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9 rn f. it- ,I?tO J EE a. y PROFESSOR TADD'S METHOD FOR TRAINING OF CHILDREN The new idea of education is to fit the youth to make a living, and at the aame time enjoy life. This requires that both hands and eyes be trained. Judgment and character developed, a well aa -storing the brain with facts. This must be done in such a way as to Improve the health, strengthen the will and conserve the vital energy. Thus the new education aims to discover one's special bent, then to train the indi vidual along the line of his natural ca pacity. and thus equip young men and women to go out into the world capable of doing Its work. The old education., on the contrary, so fills the mind with book learning that too often the will power is weakened, the health is injured, desire for work is lacking, there is little or no power to fcpply the bands efficiently, -and the ehief ambition is for a "soft Job The consequence is that boy or girl taught in the old way has to unlearn much unpractical theory in the stern school of experience. The new methods have to be applied in such a way as to lighten the pupils wor k In school, at the same time mak ing their work more effective. It won't do to load down the already overcrowd ed course of study with more fads. There has been too much of that al ready. The processes and apparatuses of the new education must be simple, so as to be readily taught and applied without materia! cost to large numbers of children. The so-alled manual train ing high schools have their place, like the high schools of science and litera ture, but only a fraction of the pupils. five or ten out of every hundred, reach denCijfc J'V"T!rsehools. The vital problem . strain the 90 or 95 per cent who quit school after going through the grammar grades, that they can apply hand. eye. judgment and Industrious application to their work, whatever It may be. PROP. TADD'S METHOD. Much progress has been made toward this end. One of the most notable suc cesses is In Philadelphia, where indus trial art 'methods have accomplished .such results in the public schools that .hey have been Introduced throughout the parochial schools also. The direc tor of these new methods. Prof. J. Lib erty Tadd. says: "I begin early to train the hands and eyes, not the brain alone. -The mind, is educated even more by doing thing3 than by reading about them. The com mon way Is to fill the children with dis connected facts out of books, which they soon forget. Much of the book learning Is of little avail because it cannot be recalled when needed. But if we learn by doing. If we study the actual things all around us in nature and art. instead of reading about them. we get our knowledge first hand, we lock It into the mind by making the forms or doing deeds or taking in the Inspiration of nature, instead of get ting only a faint Impression from print through the eye or from speech through the ear. Facts thus learned are never forgotten, but become a part of one's self, that can be used whenever neaded. We also employ the art idea that is the doing of work well and in an artis tic manner. When a child's eye is trained to recognize, ".grace, fitness, harmony, beauty, proportion, space, distance, etc.. It will be satisfied only when it has done as perfectly and as well as possible. It will have no pa tience with ugly, slovenly. shiftless ways or results." "In what way do you proceed In ap plying these methods?" FREE HAND DRAWING FOR LIT TLE FOLKS. "We begin with free hand drawing, followed by creative drawing and paint. Ing. Along with this go modelling in clay and wood carving. The children work In all four departments In rota - tlon. This elves dexterity to the hand and trains t'ie hand and eye In a great variety of ways. whereas drawing lone would train In but one way." "At what age would you begin such training?" . "In the 'ilndergarten and primary schools. L ok at these little children drawing on the blackboard with large, free, swinging lines. How quickly the eye becom -s able to direct the hand in drawing a big picture of what the child sees or r. 'members. Little children should flrtt get control over the larger muscles a id nerves of arm and hand, making k.rge. free movements. The fine work of paper pricking, weaving, etc.. staou d not be- allowed:. It is now applied ir too many kindergartens." "In thl lot of photographs of Jittle children drawing and modeling they are usinr both hands. The gecmetric forms, ci bes. prisms, etc.. are conspic uously absent. How Is that?" "The children are ever so much more Interest d in natural forms, in cats, dogs, ch'ekens. birds, fish, fruits, leaves, etc. These teem with life and Interest and with many points upen which val uable lessons can be given they are real actualities that the children are fascinated with, whereas geometric forms are meaningless to the very young, are abstract and uninteresting and should not be produced until much later. We use both-hand drill work fn drawing, a few minutes only to each lesson, to develop skill In the left hand I How much time is given weekly to around us. even In the commonest of lisunr 4iTrtt- the right, and to make the most of the natural balance of th cant im. In almost every occti; I pur.uit the abSlit! with equal raciiy grat assistance I no is has becon 1 Many adulti trous mi .... m a all 'vhjs work in art and manual train ing?" "Only two hours a week for the pub lie school pupils. . Only ten minutes or so jit each period should be allowed for free hand drill at the blackboards The exercises are such as have proven best fpr imparting . manual and eye skill The r child creates ' the design in his mind (he never' made one exactly like this before), and executes it ' on the board fn five or ten minutes. The right hand draws the right-hand side of the picture, while the left hand does the left side. All this is done in a very few minutes by clear, swinging touches. no line being repeated, and the chalk not even being raised from the board until one side of the design is finished. This implies a remarkable dexterity of the hand, and its unconscious obedi ence to the mind, while the eye auto matically guides the hand in executing its work gracefuly and artistically. When you realize that few artists even can do this you can better appreciate the working together of hand, eye and mind that it involves." "I don't quite understand your mean ing here. I thought drawing was done with sketchy lines and tentative touches." "So It is by feeble artists who do not possess manual dexterity. But the great masters had such obedience of hand, such training of the eye. that their minds were occupied solely with the thoughts they wished to express. They didn't have to stop to think how their hand should do the work, or how the eye should guide the hand. That was all automatic." "You don't mean to say that ordinary children can obtain this faculty." "I can show you many children, of all grades of society and environment, who have acquired this power to make either or both hands obey the mind, and they do it artistically. because their eye has been trained aright. They draw automatically just aa you write. and equally as a mode of expression." "In all the drawing I ever saw. at least by children, they had to take the utmost care with each line." "Precisely." Mr. Tadd replied with a smile. "But the time required to learn drawing in that feeble way la enough to get this facility I advocate If only the child Is properly taught by art methods, real manual training and na ture study. You must first realize how much automatic power there Is In the human body. The tongue utters your thought automatically: you don't have to stop to see which way you shall wag your tongue: it works automatically, because -that function, learned in in fancy long since became automatic. So with walking and many movements. So with writing or the expression o thought in characters that compose words and sentences. You never think how you shall connect the letters and form them; your mind is wholly center ed on the thought you wish to express, while the hand, unconsciously guided by the eye, automatically Indites you thought. Just so the children draw on blackboard, paper or clay, and eventu ally carve in tough oak." "Then they don't take carving until after a course in drawing and model ing?" "On the contrary, they rotate all ex ercises. One lot of children will take blackboard drill for a few minutes thn do free-hand drawing: of original designs or from objects f memory At the next lesson they will model in clay the forms they have drawn or carve them In wood. This teaches them form all around and develops a wonderfully close connection between hand, eye and brain, and a marvelous control over the muscles that give dexterity to the two hands. MEMORY WORK . EXEMPLIFIED "Perhaps I ought to emphasize here the memory work." said Mr. Tadd. "The children learn to see things, to erasD the essentialities and then to draw or modc-1 them accurately. It Is much easier for children who have had this training to thus represent an ob ject th: l to describe It orally or in writing. I will have a child draw the various parts of a dandelion from mem ory. "This girl dissected the flower, pic tured the varlo- s parts and named them, thus locking all these , facts in the mind so that now they are accurate ly and very quickly drawn from mem ory." "Why can't this facility be used in various studies? If children can be taught from the real things so that they can not only call up in the mind the mental picture and all Its parts, terms, etc., but be able to draw it cor rectly with a few master strokes. I can see how this may wonderfully h'jlp one's learning power." "Exactly so." replied Mr. Tadd with enthusiasm. "It is this correlation of art. manual training and nature study that is the great thing In educa tion today. It is coming rapidly, and will prevail in all braivhes of work from the lowest to the highest. You see. also, that this all around special training of hand and eye not only helps to make study easier, more attractive and more useful, but it is a great help In every day life. It makes the artisan an artist, the mechanic quick, clever and accurate In his work. The busi- f ness man is all the better for having "another mode of expression besides ;peech or writing, .for he can make l:agrams or sketches quicker and bet- than he can describe tnem. ine .'ne Is tru of the professional man. a arat thing, also, to have the things. Many of us go through the world- more than halt blind, thus being deprived of much that would expand our minds and increase our power of enjoyment. whatever our vocation, at the same time that our earning powr has increased." MACHINERY DISPENSED WITH. "I don't see any machinery In yvir manual training school. Is not a mr chine shop essential to this training?" "Not at all. We tried the varl.s forms of carpentering work, lathe work and blacksmithing, plumbing, mechan ical drawing, etc., but found that be yond a very limited range of trade processes they did not Impart the fun damentals the sure hand, "the artl'tlc eye. the balanced mind, the firm ill, the desire for work. More than twenty years' experimenting with thousands of pupils and teachers in public schools, private and parochial schools. night classes and vacation schools, re formatory institutions hospitals for the insane, etc., has resulted In per fecting the elementary methods in art. manual training and nature study, of which I have but briefly spokep. so that without any material expense the mass es can be trained in the fundamentals mentioned. You will And hundreds of our grammar pupils have more actual dexterity of hand and eye than most of the graduates of the manual train ing high schools, who have only had the usual instruction in a few trade operations. Our pupils having acquir ed this dexterity, they quickly become experts In all kinds of mechanical drawing, and in constructions in wood made from such plans. These construc tions. Joints, patternsgeometric forms, etc.. are all made by hand. No lathes or machines are used, but the hand be comes so cunning that it makes all the constructions with ease. TRADES ARE NOT TAUGHT. "You don't teach the trades?" No, sir. But our pupils possessing this manual dexterity and understand ing of fundamental processes by eye and mind quickly master a trade or any of the mechanical pursuits. That is why you find many of these boys, at quite an early age. In responsible po sitions n the factories of Philadelphia. On the other hand those whose bent is for art take many of the scholarships at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art at the Fenn sylvania Academy of Fine Arts." Do you mean to say that your meth ods bring out the natural bent or ca paclty In the individual, so that he or she can be trained in the line which one is naturaly best fitter to pursue?" "Just that." Mr. Tadd replied with convincing confidence. "This is one of the most valuable features of the work Talmages' Sermon. Washington. D. C, Nov. 13. To all those who feel they have no especial mission in the world this sermon of Dr. Talmage will come as a cheering rev elation. Text. John xviil., JT: "To this end was I born." After Pilate had suicided tradition tays that his body was thrown into the T:ber, and such storms ensued on and about that river that his body was taken cut and thrown into the Rhone, and similar disturbances swept that river and its banks. Then the body was taken out and moved to Lausanne and put in a deeper pool, which imme diately became the center of similar atmospheric and aqueous disturbances. Though these are fanciful and false tra tiitims. they show the execration with wMch the world looked upon Pilate. 1. was before this man when he was in fall life and power that Christ was ar ra'gned as in a court of oyer and ter miner. Pilate said to his prisoner: "Ait thou a king, then?" and Jesus answered: "To this end was I born." ?cre enough, although all earth and hell arose to keep him down, he is to "ay empalaced. enthroned and coro nated king of earth and king of heaven. That li what he came for, and that is what he accomplished. There ia too much divine skill shown in the physical, mental and moral con stitution of the ordinary human being to suppose that he was constructed one nerve. If you could see but not I By the advancement o hear, or could hear and not see, II you had the use of only one foot oi one hand, and. as to your higher na ture. If you only had one mental fac ulty, and you had memory but r.o judgment, or v judgment but no will and If you had a soul with only one capacity. I would aay not much Is ex pected of you. But stand up, oh! man. and let me look you squarely in the face. Eyes capable of seeing every thing. Ears capable of grasping every thing. Minds with more wheels than any factory ever turned, more power than any Corliss engine ever moved. A soul that will outlive all the universe except heaven, and would-outlive all heaven If the life of the Jther Immor tals were a moment short of the eter nal. Now. what hps the world a right to expect of you? What has God a right to demand of 3-ou? God ia the greatest of economists in the universe, and he makes nothing uselessly, and for what purpose did he build your, body, mind and soul as they are built' There are only two beings In the universe ,whr can answer that question. : The angels do not know. The schools do not know. Your kindred cannot certainly know. God knows and you ought to know. DO NOT WAIT FOR CHANCE. Do not wait for extraordinary qual ifications. Philip, the conqueror, gained his greatest victories seated on a mule. science and the wider acquaint ' the laws of health, and the ; the people know better bow care of themselves, human life i longed. But do you realize what, all, is the brevity of our eaithly st In the times when people lived 700 i L 300 years, the patriarch Jacob said tb his years were few. Looking at th life of the youngest person In this assembly and supposing that he will live to be a nonagenarian, how short the time and soon gone, while banked up In front of us is an eternity so vast that arithmetic bus net figures enough to express Its length, or breadth, or height. For a happy eternity you were born, unless you run yourself against the divine intentions. If standing In your presence my eye should fall upon the feeblest soul here as that soul will appear when the world lets up, and heaven entrances It, I suppose I would be so overpowered that I should drop down as one dead. You have examined the family bible and explored the fam lly records, and you may have seen daguerrotypes of some of the kindred of previous generations, you have had photographs taken of what you were in boyhod or girlhood, and what you were ten years later, and it Is very interesting: to anvene to be able to look back upon pictures of what he was ten or twenty, or thirty years ago; but J t ; and if you wait for some caparisoned .have you ever had a picture taken of ;icephalus to ride into the conflict you what you may be and what you will be will never get into the world-wide if you seek after God and feel the without any divine purpose. If youfijrht at a Samson slew the Lords ppirifa regenerating power? Where lake me out on some vast plain and .nerntes with the jaw-bone of the stu-'shall nlant the onmera to take nicture? show me a pillared temple surmounted ( r:d;sst beast created. Shamgar slew i piant Jt on thls piatform. I direct by a dome like St. Peter's, and having 600 of tne Lord s enemies with an' ox- V toward you. Sit still or stand still a floor of precious stones ana arcnes aj Tniior find, p nit tie cured the ' vn t i.i. , i it .h.n h an that must have taxed the brain of the b;lll ,an-g eyes jn the new testament . instantaneous nl.tnre. There! I have greatest draughtsman to aesign. gnu walla scrolled and niched and paneled.' and wainscoted and painted, and T should ask you what this building was put up for. and you answered: "For nothing at all." how could I believe you 7 YOUR PlRPO?E IN LIFE. And it Is impr.fsitle for me to believe that any ord'rary human being who has in his muscular, nervous and cere bral organization more wonders tha Christopher Wren lifted in St. Paul's. or Phidias ever chiseled on the Acropo lis, and built in such a way that it shall last long after St. Paul's cathe dral Is as much a ruin as the Parthe nonthat such a being was constructed for no other purpose, and to execute no mission, and without any divine in tention toward some end. The object of this sermon Is to help you to find out what you are made for. and help you find vour sphere, and assist you into that condition where you can say with certainty and emphasis and enthusi asm and triumph: "To this end was I born." First. I discharge you from all re sponsibility for most of your environ ments Tou are not responsible for your parentage or grand-parentage. You are not responsible for any of the story. Take all the faculty you have u. It is done. You can see the picture ar.d say: "O Lord: Here is what I have, in its perfect state, and get some idea i clinw tts tVA fitM and liark me un bv r.t -t i -m t. ... nn thnmnuhlv An- omnipotent power. Anywhere, anyhow, J veloped. There Is your resurrected any time for God." -Two men riding body, so brilliant that the noonday sun on horseback came to a trough tojis a patch of midnight compared with water the horses. While the horses it. There is your soul, so pure that all were drinking, one of the men said to .the forces of diabolism could not spot It the other a few words about the value with an Imperfection. There Is your of the soul, then they rode away, and belnsr. so miehtv and so swift that ;" In opposite directions. But the words flight from heaven to Mercury or Mars nl .. . . . . - , , . . i uiierea were ine Bintauun ur up jupiier ana oaiK again iu iican to whom they were uttered, and he ue- Any good teacher of this method can cranks that may have Ijyed in your pick out from a class that has been ancestral line, and who a hundred getting this training for two or three years before you were born may have periods weekly n the grammar or high lived a style of life that more or less schools those most likely to succeed In the fine arts, or In the trades cr pro fessions." "This method, then, does not Involve a lot of special apparatus of patented sufplies?" MAIN THING IS THE TEACHER. "That Is right. The main thing la the teacher. Hundreds of teachers In the common schools have mastered the method and apply It successfully In their own schools. Some clay and wooden modeling: tools, pencils and paper, brushes and water colors and Ink can be had anywhere for a few dollars t few benches and tools for carving. with the wood to be carved, are also inexpensive. The Idea throughout the whole method Is to make the children use their own minds and hands. Instead of blindly following any set exercises or formulated system that obliges the pu pil to follow fixed rul?s Instead of think Ing for himself. The energetic spirit thus created by working out one's own ideas is a great thing in these days. when the tendency of too much book study Is to give a disinclination for en ergetlc action and manual work, and w hen machine work tends to make even human movements mechanical. A slight expense will equip a room for fifty or sixty boys to work at draw ing. designing, modeling and carving. The boys from the street get so Inter ested in this work that usually there are a dozen waiting for every vacancy. They unconsciously begin to realize their capacity, while the making of original and beautiful things Influences them morally as well as mentally and manually. Hundreds of self-respecting. earnest and successful young men to day will testify that they owe their start to the night schools for art and manual training, but for .which most of. them might have developed from street arabs Into shiftless good-for-nothings. If not worse. So successful have these nights schools been, which were first started' by the Boys' Guild of St. James Episcopal church, W. W. Frazler. Jr.. treasurer, that the city is now Introducing the work in its vaca tion schools and truant schools.' . ; AH that was said by this remarkable man was more than confirmed by a visit to the Philadelphia school of In dustrial , art. to the Roman Catholic high school, and to the private night schools. These new methods are rap idly being adopted elsewhere, In. Bal timore, St. Louis, Los Angeles and In many other cities and towns: also in England and on tha continent. One can but be fascinated by the simplicity of these new methods and the results they accomplish in the children. And iiey are free to all. like nature Itself, affects you today. You are not re sponsible for the fact that your tem perament Is sanguine, or melancholic. of bilious, or lymphatic, or nervous. Neither are you responsible for the place of your nativity, whether among the granite hills of New Eneland, or the cotton plantations of Louisana. or on the banks of the Clyde, or the Dneiper, or the Shannon, or the Seine. Neither are you responsible for the religion taught in your father's came the Rev. Mr. Champion, one of the most distinguished missionaries in heathen lands; for years wondering who. did for him the Christian kind ness, and not finding out until in a bundle of books -sent him to Africa he found the biography of Brainerd Tay lor and a picture of him. and the mis sionary recognized the face In that book as the man who. at the watering trough for horses, had said the rhlng that saved h!s soul. What opportuni ties you have had in the past! What opportunities you have now! What op portunities you will have in the days to come! Put on your hat. oh! woman, this afternoon, and go and comfort that young mother who lost her bab last summer. Put on your hat. oh! man. and go over and see that mer chant who was compelled yesterday to would 'not weary you. and a world on each shoulder would not cjush you. An eye. that shall never shed a tear. An energy that shall never feel a fatigue. A brow that shall never throb with pain. You are young again, though you died of decrepitude. You are well again, though you coughed or shivered yourself into the tomb. Your everyday associates are the apostles and prophets and martyrs, and most exalted souls, masculine and feminine, of all the cen turies. The archangel to you no embar rassment. God himself your present and everlasting Joy. That Is an Instan taneous picture of what you may be, and what I am sure some of you will be. What a poor farthing is all that this world can offer you compared with par don here and life Immortal beyond the stars, unless this side of them there be a place large enough, and beautiful make an assignment, and tell him of enough, and grand enough for all the i . EAR. C. U weit then sweat The you bt Better it is yet c You can ) mm reclaims Data of BoBu. ' L iLCE THE DAY r etc to Itax'n th I lay for Filing Applicant M 9 i wa an 1 Jtie act J. The proc- rleKinley, open lands ceded by of Oklahoma. You first notice, that eterday. The cough less. The pressure - cession the chest Is lifted. Thtfeel..d ainilatC(J of suffocation is removed. " cure is hastened byplacing one oanc 9 wui no thono Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Plaster over the Chest. A Book Froom It is on the Diseases of the Throat and Lungs. It yna ha, any rnmplalnt htTT ana awn id. nii mcmrai aavic. 70m emu txwilblT rl.. writ th. doctor 1 irvaiy. ou win r.rw-. aprompi rpij, DR. J. C AXER. Low.U, KiM. wlth the everlasting riches remaining for all those who serve the Lord. Can you sing? Go and sing for that man who cannot get well, and you will help him Into heaven. Let It be your brain, your tongue, your eyes, your ears, your heart, your lungs, your hand, your. feet, your body' your mind, vour soul, your life, your time, your eternity for God. feeling In your soul: "To this end was I born." It may be helpful If I recite my own experience in this regard. I started for house, or the irrellglon. Do not bother the law without asking any divine di rection. I consulted-my own tastes. 1 or about circumstances that you did j lawyers and court rooms and not decree. Take things as they are, Judges and juries, ana reveiea in near and decide the question so that you nz the Frelinghuysens and the Brad shall be able safely to say: "To this , of the New Jersey bar. and as as- end was I born." How will you decide ; sistant or me county cier ai , .'of ace. I .searched titles, naturalized It?. By direct application to the only being in the universe who is compe tent to tell you the Lord Almighty foreigners, recorded deeds, received the confession of judgments, swore wit- Life is so short we have no time to nesses and Juries and grand juries. But experiment with occupations and pro fessions. The reason we have so many dead failures is that parents decide for children what they shall do, or children themselves, wrought on by some whim or fancy, decide for themselves, with out any Imploration of divfne guidance. So we have now in pulpits men mak Ing sermons who ought to be in black smith shops making plowshares; and we have in the law those who instead of ruining the cases of their clients ought to be pounding shoe lasts: and doctors who are the worst hindrances to their patient's convalescence; and after a while I felt a call to the gos pel ministry and entered It. and t felt some satisfaction in the work. But one summer, when I was resting at Sharon Springs, and while seated in the park of that village. I said to myself: "If I ransomed. Whatever it be, in what world, whether near by or far away, in this or some other constellation, ha'.l. home of light, and love, and blessed ness Through the atoning mercy of Christ, may we all get there. A SAVIOR ARRIVES. In the seventeenth century all Europe was threatened with a wave of Asiatic barbarism and Vienna was especially besieged. The king and his court had fled and nothing could save the city from being overwhelmed, unless the king of Poland, John Sobieskl, to whom they had sent for help, should with his army come down for the relief, and from every roof and tower the inhabitants of Vienna watched and waited and hoped, until on the morning of September 11, the rising sun threw an unusual and unparalleled brilliancy. It was the reflection of the sun on the swords and shields and hemlets of John Sobieskl and his army coming down over the hills to the rescue, and that day not only Vienna, but Europe, was saved. And see you not. oh ye souls, besieged with sin and sorrow, that light breaks in. the swords, and have an especial work to do In the,1" . - world I ought to find It out now." and , r9CU bathd ,n th rl8!n 8un.ot with that determination I prayed as I had never prayed before, and got the divine direction, and wrote it down in my memorandum book, and I saw my life work then as plainly as I see It now. Oh. do not be satisfied with general di rections. Get specific directions. Do artists trying to paint landscapes who not shoot at random. Take aim and ought to be whitewashing board fences: while there are others making bricks who ought to be remodeling constitu tions, or shoving planes who ought to be transforming literatures. Ask God lbout what wordly business you shall undertake, until you are so positive vou can in earnestness smite your hand on your plow-handle, or your carpenter's bench, or your Blackstone's Commentaries, or your medical dic tionary, or your Dr. Dick's Didactic Theology, saying: "For this end was made in answer to prayer. If there are I born." sixteen hundred million different mis But my subject now mounts' into the!8ions to fulfill, different styles of work momentous. Let me say that you are j to do, different orbits In which to re made for usefulness and heaven. 1 1 voive. ana it you ao noi get me aivine Judge this from the way you are built. fire. Concentrate Napoleon's success in battle came from his theory of break ing through the enemy's ranks at one point, not trying to meet the whole line of the enemy's force by a similar force. One reason why he lost Waterloo was because he did not work his usual the ory, and spread his force out over a wide range. Oh, Christian man. oh. Christian woman. DreaK tnrougn some- and n,s dutie9 many. When the De where. Not a general engagement forye,. had iast Been the earth It had uoa. out a parucujar engagement, ana , been a ijauia. white-hot globe Just be heavenly deliverance? Let everything else go rather than let heaven go. What a strange thing It must "be to feel one's self born to an earthly crown, but you have been born for a throne on which you may reign after the last monarch of all the earth shall have gone to dust. I Invite you to start now for your own coronation, to come in and take the title deeds to your everlasting Inheritance. Through an impassioned prayer, take heaven and all of Its raptures. m From November Llppincotfs: The de stroying angel hovered near the earth. It had been millions of years since he had passed this way space is large uicajjo Trlbo see the beauties all unrestricted by proprietary rights. You go Into a shop where there Is only one wheel turning, and that by a work man's foot on a treadle, and you say to yourself, "here Is something good being done, yet on a small scale;" but If you go into a factory covering many acres, ana you nna i tnousanas or bands pulling on thousands of wheels, ind shuttles flying, and the whole cene bewildering with activities, driven by water, or steam, or electric power, you conclude that the factory was put up to do great work, and on a vast scale. Now. I look at you, and t I should And that you had only one faculty of body, only one muscle., only used to. direction, there are at least fifteen hundred and ninety-nine million possi bilities that you will make a mistake. On your knees before God get the mat ter settled so that you can firmly say: "To this end I .was born." . And now I ,-me to the climacteric consideration. As near as I can tell, you were built for a happy eternity, all the disasters which have happened to your nature to be overcome by the blood of the lamb if you will heartily accept that Chrlstly arrangement. We are all re joiced at the Increase In human longe vity. People livei as near as I can ob serve, about ten years longer than they ginning to solidify: but now Its crust had cooled greatly. Land and water divided the earth's surface between them, and on the land there were little creeping things. "Ay." said the Destroyer, "It Is time that I returned. Your time has come, ye maggots. I have seen your like be fore on other balls, but I have done my duty." Now, the Destroyer was cunning and resourceful and cruel; so. Instead of crushing the creeping things, he put forth his hand and gently pushed the rushing ball slightly out of its circular nath. Round and round the nn sped In "hn ever-lengthening ellipse.. and witn eacn year's circuit the winters Winter Excursion. If Sick VOU can And lieln. If rrlnnled with rheumatism you oau le cured. If lired juj need rest and the place to ku ) HOT SPRINGS. SOUTH DAKOTA. The ext)ecf.e la less than viui linni'ln. Th Northwestern Line" tin au'nocnred mh-Iji! i. cursioos, certain tlayi tl.l inoiitli at CHEAP RATES. The Evans Hotel will remain ojen ind this and all otiier hotel m,d toardiriK li.ii.M-t ar RivlOK good service rniih low rattf di:riiiK tl.u winter. rates. ( Sioux City, 14.8l and correspond leg reductlui.t froiu other point est. Climate. Water. See nery and HoMi are uu excelled. Tlilrtv dvs litre allowed aid a-iy auent F E ti -M V. K It., cr J II (Ubi-. 1 rtv. l't!ei iter Agect, Ueulkon, lua. cau tell )ou more about it. Peace Commissioner's Quarters. The commission occupies two salons In what is Known as the Gaierle des Fetes, in the ministry of foreign affairs. These rooms are aUeudy rationally his toric, having Le-en oorjpjed -oVtT'forty years ago by th ngre of Paris, and only a few years ago by the tiering sea commission. Th ct!!na are at a great height, and the walls are hung with red damask. The ceiling frescoes dates from Louis Philippe's time, and the furniture Is in the faIon prevail ing during the reign of Louis XV. From the windows there Is a charming view. In the middle of one room is a huge table covered with green cloth. Ranged around this table are the chairs of the commissioners, and at either end the "thrones" of the two presidents. ex Secretary Day and Senor Montero Rlos. The commission decided that its joint sessions should be under dual control, and of course, should be absolutely se cret. A generous buffet is spread In the adjoining apartment, end is served by a head waiter and four assistants. All communication with the rest of the pal ace has been cut off, and at the en trance to the salons of the commission ers there is an antechamber to accom modate two messengers and an usher. When our commission meets separate ly, the sessions are held in large, sun ny and well-furnished apartments on the ground floor of the Hotel Conti nental, not on the Rue Castigllone side. but near the private entrance at the also from the office by the corridor and back of the house. One reaches them directly by this private entrance, and court surrounding the great reading room. Two policemen guard the com mission's safe night and day. and the the same watchfulness and secrecy is manifested by all of the commissioners. and Indeed by all the aids and assist ants down to the smallest fraction of an assistant. He had been thinking deeply for sev eral minutes. "I can not agree with the poet," he It I said finally, "when he bewails the fact that we can not see for ourselves as crew lonrer mil rnMw nn'.i tH um. ! others see us. I think he has It all mers shorter and hotter. T great sheet of snow and ice began l-v 'grow about the north pole, gradually covering the surface of the earth and driving the creeping things southward before it, so that many of them died from the cold. And the Destroyer left the creeping things to their fate and fie wonward, laughing. wrong. "Why. how would you change It?" she asked. "I think we should rather ask for th power to make others r ourselves." n., aa'' ' tin . 'or f everal business, but ..Ml. Int. A .V 'j village paimw uu, te a female jackal J abited desert. The J-veetmeats without '& her husband will I living In a hollow f who walks alone ;'4nd will become a tow. Tne woman ully of her hua- next Incar- hates ' her me, from ig in ruth. k- An Ohio man has patented an animal trap which sets itself automatically and kills the animals as fast as caught, a tilting platform being arranged over a water receptacle, with bait attached to the platform, the rodent tipping the cover and falling into the water when he reaches the bait. The antl-footblndlng society in China Is constantly Increasing In numbers. The. offer of prises for essays In. Chi nese against the evil has called out 167, some of which are very flat. The present position of women can not be better shown than by the fol 'owing ex'.ract from a government prize book for the girls' school in the Bom hay presidency: "If the husband of a virtuous woman be ugly, of good or bad disposition, diseased, fiendish, ir ascible, a drunkard, old. stupid, dumb, blind... deaf., hot-tempered, poor, ex tremely covetous, a slanderer, coward -y, perfidious and Immoral, nevertheless she ought to worship him as god. with mind, speech and person. The wife band will become a village pariah dog; she will also become a female jackal and live in an uninhabited desert. The woman who eats sweetmeats without sharing them with her husband will become a hen owl.: living In a hollow tree. The - woman ' who walks alone without her husband will become a flith-eating .village .sow. The woman who speaks disrespectfully of her hus band will be dumb In the next Incar nation. The woman who hates her husband'a relatives will become, from who elves an angry answer to fctr btrth to birth, a muskrat, uvincui fUth Six hundred the employed In Italy The cobbler s ' An Ohio man has patented an animal trap which sets Itself automatically as long as he ( and kills the--nimals as fast as caught, save the soler 7 emission busl i founded the afterwards be Ibnal bank. a tilting platform being arranged over a water receptacle, with bait attached to the platform, the rodent tipping the cover and falling Into the water when he reaches the bait. - The antl-footblhdlng society In China Is constantly lncreasinf in numbers. The offer of prizes for essays In Chi nes against tha evil has called out 107. some of which ax very Cue Kfbriska M OMAHA.' 1 I IBM ( . I lit ,-thc entire if c:'tt0 im' t jJavlScu DRionq 'V ' by' the Peiin-. Combine fuly - 3. Tho will publish , '. jfits ",ml the fttjUb. 'JntefestsT The Pennsylvania the Vanderbilt line will carry an ie coal produced In the bituminous jeglons, while the Morgan roai!s will control the entire anthracite outrut; t . -i) . L i r ' y Wit P.' 1
