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SUNDAY MORNING. Chapters of Life’s Oddities. STRANCE STORIES GATHERED FROM MANY SOURCES. Mad Millionairess Licesie*. An American physician, worth $lO,- 000,000, and a member of a family prominent socially, is now in Japan leading a life of such sayrr-llUe ex cess as to be almost incredible, accord ing to Dr. Martin \v. Barr, chief phy sician in the Pennsylvania School for the Feeble-minded. While taking the greatest pains to conceal the man's identity, Dr. Barr told of the man’s re volting methods of life In a paper on defectives, which he read before the Summer School of Philanthropy. According to Dr. Barr, this man Is a neurotic. Despite the feet that he con trols immense wealth, no attempt has been made to have him declared an in competent. His family are refined, socially prominent. Whenever they speak of the son's course, they refer to it as his “nervousness.” They will not admit that be has a deranged Intellect, though he has left friends and position here to take up life among the “haa ins.” the gravediggers and social out casts of the Far Bast. “He was a physician, rich, handsome, cultured, of aesthetic tastes," said Dr. Barr in Ills paper, “a graduate of one of the most prominent medical colleges in America, and a man who had made a pronounced hit as a specialist.” His fortune enabled him to secure ev ery medical appliance known to sci ence, and for some years he enjoyed phenomenal success. Wine and women proved his bane. He sank lower and lower. His excesses no longer toler ated at home, lie drifted from capital to capital of Europe, anti finally es tablished himself in Japan. With an appetite still unsatisfied, he exhibited new phases of moral degeneration, causing his body to be tattooed with wonderful skill, every picture a work of art. His back bore a huge dragou, the shading of every scale showing perfection of detail; this, on revisiting America, with utmost vanity lie shame lessly exposed. Ho was turned out of the clubs. Returning to Japan, lie bought a performing bear, and wan dered from place to place, clad in the garb of a lianin, exhibiting himself, his bear and Ills associates, and distribut ing photographs of each and all in cr.dless variety. “This past master of vice,” said Dr. Barr, “shocking both Europe and America, and astounding oven Japan, next hires a squad of Japanese boys, practically buying them outright from their parents, who. attiroil in full uni form, are trained in military exercises. To these are opposed an equal number of monkeys, dressed as Chinese sol diers, and the war of China and Japan is constantly renewed for the enter tainment of himself and his hangers on, who watch in an ecstasy of delight the suffering of the poor brutes. Re wards arc offered, and the more bloody the contest and the greater the atrocities, the more intense is t‘ -■ rati fication.'’ - A I’erple.Tiine Puzzle. The following puzzle, eulied from a i English magazine: lias been sent to us by Mr. O. I’odewlls, of Now York City, who asks to liavo it explained. If a fiat strip of paper be taken, and Its ends paste t together to form a ring, A Pr.RPIIEXINO rCZZOK. and it be then cut along its centre lino, ttvo similar hut entirely separate rings will Iw formed, unconnected in any way. i \ how over, the paper be twisted as illustrated in the uppermost "-.'lew, aud its ends be pasted together to form a ling with a single twist in it. this ring, when cut along its centre line, will form two rings, one looped within the other as shown in the third and fourth views. Perplexing ns this may seem at first glance, the explanation is finite simple. We may consider the upper edge of the paper strip as one ring, and the lower edge as the other. Now, following the edges of the twist, as shown in tlie second view, it is evident that one edge has been twisted completely around the other edge: or in other words, one edge or ring has been passed through the other ring, which wh<n cut apart form two Intel-looped rings—Scientific American. Koidrrka’j)e (Suicide in Paris. An * x‘raortlin.iiy can** of buicddo Is reported from Evreux. in *be Depart ment of the Eure, France, says the London Telegraph. A Breton woman named Marie Morvan, age ft thirty-five, dug a grave by the side of that of her sister ami then buried herself alive. Morvan was an exemplary servant, em ployed ! y a farmer near Evreux. Re cently one of uer married sisters died, and cn her deathbed extracted from Marie a promise, This was to the < ffeet that the later would fairbfully marry her brother-in-law when he was left a widower. After the death of the sister Marie Morvan thought of the premse. As she had no desire to wed, and no liking for her brother-in-law, the widower, she resolved to die. She would then, she considered, join her sister in the next world, and make matters all right with her. The wom an, it appears, lifted up the gravestone over her sister, and after she had ex cavated a tomb for herself, brought the slab down over her. Part of Marie Morvan’s dress was seen protruding from, the headstone by another sister, a Madame Ledu. who went to visit the grave. Surprised, the woman called for help from people near at hand, and the slab being raised up, Marie Morvan was found dead in the grave dug by her own hands. She was suffo cated soon after thr headstone had closed on her. Her hands and face were covered by the earth, which she had managed to pile over hAr body. How Somfc Froplo Live. Some persons have lo risk their lives every moment of the day for the meagre three meals (sometimes only twoi and the poor shelter that their wages tan prc\ lt.:\ This picture shows how men,'employed in the new soda works at Middlewiek, Cheshire, England, earn their living. These men have lo work in chlorine gas, so to protect the lungs they wear a ‘’muz zle" of from thirty to forty thicknesses of flannel kept sufficiently damp to til low air bur not gas to pass through. They earn from £- ITs. to £3 per week —that is, about .$1:1 to $l5. ltors Saves a Clnid. Aii exceptional instance of extraor dinary development cf instinct in horses came to light at Toledo, Ohio, on a recent afternoon, and the animal playing the leading part was Prince, a twenty-year-old family horse owned by William McDonough, a grocer. The four-year-old daughter of McDonough wandered into the barn unobserved in the afternoon, and was soon at play on the floor of a big box stall, the freedom of which is allowed to Prince and another younger and very spirited animal. During her play the child fell under the younger horse and might' have been kicked to death had not bid Prince come to the rescue. In the meantime a search for the child had been started. Mr. McDonough went to the barn and Just as he entered he saw the old horse softly grasp the child’s clothing, and lifting her from danger, deposit her on the hay in the manger, where he care fully gu.’mJcd her until Mr. McDon ough took her away. Wives Cult- Hiinbaml*. In the Valley of flic Barca, in Abys sinia, there is .a community where the women, without holding meetings ot agitations of any kind, have emanci pated themselves. All the women work hard, while the men are idle; but by way of compensation the house autit all it contains belongs to the wife. At the least unkind word she turns the husband out at night, in storm oi rain, and he cannot come hack unti he makes amends by the gift of e cow. The wife considers it a duty tc abuse the husband, and if she were weak enough to show any love for hilt ‘•a life or grief at his death she wouic lie scorned by her tribe. The wife, without any reason, may strike her tent and go, taking with ln.i one-third of the joint possessions. The husband, unless he is traveling, may not live out of his tent. liardrum Trailured by tChild't Kiss, Tile kiss of her little granddaughter on her ear fractured the eardrum of Mrs. Martha Allen, of New York, and she' will be taken to a hcspltal for treatment. At. the time of the occur rence she hod tic child in her iirirji!, and though she at once experienced strange rambling sounds in her ear that proved very annoying and nearly drove her crazy, she did not entirely lope the use of the ear. A:i examination of the organ shows a sear on the eardrum that experts ray is a puncture abot& the size of the head of a pin. Caught With a Live I’tg For Bait. r,u -ns ami Jack K.-eland, re siding near Locket Swanp, iri Taylor County, -Georgia, recently captured a 300-pound alligator. The ’gator is twelve and one-half feet long. 11 ■ was captured on a hook baited with a live pig. The alligator had been destroy ing pigs in the swamp for twelve years or more, and many unsuccessful at tempts were made at various tfcics to capture him.—Atlanta Journal. The Liberty f>el)V Travels. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition management has determined to get, if possible, the old Liberty Beil. If tbc effort is successful it will be tbe first visit of tbe bell west of the Mississippi Kiver. If it goes to St. Louis it will be the sixth journey which the bell has taken. The bell’s first journey was from Philadelphia to Allentown in 1777, to save it from falling into the hands of the British when the' Americans evacuated Philadelphia. The other four journeys of the bell have been to American expositions. To Chicago in 1893, to Atlanta in 1895, to New Orleans in 1885 and to Charles ton in 1901.—Springfield Bepublican. H 'H la ‘s* , '■ ry ', v receiver. was his ful Secretary. "Now, -Mr. Quickly," lie said, "lock I at the schedule, and tell me what 1 am to do in the next thirty minute!," “You are to get married, sir," sa l Quickly. "To whom?” "That hasn’t been decided." "Ah, yes. I remember. 1 have liver, sc busy that no selection has been made Very well. Now get Newport, Lenox l ower California, London. Paris, ami any other marriage mart, and iind a girl live feet three, not over twenty live, with real blonde hair, weight 150, and a father who is in the combine, if possible. Robinson's list of may help you.” la tea minutes the private Secretary made his report. “Here are live." he said. His employer looked over the names. “Good!” he exelaiiued. "The market appears to be strong. Try number three. Bar Harbor, you say. Walt a minute.” He rang up Bar Harbor. In half a minute he was talking with Mr. Mil ton, owner of several States and Terri tories. "Is it r.ll right, old man?" he asked, Anally. "Certainly." was the reply. “How can 1 refits# anything to the man who helped us at a critical moment to keep up the price of bacon? Ethel is play ing ping-pong.” The ardent suitor rang up the ping pong table, and briefly stated his er rand.. Two minutes were passed in expla nations. "Yes/ was finally given. Bishop Stumper was found at Rich field Springs. The combination phono graph and telephone was opened up for the ceremony. The bridegroom em ployed the slight delay to apologize to Ethel’s partner for interrupting the game. It was all right. "Now, Quickly,” said the bridegroom, “tell ’em to get a gait on, as in fourteen minutes I’ve got to talk to the Presi dent of the Kean Trust." The sonorous voice of the bishop was heard over the wire. The responses were firm and audible. The moment approached for the ring. Ethel’s part ner had volunteered to lie best man. “How stupid of me." said the groom. "Forgot that ring. Hold all the wires while I get the Bar Harbor jeweler. Ah, here you are. I'm Bloomer, of the Standard Air. Send a dozen wedding rings up to Miss Milton’s ping-pong table, p. and. ip While you are about it, if you have any old mine diamonds, or pigeon blood rubies, or a necklace worth anything above a hundred thou sand, send ’em along. Chase yourself! All the world’s waiting." Wedding rings and other trinkets were on hand in ten minutes aid the ceremony proceeded. In twi minutes more it was com pleted. "And now," said Bloomer, the groom, to his Secretary, "shut; off all the wires luit my wife’s, and make a memo, to send tlie bishop a couple of thousand and some wine. Ah, my dear, we are alone, at last. Sorry to lutrry you, but business is business. I’ll try and come on and see you in a month or so. In the meantime, pick out a few r ice houses to live in or any!king you may want and charge it; to me. I top.- i didn't spoil your game. Kee you later Au rpvoir.” Turning to his, Secretary, he said: "And now, Mr. Quickly, we'll talk with the President of the Beau Trust." —Tom Masson, in Life. A Kaif Bicycle Path. T\v- nt.v-iivf* miles of highway, grad ed and bridged like a railroad's right of way, cindered like a millionaire’s private race track, cleared through heavy timber and carried around the pecipitotis sides of lakes on level shelves high above the water, and ded icated to the exclusive use of the wheel, is the result of long and per sistent effort made by wheelmen of Beattie against seemingly impossible obstacles. The population of Seattle, like all Western cities, is largely recruited from the Eastern States. Thus it was that many people, accustomed to the level roailß of the Middle States and tlie rolling highways which make wheeling in the thickly populated East, such a pleasure, came to this city of hills, with its beautiful surround ings of sound, lake, river and forest, and unpacked their wheels in all eag erness. Disappointment at once await ed these enthusiasts, for that same na ture which had been so lavish in her gifts to the eye had not smoothed high ways for tin- bicycle. The very kills which seemed so inviting to the would be rider effectually blocked his way, and the very forests which looked so cool on a hot summer day were pene trated here and there only by narrow, dusty lanes cr rough, plank-floored country roads.—Country Life in Amer ica. Abf*at mi ntlcti. Counselor K /•while cross-oxamin- Inga witness in a will contest, asked ! him what was his conception of ab sentmindedness, tile witness having characterized the decedent as exceed ingly absentminded. The witness re plied; "I should say that a man who thought he left his watch at home and took it out of his pocket to see if he had time to go home and gat it was a ‘leetle’ absentmiaded.” New York Ojimes. - I ■ v 1 t *II 1' : -e -\ 111' 1 Ii • MW 1 " • ■ *- • it- I•i.1 'U.ik* !i *• i it. ivy.— The Rev. Dr.J. Wil bur Chapman,\dhc most popular of our pulpit orators, imis never preached a more dramatic ami powerful sermon than the following one. entitled “Insane From Sin.’’ It is founded on\Jie text. “In the tombs, crying and cutting himself with stones.’’ Mark 5: 5. You are doubtless familiar with this Now Testament chapter in which ou. Lord is represented as having power over devils, disease and death. Over devils when He cast out the evil spirits from the man in the tombs, finding enough in him to fill n herd of swine, and enough swine to till the .sen. .vs an old preacher used to say; over disease when He healed the woman who had faith enough to touch His garment’s hem. and power over death when He stands at the home of .I aims and commands his little daughter to awake and restores her to her weeping parents. It is a comforting chapter in the light of the fact that He is the same yesterday, to day and forever. In speaking of “the sinfulness of sin” T desire to present it at this time in its ef fect upon the mind. Insanity has been de scribed as a chronic disease of the brain inducing chronic disorder of tlie mental condition, yet there is a sense in which the fevered patient in his delirium and the drunkard in his excitement or stupor is insane. There are two kinds of insanity, i first, congenital, or that which is inherited , where brain development is arrested. Sec ond. acquired, or that in which the brain is born healthy, but lias suffered from morbid processes affecting it primarily, . diseased states of the general system im plicating it secondarily. Tn our treatment of this theme I have to do with both of • these, for in the first we see how the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generations, while in the second we behold an exhibi tion of that insanity of sin which is due to individual excesses or tlie breaking of Hod’s laws. Tlie Bible is full of illustra tions. It is not necessary that 1 should go to an institution to find men who are insane. 1 turn to the pages of this old book and read the story of Nebuchadnezzar, the king. Now you see him on his hands and knees eating grass, and his nails are like birds’ claws and his hair like eagles’ feath ers. Yet as we read we find ho lifted his eyes to heaven and God set him free. There is not less for a man in this City of New York—no matter what his bondage— if he will but lift his eyes up he may he free. Then we turn to T. Samuel, second chap ter, and we see the rnan who wrote the Twenty-third Psalm, David playing the fool before the man of whom he was afraid, crouching upon the sides of the door posts and becoming disgusting. In the tenth chapter of Exodus we read the story of the man who was the king— whose face I had the privilege of seeing as a mummy in Kgypl—the man who said. “I will let the people go now if you will take away the sw arm of flies-if you will take away the frogs.” And tlie frogs wore taken away, and the flies, and he did not let them go. for God hardened his heart- an insane man, lmt not more in sane than the man who has promised ever since he was a child that he would be a Christian and give up sin, and is still its slave. Turn to the New Testament, and hero we find the picture of the prodigal. When he came to hjmsclf when he was not him self he was satisfied with swine, so long as he had forgotten his father and his mother, whom tradition says he killed, he was satisfied, but when he came to himself he was nof. Ah, the young man, with the memory of a sweet mother back in Ohio, who has stepped into the evil of sin in New York and turned bis face away from Christ, he is insane. It is the hope of tlie minister and the prayer of at least one hundred people in tin's church that during this series of meetings some of these young men mqv come to them selves, and then come to Christ. I. T have been going through the institu tions, where 1 have had the privilege of looking upon the insane people confined there, and I have found out the following: I'irst, many people are insane because of the sins of their parents. Results of crime on future generations. At the recent meeting of the Congress of Criminal Anthropology at Geneva, Switzerland, Dr. Legrain, physician-in chief of the .asylum of Ville-Evrard, gave the results of his investigation, which ex tended over a period of years and showed how sin, like disease, is transmitted from drunken father to appetite enslaved son; how in such soil the seeds of crime and madness develop and ripen in the last gen eration into sterile idiocy and the extinc tion of the race. First Generation. He traced the course of four generations of drinkers in 215 families. One hundred and sixty-eight families showed unmistak able symptoms of degeneracy; sixty-three eases of mild insanity; eighty eight were mentally unsound; forty-live at times dan gerously insane; many of the children were weaklings and died at an early age, six out of eight in one case, ten out of six teen in another. These six latter who re mained were all feeble minded and had epileptic fits and a. prey to evil instinct.-:. J hirty-nine families found convulsions; epilepsy in fifty-two; hysteria in sixteen; meningitis in five; 108 families out of the 215 counted one out of every two individ uals victims of periodical alcoholic deli rium ; 100 families of the 215 insanity had developed. Second ft en oration. Ninety-eight observations gave the fol lowing: Fifty-four families had one or more who were imbeciles or idiotstWwenty-thron families there were those who were morally irresponsible, un timely births, extraordinary mortality and hereditary diseases caused the children to die in appalling numbers. At this stage fathers and mothers had become common drunkards with hut eight exceptions. ]:i forty-two families he found chronic cases of convulsions, and epilepsy in forty, la twenty-three families insanity exists. Third Generation. Seven observations, or families, gave him a total of seventeen children; all were mentally unsound and physically stunted; two were insane, four subject to convulsions, two epilepsy, two hysteria, one meningitis, t hree scrofula. Summing up the 814 eases found in the 215 families he found .32.2 per cent, were alcoholics, Bo.lt per cent, are degenerates, 13.9 per cent, morally irresponsible, 22.7 per cent, have convulsions, nineteen per cent, are incurably insane; 174 disap peared from this world before or almost be fore having drawn t-heir first breath; nine ty-three cases of tuberculosis, which bring the total of those who died from heredit ary alcoholism tip to one-third. There is no fifth generation, 4or the last line is a microcephalous idiot. Thus Moses was right, as proven by science, when he said, “God visits the iniquities of the parents unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Him.” Theft is no fifth. Sin is an awful thing. If I could uncover it so that some of you could nee it you would shrink back from it as you would# shrink from a man who is a leper. There are very many people who are in sane from over work. It is the tendency of the times. Permit me to read to you v-V -.- f 4- - : \ hunting fti pursued with are inemwed and principle snerificeT, the haste! to become rich. Great • - eales are 1 formed day by day am Yheir luring baixfcvtempt many people Little >. \ ings arc iirfc'svrivb.ajjjjy Trade is becoming largely speculative. Old-fash ioned business methods and ideals are passing away, and much is being sacrificed to more rapid modes of enrichment. Some succeed, but the larger number fall in their ventures. Fortunes are lost as well as won. Money changes hands, and thou sands suffer where hundreds gain. Wrecks of characters He all along the pathway of speculation. In all ranks and grades of society are found the victims of wild, reckless gambling. Greed of wealth is be coming too much an American vice. Its allurements are proving too strong for our bright, energetic and ambitious young men, and there is a call for a steadier, wiaei and safer spirit in business affairs.” Second, there are inanv people insane to day because of self-indulgence, the lack of self-restraint. Self-indulgence ruins men, self-denial makes them; self-indulgence sells a man's birthright for a mess of pot tage, and he tries to get it again only to find that it is impossible; self-denial makes one to he possessed of increasing strength; self-indulgence led Belshazzar on until we find him in the centre of the feast, where the lingers of a man’s hand write upon tlie wall, “Weighted in the balances and found wanting,” and the same- thing is true to-day, it is the lack of self-restraint that has made many a man to lose his soul. Dr. Talmage tells of the man whom he saw on the shores of a lake in Scotland creeping out from under the hull of an old wrecked vessel aud lifting up his hands tremblingly said. “Please, sir, will you give me a penny?” “For what?” said the minister. The answer wav. “For strong drink.” Dr. Talmage said to h#m. “I am a minister and I cannot give you the money for that, hut 1 will help vou. What is your name?” and he said the man buried his face in his hands, shook with emotion, and then finally said, “My name is”—and he sobbed it out. "Why,” saitl Dr. Talniage, “I knew a man by that name in Edinburgh, a prominent merchant; did you know him?” “God .pity me, sir,” said lie, “I am that man; sin slew me, and [ am here; my wife is dead, my children are in the poor house and T am on my way to hell.” What a warning for every man who gives way in the least to sin. There are many men in tlie insane insti tutions to-day because of self-indulgence and lack of self-restraint. Who was it that said. “Better is lie that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city?” Why, if a man could only take a city what a hero he would bo! The word of God says that every man may be greater than lie that taketh a city if lie will rule his own spirit. Self-indulgence ruins, self-denial makes men. Self-indulgence sells a man’s birthright- for less than a mess of pottage. Be not deceived. God is not mocked, whatsoever a man sows that shall lie reap. L came across one young man in the in sane asylum who came from one of the first families in the country. There is not a man better horn than he. He had every thing that money could buy. Not only was he lacking in self-restraint himself, but his people were lacking in self-re straint. If the hoy desired to go to school he was at liberty to go; if he pre ferred not to go to school he could stay at home. After a while there came a defect in the brain: after a little while it was in sanity, so that now lie is in an insane asylum. I heard him say, “Will you per mit me lo go to father and mother?” “Certainly, certainly,” the keeper said. “He will never go. He will never he ready to go. He rises in the morning, then he falls back on his cot; lie begins to dress and then steps; he will just about be ready to-night; to-morrow morning he will have the delusion again. He never quite gets up to his desire. That is his mania.” There is many a hoy, possibly in our church, whose home atmosphere is like that, and it is a most dangerous one. I do not know that the fathers were strict enough. I do not think my father was too strict. In my boyhood’s home life was the forming of my character. I should like to hold up to every boy and every young man the highest, ideals of manhood, and T ask you to take Christ. Third, there are very many people men tally imbalanced to-day because of some hallucination. A poor woman cried out as 1 passed along through the wards of the institution, “Doctor, 1 am burning up; if I could only have a breath of fresh air l would feel perfectly well again.” A man who used to be a leader of .society was ac tually burrowing in the ground like an ani mal. all the dignity of his manhood gone, and the woman who was once the pride of her home a mental wreck, and when 1 said to the doctor, “What is it that causes this?” his answer was, “It is sin in very many cases.” I know very well that there an* many who are insane because of in herited tendency and/ woH.s their p overstrained nerves have given way, but T have seen a countless number in these latter days insane be cause of sin, and it is against this that 1 cry out. 11. There is- ft kind of insanity in the posi tion which men. occupy with regard to being ( hri.stian.s. First, let us suppose a case of sickness where the patient gradually grows worse, the temperature is high, the pulse is rapid, the he rt is entii'cly wrong, the skin is dried and-parched, the ease is critical, a cure must come quickly or not at all, and you go to the afflicted one and propose a cure because your disease was the same and you have been cured. .Suppose the patient should remark, “I do not feel that this remedy will cure me, after a while I will try it.” Possibly that is a specie of insanity, but suppose he declares that he will wait until he grows better and the disease has practically left him; in this, t 00. lie is insane. Hut suppose he tells you that In? cannot understand how the rem edy would cure him. and that until he can comprehend it he will not accept it. Could anything be more insane -than such a po sition? Or suppose he should say, “I would take it. but 1 know one who tried it and failed.” 1 ask you, is not this a species of insanity? Second, what would you say concerning the position of such a sick man? 1 know what you would ray. You would look at him and say, “Poor man; he is insane; feelings have nothing to do with the mat ter; you cannot grow better without a remedy. The doctor understands the case and you do not need to understand it.” This is what you would say, but I know thousands of people who are away from Ghrist and staying away from Him for these very reasons. Some years ago a young man threw him self into the river from a steamboat, and at once the cry of “Man overboard!” startled all the passengers. They threw back the searchlight in the darkness of the night and could see that lie was sink ing, but, suddenly someone threw him a rope, and a cheer went up because he had caught hold of it. He drew the rope to ward him until at last they saw' him lift himself out of the water and then throw it i's far as he could and go down beneath the waves. He was an insane man, hav ing escaped from his but the man who rejects Christ, it tfould seem to me. i* more insane, for he has turned away ■SM ' clean?” And, liftingcries: “These hands will make the very sea red." I speak to some young men in this church whose conscience is still working. Yon can put your hands over your eyes and there is before you the face of a sweet mother, who said to you: “My boy, it is a very wicked world. I am afraid for you without a mother’s presence." l You have a memory of that mother. Your conscience is saving. “You had better give up that %j n. ” God keep you from it. t There are special sins which I should like to suggest this evening in closing. I; need not sneak of the sin of drunkenness. You have heard of it this evening. John B. Gough used to say. “God forgive me, I do not speak it boastingly. Five years of tnv life were a dark blot. I know what the burning appetite for stimulants is. t have felt its woes and T have seen it in many men who have died the drunkard’s deatli but as God is my witness, I say, take awav from me the friends of my old age, let. the hut of Poverty he my dwelling place, let me walk in the storm and live in tlie whirlwind, when I do good let evil come upon me, and the shouts of my ene mies as the sound of many waters, do all I his. O merciful God, but spare me from’ the death of a drunkard.” I beseech you, if conscience appeals to you now that you* yield at once to its teachings. Charles the Ninth after the massacre of St. Bartholo mew said to the doctor. “I am fevered in body and mind: oh. if I had only spared the innocent, the preachers and the chil dren.’’ Rousseau declared in old age that the sins committed in his youth gave him sleepless nights. Biclmrd the Third hav ing slain his two nephews in the tower would sometimes in I he night spring from his couch and touch his sword as if to light the demons coining up against him. All this was conscience. In the name of God do not stifle its voice and reject its warning. I should like to say a special word to tlie hoys. 1 have the memory to-night ot a bo\y who told me that he had left his father’s home and his father’s employ be cause he had begun io take money from him. and the habit had so grown upon him that it was impossible for him to- re sist. “I began,” said he, “with a pennv; my last theft was $5 at a single time. Oh, sir.” said he, “do you think God will for give me if I confess it to my father?” It is a mistake to step aside the least in a lite of sin and I call upon the boys to turn squarely about. 1 remember the man of whom they told me his mania was that he could not for get. This man could not forget, nor do I i Link we can forget. There is Cain with the mark of murder. He cannot forget. There is Pilate, with Ihe memory of Jesus before him and his hands red with His blood. He cannot forget. Judas, with the clinking of Die thirty pieces of silver, he cannot forget. Abraham, looking down into the depths, says, “Son, remember.” \\ lien Richard Cour <le Leon was a: prisoner tlie people could not tell where he was. The cry went up, “Where is the king?” An old musician said, “I will find him.” And so to every penal institution he made his way and played the tune of Richard Cour do Leon. After a while there came a fluttering sign that Richard do Leon heard. I wish F could awaken Die memories of your boyhood. I wish every man here could remember his moth) er and father, the old minister and the music of the chime, “Delay not. Delay not. 0 sinner draw nigh.” They told me that sometimes in the minds of the poor people who are insane there will come a streak of light, a little prophecy of hope. I have an idea in every man’s soul there lias been such a ray of hope from heaven. You can be a Christian if you will. God help you to he a free man. * _ * * - 9 Love For Bod. Prayer becomes a necessity when we Know what God’s love for us means. To read the story, as the Bible tells it, of the love which made the world and man, and of the love which sent God to live and die on earth for us; to go over the years of living and see how goodness and mercy, have followed all the days; to pick out the blessings till they grow into glowing clouds always hovering over the human experience ihc.se show the divine love so mightily that one cannot keep away from the contemplation! And so the human love grows until it reaches God, and bows at His feet, and presses its littleness into the very vastness of His nature, and draw* its breath from the very presence of Him who is Himself love! Prayer—why wo cannot help loving then! ’['he very life is a prayer, a clinging, delighted gazing into a Face which knows no turning, a holding to tin* Hand which never loosen* its grasp, a speaking to a Father whoso oik? great desire is the child's happiness* Every act of ours, every need, every pleasure, every, puin is as much God’s ao ours, and we know it, and knowing it aa we go to Him as the child to its mother, as the bird to its nest, as the withered flower to the moisture which falls and kisses its upturned hungry lace. Granted i God and all else follows. His love for us, our love for Him, presupposes prayejf as a necessity. Floyd Tompkins. __ "i Prayer Kept llim From Falling. 1 A story illustrating the power of prayer to keep from falling is related of a Scotchman employed in a great steel fao lory, who after many years of drinking gave up the habit. It was prophesied by those who knew him best that lie would not hold out through the hot weather, but contrary to all prophecies he stood firm. They asked him how lie succeeded, and he said it was because at the beginning of every hour he asked the Lord to keep him through 1.1 te hour. At the end of the hour he made a dot at the day of the month on a calendar near him, and prayed for help for the next hour. So the Lord carried him through the day, and sci be expected the Lord to carry him through his life. Kverv Man*# Duty. t “Doing as well as we know' how” i* belter than not doing even as well as that. JJ;it doing as well as we know how is not enough, unless v.c know just what is right, and then do that. God's commands •re positive and exact. We are told to do this, or not to do that. God never tell# ns merely to do our best, or according to our knowledge. It is our duty to know, what is right, and then to do it. Even Milder human governments it is said that it is every man’s duty to know the law. And divine government has ns high n standard as has the human. We have a responsibility for knowing, as preliminary to doing. Do we realize that?—Angelua. ’ r{ Perfection. ' God endowed humanity with its infinite capacity for improvement in order that at last it may attain perfection. 1 do not believe any human being can be perfectly happy as long as wo see men condemned to suffer without a single moral thought, without a perception of the noble meaning of life.—The Rev. E. C. .Worcester, Phila delphia. The fellow' wl>o marries a deaf mut# should make her unspeakably happy, j