"MOTHER, I want it just dreadfully; and it don't cost but a quarter."
But Kenneth's mother only replied patiently, as she had done several times before, "I am sorry, dear, but I can't give you even a quarter."
"All the same, I'm going to have that rooster," Kenneth proclaimed to the younger children, who gathered around him. "I never can have anything. Mother could give me that quarter just as well as not." In his heart he knew that this charge was not true, but he thought it made him feel better to say so.
When the children came trooping in to supper that night, Ray ran to her mother, her blue eyes shining with excitement.
"Mother, mother," she cried, "Kenneth got the banty rooster, and the coop is all made for it; and bimeby he's going to have a hen and lots of little chickens and sell the eggs and buy a farm and we're all going to live there."
Kenneth looked somewhat defiant as he took his seat; but when his mother said gravely, "Where did you get the rooster, Kenneth?" the answer was prompt and frank: "Don't you worry about that, mother. That's all right, honest it is!"
Mrs. Miller was in the habit of trusting her children, so the subject was dropped. The rooster flourished in his new home, and all the children fed him, hung over his coop, and counted the number of times he crowed. Matters went on smoothly for a while until one day at luncheon Ethel announced, with her most elder-sisterly air:—
"Kenneth Miller is going to be arrested, and I saw the policeman that's going to do it. That lady told me so, you know the one you borrowed the quarter from."
Mother drew the frightened boy into her room and closed the door. Then Kenneth confessed.
"I borrowed it, mother. The lady that lives across the street from the other lady that was going to sell me the rooster; she knew I didn't have any money, so she said she would lend it to me. I mean to pay her. I do, honest."
"What are you going to pay her with?" mother asked. "You haven't any money, and mother told you she could not spare any."
"I thought maybe you could spare it by and by, or maybe Eddie or Nan would give it to me, or maybe I might find it on the walk, like Jimmy Lawrence did."
They talked it over a little more, and together they decided that Kenneth must make his own plans to pay his debt.
He wore a very puzzled face for several days, and once, coming to his mother, he breathed a wo-begone sigh:—
"Mother, isn't it just dreadful to owe things and have bills?"
One night Eddie came in hurriedly, and called upstairs, "If any one of you children will take this package to town, I'll give you five cents."
Kenneth's face lighted up, and he sprang forward eagerly. "I will, Eddie," he cried, and was out of the gate like a flash.
Logging in the California Redwood Forests.
That nickel was the beginning. The next morning the boy shouldered a small spade which belonged to father, and without a word to any one, started down the street. Going bravely to door after door, he asked: "Do you want your flower beds spaded up? I'll do it for ten cents."
Two people said yes; and so in the hot sun, hour after hour, sometimes struggling to keep back the tears, the boy dug away, and by the middle of the afternoon he had twenty cents. On the way home he stopped again at Mrs. Demorest's and gave her the money.
"That boy has got good stuff in him; he'll make a fine man some day," she remarked to her husband as the gate closed behind the tired little laborer.
His head ached; he was tired; he was hungry; but he had never been so happy in his life as when he climbed to his old seat on his mother's lap, and whispered in her ear:—
"I am not ever going to have any bills again, mother dear; I'm going to pay cash."—Morning Star.
"FULNESS OF BREAD."
By David Paulson, M.D.
LET us consider another root of modern Sodom's trouble, and this is the fulness of bread. Eze. 16:49. With reference to such stimulants as meat, tea, and coffee, people do not know the wrath that they are heaping up for themselves when they are partaking of these things. It is stimulation that many want, not nutrition, but the Bible tells us to eat for strength and not for drunkenness.
I have been in some of the most wretched homes in New York, houses where they did not have bread for their children to eat, but I have never failed to find a tea or coffee-pot steaming on the stove. They get stimulation from that and call it strength. They are spending their money for that which is not bread. Dr. Haig expresses it well in the following words: "All stimulation is wrong, and thus we merely enjoy to-day by mortgaging to-morrow; and just as we rise a few inches above our normal level, so shall we fall to-morrow exactly the same amount below it."
When God says the weak shall be made strong He means they shall live in a way that they shall become strong, and that is not merely a temporary stimulation. When God says the strong shall become weak, He means that it will be the result of their own actions.
Emerson says, "Punishment is the fruit that ripens unsuspected in the flower of the pleasure that concealed it." The man and woman who go on eating these stimulating foods, and imagine they are having a good time, are ripening the fruit of punishment right in the very flower of the pleasure, as it were.
There is another important thought to consider in the study of this question, and that is the use of condiments and spices. In reference to these I quote a statement from a well-known author: "Our tables should bear only the most wholesome food, free from every irritating substance. The appetite for liquor is
encouraged by the preparation of food with condiments and spices. These cause a feverish state of the system, and drink is demanded to allay irritation. On my frequent journeys across the continent, I do not patronize restaurants, dining-cars, or hotels, for the simple reason that I can not eat the food that is provided. The dishes are highly seasoned with mustard and pepper, creating an almost intolerable thirst. They irritate and inflame the delicate coating of the stomach." These condiments and spices irritate the lining of the stomach, thus causing a desire for drink.
I was one day in a large city, and a prominent man asked me to take dinner with him at a magnificent hotel. It was the place where the governor and many of the senators were in the habit of eating. I thought surely that here would be something that one could conscientiously eat. But there were barely three articles that I could consistently partake of upon that richly-laden table. And that table illustrates the way the world is eating.
If I take condiments and spices into my stomach, I know that it has the effect of a mustard plaster. At one time in one of my studies before the Sanitarium nurses' training-school I sprinkled a little mustard on the back of one of the student's hands, and then placed a hot13bag over this for a few moments, and the result was a blister as large as a dollar, and it did not get well for a long time, and no doubt the scar is there to this day. Yet I did not sprinkle half as much mustard on her hand as people often put on a single piece of meat and put it directly into their stomachs.
These spices do not change when eaten any more than ground glass would, and that is the great cause for "appendicitis," which is getting to be so common. These spices lodge at the veriform appendix, and act as a sort of mustard plaster, and then when this is inflamed, of course other things lodge there, and the result is appendicitis. Then people say it is caused by eating the very things that God has said were good for us. They attribute it to eating fruits with seeds in them, such as grapes. Of course after the veriform appendix is inflamed by the use of condiments and spices, these seeds might then lodge there.
Now if these things would blister the outside skin, what will they not do in a greater degree to the tender lining of the stomach?—It inflames this lining and causes a thirst which water does not quench. Children have this thirst created in them by the way their mother's table is set. By and by they find out that the village saloon will quench the thirst in a way the town pump fails to do. A mother's tears will save many from quenching their thirst at the saloon, but the saloon is open to welcome them, and they soon find it out. Before they wish to drink, they must first have the thirst created. So if man is hungering and thirsting for anything he will be filled. If a man hunger and thirst after righteousness, he will be filled. The Bible says so. The same is true of the man who hungers and thirsts after liquor. The law of cause and effect is as sure in one case as the other.
It is plain that, altho these spices and condiments do not make the drunkard, they create the necessary conditions for one. These things enter largely into the diet of children. Are we simply to pick at the leaves, or shall we get at the root of society's troubles? Can it not be readily seen that the preparation of these foods lies at the very foundation of intemperance? DAVID PAULSON, M.D.
The Smile Through Tears
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
For the test of the heart is trouble,
And it always comes with the years,
And the smile that is worth the praise of earth
Is the smile that comes through tears.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
THE TWO-WINE THEORY.
By F. R. Lees
THE really important critical query in regard to the wine question is, what things the word "wine" has been applied to in the literature of the past—that is, what variety of special liquids the name has covered or signified in general.
The advocate for drinking alcohol—which is the product of the art of fermentation—begins by discarding the idea that "grape juice" was ever a thing to which the word was applied at all, in Hebrew, Greek, German, French, or Italian. This wild and proofless assertion is backed by another that is even wilder still, namely, that the first time the thing was ever named "wine," it was so called in consequence of its having undergone fermentation. This assumes that those early users and namers understood fermentation—which they certainly did not. Of its nature and essence they knew nothing; they simply observed the result of souring and corrupting. The rabbis, indeed, were as utterly at sea as the modern tipplers, for they invented a theory that "the juice of grapes" does not ferment—in other words, they wanted the fact to be so, and therefore said it was so. Of course every chemist now knows that the principle and conditions and agency of fermentation are precisely the same in the case of wine as of bread. The Christian fathers, especially St. Augustine, did not even distinguish between boiled must (which he calls vinum coctum) and fermented wine, and charged the abstaining Gnostics with inconsistency for using it, while they denounced intoxicating wine.
The dense ignorance and confusion were not due to the people who first called grape juice wine. Think, now, how could ideas of a process producing results at first unknown—only to be slowly developed afterward—induce them to give the thing a name? Was grape juice without a name until men got drunk and chemistry became understood? The name first given to grape juice would, we may naturally suppose, adhere to it in its subsequent states, until some specific form by use or circumstance made the species emphatic—as, in modern days, we say "in drink," meaning simply inebriety. Thus, also, when "wine" changed into acid, it was vinegar, that is, soured wine.
Some American critics not only assume to teach the English abstainers—men who have mastered all the facts of the case, scientific, historical, and critical—but, in their consummately cool way, would teach the Hebrew rabbis how ignorant they also are of their own language and writings. For twenty centuries these men have written about wine in the grapes, of boiled wine, of sabe (Latin sapa and defrutum) and of intoxicating wine, while their wisest men, as Pharisees and Essenes, for centuries warned against the latter, while using the former. Nevertheless, according to these new lanterns without light, there is not now and never was any unfermented wine at all. We know nothing equal to this in audacity and simplicity, save a recent attempt of a "scholar" to show that Paul's Epistles and St. Augustine's Confessions were the work of monks in the fourteenth century. According to the Sunday School Times, of Philadelphia, and the Independent, of New York, there never was but one kind of wine, with one essential and innocent property—that of producing intoxication.
Now, in the famous controversy between Dr. Norman Kerr and the Church Quarterly and Church Times (the argument and learning of which collapsed utterly), the following fact was published on the authority of Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler and Professor Marks, of London: "Jews have, from time immemorial, used alike fermented and unfermented wines on every occasion, including the Passover, when the custom of partaking of the juice of the grape, and the saying of the appropriate blessing, was incumbent. The Jewish World expressed its surprise at the Christian sentiment that "only that wine was endued with the necessary sanctity which had likewise the property of causing drunkenness."
But the folly does not stop here. It ignores the most undeniable facts of history and language, and sets up a fancy that denies them. In the year 1841 the writer published at Douglas a long series of extracts from ancient books, English and foreign, showing the existence in olden days of both fermented and unfermented wines; and again, in 1875, appended to his reply to the four Belfast professors 32 pages of small print, being an induction from the literature of 2,500 years, showing how historians and learned men had applied the Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, French, and English word for wine to an unfermented liquid, thus justifying the use, and illustrating the sense, of the various Bible terms for the vine and its fruit and preparations from it.
Scholars ought at least to be acquainted on this subject with the history of Mohammedanism. In Turkey, for example, they use sirups, and their name for grape wine in general is shirab. Their traditions explain the whole matter. Take, for example, the one given in the Italian treatise of Fabroni, published a century ago, "On the Art of Making Wine," under the authority of the Royal Academy of Arts, Florence. It is attributed to an old Arab author, Mutardi ben Gasif. (See Dr. Lees' "Select Works," vol. 1, p. 329; vol. 4, p. 32.)
"Noah, being come out of the ark, ordered each of his sons to build a house, and afterward planted trees. The vine alone was wanting. Gabriel informed them that the devil had desired it, and indeed had some right to it. Noah summoned him to appear in the field, and said, 'O cursed! why hast thou carried away the vine?' 'Because,' he replied, 'it partly belonged to me.' 'Shall I part it for you?' asked Gabriel. 'I consent,' answered Noah, 'and will give him a fourth.' 'That is not enough,' said Gabriel. 'Well, I will take half,' replied Noah. 'Not enough for him,' said the angel; 'he must have two-thirds and thou one, and when the must shall have boiled away until two-thirds are evaporated, the remainder shall be assigned for thy use.' This custom is an ancient one." (Part 3, chapter 4.)
Of course the boiling prevented fermentation, and nothing but water really evaporated. The fable teaches the opinion that other wine than natural produces twice as much evil as good.
The argument of the papers in question is both a dream and a delusion, and consists of empty talk about scholarship. The solution of the temperance question is one of facts, of science, of morals, and of logic founded on facts, and is to be discovered, not in talk about a "Two-wine Theory," but in what the Bible represents to be the fruits of drinking, on the one hand, and of abstinence, on the other.—F. R. Lees, of Watford, England, in the Voice.
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International.—England has sent a first-class armored cruiser to Iceland to prevent further seizures of English fishing vessels on the Iceland coast and secure redress for those already seized..... A despatch from the vicinity of the Upper Nile states that a battle has been fought between the English and Chief Kabarega on the east bank of the Nile. The chief and 300 of his followers, together with King Mwanga, were captured by the English, whose loss was two killed and about twenty wounded .... The Chinese Government has entered a protest at Washington against the application of the American Chinese exclusion laws to Cuba...... Many thousands of the younger Finns are preparing to leave Finland on account of the intention of the Russian Government to Russianize that country. The Finns are planning to plant a large colony in Canada.
The Russian Government has protested to Germany against the appointment of Professor Von Stengel as a member of the peace congress to be held at The Hague, on account of Von Stengel's criticisms of the aims of the congress..... On account of the Dreyfus agitation in France the minister of war has resigned, and the minister of public works has been appointed to his place .... There is considerable agitation in England over the rapidity with which America is securing a large part of the trade of the world in various lines of manufactured articles, and crowding out articles of English make. In view of this agitation the English Government has several times been requested to make representations to the United States, with a view to securing a reduction of the American tariff..... The Italian cabinet has resigned on account of the conduct of matters in reference to San Mun Bay in China. It is reported that the bay is to be occupied at once..... Mataafa, the rebel Samoan chief, has accepted an armistice, and fighting there for a time will cease .... Spain has decided to devote 5,000,000 pesetas to improving the fortifications of the Canary Islands. She is also collecting evidence at Hongkong with a view to claiming a cession of land from China as indemnity from the Chinese Government for permitting a certain steamer to leave Canton with arms for the insurgents .... England is making further demands upon China on account of the recent attacks of Chinese rebels upon British troops in the Kowloon district, and France is demanding concessions from China valued at over one million dollars for the killing of a French missionary. Germany is also preparing to increase her demands on China, and will claim as her "sphere of influence" the valley of the Hoang-Ho River..... Japanese merchants are expecting that there will soon be a war between China and some foreign country, and are shipping large quantities of supplies to their representatives in China, to be held by them until the war prices enable them to realize a fortune. In some parts of China prices on foods are already 100 per cent higher than usual, and many are said to be living on roots and seaweed who formerly had plenty..... A bull-fight occurred in Durango, Mexico, on May 9, in which all the participants were Americans. The American missionaries protested against the exhibition, but without avail. ..... The American and English representatives at the czar's peace congress at The Hague have been instructed to labor for the principle of arbitration between nations...... In spite of precautionary measures, smallpox of a virulent type is rapidly spreading in Germany.
Trusts.—It is positively asserted that the window-glass manufacturers of the United States have formed a combination with a capital of $30,000,000. The new trust will be called the American Glass Company. ..... The manufacturers of paint have decided to advance the price of paint all over the country. At a meeting of paint manufacturers soon to be held in Chicago it is expected that a paint trust will be formed...... On May 8 a meeting was held in Chicago of the leading plow manufacturers of the country, which virtually resulted in the formation of a trust. The capitalization of this new combine is placed at $65,000,000...... The various cracker and biscuit companies of the Pacific Coast have formed a trust under the name of the Pacific Biscuit Company. The concern is capitalized at $4,000,000..... The steel trust, the greatest of them all, is now declared to be a certainty. The combine includes the following corporations: Carnegie Steel and Iron Company, National Steel Company, American Steel Hoop Company, American Tin Plate Company, Federal Steel Company, and American Steel and Wire Com-
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A unanimous decision has been handed down by the Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis, Mo., to the effect that a trust can not cloak its object under the form of a corporation in the State of Missouri and evade the penalties of the Missouri anti-trust law of 1891. Under this decision accounts with trusts operating as corporations in Missouri are not collectable. ..... Two radical anti-trust laws have been passed by the Missouri Legislature, and were signed by the governor on May 5. In these bills trusts are declared illegal and the courts are given power to restrain them by injunction, and persons or corporations damaged by the trusts are allowed threefold damages, the cost of the suit, and attorney's fees..... The large flour-milling trust, including the corporations at the head of the lakes, New York City, Buffalo, and Syracuse, has begun business under its trust management, and is capitalized at $40,000,000..... The Kern Incandescent Light Company was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey on May 9, with a capital of $12,000,000..... The Senate of Texas has finally passed a stringent anti-trust law, patterned after the anti-trust law of Arkansas.
Domestic.—Rear Admiral Watson has been ordered to Manila "to report to Admiral Dewey," which means that he will be in command at that station, and that Admiral Dewey will return to the United States.... Three hundred thousand Finns in this country have appointed a national committee to organize and conduct a campaign for the purpose of ameliorating the condition of the Finns in Finland. The Finns are mostly Protestants, and they fear the aims of the Russian State church as well as conscription in the Russian army..... The American cruiser Chicago has arrived at Tangier, Morocco, to enforce certain American demands made upon the sultan of that country.... A ship-load of snakes recently arrived at New Orleans, from Brazil, on the way to Paris, where they will be exhibited at the exposition in 1900, and then sold .... The commanding-general at San Juan, Porto Rico, has begun the work of enlisting 400 natives in the army there..... Over 12,000 Japanese laborers have arrived in the Hawaiian Islands since the annexation, nearly 11,000 of whom are contract laborers..... The report of the factory inspector of Chicago gives a dark picture of the condition of the factory—especially the clothing factory employees of that city. Most of the so-called merchant tailor work is done in "sweat-shops," whose surroundings are the most unsanitary, and thousands of children under fourteen are employed, in direct violation of the law..... A United States military post is to be established at Pyramid Harbor, Alaska, on the Chilkat Inlet, and a company of soldiers will be stationed there. This action seems to have been taken in view of the boundary troubles which have recently occurred there..... Martial law has been declared at Wardner, Idaho, and the troops have arrested about one thousand miners who took part in the riot and the destruction of the Bunker Hill mill. The mine-owners of that section have been forbidden to employ members of the Miners' Union, and all applicants for work must secure a military permit. ..... The strike of street-railway employees at Duluth, Minn., is still in progress, and the strikers have done considerable damage to the rolling stock of the company..... It is reported that a wonderfully rich mining district has been discovered on the Bering Sea coast of Alaska. The claims are being located on small tributaries of the Snake River, which empties into the sea near Norton Sound.
Casualties and Calamities.—It is persistently rumored in Paris that the famous Marchand expedition, which was returning from Fashoda, on the Nile, en route to France, was overpowered by marauders between the Abyssinian capital and the French port on the coast, and that Marchand himself was among the slain..... Russell & Co.'s thresher and engine plant at Massillon, Ohio, was destroyed by fire on May 5. The loss is placed at $500,000..... In the anti-Jewish riots which occurred at Nicolaieff, Russia, on May 2, a number of Jews were beaten to death, and one Russian officer and seven soldiers were killed while attempting to defend the Hebrews..... Through the instigation of a Catholic priest at Mohosa, Bolivia, about one hundred Bolivian soldiers were recently massacred by Indians. The Indians, who had been summoned by the priest, surrounded the soldiers, disarmed them, and deliberately murdered15the whole company, two by two, each pair by different tortures...... A company of 150 men whom General Lord Kitchener had sent on a mission to the sultan of Darfur were attacked by the sultan during the latter part of April, and all but one of Kitchener's envoy were killed. ..... A European caravan was attacked by tribesmen recently near Lake Nyassa, in East Africa, and fifty members of the caravan were killed, and all the goods captured. The two leaders of the expedition reached a fort after three days' wandering in the bush...... It is reported that a Chilean war vessel has been wrecked in the Straits of Magellan...... The British ship Loch Sloy, which left Clyde on January 5 for Melbourne, was wrecked on Kangaroo Island, Australia, on April 24, and thirty of her passengers and crew were drowned.
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