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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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