drowndin. An Wainwright, the 'gallant lad he is, begorry, grasps the adm'ral'e hand and sez, sez he: 'Sure now, seenyor, ye 110V made a splendid foight. T con gratchulate you, Step down in me cabiae an hov a dhrink wrath me.' "An Cevery, thiekin, I s'pose, of an the good liquor thot's go11e to the bottom in the Matiiar Dhistresser, crois loike a baby. " 'Brace up, ole man,' sez Wainwright, sez he. 'We'll gi' yez a job in the'navvy of these glor-rious lhlite,d States of Atnorios if those orathures ;urn yez down either this.' "Ah, McMands, lilat we've woo. a grail viotoryl"—Cincitmat:f a"..ominerciatl. v1, C..