THE BANNER=DEMOCRAIT' .·0 • NO 5 LAKE PROVIDENCE. EAST CARROLL PARISH, LA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1901 ".. "o V O L . X III. L A--K E" P R O VID E NC Eg+EE::" " ] Cy.. _C..,.lo.esand . _..-.......~.# i,..I D r I lýlrC 1 GT ]Cycln esn loods are pnrtoninortn jpu a TALMAGE SEeRE ONn po. n~nT B R C TALMAGE SERMON t eaan elw luce~em at o e"___ ancs d bpers and theatres, a n, PwJlOl who elee n t a s~oYI • . ... .**.. . _ . .. . . . khih n m oh ,cv 315 b . State Government of Loaisiana. the headh Governor-W. W. Heard, And e Lieutenant-Governor-Albert Esto. " pinal. Inre us ii Secretary of State-John Miohol. e care n Superintendent of Educatioh-John Ahi not t V. Calhoun. r Auditor-W. S. Frazee. To toil I Treasurer-Ledoux E. Smith. Eandclapl U. S. SENATORS. For pim Don Cafferey and S. D. McEnery. nam REPRESENTATIVES. 1 District-H. C. Davey. pahs 2 District-Adolph Meyer. We, on 8 District-B. F. Broussard. onoe 4 District-P. Brazeale. In blowin 5 District-J. E. RanadelL 6 District-S. M. Robinson. But the ' such hop .0tie"**8*** *********** lhes " " broken * THE NEXT THING TO " thei * * * * &nd mail * " rise Ssou H, sIde, wE same sTimes-emocrat Covering every item of news Molly Son land and sea throug it hats tr SRLENDID SPECIAL SERVICE Mabel, as furnished the New York t the " World, New York Joorl, time tl * Associated ress and Staff To be correspondents, all in one. long * Only $1.00 a Month. while * dealer, pstmaster or direct to THE TIMES-Dvery iMOte o ATf news with B o n L a sea through its tt = a fised the Na Yor they SWorld, Ne YWork Jot would S Only $ t Mont. hingles Sdealer, Psstmaper a dincresct to olthy As adiverti'seest Is " shat Ing, 1 would then woetween the North and South. Only Atroot route to As ruibrtalmst Is *aeinO 1.A 19M Cphis, St. L is, Cricaio. s Clt mak Jackson, Vl cksburT, tI Odon n all poin in The nd he Bo weshe Malt FThe Close Connections ILLINOIS CENTRAL . RAILROAD, es THE GREAT TRUNK LI01 "1 Between the mphis, North and Southi. o without y d iret route to nne s withand all poins to l po lOtrains (freigh ot ener) now run IAng regularly over itethu savoiding Bothe woGet. ( s Doble DaMississippi VTryin ~ops sed Co aye tlo as Ist bct onweetine at Memphis i, ho Cairoty, St. Louis, and Chicago, n makitot nge, diret caetins with throughnne o train with for lie to all pointt s Thead, Bgreat steel bridek, Philnninelp thse nOhpo rir, Oatlni, Kis pl ty, od al Bptrains (rk.ight and Denver.) now rn keonc tionn annt Ohiyaneo witnh oeatras Missiassippi Valley Bot, Bod Fat U esuerp Dail Trali for ie Cairot SLoui, FALLSo, S CITYi a he wains for all poir as NORTH, EAST ANDom WESTI Winludi MBmalo, Pittsbrv. g Ale land, Boston, New Ior, PhiOladelphia Blo. Ao. Lbmond, St. Pal A. in p. ri, arkm, and. ener. C.los A.K.3*uusO? A.~ , THE BEST OF  Le... Frances, I W 0 1 life's heat is cooled, lets as LX rM headlong rush slowed to a quiet pace, I And e'-ery purblind passion that has I wouldn . ruled treated." Our noiser years at last The ne: Npurs us in vain, and, wearypf the race, We care no more who loses or who wins- chool w h! not till all the best of life seems past wrapped I The best of life begins. That dal r several o To toil for only fame. sro Handclappings and the fickle gusts of orgotten praise, when, su For place or power or gold to gild a noon, sh name Mabel he Above the grave whereto All paths will bring us, were to lose our Molly di days- and said 'We, on whose ears youth's passing bell has that she tdoled-well; an in blowingbubbles, even as children do, well; an forgetting we grow old. mouth te she rome But the world widens when Iastill such hopes of trivial gain that ruled us monda I1 lies Broken among our childhood's toys; for she ran then tablet w We, win to self-control! pocket; And mail ourselves to manhood, and there wrapped ruse UDon us from the vast and windless height her mou Those clearer thoughts that are unto the tasted v soul to her d What stars are to the night. "Thou -The Spectator. marked Oooo000o the air. Never THE QUARREL CURE. "I di By Ida Reed Smith. Molly 0 0 her ton INE days out of ten there all. were no better friends in "Well the block than Molly and want to Mabel. They lived side by her enti side, went to the same school, read the dress uj same stories, and wanted their best Olivia hats trimmed just exactly alike, even Little to the number of white spots on the solved I gray quills, which made the blue felt to say, sailors so very eharming in the eyes was wol of both. But, on the tenth day-oh, was WC dearl how everything was changed! say Wh Molly went to school on one side of the when a] street, with never a glance across at far do Mabel, trudging disdainfully along on "Oh, the other; and from breakfast to bed- "thqre'e time the day was out of joint for both. there's To be sure, the quarrels never lasted "Oh, long; but they were serious matters ing up while they did last. Florimu In vain the mothers took counsel to- ryn 011 geither. In vain they reasoned, each each *with her own particular little girl. mother P,*ith Molly and Mabel protested that street I * they loved each other, and never organ" meant to quarrel; but still the quarrels That would come, and make both miserable. the wl apd they arose over such trifling listene things! After the "making up," the pleasu' two friends never could see "how they marka same to quarrel over a little thing like tient that!" of the So things went on until Molly's Aunt simila frances came to spend tlhe winter with the pt her sister. Now, Aunt Frances was spring Molly's ideal of everything a young pletell Jidy should be. So it was no wonder Aft( that her niece sang her praises morn- reaso! n lag, noon and night. Neither was it such any wonder that Mabel, who had a stage young lady aunt of her own, grew tired have tf so often hearing the same strain, Week and on the fatal tenth day chanced to remark that, while Molly's Aunt Thi Prances was very nice in her opinion, phis her own Aunt Angle was nicer. This much was the thin end of the wedge of dis- .." pute; but half an hour later Molly shella rushed into the house declaring that caller the would" never speak to Mabel Bye other agaln so long as she lived-"so there!" port The wedge had been driven deep, and see t rliendship was split wide open. stroll Aunt Frances listened to the tale of few I Ifabel's presuming to think any one in w iL Seer than she with a perfectly grave one lace, though her blue eyes were danc Hg merrily. When the story was end- eyes id, she said, soothingly: me "I wouldn't mind it so much, Molly. Li sure I don't care if Mabel likes you ter own auntie best. But I'm sorry into nou two should have quarreled about iato O. a I didn't come all the way from saeas to Minnesota to cause a cold- He Psa between friends, and I shall feel his Ci adfully if you and Mabel never o Peak to each other again." a ' "Well," said Molly, hesitating be- no . reen her disposition to "stay mad" he pad her desire to please Aunt Frances, rig S'0ose I could speak to her, just to tile you; but I'm quite sure I shall but sever Uke her so well any mo'e." pOC But, when Mabel's kitten ran away nev that afternoon and all the children in w the blaek were looking for it, Molly to." tould not help but look, too. And, When she found It in the coal-bin-it I OlI had fallen through the cellar window- am of course, she had to carry it home. sul pr Mabel was so delighted that she hugged tra e both her and the kitten, and the quar- ani iar 1 was over then and there. ex That night, after dinner, Aunt e SFrances called Molly to her, and us showed her a small pink box, with a liv rOggist's label on the outside. r "Molly," said she, "just look here! the What do you suppose I've got in this box?" to "Not medicine?" questioned Molly, de who having lately recovered from a Ilight illness, looked with suspicion on pink boxes of that particular sort. "Medicine, sure enough," responded i knat Frances, cheerfully. "You shall be my first easa Molly, my dear, I will cure you; and my fame will spread through the length and breadth of the P' land." (I forgot to tell that Aunt rli Pances was studying to be a doctor.) t "But I'm not sick any more," pro tested Molly, drawing away from the box before she should be asked to take L dose of whatever was in it. "Oh. certainly not," agreed Aunt Frances. "But I want you to try the guarrel cure, dear. See? These are lI temper tablets of the very best make." e She opened the box, and Molly saw i the eontenta-tablets about the sise of 9 ro ug a peppermint lozenge, clear, and of a lovely deep red. They did not loOk as though they would taste bad. "Take one," said Aunt Frances. "My prescription would include 'one at bed v time.' So you might as well begin the P treatment right away." n Molly obeyed. The temper tablet was · o sweet, and tasted of wintergreen. 01os "Don't try to bite it," cautioned the etral prescribing physician. "Let it dissolve 1 F In your mouth. And now, Nieceums," she continued, with a very professional CI, air, "when you feel a quarrel coming ageanm I want you to take one of these S ag r tablets. Don't crush it with your teeth--jast let it melt in your mouth. .m. And be careful not to speak until it is all gone. Do you fully understand the directions?" Molly nodded solemnly. The respon s. o bility of being a first "case" rather awed her. "Will you treat Mabel, too?" she 5tr -it won't be necessary," said Aul lE I Frances, gravely, "if you take the tab 11414 lets as Lprescribe. And, if I were yob I wouldn't tell anybody I was bein treated." Bartow The next morning Molly started ft ,et school with a temper tablet neatly wrapped in tim.foil in her small pocket, That day passed peacefully, So di several others; and Molly had all buj HE RUN. forgotten that she was being treate4 when, suddenly, one Saturday after. noon, she felt a quarrel coming oe Him Audi Mabel had made a dress for her dol Hip Molly didn't think it fitted very wet, and said so. Mabel answered tartly that she guessed Molly couldn't do ai BL well; and Molly had just opened her mouth to say something peppery whes people ca she remembered the temper tablets. My wife Hastily laying her beloved Flori- winter v monda Isabelle face down on the floor, she ran out of the room. The tempel tablet was at the very bottom of her play ol pocket; but she pioked it out, un. provide wrapped the tin-foil and popped it inte children her mouth. The rosy bit of sweetness a good I tasted very nice, and she went back -pleasi to her doll feeling better already. asks for "Thought you'd gone home mad." re- don't ha marked Mabel, with her small nose in she nee the air. , I have Never a word from Molly. strain "I didn't care if you had," added Profess Mabel, with a sniff. talk to Molly rolled the temper tablet under noted s her tongue, but answered nothing at here in all. as insti e all "Well, you needn't talk if you don't Mississ d want to," snapped Mabel; and she gave to join her entire attention to putting the new ed in 1e dress upon its owner, Evelyn Kathryn a largeg SOlivia.found a a Little by little the temper tablet dis. It is io solved in Molly's mouth; and, strange are loc It to say, her anger melted with it. It life. '1 was worn to wafer thinness; and Molly pelo an h was wondering just what she should I had I! say when the "treatment" was over, hear m ie when she heard a faint sound of music near 4 t far down the street. Ten-ce "Oh, Mabel!" she cried, excitedly, done i d- "there's a grind-organ; and maybe with it h. there's a monkey! Let's go and see!" Ripley ad "Oh, let's!" answered Mabel, jump- not ia: tr ing up eagerly; and a moment later a stor Florimonda Isabelle and Evelyn Kath- was fl ;Q- ryn Olivia were left to be company fol .horizo ch each other, while their respective ily. r. mothers raced hand in hand down the and tat street in search of the probable "grind- seeme ter organ" and the possible monkey. There els That night Molly told Aunt Frances eleme le. the whole story, and that young lady and s ng listened with genuine professional The the pleasure. Her first case was doing re- of pe iey markably well, she said; and the pa- oqt tc Ike tient was advised to continue the use came of the invaluable temper tablets in all awful ant similar emergencies. Molly followed thatt Ith the prescription faithfully, and before It hu ran spring both she and Mabel were com- silen ang pletely cured. der After a while Molly discovered the wild, ern- reason why the temper tablets had up th it such a soothing effect in the first and I a stages of a quarrel. I wonder if you come Ired have guessed it, too?-New York subu sin, Weekly. dark to The Unexpected Find. in h, unt This story was told by a Philadel- was ion, phia man who dislikes nothing so bod 'his much as to be asked questions: seen dis- "My little girl is very fond of sea- w oly shells," he said, "and, having been Who that called to Atlantic City on business the quio Bye other day, I took advantage of the op- leavr r" portunity to run down to the beach to Hap and see if I could pick up a few. I was terr strolling along the sand, gathering a won fe o few shells and pebbles, which I placed rejo rave In my handkerchief, when along came kilh one of those old Idiots who ask ques- won anc- tions with their mouths which their and eyes could answer. He smiled upon roo me and said: 'Fine day, isn't it? Are was likes you gathering shells?' 'No,' I snapped thr i back, saying the first tiing that popped wit] borry into my mind, 'I'm looking for a set of thai fbot false teeth I lost while in bathing.' cye col- He expressed his sympathy and then thi feel his face lit up as his eye caught sight the feer of a pink and white object on the or sand. 'Well I declare! Here they are ter b now!' he exclaimed, and, sure enough, ( mad" he picked up a set of false teeth lying stil es, right at his feet. te "st to "I was too surprised to do anything ane ssall but grab them and put them into my len pocket. The funny part of it is that I An ay never had a tooth pulled in my life. I cax e in wonder whom that false set belongs no Molly to.,,-Philadelphia Record. ag A n-Salclde Catcher of Exprhess rla. hi It has become a fad recenCY In Italy an dow- among persons who desire to commit home. suicide to jump in front of express ,a 5gged trains. Three weekp ago the engineer hi quar- and the passengers of the Genoa-Rome B, expresswere really vexed because in a Aunt short run of eight hours four persons ~t wtnd used the train in this way to end their pe th a lives, regardless of the delay which re re they were causing by their selfish thoughllessness. n this Moral suasion appearing Inadequate b to the task of turning these self-mur- h Mollyo derers from the fatal error of their o ways the railroad nauthorities have g -o on adopted a special suicide catcher. It ti pod Is placed in front of the locomotive e ponded like the American cowcatcher, and it da scoops up the person who tries to use ear, I the engine for his own unpleasant pur spreadposes. Having scooped him up, it de At posits him on a little platform, where :ootr.) he gets a free trip to the nearest sta. ,o " pro- tlon, while the engineer and the fire- 5 'mteman enliven the journey by making totk deeply felt remarks to him.--New o.'k Press. t Aunt But One Emperor. I try the Apropos of the paragraph I gave Ir ese arre last issue of the German showman's make." experiences of the law of lese majeste aly sa sw remember hearing toe following ssie of story, for the truth of which, however, md o f a would not l:ke to vouch. An offcel lo k as in the German army, passing along a street in Berlin with a friend, made a ees. "My remark about "the fool of an emper a at bed- or." He was immediately arrested by agin the a vigilant policeman. He attempted to get out of the difficulty by explaining blet was that he referred to the Emperor oi ln. Russia. "That won't do," said the oned the policeman. "I know very well yoa dissllve meant the German Emperor; there is eceems," no other emperor you possibly could ffes siona ol Ipean!"-M. A. P. . coming oditors Lees Quarreisome.... ithe o Newspaperdom finds that there is it t less of the acrimonious spirit shown tntl It is between editors and newspapers than stadthe formerly. Bitter invectives against rivals are now seen In print only it Sresponrare instances. The public cat-es noth e " rather ing for newspaper family quarrels and the editors know it and confin ooo" she their efforts to gathering and dimni lastng ewI and good readln mattes BILL ARP'S LETTER aaans one thing not fight, Bartow Man Goes to Mississippito vival, for ribly in I Get "Santa Claus" Money. up. Old says in h: are all fir HE RUNS UP AGAINST A CYCLONE, and some they won But Is His Audience at Rilpley Fled In Terror, keep cal His Mission However Ended hall be Successfully. so will b tiful eyes BLnU MOUNTAIN, Miss.-Some good word co people called me over here and I came. which My wife said I had better go, for the bly. Pr winter was at hand And the family the brav needed clothes and she was obliged to Lowrey play old Santa Claus, asausual, and Claiborn provide some Christmas gifts for the in the j children and grand.children. That is buried n a good part of her life and happiness grave. -pleasing the children. She never the olde asks for anything for herself. She Indian don't have to. The girls tell me what chief of a she needs and I surprise her with it if there I I have the money, and if I haven'tI there to strain my credit and get it anyhow. always i d Professor Lowery called me here to and mai talk to his college girls, for he is a BILL AI t noted educator and has 260 girls out n LAd thi l1 here in the woods and is building up now afl institution that is the pride of north The str '1 Mississippi. He got four other towns So wliei r to join him in the call, and so I lectur- To llth ed in Tupelo last Monday night to The vot n a large audience in a large house and found a warm welcome. The vol a. It is wonderful how these old towns Wh reb+ fe are looming up and taking on new And g It life. Twenty years ago I was in Tu- That hi ly pelo and I thought it was pretty dead. All the Id I had only about 100 people out to It chat r, hear me then, and this time there were le near 400. Prosperity has done it. Where, Ten-cent cotton and a cotton mill has Mourn y, done it. McKinley had nothing to do Fo ne with it. Last night I was billed for Where R!" ipley-a nice old courthouse town The li p- not far away. The evening betokened We p et a storm and by night the lightning h-. was flashing incessantly all around the And a oi .horizon and the thunder pealed heav- On Re ve ily. Country people became alarmed That he and hurried home, for everything And t d- seemed ominous of coming trouble. To wI There seemed to be something in the When ea elements that was brooding over us, The v dy and sure enough there was S0, ye mal The courtroom was about half full And 1 re- of people who had dared to venture Know pa- oqt to hear me. Suddenly the storm The s use came with fearful fury. There was an To wl all awful roaring sound from the southeast Tell t red that was like the sound of many waters. The ore It hushed the audience into a solemn m- silence. I did not take the platform, but waited. In a few minutes some At the wild, excited messengers came rushing dmito had up the stairs and called for the doctors ler's Irst and other help, for the cyclone had ture you come and torn up everything in tile es ork suburbs and killed men and women in a and children. The night was intensely He dark, but the men rushed to the rescue hand in haste and the lecture programme pocki el was broken up in a twinkling. Every- e body hurried to their homes or to the scene of the disaster. " ea- What an awful thing is a cyclonel "A leen What a merciless thing it isl How tlg. quickly it comes and as quickly goes, cent OP' leaving swift destruction in its track. bee h to Happily it gives no warning, for the Ba was terror and apprehension would be Js a worse than death. This morning we stan aeed rejoiced to learn that nobody was lte ame killed, though many were badly ate lues- wounded. Some houses were wrecked witl heir and blown away and many were un- Sr upon roofed and some set on fire. One man clud Are was lifted up and carried away and n Pped thrown to the ground in the woods, 'pit pped with only a few bruises. How strange thr ot of that so few' people are killed by a Ing.' cyclone. It seems piovidential, and then this morning the question discussed at T sight the breakfast table was whether God en the or the devil was the author of these el Sare terrible visitations. po ugh, One said that the spirit of evil was f lying still on the earth and was ever con tending against the spirit of good, c*r thing and this spirit brought famine, pesti- eat o my lence, fires, storms and all disasters. a hat I Another said that all these things fe. 1 came fro n natural causes, and that h :longu neither God nor the devil had any agency in them. Another quoted th from Job, where the Lord delivered b n , him over to Satan, who was going to Italy and fro upon the earth and walking ef mmit up and down in it. He afflioted Job ma [press awfully, but was not allowed to take i nineer his life. Another quoted from the ha -Rome Savior's words when He said: "Think in In a you that those upon whom the tower ersoni of Biloam fell were wicked above all i their peopler I tel you nay, out unless ye which repent ye shall perish." seh Professor John Fiske, a very great o and learned man, has written a little r equate book called "The Mystery of Evil." I If-mur- have read it twice and found but little w theIr comfort or philosophy in it. His ar- di s have gument is that evil is of divine crea r It tion and designed to illustrate and motiexa lt the good. That but for sickness a and twe would not appreciate or enjoy good I n se health. But for an occasional famine u we would not enjoy the blessing of Id- abundant food, and but for sin we b would not enjoy heaven. His book j therse leaves you just where it found you, e tre- and the mystery is still unexplained. d In We know that God loves His crea "". tures, and that is enough. Not a spar row falls to the ground without His notice, and He did not wish to de stroy Nineveh, where there were 600, gave Ir 000 people and much cattle. "And wman's much cattle." That was always a very maeeste significant expression to me. ollowin i Well, I had to come here from Rip owever, Ily by private conveyance. We had a f o Oicer good team, but the road was fearful, I along a for it had rained nearly all night. Mr. made a Pitner, an old Georgian, had the lines aemper and did not anticipate tronble, but wettedby when we got to the river we found the mpted to lowlands flooded on both sides for a pla pnnn quarter of a mile, and after we crossed peror or the bridge the horses plunged suddenly said the into a washout and submerged us into well yor deep water. It flowed into the buggy there is and over it and up to the cushions, yly ould and for a time we were both alarmed for fear of a collhpe. But we got out of it safely, and here I am with a ra e. lise full of wet olothes and no change there I for tonight. Here I am at the college it shown and will have to stand up before two pers thane or three hundred pretty girls tonight. agaInst Fortunately Mr. Lmowey is about my t only iio ise and says he will lend me some es noth garments while mine are being renew q darrelt d at the laundry. Hard, hard, in A oonnal deed, is the contest for freedom and a dide the struggle for Christmas monev. y mattee Cyclones and floods are pnrduing me I A and disturbing my tranquillity, But one thing more may come which I can- WINDAY'S not fight, and that is a Methodist re= vival, for like a cyolone, they are ter ribly in earnest and always break me toabJeett I up. Old Simon Peter Richardson Cause , says in his book that the Methodists the c are all fire and the Baptists all watetr, Stabil and some others are all wind. I hope they won't all come upon me at once. WAsH!! But I am still hopeful and trying to text prit keep calm and serene. Tonight I so manyit shall be inspired with the presence of pines. an' these college girls and for an hour or bilit"; tei so will be the cynosure of their beau- thou abou tiful eyes. Yes, the cynosure. That Homely word comes from two Greek words pophet c which mean the dog's tall, and so I that n will be the dog's tail of the fair assem- with Ass: bly. Professor Lowrey's father was now they the brave old soldier known as General and the Lowrey who succeeded Generel isfied wip Claiborne as commander of that corps place lad in the Army of Tennessee. He is tied any buried near here, and I shall visit his cries oul grave. I go from here to Pontotoc, Well, I the oldest town in the state, where the bouts as Indian agency was located and the that tha chief of the Chickasaws lived. From ous nog there I go to New Albany, and from among a [ there to my own home, where there is hoods-a always a light in the window for me the chit and mawr happy ones to greet me.-- fastness a BILL ARP in Atlanta Constitution. It Wa t An ye mat are maiena.re U pgut t And think our numbers mall, t h Know ye that we're the strongest, the ri" The strongest of then all! tempra So wen they laugh at you and ask eternal To what our work amunted, and we Tell them: We polled the largest vote: instead Thevote that i'o'tobttedt io The vote that comes from aching hearts ought t is Where thorns and nettles grow; and yo That have felt love and honor die or coll And good intent brought low; occupal - That have seen in the demon's fangs you an . All they once loved and cherished, rect to And watched it, as b slow deresed eWhil It changed, and fought, andper selectic re your o' et. Wherever mothers in the land will te' as Mourn for their wayward sons, physiol 0 herever wives shed bitter tears temper For men that loved them once, your v or Wherver even children curse nervo vn The life that God hath given, you at ed We poll that great uncounted vote gineer. That rises up to heaven!. perma hg mentT Aud surely as the sun shall ris/ tempe 3v- On Resurrection Day, tempi ed That vote must once outeount thena all ea Whatever they may .ash ad 'an znd then in turn they'll ask theml n le. To what their work amounted, on he When they shall see the vota we poll; io t s, The vote that God has countedl or ho So, ye that are faint-hearted the ti ull And think our numbers smsll, from are Know ye that we're the strongest, a tun 'in The strongest of them s .ll And when they laugh at eou and ask for an To what our work amounted, you a ast Tell them: We polled the largest vote: nter re. The vote that Isn't counted! t -'Jan Henrick Van Bolbynis. ions rm,A Gruesome Tragedy. me At the muzzle of a revolver Charles A. fer cc ing Smith, fzrmerly a Wabash Railroad con- and ductor, compelled patrons of Jacob Kol- barv tors ler's saloon, in Chicago, to listen to a lec- ofm had tre an the evils of intemperance. Then, you a te ressin the weapon to his head, he blew abiot en hs brains out in the midt of those stand- ingi ingl around him. chani sl Holding a glass of liquor in his left Ie ithand Smith drew a revolver from hiis ume pocket with the other and ordered every If d one in the saloon to remain quiet and an ma- ke no attempt to leave. woul the "This is to be my last drink." he said. be a "Vou may call it a farewell if you wish. feet with the railroad company, andt every tp e es, cent I have scraped together since has tree k. been spent for liquor. Iot the "Remember this little lecture, men.Dot Brace up and leav'e liquor alone.' to James Irwin and Peter Nies, who were up Sawe standint near Smith, thought the latter knee was intende to hold up the saloon and they tot1l ndl ttemted o escape. n e the man d "Hotd on, there. commaed te man with the uplifted revolver. tn- Smith then ordered the six men, in- and man eluding Timothy Foley, the bartender, to etem and line up in front of the bar. They did so. pe Then the desperate man pressed the o neo o istol agatinst his head and sent a bullet and nge rough his skull. He died instantly. pl by a ot San d The socal Glass. ty ed at The peace, prosperity and successful go.- sun od eminentof the home and family are large- soi ly due to the good example and wise coun- are these mel of the upright wife and mother. The ver power of her influrence and the importance am 1was of her righit home relations and princinles e aye the greatest factors inthe good tq ht pi aains the fearful ravages of the drink or good, cur, The tre. wife and mother incul- pa pesti- eats. the blessings of sobriety and total star. btinence, and deprecates the evil inf- th mmci of social and moderate drinking. i hings One of the valuable lessons which yong At I that men and women should early learn is that di Sany the appetite for liquor works the ruin of oted those awho ran enlaved, and that total di ivered abstinence brings peace and happiness bu to" all who practice it. a i An earnest man consecrated to the cause thes ling of temperance can rescue and rehabilitate f d Job many a poor drunkasrd through his timely an o take aid and beneficent counsel. Many a refined and cultivated family e n the has been broughrt low through the drink 'Thin inr habits of the father. h tower bhose engaged in temperance work and ti oafor the salvation of others need patience I o sy and trut. ± S Faith' and prayer must accompany all temperance efforts. Not the smallest ef- a fgreat fort to do gcod is lost sight of by the all- In little knowing Father. ll Terrible is the influence exerted by those l who stand a the servants of God, and i it little who sanction the social custom of Awine-o [on ar- drinking.lr P r The linorus nstom of soal wione t an drinking has been the cause of the fall of It many young men of great promise, but s nygood the social glse.--Th Weekly Bouguet. famine The Cisade in Brief. The only saloon in New Waverly Ind., sin we has been driven out by the Anti-kaloon is book League. ti id you, The law against open saloons on Sun- P plained. day is strictly enforced at Mari'on, md.,d is area- according to a prominent liquor organ. The seventh annual report of the ]ag- b ot 1 cordh Wsamet's Total Abtminence Umon re ,mords a total of 2t0 federated societIes. to de- Rckbridge County, Virginia, is now 1 re 600, entirely under local option, the last dis "And trict. Kerr Creek, having recenty voted ' no license. This excldes the sale a very liquors for two years. A dispatch from Simla, India, to the om p London Daily Mail, states that the Indian Va bad S 'overnment has decided to depose the fearful, Maharajah of Bharatpur owing to his long ght Mr. continued intemperance. the lines Lord Shaftesbury, writing on the nee-, bbt of temperance a thocetns, said: t am satisfied that, unless they exist, we nund the should be immersed in such an ocean of desfora Intoxication, violence and sin as would a ossed make this country unbearable." Perhape no State in the Union can show s better record for temperance than Miss d us iito issippi. In it there is not to be found a ti buggy zingle brewery or distillery and the total shiOns, umber of wholesale and retail dealers in lmed istled spirits and wholesale and retail oealers in malt liquors which Uncle Sam e got d find ii the entire State liable to the rith a va- 3overzment tax, is but 370. o change if It Weres't tre-the Drink.! is eollege Two ladies, the one "a lady of realted birth" who had Imn'ried a millloalre brewer, the other the wife of a welthy distiller, were present at a recnt fme aboutmy tion and tonvrsd together. The "di. me some tillers.." "an exeellent lady who never renew- spoke about her early days or he par ents," 't last los ing ashyess, bhrke Out: had, in- "Mi, but then, my lady, when aIll's iaid dor and that might be aid, wher shld we be if TALMAGE KMU eas ande ye cheeks and WIINDAY'S DI3COURSE SY THI ABLE St. jntea s a V I NE heuralgia a ti ted lit Itbjeet' Bpirit of Unrest it is thd ' There Is Cause of Much Unhappinesb-Need of rificed ird I the Church and the World is more any other tabillity-Stop Oaddat Abot only reveal [Capyrgta ldA l ur iu ddlt WAsInOGTOl, D. C.-From in unusua well, for text pr. Talmage in this discourse rebukes they got tl the spirit of unrest which characteries tire of gat so many people, and shows them the hap- a raw nigh piness and useflness to be found in sta- While is ilitv; text, Jeremiah ii, 30, "Why gaddest all the ab thou about so much to change thy way?. Impoveris Homely is the illustration by which this for visitat prophet of tears deplores the vacillation blessing of of the nation to whom he wrote. Now administer they wanted alliance with Egypt and now ish. Enot with Assyria and now with Babylon, and to bewitel now they did not know what they wanted heliotrope and the behavior of the nation reminded rheumatic the prophet of a man or woman who, not sa the breatl isfied with home life, goes from place to the openhl place gadding about, u we say, never set' Find im tied anywhere or in anything, and he all the to s cries out to them, "Why gaddest that has found about so much to ehange thy way? that half Well, the world has now as many gada- Christlike a bouts as it had, in Bible times, and Ithink hand of B that that race of people is more numer- crying foi a ous now than it ever war-gadabouts in tuaml a among occupations, among religious theo- lee, was ries, among churches; amnng neighbor- Victoria hoods-and one of the greatest wants of reading t o the church and the world i tpiore stead- ine man. fastness and more fixedness of purpose. fsh - It wa. no small question that Pharaoh know thi nut to Jacoi and his sons when he asked, self abne 'What is your occupation?" Getting into tion whi the ri^',t occupation not only derides your aggregate temporal welfare, but may decide your mono eternal destiny. The reason so many men who Cec and women are dead failures is because they ma instead of asking God what they ought really e: to be or do they, through some vain am- for help bition or whimsicality, decide what they I am a tm ought to be. Let me say to all young men en who and young women in homes or in school directiow or college, do not go gadding about among have to occupations and professions to find what and mus you are ftted for, but make humble and ages an, d;rect appeal to God for direction. ic meeti While seeking divine guidance in your many d selection of a lifetime sphere examine that the your own temperament. 1 he phrenologist irrespos will tell you your mental proclivities. The ones wa physiologist will tell you your physical mother' temper nent. Your enemies will tell, you evening your weaknesses. If you are, as we say, makes nervous, d: na, become a curgeon. If the hu you are cowardly, do not become an en- clubboi gineer. If you are hoping for a large and that he permanent income, do not seek a govern- any of ment position. If you are naturally quick tie on tempered, do not become a minister of which all the 'ospel, for while any one is disgdvan- industr taged by ungovernable disposition there By a * is hardly any one who enacts such an in- ter chi Congruous part as a mad minister. Can as mu( I; you make a fine sketch of a ship or rock but to or house or face? Be an artist. Do you duty $I find yourself humming cadences, and do The the treble clef and the musical bars drop of Mep from your pen easily, and can you make we see a tune that charmps those who hear it? Be in bot a musician. Are you born with a fondness accidei ik for argument t Be an attorney.. Are have you naturally a good nurse and especially he ma interested in the relief of pain? Be a less di physician. Are you interested in all ques- age. s. tions of traffic and in bargain making are becam you apt to be successful on a -mail or a goo' large scale? Be a merchant. Do you pre- tells A. fer country life, and do you like the plow, nurse con- and do you hear music in the hustle of a dropp Kol- harvest field? Be a farmer. Are you fond got o, le- of machinery, and are turning wheels to ter t hen, you a fascination, and can you follow with David blew absorbing interest a new kind of thrash- called and- ing machine hour after hour? Be a me- pled, chanic. If you enjoy analyzing the natural drop left elements and a laboratory could entertain in very ou all day and all night, be a chemist. crippl y f on are inquisitive about other worlds and an interested in all instruments that in tl said. would bring them nearer for inspection, bouta h be an astronomer. If the grass under your work rink- feet and the foliage over your head and incom ition the flowers which shake their incense on them ery the summer air are to you the belles let- pravi eras tres of the field, be a botanist. tions If you have no one faculty dominant and Bu men. nothing in your make up seems to point Davi to this or that occupation, shut yourself royal were up i your own room, get down on your eny latter knees and reverently ask God what He be s they made ; ou for and tell Him that you are pala 'illing to do anything He wishes you to so t man o. Before you leave that room you will feet. And out. For the sake of your usefulness Nc , in- and hap iness and your temporal and pres er, to eternal welfare do not join that crowd of man: id so. people who go gadding about among busi- othe I the nesses and occupations, now trying this cups bullet and now trying that and never accom- chur ly. plishing anything. reso 'there are many who exhibit this frail- wha ty in matters of religion. They are not and I . sure about anything that pertains to their deci large- soul or their eternal destiny. Now they in 1 coun- are Unitarians, and now they are Um- be. The versalists, and now they are Presbyteri- play tance ans, and now they are nothing at all. They whe cioles are not quite sure that the Bible was in- you fight spired or if inspired whether the words Chr dink or the ideas were inspired or whether only whi incul- part of the book was inspired. They think con total at one time that the story in Genesis about eve influ- the garden of Eden is a history, and the you cing. month after they think it is an allegory. mal young At one time they think the book of Job 25, a that describes what really occurred, but the wil nin of next time they speak of it they call it a you total drama. Now they believe all the miracles, the pines but at your next interview they try to sun show how these scenes had nothing in tior ase them supernatural, but can be accounted Chi ilitatefor by natural causes. Gadding about wom amon religious theories and never satis- an f fed. All the evidence is put before them, Gh family and why do they not render a verdict? If Ser they cannot make up their mind with all lies the data put before them, they never will. F kn There are all the archaeological confirms- SaR t ions of the iBible brought to view by the wit all ~Paeastin- xploration solety." Thefe sto sef- are the bricks of Babylon, the letter "N" me te all- impressed upon them-"N'" for Nebuchad- ne. neszar showing that he was not a myth- a those and te farther the shovel of the anti- eve d, and quarian goes down the more is revealed F 'wine- ofthat most wonderful city of all time. aI Professor Heilprecht, of the University of di. wine- Pennsylvania presents as tablets found the fall of in the far East ratifying and explaining ha isa, but Scriptural pssages which were before in th neeof mstery. As the builders in Jerusalem to- be ugyet. y dig for the foundation of new :ues y they turn up with their pickaxes the ashes go of the animals that were used for burned' gh offerings in the temple ages ago, demon- mi traloon ting the truth of the Bible story about ti the sacrifices of lambs and heifers and a Su pigeons. There is the history by Josephus in, de. ribing on uninspired page scenes which the Bible depicts. On the banks of I ian the Dead Eea there are pieces of the very he he Bng- brimstone that fell in the sulphurous n non re storm that destroyed Sodom and Gomor eieties. rah. Make up your mind whether the Bi is now ble is a glorious revelation of God or the t di- worst imposition of the centuries. Why go ae gadding about among infidels, atheists and dsale of eists asking questions and surmising and guessing about the apthority and va lue of t to th beok which involves the infinities? It is e Indian either a good book or a bad book. If it poe the be a bad book, you do not want it in yont his lons- house nor have your children cont·ammat- a ed with its teachings. If it is a good book, I ye nec our eternal happmness depends upon the id: adoption of its teachinsp. Once and for xist, we ever make un your mind whether it is ocean of the book of God or the book of villaminous would pretenders. So, alas, there are those who gad about anshow among particular churches. No pastor an Miss- can depend on them for a single pervice. found a At some tim; when he has p-pared er in d na le and o brain retail soul into its very paragraph, these ioter ble to thm ifittent attendants are not there to w et But, oh, how the gdabcuts iiu the churehesl Instead of staying a ther- o of xated payer meeting or Sanday school they at miliolalr iet other prayer meetings a .bay a W~Iti3 shools. I meet them onthe st- tg-'5 eiit hue the wrong way on Snday morn word The die eveing, and I ,copt.em in .. wh o never of the text, "Why  taoa mau.. mubckto chuane thy way. - • . . ' saidsearch of happines are going hithe-nd .not. 0hir tame irs a tah up -ith - 'mnauainiC5 and ''progresseIV eUCcnrF5 aO - teai and yellow luncheoel nd "at homes" nd dances ant operas and theatres, and People w instead of fding happiness they get pale a s.Jence a eheeks and ingdnltia and indigestion and ed have heuralgi .and exhauitioni and an abbre seems to t1 ti rtd liftbime. i re lis mre splendid womanhood sac- of true pr rificed i that *av in our cities than in Le by WI any other way. he judgment day ca myst only reveal the awful holocaust of jangled nervee and the suicidal habits of much of thet yea'. bur" solidi life. The obituary o such reads the jurtaP well, 'oir t ou stor iso nppressed abomt ow taining du they got theif derth while standing is s- K1 and Jul tire of gauze waiting for the carriage on many per a raw night on the front tepl. bor t While in their lifetime they possessed bre troubo all the ability for the reli: of and like ond: i mpoverishment, yet they have no tnine LL for visitation of the poor or to win the Chif i blessing of such as comes upon those who Chief io Sadminister to those who are trsady to per- tches to ish. Enough flowers in their dining halls an interv to bewitch a prince, but not one tuft of with the heliotrope to perfume the' room of that ed rom rheumatic on the back street, to whom date to the breath of one flower would be like date, to 'o the opening of the front door of heaven. ais followi t Find me one man or one woman who in "Asked ti all the rounds of pleasure and selfishnest American lhas found a piece of happiness as large said that half dollar whiclb the benevolent and said: a- Christlike soul puts inti the palm of the "I feel k hand of that mothe whose children are say, with r- cryin for bread. Queen Victoria, riding ens hold te n triumph through London at her jubi- n me 'o- lee, was clot so sublime a-figure as Queen )r- Victoria in a hut near Balmoral Castle war witl of reading the New Testament to a poor dy- es is ,d Ins mant. 1 e. InltA, I the gadabounts for happiness " All oh know that in kindness and usefulness and ed, self abnegat~oT are to be found a satisfac- thing h ito tion which all the gayeties of the world Philippil )ur aggregated cannot aftord. fall apa )ur Pmong the race of gadabouts are those the face ien who neglect their homes in order that use they may attend to institutions that are England ght really excellent add do not so much ask pointtc a- for help as demand it. the ll hey I am acquainted, as you are, with wom- rn re, to en en who are members of so many boards of tool direction of benevolent institutions and thing ii ong have to stand at a booth in so many fairs there, a 'hat and must collect funds for so many orphan- such a and ages and preside at so many philanthrop- essioal ic meetings and are expected to be in so seems a rour many different places at the same time nine that their children are left to the care of throw ist rresponsible servants, and if the little (In th The ones waited to say their prayers at their vine a ticel mother's knee they would never say their tal you eveninl prayers at all. Such a woman tes z makes her own home so unattractive that the husband spends his evening at the when en- clubhouse or the tavern. The children of Ippines and that house are as thoroughly orphan as destine 'ern- any of the fatherless and motherless lit- where tick tle onesgathered in the orphanage for met w r Of which that gadabout woman is toiling so me van- industriously. The here By all means let Christian women fo the ho i in- ter charitable institutions and give them tive p Can as much of their time as they can spare, rock but tue first duty of that mother is the tu you duty she owes to her home. I do The book of Samuel gives a photographm e, droe of Mephibosheth lame in both feet. When ha make we see any one lame in one foot or lame And Be in both feet, we always wonder by what mess accident he was lamed. Perhaps it may Are have been in battle for his country, or the ht cially he may have been run over by some reck- Loretol Be a less driver or some explosion did the dam ques- age. So you wonder how Mephibosheth ot are became lame in both feet. The Bible for or a good reason gives us the particulars. It I pre- tells us that whrben he was a child his ogr, low, nurse dropped lni. _he muet have Ancle of a dropped him vet; hard, for he never again tate a fond got over the effect of that fall. Long a the el to ter the accident we find him at King with David's table, but still our attention is_ nm brash- called to the fact that his teet were crip- Mwati a me- pled, though so long before his nurse tural dropped him. And mark you that to-day The rtain in ll departments of life there are those stry emist. crippled m habits, crippled in morals, crip- the rorlds pledfor all time. The accident happened that in this way: Their mothers were rpda ction, bouts and neglected their homes, an the ed ul r your work of training them was given over to ad I d and incompetent nurses, and the nurses let nu rseon them fall into bad habits, told them de done' es let- praving stories and gave them wrong no tions of life and practically ruined them. have at and But Mephibosheth was taken by King point David into the palace. andseated at the Ut ourself royal table, so by the grac of the heav-wr n your nly King these unfortunate ones may et ment iat He be seated at the King's table in the King's 'o are palace, though the nurses did drop them A aL you to so that morally they were lame i both do i fness Now, what is the practical use of the w ,1 and present discourse? This: Whereas so pc, owd of many have ruined themselves and ruined se a g busi- others by becoming gadabouts among ce- Ave., eg this cupations, among religious theories, among T acco- churches, among neighborhoods, therefore resolved that we will concentrate upon wh is frail- what is right thought and right behavior ate are not and waste no time in vacillationa and in to their decisions and uncertainties, running about ,w they in places where we have no business to re UI- be. -Life is so short we have no time to byteri- play with it the spendthrift. Find out . They whether the Bible is true and whether w in- or nature is immortal and whether words Christ is the divine and only Saviour, and icronly whether yon must have Him or be di,. ey thin comfited and whether there will probably is about ever be a more auspicious moment for and the your becoming His adherent, and then alegory. make this 12 o'clock at noon of November of Job 25, the most illustrious minute that you but the will ever have passed since the day of all it a our birth -ntfl the ten millionth cycle of niraclee, the coming eternity, because by complete try to surrender of thought and will and affec hing in tion and life to God,. through Jesus cousted Christ you became a new man, a new about woman, a new soul, and God the Father r satis- and God the Son and God the Holy e them, Ghost and all angeldom, Cherubim and dict? If Seraphim and archangel became your al withall lies. will. Found among the papers of the learned onfirma- Samuel Johnson was a prayer inscribed r by the with the .-ords, "When my eye was re Thefe stored to its use," and it is a great mo t tr "N" ment when we get( over our moral blind ebhchad- ness and gain spiritual eyesight. That it myth- a mouent from which We may well date hh anti- everything. All the glory of Henry II. of revealed France vanished when in a tournament a1 time, a lance extinguished his eye, and the worst ereity of disaster that can happen to be is to have a found the vision of our soul put out. If you xplaining have gone wrong so far, now go right. If bfore in the morning and noon of your life have salem to. been a moral defeat, make the evening of r ;uses your life a victory. The battle of Msaren the ahes go, loaSt 3 o'elock in th afternoon, was or burned glrioui won at 6, and in your life and , demon- mine it is not too late to achieve some r r about t)ing worthy of an immortal. Start right er rand and keep on. Do not spend too much tie' ephs I tacking ship. David felt the impol e scenes tanc of fixedness of purpose when he aanks of cried oit. "My heart is fixed, O God, my very beart isfixed!" the tl y ritiah ateamer sailed thee the o or the tbtawith 1000 tons weight of spirits SWhy g on ad for Lg and Southern teK . and M o says ta another steamer iode is g and w dlo a a r for the same des I value of ~ati with nealydouble that amount ies? It is The pirit, he ays consist of o. If it in and orertm, sad the trade is it in your sp i the rhands ofa few Eno-ih itnmmat- ad Geran frms. This, we suppose. is oood book, how Africa is civilized by European coun upo pnthe tries, gabout otd "onu e hndrguines to any chem No p sto who wal1, befonre a pompetit oami brara d belt y its troew k i m a he h l intere-  oEn ternatb tiob or decay has o oltheyat- The western forest reserves have be oa Snpdy tome a source of revenue to thegolera oroingm sa enft the timber weeded out retUIDIRS e arbout $300,000 annaally. o about so ___n____ If all the scions of prominent and 'ith anealthy fammlles go to woRk it may be dw they.ad tome nzasahlonable to be la soCiety. m up witha P4ople who believe in astiology as a science on which prophecy may be based have called attention to what seems to them to be a remarlkble case of true prophecy in a horoscope writ ten by Willis F. Whitehead, a loyal mystic, and published on July 16 of lest year. The horoscope s bud on the juxtaposition of the planets main taining during the period between May i1 and June 11 of this year, and n it many persons see a forenot of the la bor troubles in Chicago and the war like conditions now prevailinu in Chi Chief interest in this connection at taches to what Mr. Whitehead said In an interview published In connection with the horoscope. The words, quot ed from the article printed on that date, to which reference is made, are as follows: "Asked then what was before tho American armies in the far east, he said: "I feel a certain sorrow at having to e ay, with the assurance that the heap ens hold back none of their mysteries from me, .that a worse danger than *. war with Spain threatens the United - Sates in the period mentione. e "'All these signs point to some c- thing happening in the region of the Id Philippines. It may be that China will fall apart, but this seems unlikely In e the face of the understanding between re England and Russia, nor do the stare k point to China as signiflc;ntly as to the islands. * * * * I am, there f- fore, forced to the belief that some oa thing infinitely startling will happen ir there, and as I do not think It will be in- such a cataclasm as some of my pro fP fessional brethren anticipate, it seems as If it must stand for an over of throw of our armies.' " tle In this the believers in astrology dl eir vine a prophecy of the conditions that eir actually existed this year between the hat dates mentioned, May 21 to June 21, the when the American troops in the Phil of Ippines, though not knowing it, were as destined to be sent soon to China, where the "fighting Ninth" recently so met with reverses. The planetary conditions on which foe the horoscope was based were the rela em tive positions of Venus and the earth, r Jupiter and Uranus, with malefic Sa turn scowling close at hand, which aph make, aocording to the horoscope, en 'what the Indians call 'bad medicine.'" ame And as if the troubles in China were ha not enough, it is pointed out also that or the horoscope east over a year ago rek- foretold troubles in factory and sales am- rooms in Chicag, with possible lock heth outs and strikes. . It Mr. Whitehead, a heliocentric astrol his oger, is supreme grand visder of the bae Ancient Order of Oriental Magi, trans again lator of the authoritative edition of a he works ot Ooraelius Agrippa, the miia aa myuen and author of "Th crip- aswtic TlhesauTrus' ay The bishop of London told a quaint those story the other day at a meeting at rip- the speaker's house, Westminster. A e ined lttle east end girl was being examin the ed upon the question of the prodigal eer to and his eating of the husks, when she ' let inquired: ,"What else could he have Sde done?" The child replied: "He could em. have pawned his little girl's boots." fth ------- ing , H. H.Gre's s , iof a . A . th-. o a metnt inoter cm i , "s th dom ortte-an theusame may beead a both e r thigs received at a mother's knee wfith w ii readily recur to the reader. of the as p O nnot he too ih s ruined as a W. O en iof ng Ae', NinneUpoliL WMnn., Jan, 4 100n I er Tenty years ago the city of Toronto - tario, begat the erection of a city ball. upon w was to coat 04g00 by the original st T.or Taehe oul ct oate has been o ndd it is notyst fin arbout It's too isky ths the ist thtog to have ep in your If you lungs and nhe- gmes tombost Take some of . M.ren Ayer's Cherry Pec toral and sthe cough. MI was gien up to die with t e Ayer'sCh Ptorladbegan 5ame des- its use. I commenced to improve it amonmt at once. I am now back to my consist of old weight and in the beat of yhe jus tght for a rina ohoom cold. The Vocet size uet i te'eon had. an as most economic itt aa y be aode socltl. g.