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A Pointer for Boys. "There is a science in doing little things just right," said a down-town business man to a reporter for the Rew York Sun a few days ago, "and I notice it in my office. I had two office boys there whose main duty it was to bring me notes or cards that were sent in to me, or to fetch things that I wanted to use. One of those boys, wheneyer I sent him for a book or anything heavy, would walk rapidly by my desk and toss it indefinitely toward me. If it happened to miss me and land on my desk it was all right. If it fell on the floor the boy always managed to fall over it in his eagerness to pick it up. Then if he had a letter or a card to deliver he would come close up to the desk and stand there scanning it oyer with minute care. This being concluded he would flaunt it airly in my direction and de part. . "The other boy always came and went so that I could hardly hear him. If it was a book, ink-stand or box of letters he would sit quietly down at one side of my desk. "Letters and cards he always laid not tossed right where my eyes would fall on them directly. If there was any other doubt in his mind about whether he ought to lay a letter on my desk or deliver it to some other person in the office, he always did the think ing before he came near me, and did not stand annoyingly at my elbow studying the letter. That boy trader-. stood the science of little things. When New Year's came he got $10. The other boy got fired." Ex. Madagascar has a palm called the "Traveler's Tree." The footstalks of its leaves clasp around the trunk, and are filled with water, which flows out readily when the stalk is pierced with a knife. Each receptacle yields from a pint to a gallon. "He has no more influence," said a Hartford wit, "than 'p' in 'pneu monia.' "Hartford (Jour ant. Weald Yon I.Ike to "Snake" Malaria, In the genss of getting rll of it, instead of having it shake you? Of touree you would. Then use Hostetter's Stomach Bittera and (five it the grand and final "shake." This ntandard medicine eradicates it root and -branch, and fortifies the fy tem nga'nst it. Most effectual, too, is the Bitters in cases of dyspep ia, biiiou-ness, constipation, nervous ness, rheumatic and kidney complaints. Sore trials, when met with wisdom, help to magnify character. Dr. Ki'mer's Swamp-Root carea a'l Kidney and Bladder troubles; Pamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Bintthamton, N. Y. The best reci-tf red cow is the one that reg isters the most profits in the owner's ledger. Don't smoke a poor cigar, but remember that good ones have not yet been in vente 1 ABSOLUTELY FREE. A Business Education to One Worthy Boy or (air! in Each County. rnring the Summer the Georgia-Alabama Business College, Macon, Ga the largest in the South, w ill give an absolutely free busi ness education to oe worthv boy or girl in each county of this State. All interested are urged to write the Co. lege AT onck. Teething Children. Nothing on earth will take children through the tryingordea! of teething so pleaantly, and w very surely and safely, as Dr. King's Royal Germetuer. They all like to take it, and it acta like magic in meeting the troubles of that critical pvriod. Thousauds have tried it and it has never been known to fail. As A Simple yet Effective Remedy for Throat Affections, '?rnrn Hrtmrhial Troche" stand first in public favor. They are absolutely unrivalled for the alleviation of all Throat ir ritations caused by Colds or use of the voice. Nhiloh's Cure In sold on a guarantee. It cures incip'ent Con sumption; it is the Best Cough Cure; 25c, 50c, $ 1 Simpson, Marquess, W. Ya., says: Hall's Catarrh Cure cured me of a very bad case of catarrh." Druggists sell it, 75c If afflicted with Fnreeyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Eye-water.Druggisss sell at 253 per bottle. Air. Thos. Scrlven. Hyde Park, Mass. DYSPEPSIA VANISHED Salt Rheum and Intolerable Itching Also Cured. "Dear Sirs-Three years ago I was a great sufferer from dyspepsia, which the doctors told me was of the very worst kind. I commenced taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, and can say that after taking two bottles my complaint quite vanished and I have not been troubled since with dyspepsia. I have not had any distress since taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. I also had Hood's Sarsa parilla Cures salt rheum on one limh. with innii-.hu iv. Ing. Since takin; Hood's Sarsaparilla my blood has been purified and I am quite well. I praise the medicine at every opportunity.' Thomas Scrivea a, Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Head PHU cure mT. liver Ilia, bUiousneia, JauoT dice. Indigestion, sick headache. 25 cents. -aaaATTfttttt Mtijlj McELREES' t tWJNE OF CARDUI.I REV. DB. TAUIAGE. run buookt.vv n.viNE-s SU.V. DAY SEKMO.N. The Subject: ..Recovered F"""'"" (Preached at Little Rock, Ark.). Text "Then Drtvi.l nn-l the people that Jrl with h "ted up their rote, an! wept until thy had no more pnwer to "P David recovered all. -I bamuai xxx.. 4, 19. There is intense exilement n the. village of Ziklasr. David an 1 his men are WddinT Koodby to their family an lnr tt for thi wars. In that little villi of Ziklaffthe de fenseless one will be sa'e until the ""Or flashed with vietorv, come horne. Bat will the defenseless ones e safe? The soft arms of children are arounl th necks or the bronze warriors until they shake themselves free and start, and banlkerchie and flags are waved and kisses thrown until the artne 1 men vanish bevon 1 tli hil'. Divid anl his men soon sret thronri with their campaign and start homewar'. Ev-rymzht on the t way home no sooner -Joes the soldier put his head on the knapsack than in his drearn he hears the welcome of the wife an 1 the shout of the child. ' Ob. what Ion? stories they will have to tell their families of how they rio lsed the bar tleax, and then will roll up their s.eeve and show the half heale 1 wounl. With glad, quick step, they march on. David and his men, for they are marching hom Now they come ap to the last hi!l which overlooks Zik lacr. and they eipeet in a moment to see the dwelling places of ther lovei ones. They look, and as they look their cheak turns pale, and their lip quivers, an l their hand invol untarily comes down on the hilt Of the sword. "Where is Ziklaz? Where are our homes'?" they cry. Ata, the curling smoke shove the ruin tell3 the tragedy I The Amnlekites have co ne down and con sumed the village an 1 eirrie I the mother?, and the wive?, and the children of David and his men into captivity. The swarthy war riors stanl fora few momants transfixed with horror. Then their ey?s glance to each other, anl they bur it into uncontrollable weeping, for whn a ?trcn? warrior weeps the grief is appallm?. It seems as if the emotion might tear him to pieces. They "weptuntiltheyha Ino morc power to weep." But soon their sorrow turns into rage, and David, swinging his swor 1 high in air, cries, "Pursue, for thou shalt overtake them, and without fail recover all. Now the march becomes a "double quick." Two hundred oi David's men stop ly the brook Besor, faint With fatigue an 1 grief." They cannot jro a step farther. They are left there. But the other 400 men under David, with a sort ol panther step, march on in sorrow and in rage. They find by the side of the road a hall dead Egyptian, an 1 they resuscitate him anl compel him to tell the whole story. He says, "Yonder they went, the captors and the cap tives." pointing in the direction. Forward, ye 409 brave men of fire ! Very soon David an 1 his enrage ! company come upon the Amalekitisb. host. Yonder they see their own wives and children and mothers, an Inn ler Amalekitish guar J. Hera are the officers of the Amalekitisb. army hold ing a banquet. The cups are full ; the musio is roused , the dancu begins. The Amalekit ish host cheer an 1 cheeranl cheer over their victory. But, without note of bugle or warn ing of trumpet. David an 1 his 400 men burst upon the scene. David and his men look up, and one glance at their love 1 ones in captiv ity and under Amalekitisb. guard throws them into a very fury of determination, fot you know how men will fight when they fight for their wives and children. Ah, there are lightnings in their eye. and every finger is a spaar, and their voice is like the shout ot the whirlwind ! Amid the up3'3t tankards and the costly viands crushed underfoot, tha wounded Amalekites lie, their blood mln gling with their wine, siriekin? fof mercy. No sooner do David an I his men win the vietory than they throw their swords down into the dnst what do they want with swords now? and the broken families come together amid a great shout of joy that makes the parting scene in Zitclag se-jm very insipid in the comparison. The rough, old warrior has to use soma persuasion before he can get his child to coma to hi-n now after so long an absence, but soon the little finger traces the familiir wrinkle across tb.3 scarred face. And then the empty tankards aresetup, and they an filled with the best wine from the hills, aud David and his men, the husbands, the wives, the brothers, the sisters, drink to the overthrow or tb.3 Amalekites and to the rebuilding of Ziklag. So, O Lord, let Thine enemies perish ! Now they are coming home, David and his men and their families a long pro cession. Men, women and childrenloadel with jewels and robes and with all kinds ol trophies that the Amalekites had gathered up in years of conquesteverything now in the hands of David and his men. When they come by the brook Besor, the place Where staid the raen sick and incompetent to travel, the jewels and the robes and all kinds of treasures are divided amon? the sick as well as among the well. Surely the lame and exhausted ought to have some of the treasures. Here u a robe for a pale faced warrior. Hera is a pillow for this dying man. Hre is a hanifulof gold for the wasted trumpeter. I really think that these men who fainted by the broot Besor may have endured as much as those men who went into the battle. Some mean fel lows objected to the sick ones having any of the spoils The objectors said, "These men did not fight." David, with a magnanimous heart, replies, "As his part is that goetfi ?7n.tthe,batae' so sb(l-1 a Part be that tarnethby the stuff." ThTanrnj,eitl3,Practi.cal,y3Ustive to me, on 1 ,? ' m t86 times a man can go ofl and nJomTy T 1 He ROne e9ks months o?le.nr aCk niiJe his house untouched ti ar3.nni1 have his famUy on the step to greet him if by telegram he has fore- Ir AmZT nH',othis coin' Butthera in?n on K3thatS03letime3 come' down wort tL T' makin a3 devastating No 5tErintm,Ue8 yaPMnt broken up. ro battering ramsmote in the door no eaSedattM,;,nmble'i tha statQ thtfw 6 .curtainS but so far as all tothnf memruent th;it o belonged departed? Con20rn the home has etnSo) dhte3SeS Came dowa "Pn tbe ?sieTo 8Ceaer3Cnr,et feve or pleu derTn n3mp i03 or cleaned disor ders came and se.sed upon some members of that family and carried the-a awTy Zik- weVpianV S about"Iometirnes S Mj sometimes enraged, wanting to get back your loved ones as much as DaVid SSSn J ?T wauntf to "construct their r& 5 households- Ziklag in. ashes! JL?5'00 went off irom home. You S ? t1 Wbot or Froad and 7,r.V. a? 1 1 ou arrived. You went in fft l eu,,rhersvour dwelling was, and tn'b,lnm5 ' ?! P? Jo hand on the th rXnii nr's 11 was trapped with tde signa ol bereavement, and you found ,Amalatlslldfatb, which has devas- tate.1 . 'llsllatb, which has devas xaiea a thousan.i mh r households, had blasted ours. You go about VAnin.'.mi,i the desolnt;,;; 7 " u"ul weeping amia thmkino- of ih k ? wUr onco haPP' home. noAe hLrtabriR eyes elosedandthe iSSEfTS voKiDanuntne EentlHe hands more power to wVTy, ; y hV nC A f..rTti weep. Ziklag in ashes ! tht citv at W9" friend of mJn8in throhim RS,toa asked that 'ru h.,m he might get a consulship to "whni 'Ka rort- My frien him wuXi u wf nt to KO Rway from youi hh S T,,or into R foreln Prt?' replled 4mv borne is gone! Mj six children are dea 1. I must get away, sir. ZikHagrnnshesi!atlli3CO,intrj' Rny .v? 'r.ns? shadows of bereavemem across this audience? Whv is It that in al most every assemblage black is the predom A 5,or of the apparel? Is it because you do not like saffron or brown or violet? Oh. no! You say: "The world is not so bright to ns i as once it was," and there is a story o! silent voices, and of still feet, and ot loved onesgone, and when you look over the hills xpecting only beauty and loveliness you flnd only devastation and woe. Ziklag in ashes ! One day in Ulster County, N. Y., the vil lage church was decorated until the fra granc of the flow-rs ws almost bewilder uli Thft maidens of the village had emp tied the p. ace of flowers upon one marriage altar. One of their number was afllansed to a minister of Christ, who ha 1 com' to take ner to his own home. With hands joine.1, amid a congratulatory aulience, the vows were taken. Ia thrae days from that time .lr wT aays ot "our absence. Every daj seemed as long as a week. Ob, how J -- fw ii urn i im ri m i j-t t m a ta. one of those who stool at the altar ex changed earth for heaven. The wedding march broke down into the funeral dirge, There were not enough flowers now for the coffin lid, because they had all been taken for the bridal hoar. The dead minister of Christ is brought to another village. He had gone out from them less than a week before in his strength ; now he comes home lifeless. The whole church bewailed him. The solemn procession moved around to looV upon the still faca that once had beamed the messages of salvation. Little children were lifted up to look at him. And some of those whom he ha1 comforted in days of sorrow, when they passed that silent form, made the place dreadful with their weeping. Another village emptied ot its flowers some of them pat in the shape of a cross to symbolize his hope, others put in the shape or a crown to symbol iz3 his triumph. A hundred lights blown out in one strong grist from the op?n door of a sepulchre. Zik lug in ashes'. I preached this sermon to-lay because I want to rally you, as David rallied his men. for the recovery of the love i and the lost. I want not only to win heaven, but I want all this congregation to go along with me. I feel that somehow I have a responsibility in your arriving at that graat city. Do you really want to join the compan!onskip of your love 1 ones who hava gone? Are yon as anxious to join them as David and his men were to join their families? Then I am here, in the name of God, to say that you may and tc tell you how. I remark, in the first place, if you want to Join your loved ones In glory, you must travel the same way they went. No sooner had the half dead Egyptian been resuscitated than he pointed the Way the captors and the captives bad gone, and David and his men followed after. So our Christtan friends have gone into another country, and If we want to reach their companionship wa must take the same road. They repented. We must repent. They prayed. We must pray. They trusted In Cirist. We must tru3t in Christ. They lived a religious life. We must live a religious life. Taey were in some things like ourselves. I know, now they ara gone, there is a halo around their nimes, but they had their faults. They siid and did things they ought never to have said or done. They were sometimes .-ebelllous, sometimes cast down. They were far from being perfect. So I suppose that when wa have gone some things in us that are now only tolerable may be almost resplendent. But as they were like us in deficiencies we ought to be like them in taking a supernal Christ to make up for the deficits. Had it not been for Jesus they would have all perished, but Christ confronted them anl said. "I am the way," an 1 they took it. I have also to say to you that the pith that these captives trod was a troubled path, anl that David and his men had to go over the same difficult way. While these captives were being taken off they said, "Oh, we are so tired j we are so sick ; wa are so hungry l But the men who had charge of them said "Slop this crying. Goonl"' David and his men also fouu d it a hard way. Taey had to travel it. Our friends have gone into glory, and it Ls through much tribulation that we are to enter into the klngdon. How our loved ones used to nave to struggle ! How their old hearts ached! How sometimes they had a tussle for bread ! In our child hood we wonlered why thero were so many wrinkles on their facas. We did not know that what were called "crow's feet" on their faces were the marks of the black raven of trouble. Did you ever hoar the old people, seated by the evening stand, ialk over their early trials, their hardships, the assU dents, the burials, the disappointments, tne empty flour barrel when there were so many hungry ones to feed, the sickness almost unto death, where the next dose of morphine decided between ghastly bereavement anl an unbroken home circle? Oh, yes ! It was trouble that whitened their hair. It was trouble that shook the cup in their hands. It was trouble that washed the luster from their eyes with the rain of tears until they needed spectacles. It was trouble that made the cane a necessity for their journey. Do you never remember seeing your old mother sitting on some rainy daj- looking out of th6 window, her elbow on the window sill, her hand to her brow, looking out, not seeing the falling shower at all (you well knew she was looking into the distant past), until the apron came up to her eyes because the mem ory was too much for her? Oft the blgr, unbidden tear, Stealing down' the f urro wei cheek, Tol l in eloquence slncare T&lea ot woe thsy could not spea'i. Uu'. this scene ot weeotnsr o'er, Past this scene of toil anl pall. They shall feel distress no more, .Never, never weep aga.n. "Who are those under the altar?" the question was asked, and the response came, "These are they which came out ot great tribulation and have washed their robes ana made them white in the bloo 1 of the Lamb." Oar friends went by a path of tears into glory. Be not surprised, if we have to travel the same pathway. I remark again, if we want to win the so ciety of our friends in heaven, we will not only have to travel a path of faith and a path of tribulation, but we will also have to posi tively battle for their companionship. David and his men never wanted sharp swords, and invulnerable shields, and thick breastplates so much as they wanted them on the day when they came down upon the Amelikites. If they had lost that battle, they never would hava got their families back. I suppose that one glance at their loved ones in captivity ' hurled them into the battle with tenfold courage and energy. They said t "We must win it. Everything depends upon it. Let each one take a man on point of spear or sword. We must win it." And I have to tell you that between us and coming into the companionship of our loved ones who are departed there is an Austerlitz, there Is a Gettysburg, there is a Waterloo. War with the world, war with the flesh, war with the devil. We have either to conquer our trou bles, or our troubles will conquer us. David will either slay the Amalekites, orthe Amale kites will slay David. Aud yet is not the fort to be taken worth all the pain, all the peril, all the besiegement? Look! Who are they on the bright hills of heaven yonder? There they are, thosa who sat at your own table, the chair now vacant. There they are, those whom j'ou rocked in infancy in the cradle or hushed to sleep in your arms. There they are, those in whose life your life was bound up. There they are, their brow more radiant than ever before you saw it, their lips waiting for the kiss of heavenly greeting, their cheek roseate with the health of eternal summer, their bands beckoning j-ou up the steep, the feet bounding with the mirth of heaven. The pallor of their last sickness gone out of their face, nevermore to be sick, nevermore to cough, nevermore to limp, nevermore to be old, nevermore to weep. They are watching from those heights to see if through Christ you can take that fori, and whether you will rush in upon them victors. They know that upon this battle depends whether you will ever join their society. Up! Strike harder ! Charge more bravely I Remember that every inch you gain puts you so much farther on toward that heavenly reunion. If this morning while I speak you could hear the cannonade ot a foreign enemy which was to despoil your city, and if they really should succeed in carrying your families away from you, how long would we take before we resolved to go after them? Every weapon, whether fresh from the armory or old and rusty in the garret, would be brought out, and we would urge on, and coming in front of the foe we would look at them and then look at our families, and the cry would be. "Tictory or death !" and when the ammunition was gone we would take the captors on the point of the bayonet or under the breech ot the gun. If yon would make such a struggle foi the getting back ot your earthly friends, will you not make as much struggle for the gain ing ot the eternal companionship of your heavenly friends? Oh. yes, we must join then! We must sit in their holy society. We must sing with them the song. We mu3t celebrate with them the triumph. Let it never be told on earth or in heaven that David and his men pushed out with braver hearts for the getting back of their earthly friends for a few years on earth than we to get our departed ! You say that all this implies that our de parted Christian friends are alive. Why. had you any idea they were dead? They nave only moved. It you should go on the 2.1 ol May to a house where one of your friends lived and find blm gone, you would hot think that he was dead. x You would inquire next door where he had moved to. Our de parted Christian friends have only taken an other house. The secret is that thev are richer than they once were and can afford a better residence. They once drank out ot earthenware. Thsy now drink from the Kind's chalice. "Joseph is yet alive." and Jacob will go up and see him. Living, are they? Why, if a man can live in this damp, dark dungeon of earthly captivity, can he not Wye where he breathes the bracing mosphere of the mountains of heaven va, yes, they are living t . . . Do you think that Paul Is so near dead now as he was when he was living in tne Roman dungeon Do you think that Fred erick Robertson, of Brighton, is as near dead now as he was when, year after year, he slept seated on the floor, his head on the bottom of a chair, because he could find ease fn no other position? Do you think that Robert Hall Is as near dead now as when on his couch he tossed In physical torture. No. Death gave them the few black drops that cured them. That is all death does to a Christian cures him. I know that what I have said Implies that they ara living. There is no question about that. The only ques tion this morning Is whether you will ever join them. But I must not forget those 200 men who fainted by the brook Besor. They could not take another step farther. Their feet were sore j their head ached ; their entire nature was exhausted. Besides that they wera broken hearted because- their homes were gone. Ziklag In ashes! And yet David, when he comes up to them, divides the spoils among them ' He says they shall have some of the jewels, some of the robes, soma of the treasures. I look over this audience this morning, and I find at least 203 who have fainted by the brook Besor the brook of tears. You feel as if you could not take another step farther, as though you could never look up again. Bat I am going to imi tate David and divide among you some glorious trophies. Here Is a robe, "Ail things work together for good to those who love God." Wrap yourself In that glorious promise. Here is for your neck a string of pearls made out of crystallized tears, "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." Here is a coronet. "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." Oh, ye fainting ones by the brook Besor, dip your blistered feet in the running s ream of God's mercy, bathe your brow at the wells of salvation, soothe your wounds with the balsam that exudes from trees ot life. God will not utterly cast you off, O broken hearted man, O broken heartel woman, fainting by the brook Besor ! A shepherd finds that his musical pips is bruised. He says "I cant get any more music out of this instrument, so I will just break It, and I wilt throw this reed awiy. Then I will get another read, and I will play music on that." BatGodsaysHa will no: cast you off because all tha music has goaa out of your souL "The bruised reel Ha will not break." As far as I can tell tha diag nosis of your.disaass, vou want divine nurs ing, and it is promised you, "As one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort you." God will sea youall tha waythrougii, 0 troubled soul, and when you coma do.vu to tho Jordan ot death yoa will fin 1 it to be as thin a brook as B33or, for Dr. Robinson says that in April Besor dries up and there is no brook at all. Aud in your last moment you will be as placid as the Kentucky min ister who went up to God, saying in tha dying hour- "Write to my sister Kate and tell her not to be worried and frightened about the story ot the horrors arounl the deathbed. Tell her there is not a word of truth in it, tor I am there now, and Jesus is with me, and I find it a very happy way, not because I am a good man, for I am not. 1 am nothing but a poo7.. miserable sinner, but I hav9 an Almighty Saviour, and both of His arms are around me. " May God Almighty, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, bring us into the companionship of our loved ones who have already entered the heavenly land and into the presence of Christ, whom, not having seen, we love, and so David shall recover all, "and as his part Is that goeth down to. the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff." tUE DOCTOa'S ADVICF. Tom met an old friend, who was formerly ft prosperous young lumberman up in North ern Minnesota, but whose bad habits of drinking brought him to a pretty "hard up' condition, although he has since reformed and is doing better. "How are you?" asked Tom. "Pretty well, thank you, but I have just seen a doctor to have him examine my throat." "What's the matter?" "Well, the doctor couldn't give me any encouragement. At least, he could not find. What I want to find." "What did you expect him to find?" "I asked him to look down my throat for the saw mill and farm that had gone down there in drink." 'And did he see anything of it ?" "No, but he advised me if ever I got an other mill to run it by water." two views of it. A. Boston daily paper has just printed a long article in praise of beer "the aro matic, 8palkling, amber fluid," which it says is fast becoming our national drink. It praises beer as a food, and as an aid to di gestion, and altogether is as enthusiastic over its virtues and good qualities as if the writer were a brewer, with a lot of beer to sell. On the other hand, Professor Morse, at a recent meeting of the Alumni Association ot the Medico-Chirurgical College in Phila delphia, made these significant statements : "We are rapidly becoming a nation of beer drinkers, and the insidious hold gained by that incurable kidney affection known ai Blight's disease threatens In time to largely decimate the ranks of the beer-drinkers." He adds that "it bos been conclusively proven that beer and lead poisoning ara the principal factors in producing Bright's uis ease," and says that "beer should not ba drunk at all, bat, if used, should never ba drawn through a lead pipe." This is a timely scientific warning against the danger in volved in beer-drinking which should bo proclaimed and heeded throughout the land. Of course the opinion of the doctor is very different from that of the brewer' s adver tisement. It is easy to see which one is the more worthy of belief. Sacred Heart Re view. TEMPEBAXCE NEWS A3U NOTES. A prohibition church was recently organ ized in Chicago. One gallon of whisky is equal to one bushel of misery. Some men who claim to love God, live and die without lifting a finger against the whisky business. Poverty and drunkenness act and react on each other ; both cause ignorance and dis ease, parents ot all vice and unhappiness. The Earl of Carlisle has given a practical illustration of his belief in the drink evil by destroying the contents of his famous wine cellar. The statement was recently made in the German Reichstag that there are 11,000 persons in hospitals in Germany who are suffering with delirium tremens. Eight States and Territories of the United States', exclusive of California, contributed samples ol wines, produced within , their borders, for competition at the Chicago Fair. According to the records of the Internal Revenue Department there are in Chicago 3000 more retail liquor dealers' tax receipts Issued by the United States than city licenses. Superintendent Hufford, of High School No. 1, ot Indianapolis, recently suspended four boy pupils, whose ages range from fifteen to eighteen years, on the ground of drunkenness. The annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shews that during tho fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, there were 19,770,559 bushels of corn consumed In the manufacture ot distilled spirits. "Why should I arrest him, since by getting drunk, he supports the Government?" This was the answer a native policeman returned to a missionary who had complained about a drunken, disorderly native. Indian Wit ness, Calcutta. There are cases In which the mother has gone out to drink, leaving the little ones without fool or fire locked in their bare room. She has been arrested, taken to the station house by the police, and the little ones hava been found long, weary hours afterward crying from hunger. The work ot the Woman's Christian Tem- feranca Union in Inducing the State Legis alures to introduce into the public schools instruction on the effect of alcoholic and other stimulants upon the system is probably the most telling work that organization has done telling because preventive. The Chicago Tribune condemns the prac tice of drinking during business hours, on the ground that it takes from a man's em ployes ail tho time consumed in visiting the saloons. The practice of drinking before or after business hours might be condemned on the ground that it unfits the drinker for the transaction of business at all times. ! RELIGIOUS READING. A GOOD 8EKMON. "We have heard a story of the elder Dr. Beecher, now of Cincinnati, that is said to be true, and Is worth being put into types, as ' illustrating tne truin mat we never cm i what may result from an apparently very in aienificant action. The doctor once engaged j to preach for a country minister, on ex ! change, and the Sabbath proved to be one ex cessively stormy, com ana unconxiun.uo. was in mid-winter, and the snow was piled in ' heaps all along in the roads, so as to make . L. jimu Cflll tha mfniatflr rged his horse through the drifts, till he reached the church, put the animal into the abed, and went in. As yet there was no per son in the house, and after looking about, the old gentleman then young took his seat in the pulpit Soon the door opened, and a ingle individual walked up the aisle, looked about and took a seat. The hour came for commencing service, but no more hearers. Whether to preach to such an audience or not was now the question and it was one that Lyman Beecher was not long in decid ing. Ho felt that he had a duty to perform, and he had no right to re fuse to do it, because only one man could reap the benefit of it ; and accordingly he went through all the ser vices, praying, singing, preaching, and the benediction, with only one hearer. And when all was over he hastened down from the desk to speak to his "congregation," but he had departed. A circumstance so rare was referred to oc casionally, but twenty years after, it was brought to the doctor's mind quite strangely. Travelling somewhere in .Ohio, the doctor alighted from the stage, one day, in a pleas ant village, when a gentlemen stepped up and spoke to him, familiarly calling him by name. 'I do not remember you,' said the doctor. 'I suppose not,' said the stranger; but we spent two hours together, in a house, alone, once in a storm. 'I do not recall it, sir,' added the old man, 'pray when was it?' 'Do you remember preaching, twenty years ago, in such a place, to a single person?' 'Yes, yes,1 said the doc tor, grasping his hand. 'I do Indeed, and if you are the man, I have been wishing to see you ever since.' I am the man. sir ; and that sermon saved my soul, made a minister of me, and yonder is my church ! The con verts of that sermon, sir, are all over Ohio !' SUNDAT AFTEBNOON PBAYEB. Perhaps you have sometimes asked your selves, "What is the good of prayer?" O e sufficient answer to that questioa is, "Prayer is eood nractice." Praver means business. Kit is the going over, in face of God. or all hour difficulties, duties, and sins ; it is tne re hearsing of the means that we must take to overcome thorn. It is the setting in order of our faculties and passions, of our thoughts and tempers, in order to meet them. Use prayer in this way, and it will never be a mere form to you ; nor will you ever be without a reason to give to people who ask you "What's the good of prayer?" The Salvation Army call prayer drill ; and so it is. But I will go further and say that prayer is not only drill. It is the battlefield itself. Look at the prayers of tte Lord Jesus. Where were the real battles of His human life fought out? In His prayer. There He fought and there He won His victories ; and that was why the times, which in other men's lives are fullest of struggle, the times when He faced His material enemies, where to His full only of peace and calm fortitude. He came out from God before men as one who had already conquered. In our own time there was a man who had learned this secret of Christ General Gor don. He fought and won all his greatest battles, he tells us, on his knees. If you read his letters to his sisters you will find such passages as these : "I bad a grand half-hour hewing Agag in pieces before the Lord." He says that over and over again ; and he means that on his knees he first of all overcame self and sin and every other enemy, at the begin ning of every day. That was why, for the re3t of the day, Gordon was always so ready, so dutiful, so brave. No man can be really brave who has not thus learned to make prayer the real battle field as well as well as the drill-ground of life. G. Adam Smith. ' j 8PIBITUAL ATHLETICS. Have you ever noticed how high a value God places on det jrmination of character? His command is, "Only be thou strong and very courageous." Josh. 1 : 7. "Go in this thy might." "The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor." Judges 6 : 12-14. And all through the" Bible we find that it was the determined men, such as David and Daniel, who won the favor of God and were greatly blessed by Him. Take Jehu for an illustration. The Lord appointed him to be king, but he had to win for himself the kingdom which God had given him. And see how promptly and en ergetically he acted. He set out at once, and drove furiously; he would not stop, even for a moment, to parley with the king's mes sengers or with the king himself, but pushed straight ahead until he had killed the king and his ally and established himself in the royal palace Even so, God has promised a crown to each of his faithful servants, but none of us will receive our kingdom unless we hustle for it 2 Tim. i:8. It is possible for each of us to allow some ono else to take our crown. Rev. 3:11. Now as in the days of our Lord, "the king dom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." Matt.ll: 12. Read the account on another page of the intense eagerness Henry Belden showed in seeking closer fellowship with God. It is only a sam ple illustration. Thousands have passed through equally Intense struggles, and every one mnst undergo a liko sifting process in some way befo re he can enter fully into the peace of God. ESTIMATE OF THE WOBLD Bt A MAN OF THE VOBLD. "I have run the silly rounds of business and pleasure and have done with them all. I have enjoyed all the pleasures of the world, and consequently know their futility, and do not regret their loss . I appraise them at their real value, which is, in truth, very low. Whereas those who have not experienced, always overrate them. They only see their gay outside, and are dazzled with the glare. But I have been behind the scenes. I have seen all the coarse pullies and dirty ropes which exhibit and move the gaudy machines ; and I have seen and smelt the tallow candles which illuminate the whole decoration, to the astonishment and admiration of the ig norant audience. When I reflect on what I have seen, what I have heard and what I have done, lean hardly persuade myself that all frivolous hurry of bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality ; but 'I look upon all that is passed as one of those romantic dreams which opium commonly occasions ; and I do by no means desire to repeat tho nauseous dose, for the fugitive dream. Shall I tell you that I bear this melancholy situation with that meritorious constancy and resignation which most people boast of? No ; for I really cannot help it. I bear it, be cause I must bear it, whether I will or not ! I think of nothing but killing time the best way I can, now that he is become my ene my. It is my resolution to sleep in the car riage during the remainder of the journey." Lord Chesterfield. "You see," says Bishop Home, remarking on this passage, " in bow poor, abject and nnpitied a condition, at a time when he most wanted help and comfort, the world left him and he left the world." In a very different manner an illustrious Christian lived and triumphantly left the world. "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight ; I have finished my course; henceforth there Is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which God, the right eous judge, will give me that day. Paul. THE POOR CHILDREN EXXW. The following Is told as having happened In a school in that part of Brooklyn known asDatchtown. The teacher of the class was asking questions In arithmetic when the Principal came In. The Principal looked on for a minute, and then said : "I can give a question in subtraction that every scholar in the class will answer." "I doubt it," said the class teacher ; "you don't know how stupid some of them are." "Scholars," said the Principal, "if your mother sent yoa for a pint of beer and gave you ten cents to pay for it, how much change would you bring home?" All but one of the children there were forty-six of them gave tha cor rect answer, Outlook. J' You waint the Best Royal Baking Powder never disappoints; never makes sour, soggy, or husky food; never spoils good materials ; never leaves lumps of alkali in the biscuit or cake ; while all these things do happen with the best of cooks who cling to the old-fashioned methods, or who use other baking powders. If you want the best food, ROYAL Baking: Powder is indispensable. ROYAL BAKIfM POWDCM CO., 10 WALL T., NEW-YORK. PORTER'S BUSINESS COLL.EGE And School' of Shorthand, Triangular Block, Macon, Ga. 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